Morning Musume! AX 2009

A quick report!

So, today was the first day of Anime Expo, and I got to see Morning Musume live in person for the first time! Now I've never been to AX even though I've lived in the LA area my entire life, but I just had to go this year. I wish my camera was in working order for pictures.

My costume: High King. I'll have to upload pics of this later, though I guess some people who take pics of cosplay have my outfit in their picture catalogue.

My first item on my agenda: AX Idol auditions. Man everyone was so good! I auditioned with Sobakasu, but I'm afraid I drifted a little on the song because of nerves and it was acapella. I saw Kyttyee and the leader of Sekai no Melody. It was loads of fun, and the judges were nice. I wish I knew who they were...

Second item: Morning Musume Q&A panel. I wish I was closer... then I would have gotten an autograph ticket. I was running late because of the AX audition, but it was so amazing that I could be in the same room as them. My impressions: Ai, Risa, and Eri are adorable. Junjun and Aika are very reflective and thoughtful, Sayumi is absolutely hilarious. Poor Reina had so many fans that asked her to do things (one guy wanted to do the punishment game with her... yuck) ... she looked a tad grumpy... might have been the jet lag though. Koharu was a tad bit annoying... when one person asked about future voice acting roles, Koharu wanted to do her Kirarin role... It would have been okay, but he was really asking the others for future roles.

I'm glad I understand Japanese... the translator kind of left stuff out, some of it to me changed the meaning. But *heart* Junjun liking the movie "Eraser inside my head". I saw that and it was so sad and moving... it's kind of nice to know that I've seen something that she has... I really wished that I could have gotten the chance to ask them something... I was too damn far away to get in line in time.

So I went over to the exhibit hall so I could purchase something for them to sign, but they were also out of autograph tickets. I'm hoping that if I stand in line long enough, I might be able to get something signed, but I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.

I do have my concert ticket for tomorrow! This is going to be my first Jpop concert, so I'm super stoked. I'll be sure to post more about it later!