#only difference is I’m trying to do all three inocs instead of just the two treatments so maybe it’ll take longer?? who knows.

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First day of field work awwww yeahhhh

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AZALEA in Nagoya, Live and Fan Meeting 2018 event report

So, yesterday I went to the Love Live event.... Unit Battle National Tour Aqours Club Activity Love and Fan Meeting 2018, AZALEA in Nagoya Day 1 afternoon performance. 

So if anyone was wondering why I was just referring to it as an AZALEA event, that’s why. The name is so long haha. 

So this tour is actually a several month long competition between the three sub units of Aqours. The bulk of the event time is spent on several games, some are up to the girls, some require audience participation, and the points are totaled overall. 

I actually got to go to the first performance in the country OVERALL, so we started with a blank scoreboard and left off with AZALEA obviously in the lead. (It wasn’t supposed to be the first performance. It was supposed to start from Guilty Kiss in Sapproro, but that event was cancelled due to the earthquake tragedy which shut down power and transportation a few days before.) 

So, the first game was a quiz which was completely up to the audience. We answered by choosing different colors on our lightsticks and then the girls chose the most popular answer. The questions ranged from a question about Nagoya Japanese that I didn’t understand, to minuscule details about the anime. Such as, who was the first character who appeared in the first season. Answer... Riko! She walks into the classroom, then it pans to Chika’s reaction. 

The second game was a typical school sports festival game of throwing beanbags in a basket.

The third game was like.... blind charades. One of the girls had to strike a pose, and the other two would feel her and try to copy the pose and guess. (Really not as risque as it sounds I swear ahah.)  The first two were police and basketball, then Arisha just got “Dia Kurosawa” so she held up her hands in the “BU-BUU” stance. 

This was proceeded by a talk section where they answered questions from fans and such. There was a lot of direct interaction with fans. Like, they had the folks who sent in the questions stand up to be recognized and such. There was a big flag we could draw them messages on before the show, and then they looked over it and called out to people who wrote certain things. Like, there was this really cute Dia drawing and when they said it was cute the girl who drew it was so happy!!! Aaaah! I just wrote a heart that said “HUG” in it. I wish I had done something more creative. I may go again to one of these for CYaRon so if anyone can think of something creative I could do to the flag lemme know ahaha. 

Then finally there was a performance of course. They did their AZALEA songs, Galaxy Hide and Seek, Inocent Bird, and Torikoriko Please! But they also had us vote for a new AZALEA version of another song:  Todokanai Hoshi da to Shitemo, Pops heart de Odorunn da mon!, or Sora mo Kokoro mo Hareru kara. I voted for  Todokanai Hoshi da to Shitemo and was ecstatic when it won because yelling “ONE TWO SUNSHINE!!!” was every bit as fun as I hoped. They ended  Yume Kataru yori Yume Utaou and an singalong/dance-along encore of Hop Step Waai, the theme song of the event. 

It always takes them like 10 minutes to get to the encore. Which is understandable as the girls deserve a break. But when I am at a live viewing, I usually take a break from cheering for them just because they can’t hear me anyway. But at the actual event I was like... must keep... going... ahaha...

At Aqours concerts people usually cheer “Aqours” instead of “encore.” We started off cheering “encore” but then a couple people started cheering “AZALEA” and then we were all cheering “AZALEA”! They said it was the first time they ever got an AZALEA call. 

So, this was actually my first ever legit Love Live event. I have been to theater live viewings, and watched plenty of concerts, but this was my first time actually being THERE and responding to calls and that was so big. Love Live concerts have so much audience participation and it just felt SO DIFFERENT so amazing to actually be there and really responding and ahhh... I got so emotional. 

I expected to be all about Suwawa since I enjoyed watching her in past events, but Kin-chan and Arisa (her nickname is Arisha? I didn’t hear it at the actual event) were amazing too. 

At one point they were saying AZALEA battle cries in the poses of their characters, and Hanamaru is like... I can’t find the full body art online, but she’s like jumping up on one leg with her arms out. So Kin-chan was trying to jump into that pose and say “I won’t lose!!!” before she fell. I also just love how happy she is when she’s voicing Hanamaru and she goes full zuRAAAA! I never paid much attention to her before, but I’m a fan now!

Arisha was beautiful and a class act. They actually started playing the wrong song at one point (Innocent Bird instead of Galaxy Hide and Seek) and she was on the stage by herself to start Galaxy Hide and Seek. And I forget exactly what she said (no it wasn’t bu-buuu haha) but she reacted in character as Dia and it was so good it took me a couple minutes to realize it was even a mistake. 

To be honest, AZALEA wouldn’t have been my first choice of the sub units to see. I would have gladly seen ANY of the units coming to Nagoya, it just happened to be AZALEA. But I really loved seeing them. They were amazing. And I am now all like GO AZALEAAAaaaA! (...It will probably only last until I get to see CYaRon though ahah...) I am really interested to see how the competition progresses. The winning group will get some special merch and stuff, and we won’t know who wins until March 2019!

I was a bit worried about going to this event initially, because some of the live viewings I have been to were pretty wild (what with the crazy male Love Liver crowd and all) so I figured the real thing would be even crazier but... no, actually people were pretty cool. Maybe because there were only three of them, and there is a special kind of magic when all 9 are together. I did feel a little less tension myself for that reason. I quite don’t know but, I do think I am interested in trying to go to more events from now on!!

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Eddsworld ~ The new neighbours Ch. 3

The first proper day of the girls in the apartment was well... Eventful. Edd,Matt and Tom got ready to go on over, well Edd thought it too be a good idea anyway.

"Now Tom can you not make any enemy's of the girls?" Edd said as the three walked over to the girls apartment.

"I already don't like one of them so it's pretty late for that," he takes a gulp from his flask, "I'll give the other two a chance though"

Matt shrugs, "it's something"

Edd shrugs as well knocking on the door to the apartment. After a while skinna open need the door. " oh hi!" She energetically said and turned to the couch that was in the room, most likely already there. "LEAF, JULIE! THOSE BOYS FROM YESTERDAY ARE HERE!"

Dark green hair popped up from the couch and a heavy and bored sigh from next to the dark green. Leaf walked over wearing pjs that said 'leaf me alone I'm sleepy' with the same creature from her shirt yesterday asleep on the shirt. "Oh hey come in!"

Julie was on a console playing Kingdom Hearts, "Don't believe her Rikku!!! She's evil!" Her eyes are teary, "why!!?!?!?!?!" She smashes her head on the coffee table crying.

Edd looks at her with some concern, "iiiis.... she ok?"

Leaf looks at him, "yeah this is the only time she actually cries.... playing video games"

Skinna nods in agreement, "yeah, you should have seen her when she played that game with the fallen human. She wouldn't stop crying for days."

Julie muffles from the coffee table, "it's a fantastic fucking story!!!"

Skinna shrugged and ran to the couch jumping onto it.

Leaf sweatdropped and turned to the guys. " we'll come in. is there anything I can get you? Food, drink? We don't have much at the moment... So I apologize if there's not much you like." She says as the guys walk in.

Matt tries to go near Julie, "don't even think about it you ginger possum!" He slowly backs up.

A stifled giggle comes from the green haired girl. "You might it want to do that mate, last guy that tried to seduce Julie ended up in hospital with a fractured skull, and some mirror shards in his arm... Never found out what happened though.... Edd, Tom you like anything?"

Both of them were just in silence after hearing that remark, "can we leave," Edd smacks him across the head.

"No that's rude Tom. Hey Leaf, you have any cola?"

"Oh yeah we do at least a can or two." Leaf grins and goes to the kitchen area and grabbing a cola can from the fridge. "Found one!" The green haired girl grinned and handed it to the green hoodies boy. "Here you go." She walked on over to the couch. "Julie you missed a chest..." She said and grinned.

"Wait where!" She stops moving the character, "I don't see it!"

"Omg go back and take a left, it's in that alley." She said as Edd and a reluctant Tom sat down on the couch. " I swear I find these things more than you." Leaf pokes her tongue out and sat down on the floor.

"I have an I patch on what do you want from me?" She huffs and goes into the direction Leaf told her to go.

Tom shrugs, "maybe take the eyepatch off and maybe you'll see better."

Skinna runs behind the kitchen counter to duck in cover, Leaf almost drops her bowl of cereal she was eating and after all that happened Julie pauses the game and just stares at the screen, "....run that by me again...."

"Take the eyepatch off then you would see better." Tom said with no waver in his voice.

"Tom... I don't think you should say that.." Edd said warningly, feeling that the statement Tom had said would cause a fight.

"What its not like she can hurt me she's a girl." Tom said taking another swig of his flask.

Leaf placed the bowl of cereal she had on the table and looked at Julie. "Don't... Julie he doesn't know so don't do it." Meanwhile Matt had hid behind the couch for safety of his face.

Julie was grinding her teeth, "I don't care if he doesn't know, I'll still kick his ass!"

Leaf looked at the eyepatch wearing girl. "Do not. Please we want to make nice not murder. Plus if you fight him I'll hide your tools like last time you near killed a guy when he asked about the patch." Edd really started to back away at this point.

"H...how bout instead of fighting maybe we show you guys around?" Edd stuttered worried about something happening if he didn't try to change the subject.

"Sounds like a plan right Skin, Julie?" Leaf asked the other girls, Julie still giving Tom the one eyed death stare.

"Sure whatever... Tom said, shrugging and getting up.

"We'll see you downstairs then?" Leaf said, motioning to her and the other girls looks, "we kinda need to get ready."

-time skip-

"Edd you sure this is a good idea?" Matt whimpered as the three guys were waiting at the car. Edd shrugged which didn't make the ginger feel better about this idea.

After a few minutes all three girls came down, having gotten washed and changed into clean clothes, leaf was in a dark grey shirt with little Chibi creatures in a fake pocket and jeans, Julie was in a light grey shirt that was plain and matching pants. and skin had her hoodie over her shirt and a skirt on.

Julie walks to their car with a monotoned look on her face, "alright dudes lets get this stupid show on the road."

Leaf flicks the back of Julie's head, looking so done with Julie's almost emotionless shit. "Come on guys lets go!" She turns to the guys with a big grin on her face, leaving all three guys confused.

"Well let's go..." Edd said as the guys get into the six seater car they now had, the girls following.

Skinna skips happily to the car completely oblivious to the tension from the group, "are going to go see Big Ben!"

"Uhhh..." All the guys said almost in unison. Leaf sat next to Matt, separating him from skinna.

"Skin honey I told you, not in London..." Leaf says sounding like a mother.

"Aaaaw," she pouts and she sits in the car, "that was the only thing I was looking forward to."

Julie sighs, puts her face in her hands and whispers, "this is one of the many reasons why she doesn't have a job."

Skinna turns to Julie as the eyepatched girl gets into the car. "And what's that's supposed to mean Jul Jul?" Once Julie was in the car and clipped in Edd starts the car and drives.

Tom snickered, "Jul Jul?"

Julie didn't even look at him, "you make fun of her nicknames I'll make sure you don't live to get one."

"JULIE!" Leaf snapped causing the car to go quiet.

"So uh..." Edd stuttered after a few minutes of silence. "We uh..."

Skinna quickly cuts through the awkwardness, "So where did you guys live before the apartments?!"

"Oh well you see.... It's kinda... A long story." Edd said and Matt popped up.

"That story hurt my face!" Matt swung his arms around hitting leaf on the head.

"OW!" Leaf yelped, rubbing the top of her head.

Tom quickly adds on, "that story makes me feel like shooting something."

Julie looks towards him, "if it's you I'll hand you the gun," adds on a smirk.

"If you're not careful it'll be you."

"Guys I swear to whatever's up there if you keep fighting you won't need to worry bout yourselves." Leaf says rubbing the top of her head.

"How bout we ask about you guys then? You said skinna doesn't work? So do you guys work?" Edd tries to quickly change the subject.

"Oh yeah me and Julie work!" Leaf grins.

"Yeah right... Her working is like me giving up Smirnoff..." Tom scoffs and points to behind him to Julie.

Julie clears her throat, "I actually make robotic inventions and sell it to those who really need them rather than just selling it to those who could abuse it for their own personal selfish needs."

"Wait what?" Tom said but before he got to say anything else lef cut him off.

"And I'm not as shiny in my job choice as jul but I work as a bartender." Leaf says, finally finished rubbing the bump on her head from Matt.

The hallelujah song plays over and over in Tom's head and has a complete shock look on his face. Skinna snaps her fingers in front of Tom's face and comments, "Well Leaf you broke him."

"What I do?" Leaf panics confused. "No seriously what did I do?"

"Well... how should I put this," Edd thinks for a moment, "Tom is sort of a alcoholic. For all we know he could be drunk right now but he has different types of drunk behaviour."

"Oh I see makes sense now... He does have that faint smell of Smirnoff on him." The green haired girl said as Edd parked to check on the spiky haired black eyed brunette.

"How do you know how it smells like?" Matt questioned.

"Oh it's a trick I learned from the bartender that taught me. He would tell me to identify a drink in a glass, it makes it easier to figure out what's tonic water and what's whiskey and vodka. Especially when I mix drinks." Leaf grins micheviously. As Edd was clicking his fingers in front of Tom.

"Leaf has this mix of her own called the green viper! She hasn't let me try it though..." Skinna chirped up as Julie got out of the car and slapped Tom.

"Ow!" Tom rubs his sore cheek, "what was that for?"

"What was what for?" Julie smiles inocently as she stretches out of the car. Edd looked to Tom.

"You kind of zoned out when Leaf said she was a bartender." Edd motioned to leaf who said a curt 'yo' then going back to her conversation with skin and Matt.

"Wait if she's a bartender then..." Tom started to think. Edd sighed.

"I don't think she will give you on the house drinks just because you know her..." The green hoodied boy said to Tom.

The eyepatch girl nods in agreement, "trust me, I've tried."

"God fucking dammit.." Tom muttered under his breath.

"Well as some of us are out of the car and the mall is nearby... We can check that out as don't girls like that?" Edd shrugs as he says that.

Skinna shrugs, "Meh, I'll only go to the Mall if it includes video games, food and the occasional shopping for new clothes that don't fit anymore."

"Same here. Not all girls wear skimpy outfits and go to the mall all the time to gossip and clothes shop." Julie adds onto what Skinna said.

Edd winces a bit, "oh, sorry I don't think we have friends who are girls before."

Matt thinks for a bit, "not that I can remember."

"Nah it's fine, we can go anyway. Right girls?" Leaf said as she nudged Skinna with her elbow. "Who knows it could be fun?"

"I could get more mirrors for my collection!" Matt chirped up.

Julie raises an eyebrow, "A... mirror.... collection?"

"Don't get him started on him and his mirrors..." Tom said. "His apartment is basically a shrine to himself..."

Julie makes a fake gagging sound which earns her yet another slap across the head, "Ow! Enough with the slapping across the head!"

"I'll stop when you act your age and stop making fun of people and laughing at people's quirks." Leaf mentions as Skinna, Leaf and Matt get out of the car.

Julie just shrugs, "can't change who I am and who I am is making fun of people."

Leaf sighs. "Could you at least tone it down a little? It gets tiring slapping your head after a while.." She said as Tom gets out and the car is locked by Edd.

"Let's just get in the bloody mall already. I need to get some new video games." And then all three went into the mall.