As I had Japanese class in the morning, I joined up with my friends in the afternoon.
First event for me was a demonstration of a karaoke machine with anime songs, and a “voice-acting” machine, Afreko.
For Afreko, firstly users choose from a variety of anime, and next a scene from a variety from that anime. They are then shown the actual footage with the original voices, then recording begins and they start mimicking the voices from that scene, then the footage is replayed with their recorded voices. A final screen shows their “synchro rate” and gives a rating.
I don’t know how the demonstrators who got a 0% on synchronization can get an “A” rating.
Next event, seiyuus from the anime K-on! came on stage to do a live-dubbing of 3 scenes from the anime. Mio’s seiyuu didn’t show up. The seiyuu for Azusa showed up instead. I’m curious of the reason but never got to find out.
There was a Q&A session for these seiyuus and the only question I liked came from a Japan. It was more of a request, asking the seiyuus to voice act their favourite lines from the anime. Lots of moe here.
The next few events weren’t of any interest to me. I split off from my friends to head down to Bugis’ Kinokuniya and do some manga shopping as it’s the last day of their 20% off promotion for members. Went back to Suntec and shot a few photos of the cosplayers there, joined up with my friends and had some rest until the concert for day 2 begins.
About the seating positions, I like how we have seat numbers now. But the silly thing for the online booking thing is they don’t allow you to choose seats and don’t let you buy more than 1 set of tickets (1 set = 2 days concert) each booking. The seat numbers are random and some are different for both days. Mine was the 3rd row from the stage, right in the middle.
Had a good crowd around me who also cheered and shouted out with me.
We started off with Fukuyama Yoshiki’s performance. He’s part of JAM Project and I only know him as the singing voice for Nekki Basara from the anime, Macross 7.
Next up is May’N. I am quite a fan of her Macross Frontier songs. Lion, Northern Cross, etc. She began her performance with Pink Monsoon. A song from the upcoming Macross Frontier movie. It was good (note the use of the word “good”).
Then she sang some songs from her single and album which I feel, didn’t suit her at all. And I couldn’t find a single song that’s enjoyable but I shook my lightstick (that’s given to concert ticket buyers for free) anyway.
When she started singing Macross Frontier songs, oh god, the audience went berserk. So did I.
The performance ended with both May’N and Fukuyama performing together on stage. First song is Diamond Crevasse from Macross Frontier where Fukuyama played the music on his guitar. The second one is Dynamite Explosion from Macross 7.
After the concert, we had a chat and drink. Each of us then made our way home. 3 of us, including me, went to queue up for the taxi. It was just outside a 7-11 store.
That’s when I spotted Fukuyama in the store with another guy, probably his manager or bodyguard.
Alerted my friends and tried to stop one from screaming, lol. He’s a huge fan of him.
As both of them came out, we bowed to him and exchanged greetings as subtly as possible because we’re in public and there’s a lot of other people in the queue who don’t know him. The 1 hour+ wait for the taxi became worth it.
