Fighters Tamashii
Aug. 13th, 2009 12:23 amToday in the afternoon I hung out with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
februaryfour in Ikebukuro. We had kaitensushi and played Block People and sang karaoke. The notable thing is that we found out that Block People HAS AN ENDING, which means that after a certain round you just... win. So since we finished "ordinary" we started on the "advanced" level, which was indeed kind of hard. Sometime will have to see exactly how difficult it gets. As for karaoke, everywhere we wanted to go was full so we ended up at a place called 747 which was not full and which was in a basement. My brain is blanking on whether I particularly accomplished anything today -- I actually mostly sang stuff I've never tried before at karaoke, in some cases things I hadn't heard in a few years. I feel embarrassed that I have to read furigana so much though. Ai mostly sang anime songs, none of which I really knew because I'm pretty much anime-illiterate. I debated doing something from Rayearth but I think I'll save that for when Carl and Oren are here.
After that, went to the Tokyo Dome. Met up with my friends, we went to do pinbadges except WAIT A MINUTE, HAYAMI KENTARO IS HAVING A SIGN-KAI ISN'T HE? so instead we went to find that. Hayami Kentaro is a J-pop singer guy who's sung most of the Fighters music in the last few years, including my personal FAVORITE BASEBALL SONG EVER, Fighters Tamashii (Spirit). I loooove his songs, actually, and they were selling a new CD called Fighters Kamagaya Songs. 4 songs and 3 karaoke tracks -- the dumb one is that it has the Hokey Pokey since they use it for "Cubby Taiso", but they also have Fighters Tamashii and the new "Kamagaya Tokimeki Fighters" and the Fighters sanka. It was only 1000 yen, so I bought it and I got it signed by Hayami Kentaro and also by Cubby, the Kamagaya mascot. I shook Hayami's hand -- I only wish that I'd said something about how much I love that song, or something, but I was too nervous.
Anyway, the cool part is he also did a mini-concert on the field around 5:15pm and sang Fighters Tamashii and the new Kamagaya song. It was awesome! I was singing along to Spirits and Ojisan's like "why do you know this song so well?" and I'm like "It's my FAVORITE FIGHTERS SONG EVER!" He also sang the Fighters sanka (essentially our fight song) and had everyone in the stands sing along. Very fun.
Oh yeah, but unfortunately the game itself sucked. Hideki Sunaga started for the Fighters and one of my friends looooves him so she gave us all Sunaga signs to hold up. I like him too since he's from Arakawa-ku and went to Uragaku. Sadly he had a monster terrible inning where he gave up a bazillion home runs to the Buffaloes and so the Fighters lost 8-2.
I enjoyed the game anyway though. Said hi to a whole bunch of people before and after, including one of my friends who was like "you'll never believe who we met in the stands today," and shows me a photo of him and his wife and his son with Yukio Tanaka. Holy crap! This is the guy who named his son Yukio, so it was really cute, he had a "Yukio 2-shot" photo as he called it. But I'm super jealous. Wonder if I should buy an S seat tomorrow and stalk the infield stands instead :)
Oh yeah, was also told by one of my Hokkaido friends that if I want to go to Hokkaido in October, just contact one of the people I met there last week, and they should be able to put me in their cheering group area somewhere. Cool.
One last thing: I rode my bike to Itabashihoncho instead of Motohasunuma today. I think I'll be doing that more in the future, now that I've figured out the bike parking lot. The escalators at Itabashi make me ninety times happier than climbing a bazillion stairs right before getting on a bike. Longer bike rides aren't bad either.
februaryfour in Ikebukuro. We had kaitensushi and played Block People and sang karaoke. The notable thing is that we found out that Block People HAS AN ENDING, which means that after a certain round you just... win. So since we finished "ordinary" we started on the "advanced" level, which was indeed kind of hard. Sometime will have to see exactly how difficult it gets. As for karaoke, everywhere we wanted to go was full so we ended up at a place called 747 which was not full and which was in a basement. My brain is blanking on whether I particularly accomplished anything today -- I actually mostly sang stuff I've never tried before at karaoke, in some cases things I hadn't heard in a few years. I feel embarrassed that I have to read furigana so much though. Ai mostly sang anime songs, none of which I really knew because I'm pretty much anime-illiterate. I debated doing something from Rayearth but I think I'll save that for when Carl and Oren are here.After that, went to the Tokyo Dome. Met up with my friends, we went to do pinbadges except WAIT A MINUTE, HAYAMI KENTARO IS HAVING A SIGN-KAI ISN'T HE? so instead we went to find that. Hayami Kentaro is a J-pop singer guy who's sung most of the Fighters music in the last few years, including my personal FAVORITE BASEBALL SONG EVER, Fighters Tamashii (Spirit). I loooove his songs, actually, and they were selling a new CD called Fighters Kamagaya Songs. 4 songs and 3 karaoke tracks -- the dumb one is that it has the Hokey Pokey since they use it for "Cubby Taiso", but they also have Fighters Tamashii and the new "Kamagaya Tokimeki Fighters" and the Fighters sanka. It was only 1000 yen, so I bought it and I got it signed by Hayami Kentaro and also by Cubby, the Kamagaya mascot. I shook Hayami's hand -- I only wish that I'd said something about how much I love that song, or something, but I was too nervous.
Anyway, the cool part is he also did a mini-concert on the field around 5:15pm and sang Fighters Tamashii and the new Kamagaya song. It was awesome! I was singing along to Spirits and Ojisan's like "why do you know this song so well?" and I'm like "It's my FAVORITE FIGHTERS SONG EVER!" He also sang the Fighters sanka (essentially our fight song) and had everyone in the stands sing along. Very fun.
Oh yeah, but unfortunately the game itself sucked. Hideki Sunaga started for the Fighters and one of my friends looooves him so she gave us all Sunaga signs to hold up. I like him too since he's from Arakawa-ku and went to Uragaku. Sadly he had a monster terrible inning where he gave up a bazillion home runs to the Buffaloes and so the Fighters lost 8-2.
I enjoyed the game anyway though. Said hi to a whole bunch of people before and after, including one of my friends who was like "you'll never believe who we met in the stands today," and shows me a photo of him and his wife and his son with Yukio Tanaka. Holy crap! This is the guy who named his son Yukio, so it was really cute, he had a "Yukio 2-shot" photo as he called it. But I'm super jealous. Wonder if I should buy an S seat tomorrow and stalk the infield stands instead :)
Oh yeah, was also told by one of my Hokkaido friends that if I want to go to Hokkaido in October, just contact one of the people I met there last week, and they should be able to put me in their cheering group area somewhere. Cool.
One last thing: I rode my bike to Itabashihoncho instead of Motohasunuma today. I think I'll be doing that more in the future, now that I've figured out the bike parking lot. The escalators at Itabashi make me ninety times happier than climbing a bazillion stairs right before getting on a bike. Longer bike rides aren't bad either.
