But seriously, do you ever have delayed
seconds?? Haha
it would practically be called another meal already if I wanted to have
seconds from lunch that delivered by afternoon tea and trust me, food delivery
services have done that to me before lmao
And in an effort to save shipping fees which are now miniscule compared
to the huge impact I am receiving just waiting for this package alone which
should've been the sequel to my birthday presents but... uh... that was March.
*laughs*
Can't believe I'll be using the same menu thing again so here you go:
This is a big box coming and it did take a month to arrive so UNBOXING TIME!!!
Haha come on this one will be interesting
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This box is HUGE~ |
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What is inside, by the way. Again, only Japan will spend money on
bubble wrapping to pad until it hits minimum shipping cost just because.
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Oh hey Hocchan I'm already loving this I don't know why
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Wait, this is with the pamphlet...? Uh oh
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Oh this is the fanclub thing that I've been missing out for more than a
month now haha
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Wow it really looks like a school handbook tbh
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Okay so essentially what this is it's
Takahashi Rie's fanclub yearly subscription where, unlike everyone else
out there, is selling their yearly subscription package in the form of a store
item, and that will grant you access to register for the fanclub itself.
What's more, these subscriptions are only relevant within the year with
respect to the starting date of 15th April ending in 31st March, so I'm about
a month and a half late. Yep, it's that bizarre. You will see the effects of
this time thing soon as I show you around the "school" and you'll realize just
how much of a scam this might have been. *silence* LOVE YOU RIERI!!! *laughs*
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This is a (I Googled and found no info on) PLAYBUTTON gadget package,
where a badge-like item will also function as an audio player, think of
those audiobooks you can buy at the airport
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At least there's a bag to keep it in, nice
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Oh this thing needs charging okay see you later haha (Then again
this has been on the sea for a month so the battery would've depleted)
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Charge via USB by the way. 5V too, as specified by the manual lest
this thing explodes lmao
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I would love to take a photo with my phone in the bag but I just put the
box in instead (Haha)
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Oh, membership card? Not signed though? *dabs* (I know right
Marinka set such a high bar now I can't even)
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And this is where the access code is haha you think I'll let you see it?
(Not even I've registered, no)
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Okay! Now that we ACTUALLY have the damn thing required to register after
paying a damn bomb on this three months ago lmao, let's register for school!
*laughs*
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Step 1 - Click on "JOIN"
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Uh the above is for returning students lol
ronin
please help yourselves there haha (Hey we call them
senpai
they have been here one year more than us)
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And this is how they do this: Step 2 - You send them an empty mail
to a mail address they define (I assume this can be public since your
info isn't in it yet) and they will give you a redirect link. Why
though lol
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First time I've ever used my personal (Outlook) email to send mail in a
long time lmao [And the pointer at the bottom just now mentioned if
email body is necessary add in "rie" and so I did it haha *dabs*]
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You think she reads this and/or some idiot typed an essay of how much they
love her in this? Haha love letters to the principal lol I like this plot
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Please don't dump my Rieri in the Junk mail, please (lol)
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Step 3 - And that's how you can register with your access code and set a
password (For security and love sake's you get the same treatment
as Akarin *wink*)
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And yes if you want to know my profile I mentioned this was my name in
Japan so (I don't intend to lie about where I live and my date of
birth so you're welcome)
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*yay* |
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LMAO I like the school chime ring haha also the only content with her
face in it btw
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Wow number 2999 huh I could've waited for God knows when to get 3k
lol (Then again how long to wait to get this number isn't it?)
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As you can see from just a small look at what it is, the fanclub doesn't
have much content; What I thought was "art room" was not filled with photos,
but her answering fan questions which we can post, it's very selective BUT
here's the twist: she DRAWS the answers by herself so that takes a lot of
effort I guess. There's a schedule so you know how busy she is at work,
and... that's it. Yep. This. And guess what? If you have not signed up for
last year's subscription of which you can still buy the item, you will be
able to see them.
So yeah, I would've paid for a year's membership for Marinka's fanclub even
WITHOUT that signed membership and T-shirt in a box at the same price.
*silence* I think I can come up with a fanclub ranking soon she might be at
the bottom now haha stay tuned for updates
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And if you wonder how I listened to this badge with an audio jack in a
world dominated by USB-C, introducing the "2.5mm Audio Jack Listening
Set"!! *laughs*
Things you'll need: 1. A Bluetooth
speaker or soundbar which has audio input 2. (In this case) A
Male to Male audio jack cable 3. Some damn audio source which
still has an audio jack lmao
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What was in the audio log though? Hmm... they didn't have a tracklist so to
summarize as I cycle through the tracks with the built-in next track button
lol there was a previous button too, first track was introduction to the
site, and then it looks like it's just 10-minute "lectures" (lol) with her
talking about various "subjects" and the second track was "music lessons" so
you can figure out that she was talking about her debut mini-album from
2021. No ASMR lessons though so that sucks haha I KNOW RIGHT?? *laughs* Oh
by the way third track (2nd lesson) was "biology" where she talked about the
mascot of the fanclub - Alpacas. Yep, there were two of them haha- Is this
what it feels like if she was a teacher? *blessed* Well you get the idea
haha THE ALPACA KEYCHAIN SOLD OUT ALREADY??? DUDE WTF
Okay I've exceeded the peak of voice simping let's move on haha
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Come on, we know I bought this photobook for that one bromide photo
haha *dabs*
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And goddamn this is big! Well I meant rack too but the A4 book
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In comparison though, this pamphlet can fit on the palm of my hand lol
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To wrap this up first I guess we having dessert first lol, we have another
first on the list because for a long time I've waited for some
Horie Yui's live tour goods! Can't believe I said (or typed out) that
to be honest, for if you know of one of Anime's voice acting legends... 20
years ago lmao, you would've known her rather low profile solo music career
today, and since 2019 with her revival and with a new image of "book club
girl", she is back with a sequel and an album recently, which brings us to
them bromides and especially, the pamphlet. At first I thought this was a
joke when I saw it in person. No, really, I ain't seen a tour pamphlet as
small as this. I thought I was ordering myself a huge serving of dessert but
turns out this is high-class small-serving food. *laughs* Let's see what it
tastes like, uh, I mean, what it looks like!
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Wow uh huh I love this already hehe I hardly get any of Hocchan
bromides (besides Suruga-ya lmao) so thanks!
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パンフレット
"Horie Yui LIVE TOUR 2022 Bungaku Shoujo Club II ~Houkago Repeat~"
Pamphlet
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This is what, A6-sized? So a quarter of your normal paper by the way
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And this is what it looks like naked, uh, I mean, without the cover
and inlet
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This thick, by the way, meaning loads of content. Smaller content
but
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Oh God what timeline have I travelled to
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Okay now I look like someone from the book club lol
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Horie Yui (17), everyone. *laughs* *sigh*
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Q: Did you get a chance to ride a bicycle to school? A: I walked
to school, tried with one but crashed (Haha we will see why her
school was close to her home in later questions)
Oh yeah,
there are questions spreaded throughout the book and I'll roughly
translate them. Moving on!
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Okay this is totally a scene I wish I had experience in high school,
girlfriend female classmate waiting at the junction
*giggles*
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Oh and by the way Yui-chan her has chest it's just saggy-
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Q: If you walked to school, did you have chances to ride the train? A:
Yes, to grandmother's place in Aomori, feels like travelling overseas
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I mean, she cute though (Hehe)
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Okay I assume that's a love letter for me lol (By mail though?
Haha)
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Love these close-ups, love them. I know it's not very real but I
can dream. *laughs*
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"It's not raining Yui-chan why you holding out an umbrella" lol
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Q: Do you own any special accessories? A: I bought a wallet 200x
the price of a normal one, thought that will make me 200x higher in
income (Wow ok brag about it haha)
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Q: Do you eat
bento in
school? A: High school it's just bento, with frozen foods (warmed
up, I assume) and fried onigiri
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Oooooo she eating a bento!!!! Careful on the cholestrol-
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Shout out to be sitting at the right corner haha they probably had to
staff them just for this
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Oh iconic scene here, with the water fountains
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Q: Were your middle school or high school uniform any special as that
was typical topic of students by school? A: Did look up to that,
but reality is I would choose schools near my home so I just just
liked those (uniforms) (Haha see she is basically
Tsuda from "Seitokai Yakuindomo"
going into a girls turned co-ed school)
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"Oh, I wasn't trying to look at you-"
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You think any female student's bag will be this thin? lol FAKED
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Q: What type of school bags did you use (as a student)? A:
Similar to this during the shooting but cheaper (lol), but I would
decorate the name plates to make them cute (See this is what we
call character development haha)
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OMFG I love ponytails too much on this I took 5 shots of this to get
the perfect one hehe
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Q: Do you like to dance? A: Not great at it but I like to
dance (Yeah, says a lot to be honest but we appreciate the
effort)
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Q: What type of student are you? A: Loved Manga, Anime and
movies, anything goes as long as plot is good. I think and imagine a
lot of those as a kid (And that's probably how she became a voice
actress)
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Don't guess if she drew whatever was on canvas because good chances
it's a yes haha
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Q: Do you have any obsessions about food? A: Not that much
normally due to time constraints, but do tend to want to try local
delicacies when on tours. I normally let people around me recommend me
good food too, yes? (She is blessed with people who care about
good food haha)
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Many would mistake this as a romance plot but I would- YES haha
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Q: Memories of school festivals A: School festivals to sports
festivals I never really joined since I didn't like them, would rather
just have lessons, should've been involved thinking about it now (SAME
DUDE haha)
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She is just laughing that at half past her fourties she still can't do
origami-
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This. This was my definition of Anime girls in 2008, no joke.
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Q: Your (lunch) menu in school A: On days without bento I would
go to the canteen and buy standard cocoa melon bun and coffee milk,
was super into bitter tastes, so it's just these and fried onigiri (Wow
this is interesting her tastes were already so
old back then *memo memo* though I wonder if it's true now it's
been so long-)
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Oh wow another iconic scene, meeting at the rooftops. Not at
night though lol uh oh I might be in trouble (Haha hey Hocchan if
you want a private canoodle...)
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Q: Memories of summer and winter vacations as a kid A:Summer's at
grandma's place in Aomori, did things like pan-crossing where normally
you don't do living and growing up in Tokyo (Interesting...)
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And just some Hocchan on headphones listening to her songs haha yeah
right she might be into punk rock for all we know
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Apparently the concept of "book club girl" was not her idea, as she
only dreamt of it (Haha too real?)
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Interview which I will skip it's quite a lot
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89 pages total, by the way. Almost as much as a photobook, but
smaller.
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I gotta say though, after looking through this small yet thick book maybe a
little blurry just because... I really liked her. If you do, you will know
the feels I have looking back at this treasure along with some Q&A apart
from the tour interview slipped in, which made me wish I was into her that
many years ago. I still do, even though she isn't as active anymore, every
time I see her name and especially hear her voice it brings a tickle to my
heart. Thanks, Hocchan, for doing this because this book was TOTALLY worth
the purchase there were so many pages on that thing! What was I b*tching
about saying that it lacked material- Well if material meant compared to the
photobooks above then yeah but *laughs*
And this will carry me for the rest of the week! *laughs* So yeah, I'll just
do the photobook reviews this weekend or Friday if I get impatient lol. I
have a theme planned around these two this time around unlike the previous
time so this is going to be fun. Again, this is the actual follow-up to my
birthday celebrations as this was planned way back in March so I'm just glad
it is timed for the summer. In the heat of it too, so why not? See you on
the other post.
[TL:DR; Everything reviewed here was SECOND time coming - Second package
post of the month, Rieri's fanclub 2nd year, and Hocchan's 2nd live tour
based on the concept from 2019's album. Yep, totally planned that post
title. *dabs*]
P.S.
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"STEREO MADE IN JAPAN Actual packaging MADE IN CHINA"
やっぱ中国かい!ww
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P.P.S. Oh and if you are keen of what the rest of the audio log of Rieri's
fanclub set was, I switched to my PC's soundbar which had higher
amplification (since you can't expect this thing this small to have high
signal amplitude lol engineer talk), third lesson was "society" so her life
as a voice actress basically she went on for a while though, and it ended
with homeroom. The whole thing just sounded like an hour podcast to be
honest, lovely made into a badge-like goods item I guess.
I would've preferred photos lmao