So, yeh, third row and for those wanting to play spot the Otaku should photos appear I’m over on Katsu’s side o’ the stage, hopefully the red, red, hair will give me away!!
That aside I have a statement I wish to make:
I GOSH DARN WELL JUST SHOOK MICHIHIRO KURODA BY THE HAND!
It’s still not processing, it’s really not, I keep thinking it’s still tuesday and this is some form of halucination!
It doesn’t help that it was so sneeky! I mean we were just leaving and there he was to troll us all with a smile and a thanks!
Ugh he smiled such a dorky smile and made a sort of “oh ho” version of “ah” sound…then when I somehow managed to wish him happy birthday he was all “sankyu”
No.
No you are utterly not allowed to be cute when you’ve just casually fulfilled my #2 lives dream you really aren’t.
Anyway outside of the utterly shot state of my emmotions right now have a sensible text themed repo
I miandered over to the O-west about an hour and a half early and thus got to see that beautiful bunch o’ flowers Babbi tweeted about actually arrive! Note they are certainly a great deal huger than they appear in the photo!
I actually spent most of the time a) trying to remember what sort of car Rin drives because there were vehicals right there at the front o’ the building and I had stalker urges to get number plates for, you know, stalking purposes b) attempting to construct a sentence with which I could give the staff Rin’s presents which ended out not being nessciary as they had a box there and, you know, if I’d waited I could have given it to him personally…ugh…
I was glad to not be trolled by SCARECROW as I’d sort of expected given that’s what happened the last time I was at the o’west though maybe it’ve been nice to have some mention of the boys outside their giant listing in his “kuroda year by year” thing in the pamphlet!
I’m not even pretending to remember actual proper set lists but I can be sure that we started with Sakura oddesy, that there was one song in the mix I actually didn’t know, he broke my brain with flips, gypsy count nine in the red shirt of sex and actual on the gosh darn stage harmonica playing!
Oh and Kasu killed babbi…ok not litterally but he did tell this joke that had the chibi one laughing so much he made Rin improvise because he couldn’t stop giggling.
Oh I’ve been there dear.
We ended, initally, with Bulldog 66 (for which my feet, as always, suffered) but as the band got ready to do the hand do dah Rin was all “NO! I wanna sing another!” so we got bonus Sway Game (for which my feet offically hate me!)
Outfit wise we started with the black frilly shirt and black trousers topped with a black jacket coated in gold paint ala the infamous SCARECROW ‘bird poo’ jacket! Mid point saw a change into the red shirt of sex, a pair of cargo trousers that I want badly and a black tie with a thin red stripe, encour outfit one was a white vest top, the pink trousers of sex and a really loud shirt coated in geometric designs, while outfit two consited of the pink trousers and the concert T.
As always an utterly amazing time and the o-west system of just yelling seat numbers in groups of 10 is not so daunting now that I actually understand Japanese numbers so it’s all good!
So that's both my boys 40ths done...guess the next one will be the "Bashi actually tells us what his age is at long, long, last" concert!
Though, you know, if SC announce something in September it would be sort of tempting to spontaniously fly over for it...though I only have a week off of work so I'm not certain how the jet lag logistics would work....
Oh and merch photos/scans as/when I'm back in England but if you can't wait until then there's a silly version o' the repo up on youtube as we speek!!