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meimichiI think I might be getting sick again. Or at least, I've been annoyingly migraine-prone all week long, and popping Excedrin like there's no tomorrow. I almost never sleep on the train to Tokyo, and I napped both ways, today and yesterday.
Yesterday was spent shopping in Ikebukuro and spending a ridiculous amount of money on borderline-sensible things like clothes and pretty socks. Today was spent at Tokyo Dome, enjoying the pre-concert madness. I decided since I'd never been to the Dome before, I might as well go today and scope everything out before tomorrow, and then buy the goods today.
The website said goods opened at one...or so I thought. Maybe they decided to open it early to avert total chaos. To be honest, I don't even know where the line would have gone if it had been much longer than it was near the afternoon. If it had been much longer, it would have been holding up all the foot traffic of people exiting the Marunouchi line.
Anyway, I showed up a little bit before ten AM, prepared to wait for a few hours. But when I got there, the line was nowhere near as horrible as I expected, and I quickly realized it was already moving. So I hopped into the queue and waited. The line was right next to the Dome amusement park, so the whoooole day it was nothing but screams from the roller coaster going by right next to me. Maybe that's why I have a headache, huh.
Crappy keitai photos, but here's a vague idea of the line once I was probably 3/4 through it:
All those little dots into the background are people's parasols. Which was a great idea to bring; I'm definitely bringing a hat next time! The line meandered along, moving slowly for about an hour. Then finally I got to the goods section. It was all really well-organized. I spent my time in the inside line being screamed over by two friends in separate lines, yelling to each other which photo set of *insert member here* they thought was cutest, hee.
The concert marquee:
The setup outside:
Uchiwa rabu:
What my wall looks like now:
And my spoils (including everyone else's stuff, obviously):
Everyone got everything they asked me for. As for me, I made off with the keitai strap, the penlight, the group poster, the tote bag, the MatsuJun jumbo uchiwa, the live version pamphlet, and the dome-special MatsuJun photo set.
The only thing I was disappointed in was the dome pamphlet: it seemed really shoddily-done. I'm sure it's hard to take loads of great live photos, since it's dark and everyone's always moving around, but I think half of the photos in the book are blurred. I was way disappointed, though at least the design of it was pretty enough as a consolation (eeee pretty embossed logooooo). I'm sickeningly in love with the keitai strap and the tote bag, though.
The weather was so nice today, maybe the most gorgeous and perfect day since I arrived in Japan. So, since I got through the goods line hours before I expected to finish, I went to Denny's (along with every other girl leaving the goods line - everyone had the same tote bag, hee), and then afterwards I just sat down on the ground, against the Dome, and people-watched for a good long while in the sun.
It's kind of like a convention, just with slightly fewer people in costume. I saw girls in bright yukata and leggings trailing a giant banner behind them, a group of five girls all in long black coats with felt Arashi logos embroidered on the back, and a group of girls who were all in homemade Ohmiya SK costumes. I was chilling out nearby the Marunouchi exit, which was also where all the girls were standing who had signs begging for tickets. I was sort of silently cheering them on as I sat there, and had to giggle when two girls who'd been standing for over an hour finally had success. They were standing at least twenty feet away from me, but the girl audibly screamed, "KORE, SUGOI SEKI JA NAI DESU KA!!!!!" at the woman selling them the tickets. They paid, and then for a good minute afterwards, the girls literally hopped up and down and did a happy dance. It was so cute!
I also picked up my fanclub application form; I had trouble remembering a kanji in my address, so I brought it home and will turn it in at the booth tomorrow.
Tomorrow: conceeeert!
EDIT: No, wait, I didn't mean to imply that the pamphlet was that huge of a disappointment. After all, it had
There are two kinds of people in this world who would think this purple-leopard-print-hoodie-with-red-sequinned-pants outfit is acceptable.
One kind are little old ladies with blue hair who play the slot machines in Atlantic City every weekend, chainsmoking the whole time.
The other kind work at JE. OH, MATSUJUN.
Yesterday was spent shopping in Ikebukuro and spending a ridiculous amount of money on borderline-sensible things like clothes and pretty socks. Today was spent at Tokyo Dome, enjoying the pre-concert madness. I decided since I'd never been to the Dome before, I might as well go today and scope everything out before tomorrow, and then buy the goods today.
The website said goods opened at one...or so I thought. Maybe they decided to open it early to avert total chaos. To be honest, I don't even know where the line would have gone if it had been much longer than it was near the afternoon. If it had been much longer, it would have been holding up all the foot traffic of people exiting the Marunouchi line.
Anyway, I showed up a little bit before ten AM, prepared to wait for a few hours. But when I got there, the line was nowhere near as horrible as I expected, and I quickly realized it was already moving. So I hopped into the queue and waited. The line was right next to the Dome amusement park, so the whoooole day it was nothing but screams from the roller coaster going by right next to me. Maybe that's why I have a headache, huh.
Crappy keitai photos, but here's a vague idea of the line once I was probably 3/4 through it:
All those little dots into the background are people's parasols. Which was a great idea to bring; I'm definitely bringing a hat next time! The line meandered along, moving slowly for about an hour. Then finally I got to the goods section. It was all really well-organized. I spent my time in the inside line being screamed over by two friends in separate lines, yelling to each other which photo set of *insert member here* they thought was cutest, hee.
The concert marquee:
The setup outside:
Uchiwa rabu:
What my wall looks like now:
And my spoils (including everyone else's stuff, obviously):
Everyone got everything they asked me for. As for me, I made off with the keitai strap, the penlight, the group poster, the tote bag, the MatsuJun jumbo uchiwa, the live version pamphlet, and the dome-special MatsuJun photo set.
The only thing I was disappointed in was the dome pamphlet: it seemed really shoddily-done. I'm sure it's hard to take loads of great live photos, since it's dark and everyone's always moving around, but I think half of the photos in the book are blurred. I was way disappointed, though at least the design of it was pretty enough as a consolation (eeee pretty embossed logooooo). I'm sickeningly in love with the keitai strap and the tote bag, though.
The weather was so nice today, maybe the most gorgeous and perfect day since I arrived in Japan. So, since I got through the goods line hours before I expected to finish, I went to Denny's (along with every other girl leaving the goods line - everyone had the same tote bag, hee), and then afterwards I just sat down on the ground, against the Dome, and people-watched for a good long while in the sun.
It's kind of like a convention, just with slightly fewer people in costume. I saw girls in bright yukata and leggings trailing a giant banner behind them, a group of five girls all in long black coats with felt Arashi logos embroidered on the back, and a group of girls who were all in homemade Ohmiya SK costumes. I was chilling out nearby the Marunouchi exit, which was also where all the girls were standing who had signs begging for tickets. I was sort of silently cheering them on as I sat there, and had to giggle when two girls who'd been standing for over an hour finally had success. They were standing at least twenty feet away from me, but the girl audibly screamed, "KORE, SUGOI SEKI JA NAI DESU KA!!!!!" at the woman selling them the tickets. They paid, and then for a good minute afterwards, the girls literally hopped up and down and did a happy dance. It was so cute!
I also picked up my fanclub application form; I had trouble remembering a kanji in my address, so I brought it home and will turn it in at the booth tomorrow.
Tomorrow: conceeeert!
EDIT: No, wait, I didn't mean to imply that the pamphlet was that huge of a disappointment. After all, it had
There are two kinds of people in this world who would think this purple-leopard-print-hoodie-with-red-sequinned-pants outfit is acceptable.
One kind are little old ladies with blue hair who play the slot machines in Atlantic City every weekend, chainsmoking the whole time.
The other kind work at JE. OH, MATSUJUN.
