#yoppi

(picture credit goes to @itsashowtime)

Valentine's Day Starflower

Yoppi was excited, it was the first Valentine's Day in which he had someone to give stuff to. He wondered what Tanpei would like.... He thought about it for a while.

Sometime later, he came out of a shop, with some red roses. The classic way to show one's love. He made his way back to the academia, excited, but a little nervous.

He went in, and found Tanpei's room, hoping he was in. He knocked on the door, and waited. At the sound of a greeting, he went in, shaking slightly. "H-happy Valentine's Day... I got you these." He stuttered slightly, showing the other the roses.

Tanpei's face brightened up at seeing Yoppi. He saw the flowers, and he smiled, taking them. "Happy Valentine's Day. And thank you, these are beautiful." He replied.

Tanpei's gift to Yoppi, was an outdoor meal in a forest, with a nearby flower park to explore once they were done.

2018.08.04(SAT) SUBSTANCE feat.YOPPI ＠KOARA SHIBUYA

SPECIAL GUEST DJ： YOPPI (Hombre Nino / XLARGE®)

DJ： KANETOSHI (SINDBAD) ANTONIO ODORIKO NOGUEIRA  Turkey(Folk)

So I actually had no intention of going to the watashikai in the first place as it was way too expensive, and I had to save up for Bus Tour as well as the Solo Events, which is why I skipped days 1 and 2 of Comiket because those are the two days the watashikai tickets were supposed to be given out, but turns out I was fated to meet my oshi regardless.

Number 72. When I went to buy it, they had at least 50 left. I feel bad for Yoppi...

I went on Day 3 to get some doujins as well as see Yoppi from a distance because I’m free and why not right? So after I got the doujins I decided to go check out the booth a few hours before the watashikai, and lo and behold, the tickets were still being given out. Me, being the financially unstable idiot that I am, bought it on the spot, the exact thing I was avoiding, and only after buying did I realise “shit, I’m going to have to eat grass for the entire month”. But eh, I get to talk to Yoppi, and I happened to bring all my Yoppi armour with me, so I went along with it.

Come 2PM, and it is time for the watashikai. We get lined up, and I was all the way at the back for obvious reasons. A user on Twitter (@Al_dente_NA_YA) was calculating the time each person spoke to Yoppi and posted it on Twitter, and it ranged between 15 to 30 seconds, so I was quite anxious over whether I could tell Yoppi everything I wanted to say. A friend of mine, fellow WUGner ceviche came over to the watashikai area to speak to me and I made him feel my heartbeat and he went “holy shit” over how fast it was beating over my excitement and anxiety. Regardless, time passes and it was our line’s turn to go to the booth. The person that was standing in front of me was the person I was conversing with the entire time I was in line, and when our line was at the booth everything he said to me I could pay no attention to because of how nervous I was. Thankfully, he understood how I felt and laughed it off. Before it was my turn, seeing Yoppi speak to other people with so much joy and excitement already brought a huge stupid smile on my face. She is so cute, everything she does is so cute, the way she speaks and moves her hands is so cute. Argh she is just so cute.

Anyway, it’s finally my turn and I go up to her. The first thing she says is 「ちょっと待ってね」 and starts drinking water using a straw in the cutest way possible with her eyes locked to mine. She knows exactly how to play with a seiyuu otaku’s heart, extremely dangerous. I was stunned, I had no idea how to react and I tried so hard not to blush at how absolutely cute it was. After she was done with her drink, I opened by saying 「緊張でドキドキ」 which should have honestly been said the other way around, but I was so nervous proper sentences refused to come out of my mouth. She understood that, looking at her facial expression, and with the most worried face replied 「そうですよね、、、」and I quickly got my act together and named myself. She didn’t say a word and simply said 「ñ̺̻̩͡ȧ͎̪̓̚m̹̬͎̪̅̀̄͒̀ẻ͍̝̰ͪ͗ͤͨͩくんね！」 as though she had heard my name before. At that point I realised, she probably remembered me from the previous meeting (and while I don’t mean to brag, I do stand out, a lot), and continued with the conversation normally. I told her how I listened to the Kumamoto City FM radio show called たまごの声, which she was a guest in in the previous one which aired two nights ago, and she was so surprised and exclaimed her thanks. I then mentioned how she said she wanted to be a personality that could represent Kumamoto during said show, and said that is a naive goal to reach for. She, in a surprised manner, replied with a long 「おー」 and I said she should be aiming to represent the entirety of Kyushu! She had a huge smile on her face at that point and replied with how I’m right, and I responded with a yeah, and I broke into the first thing I wanted to tell her about. I asked her whether she remembered the radio show she did in 2014 (聞いとっと！？よしのモン。, of course she remembers dumbo) and she nodded and asked 「うんうん、きいてくれてたの？」 to which I replied yes. I then told her how I want her to do a radio again and she nodded her head and agreed (or so I think, it felt like she dodged the question orz). At this point, my thirty seconds were up and the person that was keeping time started patting me, signaling me to wrap it up and leave. My adrenaline rushed and I started speaking really quickly, and I told Yoppi to release a photobook. She didn’t get me the first time because of how quickly I spoke, so I said it again and she nodded with an okay! And finally to wrap it up, I told her I was going to Aomori for the Solo live and with the biggest most adorable smile on her face she said thank you, and we waved each other with bye byes. I almost tripped leaving the area because of my adrenaline rush. I was able to speak to her for 36 seconds, 6 seconds over the allowed time.

After the whole thing was over I went back to ceviche who watched the whole ordeal and commented over how I didn’t spaghetti as much as he thought I would, and I was pretty calm over the whole thing. I most definitely was not! My throat and mouth were completely dry after that exchange, and I was more nervous and anxious about this than my sixth form final examinations. In order to not forget this amazing moment in my life, I quickly jotted down the entire conversation, from memory, onto Google Keep, which I am using as a reference to write this report right now.

But that is not all. After the event, I realised I don’t need a dakimakura cover, especially of a character I don’t particularly like, from a show I didn’t particularly enjoy, so I decided to quickly head to Akihabara and maybe sell it for at least half the price I bought it for. I quickly rushed to the train, and headed to Akiba as quickly as I can, and ran to K-books. I got my kaitori number and waited to be called. When I was finally called and I placed the dakimakura cover on the desk, I was asked if this was from Comiket, to which I replied “Yes, it’s from today.” and the staff looked in a huge list of C93 goods, and named the price he could give me.

10,500 yen.

That’s a 500 yen profit. I sold it immediately, on the spot. Can you believe it? I got to get a ticket to a watashikai on a day it’s not supposed to sold anymore, I got to speak to Yoppi for 36 seconds and get to see her drinking water and call my name, and then make a 500 yen profit over the whole thing.

What an amazing end to an amazing year.

The problem with odd number idol groups.

Artist:  (Ao) アヲ/青葉:2日目東2Ｎ22a

I just came home from Wake Up, Girls! Shin Shou Minilive at Venus Fort, and as an idol otaku, that was an experience I will never forget. I don’t think a crowd can be any more amazing as it was today.

I stood in line from 7 to 10 AM for this ticket and it was still three digits despite being the 30th person in line. Fuck me.

The minilive was simple. Just a rehearsal for sound checking (where they performed Bokura no Frontier), and then four songs, followed by announcements that we already know about. What made it so different from any other live I’ve been to though, is that calls and jumps were banned completely, and while it does say so in the ticket, the last time during the One in a Billion release event, people did it anyway, so this time the seiyuu (namely Mayushii) did a pre-live MC where she told everyone not to do so, and the others as well told us to clap with all our hearts. Everyone, being WUG oshis, obviously listened and made do with just clapping, and that’s what made this such a unique experience.

Despite my shitty three digit number, I was really close to the stage, so I got to see Yoppi’s raw legs. Absolute perfection.

They opened with Tachiagare. As any WUGner knows, this is a song that has quite a lot of calls and even has a loud “Wake Up Girls!” call in the beginning and “Tachiagare” towards the end. Since we weren’t allowed to shout, we clapped to the syllables of the calls. Everyone knew exactly how it should be done and it was so well synchronised I was shocked.

Then came 7 Senses. While this is a new song and doesn’t really have calls around it yet, shouting the names of the seiyuu as they sing their lines is what everyone agrees on so far at least, as it’s a borrowed trait from their previous OP 7 Girls War. But of course, we couldn’t do that. So what we did was point at the seiyuu singing and clap the syllables of their name. It was actually amazing.

The next song, Shizuku no Kanmuri, is a slow song so there was ｎo clapping or waving of penlights at all. It’s a beautiful song by the way. I’m really glad WUGners know how to respect the singers by keeping quiet and just listening to their beautiful voices. A lot of them were doing furicopy which seemed really fun but alas I did not know the steps.

Gokujou Smile, the closing song, was what made it such an amazing experience. If you don’t already know, Gokujou Smile is a very call heavy song. The whole enjoyment of the song during lives comes from doing the calls for it. How are we supposed to make by with just clapping? We gave it a go without thinking too much about it, and I have to say, I really appreciate how synchronised the crowd was. Unlike the other songs, we didn’t clap to the syllables of the calls, but rather we clapped to how we wave the penlight as we usually do the calls, and it worked perfectly. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had. There are certain calls like 「なんだか違う！」 where half the people made X signs with their hands as the other half clapped to the usual penlight wave, and the call 「豊作！豊作！」 where everyone copied the seiyuus hand signs and again clapped to the usual penlight wave.

This is an experience I will never forget. Who would’ve thought banning calls and jumps could make it this much of a unique experience? I definitely want to do this again.

Just a bonus because I want to talk about it, but after the minilive there was an omiokurikai, where we basically get to walk past the seiyuu and say goodbye to them standing within a metre of us. I told Yoppi 「名前は n̵a̛̕m̨̀͘e です！覚えてください！」 (My name is ǹà̛҉mé! Please remember me!) since she wrote in her blog that if you tell her your name she will most likely remember it the next time you meet, and she replied back 「n̷a̸m͏̴̀e̷̛ ね！おｋ！」 ( n̵̸á̢̛m̸͏e right! Ok!) and I was so happy my heart was beating so hard I actually had to sit down and get my breath back. It’s been hours and I am still so happy I could cry at any moment right now. This is how it feels meeting your oshi? The adrenaline rush is insane and I love it. I’m gunna try so hard to meet her as much as possible!

in case you don't know, it's a series in which Yoshino Aoyama (the seiyuu who voices Bocchi) has been learning to play guitar up to the point where she plays Seishun Complex live with a whole band at SHELTER (the actual live house in Shimokitazawa that Starry is based on)

episode 13 (with English subs):