Harezora Party event report
Studio Coast
Yesterday was the Harezora Party event at Shin-kiba Studio Coast. Of course, the event was held on Kamiya’s birthday. It was a very nice day, except for the wind and cold. It was very cold. I arrived at the venue a little after 12 and already there was a long line for goods. It took about an hour for me to get to the front of the line where I bought all the goods they offered, which included a hand towel, mascot cleaner, and bromide set. It looks like they were giving away Harezora promotional posters to those who bought the CD.
Goods
At 2:30, they opened the entrance doors. I was in the A group in the 400s. Got a spot sort of near the front to the right side of the stage, perhaps 6 or 7 rows back. They were playing the tracks from Harezora in the background. For the night event I was in the B group in the early numbers. My friend and I decided to take a spot in the back behind the staff. We were in the center and had a very clear view of the stage. (It was sort of interesting since I could see the staff controlling what’s displayed on the main screen.) When an announcement of the event rules and such came on with Kamiya reading them, everyone jumped. The announcement was played several times before the lights went down and everyone screamed as Kamiya took to the stage.
A spotlight was cast on Kamiya, who was wearing a black and white striped shirt and black vest. The noon event started off with a Q&A in the style of the Doumoto Ichimon Ittou corner from the variety show Doumoto Kyoudai, complete with narration by Kobayashi Toshio who does the actual narration on the show and is also affiliated with Aoni Production. The corner was instead titled Kamiya Ichimon Ittou and Kamiya was asked to do a self-introduction, and there was a quick Q&A, which included the following:
Q: What’s got you excited recently?
A: The announcement of a new model of the New Beetle. I’m wondering if I should change cars.
Q: What’s gotten you down recently?
A: I like the red bean-filled donuts they sell at convenience stores and often buy them, but recently they switched from a bean paste to bean grains.
Q: What do you want most right now?
A: Hmm… Health? It’s winter right now and your physical condition can decline really easily. I want a healthy body!
Q: What job other than being a seiyuu would you like to try?
A: A worker at city hall. I want to try doing a job with set start and end times.
Kamiya was then asked to try acting like a worker at city hall. He’s not very good at it. ^^;;
Q: What role do you play as a Kiramune member?
A: I’m the balancer. When everyone is all excited, I just stand there quiet.
Q: What is your favorite scent?
A: Dashi (soup stock). When I cook, I don’t know how I can make something that smells so good yet not taste so great.
Q: Tell us a secret that even the Kiramune members don’t know.
A: I recently bought a new bed that was quite expensive, but I’m not very used to it yet so I can’t decide if it’s comfortable or not. My poor (binbou) body is used to cheap beds.
For the night event, it started off in a similar way, except it was in the style of OnTama, another well-known variety show and narrated by Terase Kyouko, again a seiyuu affiliated with Aoni. The corner was KamiTama and again Kamiya was asked several questions.
Q: What kind of student were you when you were in middle school?
A: I was an idiot. I never studied and left all my textbooks at school even though we were supposed to review at home. Make sure you all study and don’t become someone like me!
Q: Tell us an episode of when you were in middle school.
A: For the culture festival our class was drawing a castle, kind of like the one you see in Cinderella. We broke the castle into parts and each person was in charge of a different part. When we finished, we put all the parts together and mine was the only one that was different. I was supposed to draw two roofs but only drew one.
Q: You really were an idiot back then.
Q: [Don’t exactly remember what the question was]
A: Recently I came home to find that Nyanko Sensei had vomited so I had to clean it up. Then later I found another spot where he vomited. What shocked me the most was that I found he had also vomited in my bed.
Q: If you could talk to cats, what would you say to them?
A: I would ask Nyanko Sensei, “Are you okay? You’re always vomiting…”
Q: And what would he reply?
A: “I’m actually fine. Just give me something other than those crunchy snacks you always give me!”
Q: What gesture done by a girl makes you instantly like her?
A: I like it when girls say, “Iyaa mou~ (Oh geez~)” while lightly pushing me on the shoulder.
Q: That’s certainly cute. Let’s see you face the camera and do it one more time.
A: “Iyaa mou~ Kamiya kun~”
So cute!!!
After the corner was finished, there was an announcement by Kamiya saying he wanted to hear everyone’s voice. When he said “Harezora!” the audience yelled out “Party!” We said it a bunch of times.
Kamiya: The people in the front! Harezora?
Audience: Party!
K: The people in the back! Harezora?
A: Party!
K: First floor! Harezora?
A: Party!
K: Second floor! Harezora?
A: Party!
K: All the girls! Harezora?
A: Party!
K: All the guys? Harezora!
A: PARTY!
K: In a high voice! *high voice* Harezora~
A: Party~
K: In a loooow voice. *low voice* Harezora…
A: Party…
K: In a sexy voice. Ha-re-zo-ra.
A: Par~ty~
There were actually quite a few guys in the crowd! For the last one, everyone hard a hard time saying it in a sexy voice. ^^;
For the next corner, again the lights were off when Kamiya’s voice was heard on the speakers. “There’s someone in this venue whose mind is not clear. Yes, it’s you who’s standing alone on the stage!” The spot light turned on and there was Kamiya standing in the center again.
Kamiya: Who the heck are you?
Psyche: I am Kamiya Hiroshi.
K: What!?
P: I am another you. I guess you could call me your deep psyche.
K: What are you, chuu ni?
P: What date is it today?
K: January 28th…
P: And what day is that?
K: Well, it’s my birthday…
P: That’s right! Everyone’s here to celebrate for you! Yet what’s with that attitude!? All right everyone, we’re singing that song!
K: Sorry everyone, he’s very selfish. Please play along with him.
[cue psyche!Kamiya singing “Happy Birthday” really badly and the crowd singing along while holding back their laughter]
P: How old are you now?
K: 37… Anything wrong with that?
P: When Einstein was 37, he published the General Theory of Relativity. When Tomino Yoshiyuki was 37, he created Gundam! And what about you? You’re totally third class! C-rank! We’re going to find out if you have what it takes to become a real adult. Surely someone who’s reached #2 on the Oricon chart can tell the difference between low-class and high-class, right!? We’re going to determine all this in Mirror World.
First, Kamiya had to find the door to get to Mirror World and knocked on invisible doors.
K: *knock knock*
Door: *knock knock*
K: Hey, there’s someone in there!
P: It’s the next door.
K: Tell me a little earlier, won’t you?
*knocks and opens the next door*
Girl: Kyaaaaaaaaa! Hiroshi san no ecchi~
K: *quickly closes door* What was that?
P: Just some fan service for you.
K: I would have liked a visual.
*knocks and opens the next door*
Inside door: Kokoro no tobira wo hiraite~
K: *closes door* What the heck?
P: That was the kokoro no tobira. KAmiYU’s mini album Link-up is currently on sale now!
K: What’s with the promotion?
P: The door to Mirror World is the one in the back.
K: *knocks and is about to open the door*
P: Wait! …That one’s a sliding door.
K: *laughs and slides the door open*
*sliding door noise*
K: What a cheap sound!
Once inside “Mirror World,” Kamiya was given some quiz questions where he had to determine which was the higher class item. For the noon event, first up was hamburg steak. One was a 100 yen hamburg steak and one was a hamburg steak from a very high-class restaurant. Kamiya ate each of them and you could hear the noise as he chewed. ^^; He said both tasted good and then made his guess. He was wrong and smoke blew into his face, similar to what happened at the KAmiYU in Wonderland 2 event. The second test was calligraphy. He was shown two “一番星 (ichiban boshi)” written in calligraphy. One was written by a professional calligrapher and the other was written by a manager at Aoni, LoL. Again, Kamiya guessed wrong and was blown smoke in the face. The last question tested his ears. He had to determined which guitar was a vintage million-yen guitar, and which was a beginner’s 200000-yen guitar. The melody played was a little part of Kamiya’s song Basil. For this question, Kamiya guessed correctly! The answer was given via video message and it was by Irino Miyu! Miyu kun was the one playing the melody and he talked about a wooden wind chime he bought for Kamiya and showed it, saying he’ll hang it in the green room. Kamiya laughed and said that something like that really was hanging in the green room and that he didn’t need it.
For the night event, Kamiya had to tell the difference between cake, “晴れ空 (harezora)” written in calligraphy, and there was another guitar test. This time he got all of them correct! The guitar melody was really weird and was played by Namikawa Daisuke. Namikawa promoted his upcoming mini album in the video message. ^^;
The next corner was a live reading. The setting was Harezora Cafe where Kamiya was the owner. He was dressed up in a waiter uniform. Sorry, I’m going to skip the story summary. ^^; During the whole time though, there was a professional pianist playing piano arrangements of songs from the Harezora album. They were very pretty.
Last was the live part! The set list included Dual Wing, For myself, Ashita he no Baton (noon), Hello my shadow (night), Ichiban Boshi, and Harebare Heart for the encore. Sooooooo gooooooood!! For the first two songs and the encore, there were a couple male dancers. For all those songs, Kamiya danced with them and there was some kind of choreography throughout the songs. During For myself, the crowd sang the “Oh-oh oooh-oh” parts. During the noon event, Kamiya was pretty out of breath after singing Ashita he no Baton. You could tell that he was quite tired while singing Ichiban Boshi as it really showed on his face. After the song, he ran off stage and cue the chants of “encore.” After a few minutes, the chant changed from “en-co-re” to “Hi-ro-shi,” which was funny. (During the night event, the “Hiroshi” chant started a lot earlier.) Finally the lights went up and Kamiya had changed into a very spring-like outfit. The top was cute, but I have no idea what was going with the bottom half. It was like shorts over black spandex half-pants. Not to mention both the top and bottom were a spotted pattern, which was kind of… yeah… LoL. However the dance for this was incredibly cute, and the crowd yelled out “Viva hare otoko desu!!” and “Mada mijuku mono desu!!” For the night event, during the riff, Kamiya ran around with a smoke gun kind of thing and blew it into the crowd. I’m not sure if it was just because I was in the back and couldn’t get as good a look as during the noon event, but Kamiya didn’t look as tired when singing during the night event. That was a relief.
Overall the event was very enjoyable and I had a great time. I only wish he also sang Mirror World, which is one of my favorites on Harezora. But other than that, he sang all the songs I wanted to hear most. Also there was a project on mixi to sing “Happy Birthday” after the event ended but since they kept playing Harezora in the background, there was no chance to sing. =( This was my first time attending a Kamiya-only event since I’ve never won the lottery for any of his release commemoration events. I hope he’ll have more in the future and at a larger venue where there are seats since all-standing is rather tiring and there’s not a lot of room to move.
Harezora Party was recorded and Kamiya announced during the event that the event will be streamed online in the future. This announcement can also be found on the Kiramune website. Some parts of this report might be a little off and I know I left out some parts since it’s hard to remember all the details, but you’ll be able to watch it all for your self when the stream is up.
Looking forward to KiraFes 2012!!
