4xLv28 vs 3~6xlv40+ is workable... until it got to power types =.= I knew I was no gamer... I shall take a rest and type up today's report instead lolx.
I only decided to go to this like this Monday... Ok no wonder... the upper section of the 2nd floor was really pretty empty. Hmmmmm. I would have thought this cast would warrant better sales than this... HMMM. Oh well. I wonder whether it's because some other event was going on. No matter what it is, I would have to say, THEY MISSED OUT. Lolx. Cos it was Hibiya Koukaidou so I was thinking, obviously there won't be place to sit/etc so I went pretty late... I really kind of wanted the red penlight but well the penlights were sold out. Interestingly they sold penlights with KOEI's logo (only) on it haha. So I ended up buying nothing!! YAY. Anyway it's the first time I've been to Hibiya Koukaidou and GOSH I LIKE THIS BUILDING. SO PRETTY.
Anyway onto the show itself. To make things simple (and my life easy) I shall use hanyu pinyin (you know why there are "v"s right...) =))) Haha. First off, cast:
Zhao Yun/Zhuge Liang - Onosaka Masaya
Bao Sanniang - Nonaka Ai
Cao Pi - Canna Nobutoshi
Lu Xun - Nojima Kenji
Lv Bu - Inada Tetsu
Sima Shi - Okiayu Ryoutarou
Sima Zhao - Kishio Daisuke
Wang Yuanji - Itou Kanae
YOU KNOW I WENT BECAUSE OF AIPON RIGHT??? Ok not true. Haha. Randomly Hou Sanjou and Bao Sanniang sounds like two different person haha. Opening announce. Yuanji was looking for Sima Zhao because they were supposed to do the announcement together but bumped into Sanniang instead. So they do the normal stuff. And Sanniang tried to sound like Yuanji in one part and Aipon kind of reminded me of her role in Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko. Haha. Adult-ish feel haha SO CUTE! (ok I shall cut down on my random outbursts of AIPON SO CUTE!! lolx.)
So starts the show. Cast appears one by one in character... and in comes the ever useful cheat sheets haha. Haaa-- the good old (?) SSM charas that I know and love!! Oh you need to see Okki's shiny white suit and hear the laughter from the audience when they saw it. Audience: "DAISAKU!!" Daisaku: "司馬子譲と言います。" LOLX. Well Daisaku is not Daisaku if he doesn't react to the audience. *shrugs* And last to come onstage was of course~~~~!!! LV BU!!! I love how the audience squeal at the keyword "雑魚共ぉぉぉ!!" hahahah. Classic Lv Bu phrase ne. His 雑魚共 probably = things like Oscar's ojou-chan and Francis' Lady. Ok off track. And then Inada-san had make-up on so that his eyebrows looked exactly like Lv Bu's. Omg first time I know that you can look like Lv Bu just with that eyebrows. Plus he had this high ponytail and he just needs a pair of antennae to complete Lv Bu's look hahaha. Then comes in the intro. KING OF DESTROYER!!! I think this song is really really shen. I mean. "The Theme of Lv Bu" is probably the most prominent piece in the SSM soundtracks (ie all players should know it) and the lyrics and Inada-san singing totally in character. 神曲!!
Live drama part 1. There are 3 parts to the drama btw and it follows chronological order. But due to the lack of cast there today some parts are more like monologues than dialogues. Anyway first part. Hulaoguan, Lv Bu vs Zhao Yun. "Reason to fight." Lv Bu captured, monologue before death. Zhao Yun vs Cao Pi. Er maa still something along that line. Actually I think there is more narration/words on screen than actual spoken lines. I don't get the excessive moving of the mics... why can't they just leave them in strategic places instead of moving them around like this? Don't tell me it's because they only have 2 mic stands =.=
Next is the corner that everyone has been waiting for... GAME CORNER! The game is like this. Cast is divided into 2 teams, each team acts out a drama. Inside the story, there are 4 places where they have to insert a sound effect. For each place, there are 2 kinds of sound effects they can choose from (like there is A and B but they don't know what sound it would be). So after the sound effect is inserted they have to ad lib their way back to the original story (Masayan: "ie, you have 4 chances to boke"). Ok this is incredibly long when put into words. The hosts for the corner is Zhuge Liang and Bao Sanniang. Every word, I stress, EVERY WORD that comes out of Zhuge Liang's mouth brought roars of laughter. Maybe this is exactly why ppl don't want to know the 中の人 of 2D characters. HAHA. Sanniang kept tsukkomi-ing his way of speaking too (yar Aipon was laughing almost throughout the whole intro drama). ANYWAY. The two teams are Musou team (Cao Pi, Sima Shi, Lv Bu) and Ranbu team (Lu Xun, Wang Yuanji, Sima Zhao). Yar Lu Xun is such a big light bulb =.= Btw Masayan was jealous of how Aipon was very popular even though there are more females in the audience. Aipon: "Then what -pon are you? Masapon?" Masayan: "Then Masapon I shall be BUT JUST FOR TODAY." This sparked a rush of "Yanpon" "Onopon" "Sakapon" etc. And then apparently in the afternoon show this corner got dragged on for very long because of Daisaku's ad libbing and Masayan got scolded by the staff. As expected haha.
First off was Musou team. Narrator was Aipon. Story goes like this. The 3 of them has gotten together to participate in a competition to decide who is the best magician in the country. Cao Pi brings out his 伝国の玉璽 (Musou full x10sec!) and turns it... *sound effect: cuckoo clock* LOLX. Apparently it is only useful when it cuckoos. Sima Shi uses Sima Yi's black feather fan (haha) and turns it into... Er sorry I don't remember. Lv Bu turns his 方天画戟 into... *sound effect: that one that they always use when someone get a question correct* Lv Bu says it turned into 茶目っ気 LOLX. 稲田さんこそ、お茶目ですね。 Anyway most of the ad lib convos were OOC and Masayan kept repeating "character! character!!" And so cos they couldn't decide who was the best magician the comp ended in a tie, and they showcased this 合体技 where the spell was "一騎当千の爽快感!" (Note: SSM's CM tagline...) and the whole audience were all turned into *sound effect: forgot, lolx* Diao Chan!! Lv Bu thus dives into the audience to search for the real Diao Chan and gave out Hi-Chews on the way. HAHA I WANT. They decided to try to turn the audience back by the same spell and the spell threw them to Hibiya Koukaidou instead. End.
Following is the Ranbu team with narrator Masayan. These 3 went to a theme park to train their ability to stay calm at any time. Sima Zhao... or I should say Daisaku kept playing with Yuanji's name (王元姫=おうげんき=「お!元気?」). First attraction they went to was a haunted house, and something white flew towards them... *sound effect: a familiar sound but I couldn't rmb where I heard it* and I can't rmb the conclusion what it was either. Second was a roller coaster, and as they went down, a lizard opened its mouth at them... *sound effect: er some sound that didn't sound very lizard-y* "Huh that was the lizard??" Third attraction is a mirror house where Lu Xun got lost and went into the audience and couldn't get out so he called out to Sima Zhao... *sound effect: fireworks shooting up* Sima Zhao: "Er that was a signal light." So anyway they found their way out and went to the fourth attraction, a merry-go-round. *sound effect: train* Daisaku: "MAETELLLLLLL!!!" Maa I was rather surprised that it was a boke that I could understand AND KIND OF GUESSED. (Note: Galaxy Express 999) LOLX. Masayan: "You really don't want them to make this show into a DVD right!?!?" ごもっとも。 Story ends with them commenting that it was a good training, let's do it again some time. Masayan: "オチまい." Can't be more spot-on. Ne.
So they were supposed to decide who is the winner by the audience's response. Personally I thought Musou team's drama went on much smoother and Ranbu team totally didn't try to make sense of the sound effects so I clapped for Musou team... but ended up both teams got around the same amount of support so Aipon was appointed to decide which team wins. Aipon: "Both sides are my senpai..." Musou team: "3 Aoni on this side, 2 Aoni on that side." Daisaku: "From 11th Sept onwards I belong to Aon(ry..." Masayan: "If that was really true it would mean that you broke the news on stage!" AWW DAISAKU the things you do to win. Lolx. Anyway Aipon announces Ranbu team as the winner! Winner gets a set of character clear files (event goods). Daisaku: "CM??" Masayan: "What CM?" Others: "CM? CM? Promotion?" Masayan: "Promotion." Aipon: "Please buy them." Someone: "See, it's really a CM!" Masayan: "THIS WHOLE THING IS A CM." ぶっちゃけすぎ。
Live drama part 2. Chang Ban, Zhao Yun saving A Dou. It was rather amusing when the baby stopped crying and started laughing. Yi Ling (it took forever for me to remember this place name), Zhao Yun vs Lu Xun. Zhao Yun leads Lu Xun into the 石陣 (with Zhuge Liang on the screen haha). Sanniang monologue before Nanzhong (vs Meng Huo). I didn't know the one she likes is Guan Suo... Needs to play 6 argh.
I can't remember where was drama part 3 so I shall just put it here. I think this is the only one that was drama-ish. Got talk between the 3 Jin charas. Things I learnt: Sima Zhao is a bro-con. Yuanji dere is cute. OMG ghost!Sima Shi orz. Maa story = got lots of ppl want to kill Sima Shi, Sima Zhao: "How can you walk around alone! It's dangerous!" Sima Shi: "If they can get me, by all means." So they came to get him lolx. This and that happens, Sima Shi dies after some time. Sima Zhao ponders on what path he should walk now that his brother is not around and cue ghost!Sima Shi who tells him to be himself. Ok it was more touching than I make it out to be, seriously. Sima Zhao-Yuanji's love-love scene! Sima Zhao: "As long as you are by my side." Yuanji: "Don't go on. I don't know what expression to have on." So cute! Sigh. By how Sima Zhao is portrayed in SSM I really cannot link him to "司马昭之心路人皆知"... Well that is the only impression I have of this person =.=
Promotion corner! Trial play for 6 Moushouden. Player = Kanae-chan who apparently has never played Musou before. It was funny how she didn't know how to choose chara/stage/etc and went all "変なのが出た!" every time. Haha. So there is apparently 6 levels of hardness this time from 天国 (what is with their naming sense lolx) to 究極. Kanae-chan tried the easiest and my gosh it was really very easy. I mean. Normal soldiers can die with just one normal attack what is this. (Ok the PC was obviously not starting stats but still...) I'm interested to know what is the hardest like btw. Don't really liked how they stressed that even girls that are playing this for the first time wouldn't have any problems and sure can enjoy it. Hmm. Maa. Apparently Yuanji's Musou Ranbu line is "お仕置きよ" and Kanae-chan and Okki (who was holding the mic for her the whole time) kept repeating お仕置きよお仕置きよ throughout her play. Masayan (to Okki): "お前が言うとエロいんだよ" Yup we know you love Okki. Haha. Anyway the stage she played seems to be somewhere in Nanzhong cos the boss chara was 朵思大王... Haven't seen this name in a long time... wonder if the elephants are still there?
Live corner! Songlist as follows.
Lu Xun - Crimson Wings
Cao Pi - Silent Phoenix
Sima Zhao - Change the World
I need to say again that the SSM6 chara song mini album is very, very good. Hmm. Crimson Wings is really not the kind of songs Nojiken sings usually so the way he sings this sounds pretty different from usual (the times I've watched him live ne). CANNA-SAN!!! This is what you call 口からCD音源! Really. Seriously. Although Canna-san said that this song was rather difficult for him YOU CANNOT TELL THAT AT ALL FROM THIS PERF. And you can really see what they mean when they say Canna-san can sing in character for all his chara songs. Sasuga. And then. And then. I CANNOT EXPRESS MY LOVE FOR CHANGE THE WORLD. Sigh. Why do I want to cry every time I listen to this song... The lyrics of this song kind of reminds me of why I started to listen to J-Pop and why I like it. This was also when I noticed that Daisaku unbuttoned a few buttons on his shirt to look like Sima Zhao. Haha.
Lastly we had some character messages... I remember got Sima Shi and Lu Xun... was that all? Hmm.
Ending! Wait what? How can you end without getting Okki to sing Heaven's Will as promotion! This is so not KOEI if they don't lolx. Anyway. Last message in chara. The continuation of "司馬子譲と言います。" Haha.
Encore. Ok. Encore is song hor. HEAVEN'S WILL! Okki: "Next up is that song! People who have seen the afternoon show too, you will be surprised." I kind of anticipated this ever since I saw the special news on the official site... If anyone is to do it, MASAYAN IS THE MAN hahahaha. TRUE DRAGON in Zhao Yun cosplay! He was really moving around a lot with his spear. Like really a lot. まさやんはいつもすごい本気で動き回るから心配。もう若くないんだぞ。 I was rather shocked when he said that the costume in the afternoon show was provided by KOEI and this one he was wearing was 自腹... Oh my Masayan... The person behind me was saying how he said he was going to do this at Tales of Festival and didn't. Hmm. Seriously I think Zeros' outfit would have costed much less than this. Ending comments as seiyuus. Aipon (to audience): "Call my name?" Daisaku: "This is not your event!" Aipon: "But usually when the audience call my name the voices are so low!" Audience (mostly female): "AIPOOOOOON!!!!" AIPON SO CUTE. Inada-san: "I want you all to say the line from the scene where Lv Bu appears, 「りょ、りょ、呂布だぁぁぁ~!!!!」" Hahaha I totally rmb the cut scene from SSM4 where ppl shout that while falling butt-first to the ground. "雑魚どもめ!全部吹き飛ばしてやる!そしてまた帰ってきていいぞ" (ok something along that line) Haha dere Lv Bu. Masayan: "I'm going to wear this for the rest of Koei's events too. Yar, TGS too." Daisaku: "ネオロマにも" Masayan: "さすがに怒られる" Audience: "ジェイドっぽい"... Hahaha.
Ending announce. Sima brothers combi! Omg I find this combi so cute hahaha. This is the first time I've ever seen an ending announce where the hall's doors are not opened and no one standing up o.O Anyway the first part of it was full of ad lib haha. だいさくにつられるオッキーかわいいな~
Conclusion: Please continue with this event please please please? I know there were a lot of empty seats but still!! I WILL GO LIKE SERIOUSLY. Depending on the cast. Haha. 8 is really really too little for any proper drama to be possible. REALLY...