I’ll be making an appearance!! A live stream—I’m really nervous… but I’m looking forward to it☺︎ There will be original song reveals and more so check it out✅ Thank you!!
School was off yesterday so I went to Disneyland🐭! I was happy to get picked as the [Rebel] Spy in Star Tours for the first time☺︎︎︎︎︎︎☺︎︎︎︎︎︎☺︎ Disneyland is awesome since it’s totally fun even on rainy days!
There was a big announcement on yesterday’s D4DJ live stream! Guess what! The D4DJ characters will voiced by the D4DJ 1st Live main performers! Also!! The characters and cast will be revealed at the 7/20 live! General ticket sales have started so please check it out 🎧
I went to KDHRoom today! Time flies when you’re having fun The new song was lovely and Kudo-san was so cool while singing🥰 It was amazing from beginning to end!!
The 3 Agency Joint Audition Crew! has gathered!! I was hoping we’d eventually be able to do something together but for it to happen so soon!! ┗=͟͟͞͞( ˙∀˙)=͟͟͞͞┛#D4DJ
Quoted Tweet (Hazuki Himari & Kagami Karen Announced for D4DJ 1st Live)
I had my wisdom tooth removed today👨🏻⚕️ My tooth in the upper right was removed but thankfully it hasn’t swollen much…! At this rate I’ll be able to eat whatever I want!!!
Why spend so much on a flashy display that’ll be tossed away in a day or two?
Flower stands are fleeting, but aren’t all experiences? The seiyuu put in everything they have, practicing for weeks, months, all for a performance lasting at most a couple of hours.
There’s something magical about dedicating time/effort/money all for a single chance at making someone happier.
Finding joy in bringing joy to others— for me, there’s nothing more fulfilling than this.
A smile is the greatest reward of all.
A flower stand is a physical manifestation of its contributors’ love and appreciation.
And a frighteningly expensive one too!
But I believe the significance of a flower stand has little to do with flowers and everything to do with its contributors, details, and mere existence.
Simply seeing a flower stand says “someone loves me”.
But I’m greedy.
I want to have so many names that they feel like they have all the support in the world.
I want countless details that they’ll never notice, all in the off-chance that even one of them makes them even a bit happier.
Of course, there are cheaper ways to bring joy to people—gifts, letters, or even comments on social media.
And if you wish to support them in these ways instead, I think that’s just as wonderful!
With infinite ways to make others happy, just finding them is a joy in itself.
Many organizers are coming together to arrange flower stands for all the Bandori seiyuu attending CharaExpo USA this year! =) 今年のキャラエキスポUSA2019にてそれぞれのバンドリ声優宛のフラスタ企画があります！
Please support us in supporting the seiyuu! ^^ 海外のファンだけではなく日本の方も参加できますので是非よろしくお願いします！＾＾
The goal of this flower stand is to make Reochi feel a connection with all of her fans, fellow members, and everyone supporting her. I want all of us to come together to make Reo feel loved, and to make her laugh! れおちゃんにみんなが繋がってる気持ちをさせたいです。最大の笑顔は目指せ！ #チームRASと一緒にできたら何より嬉しいです！よろしくお願いします！
I’m aiming to keep the flower stand itself relatively simple and instead pack the illustrations and overall composition full of references. Reo is always talking about the little details and unseen effort (esp. from staff) that goes into lives. I want every part of the flower stand to include a little detail for her to unwind, like a flowery, illustrated advent calendar of delightful references. For example, the stand will be 152.5 cm tall, Reo’s exact height (the .5 cm is important!). れおちゃんは細かいことをよく話しますのでフラスタの見た目は「シンプル」ですがしっかり観ると色々繋がりと愛を表す形で作りたいです。
Three chibi characters (6.9cm x 4.6cm) will be surrounding Reo to present her flowers: • PAREO (RAISE A SUILEN, Bandori!) (shirt) • Shimizu Esora (Peaky P-Key, D4DJ) • Yumeoji Fumi (Rinmeikan Girls School, Starlight Re:LIVE)
PAREO will be on Reo’s head, throwing confetti (pink and teal PasuPare-like flowers) like she does for CHU²! Message: “Congratulations!” (日本語)
Esora will be on her right doing the Peaky P-Key pose with a big bang (dark green and orange flowers with pointy edges)! Message: “ピキ！” (Peaky!) (日本語)
Fumi will be atop a pool of light blue, lime green, red flowers and holding a bottle of her beloved (yuzu) ponzu with a tag that reads “栞より” (from Shiori). Message: “レッツポン酢！” (Let’s ponzu!) (日本語)
Message Board!
The message board will be a 27.5cm radius circle designed after Agematsu’s macarons (also CHU²’s macarons), representing all the circles of people around her. Contributor names will be placed in a ring around the inner edge, with Reo’s name in the center. The idea is to “surround” Reo with all her supporters!
The macarons will omit her colors and instead be colored after her fellow members!
Upright Macarons • RAS: Red (LAYER), Yellow (MASKING), Lime Green (LOCK), Light Blue (CHU²), Dark Blue (HANAZONO) • Rinmeikan: Light Purple (Tamao), Light Pink (Ichie), Light Green (Rui), Red (Yuyuko) • Peaky P-Key: Red (Kyouko), Violet (Shinobu), Gold (Jennifer)
Flat Macarons • Flag macarons for the contributors’ countries • Cream-colored macarons with”スタッフさん” (Staff) written on them, as Reo never fails to thank all the staff involved. One of these will also have（仮）written on it.
We will be using direct quote from her blog for a small message on the board: この繋がりが私達の宝です！ (This connection is our treasure!) 大好きです！！！ (We love you!!!) byチームRAS (by Team RAS. a reference to her old Twitter post signatures)
rough sketch!
Illustration Details!
Reo will be wearing this dress, which was given to her by Raychell.
Her hair will be black & white twintails (PAREO/Esora), and she’ll be wearing the hat Raychell picked out for her, Pacabou! There will be small white ribbons (Esora), pink + teal hair ties (PAREO) and a star (Shiho) attached to Pacabou. Her earrings will be these ones picked out by her high school friend.
Reo will have her keytar on her back with three charms hanging off it! • The original heart pendant for the necklace with the “S” from her agency logo inside (the president of her agency, Satou Hiromi, picked it up by chance when she lost it) • The wind chime that Reo copied Meguchii’s pose with • The ornament from Fumi’s sash
Reo will be standing on the block that staff custom-made for her, complete with actual green tape on it. Her shoes will be the same ones in the photo!
Her squirrel will be named リスタッフさん (Risutaff-san) Risu (Squirrel) + Staff Its nickname is ふぅさん (Foo-san), because “We are RAISE A SUILEN!!!!! Fooooo!!!!!”
This will also be a joint message across all the RAS stands! Try to find it! =) (Hint: member join order)
Oh, and we are giving Reo a big Kumachi family as an additional gift because we can. The biggest one will be named びっぐまち (Biggumachi)!
Finally, everyone is participating––!! Please sure to get「Getsubushi TV November Edition」on sale 10/8 and apply to see a full member D4DJ live~ HapiAra members are doing the watashikai for this month so don’t miss that either–!! #D4DJ#Getsubushi
HiBiKi Channel–! First episode with Nishio Yuka hosting~ I’m casually chattering away It was fun doing radio again after a while–––– Please listen!!!!! #HiBiKiChannel#JFNPARK
『#CharaEn Pt.2』 I appeared as a special supporter with Oyu-chan♪♪ Looking forward to the Getsubushi TV Shucchouhan Mini Stage on #GetsubushiTV♡♡ Seeing people running, pedaling their bikes, and grooving to the sound of the DJ—everyone was shining✨I was moved😭 Thank you so much🙌❤️
Great work at 2nd Character Enduro 2019! As a special supporter with Aiai-san, we did the starting horn, gave commemorative stamps, and did a Shucchou Getsubushi TV Mini stage! I was struck by how cool everyone looked while doing their best! Humans are amazing. #CharaEn
Thank you for coming to the “Gekkan Bushiroad TV Shucchouhan Stage”~♡ I spun a hula hoop around my neck–!!! We were able to do announcements thanks to Yakushi-san pedaling all over♪Thanksss🙏 #CharaEn has so many things to enjoy~💕 First stage with Oyu-chan✨
Note: One explanation is that Nishimoto Rimi’s character (Wakamiya Chiharu) is the sign girl for a kushikatsu (fried skewers) store. Another possibility is that their characters are from Tebasaki (lit. chicken wing) High School. Both of these are something you might put misodare (miso sauce) on.
We had a #HapiAra rehearsal and recording today🎧 We’re practicing for 2nd LIVE…✨ When I hear everyone going “I’m looking forward to it~” I get even more pumped up☺️💪
I went to LiSA-san’s live–!! It was a cool, cute, and beautiful masterpiece…! There was a song that I love and haven’t heard in a while, it was the best! The direction of this wonderful live made you feel summer coming to a close!! #GurengeTour#Gurenge
Note: The character on her friend’s forehead says “friend”
Starting on 9/30, I’ll be hosting “HiBiKi Channel”, which broadcasts on JFN PARK. Please listen in! I look forward to everyone lending me their ears as I talk about different things–! And so we’re taking submissions for questions you’d like me to answer! Please send in questions with #QuestionsForOyuchan attached! Submissions are accepted until 9/24 at 15:00!!
Thank you for watching the HiBiKi Fan Club live stream–!! I laughed so much it kept my body warm the whole time–! If you missed it, please watch the archive~~ #HiBiKiFan
Thank you for coming to the Rebirth Product Presentation–! Ahh, they piled on the announcements! I’ll have lots of opportunities to share it with all of you–––yay!! I had my hair done similarly to Yuu-chan’s. It’s actually the first time I’ve had my hair in a bun. #Rebirth
Well then, it’s a new day and the Rebirth Product Presentation is today!! It seems like lots of announcements will come like bang bang baang. Exciting, right! Hope to see youuu! #Rebirth
With that said! In the end, I came home then went to the gym. The day after tomorrow is the Rebirth Product Presentation and it’s 1 month to D4DJ2nd, I’m motivated & motivated. I’m fired up–! ┗=͟͟͞͞( ˘ω˘) =͟͟͞͞┛
I’m grateful that tickets are sold out for both🙏 I’m looking forward to them–! Please look forward to them too!!! #Rebirth#D4DJ
After going to karaoke, I thought I’d hit the gym (to run while listening to music) but I forgot my earphones and lost my will to go to the gym, so I’ll sing while running. Huh…? Isn’t this the perfect solution…??? I’ll make that my routine 三(( ˘ω˘))
I watched BanG Dream!FILM LIVE–––!! If you’ve been waiting and want a real LIVE feel then watch with LIVE ZOUND! Kasumi and friends…everyone…was right there! It was a live! I didn’t watch a movie, I watched a live. I need to go watch the cheering screening!! #Bandori#FILMLIVE
Note: LIVE ZOUND is the cinema sound technology used at Cinecitta theaters. A cheering screening is a special type of movie screening where attendees are encouraged to make noise, wave light sticks, etc… as if at a concert rather than a movie theater.
Depending on the song you set as your alarm, you might wake up right away or not be able to wake up, right? Right? I previously had mine set as the Pokémon VS Trainer Battle BGM to give myself sense of urgency, but I got used that so I changed it to this. Just the JAAAAN at the start was enough to wake me right up! (ˇωˇ」∠) → ((⊙ω⊙))
Thank you so much for all your positive replies on my last tweet! I really appreciate it☺️ I will try to tweet in English more often~! So please feel free to leave a comment in in English too😆✨
As I was exiting the front door I thought, “it’s hot”, then accidentally grabbed two parasols on my way out･･･ As expected, it was unneeded･･･┏( .-. ┏ ) ┓
On top of being able to see lots of new illustrations for Yuu-chan and friends, playing with those cards was delightful fun! A precious reality, witnessing the development of a TCG･･･!(ง ˙ω˙)ว I want to hurry and build my own deck–––!!
Hope to see you at Rebirth’s launch presentation on 9/18(Wed)!! #Rebirth
This blog post will compile all the progress for the 3 Agency Joint Audition Crew 2nd Live Flower Stand! All updates will also be posted on my Twitter with the hashtag #OyuHimaringoKagamin2ndFlowers! → Flower Stand Tweet
Though only two of the three seiyuu ended up in the same D4DJ unit, I would like to continue supporting these three together for as long as they hold onto their bond as the joint audition crew! From here on out, they’ll be forming ties with many other seiyuu through their work and, hopefully, receiving lots of love and support regardless of where they go or who they end up with.
The concept for this flower stand is to theme the flowers/illustrations after their new D4DJ characters! As with the previous stand, the idea would be to divide the flower stand into three sections with an illustrated cutout for each seiyuu. The cutouts will have the seiyuu in their costumes, along with a small chibi of their characters.
We may play around the idea of using Oyu as the “Rinku” (link) between these three, though in practice this mostly just means having her in the center. The Happy Around! characters are also named after bridges, so this also ties into this concept.
Hazuki Himari → Merm4id (Hidaka Saori)
Nishio Yuka → Happy Around! (Aimoto Rinku)
Kagami Karin → Happy Around! (Akashi Maho)
These conveniently fall into Autumn-like colors, so we can play around this theme because the live is in October (Autumn)! It’s also vaguely in rainbow order with this arrangement, so that’s another idea.
Outfits for the illustrations are their stage outfits!
Thank you so much to everyone for participating! ^^ I’m also incredibly grateful to our wonderful, amazing florist who worked tirelessly through the typhoon to prepare this stand for us🙏
I wanted to compile the process for the 3 Agency Joint Audition Crew D4DJ 1st Live flower stand somewhere more collected than Twitter, so here we go!
The goal was to make Oyu, Himaringo, and Kagamin feel as much love and support as possible, from as many overseas fans as possible! Their audition results were only announced about three months prior so I wasn’t sure if we’d be able to gather enough support but I was amazed to actually receive a surplus of funds! I was also surprised and happy that someone from Japan personally reached out and asked if they could participate! I’ll definitely be more mindful of this in the future.
Thank you so much to everyone who participated. ^^ Special thanks to Tsukiyo for many things, @Witeria for illustrations, and @pastelprecure for graphic design! This was the first flower stand I’d ever organized and I couldn’t be happier with it! Thank youuu!
It all started with this poll. The goal was for the flowers to be more personal so the original idea was to do backstage flowers for each seiyuu, basically small bouquets that are sent backstage rather than a full flower stand. However, it later turned out that the venue didn’t allow backstage flowers so we went for a full stand instead!
From the start, the ideas for the colors were: Nishio Yuka: 2/3 black, 1/3 white—2/3rds of her clothes are black! Hazuki Himari: 1/2 choco brown, 1/2 mint green—she loves chocolate mint! Kagami Karin: red, white, blue—she was born in America!
Much to my surprise (I expected to pay for most of this), we reached 25% funding with two days! A few days later, it was announced that backstage flowers were not allowed. And so we pivoted into a full flower stand and reached 70% funding just a week later!
The first draft of the flower stand by @Witera with minor edits from myself.
It was way prettier when I got it from the illustrator but I had to make the colors and labels more specific for the florist and so it ended up like this. ^^;
We were approaching full funding far ahead of schedule and so I created a poll (the first of many) to decide what to do with excess funds. We settled on something “Decorative”, though it was closely tied with “Functional”. (I couldn’t actually think of something functional so this was a huge relief…)
We decided on teddy bears after a 15-0 vote! And their names? Nishio Yuka: DJ サプライズ/Surprise (from STAY TUNE #2, she loves surprises) Hazuki Himari: DJ Himaringo (Otsuka Sae’s nickname for her) Kagami Karin: DJ Sierra (from STAY TUNE #2, her middle name)
I went shopping shortly after and chose these three cuties and headphones for them!
DJ Surprise
DJ Himaringo
DJ Sierra
DJ サプライズ looked way too smug and I just had to grab it for Oyu! DJ Himaringo was based on thin mints (i.e. chocolate mint)… what are the chances? DJ Sierra was super precious and gave me the same vibes I got from Kagamin on the one and only stream she had been on at the time (STAY TUNE #2).
At this point, the names for DJ Surprise and DJ Sierra were good to go but DJ Himaringo didn’t feel quite right so I created another poll (but not before messing the previous poll up first, oops)! DJ りんご (ringo, apple) – based on Himaringo DJ しょくま (shokuma, shoku/food + kuma/bear) – Himari loves food DJ 配布 (haifu, distribution) – Himari distributes anime character goods among her friends DJ チョコミント (chocomint) – Himari loves chocolate mint
After they were stuffed, the staff informed me that we could add scents! I spent too much time sniffing every single scent (this was like hunting for aromatherapy oils for Rikopin all over again…). I’m so sorry, kind staff lady! D=
Oyu: Popcorn (she has this thing about cheese and this was as close as I could get) Himaringo: Thin Mints (you know the drill by now) Kagamin: Strawberry (I honestly didn’t know enough about her so I played it safe)
Ribbon concept!
Thanks to the magic of 100 yen stores, I found bags and little decorative flowers as soon as I arrived in Japan!
Bags for Oyu (left) and Kagamin (right)!
Flowers!
I’d like to thank @Witeria once again, both for the incredible illustrations and also for putting up with my constant requests to add in details. ><
I went shopping at Kiddy Land (for Rimirin, actually) and found a Disney bag for Himaringo! On a radio show she was on a few days prior, Himaringo mentioned liking Disneyland so much that she goes at least each month. She didn’t name any favorite character and so her bag has ALL THE CHARACTERS~!
This was my first time making ribbons so it took… a fair amount of time.
Ribbons are hard…
Oyu
Himaringo
Kagamin
And final pictures of the plushies in their bags! Had a little too much fun with Kagamin’s.
Smug
Cute
Definitely not a bunny
Finally, the day of the event!
Our final stand!
Our final stand 2!Our wonderful message board by @pastelprecure!
Seiyuu Tweets: Oyu • Himaringo • Kagamin Oyu’s natsumi burger (without tartar sauce) comment still cracks me up to this day!
And that’s it for this flower stand!
More than anything else, I’m truly happy and grateful that 21 people from around the world came together to send their love and support to these three who are just beginning their journeys as seiyuu! Showing someone that you care for them and want to make them happy, regardless of the response… I think that’s one of the most important things in life. Putting everything you have into something for someone, praying it’ll make them even the slightest bit happy—aren’t gifts wonderful?
Animelo Summer Live 2019-STORY- I went to see all three days–!
Everyone was truly wonderful and it reaffirmed my feelings that anisong is life.
I’ve been coming to see Anisama every year since 2009 and it’s a stage that I aspire to. I’ll do my best so that I can perform there one day. I’m gonna do my best.
A notification got stuck on my screen partway in but I was still able to full combo!! “I’ll take a screenshot~ Ah, but I’ll retake the screenshot once FULL COMBO appears!” or so I thought, but I messed up and put my phone into sleep mode. No more full combo. #Garupa
#PokemonMasters has been released–!!! I actually like Pokémon games so much that I’ve been playing all of them since first gen( ˘ω˘) I most into Ruby/Sapphire and I knew the strategy guide by heart( ˘ω˘) I’m filled with excitement the moment I start my adventure in each new series–––
I went to UNISON SQUARE GARDEN’s 15th [Anniversary] Tribute Live–!! It was a bundle of feels and pure fun that was over in no time…it made me think, “I love rock.” I enjoyed it to death.
Surprising people is my hobby—well, now someone surprised me and I didn’t realize it was a surprise at first( ˘ω˘) It’s not close to my birthday or anything so it was really unexpected! lol My friend gave me an original T-shirt and it’s overflowing with detail, love, and references—I’m really happy👚
I went to #PokemonEscape!! I got too excited and wore my Ditto soda t-shirt so I was cold fufu( ˘ω˘) Successfully escaped👏We tried another one but weren’t able to escape there–––it was super fun though!
It looks like some people have put stickers by Rinku…! Ooh thanks–––!! “There are people who like her”, is enough to make me happy( ˘ω˘) Please be sure to vote for your favorite girl–!! #D4DJ
I went to see a movie after getting new glasses and a Minion! was there! My new glasses are actually a Minion model. And I was wearing overalls too. Wow. We’re basically the same. Feels like USJ. Osaka (Tokyo).
Note: Universal Studios Japan is in Osaka, she’s in Tokyo.
2nd Character Enduro 2019 in Mobara I’ll be coming in as a special supporter!! I’ve never watched a bicycle race in person so my curiosity is piqued=͟͟͞͞( ˙∀˙)=͟͟͞͞ #CharaEn#GetsubushiTV
Quoted Tweet (Nishio Yuka / Aiba Aina Special Supporters at CharaEn2019)
Thank you for watching #D4DJ Unit Meeting Happy Around!–! HapiAra in the same place for the first time…! The mini chars were cute too!! From now on the four of us are going to make it Happy Around! us!!!!
By the way, I went for a HapiAra feel with Rinku’s color on my skirt! You couldn’t really see it when I was sitting!! #HapiAra
Thank you for coming to the watashikai–! I was happy to learn that people are coming to my lives and looking at my Twitter!! I want to talk with you all again~~! #Getsubushi
It’s on sale tomorrow! First-come-first-served…! Please GET the event participation ticket and come meet me & come receive from me! Looking forward to it––┗=͟͟͞͞( ˙∀˙)=͟͟͞͞┛ #Getsubushi#Oyunesu
Note: A watashikai is an event where you buy specific goods and the special guests will personally hand them to you. Alternatively, you buy specific goods for a participation ticket and they’ll hand you a token (like a postcard) at the event itself. Getsubushi watashikais use the latter.
I was seeing a lot of people carrying around fans, and then I remembered. I have the one I bought last year that made me go “how cute!” and immediately fall in love. I’ll start walking around with it tomorrow.
I went to Ueda Marie-san’s (Shinimonogurui) live, “Five FLOWERS day2-BAND- Divine emotion”! It was overwhelmingly powerful and cool—I have pure admiration. It was my first time seeing the other band, Shin Tenchikaibyaku Shindan-Zigzag-san, but they were super interesting & they have my type of melodies so I could get into them┗=͟͟͞͞( ˙∀˙)=͟͟͞͞┛
Note: Shinimonogurui is a fictional band from “Show By Rock!!” whose songs are performed by Ueda Marie. This band’s vocalist/guitarist, Mari Mari, is her favorite Sanrio character after Hello Kitty.
I will be appearing here~! My 2nd live stream ever…😖 I am starting to get nervous, but I’m really looking forward to it!! Please be sure to watch!!✨ #D4DJ
Quoted Tweet (D4DJ Unit Meeting #1 w/ Happy Around!)
The preview video for HappyAround!’s 2nd song, “Direct Drive!”, has been released♫✨ I sang in English for a lot of this song! It was so much fun!! I tried my best to sing it in a cool way😊 Please be sure to listen to it a lot!!
I went to see a stage play! I still have a lot to learn😖 I drank tapioca afterwards~! moomin tapioca stand…a wriggly thing was attached to the straw…👀 Only half of the tapioca is left in the picture because it was so delicious that I was focused on drinking it… It was gone by the time I noticed…😭
The 3 Agency Joint Audition Crew and a flower stand addressed to the 3 of us!🌸The attached illustrations of us 3 are so cute…!! Thank you😭 I was really happy to receive letters and presents too~! Thank you!😊
Good work!!✨ It was really fun being with Reo-san over these two days! Thank you for all of your encouragement😭 I am looking forward to eating with you again~!!
Thank you for coming to #D4DJ 1st LIVE DAY1 & DAY2–!😊 It was my first live ever, full of firsts like singing and dancing, but it was really fun!! I will do my best as a member of Happy Around! to create more and more enjoyable stages for everyone!✨ I hope you will continue to support me–!!😊
I performed the #BCF2019 EXinMakuhari tournament opening call! Thank you! Aimi-san Nishio Yuka-san Mimura Haruka-san we performed the call together✨ Thank you to everyone who gathered for it!
#BCF2019 EXinMakuhari I will be doing the tournament opening call at the International Exhibition Hall, Hall 2 around 9:40! I will do my best💪Hope to see you there–!😆
I’m Kagami Karin. I was announced as the voice of Akashi Maho for Happy Around! at #D4DJ 1stLIVE today! Thank you so much for today! I will do my best to create a stage where everyone can be happy from now on! Thank you for your support! 😊
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