Mutsessions - 2012/11/10 AN CAFE Dortmund, Germany

It's time for Mutsessions!

This time I went to see 

AN CAFE in Dortmund, Germany ♥

The interesting part: I've been there both as a journalist and as a fan.

Due to the journalist part I had to be at the venue at 1 pm ( interview time, yay (such an honor))

Luckily I had another Cafekko accompany me on my journey.

She even planned a short stop in Düsseldorf ♥

Bookstore Nippon in Düsseldorf and me eating a Brezel at 7 am while waiting for my train.

Fellow Cafekko Serina bought this chocolate bun for me ♥ thank you!

Japanese super market in Düsseldorf

And yep, I won't ever leave Düsseldorf without Onigiri.

Arriving at the venue this was the place I had to wait at before the interview started:

Inviting, right? haha

Shortly after the interview I met one of my friends:

Kiki ♥

Press Pass wuw.

And a Teruki Fan Senja got for me ♥♥♥

You know, some years ago Senja contacted me on MySpace (yeah, it's that long ago) only because I was wearing a "I love Teruki" shirt on my profile pic. We then got to talk a lot about our love for An Cafe and met each other 1~2 times a year. She even visited me at home once ♥ 

For knowing and loving her that long I am always glad to be able to see her again.

This time, at our usual occasion-to-meet (An Cafe concerts) I've been able to spend the whole night with her, we even (accidentally) booked the same train home ♥ (well, I've been driving home, she has been driving to the next An Cafe gig in Munich haha)

Another Senja/Me shot ♥ (after the concert btw)

Right shot shows Frankfurt Airport, one of our stops on our way back.

Let's have a look at 2 shots those girls will probably kill me for:

Yeah. This happened within like 5 Minutes.

Now flipping back to camera shots and the journalistic part of the trip:

Strange building in front of the venue

Those of you who know MJP (musicJAPANplus) probably know that they are doing Fashion Checks. Well, I was in charge of doing the Fashion Check of An Cafe Fans in Dortmund.

Enjoy some preview shots:

Nice picks, right? ♥

Unfortunately the full report isn't online yet...so I can't link it yet (=____=)

Same to the live report (not online yet). But I'll be sharing one of the photos I took that are too blurry to be prohibited to post:

♥ 

And last but not least:

The fans ♥

For those of you who'd like to read the interview I did:

German Version

English Version

Something I'd like to share with you

Good evening everyone!
How are you doing?

I just stumbled on my lj blog and took a look at my old blog posts over there...embarassing shit.
Back then I regularly read An Cafe's Blog and sometimes I posted translations on my own blog...
Idk whether some of you know, but I'm a fan of An Cafe, my favorite member is Teruki. Why?

This is one example:
("Teruki death" is a word-play...it's "Teruki desu" (It's Teruki)

"Teruki death.
Starting from today I, Nagata, have 3 days of no work. So, even though it's the day after a live, I woke up early in the morning and came to the Southern Islands☆ I got on 2 airplane flights and came to Ishigaki Island.


Just like I did at Hachijou island, I was riding around the whole time with a rental bicycle today. Ishigaki island is really just filled with cows! There were also goats too! And of course there's the beautiful ocean, and I'm just getting healed the whole time. I could cry.


Long time ago when I used to live in the main island of Okinawa, I would always get on my moped and just go by myself to places I didn't even know and look for beautiful sceneries. That linked to my trip to Hachijou island the other day. I would get on my moped by myself, and as I look at the map I would roughly decide my destination, but whenever I see an intriguing small path or something, I'd go in...and then in the evening I would of course go to the beach and gaze at the sunset. Also, I would e-mail my family so many times too. I would attach pictures and say "this is ○○!" and such.


When I talked about that to Yuuko san, she said "So that's kind of like Teruki's means of escape?", and that really hit me. But by "means of escape" I don't mean it in a negative way.


As humans live their lives, they have fun times and hard times, right? And I actually think that there are more hard times than fun times. So I feel like the minus elements slowly start to accumulate. And at those times, what's important is if you have an outlet for that. So that's what the "means of escape" I was just talking about is. I think people who have that can reset themselves. And people who don't have that, or people who haven't found it yet just feel more and more pained.


For my case, I guess my means of escape is being alone and placing myself in the middle of nature. AnCafe is super fun, but there's also all kinds of pressure too. Oh, I'll just say this now, but it's not like I'm troubled with anything right now(^_^;) Don't do any unnecessary worrying for me! *laugh*


Below is what was written in Tokyo FM's Mail Magazine↓


When you are alone and surrounded by nature, you can realize all kinds of things. Things like, maybe my worries are actually really small things, or I'm standing only because I've been supported by the kindness from the people around me. There are actually a lot of things you should be thankful for towards everything around you. Even if small, there are a lot.


I can't explain everything in words, but either way you can become more optimistic.


People who are having hard times with friends or co-workers, people who are being bullied at school, people who aren't loved by their family, people who are crushed by expectations given by the people around them. Some day I want to take you here to look at this scenery with me.


For some reason I drank so much alcohol today. Even though I haven't slept that much. Tomorrow I'm going to cross over to Yonaguni island.


I'm glad I got to know AnCafe. Good night."

KERA 12/2 - Favorite's ♥

GROAR

LOVE the cover, haha ♥ HELL-O KYARY ♥

Unfortunately the cover whas this issues highlight D:

Want to know the reason? Re:NO is currently in holidays (New Zealand) and I DON'T LIKE KERA WITHOUT HER!!

..kidding.

But you can definitely tell she wasn't able to participate in a lot of shootings for this issue.

Let's start with the Make Up Section:

LIKE ♥

This is similiar to the Make Up I've been trying on NYE~

BUT I'll definitely try exactly this version someday, too ♥

Oh well and this is...KERA.

But I totally had to include it in my post, haha.

NEXT:

♥ Nice coords ♥

Too cute!!!

Just...the hat D: no! (well at least not with that outfit dear...)

Street Snap ♥ Introduce this girl to me please ♥

Loving her whole appereance ♥

And I can't say no to this girls style either.

She's always wearing similiar things but her Hair & Make Up is really special ♥

...uwah ♥ another wonderful coord~

One day I'm definitely going to wear my pants like that!!!

Show your socks people!!!

And last but not least:

 

Monthly Miku Spam ♥

♥ Enjoy your weekend everyone ♥

PS: Re:NO Holiday Special because I just can't post a KERA post without her excellence:

 ...sunny weather = almost naked Re:NO ♥

Oh and she even got another Tattoo:

 Nice ♥

..oh!

Something is wrong with that one!!

Oh ssshhh ♥ I know you love me girl~

Goodbye 2o11 ♥

Oooh myyy goood time is running and 2o11 went by SO FAST!!!

Today I'd like to share a rather long post with you ♥ I'll try to write down a summary of MY year 2o11!!

January:

Let me first explain my status back then:

- overweighted

- no school / university

- no job

- NO FUTURE [haha]

1st January 2011 - 00:00 @ C.C. Lemon Hall, Shibuya Tokyo - Japan

...watching Tatsuro (MUCC) forcing fellow musicians to eat his candy.

Later that day: Walking around Emperor's Palace

2nd Jan: Tokyo Disneyland

5th Jan: Dir en Grey, Shinkiba Studio Coast - Tokyo

6th Jan: ...Shigure ♥

7th Jan: Men's Knuckle Models Kentaro & Hiroshi ALOHA

8th Jan: Back to Germany!

20th Jan: MUCC in Munich, Germany (including signing session, yay!)

21st Jan: My Birthday ♥

February:

[omg looking at this photo makes me realize that I really lost weight...haha]

3rd Feb: Job Interview for a short internship [Stadtmission Heidelberg]

7th Feb: Internship START ♥ 

March:

4th March: Internship END ♥

8th March: Job Interview for the next Internship [BASF]

15th March: GIRUGAMESH in Strasbourg, France ♥

16th March: Internship START [BASF]

April:

1st Apr: Takuma Nakata 1000+ Paper Cranes Exhibition

3rd Apr: MIYAVI in Cologne, Germany ♥

29th Apr: Internship END ♥

May:

 4th May: EC Europa Campus Information Event (University)

6th - 8th May: HANAMI Ludwigshafen, Germany (Anime Convention; I've been a Volunteer there) ♥

16th - 18th May: D Adventure in Cologne, Germany (didn't write about this event yet...♥ but I'll never forget the 17th of May '11) (going to blog about it asap)

June:

- EC Europa Campus (University) accepted me ♥

15th June: Waitress Job START [Mömax]

25th June: MAXIMUM THE HORMONE in Cologne, Germany ♥

July:

3th - 5th July: X JAPAN in Berlin, Germany ♥

8th July: Waitress Job END [Mömax]

15th July: Interview for an upcoming book about the VK Scene around the world ♥

August:

5th Aug: Sales Assistant Job START [Marktex]

13th Aug: DIR EN GREY in Bochum, Germany ♥

September:

3rd Sep: Heidelberg Castle Illuminations ♥

16th - 18th Sep: CONNICHI in Kassel, Germany (Anime Convention) ♥

October:

1st Oct: Zombieday Heidelberg ♥

4th Oct: University START ♥ (Public Relations & Communication Management)

14th - 16th Oct: Düsseldorf & Frankfurt, Germany ♥ (Japanday)

November:

12th Nov: KANON X KANON X KANON in Bochum, Germany ♥

24th Nov: Christmas Temp. Job START (Thalia) ♥

December:

 

24th Dec: Christmas Temp. Job END (Thalia) ♥ (definitely going to apply for next year as well)

December has been full of work for me, both Uni & Jobs (yeah I'm still Sales Assistant at Marktex)

I'm proud to be able to say that the year 2o11 has been a huge success story for me.

♥ gained friends

♥ lost weight 

♥ made a lot of important experiences 

♥ lots of jobs haha (expert knowledge!!)

♥ university

♥ lots of concerts (& even been part of one...)

I can't remember any year that made me happier than 2o11....and not to forget: It started in Tokyo...♥

Oh and a nice sidekick for today:

...it's always nice to have your favorite artists reply to you on Twitter, right? ♥

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!

[and thanks to everyone who read this haha]