Planning is nearing fruition!

[jemz]

I HAVE KANJANI EITO TICKETS!!!!!!!


So, all my concert tickets are now obtained! Everything is pretty much A GO for Japan! All I need is to pick up the pre-paid phone my friend is lending me, slap some money on it, and then start printing directions and information to put into my clear file.

I only have bits and pieces of planning left to do! I'm totally excited!

Now to finish up my wedding preparations. Everything is in order for the first wedding and I'm currently working on the joint bridal party and the bachelorette party themes. :D Thanks to bitofpixiedust, tinyangl, and nihongofrancais for listening to me babble about themes and colors and invitations.

OH! If anyone has any ideas for Japanese musical groups they want to see perform in the United States, I'm taking in suggestions! Please keep in mind that I probably won't have the budget to get really top names like Gackt, T.M. Revolution, any of the JE groups, or Ayumi Hamasaki. But I am curious if there are bands I should be checking out for Fanime. :D Let me know! Pimp them to me!

Comments

[ilanala]

SO EXCITING! Did you get tickets for the noon show?

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

I DID. OMG.

We're going to leave Yokohama ridiculously early to ship our luggage to Kyoto and head to the venue. :D I'm going to try to get there early enough that we can get the con goods.

Maybe mousaPi and I can meet up with everyone after the show?

[ilanala]

We're staying in Fukui on Saturday night, so we'll probably be there whenever you show up. (Do you have any idea how early it's good to line up? I could show up ridiculously early in the morning, but I don't know if it's necessary.)

It would be fun to meet up afterwards. We don't have any plans for after the concert aside from picking up our bags and going to Kyoto, so it should be easy enough to do. :D

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

OH AWESOOOOOME! Which concert are you going to? Noon? *__*


yah, mousaPi and I have to go to Kyoto before 8pm to be able to check into our ryokan. :D so maybe if we go to kyoto together?

[ilanala]

Yup, 6:00 on Saturday and noon on Sunday.

We're definitely planning to get there before 8:00, so yeah, we could do that. This should be fun. :D

[ginzarhapsody.livejournal.com]

i keysmashed at you this morning but i am so very glad that all your plans are coming into fruition. SO VERY AWESOME. <3

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

fjasldkfja;slfkj I AM SO EXCITED. :D

[lip-stick-love.livejournal.com]

GAH! Am so excited for you! We just got our Kanjani8 tickets sorted too! I have no idea where am seeing them - I think its Shizu-something, but I could be wrong. My God. WIN. I am totally excited for you. You are going to have a ball.

Good luck with wedding stuffs!

xxx

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

wheeeeee! I'm excited for you toooo!!!

I am just glad I got the tickets for the show I wanted! TOTAL WIN. So all three concerts are obtained and I am flailing like a madwoman!!!!


Thank you! I just got the paper for the invites! I am feeling good about being really creative with this!

*smoochies*

[liangzhu.livejournal.com]

sljasdfow YAY! I am jealous of everyone who gets to travel this summer, but at least they're all cool people on my flist, so I can attempt to live vicariously without resentment, too. >.>

Um... I can think of any number of lesser-known Jrock bands that I would like to see, but I'm not sure how affordable they would be. Should they have some connection to an anime, or does anything go?

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

OMG. you don't know how excited I am!!! I've been planning for ages and seeing it happen is really awesome! <3 We'll do a lot of write ups!

How about both. I'll probably be looking for that anime or drama connection but it's not an absolute requirement. Rock or Pop. :D

[liangzhu.livejournal.com]

Clearly, someone should give me a bunch of money and then I can find out how exciting it is to plan/execute a trip like yours. XDDD There better be a lot of write-ups. They make vicarious living a lot easier!

Hokay. Well, the first one to come to mind was D (the one with the Jin fan and former Junior XD), who have a single coming out in November for both the video game called Twilight Syndrome, and its upcoming live-action movie. They just went major this year, and signed with Avex Trax.

Another would be SID, who are a little more poppy (D's sound is... Dramatic Gawth). They played at Anime Central in 2004 (when Myv had to cancel, actually XD), too. They're with Danger Crue Records.

And looking at other comments, I am possibly giving more information than is necessary at this stage? XD

But I'd second/third Kagrra, too. Definitely. Also in that same company are Alice Nine and SCREW, but Alice Nine is pretty busy being popular these days. SCREW is still an indies band on the PS Company label, but they've been to Europe with Kagrra, A9, and various other labelmates, so. Maybe? They're also a bit more grargh than the others. :P

And I will stop now.

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

I hope you will tooo!!!!!

ahhaha. I am already working on some of them. But I'll send out feelers on the others!

Thank youuuuuu!

[halffling.livejournal.com]

ONE OK ROCK? 8D

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

:D Working on it!

[ryu-no-sora.livejournal.com]

Congratssssssssssssssssss! /fails at commenting

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

Thank youuuuuuuu!!!!!!

*snuggles you*

[firefly-wish.livejournal.com]

Yea, as others have already said...not sure about affordability but:

UVERworld would totally rock my socks. ♥ I would definitely skip work to see them. ^_~

(HY would be good too, but they don't really have any connection to anime...)

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

hahah. I'll keep that in mind!

HY?

[firefly-wish.livejournal.com]

They're an Okinawan band. ♥

Here's the wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HY_%28Japanese_band%29

[anamuan.livejournal.com]

I second karinberry's Monkey Majik, Bump of Chicken, and Kagrra votes. I also suggest ZAN.

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

OOOH. Thanks! I'll check ZAN out!

[bitofpixiedust.livejournal.com]

the parties are going to be SO CUTE. put me to work looking up stuff online if you need it!!
i just found out my cousin is going to get proposed to soon, so i'll be hitting you up for shower ideas, esp since i'll probably be the maid of honor :DDD
as for japanese musical groups, i love this band called ikimono gakari. they're kind of indie, but really cool! idk if that's really what you're looking for tho

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

*flails* I'm really excited about it!!! :D I found the invite cards and will be working on that soon. Heeeee!

Sure thing! <3333

Oooooh. Indie is good!

[kirari.livejournal.com]

You know I hate you :p
ahaha jk ww

I can't go to Lead's live :(
damn 4 day live when I have my own showcase to rehearse for :(
but bring me back a souvenir! please!? jk!

if you need any help with those artists let me know, my networks expanded :)

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

hahaah...because I'm selling myself to JE?

awwwww. Sure!

Ooooh. We need to talk! I'll call you!

[hwangak.livejournal.com]

OMG ENVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY DD:

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

*GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

[venus-ivy.livejournal.com]

Your other tickets should come in to the office around 7/6. Can you email me your address? =D

[coiled-iris.livejournal.com]

a;sldkfjldkfj I CAN SUGGEST MANY BANDS but I think you're already in Japan.

With anime connections (i.e., opening/ending theme songs)/have appeared at other anime conventions:

- SID [OHP (http://www.sid-web.info/)]
- Versailles [OHP (http://www.syncl.jp/artist/versailles/)]
- ACID (not to be confused with the 5 other bands with the same name and different punctuation/capitalization) [OHP (http://www.acid1.jp/pc/)]
- 12012 [OHP (http://www.12012.jp/)]
- Vidoll [OHP (http://www.vidoll.jp/)]
- RENTRER EN SOI [OHP (http://www.rentrerensoi.com/)]
- Nightmare [OHP (http://nightmare-web.com/)]
- Kagrra, [OHP (http://www.pscompany.co.jp/kagrra,/)]

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Others that might go over well:

- girugämesh [OHP (http://www.girugamesh.com/)]
- SCREW [OHP (http://www.indie-psc.com/screw/)]
- alice nine. [OHP (http://www.pscompany.co.jp/alicenine/)]
- Gazette [OHP (http://www.pscompany.co.jp/gazette/)]
- D [OHP (http://www.d-gcr.com/)]

The second to last two are pretty popular (particularly Gazette) bands signed with PS Company. Nightmare and Kagrra, are under major labels although Kagrra, is still managed by PS Company. SCREW and girugämesh are definitely more rawr/hardcore, but girugämesh is very radio-friendly Western-style hardcore rock, and they also put on a FABULOUS live show. 12012 and some of RENTRER's stuff is also a bit harder--Versailles and RENTRER and somewhat Vidoll have a more VK-ish sound, although Vidoll is more rock but their older stuff is more standard VK with the symphonic/synthesizer elements. Nightmare, Gazette, and ACID are both rock, with experimental styles (a la Miyavi)--Nightmare does a lot of jazz-blending, and ACID is technically VK now because they started doing costumes and make-up (although their stuff is still fairly low-key, like Nightmare, unlike Versailles/Vidoll). Gazette would probably be extremely difficult--possibly (?) expensive, but more like they are meh about coming to the US because they are having diva issues and they do a shitton of touring in Japan.

For more information on all the bands (http://jmusiceuropa.com/uk/database-artist.php), and I can upload stuff for all of them--I already have a Vidoll discography (http://coiled-iris.livejournal.com/113168.html) and D discography with a picspam--music and PVs after the picspam >_>; (http://coiled-iris.livejournal.com/52916.html) (and another picspam (http://coiled-iris.livejournal.com/112097.html)) up. This reminds me that I need to update those discography posts. Dolly is also an awesome band (http://coiled-iris.livejournal.com/53878.html). On my sidebar, I've linked a bunch of discography posts.

I think you're already in Japan now, SO, I hope you are having fun~

[etoilenoir959.livejournal.com]

So jealous!! I hope you're having an amazing time!