The Yard Sale
Trying to keep this to the point, because a good chunk of what I want to write about will be written in a different post: the making of the offkai. Also, this post is taking me 2+ weeks to wrap up? Most of it I had written just a day or two after, but it took a long time to put the finishing touches on it.
Today is actually Day 1 of Anime North, the largest anime con in Toronto. This year it reaches the mandatory daily cap faster than last year. I think the weekend passes sold out in about a few weeks. There are also panels on Thursday this year. I didn’t check if that was the case last  year, but that might be true.
I’m going to be there throwing up some events. Mostly just going to hang out with all the other largely-single-tracked minds at the con, balancing if we can squeeze in a Nabatame autograph or panel here or there. She should be quite the fascinating character. But I’m there for Asapon.
Doing a “proper” offkai in a land far from home is otherwise going to consume all my time. Let’s see how it goes. I mean, this is the offkai at the offkai. Cosplayers might go do a formal ball thing, Producers just hang out and cry to footage of IM@S 9th Anniversary. Both pay for a ticket to go.
If you are also dropping by the con, ping me as per usual.
This is my “first” con of the year, and it would set a record for the latest start for me since a long time ago, except I actually went to Otakon Vegas, as little as I did there. I mean I literally went there for a badge on Thursday, to buy some goods on Friday (at 1 booth), and attended an autograph and meet & greet session on  Sunday. Well, all is according to plan.
I always wanted to go to some bucket list lives, so I did.
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As some of you might know I’m currently in Japan as of this writing. The funny blog post title is more a clue for you to figure out what the hell do I mean by it, and for me to distinguish this series of travelogues from the other ones I will write, which hopefully will be for IM@S 10th.
The trip for this “game” includes, hopefully, a NPB exhibition game too, so pardon the baseball motif. Their proper season doesn’t begin until in 2 weeks I think, but the various teams are already doing their spring training games and what not. The one I am planning to go to is the Samurai versus Euro game. Snooze, right?
Also, I want to write a few notes about the lives I attended.
This might get kind of long.
Choucho did two shows on back-to-back days at the end of February for her Whitepetals live shows and I was fortunate enough to be able to catch her last show, where she performed a couple tracks off of her limited single, transient blue (stylized with lower caps). It comes with three original Choucho compositions with acoustic arrangements, plus the acoustic version of Authentic symphony.
It’s a Lantis single but produced with an indie budget. During MC, Choucho talked about transient blue being something she had a big hand in producing and it was recorded humbly. During the acoustic corner she performed a couple songs out of the single (full set list both days here) and luckily we got to hear Answer on day two. It’s a pretty neat treat for a couple wary English-speaking travelers who flew in to catch the show. I’m just going to transcribe the song here.