The first of the Daisuki CD promotional events took place on 8/26
at the Live Inn Magic live house in Yotsuya.
The event was basically free, as they passed out many tickets
at various CD stores and Animate stores in Tokyo.

On Saturday, I woke up before 9 AM, read mails, got the camera/video
equipment ready, and went to Yotsuya for the Kira Melo event.
I arrived at the event location (Live Inn Magic, a small recording
studio/live house) at a little after 10:00.  There were 4 people already.
The first person had arrived before 6:00!  (event starts at 17:00)

We didn't know if they allowed pics or not, so everyone had brought
their camera equipment.  Eventually, we found out that pics weren't
allowed.. (;_;)

We also found out that there were going to be two sessions.
So the people who only had one ticket rushed out to get another ticket.
I had gotten two, so I was ready for this.

I was number 5 for the first session, so I got to sit in the front row.
I sat on the right side, as Nagai Nobuko is usually on the right
side for most of the songs.

The emcees for this event were Jun and Mayo.

The event flowed as follows.

 - Idol ha Kitto Sekai wo Sukuu (Heart Chu)
 - Kira Kira (Heart Chu)
 - Say U (Muteki Palette)
 - Stormy Dune (Dear Me)
 - Soba ni Itai (Dear Me)
 - Kira Para Fire (all)
 - talk about the CD recording
 - Pride (all)
 - Daisuki (all)

Muteki Palette was Sora, Sara, Chiyomi, Noriko, and Shizuko.

Dear Me was Mayo, Tomoe, and Miri.

There was a new song.  It was the Kira Melo Para Para song!
But for this song, Nobuko was on the left side, so I couldn't see her
at all. (;_;)  So I just watched Sara, who was right in front of me.
Sara is the best parapara (or any) dancer in Kira Melo,
so I watched how it should be done. (^^;

Just before this song, a new "group" Sarasora, made up of Sara and Sora,
came out and taught the crowd how to do some of the para para movements.

During the talk portion, various girls talked about the recording
for Daisuki, or the filming of the promotion videos.

 - Sora said that in the group picture, she spread her arms,
   and her hand covered Natsumi's face.
 - Natsumi said that she saw Sara fall down the stairs, when Sara
   was wearing her platform shoes.
 - Sayaka said that everyone's picture for the Daisuki promotion
   poster was taken from above (i.e. the girls were all lying on
   the floor).  She asked people not to look for her.
 - Shizuko said that somebody's stomach was always making sounds
   during the recording.
 - Nobuko said that she didn't like the shot of herself in the
   Pride promo video, as she has her tongue sticking out.
 - Tomoe said that they used a shot of her eating for the Pride
   promo video.
 - Mieko and Sayaka said that they went to eat noodles and desserts
   before going to the recording.

I was number 47 for the second session, so I had to stand in the back.
But Live Inn Magic isn't very big, so I wasn't too far away.
The first session was limited to 70 people, and the second session
was limited to 100.

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Hitoshi Doi                                               Toshi Nibunnoichi
half a UFO catcher doll, half a cel          801 tactical training squadron
http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/                                    doi@win.ne.jp