Date: Mar 8th 1998
Time: 2pm-5pm
Venue: Soft Garage, Konandai, Yokohama

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Soft Garage is an LD store about 3 mins walk from where I live and every
once in a blue moon they do events related to KSS. This time, the guest was
Kawagami Tomoko (Utena), the director of Dousoukai (don't remember name),
and later they had a male seiyuu Chiba ???? from Kakyuusei anime.
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I had ticket no. 30, out of about 200. I was second row, right in front of
Tomoko (about 5 feet away).

First they had a talk about Dousoukai in which Tomoko plays a character.
Then later they had Tomoko, Chiba and the MC read out a script about a
Prince (who looks suspiciously like Utena), her knight Oscar (who looks
like an escapee from Rose of Versailles), and some other guy. Then they
invited 2 people from the audience to replay the script.
After that, they gave away 2 Dousoukai afureco scripts (signed by Tomoko)
to people who played junken with Tomoko and won. I won this one cleanly (I
was the only one left). I got to shake Tomoko's hand and bow 6-7 times to
her. Then they gave away 4 cells in the same way (I could not participate
in this one).

Then they had a signing session for the people who bought Utena CDs at the
store. Luckily I already had one on reserved which I had been putting off
picking up since I had no money, but this was as good a reason as any to
buy it. I got it signed and shook Tomoko's hand again. The owner of the
store (he organized the event) introduced me to Tomoko as someone from
Malaysia. I don't remember what she said except "when the ink dries, put it
away carefully".

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See Joe! Not all my events have to get more impersonal! ^_^

-Ive