#btw this is actually going to be a standee

[jasminebythebay]

a sunday afternoon 🏛️🌱

[omentranslates]

Trigun Maximum Chugai Grace Cafe Collaboration PART 2 - A Third Website Translation Has Hit The Omen

THEY'RE DOING A PART 2!!?? THEY'RE DOING A PART 2!!! I DIDN'T KNOW THEY COULD DO THAT!!!! Ok so it seems like this time will be a bit smaller of an event, but they have new stuff so I will be RETRANSLATING THE WEBSITE PAGE.

I have done this two other times, including the previous event from last year! (Putting out the call btw I will update that one with the meal descriptions as well if anyone has a higher quality photo of the menu than what I posted ;-; I gave it another shot last night but mine is just too blurry)

ANYWAYS under the cut for clean dash as always HAVE FUN EVERYONE GOING TO THE EXHIBITION/DOUJIN EVENT/CAFE!!! I HAVE TO STAY HOME THIS TIME BUT IF THERE'S LITERALLY ANYTHING THERE TO READ YOU WILL BE SEEING ME ANYWAYS LMAOOOO

SO, THE FOOD

Starting from the top left we've got

"Love and Peansu" <3

strawberry bingsu

strawberry sauce

mango sauce

pink chocolate heart

"Smile, Spikey....Nachos" (they're just being mean now lmaooo)

tongari corn (recently found out that this is the actual name of the snack and not just like a description lmao. um but yeah i was right last time it's literally just bugles)

tortilla cheese (nacho cheese)

guacamole sauce

salsa

cheese sauce

"Crybaby Parfait" (guzuri is like, childish sulking (i am in indescribable pain))

coffee jelly (again!! again!!!!)

vanilla soft serve

the ampoule pipettes contain "metabolism advance stimulant" by which they mean blue curaçao

You're meant to squirt the curaçao over the ice cream and eat them together.

"60 Billion Double Dollar Man" <3

acerola juice (also called barbados cherry/west indian cherry)

grenadine

lemon juice

a cherry (standard)

"Welcome Home Hot Chocolate"

hot chocolate

chocolate whipped cream

white chocolate copeau as confetti (they wrote confetti not me, direct translation, i did not do this)

"Sworn Friends Bride Soda"

red&black mixed berry (usually blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and both red and black courants)

bride soda

Based on the picture it seems like the berries are just in the glass and you pour the soda over it just like the syrup from last time. No indication this time either of what flavor the soda has, if it has one, or if it's changed since last time.

(So I guess what we know about the Bride Soda so far is that whatever it is it goes well with concentrated smoked oak/ceylon tea combo and also tart fruits. Maybe if they do a few more of these we can get our substitute just by process of elimination lmao)

Collab Merch

(Overseas pay attention again, they are accepting online orders via ChugaiOnline store, so we can proxy these as well! Link at the end of section again!)

So they've brought back the buttons (can badges), plastic/vinyl double-sided postcards (with new pictures!!) and acrylic stands from last time (except for Milly????????????????????????)* with no change in price at all. I'll be a lot more brief than last time, all numbers are price in Japanese yen with tax included so you can convert, excluded is just the other number if you need it!

Buttons/Can Badges: 550 yen for one (RANDOM) or 6600 yen for the whole set

Postcards are 660 yen FOR A RANDOM ONE or 7920 for the whole set (THEY HAVE DIFFERENT SCENES THIS TIME, THESE ARE NOT THE SAME POSTCARDS WE GOT LAST YEAR)

Acrylic stands are 1650 yen and just like last time you get to pick but there is still no deal for getting all of them. They actually don't go together exactly like those ones from Amiami I was theorizing about last time it's more like a regular 3 part standee and one part just also has a chain on it.

*As for Milly....she's still listed on their website (as sold out along with all their past cafe merch) so I guess we'll just have to wait until April to see if she gets restocked with the others.

The ChugaiOnline preorder will start April 2nd at 11 am JST and end on May 12th just before midnight JST and merch is set to arrive in July! From here!! ↓

Extra Cafe Stuff (especially for if you're going!!!)

↓　Anyone who reserves a spot online beforehand will receive one of these 8 postcards of a panel from the original manga at random!!　↓

↓　These are the coasters this time, a random one comes with every food or drink order!!　↓

↓　And these are the special gifts, for every 3000 yen (including tax) spent on merch you will receive a random one of the 18 double-sided sketch postcards! It doesn't say if it applies to online orders as well, but if I'm remembering correctly it did apply last time.　↓

They're not doing a wallscroll campaign this time, but there is a twitter follow and reply campaign in which they're giving away a coaster set to 3 people by lottery! I'm not sure if we can enter this outside of Japan, but the entry period is the same dates as the cafe, from April 2nd at 12pm JST to April 20th, 2025 just before midnight JST!

OK THAT'S EVERYTHING!! HAPPY TRIGUN MANGA CAFE EVENT PART 2 HAPPY TRIGUNNING!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE POST ALL OF YOUR EVENT PICTURES I WANNA SEE EVERYTHING SO BAD!!!!

[pythoness94]

Dumb bets me and my actual twin make. (Camden Flash Gordan edition, I:E, the person in my bio.)

Top ten ranking:

1.Twenty dollars on Byler.

I've been posting about this so you probably know. But if Byler gets together, I get twenty dollars. If they don't, she gets twenty. It's very precise rule book. Ten for hand holding but it can't be in the first few scenes or first last scenes. Hand holding has to done out of genuine love, not necessity or guidance. Kissing is twenty but again, no first few or last scenes, because then it's rushed. If it starts out on the relationship and the rest of the season doesn't atleast explain it with more then a passing dialogue, no dice. "Why so precise?" You may say, because this bet has been going on since 2019.

2. First to lose 20-30 pounds by August 15 if this year gets a celebrity standee of their choice.

This is because we're the same weight and the fucking freeloader works out in my garage. We're both trying out for sports next year and taking weight lifting so we got to get in shape. (Yay, junior year!) It's kinda a give and take thing so whoever loses more weight is the winner. The standee I chose was Finn Wolfhard (now changed to BALD finn wolfhard specifically), and she chose Adam Sandler. (Specifically from that one clip where he's at the Oscar's and that guy calls him out for what he's wearing.)

3. First to lose the TikTok streak gets their ass kicked in the Dennys parking lot by the square. (Not, not an exaggeration. We will kick the shit out of each other. Has happened before).

Pretty self explanatory. If one of us kills the TikTok streak, then the other gets to kick their ass in this specific Dennys parking lot next time we go there to hang out. Yes, we are dumb.

4: first person to not send the other a dinky related text gives the other five dollars.

Best believe I WON this one. But the dinky thing is an inside joke but that's basically the bet. This bet lasted 7 months btw, this is the day I won, she was in a different timezone and forget the time difference. I wish I could send you a screenshot of her crashing out but it was a very exuberant 2 AM call of her bemoaning her loses. She had the twenty dollars for about 2 months now so it was a bit of a streak for us.

5. Person who finds the weirdest minecraft promo material and use/buy it gets twenty dollars.

I bought vanilla flavored creeper milk. It was green. I drank the whole thing and it was disgusting. We're both mildly lactose intolerant so that was fun.

6. Best work out set up gets twenty dollars.

I won, again.

7. Person who gets the worst grade in English files out the first job application and gives the other twenty dollars.

IT WAS ONE PERCENT OFF. WE BOTH HAD A'S. FUCK HER 98 TO MY 97.

LOOK AT HER SMUG ASS. (This was the latest bet that lost me THE twenty dollar bill btw)

8. Longest nickname that actually sticks get twenty dollars.

Despite Camden Flash Gordan being rather long and the fact it stuck should have secured me the win. She won, because to all our friends I'm now "Evil Twin 800 milligrams Ibuprofen secret wells Fargo employee". Or just wells Fargo for short. I fucking hate her sometimes.

9. Person who's able to sneakily slip the other a gift without the other knowing wins twenty dollars.

The gift was perfume, and hers was cologne. Unfortunately for her, I'm hyper aware and that mf spaces out all the time.

10. If our Spanish teacher wasn't there that day, then I get to send her crush embarrassing photos. If she was there, then she gets to send mine embarrassing photos.

Don't worry, I got my karma. I fell down the fucking stairs right in front of my huzz. 😐

Welp, that's my top ten with proof! I have plenty more without or with very minimal proof but they're more outlandish because they were done on the spot over THE "twenty dollar bill." The twenty dollar bill is the same twenty we've been exchanging for the past 3-4 years without spending. Person who holds onto it longest wins. It's crumpled and slightly sweaty. So that's always fun. I would attach a picture but unfortunately I lost the last bet so she has THE twenty dollar bill. Sad times indeed.

If you guys are very interested and let me know, I will make a follow up post! Maybe with added commentary from Camden if her highness feels up to it.

@strawberrycow46

[starrynightarchive]

19, 6, 42, 22, 38, 33, 47, 50, 92, 90, 72, 75, 70

answer them all

demanding. hello to you too anon

19. what's been keeping you up at night lately?

your mom.

ok just kidding. uhhh not much. maybe the mistakes I need to fix and this distinct feeling of wrongness that lingers.

6. what role do you play in your group of friends?

let's ask them shall we

42. how did you meet your best friend(s)?

aha i actually wanted someone to ask this one! I'll give you three stories

sri: when i was in kindergarten i remember very clearly seeing this fucker in the restroom. she pulled out her handkerchief and made a banana out of it? i was not impressed. but she then proceeded to eat it/put it in her mouth. which I was impressed with. and then she saw me when I got stuck on the very top of this giraffe thing which you can climb. a teacher had to come up and get me down. bitch was just staring at me the whole time. didn't move a muscle. i love her so very much.

vhas: ok so. i had (have. love her very very much she's a menace and we met in a whole other way) a best friend and I got them into wattpad when I was 13. or 12. idk. then that friend in turn went to a classmate and made them join wattpad. so now all three of us started writing very bad very cringe stories. i was writing a straight romance paranormal story and vhas was writing some tragic yaoi godbles. i read it and fell in love with his writing. so one day, without warning, I just went up to him and said "hey! i love your writing!" and fucked right off. no intro no how are you no nothing. we ended up talking in hangouts (rip) and I made covers for his stories and shit. and then the rest is history.

sree: this is the menace friend. she lives really close to my house. first way we met was through our school bus (we took the same one and I sat next to her one day). she was reading harry potter and we figured that we both loved books. i introduced her to a few. and the very same week I went to my classical music class and they were there. i was like ??? but we became quick friends. proximity, similar interests, orange slices and stupidity. yeah. they're pretty neat.

22. how old were you when you joined the internet?

around 12, i think

38. what is your love language? i'm very expressive about my love for people, but the main ones are: physical touch, words of affirmation and gift giving.

33. have you ever thought about changing your name?

nope! i love my name very very much :D

47. how well-decorated is your bedroom?

not much. at first i had a sticky notes wall filled with quotes poetry etc etc but then had to take it down because it was getting dusty. then there's this huge ass micky mouse sticker stuck on my wardrobe (my dad bought it when I was a kid). skk chibi figurines and iwaoi standee both from my lovely friend vhas. then books. a few magnets stuck to my wardrobe. that's all

50. what do you consider most important in a romantic/platonic partner? being ready to put in work in the relationship. must be an open communicator/must be willing to try. oh, and a good sense of humour (this is very specific btw. i have a type. i will not elaborate).

92. who's in your dream blunt rotation? great question. idk if I'll ever smoke weed but. if I do tay will be my go-to person (@spiderbends)

90. weirdest habit?

i bite people. is that weird? idk

72. which is more important when it comes to clothing, comfort or style?

comfort all the wayyyy

75. how would you describe your favorite person?

icarus. burning wings. the kindest smile. the bravest man. lover, healer, believer. object of all my sweet dreams and sweetest nightmares.

70. when it comes to affection/intimacy, do you prefer to stick to one person or are you more open about it?

intimacy/affection to me isn't strictly connected to romance. and I'm a very affectionate person by nature. i love fiercely. all my loved ones will be bombarded with my love. get loved, loser.

[dandyshucks]

we went on some train adventures today with the centre I go to during the week :]

one of the other centre patrons held him up for the head-cutout standee (idk what those are called lol) photo for me so that was very nice of them :3 nobody was outwardly weird about me having him w me and most of the ppl actually seemed delighted at the pictures I was taking of him sndjdkdl

this was a museum of sorts btw! no actual train rides lol, but one day i shall ride a train for real....

[sylviegunpla]

Gunpla: Completed Collection of Minis: Part 3: Unicorn Gundam

The next set of folks comes from the Unicorn series.

MG Unicorn Gundam HD Color + MS Cage: 2x Banagher Links, Aubrey Burn, Marida Cruz, Cardeas Vist

Yes this kit came with five figures. There's also a pilot figure, but this kit was originally purchased by my brother. I assembled it, detailed it, and eventually returned it to him because i was running out of space to display gunpla + it was gonna be "obsoleted" in my collection by the MGEX Unicorn lol. But i held onto these figures and painted them. The pilot is still unpainted in the kit. Weirdly, the pilot suit Banagher Links you see on the far left there didn't come with a base. It wasn't stable enough to stand on its own, so idk what they were thinking. I think the use of Nuln Oil again worked out really well on these guys. Actually i think they were the first figures i tried out nuln oil on! I think Marida came out nicely. btw, here's a series of cropped closeups, below the cut:

I think i accidentally made the Cardeas Vist figure look a little too haunted.

MG EXtreme Unicorn: Banagher Links and Cardeas Vist

comparatively, the MGEX only came with two figures, and not even a standee of the actual pilot. Oh well, it's still a cool kit i will probably write about someday in its own post, but that's also a "WIP". I mean the kit is assembled, but its on a shelf right now and currently kinda dusty, and plus i've been waiting to apply water slide decals to it. I'll include a cockpit shot once that's done, and a link to another post about the kit elsewhen. Anyway, these guys also did with nuln oil. I think Banagher came out a lil messy, but this Cardeas doesn't seem as haunted as the other one at least. Consider this place held for when i do re-assemble the MGEX Unicorn, to display him inside the pilot seat.

MG Jesta: Anaheim Electronics Worker

These belong to a kit i don't own, gifted by someone at a build jam. I don't really have a place to put the piloting figure, so i guess it'll join my stash of other suit-less pilots! Mash and Gaia are in good company. There's one more figurine to post, but i forgot to photograph it before returning it to a friend: it's the pilot Banagher Links from the PG Unicorn (1/60 scale), which i painted for her. When she sends me photos i'll go ahead and share them. This concludes Part 3. Continue on to Part 4 by Clicking This Link!

[animeandfilmotaku]

Yes it is that one, btw it was my mum that helped me picked which wooden standee I would buy. I wish I have a little more practical anime merch for Yatagarasu, because comparing Osaka to Kyoto, I generally prefer Kyoto as it looks so aesthetically pleasing and I like the collaboration with local crafts houses to make the goods. (That is why I actually want to go to that one but however I am staying in Osaka for holiday, so Umeda is nearer to me but it has less goods 🫠 and it looks not as eye catching *my aim is to buy my textbook for Japanese class but they do not have it*)

I saw the incense and it is not cheap af.

Btw that book store has a bar and cafe inside so you can get drunk here, but the walk is wayyyy longer as it is almost off the main road. However I really hope they sell it online as I think the products are nice!

So I am in Osaka and it happened that I was around for the pop up for the Raven does not choose it’s master (they are launching the new book) and I tell you the series is so insanely popular here. Too bad my Japanese reading is not up to par for now 🥲

But I picked up the fan book,folder and the Yukiya wooden stand (thanks mum for choosing pouty Yukiya). I wish there is more!

[natsmagi]

hey actually im thinking about making some switch charms for myself bc i want more merch of them but im curious, if i were to start making switch merch would u guys buy them.......... is there a demographic for this

[myearts-uwu]

Hello! This is a really random post but I just want to show you guys how my bedroom’s bookshelf looks like rn!

I’m pretty proud with what I have so far and I just wanna show it to you guys!

Here’s the first row of my bookshelf! Though its more of a manhwa shelf tbh with how much manhwa-related stuff I have.

I enjoy putting all of my merch up on display so they all just chill in this area!

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun remains as my favourite romcom manga so that’s why it’s on the very top row with the rest of my manhwas.

All of my Genshin and Honkai related acrylic standees I bought them at Kinokuniya (they’re so pricey tho 🫠)! I mainly collect characters I love a lot or have been on my team before, except for Orchestra!Beidou cause come on, just look at her. How could I not buy her? Didn’t buy her wifey tho ;-;

Most of my WMMAP merch come from the manhwa’s limited edition sets from volume 4-7! I would love to collect vol1-3 as well but they were sold out and vol 8-9… it just isn’t worth it without all the merch.

I also have a nendoroid of White Blood Cell a bit hidden here. I like him. He’s cute!

There’s even a Loid figurine. Hello Loid!

And the four little standees of the featured manhwa dads from my very first manhwa event; the Isekai Zaddy event! They’re really cute! They’re all travel sized so you can easily take them wherever you want them to go with you.

The cute Athy and Claude standee are from the MOFUN x WMMAP collab btw! I bought them along with an Anastacius acrylic keychain which I love a lot too!

Oh and in case you’re curious with the picture of the WMMAP cast that I have framed: It came with volume 7 and it’s actually the picture that came with the puzzle set. It’s supposed to act as a reference when doing the puzzle but I had other plans.

I also like to decorate my frames a lot (I used to do a lot of journaling back in the day lol)

Now on to the second row!

There’s not much going on in this row I feel like. Just my full manga collection of The Promised Neverland and some acrylic standees and WMMAP boxes decorating this row.

I don’t plan on using the Lucas pop socket cause I’m not into pop sockets much.

Oh! And I’d like to introduce you to my queen Hatsune Miku! I actually bought her figuring very recently! Along with the Loid figure that’s on the first row and also a Nanami figure that’s displayed somewhere else! Moly’s figurine here is so gorgeous I can’t even describe how pretty it really is-

And finally the third row!

I’d love to add in some more stuff on this row but for now I’m satisfied cause my DARLINGS ARE HERE <3

I’m so happy to have both Jennette and Anastacius on full display here with fully decorated acrylic frames. I’d love to put the other characters up but I uh… ran out of space.

Also Zhongli and Ganyu standees, my beloveds!

And there’s my little Senbonzakura KAITO nendoroid that I bought way back in 2015. He cute. Forgot where his actual hat is tho sadly.

I do have one more row but uh… it’s too messy.

Here are some close ups of my favourite things on this shelf!

I’d love to take better pictures… but I know if I did I’d procrastinate a lot more when making this post.

[sovonight]

Hello! ;w; I hope it's okay I ask you a question about uhh making an acrylic standee! I don't know if you've made one before but you're much more experienced with Making Things than I am, and I was wondering if you had any tips on like... how to submit the artwork to a manufacturer? I am considering Vograce since I wouldn't have to use a template and they're the cheapest option in terms of the actual product (RIP shipping costs) but I don't rly know how to like, send the artwork to them... I tried reading the instructions and I'm a bit lost.

I wanted to try Zapcreatives as well since their MOQ is just 1 instead of Vograce's 3, but I don't know how to navigate their template. I'm just, very bad with written instructions since I'm more of a visual learner, and I haven't found any video tutorials online and I was just wondering if you had any tips on how to submit art to either of these manufacturers even if it's not a standee, like just in general? Ahhh sorry if this was messy. You totally don't have to respond btw thank you so much for taking the time to read <3

if it's your first time, i think zap is easier to work with! they offer free file setup so you don't need to figure out their templates, and you can just tell them where you want everything to go. if you do want to try file setup yourself, it seems like this is roughly what they'd want you to provide:

in zap’s upright template, they have artwork 1A/1B to 3A/3B because they’re giving you extra layers in case you want to have up to 3 upright pieces on the same base. if you have just one upright piece, you can just focus on white 1, artwork 1A, artwork 1B, and cut 1. if you’re printing one-sided, you can discard artwork 1B. the white layer will just be a copy of the art layer, but just filled with black.

if you want to go with vograce, the setup above should still be fine. zap gives you a little shape to represent the stand tab, but honestly you could just draw a rectangle there or some other mark when working with vograce/other manus. when you mark the tab, you just need to mark the location of it, keep it on a separate layer from the cutline, and name the layer as a tab. there’s no need to try to draw the tab accurately, since the manu works with vectors and doesn’t use your cutlines & tabs directly. they convert your raster cutline to vector, and add on their own tab/hole template to the location you specify.

but really, don’t worry too much! everyone makes mistakes with their files, esp when starting out. if you get anything wrong, the rep will usually contact you with the issue and ask you to revise your files.

[runawayballista]

here is my elevator pitch: instead of a 45-chapter slog with 73 recruitable characters and no real support conversations, break radiant dawn into 3 much more manageable story routes a la 3h (dawn brigade, elincia & co, greil mercenaries). 3h's structure always felt to me like an attempt to Do Radiant Dawn But Better. unfortunately it didn't but i DO think this format could work for radiant dawn. here is why:

radiant dawn is an ambitious story that wants to show you all sides of a complicated conflict, because the point it's trying to make is War Is Complicated. unfortunately on a gameplay level this means rotating between multiple groups of characters at a rate that becomes whiplash inducing about two thirds of the way into the game

as a result of the aforementioned ambition they decided to bring back every single playable character from path of radiance except for largo PLUS a bunch of new guys. the result is a game with 73 recruitable characters and NO support conversations, presumably because designing support conversations for a cast that large would be insane. this is fine, i guess, for the returning cast whom you presumably already know & love but it means most of the new guys don’t get enough screen time to have as much depth as the returning cast. this is why half the dawn brigade has about as much character as a cardboard standee

one of the things that REALLY mucks this game up is the addition of the third tier of classes. i genuinely cannot think of a good reason to have done this except for "we brought all these characters back for a sequel and it would be weird if a bunch of them were now in base classes" but to me thats a terrible reason. very few characters actually start in a base class and most of them are in the dawn brigade who you have for the first 10 chapters, and then you switch to elincia's crew of prepromotes and laguz. and similarly when you get to the greil mercenaries they are almost all 1) in a 2nd tier class 2) fairly well leveled. this creates problems when the dawn brigade comes back in later because they're all horrendously underleveled and mostly useless in endgame without their designated special weapons

the only other base class recruit in this game is mist btw. mist has never done anything wrong

at the end of the game all 3 parties converge into one incredibly unwieldy crew whose levels AND classes are all over the fucking place, and because this is old school fire emblem, there is no extra-chapter leveling, there is no way to correct for the fact that the dawn brigade guys simply don't spend enough time in the game to really measure up to the rest of the cast who you as the player are more inclined to use anyway because they are characters u know and love

jesus christ this is getting long. putting the rest of this under a cut. anyway heres my extremely rough ideas for Execution

prefacing this with: obv radiant dawn was designed to be played linearly so some of the story writing would need to be adjusted but i also don't think it would take that much rearranging to work out. so just dont worry about how the timeline works for now and just hear me out

three playable routes led by micaiah, elincia, and ike! each comes with the default set of recruitable characters for those groups, plus a la 3h there are characters from the other two routes who are recruitable. not all of them bc that would be unwieldy but given how many characters need to be re-recruited in part 3 & 4, yk? i just think it would be fun. however unlike 3h there should still be late-game recruits with insane lore drops buried in their supports

SUPPORT CONVERSATIONS!!! real ones!!! radiant dawn tried to spoonfeed us more info conversations in their place but if im ever going to give a shit about leonardo i am going to need to see some humorous support conversations between him and edward involving some kind of baking misadventure or some shit

remove the 3rd class tier and put all the parties on the same footing from the start of their routes. i dont care if it doesnt make story sense for soren not to be a sage put him back in the little mage booties. also dividing sage classes by element as a way to really stretch things out into 3 tiers was a bad design choice! dislike

when all the parties join together for the final act of the story, the non-recruited units from other routes are either allied units or not actually on the final battle maps, they are simply there as a Story Presence. i think it makes sense if some or all of the units you get in part 4 specifically are recruitable in any route. particularly thinking about sanaki who has a very specific and different relevance to each of the other protagonists

the one thing i haven't pondered in depth yet is how to make the endings for each route meaningfully different when there's really only one intended ending to the game (reuniting ashera and yune). it's been wayyyy too long since i finished a sacred stones playthru but there's an example to be followed in there probably. obviously significant difference there bc the story in sacred stones only diverges for part of the game but!!! yk!!! i believe it can be done

additionally: lock some of the interesting endgame lore drops (special soren scenes im looking at u. also zelgius) behind specific routes! it's fire emblem so there can still be absurd conditions to unlock them sure whatever but give it that Replayability Factor.

honestly considering the sheer amount of information dropped and loose ends tied up in the epilogue to radiant dawn you could divide some of that between endings too probably. the one thing i'll say about radiant dawn's writing is that the ending is like. very long and packed with so much information even if you DONT get any of the special scenes

going to be honest. u could make a couple of character cuts. i really do not need duke oliver in my party

don't change anything about the laguz. they're perfect and good.

my only gameplay notes for a path of radiance remake: give the laguz radiant dawn's more flexible shifting mechanic and take knives away from sages. why would you make beautiful, special, wonderful callil fucking useless as a sage because she cant use staves and knives dont do any interesting shit in path of radiance

im thinking so much lately about how a radiant dawn remake could be done and done successfully and unfortunately i think this is going to lead to me replaying radiant dawn

[ainatravelsto]

South Korea Trip 2k16; Day 2 (Seoul)

Hey!

Congrats, you made it to day 2! (LONG OVERDUE SORZ ITS THE 4TH WEEK OF MY SUMMER SEM IM DYING) (update: nah didnt finish it on my 4th week.... i finished this during my sem break... heh)

Instead of visiting historical places there’s one thing I’ve been wanting way before we arrived in Seoul..... Visit K-pop entertainment companies/buildings.

Yes. I’m actually a K-pop fan, probably one of the main reasons why we went there for a holiday djskhdjkhkdhsajkdkhsda. I told my parents that I at least need a day where I can visit as many companies as I can since one day is not enough tbh. My parents agreed that my bro can follow me to while hunting down these buildings while both my mom and dad went to visit other places around Seoul.

I initially wanted to wake up a lil early but as usual, we suck at waking up early so we were kind of behind schedule. We got ready asap and then had breakfast at the Italian restaurant in our hotel called 3 Birds. I would recommend this restaurant but I won’t because of their RUDE staff. They looked like they were forced to be there y’know? They also take away food tooooo quick right on the dot when the buffet is over.... When there are still people picking out food. I get that it’s over but it would be rude to take away all the food while someone’s still picking out their food? No?

Ok after we’re done with breakfast both of us separate. We bought our T-Money card to use for the subway stations a day before so we just went to one of the nearest stations and went to the first place on our list. Before we arrived at our first destination, we stopped by stations halfway to find advertisements of one of my favorite idols. I’m a huge fan of a group called BTS especially one of the vocalists, named Taehyung, stage name V (let’s just call him Taehyung plox). It was his birthday month so many of his fans (or just fansites) put up advertisements for his birthday at selected subway stations around Seoul. We found like 2 that day and wow I didn’t imagine myself seeing it with my own eyes instead of being behind the screen. I’ve always seen pics of Korean fans posting pics of them posing for the ads. It’s just surreal I’m there y’know,,,,, as a fan. As you can see in the photos, I was REALLY happy.

So after the mini photo shoot, we continued on to our first destination. The first destination is actually, Big Hit Entertainment, aka BTS’ company. I felt that I should visit the office at least once in my life since I’m a huge fan. I have realized that many fans are confused on where the hell is the building because it’s very low-key not like YG or SM so to those who need help, I can help y’all with this. However, it’s not very detailed and apparently, Big Hit already moved to a bigger office at Apgugeong??? If I’m not mistaken? But if you’re curious then:

The nearest metro station to the building was Line 3 Sinsa Station so that’s where we stopped.

1. You walk out of Exit 1 of Sinsa station and just walk straight and take a right after 5 blocks. There should be blocks of buildings on your right anyway with small roads going on a small hill.

2. Take the 2nd street on your left and on the 3rd block, you should be able to see Big Hit on your right. 

3. If you’re lost with all these instructions (LIKE I WAS PREVIOUSLY) Google Maps does wonders. I also used Waze but it is based on you using a car. So stick with Google Maps since you’re walking and search ‘Big Hit Entertainment’. Some of the locations they give MIGHT be false so prepare yourself for that.

*It might look lowkey scary going on your own so pls bring someone with you.

Tbh, we almost got lost a few times but eventually, we found our way. We walked a few places and later we found it. Shout out to Google Maps for saving our asses. I’m amazed how we didn’t need to ask anyone to find our way. Bles technology!

OH STORY TIME: I coincidentally bumped into BTS’ manager right in front of us when we were finding Big Hit. 

Yep, that’s right. He’s probably the reason why I could find Big Hit because he was heading that way dsjgdkhjsagydsgkdskks. When we were almost got to Big Hit there was a man with takeaway coffee on his hand. It was still the morning btw so I thought oh some random man going to work. But, I had a good look on his face and I freaked out. Once I saw his face my face just went blank because I recognize his face from somewhere and I straight away knew he was the manager. As an avid fan, I’ve seen HQs & press photos of BTS with their manager so I’m used to seeing his face time to time. So once I saw his face, I almost froze and stopped my bro. My bro was confused and later I explained to him quietly who he was. I kinda took a pic lmao:

So the smartest thing I’ve done after that is to go the other way, completely going to the opposite direction of Big Hit. I didn’t want to make him think of us as some international stalkers or sasaengs. Later when I thought it felt safe, we went to the direction where he went which leads to Big Hit. Surprise surprise, he was gone. He probably went in already so... 

ANYWAYS, as typical tourists we took photos.

What makes it more interesting, some Big Hit staff told us to go away when we didn’t even go in the building or anything.... We just taking photos.... But at the same time... I highkey feel like someone was inside... Possibly BTS? Whatever it is, wow.... I got shooed away by Big Hit staff LMAO.

Moving on, we went back to the train station and arrived at Samseong Station to visit SMTOWN! I feel that almost every kpop fan goes there when they visit Seoul lmao. Wow, I was shocked at how I was actually there and not from photos. Saw cool standees from Baekhyun (exo bias HI), Krystal, and lots more! I too took one of the photo booth photos!!!! leeet

One thing most stans go for is basically.... THE MERCH. I mean other than going for the live concert thingies (which I didn’t bother to go), official merchandise is the best next thing... So obviously if anyone wants to get their fave SM artists’ merch, going to SMTOWN itself is fine, more specifically, their albums. Their albums are reasonably priced so you don’t have to buy it outside in my opinion. Their official merchandise from posters, photobooks, phone cases, even the food are one of a kind. I feel if going to SMTOWN, and you’re an avid fan of EXO, Red Velvet or any other SM artist, just buy them. 

After looking around, we found a halal Indian restaurant called Luna Asia. Ngl, the food was alright. For Muslims, y’all could go for this!

We then took Samseong station again and arrived at Apgujeongrodeo station to go to The Mins! Some might not know, but this cafe is famous for treating some kpop idols, including BTS! (don’t @ me let me live i am an avid fan) So we took exit () and walked all the way down. The Mins was inside so you have to get into the neighborhood to find it. (Better descriptions are in the link I added @ The Mins)

The place was really cute from the outside and inside. OH, I forgot to mention, 2AM’s Changmin owns this cafe! Pretty legit. I also think I might’ve met his parents there too, because I heard that his parents do work there. I only noticed that once I got out of the cafe.... rip.

ANYWAYS, I ordered the Four Berry drink..... aka what BTS usually orders (yes shut up). It was really good anyway.

In the plus side, cool stuff on their walls! BTS posters, and signed albums from many other celebs like SISTAR, Gfriend and lots more! (you can also get to sit where BTS have sat before hehehehhehehe)

Later, we went to K-Star Road to visit all the big figures??? dolls??? idk what to call them. But yeah, we went and obviously had to find BTS’ one.

We were tired af and basically done all we wanted to do (except visiting JYP or YG Entertainment :(((() so we went back to our hotel.

After a few hours of rest in the hotel, we still had energy so we thought of not wasting time by going N Seoul Tower by using the Namsan Cable Car. It was a nice view from the hill but I feel it would be better during daylight?? Since it was winter I think it’ll look prettier during daylight. SORZ FOR NO PHOTO I WAS HALF DEAD THAT NIGHT KSKFKSHFJKSF

Anyways, we found this halal restaurant at this close knit neighborhood in Seoul called Yang Good (Yangguk) and boy...... they had GR8 meat. 11/10 recommended.

OKKKK IM SORRY FOR THIS VERY LONG OVERDUE POST but yes here’s day 2. I’ll try my best to do the other days asap (at least before my new sem starts sigh) BYE GIRLIES ANF GUYLIES!!!!

[adurnah]

Two days in Numazu (Love Live Sunshine real life setting): a report

Heya! I know I haven’t used my Tumblr in ages, but I didn’t know where else to put this so here I am.

So, I’ve been to Japan for two weeks in late February and I managed to spent two days (Sun 19th and Mon 20th) in Numazu and Uchiura, the places where all of Love Live Sunshine is set. It was an incredible experience, so I’ve wanted to write a report both for me to remember it but also to show other people the place. I can’t believe I procrastinated two months in this

From Kyoto (where we were before this) we arrived at Numazu on Sunday morning at around 8am, by night bus. This is Numazu Station, featured a lot of times in the anime. We’ve been really lucky and had a wonderful weather! at least for one day

After going to check-in to our hotel (if you’re interested in going, I really recommend you Sanco Inn Numazu Ekimae, it’s super close to the station and the staff knows English pretty well), we came back to catch the bus for Uchiura.

Right in front of the station there’s a collaboration cafè, Yudai Festa Sun! Sun! Sunshine Cafè. We went there later for dinner.

This is the bus stop to Uchiura. You’ll see Love Live is literally everywhere here. Unfortunately I already knew we had no chance to catch the LLSS collaboration bus if we didn’t want to waste time (the first was at around 11am iirc)

While we were waiting there for the bus, another bus arrived and a girl next to us asked us “Where are you going?” so I said “Izu Mito Sea Paradise” (since it’s the most known attraction from Uchiura and it was actually our first stop), and she said that that other bus that arrived was going there too. So we took that bus.

Random photo of the scenery from the bus.

Comes out, that bus wasn’t going to Izu Mito. I don’t know what happened, if she didn’t understood what I said or she was just wrong, but at some point on the road to Uchiura the bus changed direction. I kept looking where the f- we were going on my phone, and comes out we were going to the near city of Izu-Nagaoka. I tried asking to the driver if the bus was going to Izu Mito Sea Paradise (maybe taking a longer route) but he said “No, *something else I didn’t caught* Sea Paradise”. IDK. In the end I found with Google Maps that there was another bus going to Izu Mito from that area, so we dropped off the bus and waited for the other bus. 

The funny thing to all of this is that at that bus station in the middle of nowhere and far away from every LLSS location there was this:

No matter where you go, Love Live is there.

An old woman also asked us (in Japanese this time) where we were going and she confirmed that this bus was actually for Izu Mito and she was right this time. I got pleasantly surprised that people are so friendly there, even with weird gaijins like us.

This detour unfortunately cost us a lot of time, but in the end we managed to arrive to Izu Mito Sea Paradise! If you don’t know, this aquarium is the setting for the Koi ni Naritai AQUARIUM PV.

I forgot to take a photo outside This is the Show Stadium of the Aquarium, where most of the scenes in the KoiAQUA PV happen.

I loved this tank with sakura flowers inside.

I haven’t took a photo of the whole coloured jellyfish pool (where You is being emo in the PV) but I had a bit of fun photographing the single jellyfishes.

Shukas Otteeeeers so cute. I went to see them hundreds of time.

A dolphin came to say hi to us! o/

A nice view of Awashima Island and... Fuji-san being shy and hiding behind clouds.

Aqours images signed by the seiyuus. In front of this place is where you can see half of the aquarium’s audience are Love Livers, a lot of people came here to take photos of the posters. I loved the guy that posed next to Mari doing her “Lock on!” pose lol

Best grills and best seiyuus signatures

The aquarium shop has a literal aquarium with Aqours acrylic standees inside

YouChika under the sea and a fish staring at me

Aqours standees inside the aquarium shop.

The visit to the aquarium took us until midday, since we also saw the shows. After lunch, we went out and headed to our next stops.

First of all we stopped at the close Sannoura Tourist Center, aka the tourist center of the town. I tried periscoping inside of it so here’s a video: https://streamable.com/d5n33 (I can’t find a way to embed it sorry)

As you can see the place is FILLED with Love Live, it really is the main attraction there.

If I recall correctly this page in their signature book was signed by the seiyuus when they first came here in February 2016. I witnessed one of Rikyako’s best masterpieces with my own eyes I feel blessed.

After we looked around a bit the two staff members showed us a map of Japan where people put a round sticker for the place where they were from, and they also had spaces of overseas. For Europe iirc they had a space for UK, Germany and then “Other Europe” lel, so we put our sticker there. There were only 2 sticker on “Other Europe”, and I wondered who they were... comes out it was my friend and her boyfriend who come here in December :’D Not a lot of people are as crazy as us uh better for them

After this the staff girl asked us if the wanted to write a post-it with cheers for the seiyuus for their First Live. After I wrote mine, she took it, looked at it and asked “Yousoro?” (since I wrote it in blue and added an anchor), I said yes and then she disappeared for a bit and came back with two You keychains as a present for me WTF I was almost crying as I thanked her, so kind!! They also gave some Chika goods to my friend, I was speechless. As if it wasn’t enough, while we were going out the staff guy stopped us and gave us one of their big posters??

Like seriously WTF. Are they really so happy to see tourists?

I feel sorry that they also tried to make some conversation with me but unfortunately I’m still a beginner in Japanese and they didn’t know a lot of English ;; They managed to ask me if we were going to see some locations and I said that in fact we’ve already been to Izu Mito. They were so happy ;;

Another nice thing I didn’t expected is that outside of the Tourist Center we found a few itashas. Not comparable to the one you can see in UDX in Akiba but they were nice!

This one was very well made, except for the fact that one side was wrongly mirrored lol

This guy has good tastes.

We left the Tourist Center in the direction of the school. This is the place where Mari falls while running, in fact, to the school to meet Kanan.

A bit ahead we found this groceries shop called “Oh! Mos” that sells mikans and specifically the Jyutaro x LLSS mikans, and also has this big Aqours shrine. I told ya LL there is really everywhere.

Fun fact: Suwawa, Rikyako and Anchan went in this shop a few weeks later, when they were there for their DIVER photoshoot, and left a signature (that’s the shop twitter account).

We took a bag of mikans and when we went to the counter to pay, the old woman pointed at Chika’s image in the bag and said “anime?” to us, lol. When we said yes (?) she showed us that they even have the cardboard box of mikan, the megaphone and the sign that Chika uses in episode 1 to gather people for her school idol club, lol. SUKURU AIDORU BU DEEESU. My friend took a pic with them

Btw, mikans are really good.

Moving on, we went to the place where the girls (try to) shoot a PV in episode 6. The place is called “Nagahama Castle Ruins” but there really isn’t much except for a really nice view.

Actually, I had printed a lot of these postcards with anime screenshots to take this kind of photos, but unfortunately I realized taking a good shot takes a lot of time and effort, plus the wind was not helping me. In the end I gave up and took really a few of these. I still have all of them so maybe I’ll try again if I manage to go back in August.

If you turn back you can already see the school!

My friend took a panorama of the bay.

Moving on to the next stop: the little shrine where Kanan ends her morning run and dances under the stalkers other girls’ eyes.

I saw a lot of people thinking that the shrine where Kanan dances is the same as the one in episode 4 to where Ruby and the seconds year run, but it’s not: that one is in Awashima Island and it would have required Kanan to take the boat from where she starts her run. In fact it’s this one, a bit before the school. There were two other Love Livers there taking photos.

After this we finally got to the school bus stop! Featured in the ending, as well as in episode 1 when You joins the school idol club.

I failed this photo on so many levels.

Going up the hill to the school, such a nice scenery.

And here it is! Uranohoshi Girls Highschool is in real life a middle school called Nagaisaki. It was Sunday afternoon so no one was around, except for the gym where we could hear some people inside.

After this we walked all the way back to Izu Mito and beyond to see the other locations, like...

Yasudaya ryokan, aka Chika’s house!

And right in front of it, the beach featured in the very first LLSS image, as well as the scene in episode 1 where Chika and Riko talk. Someone already wrote Aqours on the sand.

And the pier when Riko tries to kill herself jump in the water.

Early blooming sakura.

Last one I tried to take. Kimi no kokoro wa kagayaiterukai?

Shougetsu Cafè! aka the place were a CYaRon radio drama is set, and also were the 2nd years seiyuus went during their Teku Teku. Of course we went to grab some mikan dorayaki! They are super good. I even bought mikan jam, but I still have to open it.

Photos and signatures of the seiyuus.

We were so lucky we even found the LLSS kitchen car! I bought the You Noppo keychain.

Unfortunately, at this point my organization failed me. We wanted to go to Awashima Island, but I got wrong the place where the boat docks. I thought it was in front of Shougetsu, where there actually is some kind of port, but it wasn’t. We lost time looking around and on the web (how come that the Awashima Marine Park website doesn’t say where the boat docks?!), then tried to ask to the girls in the kitchen car who managed to explain to me it was 20 minutes by feet to get there. Unfortunately it was already kinda late, and since we didn’t want to rush it we decided to go back to Numazu. While riding the bus I saw the bus stop “Awashima” and the docks. If only we had take the right bus in the morning I would’ve know. Too bad.

Even if we didn’t rode the LLSS collaboration bus there was still some Love Live on board. Someone likes OmoiNare ships here.

At Numazu station we finally grabbed some Noppo Pan! I bought the LLSS (caramel) flavoured one this time, and later I tried the strawberry chocolate too. In the same shop in the station I also bought some really good mikan cookies.

Going around Numazu by night. This shopping district appears in episode 6, and it also contains Maru-san (Maru’s favorite bookstore) and the cafè used as a background for Guilty Kiss first illustration

Obligatory visit to Numazu Gamers, or Numazu’s Little Demon shop.

Inside the shop.

Going to the collabo cafè for dinner! They have this fake UraGirls bus stop sign which actually resembles the real one (including the timetable)

I got the full You menu: Youkisoba (I even got the appropriate coaster), You’s drink and You’s Magic Tea (it’s a butterfly pea tea, it’s blue but when you put lemon in it it becomes purple). I really liked it tbh to be just a collabo cafè (not famous for the quality of their meals...)

And this concludes our first day in Numazu.

The next day we decided to do just a short visit to Numazu, since going back to Uchiura just to go to Awashima Island was too expensive.

Nakamise again.

We went to see Yoshiko’s house, a building called Natty Numazu. At the first floor of the building, on the other side, there’s a watch shop that even has some LLSS merch, and when the shopkeeper saw us looking at it they made us enter and sign their Yoshiko signature book lol

This tiny temple is right next to the alley where Yoshiko is seen in the last scene of episode 5 (before starting running away from the others).

Of course since You is best grill I couldn’t miss this place: You’s house! Which is not a house but a Western-style cafè called Orandakan.

Just from outside you can’t be wrong this is the place.

Their You shrine from inside.

When we entered an old lady came to us and made us seat. She tried failed a bit to talk in English and brought us their signature book (I swear every single place has signature books there). My friends told me she also said “Welcome to You’s house” but unfortunately I didn’t catch it.

Their menu is only in Japanese but luckily since the teas are all in katakana and the cakes had pictures we managed to order something.

Not bad but tbh kinda pricey, I paid 1010 yen for a tea and a piece of cake... but it was at You’s house! So it’s ok.

Our message in the signature book, I did the writing and my friend did the drawing.

Moving along Yoshiko’s escape route, we passed next to Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium (where the first years go in their KoiAQUA radio drama, aka the shiirakansu aquarium) and Numazu Hamburger & Cafè, where the first years also came for their Teku Teku.

I took a photo of this sign and not of the place, how fail I am.

We finally arrived at Byou (which I discovered actually means View-O), the water gate/observatory where Yoshiko finally stops running and also where You and Mari go talk in episode 11. Going up only costs 100 yen but due to some circumstances we decided not to go. The weather got bad in any case so we wouldn’t have seen anything anyway.

And this concludes our trip around Numazu, and is also where we suddenly started having incredible bad luck.

The weather was getting worse and worse, with strong wind and rain. On our travel back to Tokyo we wanted to make some stops: at Atami to visit the Plum Garden since the plums were in full blooms, at Nebukawa station (the station of feels in the anime), and Kozu station (the beach of feels- yes, they’re in different places). After riding the train we already decided that we would miss Atami, the weather was too bad to enjoy a garden. We could still stop at Nebukawa and Kozu, I mean, we just have to stop and take some photos, it can’t be that bad, right?

Wrong. The wind was so strong we were basically flying away, I’ve never seen something like this. We run inside the station and I only managed to take these photos.

Being the wind so strong we decided not to stop in Kozu, since it would’ve been a pain with our luggages and everything. But, after arriving at that exact station, the train stopped. We heard a lot of messages but we couldn’t understand them. We checked online and discovered that all trains in the Tokaido line were suppressed due to strong winds. And we were in Kozu. But we couldn’t go down. I couldn’t believe our bad luck, lol. The train stayed there for three (THREE) hours before leaving, and even then it was going slow and occasionally stopping, making our travel from Numazu to Tokyo 6 hours long instead of 2. But in the end we managed to arrive in Tokyo safe and sound.

Anyway, except for this last part, I really loved going to Numazu. It’s a bit of a struggle if you don’t know Japanese and it’s kinda expensive, but if you’re a Love Live fan it’s really really worthy. It’s not just “seeing” those places in real life, you can do that from photos... but being there, living like them, taking the same bus they take to school, eating mikans and Noppo pan... it’s an incredible experience. It makes it feels like everything is more real, even if it’s just an anime. I really hope I’ll be able to go back in August!

I want to give many many thanks to LuciaHunter for the LLSS Locations Google Map (link: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3623197,139.0468361,10z/data=!4m2!6m1!1s1cL4tMTO0iVaz69hqK88wyetWkR8 )

and also u/MasterMirage and u/FliryVorru for their reddit posts, they all were a huge help in planning this!

This concludes my report of these two days in Numazu. If you really read this till the end thank you, hope you like it! And if anyone has any question feel free to ask!

[girlwiththewhiterabbit]

Don't be so modest, there are like 3 artists that makes me consider going to SG for Doujima and you're definitely one of them. In fact, it was your YOI standee that strengthened my resolve :) Btw, if your merch actually sold out, will you reprint for YOI only?

daww @cempakad 8’D thank you! Yep, if they really do sell out, i’ll print some for YOI con (considerably lesser than the stock for doujima, though) i want to make some new things for the YOI event too aaaa i already have one wooden charm design that i’ve been hiding for weeks HAHAA can’t wait for itttt~!!

[eliceinwanderland]

Experiencing the Paradise: EℓyXiOn in Manila 2018 [II]

WELCOME TO PARADISE

And this is where the magic starts. With mixed emotions, we quickly made our entrance to the venue. The standing pit in concerts is really a blood bath so you must know how to act fast and smart, that's why upon entering, we waste no time and secured our place. We were standing at the 5th row since there's already a lot of people who entered the venue before us. Our queuing number, by the way, was around 290. The view from where we stand is good enough since the stage set up was on eye level and actually nearer compared to their other concert stops. Below is the photo of our view.

Not bad, right? But just like other fan girls, our goal was to reach the barricade and enjoy the concert at the first row of standees. And good news! It's possible! You just need to strategize a bit, go against the flow of people, move one step at a time and be ready to protect your place no matter what HAHAHA! Especially, to some rude fans and fan sites.

So, going back to the concert, the paradise opened with an angelic harmonization of Chen and Baekhyun's voice. Really, is this how heaven sounds like? 'Cause if yes, I'm willing to go much earlier. Lmao. But kidding aside, I really had goosebumps and chills upon hearing their voices. FYI, the lights were still out that time and all you can hear are their honey-like voices. And when the lights went on, EXO was revealed onstage wearing their royalty themed suits. Aah, nothing but respect for my kings.

For those who don't know EXO, Chen and Baekhyun are to of the most talented vocalists in the K-Pop scene and yes, their voices sound so angelic. You can check the video below for reference and some eargasm. (Video not mine. It was from the Elyxion in Japan DVD.)

It was followed by the performance of their hit songs such as The Eve, Forever (with its moving doors props on stage), Kokobop, Growl and Xiumin and Baekhyun's dance battle (on an elevated stage).

Unfortunately, for SVIP, it's quite hard to watch stages like this since it goes higher than it is in the photo, way beyond what our eyesight can reach haha! And another downfall is that, you can't help but tiptoe since their first performances are located at the main stage and our area is near the extended stage and wings already. But the palabang fan girl in me says 'never give up!' Good thing there are these so-called 'concert VCRs' which serve as break time for both EXO and the fans.

The next stage was Kai's solo dance performance and I swear I did all my best (aka tiptoeing at its finest) to be able to watch it properly because it was performed at the main stage. EXO Kai is one of the most prominent dancers in K-Pop and seeing him dance live was truly an honor.

Kai's solo stage was followed by the 'bar stage' wherein members performs in dashing suits. It includes songs such as Call Me Baby, Touch It, Chill, Sweet Lies and For Life (Eng. Version), which is one of my personal favorites. And I am not kidding, almost everyone in our area was crying during this part because the way D.O. sang it was so pure and full of emotions. You can listen to it below. It's an audio straight from the DVD release.

I swear, D.O.'s voice in records and live is very much the same. I'm picking this song as one of my wedding songs in the future! LMAO.

After the heartfelt performance of D.O. follows the Ment or the introduction of the members. This part is where idols and fans interact and share stories such as that time when Sehun spent his vacation in Batangas and when Chanyeol got his diving license in Bohol.

Other stages by EXO includes performance of their B-side tracks such as Boomerang, Sing For You, and Ka-Ching. EXO's leader, Suho, also had his solo stage wherein he performed Playboy and damn, those hip thrusts on the table was to die for!

Another solo stage which I really loved was Chanyeol's. I must admit that I cried during his performance of his self-composed rap entitled 'Hands' which depicts his hardship coping up with the issues and problems EXO faced in the past years and how his members helped him stand up again. *cries an ocean*

The second half of the concert started with EXO wearing an all-white suit while singing Cloud 9, Tender Love, What U Do and Walk on Memories.

It was during this part that I was able to reach the barrier of the stage. Finally! Though it was really a hard work. I'm thankful for those signed balls that they kept throwing to the fans. While everyone was chasing those balls, I'm busy going against the current of people and making my way to the front. It was also this time when the almost stampede happened. Yes, all because of the signed balls.

Moving on, I was really happy that I reached the front row right before my bias (in non kpop dictionary it means 'favorite') had his solo stage. My bias, btw, is Chen. Yes, the one who opened the concert and the gates of heaven with his angelic voice. With this, I was able to watch him properly and I guess my soul ascended to heaven after. He's really that good. He sang the jazz version of 'Heaven' which is popular for its first line that says 'Hello, angel'. We get it, Chen. You're an actual angel who has an angelic voice greeting the angels wearing that damn all white suit! We get it! Aaaaah! I just love him so much, I'm sorry. Below is the video I took at the concert. I apologize since it's not the HD type and kinda shaky.

Adn now, off to my favorite part of all EXO concerts - the Club Time! It is during this segment that they perform their party songs such as Run This, Coming Over, Diamond, Drop That and Power. It is when everyone's energy is on peak and everybody in the arena are just jumping and dancing like there's no tomorrow.

It was also during this part when Sehun has his solo stage, which I'm very proud of. Our maknae grew up really well. Also, what I love about this part is that this is when I had my closest encounter to Chen. I still can't believe how near I was to him! For heaven's sake, my favorite boy was just inches away from me! *cries an ocean again*

The party stage is then followed by the encore stage, also known as the last stage, which consists of songs like Don't Go and Angel. But as we always say, "There are no good byes, just see you soon."

And yes, I'll be seeing my kings again in two weeks! Let's shimmie shimmie kokobop for the last time!

Post concert feels and additional photos on my next post! 'Cause two posts aren't enough to contain my fan girl heart.