Tecchan Hakken!!

Went to see Shima e Oide yo again yesterday with daiki_dansu (and we're going to maeraku and senshuuraku today XD), and our dreams of spotting someone we knew in the audience came true when TECCHAN showed up (in the cutest little hat).

After the show, we wound up by chance leaving at the same time as him, and walked towards the station about 10 feet behind him most of the way before he took a shortcut XD

Also, there was a short (15 min or so) talk event with the guys and two of the girls. Everyone was of course wearing merchandise (hoodies and tshirts, in various colors), and looking at the lineup, I was a little disappointed not a single one of them was wearing the color hoodie *I* was wearing that evening (the teal blue one).

That is, until Meg poked me and leaned over and whispered, "Courtney! Your husband!" And yeah. I actually acknowledged Gaku's presence on stage (guess I'd been ignoring him), and he was the only one wearing the same color as me. Yaaaaay.

Off to the show again!! Nagayan's finally done with rehearsals, so there's a HUGE chance he'll show up at either the afternoon show or senshuuraku! AAAAHHH. And AFAIK Tuti hasn't come yet, either...

DATE-O Y/Y????

ｷﾀー!

aaaand we have a Nagayan at maeraku! No Tuti yet, unfortunately, but he still has time to sneak in XD

OWATTAAAAAA~

Soooo another show has come to an end. daiki_dansu and I were discussing this earlier, but one of the greatest feelings in the world is to get into a groove during a show's run where you go to it every day, if not twice in a day. You get into this habit of waking up, getting dressed, and going to the theater to have a great time. You learn the times of the trains you need to catch, learn the layout of the stations you'll need to pass through, get so familiar with it, it's like you grew up there.

And then senshuuraku comes. And it's over. It's like a little bit of you dies when you lose that bit of "usual", everyday-ness that this theater-going has become. It's happened to me dozens of times before now, and it never goes away or gets better. It's the downside of being privileged to go to all these shows, and one of those things you just have to accept :(

On a happier note, though, as I mentioned earlier: Nagayan came to maeraku~! In the cutest tight little plaid pants and showing off his zomg amazing new hairdo that GOD I didn't realize how much I missed that short hair on him til I saw it and almost wanted to cry XD

In the evening, we sat in the same spot near the door to see if any other people we knew came, and were disappointed to note only one weird guy sitting next to Meg the whole time. We couldn't tell if he was anyone of consequence (save only that he was definitely not Tuti ;_;) as his face was covered with a mask and he had a very nice hat on his head. Also, he had nice shoes and he didn't laugh once throughout the entire show o_O

He seemed quite eager to get out, though, leaving as soon as the show was over, but he didn't make it past the lobby where he loitered around, being approached by a bunch of girls and staff.

It was at this point that I realized Mr. Laughs Not Alot, whom we'd been sitting next to for the past hour and half, was actually OSAMU-CHAN

O______O

SORRY, OSAMU-CHAN 8D;;;;; I promise to recognize you by your eyes next time XD;;;;

Last night I got to thank Hayase-san (the Nagayan fangirl -- I wonder how she felt having Nagayan come see the show o_O) who was tickled that foreign fans came, then Meg showed off her matching shirt-and-hoodie combo to Yukie-san (who'd shown off the same one at the talk event the evening before) and got fangirled, and this evening I got to thank Hiroko-san (who played the motherly-character who kicked major ass in the show, so awesome 8D) and Keiko-san (who is a much-larger-than-the-average-Japanese-chick-and-PROUD-OF-IT), and told them to expect to be stalkedwe would be going to their June show XD I'm really glad all these ladies were so fricking cool (the only ones we didn't get to talk to were Mari-san and Minako-san, the Leader) and hilarious, and definitely look forward to fangirling them properly ♥

Will have a longass report up eventually, but for now: OTSUKARESAMA DESHITAAAAA EVERYONE!!