KAT-TUN 2 Me

Not a real post, just some venting. I just got a new (long) letter from my host family in Japan and I’ve been up most of the night translating it. They want to meet my parents…hmm…I wonder if that would be a good idea or not? Also, my host father writes, “Are there any Japanese things you want? We’ll send them to you!” Oooooh how I want to respond with, “YES! Buy me KAT-TUN tickets. Lots and lots of them!!!” but I’m pretty sure that that’s too much to ask. Sigh. Must resist temptation.

Peace be with you,

~Celestia~

PS. There’s a new poll up!

Dates for KAT-TUN’s new concert tour are out. They can be found here

My plea is the usual one, can someone please, PLEASE, PLEASE help me get tickets? They’re not on sale yet, but I’m starting to look for someone to help me early because the thought of not being able to attend makes me feel kind of panicky. Lol. My Japanese speaking and listening is pretty good, but my reading isn’t that great (because I hate studying kanji), so I don’t trust myself to try to buy from ticket websites that are in Japanese without screwing it up somehow. Also, I don’t have a Japanese credit card, and while I can use one of my friend’s addresses to register, I’m not really comfortable asking for their credit card information.  I really want to go to either one of the Tokyo Dome concerts (August 2nd or 3rd) or the Ishikawa concerts (July 20th or 21st)  because I will be in Ishikawa staying with friends in late July and in my new permanent residence in Saitama by early August. Going to the Ishikawa concert would be my first choice because it’d probably be more convenient for me and maybe less expensive.

Ideally, I’d hope that someone would like to attend one of these concerts with me, but if you are just willing to help me buy tickets, that’s cool too. I’ll take what I can get (insanely expensive seats, crap seats, insanely expensive crap seats, whatever) as long as I can go. I really MUST go to one of these concerts. You probably don’t even understand how important this is to me. I’m willing to generously compensate you for your time and effort if you can help me. This may well be my only chance to see KAT-TUN live, and I think you’d be surprised what I’m willing to pay to make that happen.  Leave me a comment or an AIM address and we can work something out. I’m looking for a serious commitment here, not just “well maybe” so I can just stop freaking out about this. If I can’t go I may fall into a deep depression and never blog again!! You wouldn’t want to be responsible for that now, would you?

I think I’m officially a crazy fan,

~Celestia~ 

This first paragraph is going to be the same in both of my blogs. Just giving you a heads up.

Hey guys. I have officially returned from my spring break camp-o-rama, and I’m pleased to see that nothing HUGE happened while I was gone. I was so worried all week. If you were wondering what all I was doing, my school has an ‘alternative spring break’ program where instead of partying all night and sleeping all day, a group of 15 or so students spend the week doing ’service learning’. My particular trip focused on nature, so that meant I spent the week doing stuff like camping, surveying streams, removing invasive species, building trails, and planting trees. It was usually too cold to sleep, even with 12 or so layers of clothing on, we routinely got stuck in thigh-high mud, and my arms look like I lost a fight with an angry cat (blackberries are the devil), but I had a truly awesome time. What does this have to do with Jpop, you might ask? Well, 4 of our resident Japanese exchange students participated in the trip, and so I had the chance to get pretty close with them and learn a bit about their music tastes. Our sample group is made up of female sophmores in college, all around 20 years old.

When we first were discussing what kind of music we liked, I started listing off my favorite groups, and when I got to Arashi, I was met with excited squealing. Turns out that they all like them, and 2 out of the 4 are big fans and have been to several concerts. The conversation quickly turned to, “Who’s your favorite?”. One of them favors Sho while the other adores Nino (just like me!) which lead to more squealing and girly, “oh my gosh he’s so cute!!” talk. For the rest of the trip they’d occasionally start singing ‘A.RA.SHI’ and try to get me to join in. Also, all four of them watched and enjoyed Hana Yori Dango. One of the other girls in the group is a huge fan of Kanjani, and she was disappointed that while I knew the words to the chorus of ‘Zukokke Otokomichi’ I didn’t know the accompanying hand gestures. Sheesh. I didn’t even know it had hand gestures. As for KAT-TUN, none of them were fans really. Three of them generally liked them and enjoyed some of their songs, but didn’t follow them particularly closely. One of them (one of the Arashi fans) loathed KT because, “they’re arrogant, narcissistic, and rude to their sempais” I can only imagine that the Jun/Jin drama of the past was running through her mind at the time. Personally, I would argue that arrogance is the only logical response to being as handsome, talented, and popular as Akanishi Jin.

I’ll be back with a proper post once I catch up to everything I’ve missed this week. It could take a while…

HAGS,

~Celestia~