#kiramune fan meeting

I went to the Kiramune Fan Meeting in Kanazawa held at Honda no Mori Hall in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture on November 12. This was my first time attending a Kiramune fan meeting!

Kanazawa is famous for ninjas hence the ticket. xD

For the Kiramune fan meetings, only those who are in the fanclub can attend the fan meeting. I just remembered that you can actually apply up to two tickets but your friend has to be in the fanclub as well and you need to provide your friend’s information (Kiramune FC club member number, etc).

And if you’re wondering how I still remember these details even though it has been four months, it’s because I typed some notes down in my phone. Truthfully, I don’t remember much now but looking at them now brought back some memories!

I went there by shinkansen.

I thought I had enough time to get goods since it’s a smaller venue. There were two separate lines; one for goods and the other for gacha for can badges. But for some reason, it took way more time than I thought it would. I thought to myself, I should just take the first train to get goods from now on especially if you’re going to the afternoon session (except for another event later on, I didn’t do it and hence regrets again. This only happens when I go alone). The line for the fan meeting was a bit crazy especially for the gacha. Can badges were sold out pretty fast and many fangirls gave up waiting for goods even though they waited for a while because they weren’t gonna make it in time for the afternoon session. And I barely got the goods I wanted in time.

The material for the scrunchies are really nice! They’re like kimono sorta cloth? (Kanazawa is also known as a mini Kyoto too by the way).

I managed to take pictures of the displays really fast!

Their signatures! <3

When I handed them my ticket, I was given this special postcard as a present!

I rushed to find my seat after getting the goods, which was thankfully in the last row near the aisle. It was easy to find. I didn’t have much time to recover before it started.

Only five out of all the members appeared for the fan meeting.

• Kamiya Hiroshi
• Irino Miyu
• Yonaga Tsubasa
• Eguchi Takuya
• Yoshino Hiroyuki

I think you’re surprised to see no Ryohei. xP But I’m actually a Miyu fan as well (I would’ve totally gone to his live if it wasn’t for the fact that he had them in the middle of the week)! He’s my second favorite artist in Kiramune though I like KAmiYU as well. I also wanted to attend a Kiramune fan meeting at least!

Anyway, they first came out one by one. For their self-introduction, they had to say their name, Kiramune color and birthplace. Wing joked around and said he was from Ibaraki.

They started the fan meeting by talking about famous tourist spots in Kanazawa. They showed pictures of them as well and commented on them. Kamiya led this segment. Apparently Miyu went exploring and went to many places without the other members. xD For a lot of pictures, Miyu said he already went there and that the scenery was pretty.

For Kenrokuen Garden, one of Japan’s three most beautiful gardens (I went there afterwards and totally agree that it’s beautiful!), Kamiya said that he got there at 7:30. Apparently admission is free until 7:45 and the staff asked what he wanted to do: either wait 15 minutes or go in and come back out and pay. Kamiya said that he would just go in. Time went by fast because when he looked at the time, he saw that it was nearing 7:45 so he hurried back to the entrance and paid the entrance fee. xD I just found this cute for some reason. xP

The next segment was called “treasured photos” led by Egu. I actually couldn’t see the pictures that well but they’re pictures taken by the members (most likely) of the other members. I don’t quite remember them and they were top secret after all… so xP Egu was told he wasn’t interesting at all (kinda implying that he sucked at doing the MC thing? XD)

Wing led the next segment: Ranking quiz!  Actually, for those FC members that got tickets, we were sent an e-mail with a survey. I actually filled it out. xD Each member was given a sketchbook and marker and they had to guess the top 5 answers for each category and these answers were based on the Kiramune fan club members’ answers! Whoever got the most points wins a prize.

Q1: What is “the” word of this year (2016)? Basically, what are the top 5 most popular words/phrases of this year?

• Miyu was really cute and knew one immediately. I saw him writing PPAP and he showed the answer. Egu thought the same thing and drew the answer. A few other words that were in the top 5 included Pokemon Go (Egu’s drew a VERY artistic Pikachu LOL) and Perfect Human (a popular comedy act).

Q2: What is a food you want to eat in winter?

• The top five answers included nabe (hot pot), stew, ice cream, mikan (a kind of orange) and one more that I forgot.

Q3: What are events/things that you do in winter?

• The top five answers included Christmas, New Year’s, hatsumode (first shrine/temple visit of the year), eating mikan under a kotatsu and one more.

Throughout all of this, Kamiya kept on saying the correct answers instead of writing them down while Miyu hurried and wrote down the answers Kamiya said. XD Miyu was really adorable, trying to be competitive and win. Yocchin didn’t participate much. LOL Egu kept on drawing his guesses.

When they were tallying up the points, Miyu was too cute!! He was hoping that he would win and put his hands together, praying that he would win. In the end, Kamiya won the game with the most points and got a prize. xD I really wanted you to win, Miyu… XD

Next was the Q&A session. In the survey sent out to those attending the fan meeting, there was a section where you can ask any question. They brought out a box and inside were those questions written by the Kiramune FC members. Each member pulled a question from the box except Yocchin because he didn’t want to do it. He was actually pretty quiet overall… @w@

Questions included…

1. If you became a ninja, what would you want to do?

• My memory is pretty fuzzy but I think one of them said they wanted to walk on water or something? xD

2. If you could become another member in Kiramune, who would you want to be and not want to be? I don’t remember what they said…

3. Egu was asked, “What are the advantages and disadvantages to being tall?”

• All I remember is Egu said he hit his head a lot. And the thing that surprised me the most was when he told us that apparently his parents forced him to drink milk for all three meals even for traditional Japanese meals… They didn’t have juice or soda or anything. (He did live in the countryside…). Now we know why he is so tall! I think he said his entire family is tall as well! (Well, no wonder… with all that milk.)

4. Yocchin got asked a question about sports, something like, “Do you still play soccer?”

• I think he said he doesn’t play anymore but he watches it a lot on TV. (He’s a sport fanatic).

5. If Miyu and Egu hung out, what would they want to do?

• Egu said he wanted to go camping. He said he could make fire and grab fruits and other things from trees. Then Egu asked, “Oh, what if Kamiya and I hung out?” Kamiya answered that he didn’t want to hang out with him…. (poor Egu. xD). Kamiya eventually answered that he would want to go to a restaurant that Egu recommended and go alone because all the restaurants that Egu recommended to him before were great. Wing said that all of those recommendations were originally Ryohei’s recommendations. XDDDD

They ran out of time and next was a video message by the other Kiramune members who weren’t present! Ryohei and Nobu together, Kakki, and finally NamiDai.

Next was the live segment! Each of them sang a song!

• Kamiya – Kage mo Mata Shin nari
• Wing – Rhapsody in You
• Egu – Enchosenjo no Friends
• Yocchin – Dramatic Surf Coaster

He came out with a guitar and Wing brought in a microphone stand for him! Then Yocchin sang while playing it.

• Miyu – Ryusei no Kimi e
  

Towards the end of the song, all of the other members came out. He gathered everyone and they were confused as to what to do for the ending pose. XDDD

Each said a closing speech and promoted their CDs and/or live tours.

Miyu said, “Home ga aru kara,” lyrics to Get Together. The other members asked which song will they sing. And Miyu kept on saying Home ga aru kara. I feel that he trolled me because I was really hoping for Get Together and Miyu finally said, “The other one,” and they sang Ever Dream. XD (I don’t know why the Kiramune Fan website says only Get Together because that was for the night session only).

After the session ended, I took a few more pictures.

Overall, I really enjoyed my first Kiramune fan meeting! I have only seen them in KiraFes or Reading live so it was nice to see the members interact with one another!

Miyu was just super adorable. He was so energetic and acted like a kid. Since he’s studying abroad now, I wish him the best and will definitely welcome him back once he returns! :3

As always, unbeta-ed so ignore the grammatical mistakes. That’s all for now! :3 Until next time! Thanks for reading!