Why do I tend to get sick right before oneman lives? (>_<) Fortunately I didn't have to go out yesterday, and was able to stay inside all day so my fever went down. But despite still feeling like a zombie when I woke up this morning, I definitely didn't want to miss Art Cube's 2nd anniversary oneman :)

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mrs_fujiwara already posted a nice report of last night's event, but as there are some THE VELVET fans who don't follow that journal and won't have that entry popping up on your friends list, I'll post a small summary here as well.




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I feel like I should write a little regarding tonight's Art Cube live, considering how last week's live was....


Today's live was so much better! Three of the other jouren showed up, making us a total of five people. We're still missing several girls though, including all the other Seiji fans, so it felt a bit lonely. But the general atmosphere was a lot better this time during their performance. No large group of random people (not AC fans) trying to occupy the front row for no apparent reason, so I was able to return to the center spot, in front of Seiji (^o^) Unfortunately it doesn't seem like any of us have the contact information of the missing people, so we have no way of asking them what happened. Maybe they'll come to the oneman in December.

I was hoping the setlist would be similar to last week's (though I wouldn't mind the addition of False Praye), and it turned out to be identical:
1. 虹化鏡 (kougekyou)
2. Pain～ Wing・・・
3. Blue Heaven
4. (new song)
5. 失楽蝶 (shitsurakuchou)

They had some sound problems, causing them to appear on stage a bit late (They were the last band playing, so it didn't cause any major delays anyway), but they've had very few technical problems these last few months compared to last spring/early summer. During the live, Seiji also had a bit of trouble with his voice, forcing him to pause during some parts of the songs. This, on the other hand, tends to happen quite frequently. Hopefully it's nothing to worry about.

I wonder if this was the last we'll see of the current costumes for a while? They've changed costumes for every oneman so far, and they're not doing any more lives until their upcoming anniversary oneman on December 12th now.

We went to Takadanobaba for a double live today:
( THE VELVET )

and
( Art Cube )

Won't write much about the live right now, but it was fun as usual ^^ Only stayed for the first three bands (THE VELVET were number three), and then went to eat dinner and take some purikura.

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We're usually four girls there, but today there were 18 names on the list of reservations, among them several had reserved 2 tickets o_O Where did they all come from? MiMi looked extremely nervous today. I can't help but think it might have been caused by the fact that we were quite a few foreigners there this time. Usually he's really relaxed and never seems nervous, but he was dripping with sweat during the MC, shaking and kept fiddling with his hair. He kept the MC quite short, saying how he tends to spend the same amount of time as one and a half song talking ^^; And, he also announced that they have another sponsored event coming up! :D I hope I can actually go to this one (>_<) Out of all the lives they've done for the past year, there was only one that I had absolutely no chance of going to, and it happened to be the first sponsored event they've done in five years ;__; I'm glad we didn't have to wait that long again.

I was just joking when I mentioned to friends how Bera would probably shape his hair into horns for every live now that we had called him kakkoii.... But he really is continuing doing his hair like that XD It did look very good today though, as he had curled the back of his hair really nicely, but it still makes me laugh.
He's also continuing going one step at a time towards being less shy and reserved. Last time we got kissing, this time we got grabbing. He kept to the people he was familiar with, but grabbed both mine and mrs_fujiwara's arms, pulling us towards him. That was unexpected and fun ^^

The setlist:
1. 狂った夜に
2. クライベイビィ
3. ポワゾン
4. ヒロイン
5. 白いカラスは眠れない

Did anyone receive the confirmation email for their reservations of Dis Inferno tickets yet? I was hoping there wouldn't be any need to send them 20 emails before hearing from them this time <_<; And I was surprised at how late the event is taking place this year :O There's quite a chance it might clash with something else. (But at least I don't need to worry about missing an Art Cube live.)


Anyone from my friends list, who's not living in Japan, coming here for the Dis Inferno? Or any other Christmas/New Year events?

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And because I've done way too little purikura lately.

( we went to Harajuku... )

My neighbourhood seems to have survived Thursday's typhoon quite well. 7-11 up the street had its windows shattered, but other than that I haven't seen too much damage on the buildings. And everything feels much cleaner now. (That feeling probably won't last long)


( Saw Kaya again today... )

Because I won't get the chance to speak to Art Cube's staff for a while, and I've already seen the wrong romanization of the mini-album's title being spread around, I decided to simply ask one of the band members.

螺旋月 = らせんづき / rasenzuki

This information comes directly from Shizuki, so it's official.

Looks like we'll have to wait a little longer before we'll know how to read the title of Art Cube's mini-album.

I had asked several friends, both among the Art Cube fans and Japanese people in general, but no one could say what the correct way of reading it was. So I asked the band's staff at tonight's live, and this was the answer I got: "Rasentsuk.... eh? Getsu? eeeeeh? D: D:  I can't read this!!? @_@;;;"

The next Tokyo live isn't until the end of November, so they might update their website before then, letting us know what the title is. The poor staff girl looked slightly panicky when she realized she couldn't answer my question, so she'll probably find out as soon as possible.