Is This the Only News I Watch?
It’s like I only watch 「日本、おはよう！」
Seventy-Four from Forty-Six
In the waning days of Shiraishi Mai’s membership in Nogizaka46, she has gifted us a very fun and amusing YouTube video on her channel. She’s dancing to Girls Rule and wearing as many different Nogizaka costumes as she can. The count is 74. I believe I like 73 of them.
This is the second video of hers that I’ve featured. I hope she continues to produce more that I’ll feature her after her graduation.
Link of the Day [10.05.20]
Information about the upcoming Shiraishi Mai graduation concert. Not enough to know how to purchase the live stream. That’s alright. The concert is on Wednesday October 28, which is a work day, and I don’t know if I want to stay up to watch it. Or rather to wake up in the early morning. After all, she isn’t Nanase… Just kidding she’s Maiyan!
Mai Channel
Although she’s all but graduated, Shiriaishi Mai has started a YouTube channel!
Hooray!
Her first video was a livestream last Thursday on her birthday. It was filled with lots of technical difficulties. Also, I didn’t understand anything considering that it was all in Japanese. I did sing along as we sang her a happy birthday.
This is her first video, and it’s well produced. Almost like the Nogizaka management spent some time and money into making this video. It definitely isn’t all in her hands. I hope this continues.
Maiyan was a softball player in middle school. She bats left and throws right. We are treated to ponytail Maiyan and sweaty Maiyan. She’s still beautiful though. I wonder if she practiced a bit more would she have been making better contact. I laughed when she was supposed to hit the 110 kmh pitch, but found out the setting was for 130 kmh. Fast! Too fast!
Anyhow, it’s a cute video. You should smash the like button and subscribe. You know I am.
$63 a Tee
Are band t-shirts sold at the tour venue pricey? I don’t know since I haven’t been to a show in quite a while, and the ones that I did go to, I did not purchase a shirt. I didn’t want to be that guy wearing the t-shirt of the band he’s gone to see!
Anyhow, I thought that they were always pricey considering that merchandise was one of the better ways for the band to actually profit from their music. Not much of the sales going to the record company, but going to the band. They’ll gouge their fans to make even on their work.
I don’t know where this is going. I guess I’m just here to brag about spending an exorbitant amount on Nogizaka46 paraphernalia. I got two tour t-shirts: one from last year and another from 2015 about $30 a piece. I also got Yamashita’s birthday shirt. This one from this year’s birthday last month. The markup was just about double the original price: $50. She’s a fave and the shirt is plain and boring, but wearable around town. I don’t look like a Nogi wota in it!
The items themselves were reasonably priced, but they were on the secondary market, and they all came from Japan. The shipping and handling made it all the more expensive considering that they would be shipped via the most expensive method: 3-day international delivery. There were cheaper alternatives, but the rona ruined them all. All told, it cost almost $70 to get them here!
I keep thinking about if I should be spending money like this….
And a little bit of Maiyan for your day…
In some kind of Shrodinger state, not quite graduated, but all but graduated. You look and you can’t tell. She still shows up as she has in this performance. Maiyan, I love you, but I’m ready for post-Maiyan Nogizaka. Still, she’s as radiant as ever
How Many Blue Skies?
My oshimen’s solo center, Nogizaka46’s 10th single, 「何度目の青空か？」sung at Meiji Jingu Stadium in the summer of the rona. For a time, all is right in the world.
Link of the Day [6.23.20]
Just because one recurring post series ends does not mean it stays done. Just look at “Link of the Day” as this series is just forever constant. Isn’t most everything I post a link of the day though? I guess I am just lazy at writing titles.
Anyhow, I return, once again, to Nogizaka46. I know, right. You’re probably sick and tired of them. You who do not know the fantastic group of girls. So today’s link can get you all the streaming of Nogizaka46 that you can handle. I think it’s just a couple hundred yen per month. Maybe it’s $10. Maybe it’s $15. I don’t know. Run it through a translation website. But at least you get tons of Nogizaka46 content.
Me? I’m not signed up just yet. Waiting for more concerts. You? Sign up. Today.
Covid-19 Days – 99
My sleep schedule is totally messed. I’ve been trying to catch Nogizaka’s 46 Hour TV since yesterday. I was up late last night, and caught a couple hours of sleep this afternoon. I’m here for the last day for this. I’m loving every minute!
For me, the first Nogizaka46 Hour TV pulled me totally into the Nogi fandom. It happened back in 2016 in place of their 4th Year Birthday Live in February of that year. It was the last big thing to see them as they were when I first became a fan. I think it was 36 members across only two generations. Nagashima, MaiMai, and Nanamin would be graduated by the end of the year. Third generation would be there by the fall. But just those 46 hours early in the year cemented my love for the group and for its members.
It looks like we have about another 5-6 hours left. Nogizaka will always make me smile.
Covid-19 Days – 98
Well this could’ve been done earlier into the self restraint and it would’ve been awesome. IT’S ANOTHER NOGIZAKA46 HOUR TV! Looks like I’l be up for the next 46!
Actually it started at 6 AM in my neck of the woods. There was break at 2 PM then started back up. Maybe we’ll get a sleep break sometime tomorrow morning!