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[ruel]

recent LINE LIVEs

https://live.line.me...roadcast/218602

https://live.line.me...roadcast/233553

 

Karin and Yuka on Girls Hang Out..

@02:04~

@05:59~

[Kinjiru]

Currently sitting in the TFT hall for their 2nd christmas event of the day and although my seat is rather bad, 18th row 14th seat, there is a black platform shoved against the back of my seat in the middle of the audience...if they're going to use it they'll be an arm's length away from me. Even though they might only use it for a short amount of time, that would be a very nice compensation for a large amount of people with bad seats. A nice gesture from up front if so, but let's see what happens.

edit: I just overheard they were using it quite often during the first event; for a corner and one song.

[Fluffis]

^I hope you had a great time! Please let us know which songs they did and what it was like too.
 

The next Event V haul: 
Kaze ni Fukarete (Miyazaki Yuka Solo Ver.)
Kaze ni Fukarete (Kanazawa Tomoko Solo Ver.)
Kaze ni Fukarete (Takagi Sayuki Solo Ver.)
Kaze ni Fukarete (Miyamoto Karin Solo Ver.)
Kaze ni Fukarete (Uemura Akari Solo Ver.)
 
Black Butterfly (Miyazaki Yuka Solo Ver.)
Black Butterfly (Kanazawa Tomoko Solo Ver.)
Black Butterfly (Takagi Sayuki Solo Ver.)
Black Butterfly (Miyamoto Karin Solo Ver.)
Black Butterfly (Uemura Akari Solo Ver.)

Senobi (Miyazaki Yuka Solo Ver.)
Senobi (Kanazawa Tomoko Solo Ver.)
Senobi (Takagi Sayuki Solo Ver.)
Senobi (Miyamoto Karin Solo Ver.)
Senobi (Uemura Akari Solo Ver.)
The ones after these will be from the most recent single, the package is in the capital so I should get it in three days at max.

 

This is the best J=J picture ever! They all look so inspired and the company really captured their best side!

Spoiler

NOT!

[RenaiHunter]

Reasons to live: Tomoko's Senobi solo ver. Thank you so much for uploading

 

Christmas Juice:

• Yuka - snowman
• Tomoko - reindeer
• Sayuki - reindeer
• Karin - snowman
• Akari - Christmas tree

More photos:

Spoiler

 

Akari doesn't look very happy with her costume, but can you blame her? She should have been Santa or Snow white

 

I love the deer combi so much

[Fluffis]

^You mean Sayuki's Senobi I'm just kidding, I'm glad you liked it. Tomoko's 2016 Birthday event is also being shipped to me. (Edit: never mind it arrived today. Tomoko videos coming tomorrow lol) Christmas is almost here so if I get the things I am waiting for before or after remains to be seen.

I love the raindeers and the snowmen so much, Akari's could have been done better and her as santa would have been more fun.

[Satur]

The reindeers have the most likable faces, don't know if it is for the disguises.

[Laharle]

I've never seen a snowman outfit before I think lol so I find this one extra cute. The reindeers are always a win to me, this ones also look so cute. The tree outfits is kinda meh generally but it seems this one isn't even as good as the one MM wore that one time.

[LoveRice]

Reasons to live: Tomoko's Senobi solo ver. Thank you so much for uploading

 

Christmas Juice:

• Yuka - snowman
• Tomoko - reindeer
• Sayuki - reindeer
• Karin - snowman
• Akari - Christmas tree

 

 

#SmugSnowmanKarin=BestKarin

[thegabriel]

[inJapan]

「All I Want for Christmas Is You」Mariah Carey song Juice=Juice cover?
 

[Kinjiru]

Yes, they sang All I want for Christmas is you, and Yuuka said this was the unknown song she referred to in her blog posts when she was talking about how difficult it was. She says it in the Line Live too. I mouthed the lyrics along with them as they sang, which drew some looks from them, lol. I couldn't attend the first event because of the Kenshuusei concert but the second and third one were really fun . 2nd One especially because they were literally crouching less than a meter away from me to pick up hiragana letters on the small stage behind my seat, will explain the game in the report I'll write up. Karin's head in particular was really close O.o

 

So both events had the same structure and songs, but the first 'corner' (game) was different.

 

I walked into the first event not expecting too much, because I was in the 18th row, which is often so far from the stage that you can barely make out their faces. Shoved directly against the back of the middle 18th row however, was a small black platform. A lot of the surrounding seats which all had a rather bad view of the actual stage looked at it hopefully, expecting to see the members up close. There were several people talking about it and I overheard from someone who attended the first event that they actually used the platform quite a bit, for an entire corner and one song.

 

So the event started and the girls came in singing from the stage, making their way through the audience, to the small platform behind me. Seeing them singing up close was pretty surreal, but since they were facing the 19th row and onwards (unlike the 18th row, there was a walking path in between the stage and 19th row) I was mostly staring at the back of their legs. Some of them occasionally turned around but they pretty much overlooked us as we were too close. They went back to the stage and Keita was called in, who would be MCing the event. The first corner was probably the best part of the event. They would be given a question and they would have to answer it by picking up a single hiragana character each from the small platform in the audience behind me (staff came in behind us and scattered plastic tiles with hiragana characters on the platform). So one of the questions was, what is the concert hall in Nakano that's often used for Harocon. So Yuuka would come in, grab SA, Sayuki would grab N, Uemura, PU, Tomoko RA and Karin ZA. SANPURAZA (Nakano Sun Plaza, I don't remember the exact order but it's just an example). So one by one I saw them from really up close and crouching to pick up the tiles. It was aweeeesoooooome ~. Keita told the audience not to help but we did so anyway by just making different noises when they were close to picking up a right one and wrong one. It started out pretty easy but they eventually solely relied upon the audience's reactions and were spinning around on the stage wondering which one to pick up, lol. Note, they couldn't show each other which character they picked up and they had to reveal everything after everyone picked one up. That said, they miraculously only managed to get one question wrong and even successfully answered 'Name a medicine'. Listening to them asking questions to us on the platform without using the microphone was pretty cool. Karin really struggled to pick up a hiragana character right behind me and I considered helping her out by picking it up, but decided against it, lol. I have no idea how either the staff or fans would react to that. They kind of forced Keita to do one more question and although they were running out of time he complied. He was counting down their time as they were on the stage and they were running on the platform, picking up the hiragana and running off again very quickly. Tomoko seemed a bit nervous surrounded by so many people while Karin seemed very comfortable, hahaha.

 

The first corner at the third event of the day was less fun and frantic. Instead of hiragana cards there were 'phrases' on the small platform and the members on stage had to pick a scenario to which the member, standing on the platform, had to reply with the random sentence she picked up. The audience had to clap for who they thought did the best. It seemed like the amount of applause was the same for everyone but the staff said Uemura and Yuuka received the most and we had to clap for the winner again; Yuuka won.

 

They brought out a chocolate cake at the 2nd event which made Uemuu go crazy. Girl has 2 different modes; either she is cool and relaxed or excited and crazy. There's nothing in between, lol. Oh wait, she has ' WHO THE HELL IN THE AUDIENCE SAID THAT?!?' mode too. The speed at which she flips over her mood is almost surreal. So they took a picture with the audience and I think this is when the 2nd corner kicked in, which was the same for both events. They had to recruit audience members who qualified for a certain requirement, written on a card they randomly received, on the stage and the first person who collected 4 of them would win and get their picture taken with the 'team' in a sentai pose the member decided on (since the corner was called 'Juice Recruits'). Because they have an uneven number of members they first did 1v1 and then 1v1v1. There were some really funny moments here. Yuuka drew a card which told her to recruit members members in their 'juudai', which is ages 10 to 19. Lol, good luck with that. The majority of fans (including the girls, which there were a lot of) are over 20, and people that young would probably not be able to afford fan club membership and events that easily. So Yuuka was all like ' Are there even any juudai here? Where are you all!' whilst running through the right side of the audience. I think she managed to get a single person up on stage. She asked afterwards where they were and maybe 2 people on the left side of the hall stuck up their hands. So she said 'Aaahhh....so you were on that side!'. Sayuki got asked to recruit people with a lizard as a pet, and she went like OMG. Thing is, you needed to be able to prove yourself, so unless you actually had a photo of the pet with you on your phone or something you would not qualify. Needless to say, she lost. Tomoko got one that told her to recruit people over 50...? It might have been older, I don't remember. She accidentally asked people who were younger to get up on the stage and apologized once she figured out they weren't that old, lol. Totally a Tomoko thing to do. Akari had one in which she had to recruit people with at least 3 Juice=Juice penlights, which didn't work out well, but people in the audience started borrowing from others to qualify, haha. I just have a Kingblade and didn't qualify for any of the other missions either so just watched the chaos ensue. Games where they allow the audience to participate are fantastic. Went to Karin's birthday event and they had fans dancing on the stage...some of them were really enthusiastic, to say the least. We waved off Keita, and they did several songs. First one was Matsuura Aya's 100回のKISS, performed by Yuuka and Karin. They took turns in singing so changing penlight colors was really easy. Same for the next song, performed by Uemuu, Tomoko and Sayuki which I'm not sure what the title was. They all sang Endless Love together and then went into Mariah Carey's All I want for Christmas is you. Apparently they had a lot of difficulty learning the song and it was their first time performing an English song so they were nervous about it, but they were good! Pronunciation was very good given how it's not their native tongue, and they hit the notes very well. Sayuki in particular was very impressive. I softly sang along with them and some of them definitely looked over at me during the 2nd event at least (12th row is very visible for them), especially Yuuka. At the very end when they were saying their goodbyes to everyone Yuuka also said 'See you!' in English, which might or might not have been because she saw a certain foreigner in the audience.

 

So yeah, great experience and it has me twice as excited for Country Girls and MomusuXAngerme's Christmas events at the end of the week. I am not sure if they'll be able to able to surpass Juice's events though, I have noticed Juice=Juice's events in particular feel very 'homely' and warm, and they make an effort to involve the fans. It doesn't help that my seats for Country Girls' events are pretty bad (a 2nd floor at a Fanclub event? Are you kidding me Up-Front?). The members said they enjoyed it as well and want to do more fan club events, since there are things they can only do there. Also mentioned wanting to do a bus tour. Who knows, management seemed to have listened to Ayaka wanting to do a hall tour so it seems possible. Hell, the strange combination of Ayumi and Fukuchan have a bus tour coming up during the freakin' working week for some reason, anything is up in the air.

[RenaiHunter]

Very well done! Its the second time Karin and Sayuki sing that song.

[keaine]

I don't know if it's the case in English-speaking countries, but that song seems to be a really popular Christmas song in Japan.

[Kinjiru]

Yes, it's played pretty much everywhere during the Christmas season in Europe. Well, the bigger cities anyway.

[thegabriel]

Uemuu's costume lights up?!?!  

手紙… 植村あかり

[Greyface]

If you're going to dress up as a Christmas tree...

[Fluffis]

Thank you Kinjiru for sharing your experience. I hope I can attend a fanclub event with them one day too, but right now I will just have to hope for summer concerts or a summer single release for next year. I think going to Japan for Sayuki's Birthday event would be a dream come true, but I don't think I can make that happen in 2017. 

 

It seems J=J are going overseas again! They will be @JAMxTALE in Hong Kong 2017. Their event is on the 12th of February.

http://www.helloproj...a2b79958f93e946

[RenaiHunter]

Wow Juice=Juice are kicking in 2017 with force

[KawaiiLand]

Thanks Kinjiru for the reports .. thats was awesome

[Fluffis]

Got the new Event V dvds. Dream Road and Keep On comming tomorrow. (All Tomoko B-day videos are up just so you know)

The start of Yuka's video made me so nervous. I am glad all of the videos are not like the start of them lol. 

Ashita Yarou wa Bakayarou (Miyazaki Yuka Solo Ver.)
Ashita Yarou wa Bakayarou (Kanazawa Tomoko Solo Ver.)
Ashita Yarou wa Bakayarou (Takagi Sayuki Solo Ver.) This is probably the best Sayubee solo ver I have seen, the smile before the last chorus was perfection   
Ashita Yarou wa Bakayarou (Miyamoto Karin Solo Ver.)
Ashita Yarou wa Bakayarou (Uemura Akari Solo Ver.)