7/28/2002: Nagoya In-Store Event
By: Lauren
Originally posted on Kami no Niwa

So, I got there an hour early and read magazines and listened to music.. then I went up to the 6th floor, where some people already were, and I got an enquette to fill out.. but it was like "What's a question you want to ask each member?" and I was like "I don't know. x.x", so I just filled out the words of support thing telling them basically that they were better than any other visual kei band because they:re not just looks.. Then, more people came and they started letting people into the room... I was number 77, but luckily a lot of people didn't come, and there were lots of seats open, but I sat my ass down in an aisle seat. So, they were playing music, and people who had memorized all the para para were dancing (I CAN'T believe that anyone managed to remember the para para for Prism.. but there a ton of them were, doing the ENTIRE routine. I'm going to go in for a new brain, sometime, dammit.. one with a memory)

Then, they were like, okay, turn off your cell phones and don't take pictures, and here's Psycho! So, the MC guy was like "So, how about a word of greeting from each member?", so Yura stood up and was like "You know how sometimes you get great ideas in your sleep? I had something like that yesterday, and I was thinking, I have my "rocket bai bii" for when I say goodbye, but I don't have a greeting at all.. so I was thinking, I could say "Yura-sama de gozaimasu! Minnasan, boku ni, koi wo shitemasu ka?" (Hi, I'm Yura-sama! Everyone, are you in love with me?) "And then you could say "Sonna anata ni nage kiss" (It's only funny in Japanese, it means "I blow a kiss for you."), and everyone laughed... you're supposed to do a hand thing with it, but of course my BRAIN DOESN'T WORK, so I don't remember.. Then seek and everyone else did their greetings, and DAISHI went into a story about how absolutely snockered Lida got last night, and Lida, who I think was still hung over, because he was so WEIRD the whole time, and really silent, was like "Do you -have- to tell everyone that?"

Then, they went into asking the questions everyone had written, even though I don't think many people could think of anything, so there weren't very many, and umm.. the first one was for.. AYA, I think? What's your favorite manga or anime? (AYA likes anime and manga), and he said it.. and umm.. yeah.. it's one I don't know. o.o; About terrorists, apparently. And that was it for that question.

The next one was for Lida, and it said "Why do you stare at the fans?" And before Lida could even answer, DAISHI started into a story about how Lida is a pervert. He was like "You should seriously see how much money this guy wastes on porno movies when we're on tour.. it's like he falls asleep to pornos, and then wakes up to pornos." and Lida was like "It's my lifestyle." and then Daishi was like "Oh, I see.. so, you could be in a TV commerical for adult videos and just say really cooly, "It's my lifestyle," and everyone was just laughing through this whole thing.

Then there was a question for seek.. do you have any foods that you're good at cooking? And he was like "I made okonomiyaki for YURA-sama the other day.." And YURA-sama was like "Yeah, I asked him to make dinner for me because then we could learn to get along better." and they MC was like "Do you guys not get along?" and YURA-sama and seek were like, "Well.." and then seek was like "No, we get along well", and DAISHI was like "No, really, they get along.." and then they forgot that the question was really about food, and the MC was like "But do you have any foods you're good at making?" and seek was like "Oh, right. Umm.. yeah, I made gyoza for myself the other day while watching TV.." and then I couldn't hear what he said after, because the girls behind me were like "He really -is- like a mom." (in the fan club magazine we got when we went to the live, it had all the members' feelings about the other members, and everyone said seek was like a mother, and girlish).

Then they went to a question for DAISHI.. Do you still want to have a dakishimekai (Hug party.. like, Yoshiki had an akushukai, a handshake get together.. kinda like that, but hugging..), and DAISHI was like "Yeah, I really do.. I think we'll do something like that -after- we have our major debut.. and then he was like "I'm sure Lida would like a hug get together", and Lida was silent for a bit, and he was like "But when you say hug get together, do we do the hugging or do we get hugged?" and they were like "I don't know" for a while, and then they decided that they would get hugged.

Then there was a question for the whole band.. have you ever cosplayed any of the other members? And they apparently all have cosplayed at least two other members, at other in store events in Tokyo. seek has cosplayed AYA and Lida, and DAISHI was like "God, your AYA cosplay was creepy, and they made fun of him for a while.

Then there was a question, what do you think of the people who do cosplay? And they were like "Oh, we really appreciate it." and DAISHI was like "I really think the girls who cosplay seek are amazing, it takes a lot to cosplay seek," and there was a seek cosplayer in the front row, and seek was like "What do you do for work?" and everyone laughed, and said "How mean~", and the girl said that the company she was working for had gone out of business... and he was like "Yeah, because you can't really have a job when you look like this", and then they started talking about jobs that the members had done, and Lida worked in a flower shop, and AYA was a pizza delivery man. XD And then they went to the quiz section.

So, in the quiz section, they were given questions, and whoever got the most points got a prize, and DAISHI was like "Hold on a minute, is this going to be a present that any of us care to get?" and they were assured that it was. So, the first question was to draw Japan. So, they got a minute, during which the girls who had remembered the para para danced to the music playing. YURA-sama's Japan was really square and silly, seek's Japan was like a banana Japan, Aya's Japan was REALLY good, Lida's was also good, and DAISHI's Japan had a strangely large Hokkaido, which everyone laughed at. So, AYA won, because his was the best.

Then it was "Draw the member to your right." So Yura drew a picture of the seek cosplayer in the front row, with a word bubble saying "Oh, LAST EMOTION" in katakana, and everyone was laughing because he was obviously drawing the girl, not seek. Then seek's Aya just had squarish hair with big, round eyes with no pupils, and Aya's Lida was a really long, square-faced Lida ninja picture, and Lida's Daishi was a turnip with a face. ^^;; And Daishi drew the MC, and he won, because it really was actually good. ^^;;

Then, they brought a girl up, and was like "Okay, she's going to think of a famous Nagoya place, and if you get the same one as her, you win." So, Yura and seek wrote Yama-chan, which is I think a bar, and Aya and Lida drew Nagoya castle, and Daishi wrote Sakae, which was obviously the only place he remembered. But the girl had said ELL, the club they played at yesterday and the day before, so no one won.

Then, they did the last question, worth 50 points. Psycho does a game during their lives where Lida holds something, and Daishi says "Jan jan jan jan jan jan!" and Lida comes up with a funny thing to say about the thing, kinda like Whose Line is it Anyway?, but Japanese. So, they brought out a rolling table with weird stuff on it, and Yura-sama jumped up and started looking. So, he grabbed a large plate, and Daishi said jan jan jan, and Yura-sama put the plate on his head like a hat, all coquettish, and did a little sexy dance, and then said, everyone, are you in love with me? and we all did Sonna anata ni nageki-suu~. Then he took a Yura cosplayer's Yura peacock fan thingy, and started to roll it up, and could really figure out what to do with it, so he just took it and went to the back to figure out what to do with it.

Then, Aya came up and took the conch shell, and apparently Daishi told him what to do, because Daishi said jan jan jan, and Aya said "It's about time I started answering these fan letters", and stuffed imaginary fan letters in it, but then the minute he finished he jumped up in the air and whapped Daishi on the head. And Daishi was like "It would have been funnier if you held it this way (with the conch shell opening facing everyone), no one had any idea what you were doing!"

Then, Yura-sama figured out what to do with the fan and rolled it up and made it into a rocket, and made it fly up, with the feather part shaking behind then he returned it to the girl. Then, while everyone else tried to figure out what to do, Yura-sama thought of another thing, and took a little jar, and called into it "Daishi, it's time for our live! Come on out!" and everyone laughed and said "How mean~" (Daishi is the chibidebu oyaji (short, fat, old guy) so everyone makes fun of him... he's not fat, or that old, though.)

Then, the MC was like "Lida, get up there!" when seek said he couldn't think of anything to do, and Lida came up and took a coconut, and then Daishi said jan jan jan, and Lida pretended to pick his nose and have the coconut come out, and everyone was like "What the hell?" and Daishi was like "That was retarded!" So, Yura won, and won the whole thing, and he got a year's supply of instant ramen. ^^;; So, he gave one of the ramen packages to the Yura cosplayer because she let him borrow her fan.

So, then they went to the present part. One of the members stood up on a chair, and did jan ken pon with everyone. If you won, you got a signed piece of poster board or a signed picture, and with that the charicature that the member you won against drew. I only got to the second round twice, with seek and Daishi, but I didn't win. ;_; But I dunno, every time I lost, Yura-sama looked at me, kinda. Maybe he realizes that I deserve a signed picture because I came all the way from fucking America to see them? Who knows. ^^;;; But anyway, so that was the last thing.. so, they MC said "Okay, how about saying goodbye to everyone?" So, Yura-sama was like "Everyone, are you in love with me?" and we all said Sonna anata ni nage kiss, and then he was like "We'll come back after our major debut, so come and see us~", and seek was like "Hrmm.. umm.. yeah, yesterday was fun.. umm.. so, see you after we're major", and Aya was like "Yesterday was fun, see you when we're major", and then before Lida could say anything, Daishi took the microphone and said "We really love you, Nagoya. We only wish our hometown Osaka would be as cool as you guys are, see you when we're major", and then Lida was took the microphone and started off in a funny voice, and then he was like "Thanks for all your support.. we'll be back when we're major, so come see us", and then they all left. ;_;

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