AN CAFE CONCERT. HECK YEAH.
went to the An Cafe concert in San Francisco on Tuesday. And ho-swiss, it was beautiful.
So this is super extremely long, mainly for my own sake so I can always look back at the fan-fucking-tastic concert of An Cafe. 8DDD
PRE-CONCERT
So at 8:20 AM, from the awesome city of Cupertino, KA, AW and AM met up at my house.
My dad sent us to the Sunnyvale Caltrain, because hurr, nobody could drive us to San Francisco in the morning.
So we got to the station and ffff, the trains passed by so fast, it was scary 'cause we were crossing, and then all of a sudden, the alarm went off and the stop/guard thing was going down. We were like, "O___O RUN BACK!" and then the train went "FWOOOOOOSH" and yeah. So we took the train from Sunnyvale to Milbrae, doing lateral thinking and talking about that one Japanese movie where everybody jumped in front of train and doing Madlibs, etc. The train was nice~~~ We just talked. And stared out the window. Waved hi to people, haha. I remember riding it back in 2nd/3rd grade.
We got off the train in Milbrae and the wind was REALLY REALLY STRONG (ha, yes, justifies all caps) and it was terrible 'cause apparently the vending machines for BART tickets were all closed so we just kinda went around aimlessly in the roaring wind before realizing we had to go to the second floor (which is all outside, yay).
In fact, Yahoo! weather did issue a severe weather alert for Tuesday, saying winds would be around 30 ~ 50 MPH so it was expected, but gosh, it was really cold.
So we finally bought tickets for BART from the (working) vending machines up on the second floor and we went downstairs again to get to the BART train thing. Except it's not really a train, it's more of a subway-like experience, all dark and through a tunnel, with ear-piercing screeching sounds. Somebody needs to oil the rails. >____<
And we panicked for the first ten minutes 'cause we were worried that we boarded on the wrong BART train (and contemplating if that was even possible), and we worried that we wouldn't be able to get off right and we had to buy tickets again and spend even more money. And it didn't make it any better that half the people (who were all adults) were looking at us funny (they were trying to do sneakily BUT WE COULD ALL TOTALLY SEE WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO THERE D:<).
And then I realized I read the map wrong, and everything was A-OK.
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Going on. We probably made the commute of some tens of people more interesting, heehee.
We looked like runaways. Terrible.
But anyways, made it to SF around 10:25 AM. Finally.
We looked at the map I printed out and just walked to Slim's.
LOL on the way there, there was this store with a life-size model of a cow, complete with a leopard-coat paintjob, on this moving bar above the entrance to this store. Weirdest thing I've seen in a long while, haha.
We made it to Slim's around 10:40 AM and I was glad to see they were also doing the numbering system so people couldn't cut and were guaranteed their spot in line. The girl who was writing numbers had this awesome pink hair, and she said that she and her friend started waiting 10 PM the previous night. @_____@ Dedicated! I was number 41, whooo. :D
Around that time, SB and her cousin JL also arrived, yeeeeeeee.
We intro-ed everybody to everybody and so began the wait of eight hours.
First thing we noted was we were all really drab compared to the rest of the line. Everybody looked so fashionable with their awesome bubblegum-colored hair and cool shoes and had super awesome punk-rock clothing, perfectly fitting for this concert. Which made me feel a little sad on the inside that I was just wearing a white t-shirt, a light dark-purple jacket, a pair of jeans and Converses. Aka boring. D:
Anyways.
We had, or rather KA and I had brought TONS of food so we just kinda snacked the day away, HAHAHA.
Arizona Tea is delicious. It's good stuff. We both had gone to Marukai and just bought a bunch of Asian snacks so whooo, eat eat eat.
We kinda all just amused ourselves by talking about how dumb Naruto is (ffff I am so angry at Naruto right now) and Bleach and Bakuman. Then we moved onto school and badminton. And soon it became a random assortment of An Cafe, other vkei bands, crack, love, corny things, food, school, crack, food, other people in line, etc. It was fun~
I think it's so true that Americans, when they don't know something, they will ask and talk to you.
It was so funny and nice of the regular San Franciscans to ask what we were doing, LOOOL.
Some guy biking was all like:
"What are you guys waiting for?"
"A concert!"
"What, is it the Jonas Brothers?"
"-collective EWW response back-"
"-grin- Ha, well have a good time anyways!"
I like that guy. 8D
There was another guy who was really surprised and amazed by the people who were waiting already.
"Whatchu all waitin' for?"
"A concert, sir!"
"For who?"
"An Cafe!"
"Wait, so when does this concert start?"
"Oh, at 8 PM."
"8 PM?! Damn, so you're saying you're waiting this early for a show at eight? Damn, that's crazy. Damn! This band must be really good if y'all are waiting here already. Damn! It'd better be good at this rate, damn. Damn. Hope you guys enjoy this a lot!"
Ahaha, that was nice of him.
There was also a guy with a really strong accent who struck up a conversation with us and he too was really surprised. He was sweet and wished us a nice concert.
All of this made us really excited for the concert, as if we weren't already.
More lateral thinking puzzles, food, cellphones to pass the time.
But gosh the wind. The wind kept blowing our stuff over. And trash away.
AND DIRT AND GRIT AND ICKY THINGS FOUND THE WAY INTO OUR CUPS. D:
It was not nice. But we survived so whatever.
The club/bar/concert venue was in a more shady side of SF, so when we needed to buy food and use the restrooms, we had to walk five large blocks to Market St.
At 2:30 PM, when we walked all the way there to buy food and use the restrooms from Starbucks (FFFF just can't find no public restrooms; we had to buy stuff from Starbucks in order to use them D8) and we were crossing Market St (pretty huge street, yes), the wind totally raped all of us, causing all the pebbles and rocks and sand and grit to fly off the ground and you could see them coming up in, like, circular formations, lol, and in general, was freezing everybody to death. IT WAS SADD.
And it was blowing so bad, that all the people walking on the street actively struggling to move (or not get blown away). IT WAS COOOL. :'D
There were some ladies wearing skirts trying to hold them down.
For which I felt no pity for, BECAUSE THEY TOTALLY BROUGHT THAT UPON THEMSELVES.
DARN PEOPLE WHO READ WEATHER REPORTS AND IGNORE THEM.:X
But when we were walking back, it was blowing in our direction, so we pretended that we were in the movies and we DRAMATICALLY STALKED OUR WAY ACROSS THE STREET with COMPLETE HAIR ACTION. :D!
Lololol, we were also discussing the whole cliché scenario.
Where those two main characters FATED TO FALL IN LOVE are always brought to some park or lovey-dovey place by THE WIND.
"Oh, /nervous chuckle/ hi. What brings you here?"
"Well, ha, I'm not really sure, but it's almost as if the wind brought me here! /nervous laugh/"
"NO WAI, ME TOO"
"SERIOUSLY? LET'S MAKE OUT"
"A;LSDJF A;SLK;SLD"
Yeah, so we made it back somewhere around 3:40 PM, heh, we spent an awful lot of time walking and buying and stuff.
We kept talking and talking and time passed faster than I expected, so I was pretty shocked and happy to see that.
Around 4:00 PM, some guy (I think it's Tech-san) went down the line with a video camera, but I totally wasn't expecting that so I didn't do the Nyappy symbol or anything, sobbb. Others didn't look aware of it either... D:
I feel really bad for An Cafe 'cause the line never got very far. Only until 6:30 PM did the line go around the corner. D:
I went with AM back to Market St 'cause he needed to buy dinner, somewhere around 5:30 PM and just as we finished a block, KA texted me, saying they could hear sound check.
JAW-DROP.
I was like, "NO WAYYY, what bad luck I have" but it's alright, it's just sound-check.
We got back around 6:00 PM and I could recognize Cherry Saku Yuuki from the guitar coming out of the building. It was awesome and that got me really hyped up, teehee. I was just so excited.
One of AW's friends came and she lined up with us around 6:10 PM. T______T
To tell you the truth, AW wasn't so glad about it either but it's alright, she's okay.
So P (her), AW, KA, AM and I walked to OfficeMax in the other direction for a last-minute restroom break, passing by The Eagle Tavern (which is apparently a great gay bar) and nothing else that was terribly interesting. Just as we finished up and were heading out of OfficeMax, SB called me and said the staff were checking the tickets.
WTFFF
Today wasn't exactly my day, as I had predicted earlier because of Murphy's Law.
So we ran back to Slim's (our allotment of exercise for the day!) and the staff never did reach us anyway.
Getting in, they scanned our tickets and stamped our hands for admissions. Rather interesting, I must say.
I ended up throwing away a bottle of water, a banana, a small bag of snacks and cough drops since I didn't finish them and no food and drink was allowed. I feel so ashamed of myself. ;______;
Ugh, I feel terrible when I waste food. But I really couldn't stomach more.
But the line finally moved!!!!!!!!
So we moved in quickly at 7:40 PM.
INSIDE THE VENUE
Slim's is tiny. Made for a great intimate and close concert. ^^
AW, JL and SB all went over to takuya's side. They were front row! AW was on the corner so she didn't have the barrier in front of her, and the security let her get even closer (so past the barrier essentially) to the stage because she's so chill and nice. I was really happy to hear that 'cause this is such a dream come true for her. :)
On the other hand, I went with KA, and AM and P followed along, directly to the center of the audience. We weren't front row, but at least KA and I stayed on the small elevated platform that's about two and a half feet wide, starting from the barrier. We were third row; there was just no way to push towards the front without getting nasty and rude. It wasn't too bad, though. I was behind a group who was holding up a sign (which was nice!) but it kinda sucked when it was up, too, 'cause it blocked my view. eep
I'm quite short. So that really sucks at concerts. It's better this time because the people in front of me weren't terribly tall, so yeah... anyways.
J-pop was playing. I don't really listen to J-pop so I don't really know what was playing, though I think one was by Perfume. Not sure. Nice music, though. ^^
It got hot and crowded fast.
Well, nothing really interesting happened, 'cept these two girls were talking behind me in Chinese about stuff. Yeah~
It was also kinda nasty 'cause somebody was letting out air. Don't need to go there with the heat and crowdedness and all. D:
At 8:00 PM, Junior-san (I should've shouted out his name and see what's his reaction! but ughh, I didn't want to seem obnoxious either; regrets, regrets~) and Tech-san were still trying out the guitars and basses. I didn't know takuya has a third guitar, the red and white one -- it's so beautiful; I really want to know what model it is! :O
So they left the stage at 8:10, methinks.
The crowd didn't really cheer or anything, which I feel bad about now. I just kinda stood there, trying to keep my space.
Then the lights dimmed. And everybody went crazy.
CONCERT TIMEEEE
Teruki walked out to the center, massive cheering. He and his trademark grin, oh goodness. ^^
Then Yuuki, who was super hyper and was jumping! :D
Kanon was next, earning the most screams. His hair... it's so AWESOME. Omfg. At first I was pretty shocked but after a while, you know what? It was starting to look really good on him. 8DD
Then takuya, a great amount too. I really like his hair too! aaahhhhh
Then finally, Miku came out! Screams galore. His skin is really pale and smooth. o_____o
Their outfits were just amazing; they all look so much better in person, I'm really happy! hehe :D
I pretty much lost my voice just screaming them on, haha.
For the most part, I just focused on Miku, and when he ran away to the other sides, I focused on whoever I could see, heh. Yuuki and takuya, yeah.
Of course, the opening song was Cherry Saku Yuuki! and I was looking forward to it live so much. To this day, it remains as one of my very favorite songs from them. Everybody was really good at singing along, Miku letting the audience sing the chorus; it was very sweet.
As soon as that ended, Yuuki held one arm up and began the intro to Tekesuta Kousen, bringing on tons of cheers and screams. Miku was doing furi for the song but it was so squished up front that I had barely any space, lolsob. I tried to, for the most part. He was also letting us sing the last lines of the chorus which was nice~ Miku's growling is so much better live than on the recording. It was really hot, and everybody was screaming a ton. ;D I headbanged along, haha~
It was kinda hard to hear Miku at first, like, he was being drowned out by the guitar and bass and crowd. But it got a lot better throughout the songs.
Meanwhile, security was being really stringent about no recording of any kind. This one girl (in the first ten minutes of starting, sigh) a person or two behind me had her camera taken away by this one staff lady who totally leaned over the barrier and grabbed it right from her hands. @___@
I can't remember when they did the first intro, but I think it was after this.
Miku had something like a call and response for us, somewhat upon these lines (ugh, curse my short-term memory):
"Hello San Francisco!"
"-screams-"
"How are you?"
"NYAPPY!!"
"Good! I am nyappy too!"
"-screams-"
"This is our last stop! I want to make it special!"
"-cheers-"
"Let's have a nyappy time!"
"-cheers, screams-"
"Are you ready to have a nyappy time?"
"WOOYEAHHHWHOOO"
"Let's be nyappy!"
"NYAPPY!!"
"Let's be nyappy!"
"NYAPPY!!"
"Let's go the NYAPPY WAY!"
"NYAPPYYYY!!"
Something like that, I'm not so sure anymore. Dx
His English improved a lot. Very nice, but still cute because of his accent. XD
After Miku's touching talk, Kawayu's Rock started.
I actually didn't listen to the complete Aroma e.p. yet so I didn't recognize th-- *shot*
But it was very fun and people were headbanging and holding the Nyappy symbol to the beat of the song.
About now, I pretty much gave up on trying to breathe well and just tried to have a good time. :/
Which I did, but f---, everybody was being so pushy and trying to move in front of me and trying to touch the band members. Made me sad. Ugh, man, I just felt so tired, which I felt terrible about, because I really wanted to make the last concert a success for them (maybe only 200 or so people came? :/) so I really did try to give all my energy into that.
For that, I am extremely extremely sorry to the girl who was in front of me. I think for the first twenty or so minutes, I was totally relying on the shoulder of girl in front and stuff. I know it doesn't mean much now but ackkkk I feel so bad. Thanks very much and sorry very much for being such an annoyance. OTL;
Then Summer Dive started, which was lots of fun, especially singing along.
Furi was still not so easy to do with the limited space so I just kept the Nyappy symbol and did the "Dive! Dive!" thing. Everybody had a lot of fun singing and shouting along, and Miku looked really happy. The song has a very 'nyappy' prescence. Yuuki looked like he was having a lot of fun dancing around. <3
Next was Zetsubou which I also did not recognize at first *killed*
But it was a considerably slower song so the audience did quiet down a little.
All the lights went off and Miku walked to the back of the stage, looking kinda wistful.
He was scrunching up his face, facing his head upwards...
Yuuki was also noticeably more serious, as the rest of the members.
Orange Dream began, which made me tear up a bit.
Most people were doing the wave with the 'nyappy' sign which Miku acknowlegded.
I was kinda annoyed when people were cheering during the song though, 'cause I think it's more of a polite-applause-and-attentive-audience-kinda song, though. When people were cheering (or yelling out a confession of love, oh someone just kill me now), Miku didn't exactly look happy when he smiled... it was more of a smile-turned-grimace, I felt, like when you smile something off and say it's okay when it's really not. eek
More cheering at the end, though a few people clapped.
The really cute MC-intro started!
It was the thing where we were supposed to clap and shout out the member's name.
I felt bad for Teruki though, because the majority of people seemed to be saying, "Nyappy!" instead of "Teruki!"
But it was still super cute and at the end we did "Nyappy!" all together.
I don't recall exactly what everybody said but I'll try my best...
Teruki was reading from a paper and said something like, "Let's make tonight hot!" amidst screams of approval.
Yuuki... I don't remember but I really like his voice and personality. Why is he so fucking cool? ;o;
Kanon, oh my goodness, he is my idol of shameless-Japan-love ♥:
"Hello I am Kanon!"
"-screams-"
"I am Japanese otaku!"
"-laughs, sceams, cheers-"
/puts arms in position/
"Ka - me - ha - me - HAAAAAA!"
And everybody did it along with him with just AWESOMEEE.
Takuya was also super fucking adorable.
"Hi I'm takuya!"
"-cheers, screams-"
"Do you like An Cafe?"
"YEEEAAAAAHHHHH"
"Do YOU like AN CAFE?"
"YESSWHOOOOOYEAAHHHHH"
"Aww, I love you too. ^^"
/all fangirls screamed and promptly died
Miku was talking about, oh gosh, I don't know, I'm getting mixed up. >____<;
They began NYAPPY in the world 4 which was just too amazing for words.
Yuuki just jumped from his keyboard position and went to the front of the stage with Miku.
They were battling it out and dancing and kept moving around the stage, and it was really hot and dorky at the same time. 8D
Yuuki, oh, he's just too cool for words, he's so spunky and hyper and he jumps so high, and his poses are so fantastic. He really got the crowd going with, "What! What! What!"
Miku was trying to grab his crotch, hurrhurr~ I love his singing in this song, especially live!!! holy swiss
This was definitely NYAPPY at the highest, in terms of joy and activity. :DDD
The nyappy feeling continued as they launched right into the next song, Duck no Magical Adventure.
I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SO MUCH SINCE SEEING DONALD DUCK AND THE HAMMER ON STAGE. :'DDD
In the beginning, Miku got out his Donald Duck hand puppet and then looking slightly amused, a Cookie Monster plush, holy swiss! He asked us which one we liked more, and of course we all cheered super loudly for Donald Duck. Then Miku said something about signing the Cookie Monster, and it went around the stage, being signed by everyone. ;o; He pretended to throw it a few times that tease and went over to the left stage, then threw it over his back to the right. It cause the whole part to the back-right of me to go backwards, but just as soon as they surged back, people came forward even harder. Miku looked really shocked and gave a guilty smile, seeing that, LOOOL!
Miku then asked everybody, "Do you like San Francisco boy or An Cafe boy?" Obviously "AN CAFE BOY" and there was huge response to that. heehee :D
He brought out the hammer this time, too! But ughhh, huge surge to the front 'cause everybody wanted to be hit on the head with the hammer. I was a little too far (third row :<) to be hit but I was still really happy about this song. Miku was just awesometastic. His Donald Duck voice is so authentic, oh my gosh.
During one point, he put Donald Duck on his crotch and 'climaxed' with it, then 'went down,' then 'up again.' OH MY GOODNESS, THE CROWD WAS JUST CRAZY. Equal parts shock, laughter and cheering on. Just crazy.
It's just such a cute funny song, perfect for a live. ^^
Aroma started, and it sounds SO MUCH better live than on the recording. I had a fun time headbanging and rocking out. Miku was making sensual motions and kept on having orgasmic faces, hahaha~ he was acting all sexy~ maaann, this was really nice.
Then My ♡ Leaps for "C" and it was so fun singing along~
This was a really cute song to hear live, and Miku sang, "My heart leaps for you~~~" and everybody returned his affection~ Everybody was dancing along. :)
Miku stopped for a moment afterwards and yelled into the microphone, "LAAAASTT SONGGGG!" which everybody screamed, "NOOOOOOOOO" at, a few times.
Snow Scene began and it was intense. I really like this song and hearing it live was just perfect. I tried jumping because he was shouting, "Jump! Jump!" but man, only KA and this other girl near me were jumping so I ended up humping everybody else that wasn't. :( I was like, "Eww, this is gross; where's the spirit, guys? C'mon!"
lolsob
Then they left the stage. a;lsdjf;alskdjf;adf a;sdfa
The cheers and chants were kinda weak but for the most part, we kept them going.
It was like,
"An Cafe! An Cafe! An Cafe! An Cafe!"
/random yells, screams, confessions of love/
/talking among the crowd/
"An Cafe! An Cafe! An Cafe! An Cafe!"
The people in front, where I was, were really nice and we kept on chanting 'An Cafe.'
I shouted, "Mou ippai!" once or twice because I wante to see if we could try chanting something else, but whatever. We did fine.
Tech-san and Junior-san, after a few minutes of sound-checking, quickly ushered them in, haha. :>
ENCORE TIME
Everbody wore the bunny shirts except Miku, who was wearing a Maru Music one.
Miku probably talked but I don't remember what he said...
I do remember that he walked on stage with his fly down, though. Everbody was pointing at it and saying, "ZIPPER!" Miku just gave this dirty look and slowly unzipped it even further which let us see his boxers hurrhurrhurr until he zipped it back up, and did a "NO" with his hands, like when you wave your arms across each other in opposite directions. XDDDD Miku you teaseee;
Well, BondS ~Kizuna~ started which is one of my absolute favorite songs. I didn't have a towel or anything but I pretended I did and tried to do furi. Holy swiss, the crowd was so insane and squished during this time; I had a hard time keeping my spot and enjoying the music. TTOTT
But this song was very nice live, and moving as well; it did remind me of Bou, so... :')
Miku started spraying water. A LOT.
It was really refreshing, to tell you the truth, especially since it was so hot in the venue, oh goodness.
The water tasted sweet. Heh. ^/////^
Miku gave us another little talk, wanting us to show him our "special smile."
"Show me your special smile!"
"-cheers-"
Something like that a few times.
Of course that meant Smile Ichiban ii Onna was up and ahhhhhh, it was the perfect ending to the concert. Fucking great song to be singing and dancing along to, I'm so glad they performed this.
Miku then said, "Do you want to take a picture with An Cafe?"
And I was just thinking, "OH NO WAY," a picture with An Cafe??? A DREAM COME TRUE.
So everybody posed and did "NYAPPY" when Junior-san came out with the camera.
But $#%@! some front-rower did a heart with her hands at the last moment, blocking the camera from my view. I'm pretty sure I' m not in the photo. (´ー｀;)
It's okay, I'll just look for an arm with a dark purple sleeve, heh. XD
After the picture and putting down the instruments, they were really nice and hanged out with us for five minutes or so.
Yuuki was SO NICE, jumping so much and grinning so much, touching everybody's hands and high-fiving them at the end. My admiration for that man just grows and grows~
Takuya was really nice too, he was really happy during this point. He also moved through the stage, touching everybody's hands in the front. I only touched his hand out of everybody's! ;o; I can't tell if those are happy or sad tears. His hands were really smooth.
Miku, oh, well, Miku, he just kept on spitting water, wrenching caps off the bottles with his teeth (haha) and pouring whole bottles of water over his head, which was over the railing into the audience. We had a lot of water action in the center. XD
Kanon also was being really sweet and he ran his hand past everybody in the front.
Teruki kept away though, but he was really kind and he kept grinning his grin of his, acknowledging a few people in the audience with a nod, putting his hands together, etc.
With a promise to come back and to be nyappy, they left the stage.
MERCH/AFTER THE CONCERT:
After they left, I quickly grabbed KA and rushed to the merch stand. They were selling a lot of stuff, which I was happy to see.
A list of the items:
Slim's had a water dispenser in the front with ice-cold water; oh they're so nice. So refreshing~~~
After that, we had to leave so we just stayed outside and got a few pictures together, hehe.
Some girl waiting outside the door got the single My ♡ Leaps for "C" which was kinda a shocker. She said some staff member just handed it to her, awww~~~
Then my dad arrived and we left San Francisco.
Tuesday night was just fan-fucking-tastic.
OTHER CONCERT NOTES WHICH I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT
I didn't expect the audience to be so rough, especially given that An Cafe (the band) is not exactly hard rock.
The audience was scary. Not even at the Dir en grey concert was the crowd so rough! Goodness.
When people were supposed to yell along with band, it didn't seem like a lot of people were doing it. ;______;
It was as if all the people were super tired or bored or something, just barely any reaction, no arms in the air, or moving, just screaming and stuff. That is, until the band members moved close (SO THEY COULD ALL TOUCH THEM, OHEMGEE) or threw picks/water bottles/the Cookie Monster, then all of sudden they went 'FWOOOOAH' and totally killed everybody in the front by squishing. x[
An Cafe really outshone themselves, so I'm really happy for that.
After the disappointingly short concert at Fanime, I didn't really know what to expect but I'm SO glad I went, because they themselves were just so good. They're all nice and funny, and they did try their best to get along with the audience.
No photography or recording of any sort were allowed, and security was REALLY cracking down on people.
There was some dude who kept going around the audience in a circle, trying to avoid security 'cause they saw him recording with his cellphone, LOOOL hahaha
During the encore, there was this tall couple: this woman with long, let-down dirty-blonde hair (like SH's, sorry to use you as an example DX) and she was with her boyfriend, some Asian guy. They moved to the left of KA, who was to the left of me. During that whole time, I could hear their conversation, something about pushing to the front:
"C'mon, let's push to the front!"
"Oh no, I don't think so babe, only one of us can make it"
"Oh don't be that way, we have to be together, c'mon, one, two, three--"
"If you say so, babe"
Which KA was automatically 'WTF GTFO >U' and I was all 'OH F'N NOES.'
I was so tired by then, which really sucked 'cause I had to lean on the crowd for support :S and I couldn't help KA push her out of the way. And they were pushing so hard, ffff it took the all the restraint that KA and I had to not punch her in the face and gouge her eyes out. It was during the last song, too. D:<
After the concert ended and I finished buying merch, I saw security trying to take that lady out, and she was trying to fight back, wtf.
Security was all, "Dude, lady, you are SO drunk, just get outta here!"
She's all spouting dumb excuses and saying, "I'm not! F---, just let me in!"
Heh. I was really glad she got kicked out. :D
Takuya looked bored for the most part, but when he smiled, he was so awesome. Smile more, takuya~
Teruki just couldn't get any love and I feel so bad for him. I don't know if him not reaching out to the audience is usual for him or not, but I just hope he's happy with the concert.
I LOVE KANON AND HIS STYLE. HE WINS, HANDS-DOWN. XD
I think this is all I have to say for now... Microsoft Word tells me it's 5396 words long, holy swiss.
I really do write too much. Perhaps this is why I'm so quiet most of the time, haha (ーωー)/
This was totally C&P-ed from my usual blog. Hope you have fun reading~
So this is super extremely long, mainly for my own sake so I can always look back at the fan-fucking-tastic concert of An Cafe. 8DDD
PRE-CONCERT
So at 8:20 AM, from the awesome city of Cupertino, KA, AW and AM met up at my house.
My dad sent us to the Sunnyvale Caltrain, because hurr, nobody could drive us to San Francisco in the morning.
So we got to the station and ffff, the trains passed by so fast, it was scary 'cause we were crossing, and then all of a sudden, the alarm went off and the stop/guard thing was going down. We were like, "O___O RUN BACK!" and then the train went "FWOOOOOOSH" and yeah. So we took the train from Sunnyvale to Milbrae, doing lateral thinking and talking about that one Japanese movie where everybody jumped in front of train and doing Madlibs, etc. The train was nice~~~ We just talked. And stared out the window. Waved hi to people, haha. I remember riding it back in 2nd/3rd grade.
We got off the train in Milbrae and the wind was REALLY REALLY STRONG (ha, yes, justifies all caps) and it was terrible 'cause apparently the vending machines for BART tickets were all closed so we just kinda went around aimlessly in the roaring wind before realizing we had to go to the second floor (which is all outside, yay).
In fact, Yahoo! weather did issue a severe weather alert for Tuesday, saying winds would be around 30 ~ 50 MPH so it was expected, but gosh, it was really cold.
So we finally bought tickets for BART from the (working) vending machines up on the second floor and we went downstairs again to get to the BART train thing. Except it's not really a train, it's more of a subway-like experience, all dark and through a tunnel, with ear-piercing screeching sounds. Somebody needs to oil the rails. >____<
And we panicked for the first ten minutes 'cause we were worried that we boarded on the wrong BART train (and contemplating if that was even possible), and we worried that we wouldn't be able to get off right and we had to buy tickets again and spend even more money. And it didn't make it any better that half the people (who were all adults) were looking at us funny (they were trying to do sneakily BUT WE COULD ALL TOTALLY SEE WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO THERE D:<).
And then I realized I read the map wrong, and everything was A-OK.
OTL""
Going on. We probably made the commute of some tens of people more interesting, heehee.
We looked like runaways. Terrible.
But anyways, made it to SF around 10:25 AM. Finally.
We looked at the map I printed out and just walked to Slim's.
LOL on the way there, there was this store with a life-size model of a cow, complete with a leopard-coat paintjob, on this moving bar above the entrance to this store. Weirdest thing I've seen in a long while, haha.
We made it to Slim's around 10:40 AM and I was glad to see they were also doing the numbering system so people couldn't cut and were guaranteed their spot in line. The girl who was writing numbers had this awesome pink hair, and she said that she and her friend started waiting 10 PM the previous night. @_____@ Dedicated! I was number 41, whooo. :D
Around that time, SB and her cousin JL also arrived, yeeeeeeee.
We intro-ed everybody to everybody and so began the wait of eight hours.
First thing we noted was we were all really drab compared to the rest of the line. Everybody looked so fashionable with their awesome bubblegum-colored hair and cool shoes and had super awesome punk-rock clothing, perfectly fitting for this concert. Which made me feel a little sad on the inside that I was just wearing a white t-shirt, a light dark-purple jacket, a pair of jeans and Converses. Aka boring. D:
Anyways.
We had, or rather KA and I had brought TONS of food so we just kinda snacked the day away, HAHAHA.
Arizona Tea is delicious. It's good stuff. We both had gone to Marukai and just bought a bunch of Asian snacks so whooo, eat eat eat.
We kinda all just amused ourselves by talking about how dumb Naruto is (ffff I am so angry at Naruto right now) and Bleach and Bakuman. Then we moved onto school and badminton. And soon it became a random assortment of An Cafe, other vkei bands, crack, love, corny things, food, school, crack, food, other people in line, etc. It was fun~
I think it's so true that Americans, when they don't know something, they will ask and talk to you.
It was so funny and nice of the regular San Franciscans to ask what we were doing, LOOOL.
Some guy biking was all like:
"What are you guys waiting for?"
"A concert!"
"What, is it the Jonas Brothers?"
"-collective EWW response back-"
"-grin- Ha, well have a good time anyways!"
I like that guy. 8D
There was another guy who was really surprised and amazed by the people who were waiting already.
"Whatchu all waitin' for?"
"A concert, sir!"
"For who?"
"An Cafe!"
"Wait, so when does this concert start?"
"Oh, at 8 PM."
"8 PM?! Damn, so you're saying you're waiting this early for a show at eight? Damn, that's crazy. Damn! This band must be really good if y'all are waiting here already. Damn! It'd better be good at this rate, damn. Damn. Hope you guys enjoy this a lot!"
Ahaha, that was nice of him.
There was also a guy with a really strong accent who struck up a conversation with us and he too was really surprised. He was sweet and wished us a nice concert.
All of this made us really excited for the concert, as if we weren't already.
More lateral thinking puzzles, food, cellphones to pass the time.
But gosh the wind. The wind kept blowing our stuff over. And trash away.
AND DIRT AND GRIT AND ICKY THINGS FOUND THE WAY INTO OUR CUPS. D:
It was not nice. But we survived so whatever.
The club/bar/concert venue was in a more shady side of SF, so when we needed to buy food and use the restrooms, we had to walk five large blocks to Market St.
At 2:30 PM, when we walked all the way there to buy food and use the restrooms from Starbucks (FFFF just can't find no public restrooms; we had to buy stuff from Starbucks in order to use them D8) and we were crossing Market St (pretty huge street, yes), the wind totally raped all of us, causing all the pebbles and rocks and sand and grit to fly off the ground and you could see them coming up in, like, circular formations, lol, and in general, was freezing everybody to death. IT WAS SADD.
And it was blowing so bad, that all the people walking on the street actively struggling to move (or not get blown away). IT WAS COOOL. :'D
There were some ladies wearing skirts trying to hold them down.
For which I felt no pity for, BECAUSE THEY TOTALLY BROUGHT THAT UPON THEMSELVES.
DARN PEOPLE WHO READ WEATHER REPORTS AND IGNORE THEM.:X
But when we were walking back, it was blowing in our direction, so we pretended that we were in the movies and we DRAMATICALLY STALKED OUR WAY ACROSS THE STREET with COMPLETE HAIR ACTION. :D!
Lololol, we were also discussing the whole cliché scenario.
Where those two main characters FATED TO FALL IN LOVE are always brought to some park or lovey-dovey place by THE WIND.
"Oh, /nervous chuckle/ hi. What brings you here?"
"Well, ha, I'm not really sure, but it's almost as if the wind brought me here! /nervous laugh/"
"NO WAI, ME TOO"
"SERIOUSLY? LET'S MAKE OUT"
"A;LSDJF A;SLK;SLD"
Yeah, so we made it back somewhere around 3:40 PM, heh, we spent an awful lot of time walking and buying and stuff.
We kept talking and talking and time passed faster than I expected, so I was pretty shocked and happy to see that.
Around 4:00 PM, some guy (I think it's Tech-san) went down the line with a video camera, but I totally wasn't expecting that so I didn't do the Nyappy symbol or anything, sobbb. Others didn't look aware of it either... D:
I feel really bad for An Cafe 'cause the line never got very far. Only until 6:30 PM did the line go around the corner. D:
I went with AM back to Market St 'cause he needed to buy dinner, somewhere around 5:30 PM and just as we finished a block, KA texted me, saying they could hear sound check.
JAW-DROP.
I was like, "NO WAYYY, what bad luck I have" but it's alright, it's just sound-check.
We got back around 6:00 PM and I could recognize Cherry Saku Yuuki from the guitar coming out of the building. It was awesome and that got me really hyped up, teehee. I was just so excited.
One of AW's friends came and she lined up with us around 6:10 PM. T______T
To tell you the truth, AW wasn't so glad about it either but it's alright, she's okay.
So P (her), AW, KA, AM and I walked to OfficeMax in the other direction for a last-minute restroom break, passing by The Eagle Tavern (which is apparently a great gay bar) and nothing else that was terribly interesting. Just as we finished up and were heading out of OfficeMax, SB called me and said the staff were checking the tickets.
WTFFF
Today wasn't exactly my day, as I had predicted earlier because of Murphy's Law.
So we ran back to Slim's (our allotment of exercise for the day!) and the staff never did reach us anyway.
Getting in, they scanned our tickets and stamped our hands for admissions. Rather interesting, I must say.
I ended up throwing away a bottle of water, a banana, a small bag of snacks and cough drops since I didn't finish them and no food and drink was allowed. I feel so ashamed of myself. ;______;
Ugh, I feel terrible when I waste food. But I really couldn't stomach more.
But the line finally moved!!!!!!!!
So we moved in quickly at 7:40 PM.
INSIDE THE VENUE
Slim's is tiny. Made for a great intimate and close concert. ^^
AW, JL and SB all went over to takuya's side. They were front row! AW was on the corner so she didn't have the barrier in front of her, and the security let her get even closer (so past the barrier essentially) to the stage because she's so chill and nice. I was really happy to hear that 'cause this is such a dream come true for her. :)
On the other hand, I went with KA, and AM and P followed along, directly to the center of the audience. We weren't front row, but at least KA and I stayed on the small elevated platform that's about two and a half feet wide, starting from the barrier. We were third row; there was just no way to push towards the front without getting nasty and rude. It wasn't too bad, though. I was behind a group who was holding up a sign (which was nice!) but it kinda sucked when it was up, too, 'cause it blocked my view. eep
I'm quite short. So that really sucks at concerts. It's better this time because the people in front of me weren't terribly tall, so yeah... anyways.
J-pop was playing. I don't really listen to J-pop so I don't really know what was playing, though I think one was by Perfume. Not sure. Nice music, though. ^^
It got hot and crowded fast.
Well, nothing really interesting happened, 'cept these two girls were talking behind me in Chinese about stuff. Yeah~
It was also kinda nasty 'cause somebody was letting out air. Don't need to go there with the heat and crowdedness and all. D:
At 8:00 PM, Junior-san (I should've shouted out his name and see what's his reaction! but ughh, I didn't want to seem obnoxious either; regrets, regrets~) and Tech-san were still trying out the guitars and basses. I didn't know takuya has a third guitar, the red and white one -- it's so beautiful; I really want to know what model it is! :O
So they left the stage at 8:10, methinks.
The crowd didn't really cheer or anything, which I feel bad about now. I just kinda stood there, trying to keep my space.
Then the lights dimmed. And everybody went crazy.
CONCERT TIMEEEE
Teruki walked out to the center, massive cheering. He and his trademark grin, oh goodness. ^^
Then Yuuki, who was super hyper and was jumping! :D
Kanon was next, earning the most screams. His hair... it's so AWESOME. Omfg. At first I was pretty shocked but after a while, you know what? It was starting to look really good on him. 8DD
Then takuya, a great amount too. I really like his hair too! aaahhhhh
Then finally, Miku came out! Screams galore. His skin is really pale and smooth. o_____o
Their outfits were just amazing; they all look so much better in person, I'm really happy! hehe :D
I pretty much lost my voice just screaming them on, haha.
For the most part, I just focused on Miku, and when he ran away to the other sides, I focused on whoever I could see, heh. Yuuki and takuya, yeah.
Of course, the opening song was Cherry Saku Yuuki! and I was looking forward to it live so much. To this day, it remains as one of my very favorite songs from them. Everybody was really good at singing along, Miku letting the audience sing the chorus; it was very sweet.
As soon as that ended, Yuuki held one arm up and began the intro to Tekesuta Kousen, bringing on tons of cheers and screams. Miku was doing furi for the song but it was so squished up front that I had barely any space, lolsob. I tried to, for the most part. He was also letting us sing the last lines of the chorus which was nice~ Miku's growling is so much better live than on the recording. It was really hot, and everybody was screaming a ton. ;D I headbanged along, haha~
It was kinda hard to hear Miku at first, like, he was being drowned out by the guitar and bass and crowd. But it got a lot better throughout the songs.
Meanwhile, security was being really stringent about no recording of any kind. This one girl (in the first ten minutes of starting, sigh) a person or two behind me had her camera taken away by this one staff lady who totally leaned over the barrier and grabbed it right from her hands. @___@
I can't remember when they did the first intro, but I think it was after this.
Miku had something like a call and response for us, somewhat upon these lines (ugh, curse my short-term memory):
"Hello San Francisco!"
"-screams-"
"How are you?"
"NYAPPY!!"
"Good! I am nyappy too!"
"-screams-"
"This is our last stop! I want to make it special!"
"-cheers-"
"Let's have a nyappy time!"
"-cheers, screams-"
"Are you ready to have a nyappy time?"
"WOOYEAHHHWHOOO"
"Let's be nyappy!"
"NYAPPY!!"
"Let's be nyappy!"
"NYAPPY!!"
"Let's go the NYAPPY WAY!"
"NYAPPYYYY!!"
Something like that, I'm not so sure anymore. Dx
His English improved a lot. Very nice, but still cute because of his accent. XD
After Miku's touching talk, Kawayu's Rock started.
I actually didn't listen to the complete Aroma e.p. yet so I didn't recognize th-- *shot*
But it was very fun and people were headbanging and holding the Nyappy symbol to the beat of the song.
About now, I pretty much gave up on trying to breathe well and just tried to have a good time. :/
Which I did, but f---, everybody was being so pushy and trying to move in front of me and trying to touch the band members. Made me sad. Ugh, man, I just felt so tired, which I felt terrible about, because I really wanted to make the last concert a success for them (maybe only 200 or so people came? :/) so I really did try to give all my energy into that.
For that, I am extremely extremely sorry to the girl who was in front of me. I think for the first twenty or so minutes, I was totally relying on the shoulder of girl in front and stuff. I know it doesn't mean much now but ackkkk I feel so bad. Thanks very much and sorry very much for being such an annoyance. OTL;
Then Summer Dive started, which was lots of fun, especially singing along.
Furi was still not so easy to do with the limited space so I just kept the Nyappy symbol and did the "Dive! Dive!" thing. Everybody had a lot of fun singing and shouting along, and Miku looked really happy. The song has a very 'nyappy' prescence. Yuuki looked like he was having a lot of fun dancing around. <3
Next was Zetsubou which I also did not recognize at first *killed*
But it was a considerably slower song so the audience did quiet down a little.
All the lights went off and Miku walked to the back of the stage, looking kinda wistful.
He was scrunching up his face, facing his head upwards...
Yuuki was also noticeably more serious, as the rest of the members.
Orange Dream began, which made me tear up a bit.
Most people were doing the wave with the 'nyappy' sign which Miku acknowlegded.
I was kinda annoyed when people were cheering during the song though, 'cause I think it's more of a polite-applause-and-attentive-audience-kinda song, though. When people were cheering (or yelling out a confession of love, oh someone just kill me now), Miku didn't exactly look happy when he smiled... it was more of a smile-turned-grimace, I felt, like when you smile something off and say it's okay when it's really not. eek
More cheering at the end, though a few people clapped.
The really cute MC-intro started!
It was the thing where we were supposed to clap and shout out the member's name.
I felt bad for Teruki though, because the majority of people seemed to be saying, "Nyappy!" instead of "Teruki!"
But it was still super cute and at the end we did "Nyappy!" all together.
I don't recall exactly what everybody said but I'll try my best...
Teruki was reading from a paper and said something like, "Let's make tonight hot!" amidst screams of approval.
Yuuki... I don't remember but I really like his voice and personality. Why is he so fucking cool? ;o;
Kanon, oh my goodness, he is my idol of shameless-Japan-love ♥:
"Hello I am Kanon!"
"-screams-"
"I am Japanese otaku!"
"-laughs, sceams, cheers-"
/puts arms in position/
"Ka - me - ha - me - HAAAAAA!"
And everybody did it along with him with just AWESOMEEE.
Takuya was also super fucking adorable.
"Hi I'm takuya!"
"-cheers, screams-"
"Do you like An Cafe?"
"YEEEAAAAAHHHHH"
"Do YOU like AN CAFE?"
"YESSWHOOOOOYEAAHHHHH"
"Aww, I love you too. ^^"
/all fangirls screamed and promptly died
Miku was talking about, oh gosh, I don't know, I'm getting mixed up. >____<;
They began NYAPPY in the world 4 which was just too amazing for words.
Yuuki just jumped from his keyboard position and went to the front of the stage with Miku.
They were battling it out and dancing and kept moving around the stage, and it was really hot and dorky at the same time. 8D
Yuuki, oh, he's just too cool for words, he's so spunky and hyper and he jumps so high, and his poses are so fantastic. He really got the crowd going with, "What! What! What!"
Miku was trying to grab his crotch, hurrhurr~ I love his singing in this song, especially live!!! holy swiss
This was definitely NYAPPY at the highest, in terms of joy and activity. :DDD
The nyappy feeling continued as they launched right into the next song, Duck no Magical Adventure.
I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SO MUCH SINCE SEEING DONALD DUCK AND THE HAMMER ON STAGE. :'DDD
In the beginning, Miku got out his Donald Duck hand puppet and then looking slightly amused, a Cookie Monster plush, holy swiss! He asked us which one we liked more, and of course we all cheered super loudly for Donald Duck. Then Miku said something about signing the Cookie Monster, and it went around the stage, being signed by everyone. ;o; He pretended to throw it a few times that tease and went over to the left stage, then threw it over his back to the right. It cause the whole part to the back-right of me to go backwards, but just as soon as they surged back, people came forward even harder. Miku looked really shocked and gave a guilty smile, seeing that, LOOOL!
Miku then asked everybody, "Do you like San Francisco boy or An Cafe boy?" Obviously "AN CAFE BOY" and there was huge response to that. heehee :D
He brought out the hammer this time, too! But ughhh, huge surge to the front 'cause everybody wanted to be hit on the head with the hammer. I was a little too far (third row :<) to be hit but I was still really happy about this song. Miku was just awesometastic. His Donald Duck voice is so authentic, oh my gosh.
During one point, he put Donald Duck on his crotch and 'climaxed' with it, then 'went down,' then 'up again.' OH MY GOODNESS, THE CROWD WAS JUST CRAZY. Equal parts shock, laughter and cheering on. Just crazy.
It's just such a cute funny song, perfect for a live. ^^
Aroma started, and it sounds SO MUCH better live than on the recording. I had a fun time headbanging and rocking out. Miku was making sensual motions and kept on having orgasmic faces, hahaha~ he was acting all sexy~ maaann, this was really nice.
Then My ♡ Leaps for "C" and it was so fun singing along~
This was a really cute song to hear live, and Miku sang, "My heart leaps for you~~~" and everybody returned his affection~ Everybody was dancing along. :)
Miku stopped for a moment afterwards and yelled into the microphone, "LAAAASTT SONGGGG!" which everybody screamed, "NOOOOOOOOO" at, a few times.
Snow Scene began and it was intense. I really like this song and hearing it live was just perfect. I tried jumping because he was shouting, "Jump! Jump!" but man, only KA and this other girl near me were jumping so I ended up humping everybody else that wasn't. :( I was like, "Eww, this is gross; where's the spirit, guys? C'mon!"
lolsob
Then they left the stage. a;lsdjf;alskdjf;adf a;sdfa
The cheers and chants were kinda weak but for the most part, we kept them going.
It was like,
"An Cafe! An Cafe! An Cafe! An Cafe!"
/random yells, screams, confessions of love/
/talking among the crowd/
"An Cafe! An Cafe! An Cafe! An Cafe!"
The people in front, where I was, were really nice and we kept on chanting 'An Cafe.'
I shouted, "Mou ippai!" once or twice because I wante to see if we could try chanting something else, but whatever. We did fine.
Tech-san and Junior-san, after a few minutes of sound-checking, quickly ushered them in, haha. :>
ENCORE TIME
Everbody wore the bunny shirts except Miku, who was wearing a Maru Music one.
Miku probably talked but I don't remember what he said...
I do remember that he walked on stage with his fly down, though. Everbody was pointing at it and saying, "ZIPPER!" Miku just gave this dirty look and slowly unzipped it even further which let us see his boxers hurrhurrhurr until he zipped it back up, and did a "NO" with his hands, like when you wave your arms across each other in opposite directions. XDDDD Miku you teaseee;
Well, BondS ~Kizuna~ started which is one of my absolute favorite songs. I didn't have a towel or anything but I pretended I did and tried to do furi. Holy swiss, the crowd was so insane and squished during this time; I had a hard time keeping my spot and enjoying the music. TTOTT
But this song was very nice live, and moving as well; it did remind me of Bou, so... :')
Miku started spraying water. A LOT.
It was really refreshing, to tell you the truth, especially since it was so hot in the venue, oh goodness.
The water tasted sweet. Heh. ^/////^
Miku gave us another little talk, wanting us to show him our "special smile."
"Show me your special smile!"
"-cheers-"
Something like that a few times.
Of course that meant Smile Ichiban ii Onna was up and ahhhhhh, it was the perfect ending to the concert. Fucking great song to be singing and dancing along to, I'm so glad they performed this.
Miku then said, "Do you want to take a picture with An Cafe?"
And I was just thinking, "OH NO WAY," a picture with An Cafe??? A DREAM COME TRUE.
So everybody posed and did "NYAPPY" when Junior-san came out with the camera.
But $#%@! some front-rower did a heart with her hands at the last moment, blocking the camera from my view. I'm pretty sure I' m not in the photo. (´ー｀;)
It's okay, I'll just look for an arm with a dark purple sleeve, heh. XD
After the picture and putting down the instruments, they were really nice and hanged out with us for five minutes or so.
Yuuki was SO NICE, jumping so much and grinning so much, touching everybody's hands and high-fiving them at the end. My admiration for that man just grows and grows~
Takuya was really nice too, he was really happy during this point. He also moved through the stage, touching everybody's hands in the front. I only touched his hand out of everybody's! ;o; I can't tell if those are happy or sad tears. His hands were really smooth.
Miku, oh, well, Miku, he just kept on spitting water, wrenching caps off the bottles with his teeth (haha) and pouring whole bottles of water over his head, which was over the railing into the audience. We had a lot of water action in the center. XD
Kanon also was being really sweet and he ran his hand past everybody in the front.
Teruki kept away though, but he was really kind and he kept grinning his grin of his, acknowledging a few people in the audience with a nod, putting his hands together, etc.
With a promise to come back and to be nyappy, they left the stage.
MERCH/AFTER THE CONCERT:
After they left, I quickly grabbed KA and rushed to the merch stand. They were selling a lot of stuff, which I was happy to see.
A list of the items:
- Bunny t-shirt with no tour dates on the back: $25
- Tour t-shirt with dates on back: $25 -- I got this one in size M because that's the smallest size they have, but it's effin' huge on me! I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm thinking of ordering a size S from Maru Music... it's like adult men's size...
- Sticker: $2 -- didn't see it, I don't know why so I didn't get it
- Lunchboxes: $30
- NGAW Towel: $15 -- WHEEEEE so happy to see this, I didn't bring enough money so I borrowed from KA and AM, eh heh, will have to return but I got this!!
- Poster: $10 -- it's huge!! but I did not get it
- Postcards/infocards (hurr): $6
- Harajuku Dance Rock: $12
- Goku-tama Rock Cafe: $12
Slim's had a water dispenser in the front with ice-cold water; oh they're so nice. So refreshing~~~
After that, we had to leave so we just stayed outside and got a few pictures together, hehe.
Some girl waiting outside the door got the single My ♡ Leaps for "C" which was kinda a shocker. She said some staff member just handed it to her, awww~~~
Then my dad arrived and we left San Francisco.
Tuesday night was just fan-fucking-tastic.
OTHER CONCERT NOTES WHICH I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT
I didn't expect the audience to be so rough, especially given that An Cafe (the band) is not exactly hard rock.
The audience was scary. Not even at the Dir en grey concert was the crowd so rough! Goodness.
When people were supposed to yell along with band, it didn't seem like a lot of people were doing it. ;______;
It was as if all the people were super tired or bored or something, just barely any reaction, no arms in the air, or moving, just screaming and stuff. That is, until the band members moved close (SO THEY COULD ALL TOUCH THEM, OHEMGEE) or threw picks/water bottles/the Cookie Monster, then all of sudden they went 'FWOOOOAH' and totally killed everybody in the front by squishing. x[
An Cafe really outshone themselves, so I'm really happy for that.
After the disappointingly short concert at Fanime, I didn't really know what to expect but I'm SO glad I went, because they themselves were just so good. They're all nice and funny, and they did try their best to get along with the audience.
No photography or recording of any sort were allowed, and security was REALLY cracking down on people.
There was some dude who kept going around the audience in a circle, trying to avoid security 'cause they saw him recording with his cellphone, LOOOL hahaha
During the encore, there was this tall couple: this woman with long, let-down dirty-blonde hair (like SH's, sorry to use you as an example DX) and she was with her boyfriend, some Asian guy. They moved to the left of KA, who was to the left of me. During that whole time, I could hear their conversation, something about pushing to the front:
"C'mon, let's push to the front!"
"Oh no, I don't think so babe, only one of us can make it"
"Oh don't be that way, we have to be together, c'mon, one, two, three--"
"If you say so, babe"
Which KA was automatically 'WTF GTFO >U' and I was all 'OH F'N NOES.'
I was so tired by then, which really sucked 'cause I had to lean on the crowd for support :S and I couldn't help KA push her out of the way. And they were pushing so hard, ffff it took the all the restraint that KA and I had to not punch her in the face and gouge her eyes out. It was during the last song, too. D:<
After the concert ended and I finished buying merch, I saw security trying to take that lady out, and she was trying to fight back, wtf.
Security was all, "Dude, lady, you are SO drunk, just get outta here!"
She's all spouting dumb excuses and saying, "I'm not! F---, just let me in!"
Heh. I was really glad she got kicked out. :D
Takuya looked bored for the most part, but when he smiled, he was so awesome. Smile more, takuya~
Teruki just couldn't get any love and I feel so bad for him. I don't know if him not reaching out to the audience is usual for him or not, but I just hope he's happy with the concert.
I LOVE KANON AND HIS STYLE. HE WINS, HANDS-DOWN. XD
I think this is all I have to say for now... Microsoft Word tells me it's 5396 words long, holy swiss.
I really do write too much. Perhaps this is why I'm so quiet most of the time, haha (ーωー)/
This was totally C&P-ed from my usual blog. Hope you have fun reading~