TGS weekend


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from Hitoshi Doi <doi@win.ne.jp>
subject TGS weekend
date Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:50:20 +0900
Three tiring weekends in a row. (^_^;
This weekend was the TGS and baseball.

On Friday (3/30), I took a day off from work to go to the first day of
the Tokyo Game Show.  I brought my camera equipment and DV camera.
I took a quick look around the entire Game Show, but didn't see anything
interesting.  This year the business day was only a half day, so they
didn't have many events on the first day.  Also it wasn't very crowded
at all.  Maybe everyone was at Bill Gates' talk..

I went to the Bandai booth, hoping that some of the Kira Melo girls
were there (like last year).  But there wasn't even an event stage,
and the girls passing out stuff and manning the information desk were
just normal companion girls.  The Bandai booth was mostly Wonder Swan
Color, with several rows of Wonder Swans Colors and games.

The other booths didn't have many seiyuu or idol events, as most of
them were scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
So I spent the rest of the day at the Hudson booth.

The idol guests at the Hudson booth were as follows.

 12:00 | Yasu Megumi
 13:30 | Emina Mako
 14:45 | Ace File

Photos were allowed (with a normal camera), but videos were not allowed.
I went through the motions of taking pictures, but I wasn't really into
it.  I guess I'm still feeling empty with the loss of Kira Melo.

By the way, Yoshikawa Mae (leader of Ace File) is very cute.
She would be in my top 5 cutest non-Kira Melo girl list..
probably right behind Shaku Yumiko.

My friend and I left the Game Show after the Ace File stage, as we had
planned to go drinking with a couple other friends.  We took the bus and
train to Tsudanuma (not too far from Makuhari), and went drinking.
But we just drank for about three hours, as I had to get up early for
the Game Show the next day.

On Saturday, I headed for the Hudson booth in the morning, and stayed
there the whole day.  I was only interested in the Wecker stage, but I
wanted to keep my position (dead center, front row among the standees,
right next to the official camera).  Actually it wasn't anywhere as
crowded as I had expected.

The idol guests at the Hudson booth on Saturday were as follows.

 10:30 | Ace File
 12:00 | Tanaka Mako
 13:10 | Satou Eriko
 14:30 | Jikuu Keisatsu Wecker (Tsuchiya Mieko, Amano Megumi, Kuryuu Miku)
 15:30 | Ace File

The Wecker stage was the most crowded stage during the day.  There were
LOTS and LOTS of cameras.  Usually at seiyuu events in the past, there
wouldn't be anyone with a better lens than mine..  But this time, there
were many that would put my equipment to shame.

None of the otaku was using the D1, but I saw a lot of press people using
D1s.  I guess some of the press are going filmless now.  They don't need
the really high quality pictures anyway.

I concentrated on taking pics of Mieko, but I eneded up taking quite a
few of Kuryuu Miku too.  Miku is a model type who had released a photo
collection and video.  So she liked to pose for the camera.  She was
almost doing a strip show, as she took off her jacket, and stuck the
little Wecker doll between her breasts.  She even rolled around on
the stage.. (^_^;

My friends and I left right after the Wecker stage.  We went to Akihabara
to eat at an all you can eat yakiniku place.  Ate too much again..

On Sunday, I wanted to go see Folder 5 at the TGS, but I had an important
baseball game, so I couldn't go.

I think this is the first TGS where I didn't take any pictures of the
companion girls.  I only took around 8.5 rolls of pictures.
Probably 3 for Ace File, 4 for Wecker, and 1.5 for other idols.

Events this week: 4/4 (Idol Chu-Dogs) and 4/7 (Lalaport 20th Anniversary).
--
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

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