Today is Hikaru’s birthday! YAY!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!🥳🥳🥳 I feel horrible for not having prepared anything. Usually I post at least a little edit or something on Twitter but today has been pretty crazy at work so I haven’t really found the time to do anything T_T. Anyway, we got more than enough amazing photos from Hikaru’s birthday live. Seems like it was a huge success. Lots of people were there to support Hikaru (most notably Joelle, ASUKA/Aira Yuuki and Hikaru’s former composer Hideyuki Gushimiyagi). And of course, Keiko appeared as special guest during the live.
Title: 『Hikaru B-day LIVE 2024 -love Begets love-』 Date: July 2, 2024 Venue: duo MUSIC EXCHANGE Time: open 18:00 / start 19:00 🔥 【Band】 HaKA / hoto-D / TACOS NAOMI 【Guest】 KEIKO
Setlist (Source) 1.咲 -SHOW 2.Existence MC 3.Amanhecer 4.Flow MC 5.Awe 6.Remain 7.Survivor MC 8.エンドロール | Endroll (with Keiko) MC 9.Altern-ate- (with Keiko) MC 10.Lack (NEW SONG) 11.clea-rly- 12.螺旋の繭 | Rasen no Mayu 13.Escape MC 14.奇跡 | Kiseki Encore 15.輝く空の静寂には | Kagayaku Sora No Shijima Ni Wa (with Keiko) MC 16.Breathe 17.紡-TSUMUGU-
Ahhh! What a great setlist! Really wish I had been there for this!! Hearing them sing KSnSnw would have killed me for sure. That Hikaru cardboard cutout looks amazing! I want one for myself!! So cute how Keiko is hugging it🥹
Update: Finally had some time to go through everyone’s comments and reactions on Twitter. A major highlight seems to have been Keiko mentioning Wakana after singing KSnSnw. While Hikaru tried to avoid saying Wakana’s name (as she usually does), Keiko had no such qualms and casually name-dropped “Wa-chan”. They talked about singing Kalafina songs and whether or not it’s a cover when two members are performing. On one hand, it’s not a cover because they literally ARE members of Kalafina but on the other hand, they often tend to call it a cover because it’s not the real thing either. After all, the arrangement has had to be changed accordingly to make up for a missing member. Basically no one can or wants to replace Wakana (and her special voice) in Kalafina so if she’s not there with them singing, it’s just not the same.
The setlist looks great, and the photos made my day. So many old friends and acquaintances were there to celebrate with her, which fills me with joy. They even had a Keiko Guitar Hero moment!
I saw one of the tweets that seemed to talk about the Wakana reference, but I didn’t want to rely on Google Translate and miss some important context or nuance. I presume the “we can’t talk about this” awkwardness is still there, but I guess that when it’s a live event like this, the MCs are more “off-the-record”, so they can get away with it?
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Yokosuka Ghibli Edition Part 2!〜A Ramune, a Bathhouse Aburaya and a Sports Competition〜
As mentioned in my last blog post, my friend and I went to see the “Toshio Suzuki and Ghibli Exhibition”. We were so engrossed by everything in the exhibition that we didn’t notice we were thirsty💦 When we left the museum and took a little breather, we finally realised how incredibly thirsty we were!! We saw some Ramune being sold outside the museum and were immediately drawn to it🌊 It’s been a while since I’ve had Ramune~♪ Cold Ramune!! When I was drinking it, it made me feel like I was part of a TV commercial for Pocari Sweat. “Hiyaaaaaaah~ I feel so revived”. Ramune has never tasted better than on that day…Just imagine, sitting under the blue sky, a fizzy Ramune quenching your thirst and soothing your dry throat…it was too good… Everyone, please try it as well..😭✨
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This time, I’ll share “Yokosuka Ghibli Edition - Part 2” with you＼＼\٩( ‘ω’ )و //／／! After leaving Yokosuka Museum of Art we hurried to Mikasa Terminal. My friend needed to run some errands in the afternoon so we had to part ways early…😭 She was also really looking forward to going to Sarushima so we are planning to come back someday soon✨
Now, this is what Mikasa Terminal looked like. Look at this huge banner for the “Bathhouse Aburaya Annex” When I went inside, the Ōtori-Sama were taking a bath🐤🐤🐤 There were no other visitors, so I asked the staff to take a picture for me🤗 (=> a picture of a woman traveling alone who also happes to be a hardcore Ghibli fan.) Next up you were able to play a Spirited Away AR game by holding onto the iPad that was installed in front of the big bathtub. When you look through the screen, some images will appear. (At one point, a note appeared which seemed to have been ssued by Kamaji, when I clicked on it hot water came was splashing on the screen.) You have up to ten chances to take a picture! When No-Face suddenly appeared from afar, I was really surprised and took multiple photos! (Here are all the photos I took with the iPad. I was able to download them later) Anyway, it was a lot of fun 😂
After that, I went up to the second floor. Wow, it really did look like a bathhouse! Oshira-sama was not on the elevator with me. On the second floor, there was something called a “No-Face AR” but… I didn’t really get how it was supposed to work *laughs* Initially, I thought I could become No-Face and control the images on the screen with my movements but that wasn’t the case. I just watched money overflow endlessly from No-Face’s hands and tried to scoop it up with my arms 😂 There was so much money… 🤣 (Maybe it wasn’t that exciting because I had no one there with me)
Once I was finished there, I went to Sarushima but since this is the final part of me writing about my Ghibli adventures, I’d like to briefly share some photos of the stamp rally I did when I came back from Sarushima 😊Please forgive me, from here on out it’s just a picture spam of me working hard to finish the stamp rally 😂😂 Thank you for your understanding 😂 First of all, I got the cardboard for the stamps at the Yokosuka Museum of Art!! ! Look! I was able to collect four stamps in total thanks to my willpower. Although I had collected the stamps, I didn’t have the time or energy to go back to the place where I could get my prize stickers😂 It was too much to do in one day~🫠 It’s a pretty large area😇 I got the first stamp at Mikasa Terminal! The second one was at Ichigo Yokosuka Port Market! It’s pretty close to the terminal. There are many restaurants and souvenir shops in the large facility.😊I wanted to do one more stamp so I decided to take a short break. I had some cider😂 My energy was restored in just five minutes so I hurried to the next location! There it is😊 At Lawson😊 At that point, I was suddenly overcome with a mysterious fighting spirit that said, “you’ve come this far, you have to get another stamp!” Ignoring my exhaustion, I went to a final location. Here it is😊 MORE’S CITY at Yokosuka Chuo Station! Thank you, Chihiro, for waiting for me…😭✨ This felt like a true sports competition🤣🤣 I made it to the finish line safely!! But I felt completely drained on my way home😇
Al right, that’s officially a wrap for “Yokosuka Ghibli Part 2”! I actually have a lot more photos from the Ghibli exhibition😂But I feel like it’s time to stop now😂 I’ll post them if I get the chance💓
I’ll leave it at that for today!! The next Yokosuka blog post will be about Sarushima-Monkey Island!
『FictionJunction Station Fan Club Talk＆Live vol.#３』 Tokyo
This weekend started off great with one more performance of 『FictionJunction Station Fan Club Talk＆Live vol.#３』 in Tokyo. Next up, the gang will be in Osaka for live concert and fan club events.
■ June 15th (Sat) Tokyo・TIAT SKY HALL 1st Stage: Open 12:45 / Start 13:30 *Guest Eri Ito 2nd Stage: Open 16:15 / Start 17:00 *Guest Eri Ito ■ June 16th (Sun) Tokyo・TIAT SKY HALL 1st Stage: Open 12:45 / Start 13:30 *Additional member rito 2nd Stage: Open 16:15 / Start 17:00 *Additional member rito ■ June 22nd (Sat) Tokyo・TIAT SKY HALL 1st Stage: Open 12:45 / Start 13:30 *Additional member LINO LEIA 2nd Stage: Open 16:15 / Start 17:00 *Additional member LINO LEIA https://www.tiatskyhall.jp
■ June 28th (Fri) Osaka・umedaTRAD 1st Stage: Open 13:45 / Start 14:30 *Additional member LINO LEIA 2nd Stage: Open 17:15 / Start 18:00 *Additional member rito https://umeda-trad.com
■ July 5th (Fri) Aichi・THE BOTTOM LINE 1st Stage: Open 13:45 / Start 14:30 *Additional member rito 2nd Stage: Open 17:15 / Start 18:00 *Additional member LINO LEIA https://www.bottomline.co.jp
Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#20～Japanese Seal 20th Special～ Final Tokyo Performance
Today was the final Tokyo performance of YKL Vol.#20. Tweet by Keiko
Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#20～日本語封印20th Special～ 2024.06.02 Tokyo・SWU Hitomi Memorial Hall 16:45/17:30 2024.06.09 Kanagawa・Kenmin Hall 16:45/17:30 2024.06.23 Tokyo・LINE CUBE SHIBUYA 16:15/17:00 2024.06.29 Osaka・NHK Osaka Hall 17:15/18:00 2024.06.30 Osaka・NHK Osaka Hall 15:15/16:00 2024.07.06 Aichi・Niterra Shimin Hall 17:15/18:00 2024.08.03 Saitama・Sonic City Civic Hall 17:15/18:00
