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Event 
Inoue Kikuko @manbow Festical 2  
Location 
Yakult Hall, Shinbashi, Tokyo 
Date 
2002.04.29 
Time 
14:00-16:00 (afternoon session) 
17:30-19:30 (evening session, @manbow member only) 
Guests 
Yamazaki Takumi (MC) 
Cost 
3500 yen 

Event report version 0.7 by 'CuSO4' Yung, 2002.6.24 


Event only @manbow goods selling at the event:
- Clear File Set, member 1000 yen, non-member 1200 yen
  http://www.ponycanyon.co.jp/manbow/image01/shopping/f2_file.jpg
- Pauline Donburi, member 1500 yen, non-member 1800 yen
  http://www.ponycanyon.co.jp/manbow/image01/shopping/f2_don.jpg
- Polo Shirt (M and L only), member 2000 yen, non-member 2500 yen
  http://www.ponycanyon.co.jp/manbow/image01/shopping/f2_polo.jpg


Run down
- Announcement by @manbow Technical Consultant, @Inoue
- Song (western song, name unknown)
- Panda Question
- Talk
- Quiz
- Snack Time
- Intermission
- Song : Itsumo omotteirukoto, Sora ha kataranai
- Video : CM for @manbow Clear Files
- Song : Ruri to Ruriko (new, written for the event), UFO, Ruriiro 
  no Chikyuu
- Video : CM for Pauline donburi
- Song : Anata no tame ni dekirukoto
- Books Introduction : Nohara no Mystery
- Song : Yume ni no nohara, Nohara no Mystery Hawaian Style
- Lucky Draw
- Offical Gesture
- Encore : Hou-chan talk
- Encore : Song : Hoppe ni yakusoku


After the announcement Kikuko came out in a maid outfit: long black 
1 piece with white apron.  After the first song, they asked the 
Panda Question.  Each audience had been given an answer sheet in 
advance.  They have the outline of a panda printed on the answer 
sheet, and the audience need to draw the color distribution of 
black and white of the back of a panda.  

Yamazaki Takumi talked with Kikuko about President Panda.  
President Panda is the owner of the "Shiawase Travel Agency" which 
held the Inoue Kikuko Bus Tour last year.  Kikuko said that 
Yamamoto Maria should be in the audience.  (Maria sat just 2 rows 
behind me).

Then they used slides to show Kikuko's seiyuu history and they 
talked about it a bit.  They also report on the web site survey 
result of the Kikuko characters.  The results are:
1st : Belldandy of AMG
2nd : Kasumi of Ranma 1/2
3rd : Electra of Naida
4th : Inoue Kikuko
5th : Mizuho of Onegai Teacher
6th : Aina of Gundam 08MS
6th : Sakura of Aosora Shoujotai
8th : Lobelia of Sakura Taisen

Next comes the Quiz Time.  As last year, everyone is given an 
Uchiwa (fan).  One side is white Kikuko angel, the other side is 
black Kikuko devil.  The audience is required to stand up.  Takumi 
will then ask a 2-choice question.  Audience use the Uchiwa to 
answer.  You need to sit down if you replied the wrong answer.  
The last few people standing get a present.  In the evening 
session, a few questions were very embrassing to Kikuko, and she 
turn her back to the audience and need a few minutes to recover.  
^_^;  

Next is the Snack Time.  As last year, every audience was given 
a snack in advance.  However, due to the regulation of the venue, 
food is not allowed in the seating area, so Kikuko and Takumi eat 
snacks on the stage, and we just sat there watching they eat their 
snack.  ^_^

Intermission

After the intermission, Kikuko came out cosplaying Mizuho-senei 
of Onegai Teacher.  Cute!  She sang two songs and talked about 
Onegai Teacher a bit.

Kikuko then went back stage to change clothes.  A video clip is 
shown.  Inside the clip, Kikuko and a panda puppet manupulated by 
her were talking and done a CM on the Clear Files on sale in the 
venue.

Kikuko came out wearing idolish frilly pink knee length 1-piece 
skirt, with matching pink gloves, black think belt, and white high 
heel.  She called herslef Ruriko-Seventeen and sang a few songs.

Another video clip have Kikuko wearing nurse outfit and did a CM 
on @manbow Pauline donburi (large bowl, like those of ramen shop's, 
with Pauline, one of the character in two of her previous songs, 
printed in the center, with president panda and Wendenyan printer 
along side the edge.  If you turned the bowl over, you will find a 
drawing of Kikuko eating ramen secretly  ^_^.  The bowl is now my 
main dinning tool.) 

Kikuko came out in a causal 1-piece and sang 1 song.

Next was the introduction of a music book for 2nd grade school 
children, "Nohara no Mystery" in which the songs are written and 
sung by Kikuko.  "Now that 300,000 2nd grader over the whole 
country listen to Oneechan's song in their education, brainwashing 
them, the number of @manbow members can be ensured after 5 years or 
10 years time".  ^_^

Kikuko then sang songs from the book.  

Takumi announced the correct answer of the Panda Question.  They 
draw a winner with the correct answer.  After that, the Lucky draw 
was held.

Kikuko and Takumi performed the Offical Gesture of @manbow together 
with the audience:  Dendendenden Dendendenden Denchiha!

For the encore, as usual, Kikuko talked about her daughter Honoka, 
AKA Hou-chan.  Hou-chan is 4 this year.  She then sang the last 
song of the event.

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'CuSO4' Yung
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