Well, we were meant to be going to the Wonder Festival yesterday, we bought the guidebook and everything, and had places marked down to go to first………. however, we were asked by a very nice girl after Harepan’s live yesterday to come and watch her, lol… so we had to make a choice, and ended up not going to the wonder festival. I’m not disappointed, i think we made the right choice, lol. 
Yes, so anyway yesterday… woke up, headed back to Shibuya (this time a place called “Shibuya Eggman” …yeah… who knows, lol), another relatively small basement place, though not as dark as the one the other day, lol, probably slightly less people there than the day before. The three people performing were:
Suzuoto Hikari (the one who asked us to come)
Miyabi Chinatsu – somewhat more upbeat songs, and seemingly had a fair amount of her fans there… and even got one of the “tiger, fire, cyber, fiber, diver, viber, jya-jya!!” chants, lol (i guess it’s not limited to AKB48 only then).
Akanagi – a pair of girls, laid back music, both played guitar. And that day was the day of their debut single’s release, so there were flowers, and almost tears etc.
At the end there was a vote for which one would perform the encore… i think we were one of very few voting for Hikari… aww. >_< Akanagi won, somewhat fitting i guess since it was a special day for them.
After it had finished we went and got photo’s with Hikari, and signed copies of her cd:
And then bought Akanagi’s single… and got that signed too…
And so another day came to an end…….. lol, no… it was still only 3pm. We battled our way back up to Harajuku station, dear god i SO HATE Harajuku at weekends, we tried to escape as quickly as possible back to the safety of Akiba, however we still had to battle our way through them. >_> Like hoards of zombies blocking the bridge.
Anyway, yes, back in Akiba, and we were hungry, so we decided to go to this Korean barbeque place right next to the station (the Akihabara Electric town exit, not the side where Gamers is, but the other side, there’s a big building right outside and it’s on the 8th floor… lift next to the french sandwich shop). And boy was that a good place to eat, so much delicious delicious meat. All of the georgeous marbled steaks that you bbq yourself just how you like it at your table, they literally just melt in your mouth. Best meat i’ve ever eaten by a long long way, delicious melty fat… mmmmmmmm. Definitely recommend the premium selection of meat on the menu, lol. 
We still had pleanty of time to kill after that, so we went back to the hotel, tidied ourselves up, and went back to somewhere we discovered the other day… a maid bar called “Little PSX“. However it’s not just any maid bar, it’s a darts bar, lol… and all the maids play darts with you (if you want that is). It almost feels just like a British pub, few tables, walls stained, old tatty curtains, and people playing darts with pints of beer, just with the addition of some maids (some incredibly hot maids might i add… incredibly hot, lol… best maid in Akiba!). I get the feeling this place will be our regular hang out now, seeing as we both now have half filled point cards already (yeah, don’t ask how much we spent), and were given a dart flight each with the maid bar’s logo on as a present by one of them. I’m sure being British we have a significant advantage over everyone at darts, in that darts skill improves significantly with beer, and if you’ve got a beer belly then you’re probably a professional lol. And the maids in this place are far friendlier than other places we’ve been, lol, a couple even attempted English conversation. ^_^
And after a few rounds of darts with the maids (…6 i think… lol) it was almost time for the place to close, so we decided to call it a night and head back to the station. However we were met by yet another distraction at the station, a girl sitting down on a blanket with a portable heater with a crowd of guys around her, we kinda went over to investigate, at which point the crowd told us to come in and sit down, lol.
Turned out to be a girl called “Cohana” who described herself as an “Idol Egg”… aww… lol. Sat there for a little while, bought photo’s, briefly spoke about Harepan (when she mentioned something about singing Neko Nyan Dance, lol)… she seemed surprised we knew them. Turns out she’s there every Sunday evening selling photo’s and handing out leaflets for her events (sadly they’re all in March or April so we can’t go, lol). Time for her to leave, and one of the other guy’s sitting around her suggested we should go out drinking, lol… and so we did, eventually found some bar place, ate horse sashimi (quite chewy), and i somehow managed to get a taxi back to the hotel at 1am. Mr_Trainspotting however was less successful… deciding to stay there when i left, and somehow managing to spend 2 and a half hours on the train network trying to find the right station (for what should have been a 4 minute ride two stops down the line), and eventually crawling into the room at 5am, lol.
…another good day, worth missing the wonder festival for i feel, lol (real people are better than figures right?).
