Fan report/blog of my own experience before I forget stuff since this event has a 50-50 chance of not making it to DVD 😭 I don’t really use tumblr but I didn’t know where else to post this. Maybe some people here would appreciate this.
Gonna preface this with how buying goods was a total failure. I was planning to get extra merch as omiyage for friends but in the end I couldn’t even buy anything for myself. The queue was ridiculous, starting from the hall, out to the carpark, out the gate and snaked round the perimeter of Makuhari Messe aka public walkways. I woke up at 6 and reached the queue at 8+, but by the time the morning session event was going to start I was still in queue outside the goods hall so I had to abandon ship. I also couldn’t queue in the afternoon because I would be going for the evening session. I was sad, thinking that I had no choice but to rely on internet after-sales instead. I should’ve just booked the hotel across the road so that I would’ve reached earlier. But my 同行者 [fellow fan I was going with since I had 2 day tickets and she had 2 night tickets] turned out to be the nicest person ever who saved the day and sold her only pamphlet and a Hoshitani badge to me (I’m a Hoshitani fan) knowing that I flew in for this, because she was still going to order from internet after-sales for the keychains that sold out before her eyes at 11am anyway and she lives in Japan so it’s okay. She came from Nagoya by night bus and started queuing from 6am-ish! Super grateful to her m(_)m
So it started with a countdown from 10 and then the second season OP together with video started playing and at this point everyone was already screaming hard.
After the OP the seiyuus appeared on stage in this order - Ancient → Kaoukai OB → team Sazanami and team Yuzuriha → team Hiiragi → team Ootori.
Then after the welcome speech they went off stage. In between segments there would be free talk off stage with the respective characters shown on the screens.
Starts off with Hoshitani narration which quickly jumps into Hanae singing RISING STAR. Since I only expected the cast to sing Gift I was super surprised and moreover HANAE. So anyway the main story is that Kuga and Toraishi are shown to be in a quarrel over Toraishi supposedly losing Kuga’s maths textbook again. So the whole drama was the rest of the cast trying to think of ways to get them to make up. Eventually team Ootori seek the help of team Hiiragi. they call out to Ugawa and Inumine who appear singing Kiramekirakira. After talking, turns out Ugawa accidentally took the textbook. Kuga and Toraishi’s quarrel comes to a head and they start singing HEROISM++. The other members arrive, the truth was revealed and they made up like nothing happened.
＊Variety time - Wear Tengenji eyemask and guess the person standing behind you The seiyuus drew different coloured balls and separated into two teams. One team gets to guess while one team picks so two rounds. Person blindfolded gets to ask one question, person answering uses a mic with voice changer to mask identity. Suwabe and Torisan served as MCs.
All of team Hiiragi picked out the same colour ball even though they were standing side by side. Audience was like oooohh.
Matsuoka and Nobunaga were on different teams. First round Matsuoka chose Nobunaga. Nobunaga evidently guessed who would pick him even before anything and his question was 僕のどこが好きですか？[Which part of me do you like?] and the audience was already squealing. Matsuoka answered 笑顔です[Your smile] and Nobunaga’s reaction was so cute. As expected he wrote Yoshitsugu on the sketchbook. When second round came, Matsuoka didn’t ask a question, he just straightaway said お前の笑顔が好きです[I like your smile] and everyone screamed lol. Nobunaga was taken aback and started laughing in defeat, holding the wall behind him (this is very hard to describe but it was a super cute reaction). He didn’t say anything and retreated. Of course, Matsuoka got the right answer.
Hanae picked Okamoto (Suwabe kept calling him “Okamato” and Okamoto would say 岡本です！[It’s Okamoto!]). Okamoto’s question was 声優としてのセールスポイントは？[What’s your sales point as a seiyuu?] then Hanae was like 強いて言うなら朝が強いところかな[If I have to say something, then it’s that I’m a morning person] and then the audience laughed because Okamoto was like これ？これ？[This? This?] while doing the OhaSuta sign towards the audience.
Okamoto chose Takanashi, but Takanashi seemed to know who it was already because he asked お将棋は好きですか？[Do you like shogi?] Okamoto got a shock but then he answered 僕の人生です…[It’s my life]. Takanashi wrote ひふみん[Hifumin] on the sketchbook as a joke, and it wasn’t counted as right answer lol
At the end of the morning event before the final cast came out to say thanks, the announcement video for the OVA and 3rd season played.
This time the story was about a showcase quiz contest thing in the Ayanagi middle school for ex-students and Tsukigami was invited to take part by his juniors. The contest needs 4 in a team and they must be ex-students of the middle school. Cut to Tatsumi and Eigo in their dorm and they start singing The Elegance (I died since this is my favourite of the season 1 b-sides). After they agree to Tsukigami asking, the final member is Nayuki who gets shocked he’s being asked to stand alongside them. With all 4 gathered, they start singing Aozora Season. Day of the contest comes and Tatsumi and Eigo tell the rest they’re stuck in a sudden wedding of a relative (which is so improbable that there was a joke that they needed an excuse to give time to the rest of the cast since Tatsumi and Eigo sang 2 songs in a row). Hoshitani and friends who came to watch decided Tengenji and Ugawa could serve as stand-ins, resulting in funny moments as they try to act like they’re Tatsumi and Eigo. In the contest the senpais turn up as a competitor, but even more out of nowhere, the team Sazanami and team Yuzuriha members appear as another competing team, and they sing Storytellers. It’s announced that the prize is Uozumi and Haruto’s autograph and Ageha becomes very motivated and very obvious whenever his team fails to get a point. In the end though, Kitahara points out that Tengenji and Ugawa shouldn’t be there, and it’s exposed that the senpais too aren’t even from Ayanagi middle school and so they’re all disqualified. Ageha is elated that he got his kamisama’s autograph after all.
＊Stage change offstage free talk
During one of the stage changes it was a free talk offstage which centered on Hoshitani and it was revealed that Hoshitani is pretty much a 無自覚モテ男 [guy who’s unaware he’s popular with girls]. He was being asked whether he was popular with girls back in middle school and he was recounting instances of girls being super friendly with him and helping him out and then says something like みんなと凄く仲が良くて全然モテなかった!! [I got along with everyone really well but I wasn’t popular with girls at all!] This blockhead I swear.
＊Variety time - same game as in morning session but they redraw balls so teams are different.
The person Arthur picked (I forgot who) asked What’s your 誰でも落とすデートプラン[date plan to make anybody fall in love with you] which made Arthur look kinda uncomfortable since he’s totally not the type… and after a few seconds he said 公園で散歩…してからゲーセンでゲーム…[We’ll stroll in the park… then go to an arcade to play games.] The rest were making a face like “that’s your date plan!?”
This time KENN and Maenu were on different teams… so obviously they picked each other. (The second round everyone was letting Maenu pick KENN lol) They both asked 俺のことどう思ってる?[What do you think of me?] during their turns and the answer was similar - 大好き[I like you]
Okitsu somehow decided to ask “Which is your favourite Gundam” and his person happened to be Hosoyan which made the audience go like ooohhhhhh. Also Suwabe MC swooped in to censor copyrighted terms by going “You mean G-dam right?” Hosoyan answered Barbatos. And then the next person to ask a question was Nobunaga, who decided to follow suit and ask the same question. And his person was Hosshi who replied Strike Freedom. It was pretty funny because both answered with gundams from the series they were in.
Yuuma asked if the person would rather お姫様抱っこ or おんぶ [princess carry or piggy back] him and Umechan replied お姫様抱っこしたら腰が潰れちゃうんでおんぶ… 痩せて！[If I were to princess carry you my back would give way so I’ll pick the piggy back… Go lose weight!!] sending everyone into laughing fits.
Had my binoculars on Hanae when they were doing the answer reveal, he was super cute when he found out he was correct (bias speaking). He did a fist pump with so much gusto.
Last part of the event was same for both sessions, the cast came out, dressed in the S&L tshirt, to say their thanks (Hosoyan joked 健康第一でがんばります[I’ll work hard putting my health as first priority]) and then all of them sang Gift ~curtain call~.
For the night session at the last part Suwabe addressed the crowd with Otori’s signature “ガールズ〜[giiirls]” and then I forgot who pointed out (Kensho?) that there may be guys in the audience so he went “ボーイズ〜[booys]” and there WERE actually guys in the audience who shouted really loudly back in reply which made the rest of us girls and the seiyuus on stage like oohhhh!! It’s so cool to know that there are guys who are fans of Starmyu because it really is just that good. I think the guys were like 5% of the audience? Some of them met up with fellow male fans for the first time that day.
※All songs performed were short versions (first verse and chorus, bridge, last chorus).
This was really a godly event and i’m so glad I was able to attend it. Screaming and crying along with everyone when season 3 announced, shouting back PAPPY!! at Hosshi, laughing when KENN and Inumine seiyuu skipped on stage, Hanae and Kensho doing similar later on, everything was so much fun. Plus going with a fellow fan made it so enjoyable. She was a team Hiiragi oshi (particularly Toraishi and Uchida Yuuma) and she would scream so hard whenever they did something cute. We had lunch together and went back on the same direction train so had plenty of time to chat about Starmyu (she was going straight back to Nagoya by night bus from Tokyo station!! Seriously so awed at her dedication doing such a hard schedule). Hope we’ll meet again in 2019 (season 3) haha.
I also managed to successfully drop off all my presents for team Otori seiyuus so overall I’m SATISFY-ed!!
