Exasperation, Exposition, Explanation, Day Two
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For those of you who do not know me, I am a fan, a big fan of Anime, but that isn't saying very much. I'm the host and President of the Anime Club @ UC Santa Barbara for the past three years, and I know a few things about the two A's. Administration and Anime.
Anime Expo of 2007 has left me speechless.
The following highlights "events" over a weekend spent in the burning sunlight of Long Beach at AX 2007, chasing the SOS idols.
Disclaimer: To keep this article in a rather neutral stance, it is color coded the following way:
(Please follow the link to the original article to see the formatting)
Leave any question or comments at the bottom link.
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The is the end of Day One, and Events that Lead Up to Day Two.
Day One, Saturday 6:10 PM, Front Walkway
The focus panel was over, and the exhibition hall was closed, and it was time to head home for the day.
Perhaps its cultural, camaraderie among fans in Japan perhaps? This kind of stuff just doesn't happen on these shores. Once the host announced for people to line up for the microphone to ask questions, specifically requesting no punching or kicking, the room explodes and a 60 man line form with in a split second, I thought i saw someone's fist is another person's mouth. Great organization, AX, great demonstration of character, American fans.
Back to the front walkway, we ask Wada when he plans to start lining up for the autograph session scheduled for tomorrow at 10am. It seemed that even the action of asking shocked him.
More than a little surprised, since merely lining up for 3 hours had secured us front row seats, with the holy TICKET in hand, forfeiting sleep to line up in the morning for more than a couple of hours was beyond imagine at this point. I pointed out to Wada that he was thinking of competing with Japanese fans, and that American fans are not nearly as "hardcore" as their Japanese counterparts, who sometimes wait in line for days for signatures.
His words blew my mind. Roughly meaning that one must never let one's guards down, we were then offered some veteran advice.
If the signing was to be 1 hour long, and the SOS-dan signs fast, and one signature per seiyuu, one person would perhaps finish in 30 seconds, put this in a pipeline, with no speaking, no picture taking, the process could be sped up to roughly 15 to 20 seconds, meaning that with a signing no longer than one full hour, no more than 200 could bring the trio's signature home.
Lets organize some facts.
With earlier estimation of an entire roll of tickets passed out, around 500 people are going to assume that they will be just zipping pass the line to land themselves an easy autograph.
Cowboy hat AX guy, the host for the focus panel, noted nothing more than the TIME, and LOCATION of the autograph session, which up to this point, didn't exist in the printed schedule, or even announced. Nothing about duration, or any sort of detail, and he also stated that he was unsure of the location he had given.
If you can't nail the first 50 spots in line, your autograph chances decreases dramatically the farther back you are. Assuming that the length is 1 hour, at most 200 would get signatures, if photographs are allowed, -30 people, if talking was allowed, -30 people, if customized signatures were allowed (talking required), -50 more, if multiple signatures were allowed, half the remainder.
Being at anything more than 200th in line, means that you're FUCKED!
Cowboy hat AX guy's words regarding the ticket was "priority" to those non-ticketed. And how is that going to work out? does one non-ticketed person go in every 3 ticketed? or is it half and half? Doesn't that also mean that the first non-ticketed person can go in before many of those who are ticketed?
Information regarding the signing was not poorly advertised, there was zero printed information.
If it wasn't for Wada's smack in the head, we would have shown up no earlier than 8 am.
Holding the golden ticket earned from the focus panel seemed to have "guaranteed the ticket holder a signing", which were the exact words of the person passing out the tickets, but things did not turn out that way at all.
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Day Two
Early in the morning, we clawed ourselves out of bed and started onto the road to the SOS-dan autograph session. It didn't help that the trip took an hour, all while some dumbass decided to crash and overturn his convertible in the middle of the freeway at 6 AM.
As we join the line, there are about 30 or so people in front, Wada being the first in front. I turned down his heartwarming invitation to join him in the front of the line, seeing that not only will I get mad stares for the next 3 hours, but being 50th in line was a safe bet to get a signature. I was wrong.
The staff then moved the line unto the walls, claiming that we were a fire hazard, and then lined people up, and then down some stairs.
Efficiently blocking exit from a door on the second floor, which seemed like an emergency exit.
At 9:00, the line had fattened, exponentially. The 30 that was in front of us, was now almost 100. We were uneasy, but cutting was inevitable. The probability to land that autograph has already dwindled, but more and more people I haven't seen in the line before went up the stairs, at 9:30, the stairs was packed. The people behind us, under the stairs, along the wall, and unto the bridge, were unfortunately hopeless, they just didn't know.
The line on the other side of the picture marked by the purple arrow indicates the Exhibition line starting for form again, those dumb sap's never learn.
10:00 AM
Some started to ask what was going on. The staff knew nothing.
Most of the staff who kept the line in order did not even know what the line was for, much less details of the delay.
Sometime around 10:30, a staff walks out and announces that the signing is RESCHEDULED. They then said they would hand out free tickets to the SOS-dan concert, which were around $30 retail.
I'm unaware of how many tickets that were given out in total, probably 200-300 seeing that they were in tiny paper bags. But there were a couple things overlooked.
Place in line meant nothing, I later re-encountered Wada and his friend Junichi, they were saying how even they have a 5 night stay at the hotel, they are going to spend the third night on the streets, lining up for the same thing.
If you already had a premier SOS-dan ticket, and you were first in line? Go Fuck Yourself.
So there we are, entire morning in the burning sun gone to waste, but hey, we got a free ticket to the concert that was sold out online right? I guess that wasn't so bad.
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Day two, Saturday 3:00 PM,
In front of the Arena
The SOS-dan Live
The official rumor was that there are assigned seats. Tickets are limited, there are seat numbers, areas assigned printed on the ticket, it was the logical thing to believe.
Assigned Seats = No Need to Line Up.
There was a huge crowd gathered at the entrance of the Arena, but there was no line, and the staff were ordering people to line up at places that later were not part of the line.
at around 30 minutes before time assigned for "Seating" prior to the concert, lines started to form, serious cutting was taking place, but no one really cared, because seating was assigned, a staff member walked around with a megaphone reconfirming this fact.
1 hour later, after having our bags searched for cameras, the line was beginning to be let in.
I am completely baffled by the fact that they thought:
1. searching your bags for food/drinks/camera was at all the right thing to do
2. that the search actually stopped anyone from doing anything.
After I heard about the search, I pulled out my camera from by bag, and stuck in into my jeans pocket, and walked right through.
The only retard they stopped was this Naruto cosplaying kid that had a bag of 2 water bottles, that he was later forced to throw into the trash. What a fucking shame.
Upon entering the actual arena, the crowd was forced to make a line in front of the actual arena doors. When word comes down that General Attendance seating is first come first serve.
Those of you who believe the staff saying that seats were assigned? Staff Lie.
The crowd was highly agitated, with anyone even remotely looked like he was standing up, the entire line would shoot straight up. This line lasted for 2 hours, and the crowd was let into the auditorium at 5:30 PM, 1 hour after the show was scheduled to start.
The live was delayed for a long long time, naturally, the fans blamed AX, as it is well known for its delays, inefficiencies and various problems over the years.
Before the show started, seated audience were blasted by with SOS-dan related commercials. American commercials. They later showed a Anime review show, which proceeded to review The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, the American version, if the title was not obvious.
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu is licensed to Bandai in America, and Bandai employed Bang Zoom! audio studio to dub the series into English.
I have no doubt that Bandai was the force behind the invitation of the SOS-dan ladies, and they wanted to pull a publicity stunt at the show.
It can only be described as GOD DAMN AWFUL! People came here to see Hirano Aya , Goto Yuko , and Chihara Minori, not some pretend American fans rating a show (8.4 btw) they paid 30 dollars to attend a live concert of.
Hearing English dubs was painful at best, but if the show was aimed to promote Haruhi in the US, then it is understandable, but it isn't. The live is for the seiyuu's. Capitalism showing its ugly face at an Anime live, what can I say, we're dealing with Bandai.
In any case, the adver-tainment did nothing to raise the spirits of the tired and agitated fans, who were still slowly coming in.
Around 6:00, the show finally started, we have, an interpreter, along with Patricia Ja Lee as the American host, Patricia, labeled in the picture below, on the left. These two were the bridge of conversation in the whole show.
The two's performance were abysmal.
The two introduced each of the three SOS-dan seiyuu's, Gotou Yuuko, Chihara Minori, and Hirano Aya, allowed each to sing their character songs, and did a comparison voice acting with their American counter parts.
Patricia Lee, cosplaying as Haruhi took the position as the host. I am not aware whether or not she was actually trying to play out Haruhi's American persona, but she came off to the audience as a stuck up self centered bitch. While Haruhi does have that attitude, it comes off as extremely bastardizing in English.
The part that pisses me off the most is that she believed that ANYONE would give a flying fuck about HER, an English speaking AMERICAN version persona Haruhi. The entire ordeal was a god damn mistake.
First of all, nobody cares about the North American version. The DVD's are barely released in the US, barely anyone has heard of these horrifyingly ear bleeding English dubs, and throughout the hour, the English voices were held much higher respect to the three seiyuu's who have come all this way to perform. The reason why everybody and anybody is in this auditorium in the first place.
I Fucking hate that bitch.
The order for a voice over comparison was Japanese first, then English second.
Anyone who fail to understand the meaning behind this, you are a fool.
They played a copy AFTER an original. In an attitude as if the American voices were somehow better, newer, and more appealing to the audience.
This came to me as more of an extreme disrespect for the SOS-dan ladies. The treatment they had received on stage was nothing similar to the sort of professional, rehearsed and coordinated performances they are used to in Japan.
Not only is the host only describable as a crude, unskilled and jaw-dropping bad actor, but she had put the non-English speaking seiyuu's in awkward positions numerous times.
The interpreter was in no way professional, prepared, or knowledgeable towards the context she was translating for. I would not be surprised if Bang Zoom! had pulled her from their accounting department and tossed her on stage because she was bilingual. Her translations were non-existent.
The order of English to Japanese should be Host->Translator->Seiyuu
and Japanese to English would be Seiyuu->Translator->Host
However, this order was broken in the very beginning, when Yokou Gotou spoke understandable amounts of English, and could converse directly to the host and the crowd.
Chihara Minori and Hirano Aya both had moments of blank stares to the camera, when questions directed to them from the host were not translated, and the entire stage crew were looking at them. The translation was so poorly coordinated that the seiyuu's on stage were often not aware of what was even going on.
The portion of Japanese that were translated, lost all of the humor, emotion, and character when originally spoken. The interpreter was also unaware of the meaning of popular ACG phrase "Tsundere". The English speaking audience did not understand more than 30% of what really happened.
There were also a number of technical problems at the live.
There was a mis-sync of the audio the Seiyuu's were singing to, perhaps an ear piece, and the audio that the crowd was hearing. This caused the crowd to hear roughly a 0.3 second delay in the voice projected off the stage.
The seiyuu's were not half a second off beat in singing, it was a technical problem, but they took the fall for it.
There was also electrical noise and stutter in the video feed, all of which could have been prevented. It is unknown whether this problem was caused by the AX staff, or the Long Beach Convention Arena technical staff.
The only part that might have saved the day, was the numerous parts when Patricia Lee played Haruhi's wing-it persona.
well, getting the fuck off the stage would have a good been one, but I guess i can't ask for too much, and no one answered.
She had just invited the other two of Bandai's official Haruhi coplayer trio (pictured above) on stage. Contrary to Patricia, the other two spoke in Japanese, were quite cute, soft spoken, and rather popular among the fans.
Patricia gives an evil stare at Mikuru's cosplayer.
was the message shooting out of my eyes, but I guess that was also too much to expect from that Fucking Bitch.
Mikuru Mikuru-beamed the crowd, twice.
After being delayed for nearly two hours, the live ended in ninety minutes. I met up with a friend who was doing Press coverage for AX.
___________________________
Come back for the stunning conclusion that is the Exasperation, Exposition, Explanation Saga, Day Three. Where the true reason of a near-botched signing, and the Idol's reactions to the Live concert are revealed.
Go Here if you Missed Day One
Sick of Bad News? Haruhi Second Season Announced
___________________________________
For those of you who do not know me, I am a fan, a big fan of Anime, but that isn't saying very much. I'm the host and President of the Anime Club @ UC Santa Barbara for the past three years, and I know a few things about the two A's. Administration and Anime.
Anime Expo of 2007 has left me speechless.
The following highlights "events" over a weekend spent in the burning sunlight of Long Beach at AX 2007, chasing the SOS idols.
Disclaimer: To keep this article in a rather neutral stance, it is color coded the following way:
(Please follow the link to the original article to see the formatting)
- Facts: Summary, short and clear
- Experience: This happened.
- Quotes: "As Spoken"
- What You Didn't Know: Some things happening in the background that even on site staff sometimes do not know (Note, much of this is word of mouth information that came from high up management of AX, may contain errors)
- Opinion: Mine, take with grain of salt.
- Rant: Block your ears.
Leave any question or comments at the bottom link.
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The is the end of Day One, and Events that Lead Up to Day Two.
Day One, Saturday 6:10 PM, Front Walkway
The focus panel was over, and the exhibition hall was closed, and it was time to head home for the day.
"Ah! My Friend!!"Having lined up and sat together at the focus panel earlier in the day, we have become good friends with the Japanese fan and his friends. We exchanged greetings, handshakes, and I wondered why the most hardcore SOS-dan fan in the world, did not line up to ask a question at the focus panel, to let the seiyuu's know that he had followed them all the way here to support them, because he had more than an opportunity to nail first spot on the microphone. Note that Wada knows English only to the point of what he probably learned at school, so the conversation continues with his broken English, and my broken Japanese.
-Wada
"The SOS-dan, come, here. To America. Focus Panel, for fans.... in America, so, I not line up."Holy crap, what courtesy! He flew, all the way from Japan, coming to the US all by himself, lines up first for the focus panel, and gets his ass cut by a group of "rule breakers", I think he deserves more than first place on the mic, and to say hello to his beloved idols. But NO. He has the courtesy to allow fans in America to run the focus panel, asking them questions that can't are not only slightly inappropriate in Japan, but lose his chance for center spotlight.
-Wada
Perhaps its cultural, camaraderie among fans in Japan perhaps? This kind of stuff just doesn't happen on these shores. Once the host announced for people to line up for the microphone to ask questions, specifically requesting no punching or kicking, the room explodes and a 60 man line form with in a split second, I thought i saw someone's fist is another person's mouth. Great organization, AX, great demonstration of character, American fans.
Back to the front walkway, we ask Wada when he plans to start lining up for the autograph session scheduled for tomorrow at 10am. It seemed that even the action of asking shocked him.
".....All Night!!"
-Wada
More than a little surprised, since merely lining up for 3 hours had secured us front row seats, with the holy TICKET in hand, forfeiting sleep to line up in the morning for more than a couple of hours was beyond imagine at this point. I pointed out to Wada that he was thinking of competing with Japanese fans, and that American fans are not nearly as "hardcore" as their Japanese counterparts, who sometimes wait in line for days for signatures.
"油斷は禁物"
-Wada
His words blew my mind. Roughly meaning that one must never let one's guards down, we were then offered some veteran advice.
If the signing was to be 1 hour long, and the SOS-dan signs fast, and one signature per seiyuu, one person would perhaps finish in 30 seconds, put this in a pipeline, with no speaking, no picture taking, the process could be sped up to roughly 15 to 20 seconds, meaning that with a signing no longer than one full hour, no more than 200 could bring the trio's signature home.
Lets organize some facts.
With earlier estimation of an entire roll of tickets passed out, around 500 people are going to assume that they will be just zipping pass the line to land themselves an easy autograph.
Cowboy hat AX guy, the host for the focus panel, noted nothing more than the TIME, and LOCATION of the autograph session, which up to this point, didn't exist in the printed schedule, or even announced. Nothing about duration, or any sort of detail, and he also stated that he was unsure of the location he had given.
If you can't nail the first 50 spots in line, your autograph chances decreases dramatically the farther back you are. Assuming that the length is 1 hour, at most 200 would get signatures, if photographs are allowed, -30 people, if talking was allowed, -30 people, if customized signatures were allowed (talking required), -50 more, if multiple signatures were allowed, half the remainder.
Being at anything more than 200th in line, means that you're FUCKED!
Cowboy hat AX guy's words regarding the ticket was "priority" to those non-ticketed. And how is that going to work out? does one non-ticketed person go in every 3 ticketed? or is it half and half? Doesn't that also mean that the first non-ticketed person can go in before many of those who are ticketed?
Information regarding the signing was not poorly advertised, there was zero printed information.
If it wasn't for Wada's smack in the head, we would have shown up no earlier than 8 am.
Holding the golden ticket earned from the focus panel seemed to have "guaranteed the ticket holder a signing", which were the exact words of the person passing out the tickets, but things did not turn out that way at all.
________________________________
Day Two
Early in the morning, we clawed ourselves out of bed and started onto the road to the SOS-dan autograph session. It didn't help that the trip took an hour, all while some dumbass decided to crash and overturn his convertible in the middle of the freeway at 6 AM.
As we join the line, there are about 30 or so people in front, Wada being the first in front. I turned down his heartwarming invitation to join him in the front of the line, seeing that not only will I get mad stares for the next 3 hours, but being 50th in line was a safe bet to get a signature. I was wrong.
The staff then moved the line unto the walls, claiming that we were a fire hazard, and then lined people up, and then down some stairs.
Efficiently blocking exit from a door on the second floor, which seemed like an emergency exit.
At 9:00, the line had fattened, exponentially. The 30 that was in front of us, was now almost 100. We were uneasy, but cutting was inevitable. The probability to land that autograph has already dwindled, but more and more people I haven't seen in the line before went up the stairs, at 9:30, the stairs was packed. The people behind us, under the stairs, along the wall, and unto the bridge, were unfortunately hopeless, they just didn't know.The line on the other side of the picture marked by the purple arrow indicates the Exhibition line starting for form again, those dumb sap's never learn.
10:00 AM
Some started to ask what was going on. The staff knew nothing.
Most of the staff who kept the line in order did not even know what the line was for, much less details of the delay.
Sometime around 10:30, a staff walks out and announces that the signing is RESCHEDULED. They then said they would hand out free tickets to the SOS-dan concert, which were around $30 retail.
I'm unaware of how many tickets that were given out in total, probably 200-300 seeing that they were in tiny paper bags. But there were a couple things overlooked.
Place in line meant nothing, I later re-encountered Wada and his friend Junichi, they were saying how even they have a 5 night stay at the hotel, they are going to spend the third night on the streets, lining up for the same thing.
If you already had a premier SOS-dan ticket, and you were first in line? Go Fuck Yourself.
So there we are, entire morning in the burning sun gone to waste, but hey, we got a free ticket to the concert that was sold out online right? I guess that wasn't so bad.
_____________________________
Day two, Saturday 3:00 PM,
In front of the Arena
The SOS-dan Live
The official rumor was that there are assigned seats. Tickets are limited, there are seat numbers, areas assigned printed on the ticket, it was the logical thing to believe.Assigned Seats = No Need to Line Up.
There was a huge crowd gathered at the entrance of the Arena, but there was no line, and the staff were ordering people to line up at places that later were not part of the line.
at around 30 minutes before time assigned for "Seating" prior to the concert, lines started to form, serious cutting was taking place, but no one really cared, because seating was assigned, a staff member walked around with a megaphone reconfirming this fact.
1 hour later, after having our bags searched for cameras, the line was beginning to be let in.
I am completely baffled by the fact that they thought:
1. searching your bags for food/drinks/camera was at all the right thing to do
2. that the search actually stopped anyone from doing anything.
After I heard about the search, I pulled out my camera from by bag, and stuck in into my jeans pocket, and walked right through.
The only retard they stopped was this Naruto cosplaying kid that had a bag of 2 water bottles, that he was later forced to throw into the trash. What a fucking shame.
Upon entering the actual arena, the crowd was forced to make a line in front of the actual arena doors. When word comes down that General Attendance seating is first come first serve.
Those of you who believe the staff saying that seats were assigned? Staff Lie.
The crowd was highly agitated, with anyone even remotely looked like he was standing up, the entire line would shoot straight up. This line lasted for 2 hours, and the crowd was let into the auditorium at 5:30 PM, 1 hour after the show was scheduled to start.
The live was delayed for a long long time, naturally, the fans blamed AX, as it is well known for its delays, inefficiencies and various problems over the years.
Before the show started, seated audience were blasted by with SOS-dan related commercials. American commercials. They later showed a Anime review show, which proceeded to review The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, the American version, if the title was not obvious.
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu is licensed to Bandai in America, and Bandai employed Bang Zoom! audio studio to dub the series into English.
I have no doubt that Bandai was the force behind the invitation of the SOS-dan ladies, and they wanted to pull a publicity stunt at the show.
It can only be described as GOD DAMN AWFUL! People came here to see Hirano Aya , Goto Yuko , and Chihara Minori, not some pretend American fans rating a show (8.4 btw) they paid 30 dollars to attend a live concert of.
Hearing English dubs was painful at best, but if the show was aimed to promote Haruhi in the US, then it is understandable, but it isn't. The live is for the seiyuu's. Capitalism showing its ugly face at an Anime live, what can I say, we're dealing with Bandai.
In any case, the adver-tainment did nothing to raise the spirits of the tired and agitated fans, who were still slowly coming in.
Around 6:00, the show finally started, we have, an interpreter, along with Patricia Ja Lee as the American host, Patricia, labeled in the picture below, on the left. These two were the bridge of conversation in the whole show.
The two's performance were abysmal.
The two introduced each of the three SOS-dan seiyuu's, Gotou Yuuko, Chihara Minori, and Hirano Aya, allowed each to sing their character songs, and did a comparison voice acting with their American counter parts.
Patricia Lee, cosplaying as Haruhi took the position as the host. I am not aware whether or not she was actually trying to play out Haruhi's American persona, but she came off to the audience as a stuck up self centered bitch. While Haruhi does have that attitude, it comes off as extremely bastardizing in English.
"I Recruit all of You to the ASOS-Brigade"
-Patricia Ja Lee
The part that pisses me off the most is that she believed that ANYONE would give a flying fuck about HER, an English speaking AMERICAN version persona Haruhi. The entire ordeal was a god damn mistake.
First of all, nobody cares about the North American version. The DVD's are barely released in the US, barely anyone has heard of these horrifyingly ear bleeding English dubs, and throughout the hour, the English voices were held much higher respect to the three seiyuu's who have come all this way to perform. The reason why everybody and anybody is in this auditorium in the first place.
I Fucking hate that bitch.
The order for a voice over comparison was Japanese first, then English second.
Anyone who fail to understand the meaning behind this, you are a fool.
They played a copy AFTER an original. In an attitude as if the American voices were somehow better, newer, and more appealing to the audience.
What you Might Not have Known:
Turns out, there are more facts that weigh into the equation: Patricia Lee and all the US voice actors are basically co-workers from Bang Zoom!
This came to me as more of an extreme disrespect for the SOS-dan ladies. The treatment they had received on stage was nothing similar to the sort of professional, rehearsed and coordinated performances they are used to in Japan.
Not only is the host only describable as a crude, unskilled and jaw-dropping bad actor, but she had put the non-English speaking seiyuu's in awkward positions numerous times.
The interpreter was in no way professional, prepared, or knowledgeable towards the context she was translating for. I would not be surprised if Bang Zoom! had pulled her from their accounting department and tossed her on stage because she was bilingual. Her translations were non-existent.
The order of English to Japanese should be Host->Translator->Seiyuu
and Japanese to English would be Seiyuu->Translator->Host
However, this order was broken in the very beginning, when Yokou Gotou spoke understandable amounts of English, and could converse directly to the host and the crowd.
Chihara Minori and Hirano Aya both had moments of blank stares to the camera, when questions directed to them from the host were not translated, and the entire stage crew were looking at them. The translation was so poorly coordinated that the seiyuu's on stage were often not aware of what was even going on.
The portion of Japanese that were translated, lost all of the humor, emotion, and character when originally spoken. The interpreter was also unaware of the meaning of popular ACG phrase "Tsundere". The English speaking audience did not understand more than 30% of what really happened.
".....Huh? What... Is, Tsundora?"
-Bang Zoom Interpreter
There were also a number of technical problems at the live.
There was a mis-sync of the audio the Seiyuu's were singing to, perhaps an ear piece, and the audio that the crowd was hearing. This caused the crowd to hear roughly a 0.3 second delay in the voice projected off the stage.
The seiyuu's were not half a second off beat in singing, it was a technical problem, but they took the fall for it.
There was also electrical noise and stutter in the video feed, all of which could have been prevented. It is unknown whether this problem was caused by the AX staff, or the Long Beach Convention Arena technical staff.
The only part that might have saved the day, was the numerous parts when Patricia Lee played Haruhi's wing-it persona.
"Hey, You know what I think is a Good Idea?"
-Patricia Ja Lee
well, getting the fuck off the stage would have a good been one, but I guess i can't ask for too much, and no one answered.
She had just invited the other two of Bandai's official Haruhi coplayer trio (pictured above) on stage. Contrary to Patricia, the other two spoke in Japanese, were quite cute, soft spoken, and rather popular among the fans.
"Hey... You know what I think is a Good Idea?"
-Patricia Ja Lee
Patricia gives an evil stare at Mikuru's cosplayer.
"GRAB HER BREASTS FROM BEHIND!!!!! and squeeee..."
was the message shooting out of my eyes, but I guess that was also too much to expect from that Fucking Bitch.
Mikuru Mikuru-beamed the crowd, twice.
After being delayed for nearly two hours, the live ended in ninety minutes. I met up with a friend who was doing Press coverage for AX.
"While seeing the SOS-dan was totally worth while, The problems, the host, the interpreter, and the technical issues that occured pains me to see our idols underapreciated."and as we dragged our exhausted, burnt and mind blown bodies back home from AX, day two, we couldn't help but debate as to how much truth lies in the cute final words of Hirano Aya, when there are much greater forces at work behind the industry sponsored convention that is nothing more than doing business, Anime Expo 2007.
"I'l Be Baaaaaack!!!!"
-Hirano Aya
___________________________
Come back for the stunning conclusion that is the Exasperation, Exposition, Explanation Saga, Day Three. Where the true reason of a near-botched signing, and the Idol's reactions to the Live concert are revealed.
Labels: Anime Expo, AX, AX07, Day Two, Exasperation, Explanation, Exposition, Lines, Otaku, SOS, Sunlight, Suzumiya Haruhi
posted by thecrowes at
12:56 PM
3 Comments:
I guess the only thing I need to say is..
"!!!!!!!!!!Patricia Ja Lee sucks!!!!!!!!!!"
I'm speechless....
The fact that you remember all these details are amazing.
I am with you on the part of suffering through this charade, and only hope that the Seiyuu's impression of Americans totally annihilated. I seriously was not watching most of it, because I was too busy shaking my head in disgust.
Thank you for doing the Seiyuu's justice. Now are there is left to do is hope that this is translated and they read it!
man...the concert is really disappointing...everything but seiyuu's part. I was like "WTF" when the host and translator were cutting while ppl still talking...sigh...americans...
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