Here's a snippet of my trip about AKB and the musical.
If you want to read the whole trip, it's right here:
http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=22495.0__________________________________________________________________________
I watched the 13:30 show with Sae and Yukirin as the main.
When I got there, the musical had already started.
Lucky I got there just before the thugs started picking on Yukirin. So I just got to see Sae use his wicked vampire-psyche powers on 'em to save the damsel.
For songs, Sae did Blue Rose and Yuki did 109 with some of the girls. Both songs I already liked.
How they made a beach scene into a vampire story just baffles me.
The maid songs were great.
Sae and Yukirin's solos near the end were also really good.
And cos I haven't seen real plays before, seeing the transformation of the stage was fun.
The play itself was easy enough to understand even with my 0% japanese language understanding. I enjoyed it.
The songs were a little weird placed between spots, singing all hyper just after waking up from bed feels... supernatural. yet, entertaining at the same time.
I think it really would've been better if a few more AKB members were in it though. Maybe not the most popular ones, but a few that even basic fans like me could recognise. For the existing group, I could only recognise 1-2 of the remaining cast.
With the success of this though, I hope they can put more resources into the next musical. And more goods for the musical.
When it ended, that was when I found out it was Sae and Yukirin's last showing of Infinity. I didn't know that beforehand, so it was kinda suprising when they said it.
I also didn't know they had stuff after the musical, so I was caught off guard when we had to line up. I, of course used the safest route and went to the longest line. I was assured after seeing the guy in front of me use his mobile and seeing his phone-pic was Yukirin.
So Sae and Yuki came out from the back and started gaving out extra pics for their line (Yuki's was her schoolgirl pic).
I know it's kinda breaking rules to talk and stop the line, but since I might not have such a chance ever I wouldn't mind breaking the rules a little.
After I got the pic from Yuki. I told her I was from HK, and I got her suprised look.
That was priceless.
I also said that I really liked Temo Demo no Namida while the staff was pushing me off (glad I got that off my chest). She said "Thank You". And "Bye Bye!" while waving goodbye with that cute shiny smile she has. awww~
Musical pamphlet. These are some of the best AKB pics I've ever seen. EVER!:
Other stuff bought this day.
AKB48 Mook (came with the Mayuyu poster) and Yukirin's PB (which was already on my must-buy list for this trip!):
Thanks for reading!