Purchase minorin’s DVD at CDJapan!

Why the boob shots?

I noticed a lot of on-purposed video panning on minorin’s mune. I’m guessing I become sensitive to these things, after reading j1m0ne’s post on seiyuu boobs. OH GEASS NO!

This will be a short review on minorin’s 1st Live Tour 2008 DVD, which was out a few weeks back. Pre-ordering does come in handy, and delivers well.

Generally, minorin’s final concert in Tokyo on her first tour lives up to expectation. The main highlight was minorin performing Fragment ~Shooting star of the origin~ live. I listened to the song first time on Youtube, and probably the one song which got me started on minorin. Amazingly nice, though the guitarist’s solo pretty damaged it a bit. D: Another highlight was the bass/drum/guitar solo during Natsu wo Wasureta, especially the bass. I’m a bassist… so yea.

Vocals wise, I can’t say anything else but major improvement for minorin! Not forgetting, minorin’s hand gestures… You either love them or love them more. They’re just so… lovely. For costumes, minorin reused her Message 01, Contact and Animelo 2007 costumes, in order. They still fit her well and still bring out her elegance and beauty. Combine all these together, you’ll get the minorin live experience.

I have to point out that the concert hall and stage had really, really fantastic lighting. Lighting was amazing, spotlights used very well to effect and really brought out minorin’s image and feel on stage. Great job, Mr. Lighting Director!

Now, to the more itemised list. Most, if not all tracks from Kimi ga Kureta Ano hi, Junpaku Sanctuary, Contact, the Contact 13th disc and Melty tale storage were performed in this order:

1. Contact
2. Shijin no Tabi
3. Peace of mind ~Ningyo no Sasayaki~
4. Futari no reflection
5. Cynthia
6. Fragment ~Shooting star of the origin~
7. sleeping terror
8. Junpaku Sanctuary ~Acoustic version~
9. Dears
10. mezzo forte
11. Natsu wo Wasureta
12. Last Arden
13. Kimi ga Kureta Ano hi
14. too late? not late…
15. Junpaku Sanctuary
16. truth gift

Encore

1. Shiijin no Tabi
2. Melty tale storage
3. Contact 13th

All minorin’s slower tunes have gone up a few levels in my book, and I mean all. Hearing them being performed live is just so different and the experience so sweet. Junpaku Sanctuary acoustic version was at first a bit underwhelming, but I’m starting to like it.

As for the faster minorin beats, all of them were deliciously delivered. If I were to chose the best, I’ll stick with my favourite minorin track, Junpaku Sanctuary. But all of them were indeed great. Even Melty tale storage sounded really good on stage.

minorin ended up half choked with emotion performing Contact 13th, with her fans so overwhelmingly overwhelming. you get minorin fans screaming for minorin all the second. Lively energetic crowd. Combined with the excellent band, made me want to get up and wave my imaginary glowstick as well. Oh yea, I really liked the bassist’s performance… he was probably the one who was jumping the most in the whole concert running his bass like crazy.

And to say the very least, this is something a minorin fan must not miss out. minorin’s dvd can be purchased here at CDJapan!

You can head over to townberry’s blog for scans of the DVD booklet. Needless to say, all the images inside are gems not to be missed.

The DVD also came with a promo poster. Isn’t as good as what was given out together with Message 01, but I finally have a minorin poster to put up in my room! minorin <3<3<3

CDJapan: Ameagari no Hana Yo Sake / Minori Chihara

houkoholic recently posted some pictures of some goodies from minorin’s smile seasons (m.s.s.). If you don’t know what’s m.s.s. about, it’s minorin’s recently founded fanclub, open only to those residing in 日本…

I really want that booklet…

Reinforce Zwei

Currently mine till ngumbang collects her from me.

Hikaru from Peace@Pieces

Great full review here by super-rats: Happy Soda

And Max Factory’s Mikuru.

I’ll be having my final exams soon, so I’ll be pretty busy again. I also have the I’ve Anime! Convention to handle, but I’ll try to free some time to blog at a high frequency. I’ll give Hikaru and Mikuru a full review if I do remember.

Next shipment up are the Shurakis! I’ll be receiving 4 Shuraki boxes, so do watch out for that!

About C.C.’s vector, I’ll post it up after my exams. I actually have a number of vectors going on, so please be patient yea?

You can either pre-order it at CDJapan: Minori Chihara 1st Live Tour 2008 -Contact- Live DVD / Minori Chihara (4762 yen) or Amazon for 3700 yen.

Here’s a quick CM for her DVD. Minorin daisukiii~ <3

Oh btw, CC is on hiatus, she’ll probably be complete next week?

Took me about 8 hours to complete. Bigger sized png here (Warning: Huge resolution!) PM me if you would like to have the source file (.ai)

Wonder if I should do CC next. ^^

Before the jump, heres Dirk from Brussels:

My name is Dirk, I live in Brussels, Europe, and I am doing a research to get my degree in psychological studies. I am in my last year at the “Université Libre de Bruxelles” ( U.L.B.). My research is about the look we people bring upon Japanese animation, depending on the culture we live in.

To be able to do this study, I will need the help of people and anime sites out of Europe, so I can compare these populations. …they will see an extract of a Japanese animation, and then they will be asked to respond to a questionnaire…

You can help Dirk by going here: http://www.toba.lu/memoire

Lovely figure, lovely posture. I like how the way she’s reclining back onto her green chair and having her right arm hold up her right leg. Gives out a really suggestive aura about everything. The short dress doesn’t really reveal too much though.

What’s really striking is the dress and the hair, in terms of color. The reds, the pinks, the greens are all really done nicely to perfection, giving Kotona a nice mix and contrast at the same time.

Here’s more better taken pictures of Kotona:

HappySoda

Moeside 

Simple yet elegant in a nutshell. You still can get her at Hobby Search or wait for Play-Asia. XD And if you’re wondering, that’s my new monitor behind. Yes it’s a Dell. If you can guess what make it is, I’ll probably award you a lolipop or two.

1. At what age do you wish to marry?
I want to get married nao! To Nakahara Mai. Does anyone besides me think that her smile is soooooooooooooooooooo sexy?

You guys can have Ueda Kana, she’s suparrr hot too. Both of them did a photoshoot for Tactical Roar, and they’re on a JSDF Navy ship. Picture from the Army girl incident.

2. If you can turn into anything, what do you wish you can turn into?
I wish to turn into a girl.

JK.

3. If you were stranded on an desert island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you? Why?
I’ll bring along Alice, Alice, Alice. Since you made me get stranded on the desert island, I’m taking you along to suffer with me. XD

4. Where is the place that you want to go most?
Where else but Japan.

5. If you have one dream to come true, what would it be?
I would love to be on top of the world.

6. Do you believe in seeing the rainbow after the rain?
Yea, God promised us a rainbow after every rain, so yea I believe that they’ll be here for sometime to come… until judgement day arrives of course :3 And hopefully after that as well.

7. What are you afraid to lose the most right now?
My sanity.

8. What cheers you up for the rest of the day?
Sufficient sleep and rest.

9. If you meet someone you love, would you confess to him/her?
Yes I would. I’m very daring in terms of romance. Watch out girls.

10. List out three good things of the person who tagged you.
Alice is a organized, hardworking and clever person. Well, at least much much more than me.

11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
To love me no matter whatever the person I am.

12. What type of person do you hate the most?
I don’t hate any type of person. But I have a hard time dealing with people who are selfish, stubborn and ignorant when it comes to improving themselves for the better of all..

13.What would you do if you won a million dollars?
Truly, I have not really thought much about it. Buy some figures? Give to my church? Invest? There’s so much you can do with 1 million dollars, but there’s so little when you come to think of it.

14. What is your ambition?
I wish that my eyesight was good, and that I would flying around the globe in an jetplane. Pilot lar… Though studying to be an electronics and computer engineer is very exciting. This are exciting times indeed.

15. What would you wanna be after you’re dead?
I would want to be myself, in heaven…

16. If you have a chance, which part of your character would you like to change?
My laziness.

17. What would you most want to achieve right now?
No. 1 Priority. Make I’ve Anime! 2008 a tremendous success.

18. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
Love. Love for God, love for my family, love for my friends. This is one of the things that saved us from our human selves.

19. If there’s one thing in your life you want to do but yet unable to, what would it be?
To make out with Nakaraha Mai be good friends with Chihara Minori.

20. What happens when I tag more than eight people?
They as well as myself will get headaches. So I’m gonna be nice and not tag anyone.