[9/28-9/30] You Kikkawa @ Anime Weekend Atlanta (Schedule UP! P.1)

[DO Me DO Me]

I'm home! Safe and sound but I'm dead tired now so I'll have to tell about my awesome adventures later

LoL thanks dai, I'll pass the compliment along to him. He always sings the same songs: Sung Shikyung, Linkin Park, and 90s boy bands Now he's lost his voice, all those LP songs And yeah Slack was on the far right, sorry for the weird view.

[daigong]

me and JTRIumf watching was like what Linkin park album is this from? LOL Tambourine!! Rei and egirl V!! dancing. CARRY ON SLACK! Is the fake audience built in or can you activate it with a pedal thanks for streamin, peekin into the party 

HOLYSHIT I saw the 2 shots Slack in IRC, way to get your T signed!

[Rei-chan]

what is the pose

I'm not super familiar with all things Kikka, but it seemed like it's a pose she does? I dunno, but they asked us all to do it with her  

This weekend has been so epic. Her concert yesterday was really enjoyable. I was surprised at how well she sings live. Can see how it was a good idea to make her a soloist rather than a MM member. She sang her own songs and also, as told to us in the interview the day before, she sang a couple of old H!P songs: Romantic Ukare Mode and Daite Hold on Me!!!!!!!! Those were such a good surprise for me as a fan of those older H!P times ^o^  And I got to see the Over Action Dolphin dance in person finally!   The fans, including Slack, put all their energy into supporting Kikka!!

After the concert we met Kikka again in her booth! Got more stuff signed, FINALLY gave her the JPH!P present that Daigong sent, and took pics with her. I asked if she recognized me from the interview (since I wasn't wearing the pink wig anymore ) and she did! Then gave her the present and she looked happy. We got all that on video, so you'll be able to see her happy reaction

Finally, took a pic with her doing the JPH!P sign together (half my hand, half hers  ) and it was so cool that we just said "JPH!P sign" and she already knew how to do it!   Yay for her remembering JPH!P~!!!!!

Loved meeting her. She's super pretty, nice and energetic, so it makes you like her immediately and want to support her. I talked a while with the UFA media representative there and he was also saying how full of energy she is. I thought it was pretty amazing how she did that long performance and then immediately went to the booth and was still greeting fans with such energy and a big smile, and he said "That's Kikka!", like she's always hardworking and energetic. He thanked us for supporting Kikka and I said we will keep supporting her from now on too. Let's go support her at future events together!

Needless to say, karaoke night was super fun! I can't believe we sang for 4 hours   Had pomegranate wine and korean rice wine, complementary korean pancakes, delicious stuff!! Thanks e-girl and her fiancee for the ride!! Can't wait for the next JPH!P meetup! 

[DO Me DO Me]

I missed the Q&A panel today, got there late anyway and it was at the stage of the concert rather than the room it specified on the schedule a few pages back. It's ok, I only came back to buy my sisters something from the kpop booth. Well I am thoroughly exhausted from the whole weekend and I felt like I have traveled a long way (thanks to traffic I did ) and now it's back to reality. lol I just realized something, the whole time we kept worrying about getting pics and videos, we could've just taken audio for some of that, at least mostly for the Q&A and Slack wouldn't have to worry about encoding that huge 20min video. Could've recorded her MC too, but yeah...next time we'll be prepared! I want to post pics/videos but didn't we sell our souls to Up Front and technically anything we took is theirs? Does that mean I have to send them my butt and legs pics too?

This must've been from today's Q&A OUCH!


another video


I'm gonna post my report in the JPHIP EXCLUSIVE NEWS thread

[daigong]

WOW e!! thx for the vids GJ they got her to demonstrate her flexibility I've seen her balance on chairs and stuff well, Up Front loves what we do and we're thankful!! BUTTS LEGS! They know but it's the FANS being FANS wanna see the OAD!

Rei, wonder if Kikka will wear the shirt?? GREAT idea with the pink wig so cute. Oh LMFAO It already cracks me up and brings GREAT PRIDE to see HiPStaz break out the sign but to see KIKKA JOINT, and KNOW IT....pix via slack from IRC:

and signed a butt!

WHAT ENERGY!! werd up dem World Tours are travel line up drain but in the end it's the MEMORIES that make it so worth I'm really glad y'all made it out and soaked in KIKKA'S ENTHUSIASM and made fans of y'all!! LET's see her take over Europe now!! 

[DO Me DO Me]

My report http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=33969.0

Pics and videos coming soon, and of course the interview by Slack

[Slack]

And of course, my interview write-up:

http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=33970.0

[DO Me DO Me]

natalie.mu posted some of their pics from the concert, you can barely see me just behind Kikka. Can you see the °e?



http://natalie.mu/music/gallery/show/news_id/77689/image_id/149656

I'm sure they had more pics with me in them cuz that "e" is so obvious. LOL

[daigong]

^ LOL in the press pit. e? what a perfect angle

YOU BETCHA!

GREAT WRITE UPS Y'ALL!! Lookin so pro gonna check out the RAW footage myself this wkd!! AHAHAHA

[DO Me DO Me]

Hell yeah! Right next to the huge left speakers I was clicking away the whole time hence the 600+ pics I took LOL This one staff girl tapped me on my shoulder thinking I was a fan ignoring the rules until she saw my badge and was like "my bad" I wonder how many of our stuff will UF* use.

Edit:
I just got home from work, the latest I've gotten out, 7:30pm. Today I thought, "Has it already been a week since we've interviewed Kikka?"  Had the con been this weekend and I got out of work around this time I would've missed it for sure. *phew*

[J-Triumf]

Looks like you guys are gonna be on TV! Space Shower TV is airing a one-hour special on the Atlanta appearance of...Yoshikawa???
http://www.spaceshowertvplus.com/program/special/1211yoshikawa.html
Let's hope that's the only thing they got wrong.

[SomethingWild]

^Idoling's Kurata Ruka also announced "Yoshikawa Tomo-san!" at Tokyo Idol Fest 2012  I wonder how many people misread her name.

[JFC]

CROSS-POSTING!!!

Check out what's up at H!O's Tracker! Specifically, click the link, and check out the preview screencap at the top of the right-hand column.
Yuu Kikkawa Special ~Documentary of Overseas~ Space Shower TV 20121122
http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?app=xbt&CODE=details&torrent=53159


For anyone who can't torrent, it's also currently up on Dailymotion.
121122 吉川友密着ドキュメンタリーSP

[Rei-chan]

OMGASSSSSSSSSSS JPH!P again appears on japanese TV YAYYYYYY~!!!!!!!!!  You can't imagine how excited I am about this

[Rina the Robot]

AND THE NEWS GETS BETTER: http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=34595.0

Kikka's new dvd is going to include a second disc with a documentary about her recent experiences overseas, including Anime Weekend Atlanta 

[Slack]

I wonder if that DVD will just be the documentary that's already been aired. Judging by the title on your post, that's probably what it is.

Since that appears to be the case, I'm actually a little more excited about being able to see Kikka Fes 3 and 4 on the first DVD.