Firstly, because I must get it out of my system: YAY, someone loves Masaki!! Isn't she the most extraordinary thing ever? And I know what you mean by getting distracted when she's on stage. She does that to me every time. <3 And it's not a surprise that she wasn't hidden under a ten-gallon hat and glasses at demachi. She never wears them, that I've seen. <3<3 My gal loves to give fan service. I hope she continues for a while before becoming The Shadow Upperclassman.
Okay, okay. I'll calm down now. ;) I'm so glad you managed to get a ticket! It's a really fun experience, isn't it? No matter how mediocre the show. And iri/demachi really is a bizarre and fascinating thing, to think of how different so many of those women are in real life -- to think of women hanging out with women old enough to be their daughters or mothers (and who often are) and just chatting away like teenagers.
when the performer for whom a particular fan club was waiting emerged and waved and smiled, the fans looked absolutely blissed out, like they’d just
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Ryuu Masaki is totally gorgeous, talented in every possible way, destined for stardom, and rather than being carbon-based the way the rest of us are is actually constructed of 100% Love. And there you have my objective unbiased considered opinion on the subject.
And that's fabulous that she doesn't barricade herself against the world like so many performers do. I mean, I totally understand why they do it, because it can't be fun to have cameras flashing in your face every single morning and evening, but... it's still sweet of her to stay so personable and open.
I still can't get over demachi. It's one of the strangest forms of human interaction I've ever seen, and yet somehow it was really touching... I'll probably have to expend another zillion and six words writing about it to myself before I have it properly sorted out in my head. Amazing to see.
That's amazing. To be honest, I really didn't think you'd be able to get one. :)
upon a prearranged signal everyone - no matter whose club they’re in - squats down
Not actually pre-arranged, however. It's just the first people who notice a star starting to kneel, and everyone doing what they're doing. My cult would occasionally kneel for the wrong people, and we even once waved at the wrong car. :)
It was the first out-loud conversation I had ever had with a fellow Takarazuka nut-job.
Personally, I found that to be the most magical thing of all. Actually getting to say the performers names outloud and the other person *knowing and caring what the heck you were talking about*
Oh, and getting lost on the way to the Seinenkan is only natural. It's what all the cool kids do (I actually managed to find it relatively quickly my first time, but then got lost on the way *back*... *fails*)
I didn't think I'd be able to get a ticket either, and I was miserable about it. I guess it was actually a good thing for me that A-"R"ex was a rather mediocre show, if that's why people were scalping their tickets.
... Dammit, I'm really disappointed there isn't a special signal. I thought there must be one. I WANT there to be one. ...In fact, I'm going to pretend you didn't enlighten me. Lalala, can't hear you!
Talking out loud about Takarazuka is a funny experience. Suddenly you realize that names that are perfectly easy to type are actually... um... sort of hard to pronounce. Er.
I actually followed a whole bunch of people to the sports stadium nearby the Seinenkan. There was some big game going on, so I just got swept along with the crowd heading in. Could have ended up being very amusing. "Wow, the audience is BIG today. I didn't realize A-"R"ex was going to be so... athletic. Also, Asako's developed some serious muscle since I last saw a recent picture of her... Wow, we're half an hour in. Isn't there going to be any
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I am /so/ glad you got to experience all of this. Gah, how utterly shiny! Masao just seems like she is really just that much more sweet and brilliant after every report, which is so refreshing and happy-making (not that I'm biased about her class or anything, lol). And really, I totally don't think you're off-course about iride. Just reading about it always makes me almost tear up, and when Sora demachi footage got put up on YouTube (for Ume's sake, but thankfully Chigi's club in Tokyo is next to Ume's, and Dai-chan and Mii-chan's clubs are on the other side of Chigi's) I did literally cry. To see my darling interacting with my fellow fangirls and to know she really just was that adorable and shiny and open and dorkily giggly (she also rarely wears sunglasses, although I think part of that is because her sun-glasses /are/ her actual glasses, she has the tinted kind, and when she wears hats they usually aren't pulled down over her face too far) well, made her more real. I can't imagine the mess I'm going to be in if I get to do iride
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having attended demachi for three different kumi i really have to say i'm still somehow afraid. i only figured out this year, that one from the top-star club gives signal for everyone to kneel down. i really did not see it last year and kept on wondering how they do it *laughs* but.. really.. this system and everything so well organized.. maybe it's because it would never be possible somwhere outsinde of japan. do i make any sens e right now? (if i don't blame it on my head just remembering asako at demachi ^^') well, soragumi and hanagumi demachi were really nice but.. being at tsukigumi demachi was such a different feeling for me. as you said it.. kind of moving
reading everyone's opinion on a'r'ex..hm, i'm still going to buy the dvd, but somehow the excitement i felt when i first saw the poster vanished. *sigh*
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Okay, okay. I'll calm down now. ;) I'm so glad you managed to get a ticket! It's a really fun experience, isn't it? No matter how mediocre the show. And iri/demachi really is a bizarre and fascinating thing, to think of how different so many of those women are in real life -- to think of women hanging out with women old enough to be their daughters or mothers (and who often are) and just chatting away like teenagers.
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And that's fabulous that she doesn't barricade herself against the world like so many performers do. I mean, I totally understand why they do it, because it can't be fun to have cameras flashing in your face every single morning and evening, but... it's still sweet of her to stay so personable and open.
I still can't get over demachi. It's one of the strangest forms of human interaction I've ever seen, and yet somehow it was really touching... I'll probably have to expend another zillion and six words writing about it to myself before I have it properly sorted out in my head. Amazing to see.
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That's amazing. To be honest, I really didn't think you'd be able to get one. :)
upon a prearranged signal everyone - no matter whose club they’re in - squats down
Not actually pre-arranged, however. It's just the first people who notice a star starting to kneel, and everyone doing what they're doing. My cult would occasionally kneel for the wrong people, and we even once waved at the wrong car. :)
It was the first out-loud conversation I had ever had with a fellow Takarazuka nut-job.
Personally, I found that to be the most magical thing of all. Actually getting to say the performers names outloud and the other person *knowing and caring what the heck you were talking about*
Oh, and getting lost on the way to the Seinenkan is only natural. It's what all the cool kids do (I actually managed to find it relatively quickly my first time, but then got lost on the way *back*... *fails*)
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... Dammit, I'm really disappointed there isn't a special signal. I thought there must be one. I WANT there to be one. ...In fact, I'm going to pretend you didn't enlighten me. Lalala, can't hear you!
Talking out loud about Takarazuka is a funny experience. Suddenly you realize that names that are perfectly easy to type are actually... um... sort of hard to pronounce. Er.
I actually followed a whole bunch of people to the sports stadium nearby the Seinenkan. There was some big game going on, so I just got swept along with the crowd heading in. Could have ended up being very amusing. "Wow, the audience is BIG today. I didn't realize A-"R"ex was going to be so... athletic. Also, Asako's developed some serious muscle since I last saw a recent picture of her... Wow, we're half an hour in. Isn't there going to be any ( ... )
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well, soragumi and hanagumi demachi were really nice but.. being at tsukigumi demachi was such a different feeling for me. as you said it.. kind of moving
reading everyone's opinion on a'r'ex..hm, i'm still going to buy the dvd, but somehow the excitement i felt when i first saw the poster vanished. *sigh*
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