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After a 2 year break, the second official Mizuki Nana fanclub event was held at Yomiuri Land on 28th October. Yomiuri Land is an amusement park that’s located somewhere in the out skirts of Tokyo. They have a large outdoor space for shows and I guess that was the reason it was choosen. The program of the day in brief was something like this:

• Mini-live (”Aoi Iro”, “76th Star”)
• 7 questions to Nana-chan
• Quiz “Attack 25″
• PV (”Justice to Believe”, “Aoi Iro”)
• Mini-live (”Justice to Believe”, “Brave Phoenix”)
• Handshake

The program is short but the event was long, thanks to the quiz section and the long wait for the handshake as there were over 3000 people at the event.

The day began with Nana-chan performing “Aoi Iro” and “76th Star” in full school uniform outfit, the very one which she wore for the “Aoi Iro” PV. The look was completed with Tousaka Rin-like twin-tails hairstyle, over-knee socks for that Absolute Field impact as well as glasses for the meganeko look. Sufficient to say, this hit the moe weakspot for massive damage to the crowd. “Aoi Iro” turns out to be a pretty catchy tune when sung in full and was a nice crowd-warming song to begin the day with, the cuteness of “76th Star” went well with the costume she was wearing.

The 7 questions to Nana was not particularly interesting, afterall Nana-chan is no Yukarin when it comes to witty talks. Though the last question did turn interesting as it was about Inoue “Onee-chan” Kikuko and her 17 year-old cult. A quick background info on this cult - it’s quite a well-known fact in the seiyuu-verse that Onee-chan had declared that she is forever 17 years old and that she would always begin her self-introduction with “I’m Inoue Kikuko, I’m 17 years-old”. Not so recently she had invited various other seiyuu to join her little cult for proclaiming their eternal youth with a fair bit of success, of which she were able to recruit Hocchan and Yukarin as members (both are over 30 in real life, by the way, which seems to be the unwritten requirement in joining). Apparently Nana-chan was also targetted by Onee-chan (Nana-chan only turned 26 this year), and what followed was an amusing one-person reproduction of the conversation by Nana-chan on stage, and it looks like Nana-chan now have a spot reserved for her in the cult 5 years later. What was great for this particular section though was that Nana-chan mimic the tone and speech of Onee-chan so well that there was no mistake that the conversation must’ve happened.

The second section on the program was a reproduction of a TV game show “Attack 25“. The crowd was divided into 3 groups and 25 people were choosen at random from each group to make up teams blue, green and yellow and they represent their respective group, while Nana-chan herself is the red team. The winners of the quiz wins a special guitar pick for everybody in the group. The questions were collected from members of the fanclub and they were questions either related to Nana-chan herself, her hometown, hobbies and interests. It was kind of long section but not particularly fascinating as the questions were too one-sided to cater to baseball otakus (like Nana-chan) or that they were so simple that I was surprised no one can actually answer them. I think sent was extremely frustrated that despite Nana-chan had given his team members a big advantage his team ended up leading for half the match but gave it away at the end and ended up last.

After the quiz Nana-chan was to retreat to the backstage to get change and prepare for the second mini-live section and thus to fill in that time they showcased the freshly made PVs to “Justice to Believe” and “Aoi Iro”. For “Justice to Believe” they were going for a Zorro story-themed PV, which both sent and I agreed was not entirely handled that well as it felt they were trying too hard to make the PV have a story to it. Though Nana-chan in a flamenco dress was too hard to disagree with so it equaled out. On the other hand “Aoi iro” was a fascinating PV because they shot the entire sequence in one go with just one camera, even though the setting was just Nana-chan dancing around with a bunch of dancers in a very normal looking school building. On the song side, my impression has flipped between the two songs and I think “Aoi Iro” is the catchier of the two.

After the PVs, Nana-chan came back on stage to perform “Justice to Believe” and “Brave Phoenix” live. Dressed in the same flamenco dress she wore for “Justice to Believe”, it seems that recently the costume people for Nana-chan is entirely too happy in showing off and putting emphasis on Nana-chan’s legs. See also the costumes in her summer tour for an indication of this. And if you’re wondering, no I’m not complaining and is very much enjoying the eye candies.

After the mini-live, Nana gets changed out of the flamenco dress into something more comfy for what was the biggest event of the day - the handshake event. With more than 3,000 people on the day, one can imagine the chaos and amount of waiting involved. During the waiting they played some more PVs on the big screen and we got a chance to see the full version of “Zankou no Gaia” which was nice, and when they ran out of PVs they queued the Livedom DVD and this got the crowd chanting the concert calls so it managed to keep most people occupied enough to not notice the extreme waiting involved. The actual handshake was entirely too short (just a few seconds) before the securities pushes people on and thus not even a meaningful sentence could be said but really there’s not much can be done about that.

Lastly, there were some goods which were sold only at this event. A very beautiful 2007 calendar, a fanclub t-shirt (which was sold out, to our surprise, you would think they know exactly how many t-shirts to prepare for the event as it was a strictly limited to fanclub members with one ticket per person), a bag, and they took a page out from the Yukarin event by doing the whole capsule machine trick and filled it with 13 types of different goods to be won at 500yen a pop, plus there’s a special grand prize item mixed in. I’m hardcore with some cash to spare but not THAT hardcore, so only calendar and 3 tries at the capsule machines for me.

Overall, my feelings about the event is a mixed bag but can’t say I was unhappy about it as it was too understandable in the difficulty of preparing a program to accommodate 3000 plus people. Though I kind of wish that next time they would do multiple small events in different locations to make the numbers more managable.

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