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I went to HanaPoko's final tour day at Chiba, featuring guests ASK and Kakochico!! Even though they were guests, they had a LOT of songs to sing! It was a wild night with lots of tsukkomi-ing

✦ ASK’s tengaku started playing as bgm right before the start of the performance, so i was kind of “hmmm??” at it, but it went into one more song before they came out. they talked about this later during MC and recalled last year’s performance in Nagoya where ASK was a secret guest but also the opening act…. they also reenacted hanatan breaking her shoe, for kakichoco’s fans who might not have known about that story
✦ hanatan and pokota came out singing a duet, then ask came out halfway and people screamed so much at him!! then kakichoco came out as well~
✦ pokota rushed into the next song after the intros, called for music, and said that if he lets hanatan talk it'll go on forever and they have a lot of songs to get through :’) she beams at him as the music starts
✦ they often missed title calls half the time and then blurt it out as the instrumental for the song starts
✦ hanatan and pokota were in really fancy matching white outfits!! it looks so close to wedding clothes, but they have clock patterns all over it. pokota was in a tuxedo and hanatan had a sparkly tiara and long white gloves. they were sooo cute
✦ ask and kakichoco were also matching, but i don't know if it was planned or not? ask was in his new t-shirt and usual jacket, with the neck tattoo. kakichoco was in red and black as well, and was wearing a super cute clip-on hat. she said she wore it because she was looking for something fancy enough to match hanatan
✦ hanatan talked about kaki’s outfit later! she said the red dress was really cute before she put on the belt, so kaki went “so it’s not cute like this?!” and made to take it off LOL
✦ hanatan might have been dressed super cute but apparently the entire time before the show she was wandering around backstage without her skirt on, because it’s hard to take off if she needed to go to the washroom
✦ ask gets onto the middle platform to demonstrate something, then gets off, but pokota pauses for a minute and asks him to get back on. he stands below right in front of him and his head is exactly at ask's crotch height
✦ ASK/pokota SPICE! pokota motioned for him to get on the platform and he was kind of surprised but did it, then pokota joined him and they pretended to flirt with pokota putting his face right in asks’s…. then he got in front of him and ask embraced him from behind and they kind of stood like that awkwardly, still singing, until ASK started rubbing his chest and then pokota reached over and fully grabbed ASK’s crotch i laughed so fucking hard
✦ spice was followed by hanatan and kakichoco’s Magnet!!!
✦ hanatan was so fucking good during cendrillion
✦ KAKICHOCO SANG KOSHITANTAN I SCREAMED
✦ ASK Fixer………………….. thank you……………..
✦ I don’t remember exactly what it was about, but hanatan kept doing the “ok” hand sign when talking to pokota (which has a similar meaning to crossing your hands behind your back?) and then they danced like that??
✦ they sang do re mi fa rondo as a group and made fun of pokota the entire time….. hanatan was enjoying it so much that she forgot to sing one of her parts
✦ “pokota-san no rondo, pokota-san no rondo, pokota-san no rondo”
✦ pokota also danced with the “ok” sign during the chorus, while the other three put their hands together in a “thank you” gesture and bowed at him along with the beat???
✦ ask mentioned the cd he's releasing and said it's his first solo in 8 years!! he told us about the other cds and who made them with him and was like "this new guy, he's only been around for about a year, and he’s an engineer, but somehow he sang half the songs on our fuyucomi cd"
✦ pokota and hanatan turned to kakichoco and started telling her about how this yumamiya got so popular so quickly, even though he’s only been around for a year or so… i’m not sure kakichoco is aware of him…..???
✦ pokota: does yumamiya show his face?
ask: no
pokota: wow thats weird because during this year's chang gero sonic even though that guy didn’t have an appearance he was getting makeup done backstage
✦ ASK asked hanatan what her plans for fuyucomi was and she was like uheehhhehe and we couldn’t get any further information
✦ they talked about hanatan’s performances in china, and how for those ones, they started very early in the day and then she’d do talking and handshakes? until late into the night……. pokota taught her “da jia kai xing ma?” and she said that whenever she encountered a listener that didn’t know any japanese, she’d say it to them and they’d brighten up so much!!!
✦ ASK was wearing a red eyeglasses pin, and he talked about it a little! apparently kaito had bought a set of them at miyazaki, and when ASK was like, “those are nice”, he just handed him one
✦ they talked a little bit about kaito! pokota wondered (kind of rhetorically?) what he was up to and ask immediately supplied that he was currently in Osaka for an event! to which pokota was like “you’re more well-informed on him than i was expecting?!”
✦ ASK sang one of pokota’s original solos while everyone was still on stage!! he kept holding the mic out to the audience to sing, but afterwards pokota yelled at him like YOUR FANS DON’T KNOW MY SONG WELL ENOUGH TO SING IT WHAT WERE YOU DOING
✦ he did say that ask was really amazing to remember all the lyrics, and that mmi-chan STILL can’t remember the lyrics LOL even though he’s always earliest to rehearsal
✦ hanatan and kakichoco told us about how they went out to have shabushabu with che:sakurai recently and kakichoco told her about how crazy it was that she was going to sing so many songs at today’s live…. hanatan offhandedly lied and said it’s pokota’s fault and continued munching on meat
✦ ask and hanatan when they used to hang out together
✦ hanapoko gemini!!! hanatan said it was KINDA Christmas-y so she put it in…. i really liked hearing pokota’s rap part
✦ pokota/kakichoco sukikirai~ an unexpected pair!!
✦ they kept suggesting that ASK make a setlist for them next time, and this turned into ASK making a setlist for hanapoko with guest kakichoco, but kakichoco gets 20 songs (kaki: ISN’T THAT A ONE-MAN???)
✦ ASK was telling us that sometimes when he messages hanatan, he uses her real name, so pokota was like “oh? what name is that?? :^)” and they all had to stop to Look at him for a moment
✦ meanwhile hanatan forgets ASK’s real name constantly
✦ pokota told us he still has 6 more concerts before the end of the year!! and two were free!! ASK was so shocked, but hanatan told everyone “it’s okay, it’s because this ojisan is rich (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)”

Encore
✦ they came out immediately after leaving the stage saying "thanks for the encore!!!!!!!"
✦ hanatan left again pretty soon though, because the next song was !!! ask/pokota/kaki imitation black!!! kakichoco’s low voice was GREAT for the pause she said “minnasan daisuki da yo~”
✦ madness of duke venomania was all four of them!! the two girls were supposed to be facing backwards at the start but i guess kaki forgot and pokota had to direct her lmao
✦ they also sang Senbonzakura and Black Rock Shooter! I was a really fun way to end the concert

I went to the last day of C97 Winter Comiket! I went to see AsEver (ASK, Aomofu, Yumamiya, Kyi), Atelier Malletto (Asamaru, Jack, Yumamiya, Tourai, Keito, Tama, and the rest of asamack family), un:c and Araki, and NORISTRY! I also went to pick up some things for a friend at Hydamio and Naryo’s tables.

✦ We got to West Hall 4 at around 10:30? and went straight to AsEver’s table, who were already pretty busy! yumami and aomofu were running the front of the table, while ASK was in the back handling the actual goods! He was still efficient as always….. He looked like a blur LMAO
✦ nobita from At. Malletto was managing their line, wearing both ask’s t-shirt and the at.mal hoodie~ AsEver and at.mal were right next to each other, sharing a table, so it was a really neat setup!
✦ asamaru was nearby managing at.mal’s line for some reason?! other staff were handling the table, and one was the really pretty lady i saw at their event from last time
✦ I ended up in aomofu’s line! i had a LOT of stuff to get omg and I almost forgot to hand them Linn’s letters…… I told them they were from my friend in Singapore and aomofu was like Oh!! and probably knew immediately who i was talking about LOL…. I feel like I also heard ASK exclaim in reaction in the background
✦ Aomofu had red streaks in her hair and was wearing a hat~ ASK was also wearing his blue hat, and both of them were in quite light-coloured clothes? I don’t remember what yumamiya was wearing at all…………….. I want to say it was the white and black (?) striped t-shirt he wore to CGS but I really don’t remember because my brain was rushing like hell

✦ Then, I picked up the full sets from At.Malletto!! asamaru was so far from the actual line for some reason (their line hadn’t picked up yet at this time) so i went to him to confirm and he was really cute LOL he was also in the at.mal hoodie~
✦ The coasters are absolute GORGEOUS they’re porcelain and the illustrations are so delicately pretty!!! It didn’t occur to me at the time but i really should have gotten more than one set of them for myself ;o;
✦ Tourai wasn’t there when I went, but apparently he was there for a bit in the afternoon!

✦ Next stop was un:c and araki! araki’s hair was SO dark PINK he was basically glowing??? their table was very easy to find because of him. he and unc were both wearing caps, and i think black t-shirts? Their line was also pretty short and i ended up on unc’s side of the line~
I had been so rushed I had totally forgotten to ask for a handshake from anyone i saw, but I got to blurt out a “have a happy new year!!” to un:c and he smiled big (even through his mask) and said it back to me!! floats away
✦ it totally didn’t register in my mind until way later when i got to sit down and reflect on my meetings but un:c was in glasses………… We ended up going back into the hall to walk by them again so I could confirm it and he really was so i had like a mini-breakdown as hisame egged me on even further o|-<

✦ I actually wanted to check out glutamine’s table because he was so cute last time but i totally forgot in the scramble…. he was right next to un:c’s table though apparently

✦ My trip to NORISTRY’s table was really really quick…. he was in a t-shirt as well! There was only one person in front of me and I only needed the CD
✦ his CD was a weird price so i had to fish for coins for a bit in a panic but they thanked me for giving exact change so it was probably alright LOL
✦ I think I totally could have talked to him but I hadn’t thought of anything beforehand and i was still in RUSH MODE

✦ At Hydamio’s table, the line was a little confusing but I ended up getting to him pretty quickly as well! he was actually standing to the side, so there was no table between him and the customers? He like immediately recognised that I was a foreigner somehow, so I told him, yes, i was, and he was so excited LOL he kept trying to speak English to me!!
✦ I handed him linn’s letter, and told him it was from my friend Linn from Singapore. He was like oh!!! and said something about English? I think it might have been about her being a translator lol
✦ I had a shopping list that I was referring to and he made to like take it from me to help but I still wasn’t really thinking so I just quickly listed out everything to him. When I said I wanted a postcard he seemed a little surprised and happy?? He said to say thank you to my friend. When he handed me everything he said thank you in english to me like 5 times it was very cute LOL

✦ I also went to naryo and victream’s table and got the wrong CD for linn LMAO……….. It was also a very quick visit so I don’t remember much here either
✦ We also went to check out Royal Scandal’s table at the J line but they weren’t selling what hisame was looking for so we ended up not lining up….
✦ We retreated outside so i could organise and pack the crazy amount of shit i bought, then went back in to take a look at everyone again from afar HAHAHA…….. the lines for everyone were really starting to build…. un:c and araki’s line had to be cut in half and put somewhere else
✦ When we returned outside to meet Yuu, we noticed just how many AsEver fans were gathered around the area LOL it seemed like a mini fanmeet
✦ We ended up having to make a loop back through the hall to exit Big Sight, so Yuu went back to get things from AsEver! Their line seemed to have calmed down a lot, and aomofu was probably on a washroom break because ASK was helping out at the front
✦ I considered lining up for un:c’s table again because shut up……... i even went to the back of the line but I really didn’t have anything else to get….. we also had karaoke reservations to get to, so I decided against it and we left~

The Haul

Chang Gero Sonic 2019! Performers were Gero, Asamaru, ASK, amu, Araki, Alfakyun, un:c, Underbar, Wolpis Carter, Dasoku, clear, Glutamine, Kettaro, Kouhey, Kogeinu, koma’n, that, Tightson, nero, VALSHE, Piko, Pokota, Mi-chan, Meychan, Megatera Zero, Yuge, Hanatan, Rapbit, and Ren!

✦ I was in the fanclub line, so I got in very early! It was super hot for May and the sun was shining so brightly. They sped quite quickly through the numbers so even though mine was quite high, I got in within 15 minutes
✦ I had a lot of things to get for myself and my friends who couldn’t attend so I rushed over the ASK’s table to grab yumamiya’s badge set and the new accessory made by aomofu! As I walked over, there were people making surprised sounds behind me, and I realised as I actually looked at the table that yumamiya himself was there!! And, beside him was aomofu! They were both wearing masks (aomofu was sick :( ) but it was very easy to tell it was them
✦ I quickly got my things from aomofu while kind of staring at yumamiya in shock before heading over to the official goods line, which was already starting to build up
✦ Halfway through that line, I found out the type c t-shirt was gone…….. I picked up kuji (my luck was terrible) and then a different shirt
✦ I headed over to asamaru’s table, where they had two lines which were also starting to get long….. I ran into a friend I made from koge’s birthday event and we ended up spending the rest of the day together
✦ I got a Bunch of things from At.Malleto and gave them linn’s letters
✦ Cloak was really expensive so we ended up leaving the venue during DJ time for me to put my things in another locker and grab more cash…. I really wanted to be there for DJ but there wasn’t much choice….. I went all the way to zepp tokyo because I knew there were lockers there and it turns out sakata was having a one-man there?!
✦ We then went back and I handed the letters I forgot to yumamiya and aomofu, who had just cleared their line. They looked at them, kind of processing the names written on them, before yumamiya handed aomofu hers like, こうかな？ it was very cute……
✦ I put the actual performers’ letters in the gift box and basically made it just in time for the first stage to start!
✦ Each set of performers were divided by stages, and there was a small break between each stage. To the audience, the blue stage was on the left, and the red stage was on the right. The first stage started with the red stage!
✦ Gero came out and called everyone else on stage to sing Gyoukou dance~
✦ I immediately saw ask, who had??!?!?!? BLUE HAIR?!?!??! and I could see his did the nicorai tattoo on his neck again………….. god…………………….
✦ And of course gero’s hair was red!! It was so unusual to see the two of them like that

First Stage
✦ The first stage performers were glutamine, kouhey, tightson, rapbit, hanatan, underbar, megatera zero, and piko!
✦ Piko did a wonderful tengaku and I was so relieved to confirm ASK wasn’t going to be singing it this year LOL…….
✦ Tightson did his version of renai circulation, which I’ve always really liked!! He also did a collab with rapbit!
✦ Megatera sang charles and got us to sing along with him during the chorus. He was really really good……
✦ It was so hot that I got really worried about drinks, so we ended up leaving the stage to grab a bunch of bottles.
✦ During that time, Hanatan sang!! Even from the back, she was amazing. Her vocal power was incredible and you could tell that everyone was blown away by her voice………. Everyone like stopped what they were doing to turn to the stage and watch
✦ Underbar was very cute as usual!! Everyone really loves him… He also sang yi er fanclub with glutamine
✦ The ending song was rolling girl, which they sang as a group.

Second Stage
✦ Nicorai stage! pokota, ASK, kogeinu, that, gero, yuge, nero, and dasoku
✦ Gero explained that nero was here to stand in for dasoku because if dasoku sang with nicorai as well he’d have too many parts on stage LOL
✦ Gero said that with dasoku gone he looks tiny standing amongst everyone else
✦ He had everyone along the line introduce themselves, and ASK talked about his blue hair! He and gero stood next to each other and said they were a duo :’)
✦ As a group, they talked about how because they’re old they never stop talking, especially targeting yugepo
✦ gero kept trying to throw the conversation over to koge and make him talk because he kept pretty quiet :’)
✦ They STILL ended up talking a lot and pokota blamed yuge while pointing at him
✦ They all sang GOLD together! And nero did dasoku’s rap part!! It was so surprising but really refreshing, and he was really good!
✦ Gero was wearing sunglasses when he came out, but as they were singing this song someone walked over to him and pulled them off to wear for themselves
✦ gero and yuge were messing around pretending they were on a motorcycle or something
✦ ASK sang scissorhands and was way too cool…… He makes such grand gestures on stage……..He also changed his outfit a little from the MC at the start??
✦ Nero sang risky game and sounded lovely as usual…..
✦ Pokota also changed outfits, but his was??!?!?! super fancy omfg he was in like a white costume tuxedo and looked super good…. He sang a ballad with zimuinG on piano!
✦ yuge sang ten faced
✦ Kogeinu sang USA!! He had the XYZ crew (gero, piko, araki, un:c, and meychan) as his backup dancers. They were so energetic LMAO some of them were messing around with the dance a little!! it was cute. I was watching un:c for most of it so I couldn’t tell you much else about the others but he was really good at dancing it’s ridiculous……….
✦ koge kept turning around to look at them looking kind of bewhildered LOL….. At the end he watched them a little and tried to dance along as well!! He was properly dancing along to the all-famous chorus from the start though
✦ koge and ASK matryoshka!!!!
✦ The dagero crew (dasoku, gero, that, yuge) came out to sing DaRoWay! Zatton played the guitar for that part
✦ To end, the 2nd stage members (minus dasoku) sang fire flower
✦ ASK and that?? shared a mic and two others did too but I really don’t remember who…. I feel like one of the pair was koge

Third Stage
✦ Performers for this round were alfakyun, un:c, araki, meychan, wolpis carter, and piko!
✦ this stage was honestly so wild…. It was a whole bunch of high-energy people singing high-energy songs!! I could barely see the stage half the time because everyone in the audience was partying so hard along with them
✦ alfakyun sang seisou bakuretsu boy, araki sang dappou rock?, meychan sang mabel
✦ wolpis sang children record! during his MC part, he said he was 24 years old and an old uncle, and that at this age he gets tired after only one song. which was a very daring statement considering the performers he was amongst that day (there were probably only 2 or 3 people younger than him???)
✦ someone in the audience shouted something at him, and he purposefully misheard, going “hmm?? poop? poop???” I think they were saying “ganbare!” or something, but after a while he relented and sent them a flying kiss right through the mic and everyone lost it
✦ I really liked wolpis’ outfit a lot…………….. he wore the special orange akemashite omedetou tte ie T-shirt under a really nice blue/aqua windbreaker? and loose pants
✦ un:c sang churira chururira dadada!! he was energetic with it as always, and I really liked when he did the “shippo dasu obakasan” part….. he turned around, put his leg on the platform, and waved his hand around like a tail and was so cute
✦ alfakyun and araki sang rettou joutou and it was SUCH a blast! I was so glad to finally hear this song performed at a concert!! They were So Powerful and fakyun really hit the notes just right
✦ un:c, fakyun, and i think piko were on stage together from one song? and un:c told us they were going to call someone else to join them!! we all called for meychan and he appeared~ They talked for a bit as a group, then araki quietly walked out to stand in the middle of the stage, looking very sad. when they all saw him they totally lost their shit because un:c had forgotten to call him out too OMFG
✦ un:c kept apologising through his laughter, and the others were saying they were wondering why he wasn’t called but didn’t say anything about it
✦ They got araki to return backstage so they could call him out properly, but when we called his name no one came out right away…. then suddenly he blasted out from the opposite side of the stage?! un:c chased after him for a while while we all shrieked with laughter
✦ They sang a group gigantic OTN!
✦ the last group song was deriheru yondara kimi ga kita! Halfway through the song, kouhey joined them and like completely took over the performance?! apparently it wasn’t planned at all but it was SO FUNNY OMFG and he was really good
✦ during one of the group songs, i saw un:c go back to where wolpis had kind of retreated in the back of the stage and pull him by the arm back to the front where everyone else was, while still singing?? He seemed like such a nice big brother there ahhhhh………..
✦ un:c jumped up SO HIGH while he was behind everyone else WTF

Fourth Stage
✦ Performers for this stage were clear, dasoku, asamaru, amu, mi-chan, kettaro, koma’n, pokota, ren, and VALSHE!!
✦ I had actually left the audience area during the break to try and get some more merch, but when I met up with my friend and I saw that yumami wasn’t at ASK’s table anymore, i told her we really had to go and we rushed back over to the blue stage
✦ pointfive sang two or three songs? I could see asamaru had hung his phone on a strap around his neck, where surely jack was watching from
✦ He was also wearing the at. malletto hoodie and seemed very insistent on wearing it even though it was so hot that day LOL he kept kind of pulling it off and letting it hang on his arms but never fully took it off
✦ during MC, clear asked why everyone was looking at him?? they called him their leader and he was like THERE’S NO LEADER
✦ the pointfive members left the stage, leaving only mi-chan! then, the rootfive members came out, carrying some clothes. They danced around him in circles, throwing the clothes at him, until he was properly dressed to match their nice patterned outfits (earlier with pointfive he was in a simple white shirt and pants)
✦ rootfive sang merry go round and surprised so many people by breaking out into dance!
✦ a mix of rootfive and pointfive members came out to sing magnet together! then, the remaining members joined halfway through. When they reached That Part, gero interrupted right on cue and started talking to the voice in the sky!!! The voice greeted us and they talked for a bit. There was so much cheering and yelling…….. we were so delighted he decided to appear again :’) Then, everyone, including the voice, sang the last part of the song together!
✦ asamaru and pokota kept playing around with dasoku’s arms… they each grabbed him on one side and made him pump his arms up and down while he just stood there with an unchanging expression
✦ dasoku and ren came out on stage and dasoku was immediately like, so what on earth was wolpis carter talking about earlier
✦ ren: at our age, you get tired before you even sing at all!!!!
✦ Ren had specifically grown a beard and wore glasses for CGS (he’s now normally clean-shaven and wears contacts) because he said people definitely wouldn’t be able to recognise him otherwise
✦ they sang eh? ah, sou. together and were arm in arm for most of it, it was really nice to see ;v;
✦ clear sang a really lovely from y to y…… he sounded so gentle, and the wind started blowing a little, so the atmosphere became so soft to match him…..it was really lovely
✦ ketsukoma did a duet as well!
✦ ren, mi-chan, and pokota? sang a song together!! t seems it was the first time that particular group had sung together?
✦ VALSHE finally appeared to sing migikata no chou and was SO charismatic OMFG we all yelled so much for her!!! she was so cool and sounded absolutely perfect. she really got the audience pumped up!!
✦ Then, dasoku and clear joined her, and it was time for VASOCLEAR IMITATION BLACK!!!! it was so amazing to listen to after all these years….. Nearing the end, dasoku and clear started walking closer and closer to VALSHE, who was standing in the middle. We knew it was coming, but i still almost couldn’t breathe LOL…….
✦ 「二人とも大好きだよ」
✦ she delivered her line perfectly and the roar from the crowd was absolutely deafening, man
✦ during MC, clear was thinking back to how valshe was always in his namahousou…. they talked about how she and dasoku would fight all the time
✦ The three of them had such incongruent fashion styles LMAO valshe was wearing a lot of fancy frilly black clothes, clear was in a neat and low-key blue cardigan, and dasoku was in a normal black hoodie
✦ Everyone joined them on stage to sing a group senbonzakura!!
✦ pokota was totally fanboying over vasoclear, and he said that valshe didn’t really talk much backstage, but she talked so much while on stage???
✦ They looked like they were having so much fun singing together!! amu in particular seemed so active. I saw him and valshe singing directly at each other and it looked like they were having a blast~ But then suddenly, everyone fell back and knelt down in what seemed like slow-motion, leaving VALSHE standing in the middle as the focus, as she sang her solo!! it was magical and i really loved that moment a lot….. it’s still something that hangs on my mind even now
✦ amu really was so active this time around! I’m glad to see he had lots of parts in the group songs, even though he didn’t sing a solo. asamaru also didn’t have a solo :’)

Fifth Stage
✦ Gero’s stage! He did some solos and collaborations with a bunch of other participants!
✦ Gero sang Setsuna Trip with un:c, Black Rock Shooter with VALSHE, and duets with araki and alfakyun as well! really, some dream collabs for me
✦ Gero came out with a speakerphone and looked super cool….. He shouted into it, then sang a solo Kutabare PTA!
✦ gero’s mic died during mc while he was alone, so he kept going “PENIS” to test the mic. Wolpis walked out telling him “You shouldn’t say things like that!! even though i said poop earlier”
✦ Then they kept going back and forth, repeating both words and combining them until they had a mess on their hands
✦ gero called wolpis the guy who wants to sing in a high tone! he also said that neither of them had sung the song they were about to sing together before…?
✦ It was dramaturgy!!
✦ Just be Friends was with koma’n on piano + singing harmony!
✦ someone near the front of the audience collapsed in the intro to the song, so gero stopped the performance and waited for her, while talking with us. He told us to take care during concerts and that if you need to rest, please do so! He said it’s no trouble at all and he’ll always wait for those who collapse. He’s really so sweet about things like this….. When it seemed like she was okay again (or got treatment?) he had us all give her some applause and then returned back to the song
✦ I THINK this stage is where there was a group Tokyo Winter Session with Gero, alfakyun, ASK, and Hanatan? Meychan took halyosy’s part, and Piko took 96neko’s! meychan and piko were actually so funny singing together but piko’s voice really did fit the girl’s part perfectly

Farewell
✦ Everyone came onto the stage, and the atmosphere was so great?! They were all so chatty with each other and shaking hands and stuff
✦ faneru made an appearance as well!!! i was so, so happy to see him on stage with everyone. gero put an arm around him and had him trapped while he told us all, “here’s faneru!!!!!”
✦ faneru gave asamaru a HUGE hug!! he was also wearing the At. Malletto hoodie~
✦ I also saw dasoku hug someone but I don’t remember who…..
✦ faneru got passed around the stage so much…. I saw him with ASK and pokota and koge at separate points
✦ he was there for the picture as well!!
✦ he said he probably wouldn’t be making another appearance next time (doubt)
✦ To take the commemorative photo, gero got us all to yell KOUHEY SAIKOU and then someone was like CAN WE AT LEAST SAY CHAN GERO SONIC SAIKOU and gero was like OKAY KINJOU SAIKOU but then for the actual thing he said kouhey again anyways
✦ everyone’s last words went by really fast this time around!
✦ meychan: gero mentioned how he was a fan that lined up for him at comiket
✦ araki: he said he was kouhey’s fan ~~and went to line up for HIM at comiket!! (??he'd never been to comiket)~~ kouhey stepped out and gave him a firm handshake
✦ megatera had another concert to be at that night so he left early in the day
✦ asamaru had jack talk to us again, through his phone!!
✦ ASK was last in the lineup and someone before him said something really good? I think it was one of the rappers. and gero was like THIS GUY SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE END WTF
✦ someone said kouhey stunk of alcohol loool a lot of them had been drinking backstage
✦ They all sang Mind Craft together!! it looked like so much fun…… they were all encouragingly pushing each other to the front to sing with gigantic smiles on their faces, it felt like a festival
✦ ASK said tightson was crying so gero turned around to look at him but he totally wasn’t LOL
✦ for the final bow, they were lined up in two tiers! faneru somehow got pushed into the front and ended up right next to koge~

extra bits I couldn’t place:
✦ someone almost fell off the blue stage but I don’t remember who……….. i think it might’ve been pokota?
✦ we got ASK’s…. bone sausage……..

✦ gero got us to yell “kouhey” so many times for like no reason…. he loves him
✦ cleanero sang stardust utopia!!!! I was so happy because I really do love their duet of it Most
✦ gero told us that some kid saw him while he was out buying something a few days ago? and said annyeonghaseyo to him (because of his red hair)
✦ clear, amu, and kettaro? were arm in arm jumping up and down for a group song and looked like they were having a lot of fun
✦ someone accused dasoku of not being excited and he was like “no this is me being excited”
✦ Gero said that during VALSHE’s migikata no chou, everyone backstage was yelling

Thank you Chang Gero Sonic for another awesome festival!!!!!!!!!

I went to see HanaPoko at Yokohama! The guest was ASK. It was a sit-down event, which kind of surprised me! Hanatan was the one that arranged the setlist this time around. They talked a looooot and it was so hilarious i nearly cried from laughing so hard...... It was a wild time.

Hanatan came out singing tengaku! Then halfway through the song, the instrumental restarted from the beginning and….. Pokota came out and started singing?! Hanatan made an X sign with her arms and he stopped, then the instrumental restarted AGAIN and this time ASK finally came out!! They left the stage as everyone screamed and he finished the rest of the song
They all returned to the stage and talked about last year’s Nagoya performance which ASK guested on, and how even though he was a surprise guest he was the opening act?! He asked if that would really be okay and said their fans were going to be like “who is this?!” but pokota assured him they’d be happy LOL
They re-enacted hanatan breaking her shoe right before the performance and the chaos that ensued, and how ASK came out of it completely composed and sparkly to sing tengaku
Hanatan guested for the rootfive performance the day before, so they talked a little about that!
She said she was also nervous, being a secret guest :’)
They discussed whose performance it’d be the scariest to guest at and pokota said valshe LOL
Pokota said he’s normally a tsukkomi, but since rootfive has too many tsukkomis, he has to play boke to balance it out
Koma’n is the sole boke
Hanatan brought up gero and yugepo and their kansai comedy style but pokota was like “they’re both bokes, you know?! I don’t know how ask handles them”
ask was like “I don’t”
Yesterday, hanatan was practising a difficult song backstage and mi-chan started singing along, then pokota yelled at him saying she wouldn’t be able to practise properly like that
Hanatan wanted him to show ASK how he came out for Charles yesterday, so he showed us…. . he had a towel between his legs and jumped forward bit by bit while pulling the towel back and forth and it was super innappropriate…. lord
Hanatan was in the cutest fluffiest dress and her hair was half up in curled pigtails!! She and Pokota had matching patterns on their clothes
At one point hanatan lifted up pokota’s bangs (I think they were discussing him balding again) and the second time she did it someone Kya’d??? and pokota was like WHAT’S WITH THAT KYA, I DON’T WANT THAT
ASK and hanatan sang suki kirai, but during the “baldy” part they turned around to look backstage with emphasis (at pokota
they changed some of the lyrics but the only part I caught was hanatan saying she’s in her 30s (instead of 14)
They kept insisting ask wasn’t a guest, but instead this is actually a two-man!!
Hanatan disappeared for a while and returned with Halloween things to wear! There were pumpkin wands, a pumpkin headband, and a witch hat headband. She held the headbands up to ASK and asked him which one looked stupider (pumpkin) and then handed it to Pokota, who was like “I knew this was coming”
She laughed when he put it on and said an idiot’s wearing an idiot
Somehow this turned into “a baldy’s wearing an idiot”
She then put on the witch hat (SUPER CUTE!!!!!!!!!!) and ASK was like “?!?! wh-wheres mine?!?!?”
She told him that since this was a two-man, he should have brought his own costume
They got him to leave the stage, and started singing some Halloween songs!!
During trick or treat, ASK came back out to join them, wearing a big vampire cape and a gigantic plush cat pumpkin hat???? He posed in the middle like the birth of venus and hanatan and pokota poked him with their wands. Pokota kept going for his crotch
Hanatan talked like right in the middle of so many songs and it’d confuse the fuck out of the other two but she’d just slip right back into singing with no problem while the two of them were left going ???? ??? ?!?!? ?!?!?
There was also an acoustic part where Pokota sang one of Hanatan’s ballads~ it was really nice
When the keyboardist came out to join hanapoko, even he was joining in on the craziness so pokota had to tsukkomi him as well
Hanatan talked into the intro for one of their ballads and the keyboardist stopped playing, but pokota told him to go again and this time as she kept talking over the piano he started playing with EMPHASIS
Hanatan also tilted the lyrics stand so Pokota couldn’t see it, then asked him if he would be okay to sing, to which he insisted he would be fine. Then during the song he kept pointedly looking over at the stand until she lifted it up and walked away to one corner of the stage
Pokot also sang some of Gackt’s songs! Hanatan said that there was a karaoke session they streamed a long time ago where she thought he sounded really good singing a specific Gackt song, so she put it in the setlist. He changed into the traditional looking outfit he’s been wearing for his tour’s promo
He was so energetic and good…. He’s really got that rocker vibe
Pokota said one of Gackt’s stylists was actually here today as their stylist!! Everyone was so surprised, and Hanatan and ASK were like wow…. Such an amazing person helped style us today…
Pokota’s hair extension was put in by them, so hanatan went to touch it and was like wow…… it feels like the real gackt………. (??????!!!)
She also started looking into the sky and said “thank you stylist………..” and ASK was like “instead of doing that you can tell them directly, after the show??? Please????”
After pokota’s solos was Cantarella!! He was singing alone on stage at first so I thought Hanatan would join him, but to my surprise, ASK did instead!!
Pokota had kind of been looking towards backstage as he was singing, and ASK joined justin time for his part
It turns out ask and hanatan were casually sitting backstage discussing ff7 when he suddenly heard the instrumental for cantarella play and he got up and rushed onto the stage, bursting out looking totally confident LOL
At the very end, ASK went behind pokota and put his arm around him, but pokota totally did not take it seriously and just looked back and forth between us and ASK, wide-eyed,while their faces were extremely close together
Pokota asked how hanatan and ask’s conversations usually go when they’re alone and ask was like “we’ve known each other for 10 years but when i used to pick her up she would get into the seat directly behind me so i can’t see her and stay silent the entire time
Sometimes she’d make a small comment on the weather
Multiple times, hanatan would go get a drink in the back of the stage and leave pokota to talk, and he stalls for quite a while but then suddenly turns back at her like, “HOW LONG ARE YOU GONNA DRINK FOR?!”
She’d just blink at him, unmoving, with the straw still in her mouth
During one of the group songs, pokota stopped and just looked at ASK, then said “this guy is probably twice koman’s height”
“Those legs are probably 2 metres long”
Hanapoko sang ah, subarashiki nyansei and hanatan was ADORABLE OMFG during the chorus she’d dance along with nya poses and it was like she was an idol i loved it so much
They sang a group Madness of Duke Venomania aaaahhhhhh I love how well pokota fits it!!
Pokota complained that it was such a hard song and hanatan was like, yeah, I agree (She sang every girl part, so)
Hanatan was seriously so good in every single song OMFG the pure power in her VOICE I LOVE HER
hanatan tried to imitate something cool kettan said the day before but it just ended up sounding like she was making fun of him
During a lot of the MC, hanatan would inch closer and closer to the others until ask shouted "you're too close!!!"
pokota pointed out that as she got closer ask would inch further away from her towards him
at the end they were all clustered at pokotas side of the stage, still talking
pokota: im 36
ask&hanatan: mm at that age the balding makes sense
There was an ask fan near the very front and they were carrying one of those idol fans…… they asked if they could take a look at it and one side said to do finger guns so ASK did it at a bunch of people and hanatan was like “ah all those people died”
Pokota told him he didn’t even direct it at the fan owner LOL
pokota was trying to promote asks's CDs and said that even the people that "don't like ask" should check them out and hanatan was like THATS NOT HOW YOU SHOULD SAY IT???
ASK was like “thats okay, [ikemen voice] ✨you can come to like me✨”
They announced that Hanapoko finale would have ASK and kakichoco as guests!!! And pokota suggested hanatan make the setlist again!!
They really talked SO MUCH pokota told hanatan that at the next one with ASK and kakichoco there’d be four of them so there’d be much less time to talk and hanatan was like :c
They praised hanatan’s song choices a lot~ the entire setlist really was good…. There were a lot of satisfying choices
"maybe hanatan could sing some of ask's originals next time"
"like tengaku"
"tengaku is NOT MY SONG you're going to get me into trouble???"
At the end when they were saying their last words, it was hanatan’s turn and she said she wasn’t good at talking
The other two were like HUH?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!
When they took pictures, pokota yelled that he’s the only one that shows his face!!!!!
Aomofu was watching, standing in the back! People talked to her a little before and after the show, and during the commemorative photo she crouched down and threw up a peace sign, and some people in the back laughed like “i thought you’d do that lol”

At the very end, they had a hi-touch session with the audience!! They said they wanted ASK to go into the audience from the stage and hand out candy to everyone, but the seats were very close together so that would have been impossible LOL. Instead, they gave out candy as we left
I was pretty far in the back, so I was one of the first to do hi-touch! Hanatan was first down the line, and it kept slowing down because of her LOL she kept talking and was soo cute…..
ASK was next! I wore his earcuff and I think he was looking for people wearing his stuff and noticed me while I was in the line but I looked away immediately because I cant… handle that…….. When I got to him I remembered just how TALL he is WOW I was like craning my neck up LOL and he was so pretty……………………………. My brain stopped working
Pokota was handing out candy at the end of the lineup!! He was holding SO MUCH candy at a time and gave everyone a bunch! He was so cheerful and cute hahaha it was a really nice way to leave the venue

Gero's Nagoya performance, utattemita day!! The guest was ASK!

I got there very late because I had to shinkansen there right after…… work…… But i made it just in time!! It was a very crowded livehouse and I couldn't see all that well, but there was a small TV near the entrance where I was and the quality wasn't the best but it did help a bit
ASK did the pre-concert announcements!!
Right at the start, gero kept calling it originals day (it was utattemita day) and then was like, i've sang these songs so many times they feel like theyre mine!!!!!
Gero talked a little about next year's chang gero sonic plans and said he might be doing fuyucomi if he's got the time, but he's really busy!
he asked us if we had any requests for guests for cgs, and someone loudly shouted kouhey and gero wouldn't let it go at all….. he kept going "KOUHEY?? KOUHEY??????" for the rest of the show
later on, someone asked for glutamine, but before they could even finish saying his name gero cut them off with another "Kouhey???"
one girl said she was here for ASK and gero made a Face
somehow he ended up targeting a guy in the audience who apparently just turned 20? he asked if he had a lover and the guy was like "concerts are my lover!!!!
gero talked about how he's 32 but not married, then told us he wouldn't tell us if he got married anyways lol
his Rinne was sssoooo good there was a lot of headbanging and he looked appropriately crazy at the right moments IT WAS SO FUN!! apparently we made the building shake
to introduce ask, gero said "I keep telling this guy to upload but he doesn't"
ASK said he might upload at some point?
his solo was tengaku!! He threw his hat off his head to the side of the stage and made everyone scream
They sang two songs together! marionette lovers, and alien alien
for marionette lovers, ASK did the breathing noises at the start, and also the whispered "sayonara" so we all yelled over that
during alien alien, gero messed around during the rap just like in their recording, and ASK laughed so much he couldn't sing his own part properly
during MC, gero talked about how he and made a circle with koge, and while laughing the entire time, mentioned that there was also some new guy from kumamoto with them
ASK wore some nicorai merch? a wristband or something I think? So they talked about the nicorai tour and how it was nonstop concerts and handshake events, so as a result they totally lost their voices and were super raspy at the handshake events
they also retold the legend of ASK breaking his leg at [Shinjuk*******]
ASK mentioned that he'll be at fuyucomi with yumamiya and gero turned to us and said, "imagine my reaction when i found out from twitter :///"
from alien alien where they messed around so much, gero went into a solo Just Be Friends and made everyone cry…. Of course it was the piano version, and he always puts so much emotion into it…..
Then suddenly right after that was Unknown Mother Good which was also SUPER GOOD but some huge mood whiplash…. he was so cool though
I knew so much of the setlist!! He did a lot of my favourite songs and was so energetic and has such amazing staging….. Everyone was super pumped!! I love him

Encore

ASK came out in the tour's big tee and parka and the parka was even big on him?! He had moe sleeves……. He made a sort of nyan pose with his hands in front of him and everyone squealed that he was cute….
He stood up on the platform thing and then was like, "...... i don't really need this, do i….."
He did end up getting on it when they all did the last bow!! and gero put his head on his shoulder LOL

I went to natsucomi with Hisame! This time i had a bit more experience and free time so I went to see a few more people.

With the Olympics on the horizon, lining up was slightly more confusing than usual, but everything went quite smoothly and we got in soon enough! We first headed to NORISTRY and morudeo's table. I already had basically everything he was selling, but I still wanted to see him so I picked up an acrylic and badge. He was very nice and laughed at something morudeo saying to Hisame. I was nervous and ran away pretty quickly even though he wasn't too busy, but that's ok. We also stopped by kanon69's table for hisame, and then headed to the far wall where a lot of people we wanted to see were!

I was relieved to see that un:c's line wasn't actually too crazy, so I decided to go by his a little later. I picked up cleanero's new cd first. Clear was the one handling sales, while Nero was at the side spacing out. It was very in-character of both of them. They also had two helpers with them! I recognise their faces but I'm not too familiar with their names... I think they were canaria staff.

I was trying to get some of hydamio's items for Linn, but I'm really not familiar with him so I ended up running around between a few tables in confusion.... I accidentally lined up for monopalette for a bit but noticed they didn't really have anything I was looking for on their table and left. We were in awe at how pretty every single boy was at that table though. I finally got to the right table and grabbed my things! I didn't know what he looked like but I'm pretty sure it was his voice. He was very gentle and even though he was wearing a mask I could still see him smile realy big as he thanked me :')

I went to un:c's table and bought like....... half his stuff....... I didn't total everything beforehand because i made impulse purchases, so when he told me the total, I was too busy thinking about his voice to actually pay attention to the number he said and froze?? He then thought he got the total wrong and apologised so sincerely and seemed a little frazzled and I felt so bad because I just didn't hear properly HAHAHA....... He was so cute though.... I told him I was excited to see him at XYZ and gero's tour and went on my way.... WEW. He was wearing a cap+mask and his anniversary tshirt, which he was also selling!

Last was glutamine's table! He had soo many CDs and I was confused about which ones linn wanted but he very cheerfully pointed out the names of each of them. He was so energetic!! He was wearing a pink? shirt that looked very nice on him. I ended up getting the gerotamine CD and his little plush keychain as well. He told me that since they all had different shapes, I could choose the one I liked. He might have noticed that I was speaking English to Hisame because he kept exclaiming short English words, like "choice! choice!" it was adorable.

I also stopped by natsushiro's table but the exchange there was really quick!! We then walked all the way outside up a ramp to the South Hall's second floor, where ASK was helping marasy with sales. It was SUPER busy around their table so we didn't get really close, but we just wanted to catch a glimpse of him anyways loool. He looked as efficient as always, and had a towel around his neck to periodically wipe sweat away. Super Salesman ASK!!

my goods~

A concert to end the year of 2018!! First performance was a band performance featuring Gero and his band! Second performance was with a DJ and featured Gero and Team Nicorai (Yugepo/ASK/Kogeinu/Kawamura(Dasoku) + special guest Yumamiya)! This was held at Shibuya duo MUSIC EXCHANGE.

We were pretty far in the back but got decent viewing in the middle! Both of his tour logo cloth displays were hanging in the back. They did the usual announcements, but no one said the usual “はーい” in response to the first rule, so the announcer (I still don’t know who it is?!) was like, “y-you guys should at least say something? What about a “はい”??” So everyone laughed and did as they were told.

Then, the music started playing and everyone came out!! They started with BELOVEDxSURVIVAL, just like in his tour’s original day! He ended up doing like, a best of the best mix of both his tour days’ setlists. I loved it so much!! Of what I could remember, he did rainbow girl, unknown mother goose, udon, rinne, bandits, and hello! For hello, he said that during his tour he got everyone to grab each others shoulders, but this time he wouldn’t tell us when to do it. We all ended up swaying around arm in arm by the first chorus, but the rows were going different ways so during the break he laughed at us and said we were all バラバラ……. He started directing us a little until we were all in unision and then started joking around and went way too fast.

As for talk parts! He introduced the drummer, who was the main drummer for HoneyWorks! He said he was used to a completely different crowd because honeyworks’ audiences are usually teenagers. Kaizoku ou talked about how he’s called ouji at honeyworks events, so he did his thing with the audience which ended with “I’m everyone’s prince”, to which everyone started yelling and hooting. Gero then said that in a normal audience there’d be “kyaaa”s but because this was his audience everyone is just cheering wildly instead looool. Gero also told us about how pasta was going to be the DJ for the night concert! He mentioned daso- no, kawamura-san, and said he was so excited to see him and sing with him again!! He really loves that guy LOOOL he didn’t even bring up any of the others. He also talked about how he’s been feeling sick, kind of? Dizziness, or something. He asked if there was any doctors in the audience and I don’t think there was, but some people offered up advice from experience anyways! Someone said it could be from stress or fatigue and he was like HMMM I don’t think I’ve had any stress???? (we laughed) Oh but I’ve been fatigued…… Hopefully he gets that sorted out lol…..

The countdown tote + appropriate chang gero sonic 2018 badges

Reppin' the AsEver merch

For the night event, we ended up placing ourselves in similar positions to the afternoon event, but the venue was even more crowded than the afternoon, which surprised me! The mochi and kuji were sold out by the time we got there, which was kind of a bummer, but I already got the felt tote right after the first concert ended so at least that meant I didn’t have to line up! They gave us a money envelope on the way in, which surprised me a little!

Money envelope!

There was a screen up this time! For the countdown. ASK was the one doing the announcements, and at the first はーい he responded in a deep sultry voice いい子だ and you could positively hear the sparkles in his voice……. People screamed. He kept doing it with every response too…. He ended up going “皆いい子だね” and we all laughed…… You could also hear gero laughing in the background at one point.

They all came on stage and sang fire flower right off the bat!! I could see something on ask’s neck and it looked like a tattoo??????? I turned to hisame touching my neck and we just exchanged bewhildered looks, and did the same with linn LMAO WE WERE SO CONFUSED BUT DELIGHTED……

They did a few solos and duets and then it was already time for the countdown!! They started the new year with a group GOLD, because he said that’s what he wanted this year to be like!! They were given cup noodle soba? To eat. Yuge took one bowl, and koge took the other! Yuge shared some with gero and dasoku, I think, and ask looked like he wanted some too but koge was totally snorting his down with amazing speed and gave no indication that he was going to give any to ask?! In the end ask showed us his bowl and he had completely cleared it, soup and all.

I don’t remember when songs were done, but ASK and kogeinu did matryoshka!!!!!! yuge/ASK/koge did bandits, yuge did an original song which was really nice, and ASK did tengaku ofc. Yugepo also did butterfly! And gero/koge did hello dystopia. did dasoku did shinpakusuu #0822 which I wasn’t expecting but it couldn’t have been anyone but him hahahha. ASK and dasoku did inokori sensei! Right before they started singing they talked about how they never sang together before in an upload, and maybe even in concerts too?? They were really good though, I love that song so much…… ASK and yugepo sand cantarella!! Yuge put on a fancy masquerade mask and afterwards said he couldn’t see a thing because he didn’t have his glasses on, and then put them on right over the mask. Koge sang USA and both gero and yugepo came out to dance the chorus with him!! Honestly he was really good at the dance?! eventually, ASK joined them as well, and for the very last chorus they dragged dasoku out and tried to teach him to do it too…. he barely gave an attempt at dancing and we all laughed, especially gero :’) Koge also sang kanjou no pixel!! Both his songs were….. wow lmao. I think it was dasoku who solo’d flamingo, and it actually took me a while before I realised what song it was?? It was really good though. Kogeinu and dasoku also did a duet but I… don’t remember what!! At the beginning though, he asked dasoku what he wanted to be called because hes been confused and he was like “…..kawamura” “ah, okay, let’s go with dasoku then” KOGE PLEASE….. ASK sang STELLA from PLANETALE and asked us to let him be an idol for a bit….. he even…. DANCED….. VERY IDOL. He also did Romeo with gero, and gero did his “kocchi koi ya” and ask was like WHY. They talked about it afterwards and apparently gero didn’t do it during rehearsal so it totally caught ask off-guard…. Gero said he was dedbating doing it up until the very last minute, and then it sort of just came out LMAOOO I love him. For another one of his solos, gero said he specifically didn’t have this song in the afternoon performance so he could sing it now…. daijoubu da yo!! We all immediately started doing the actions and he was like everyone knows it!! Nice!! Then, they ended with Mind Craft for a perfect finish~

Then it was time for the encore. They all came out and gero…. Was leading someone out with his arm around his shoulder?! AND IT WAS YUMAMIYA!!!!! Everyone yelled and screamed a lot and I was like wailing into my towel….. I had totally forgotten that he was watching because I was having so much fun so it really shocked me to suddenly see him. He said he was watching from the second floor and actually made the hand motions and stuff, and that it was his first time doing so because he usually just watches? They all sang black rock shooter together, and yumamiya kept getting pushed to the middle by everyone… they’d throw their arm around his shoulder and lead him to the middle while still singing. After the song was a talk part! They made yumamiya talk first and he was like…. Why….. he said he actually really wanted to sing gold, so they last-minute decided to sing it again?! But first, they got through the rest of the last words. Gero kept asking when he would upload, and they were on this for a while, until he suddenly broke off to directly address the crowd and was like “I’ve never uploaded before, you know. Okay?” also someone in the audience at some point asked him to do an elmo voice and he was like” I have no idea what that means” BOI……… When they finally sand GOLD again they all did the same thing, trying to lead yumamiya back to the middle as often as possible because he kept tryin to escape to the sides….. he jumped up and down sooo much though!!! It looked like he was having so much fun…… someone had pulled his hood up over his head at some point and I saw him pull it down in the middle of the song and he clearly mouthed “暑い！！“ it was very cute….. He also legit danced at one point!! I guess they asked him to moonwalk?? Everyone cheered so loudly lol. There were also deafening cheers the first time gero put his arms around yumamiya while they were singing!!! I think everyone was really really happy…… I sure was.

I went to see AsEver (ASK/Yumamiya/kyii/Aomofu) and High and Low (96neko/Touyu) at Fuyucomi’s second day, on Sunday! This was when all the vocaloid-related things were there.

We got there a little late so we were put in the farther waiting area…. I spent the time waiting writing my letters as usual :’) This time they were quite short, because I didn’t have too much to say and couldn’t really think properly anyways (I was pretty dang sick). I really liked the paper I got this time though!! It was star themed, which was perfect for PLANETALE, and had actual silver foil on it and this really nice pastel rainbow fade.

Letters :’)

Once we got in, we beelined to AsEver’s table!! The line wasn’t too bad. This really regally beautiful lady was helping manage the line and as I lined up I caught a glance at her nametag, realising it was actually kyii!! She had long straight black hair with blue extensions in it and looked so cool…. I ended up in ASK’s line again hahahaha. In a panic I immediately handed the letters over to ask and I ended up getting basically everything….. The entire set, another earcuff because I love it so much, and the asuneru book from kyii! It happened in a flash…. He actually asked if I wanted two bracelets which threw me off a bit?! Only like half my mind was there because I kept looking over to yumami fsdhgjkfhhdfkgjk he had an orange extension in his hair….. The both of them were wearing masks! After the three of us were done, we gathered to the side and freaked out a little (read: a lot).

Then it was time for me to move off to tackle High and Low’s insane line ;-; There was an olderish? lady who was in front of me and she asked if I was there for 96neko and kept talking to me, but she was very nice! She talked about others who she was there to see and I was pretty surprised at the variety. There were also two very young looking kids nearby me, and I saw that one was using the same picture for their keyboard background as I had as my lock screen lmaoooo it was that picture of 96 and soraru from stars on planet :’)
While I was waiting, I had time to take a look at my surroundings a little! AsEver’s line had been broken off and put outside as well, so it looked like we had just made it in time before the big crowd….. cleanero was two tables away from AsEver, and Alfakyun was at the very end of their row. HanaPoko were next to High and Low!! Pokota was so tall…. I could see him clearly over everyone’s head from my spot in the line, even with his line right in front of him hahaha. Hanatan was so so so so so cute omfg!!!!!! She was wearing round glasses and smiled so big as she talked to everyone that greeted her and just generally looked like sunshine. She was wearing a very cute hoodie dress.

The High and Low line really was super long, but luckily I did manage to land 96’s line!! She was farthest to the left, with someone (I don’t know who;;) next to her handling cashier. Saki was also handling cashier, I think, and touyu was farthest to the right! I got 96’s cd Tears, the acrylic charm, and the choker! I felt a little bad because I only had a 10k note but it seemed to be fine…. Then, I handed her my letter and told her I was a fan from Canada…. She and the cashier made surprised sounds and she looked like she was searching for something to say? Then suddenly, I heard “Are you from Canada?” in English! I was so surprised, but I replied back in English “Yes, I am!” while laughing. She said something along the lines of “thank you very much!” and I ran off while saying “see you again” She was so cute…………………… I was very happy!!

I met up with linn and hisame again, and AsEver’s line had shortened! One by one, we went back up to the one we didn’t initially line up for and bought something else…. I was dumb and bought everything immediately so I opted to get another asuneru book from yumami….. It was a very quick exchange but I told him I’m supporting him from now on too….. I was so crazy to see him being a real moving human…… And to hear that voice……. He was smiling so much and it was obvious even with the mask on!! He and ASK have quite the height difference LMFAOOO

We headed out after that because we didn’t have anything else to get and were pretty tired….. There was still asamaru’s utaren for linn and I at night so I wanted to sleep a little before then.

Comiket loot + asamack merch!

The beautiful CDs I got~

I went to C94! It’s a long story but I basically only saw Rogero Cras (ASK/Kogeinu/Gero/Yumamiya) and High and Low (96neko/Touyu)!

I woke up at like 6pm the day before and hadn’t gotten my letters written yet so I did not sleep (: Caught one of the first trains to Tokyo Big Sight and at 6:30am lined up for the West Hall where all the music stuff is, and sat down to write the rest of my letters to rogero cras…… The girl next to me had a 96neko towel and merch

At 10:00, we were finally let into the hall!! I was pleasantly surprised to see that rogero cras’ table was almost RIGHT next to the entrance!! I headed straight there but there was already a line building so I was nervous about getting ASK’s necklaces….. From where the line initially was, I could only really see ASK! He was in that same skull shirt from CGS~ I caught a glimpse of koge too but he was in a hat and mask….
They ended up moving the line to a better place (i think they did not expect that amount of people right away) and gero managed the beginning of the line while a helper organised the rest of us! Koge and ASK manned the table, handling a line each. I ended up in ASK’s line! Gero joked around with us telling us that this was his part-time job and fanned us a little, he was really cute!! They were being SUPER efficient and I was so worried about stock and having the right amount of money because I was going to be getting so many items (for both me and a friend) that I was sooo frazzled and shaky when it was finally my turn LOL AND ASK IS SO ATTRACTIVE AND TALL AND WAS LOOKING RIGHT AT ME AND SPEAKING TO ME SO GENTLY………. MY BRAIN WAS COMPLETELY ZAPPED…… I shoved eight letters at him and tried to explain that my friend gave letters too and he went through them looking a little surprised? I don’t know if it was because we both included mami or because of the sheer number LOL but he took them quickly and then i bought almost the entire table of goods….. I felt like a crazy person but he spoke so gently the entire time it’s still in my mind??? HE’S REALLY SWEET…. As i was pointing at everything I wanted, I was also partially distracted by koge’s voice right next to me;;;; It was really weird to hear this voice that I was so familiar with so clearly….. Anyways I think ASK quickly realised I was a foreigner because he said a number in English (asking how many of something I wanted) and when I left shoving the goods into my backpack he said thank you in English as well and I gave a surprised thank you back!!

I then rushed off to find High and Low as fast as possible because I was done with the first table unexpectedly quickly but their table was a lot harder to find….. I ended up losing my passcase+house key in my own idiocy which delayed me even more….. I only realised once I finally located their table, so i looped around and I looked for it a bit and went to lost and found but it wasn’t there, so I gave up and returned to line up.

THEIR LINEUP WAS OUTSIDE, LOOPING BACK AND FORTH…. it took me a full hour?? But that’s expected of such a powerhouse circle LOL…. halfway through, i heard squealing and turned around to see two girls fangirling super hard and one was almost crying omg…. they were wearing 96′s merch so I assume they just saw her and I smiled…. i was luckily in 96′s line!!! It seemed they were taking it a lot slower than rogero cras and were taking the time to talk to everyone so I felt a lot calmer…. I asked for what I wanted and then fumbled with the money a bit and then stood there for a beat too long because I wanted to say something to her but had nothing because I didn’t prepare myself beforehand;; She was so cute though!! she was also wearing a mask and had dyed her hair a light purple! She was also sooo calm I didn’t get a good look at touyu because I was so focused on her LOL I was so sad to leave I wanted to talk to her…….

But I really did have to go because I was getting increasingly worried about my keys….. I combed the area I was wandering earlier over and over again and kept checking with lost and found as well to no success…. As a result I got to pass by rogero cras a whole bunch of times HAHA i hope they didnt notice…… When their table started to slow down, I went up to gero asking if I could get their signatures because koge said the day before on his stream that it might be possible, but he told me no ;-; and he said sorry to me in english?! then i returned to on-and-off searching for my keys and resting because I was Dead Tired

After they sold out, I missed them giving away the poster but quickly went up to koge who was free (ASK was talking to someone else but I didn’t even get a look at who) and told him 「 “お疲れ様でした！！」and then realised I had nothing else and ran away LOL…. i heard him laughing a little in confusion as i left.
I stayed all the way past the douijn halls closing (4pm) til 5 to wait for all the lost and found to be gathered, and in a last-ditch attempt enquired one last time…. AND RETRIEVED MY PASSCASE!!!! OVERALL A GOOD DAY!!

I then headed straight home, fell asleep on the train, and immediately opened Mind Cluster to listen to mind craft and nonsense bungaku!!! AND THEY ARE SO GOOD!! THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS SO GOOD PLEASE BUY IT IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE!!! FANERU’S SINGING HAS LEVELED UP SOOO MUCH AND THE SONG SUITS HIM PERFECTLY!!!! AND MIND CRAFT IS LOADS OF FUN!! THE LEGENDARY FOUR FINALLY SING TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! IT WAS WORTH EVERYTHING!!! EVERY OTHER TRACK IS ALSO AMAZING!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!!!!

This is not very well written or anything and is 100% thought/word vomit as opposed to a real report but it sure describes some of the events of the day so if anyone’s interested!!

I saw gero say there was gonna be 5000 people so I wanted to get there early, but I missed my first bus so I barely made opening…. I went all the way to the back of the extremely long line before some girls asked me what number my ticket was and I realised I was 382 and where I was standing was in….. like the 2500s…… So I walked all the way back to the front.

Akiakane's illustrations of their avatars lined the walk into the venue

I’m really glad I got in early bc i had leeway to get shit before they were all sold out!! I ended up grabbing ASK’s earcuff even though i had decided earlier that I didn’t need it….. People were heading pretty frantically towards his merch line so I was like Okay same. It totally slipped my mind to actually get his CDs though and now i regret it :( I wanted to look at the tracklists…. I grabbed the character T-shirt and decided that was Enough for now. I intended to go back when koge and ASK were actually running their booths but i was too scared of losing my spots in the crowd so i never did……….

Super cute!!

There was all that collab food but I wanted to get a decent spot soon so I only grabbed a STRONG GERO and headed to the stage. I immediately regretted this because now I had this fucking cup with me and no bottled liquid supply, but I made it work

And here are the stages!

utsu-P was the DJ for the first hour and he played tonnes of good oldies from niconico, both vocaloid and not! It was a lot of fun and he got us pumped up!! It really set that nostalgic mood…. Lon’s ochame kinou was in there too ;o;

In the first stage, they immediately got everyone on stage and sang Mind Craft! I was scrambling to identify several people LMAO but Koge was pretty easy just from the way he generally dresses, and ASK was flashy as FUCK with tonnes of accessories….. He’s so TALL OMFG he and Gom seemed to be about the same height? They got dasoku to lift himself up on their shoulders HAHAHA. People that super stood out were underbar and araki…… underbar is obvious because of his outfit, but I’d never seen araki before so i thought he was a really really cool lookin girl LMAO his hair was so impressive!! All styled and curled and bright red!

After Mind Craft were some solos and collabs!! Glutan was first but i don’t remember the song…. Hanatan was absolutely amazing with Romeo to Cinderella!! I was so impressed by her voice control omg she’s a goddess……. cleanero sang Cantarella together and they were super good too!! I love them so much… They talked about how it was their first collab together and basically how nero got into utattemita. Touyu solo’d Unravel and hit those high notes so well?! And then Matryoshka with koge!! in a later stage gero joked that the two of them looked like a hip-hop duo and koge said that out of all utaite (present?) he probably looks the most like a he can rap LOL. Gom sang World is Mine and he struggled a bit with some parts, it was pretty funny! As expected of that song…… Underbar was SUPER cute and so energetic?? he did This is the Happiness and Peace of Mind Committee and changed the chorus lyrics to “underbar is? THE BEST” and the crowd was sooo into it, it was super fun! He did a duet as well, I think, but I don’t remember with who or what;; I think it was during this stage that Yugepo also joined someone for a Panda Hero duet while wearing a panda mask and ended up throwing it into the crowd at some point. tbh there are a whole bunch of performances that i’m missing it was such a whirlwind.

I was a bit off to the side during the first stage which was unfortunate because that’s where tissuehime was!! But, he came up to the front of the stage a few times to do his thing and he was reaaally goood!! I always loved his World is Mine!!!

In the second stage, it got a bit cramped because everyone was moving over to the front of the blue stage so i just kid of got pushed along a little…. But the dust settled eventually and there was enough room to move a bit. During the breaks, more of those classic NND songs would play and you could hear people singing along softly, it was a great atmosphere! They started the second stage with another group song! For solos, alfakyun sang Guren no Yumiya which was super fun to yell along with! she also sang ECHO in a duet with araki and rocked out pretty hard. Piko also did a solo here! Gero did a duet with ??? someone;;; and he came out wearing the character shirt…. It turns out the other guy was also wearing it under his normal shirt hahaha

At this point i was getting worried about dying of thirst at a critical time, so I made my way out of the crowd to hopefully very quickly grab some refreshments. I got two drinks and then decided that since i was out already, i should get some food too so i dont have to leave again. As i was looking for a place to sit, i see….. KONY?!?!?? HE WAS JUST SITTING AT A TABLE OMFG and the seat next to him was empty so I asked if it was free and then after a bit was like….. You’re kony right. And he was like yeah *thumbs up* but I couldn’t think of anything else to say in jp anymore so I just kept quiet and ate as other people came and asked him the same thing LFKGFK. I wish I had the presence of mind to tell him I love his singing voice… ;-;

Nero eventually appears on stage to sing JUST A GAME so I’m freaking out internally trying to finish my food and kony eventually leaves…… I joined the crowd again but things are kind of a blur from there til the end….. I can tell you nero was fucking amazing though. god i love his voice and singing for that song

In the third stage, Team Nicorai are first up, with Kogeinu, Pokota, ASK, Yugepo, Gero, and Dasoku! Gero poked fun at dasoku’s low tension and how he got banned from youtube for a bit, saying it’s because he was streaming every day lol. Pokota’s solo was amazing!!! He was ridiculously energetic and it was so infectious!! He’s so charismatic and pretty…. .Koge did Lost One’s Weeping and I was going absolutely NUTS I was so freaking happy!!! Near the end, he had to go an octave lower because it was just so ridiculous LOL but he really was amazing!! and he returned back to the high notes for the very end, so strong. (in his namahousou afterwards he said he wanted to do tengaku but then no one else was able to do Lost One hahahaha) ASK did Tengaku (i think he swapped his shirt from white/black -> black/red here for some reason??) which was GREAT and then!!!!! SUKIKIRAI DUET WITH HANATAN AAAHHHHHHHH THEY WERE SUPER FUCKING CUTE!!!! She walked on stage still holding a canvas shopping bag and had to turn around and put it back LOL so cute ;-; She was so good at making the cute interjections and he was moving all over the stage with grand actions and was even making flirting actions with Tissuehime…. I cant believe he seemed so nervous on twitter because hes definitely got some amazing stage presence…. He walked off at one point to grab a signed green ball to throw into the crowd! After that, Hanatan did Cendrillion with Pokotan!! Apparently they had never sung live together before this?! Which is shocking?! (Maybe it was just that they never sang Cendrillion together….. I didn’t listen properly….) but yeah, they were really good, and Hanatan hit all those high notes amazingly ;o; Yugepo sang Butter-Fly and we all sang the chorus along with him, it was so fun…… Yamadan came to sing something, and he threw a bunch of coins into the audience!

4th stage!! It’s time for pointfive!! They sang two songs together! [something] and Select Me! They talked about how it’s so amazing to have the group gathered together again, and how Dasoku hasnt changed at all (he really hasn’t). They keep teasing him about becoming a youtuber lol… Anyways he’s like, on the contrary, hasn’t clear changed a lot?? Because he was talking so much. He, in turn, complained that the rest of the group never says anything so he has to be the one!! For example, when they do their last words, the only thing the four of them have to say is “it was fun” so it leaves it on him to close it properly! But they just told him he should also just say “it was fun” and everything would be okay lol. clear did Little Travellersolo and they continued with the slower songs; dsk sang shinpakusu0822 and Mi-chan sang ???. His live vocals are so good…….
then. T H E N
dasoclear step out
and my mind is screaming MAGNET
AND IT IS MAGNET AND IM SCREAMING AND SO IS EVERYONE ELSE. They do the beginning just like their upload and sound fucking amazing but then halfway through?! GEROINTERRUPTS…… AND IM SCREAMING EVEN MORE NOW….. He jokes around with them and then mentions how he ALSO did Magnet with a guy named faneru and then NERUTAN’S VOICE APPEARS AND THERES MORE SCREAMING???? He’s backstage with a mic and he and Gero have a back and forth and it is revealed that he came all the way from Kumamoto for the event….!!! He also mentions Jack and there’s screaming but he’s like no no no that one’s not here though;;; They called faneru the voice in the sky and asked him to introduce himself and he goes RIGHT INTO THE BEGINNING OF THEIR MAGNET SKIT, PERFECTLY, WITH ALMOST EXACT INTONATION??? Gero swaps mixi for twitter and is like, “because now it’s twitter right!!” at the audience. I don’t know how this ended because I was too busy freaking out but eventually they get back to the song and Gero sings with DasoClear and they get the audience to sing too……Telling us to sing loudly so it reaches that voice in the sky… It was amazing

While I’m recovering from this blow to my life, that comes on and does another slow song. Then Halyosy comes out in an all-white suit and people are cheering really loudly! He did the slow version of konbini!!!!!!!!! He and that then sing Sakura no Ame together as Absorb :’) I think it was here that they switch places on the stage and That points and tried to direct halyosy into proper position on the stage?? pointfive joins them for one last song: Fire Flower! Thus ends the 4th stage.
Asamaru was really cute!! He was dressed very simply but nicely and is slim and small…. His face is also quite slim! He seemed kind of shy, too. Lots of people called him cute hahaha even other performers.

5th stage is Gero’s stage!! His band is set up and he rocks out to Two Breaths Walking, and then does a super emotional Just be Friends…….. I saw some people actually wiping tears away while he was singing. I don’t blame them, he sounded so so so so good?? During the MC part he talks about how he almost got married once…. And right after that he jumps right back into he rock LMAO he does alien alien with ASK (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and during his rap part he just danced without singing at all, I laughed so hard. Then, kinyoubi no ohayou with Gom! To introduce the song, he did an entire dumb horror story thing about how if you don’t say “ohayou” you’ll die or…. something LMAO IDK BUT IT WAS PRETTY AMUSING….. he kept using an ossan voice…. and then when gom walked onstage he tried to do the same…. Next was Ghost Rule with Araki, which was sooo good!! I think he also does akane-chanwith? glutamine? Then he does some of his own songs, which gom made for him way back when… the udon song was a blast to be a part of the audience for hahahaha. He tried to throw his towel into the crowd at the end but it just kind of fluttered a foot away from him into the stage edge…… So he picked it up, told us to pretend not to see that, and tried another time but it didn’t get much farther!!

To close, everyone gets back on the stage and they sing Smiling!!! I feel like koge and ASK got to sing a lot so I’m very pleased…. And there’s a lot of members there that could sing their original part so that was really fun to hear!! The final song on the night was Black Rock Shooter! They really looked like they were having so much fun on stage….. They kept pushing the mics onto each other and many eventually ended up sharing! I remember ASK and Pokota singing together for quite a while, and koge and dasoku also shared a mic! ASK was all over the stage, sharing the mic and hanging his arms around others, it made me so happy to see!! He really seemed to be having a blast. Someone accidentally knocks underbar’s hat off at one point but they retieve it quite quickly lol.

Then, it’s time for everyone’s closing statements. They all had the concert shirts on but koge just kind of hung his on his neck LMAO it was cute though… He let his hands hang from it too while everyone was talking. Koge goes first, and they go down the line. I can’t remember what exactly everyone said but they made me so happy…. There’s a lot of thanks to Gero, obviously…. And lots of hugging!! We shouted everyone’s names as they took their turn, and for clear people were shouting “kaichou!!” which got some of the performers to go “how nostalgic!!” The pointfive members talked again about how nice it was to sing together again….. Piko’s mic died at first so we were all ?!?!?! but I guess it turned on after that and it was all good. Everyone was being called -chan but with piko, gero called him kopi?? During dasoku’s part, gero said he dreams of rootfive being all together again, and pokota jokes that their dances are really tough so he’d have to work really hard lol. but it seems like the possibility is there so…. eye emoji. Marutan actually got Jack on the phone and holds the mic to the speaker?!?! he says “otsukaresama desu” and theres lots of screaming… Gero asks him to say more so he says one more thing: “mi~nna daisuki!!” and everyone’s like losing it, it was fantastic. I saw some people crying…. (in a post-live namahousou they revealed marutan had jack on the line with his phone in his breast pocket the ENTIRE EVENT LIKE WOW). Yamadan tells us he thought the coins he was throwing were chocolate so he put them in the fridge because he was worried they’d melt and get all over the place, but it turns out they’re plastic! They skip over Gom, who gero wants at the end, and go through everyone else! Touyu talked about how he’d always look at Chang Gero like “must be nice….” so he was very happy to be invited this time! Hanatan talks about her outfit; I think and she completely forgot to either plan her outfit or get proper shoes? I think she got some flip flops from the convenience store or something and everyone laughed. Nomiya Ayumi said that when she got the offer to participate , she was like, “Why me?!” because she hadn’t uploaded in so long. Gom was crying a lot and coul barely make his statement……. he got everyone to say “aishiteru yo” and he says it back!! gero then introduces his bandmates and gets them to say their last words! One of the members was also crying lmao… Another one forgot when he actually met gero (it was during a smiley*2 event) and Gero got right in his face challengingly HAHAH then!! then!!!! Faneru gets a last word too!!! Gero kept called him like… fakkun or somethign and it really threw me off lmao. He talks a little and there’s some screaming from one side of the audience…. I assume some people could see him from one side of the stage haha. He tells us to look up because that’s where he is… then tells us very gently that he’s doing well and i start crying so much….. They take a group picture and they split up the guys who show their face and the ones who don’t for the censor and there’s surprisingly few on the side that doesn’t!! koge, ask, marutan, hanatan, touyu…? gom? In any case, it was just a small handful… How times have changed…. And with that, it’s basically over!

Ah Kyouichirou appears on stage at some point near the end for some reason LOL and they make a joke about meatfive…
As they walk off the stage. underbar is jumping all over the place waving and he’s SO endearing???? I could hear people behind me murmuring that he’s really cute….. also ASKwas one of the last people the leave the stage….
On twitter later, I saw that akiakane, kaito (running ASK’s merch table while he was performing), and wolpis kater were also there!! And kony… I really wonder if there were others!

I had SO much fun, and just getting to hear nerutan again was already worth everything…. I’m so grateful to Gero for putting together such an amazing event with all this nostalgia and everyone’s singing was absolutely wonderful. I’ll never forget this!!

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2019/12/31 C97 Fuyucomi

2019/05/11 Chang Gero Sonic

2019/10/06 HanaPoko Tour Yokohama

2018/11/02 Gero Treasure Tour Nagoya Utattemita Day

2019/08/12 C96 NatsuComi

2018/12/31 Gero BAND and Team Nicorai Countdown Live 2018

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