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Post by stranger on Apr 28, 2014 22:57:20 GMT -4
That's so smart!
I'm afraid if I did that though, I might walk out with a boatload of merch anyways, since it's like a "once-in-a-lifetime" type thing and I already saved up the money (okay maybe that's not the best phrase to use but you never know if you'll come across it again, especially for that price). I know that'll be the case if I ever go to a Nana concert...I'll get one...no, two of everything
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Post by Vívace on Apr 28, 2014 23:03:15 GMT -4
If I ever went to a Nana concert I will have at LEAST 500$. At LEAST.
Cause I will be getting EVERYTHING. EVERYTHINGGGGG. I will be waiting for that day. Not this year though, otherwise I'm not eating for half a year. I:
ON A SIDE NOTE: My first press limited regular album came with the lotto ticket for the handshake event which passed like a week ago. And even if I did win I couldn't really use it.. sooo yep. Looks like I'm going to frame that lotto ticket to my wall or something.
I just thought that was pretty amusing. Haha.
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Post by stranger on Apr 29, 2014 0:15:57 GMT -4
Hahaha, I'm not even sure if $500 would be enough!! Just because I'm curious... www.mizukinana.jp/special/2013_livecircus_goods/If you bought everything there...that'd be...75,600 yen...so around $700-800...some you could do without, like the nendoroid, but I might buy multiple I-phone cases since those look sooo cool! In fact I might have to hunt one down on YAJ now. If she has a concert in the future in America, we should definitely all have a Nana board meet-up!
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Post by Vívace on Apr 29, 2014 0:43:40 GMT -4
Let me know where they sell those iPhone cases!!
They look so fabulous, and speaking of which, I have a couple of extra change soooo *whistle whistle*
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2014 0:44:46 GMT -4
i currently still using LIVE CIRCUS case for my iphone. took this pic last September as proof.
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Post by stranger on Apr 29, 2014 1:26:03 GMT -4
It looks awesome! I wish it wasn't so expensive...
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Post by gunsmithcat on Apr 29, 2014 10:12:11 GMT -4
Thank you stranger for your kind words. Keep an eye on your relatives and friends, and when they start behaving weirdly all of a sudden, get them to the hospital immediatly. Strokes are difficult to detect for normal people and most of the time the victim doesn't realize it either. If it is as bad as it was with my mother, they can't even tell you their name anymore. Vivace, a birthday card? Nana doesn't settle with this, they send out CDs with spoken messages by Nana. Read and weep about it here. rjokami.blogspot.de/2013/06/on-june-7th.htmlIn 2000 - 2004 i was an avid fan of the all-female band the Bangles. They hailed from California and after the reunion in 2000, played there all the time. Their international fans complained all the time how they are always playing in the same spots, while the Californians had all the good stuff, got to meet the band etc. To see you Californians now complaining about being too far away from Nana feels like.....justice. But all kidding aside, one of the Californian fans invited me over there to go and see 3 concerts with him and he paid for everything which must have been going into the thousands. I even get to meet the bassist, and the guitarist of the band backstage and have two photos with them. Months later they came to London for a concert, and i could get their autographs on those pictures. Two very nice people, with the same grounded, friendly, girls-next-door personas that Nana has. I have only positive memories of California and the people there. I also know what it means to be a Nana fan in another country. I made a german Nana blog and i got excactly 2 comments within one year. I made a german Facebook page and got 10 "likes" within 10 months, i asked a rather big german anime internet shop why they don't have any Nana CD's and they replied that no one has ever asked for one. I asked another shop, and they tell me to go to the first shop. I send a message to the german anime magazine Animania and ask them why they never write anything about Nana and don't even get a response. I give a young woman who gave me back massages when i had back problems last year, a DVD with some assorted Nana stuff like Live footage, and MP3 but i never received any response. I send 3 similar DVDs to my sister and she doesn't even bother to look at it. And don't even get me started about some anime boards. At least one guy always makes fun of Nana Mizuki, the meaningless, talentless niche-singer. Just a few days ago he made fun of her #1 album and i posted this picture as a personal special message for him, directly from Nana. But at least i managed to get Nana's name into some political commentary for the website of a magazine. Ha! ef-magazin.de/2013/12/06/4715-deutschland-erlebnisse-eines-niemandsFor some reasons, a popular youth magazine had Nana and TM Revolution on a poster in one of their weekly issues. Perhaps in reference to the MP3 single release of Preserved Roses. Look how tiny Nana's name on it is. Here are the visitor numbers of my Nana Mizuki TV Treasure chest. No american fans, my ass. Japan 2568 USA 842 Taiwan 688 Indonesia 623 Singapore 620 Mexiko 331 Russia 327 Brazil 285 South Korea 202 But i had visitors from other countries as well. Turkey, Saudi-Arabia, Peru, Spain, Canada, Italia, Netherlands, Thailand, Argentina, France, Greek, Australia, UK, etc etc. I've installed this visitor counter months after i started the blog, thats why the numbers don't match up. The numbers above are the visitors counted by blogger itself from the beginning. www.supercounters.com/countries/674434
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Post by Vívace on Apr 29, 2014 10:57:19 GMT -4
Gunsmithcat.. oh my gosh, Nana has thought of everything!! Seriously, everything. I want to join this fan club even more now... Sadly my birthday passed this month. D:
Nana, how do you find time to do this, this is why you only sleep 4 hours...
She works so hard for her fans...TT^TT
I'm shedding inside tears now.
I recently made a friend who is a diehard Naruto fan and I was surprised he didn't know Mizuki Nana existed. But hopefully I can successfully convert him onto the Nana hype train since these past few days he has been asking me a bit more questions about her...haha.
And shame on those "anime" stores for not knowing the most iconic seiyuu there is, and that's a fact because Nana did many things seiyuus have not, and they STILL don't know her? Tsk tsk.
Nana is meaningless and niche? Tell that with a straight face to someone who performed at Tokyo Dome...
I hate people who make assumptions about others without even knowing them.
DUDE...that picture of Nana you posted as a retort...HAS JUST MADE MY DAY. THANK YOU. LOL
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Post by gunsmithcat on Apr 29, 2014 11:12:50 GMT -4
I brought up the Tokyo Dome and Kohaku performances as well in some other discussion, but there is very little to help the delusional. To dislike her voice, looks whatever, its all about opinions, but to deny and ignore sales numbers, i.e. facts? But the guy is raging about anything that has the word "Nana" in it. Animes, other people, etc. Maybe he was beaten up by girl named Nana in school?
That picture is hilarious isn't it? Thats from Live Academy/Live Games Blue Stage making of, i think. And she was counting or something, and at one point it looks like she is giving the finger and is laughing about it, like some superrude stuck up, arrogant bitch, who deems anyone lesser than her. It was so much the opposition of what Nana appears to be, i had to make this screenshot.
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Post by Sai on Apr 29, 2014 18:57:22 GMT -4
Hahaha, that screenshot is indeed a wonderful contrast to Nana's actual demeanor. I haven't had much luck converting other people to Nanaism either, really. I got one of my friends fairly into her, sent her a lot of songs, watched some concerts with her, even got her to join this forum for a while! But then that fizzled out and she forgot about Nana and it's a total sore spot in our relationship because I'm super offended that she'd just drop Nana like that. Grrr. I'm mostly kidding. ...Mostly. But yeah, aside from that, no one else. My, um, grandma thought she was really talented? But she prefers Ayumi and Morning Musume, hahaha.
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Post by relmy on Apr 29, 2014 19:20:14 GMT -4
You all put my handful of CDs to shame! I'm not dedicated enough to anyone to buy AND store that much merch. I had to move back in with my mum temporarily and I was sorting all the merchandise I've bough for games/singers etc... and 99% of it is in a box to be sold now. If I left it at my mum's for 3 years and didn't miss it, I probably don't need/want it. No Nana CDs in that box though.
Nana's lack of fame in the anime community isn't that odd. Most anime fans here don't seem to care about opening/closing songs beyond associating them with the anime. If it's one they like it'll be "the opening to xx" or whatever. Knowing Jpop in any degree is kind of an oddity in the Japanese fandom circles nowadays though. It's either Kpop or vocaloid, it seems. Gone are the glory days of Avex and InuYasha. I was on my uni's anime soc committee, and one week we did a quiz. Every answer in my round was Nana Mizuki (it was a running joke that I would make it the 'Nana Mizuki society'). My other round was anime music but I only chose Western songs used in anime to annoy the JAPAN IS BETTER!!! types. Fun times.
I actually got one guy into Nana, but he was a creep and I stopped talking to him. Other than that, the only person I've met who knew of her was Japanese. This girl didn't know her music, but said 'She sings like Ayumi Hamasaki.' I think I've mentioned that before, it was odd, but I kind of get it.
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Post by Vívace on Apr 29, 2014 19:26:55 GMT -4
It's seriously a shame though. This is why Vocaloid was born. Vocaloid was made so that fans wouldn't hover over "an idol" and actually appreciate the people behind the scenes that make all the music. But that doesn't work out since Hatsune Miku is the most overrated thing ever. Not even the other Vocaloids are as acknoledged as her and people STILL don't who exactly makes her voice.
Now we have the same scenario here with people blindly watching anime and not appreciating all the great voices, music, and producers of a show. Even though they claim themselves as the "otakus."
I mean, when we listen to Nana's music, of course Nana is the highlight, but she doesn't make the music. We give credit to Elements Garden. She doesn't compose much of the lyrics; we give acknowledgment to SAYURI/HIBIKI.
I'm actually scared of how shallow some people are. :/
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Post by relmy on Apr 29, 2014 19:40:15 GMT -4
I don't think people liking a song from an anime is shallow if they don't delve into the singer etc... I think it's mostly just they a) aren't that interested in music or b) have an established music interest outside of anime. They don't go to the anime for music, they like plenty of other music. When I did my Western music in anime round their lack of knowledge on Western music was just as poor, so it's probably the former, and with some of them mixed with 'Japan is better at everything'.
Of the people I know into anime, very very few would use the term otaku. Most of my friends (and me, really) are pretty casual about anime or came from a film background. Drunk pretentious discussions about Perfect Blue are better than internet otaku fanwank over whatever the current big series is. (Tip: don't ever watch Satoshi Kon drunk)
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Post by Vívace on Apr 29, 2014 19:52:27 GMT -4
I had meant that sometimes people could be shallow when they watch an anime and don't appreciate the people behind the making... but that's my own opinion, honestly.
I have a few otaku friends though, and I'm surprised they don't know most of the seiyuus, because as otakus that technically means they watch anime day and night, obsessed basically, which they are. Wouldn't you kind of already know who voices what, who usually does what? Or is it just me? Because when you watch a lot of movies it's the same thing- actors will be recognizes and more and more familiar faces will appear; you'll gradually be able to recognize voices (faces in this case) from the moment a movie starts, or when you see the opening credits- oh! Morgan Freeman stars in this- I know him! kind of scenario.
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Post by relmy on Apr 29, 2014 20:02:22 GMT -4
Most people I know care more about the studio, director or source material over the voice actors. Most of them would probably be like 'oh hey, it's that voice!' because they watch so much, but not to the extent that it influences their choice of anime. With anime being mostly pre-animated a voice actor/actress doesn't have the same scope to influence a character as an actor or actress.
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