Just a brief post before I do a full write up, but the weekend was fun! Got An Nakahara’s autograph (she’s really nice), saw Morning Musume, where they remembered me from last year’s AX (sadly the “special guest” was not Koharu after all, but instead Nakazawa Yuko), and pleanty of other fun fun!

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So much other Kirarin Revolution stuff. The French clearly have taste, lol! Why can’t it have an official English release??? (though the “L” is somewhat irritating, lol)

I wish there were conventions like this in the UK, the London Expo gets enough visitors, why is it still so rubbish??

Oh, the rest of the photos are in the gallery too! (http://www.pori.co.uk/?p=2419)

…yeah, lack of posts for a while, but hey ho.

Regarding the Japan Expo in France, just to quote something I said in my original post on the matter back in may:

Oh and Morning Musume are going to be there too… but that’s less important… unless Koharu also turns up with the Kirarin Revolution relation and all. ^_^

Well it’s just been announced that there will be a special mystery ex-Morning Musume member guest also appearing at the Japan Expo. Speculation rife as to whether or not it is indeed Koharu, but it must be!

(News via: HelloBlog)

…and completely unrelated: WordPress 3.0 broke the lovely maths comment spam protection thing I had. No more excitingly complex and challenging sums for people to do.

(note: pic above is before they formed HANGRY&ANGRY, lol)

So, ex-Morning Musume members Yoshizawa Hitomi, and Ishikawa Rika (aka HANGRY&ANGRY) were in London this week as part of their European tour. A cramped signing session in TokyoToys store on Tuesday, followed by a concert in a pub in Camden (that didn’t sell out), lol, but hey ho, at least they came!

Got to Camden in the morning, no-one around, so wandered off to my old workplace from a few years back, hung around there chatting for an hour or so then went back out to the pub where people had finally turned up. The line was hilarious, at least 3 drug dealers walked past at various points during the day offering us everything from weed to heroin… good old Camden, such a dump. Then a crazy guy who didn’t even smell of alcohol turned up and started rambling on to everyone about everything from 2p’s to the war, to how he was a better singer than whoever it was we were going to see, lol.

So, we gave up on the line itself, left our empty bags in place with the others staying in the line, and moved off back to inside the pub. Few drinks later and it was 7pm and time to go into the concert. (but not before a bird shat on me… which was nice…..)

Front row at the concert, right in the corner, decided it’d be a good idea to sit on the stage with my legs hanging over the edge, and to my surprise, no-one stopped me for the entire concert!

Anyway, I hadn’t actually listened to any of their music beforehand (mostly because of the way they look, it’s *really* off-putting), but i’ve gotta say it was better than I was expecting. But I was more just happy to see the two of them up close to be honest (especially since Hitomi was in an episode of Kirarin Revolution!).

All in all a pretty fun day (minus the bird poo). ^_^

Only just found out about this, but I must go!

http://www.japan-expo.com/en/actu/an-nakahara-kilaris-author-at-japan-expo_48.htm

This takes priority over AX (sorry Mano!!!). On the plus side it is significantly cheaper to get to! I must get autograph! And ask about exactly what creative control she had over the direction of STAGE3 of the tv series (I assume very little, but it’d still be quite interesting to know).

(Oh and Morning Musume are going to be there too… but that’s less important… unless Koharu also turns up with the Kirarin Revolution relation and all. ^_^)