Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!
Jack’s in Japan now, he arrived late this afternoon. I’m going to pop over to see him in a bit. He’s got an interview, etc., tomorrow, though I told him not to sign anything without a Japanese lawyer to look it all over. I’ll find him one in the morning.
He can’t speak Japanese so he’ll need me for a bit. But I’m not going to interfere! Promise! Just going to make sure he doesn’t hit any unexpected roadblocks.
Anyway, the performance was really fun. So they did a few of their songs and dances, and half way through they did a little video presentation, of the original video that someone took, and then some footage of all of us goofing around together during the week (they edited that fast). Then they said “welcome… train onee-chan and her sisters!!!” And we all got up on stage and everyone cheered, and started chanting “onee-chan! onee-chan!”. That was a little embarrassing. All I could do was bow.
I think that’s the first time we actually took that role. You know, train onee-chan and her sisters. We’ve done a few other things similar, but this is the first time we actually all stood in one group with that moniker.
I thought Rebecca was going to faint, and Crystal was going to, well… ummm… she likes attention, apparently.
So they had us all introduce ourselves, and apparently a couple of us were really cute because the audience yelled “Awww” and “ganbatte!”. I didn’t know Diana could blush that deeply…
Then we did our performance. It went okay. It’s such a different feeling than playing in front of an audience for the symphony, or even when the idols were doing their performance in front of the symphony. There were hundreds or thousands of people, all with glow sticks, who were waving them around and chanting and doing wotagei, and it was so high energy! They love the idols and you could see the idols love them, too. We just did our routine that we’ve been practicing for months for, and afterwards everyone was cheering and we were all hugging each other and dancing around as we exited the stage.
We’re still a little wired.
And then it was over.
We went backstage… and I cried. I couldn’t help it. I sobbed like a baby. I guess it finally actually hit me that it’s all ending now, we’re all growing up. A couple of the otaku saw me and asked me if I was alright…. I said I was but one of the wives stayed with me until I felt better. Married otaku. Maybe I assumed too much. She had purple hair and lip rings (and was dressed like Marin Kitagawa in her succubus costume) but she seemed nice. I wonder what Sabby would have thought of her.
The girls kind of mobbed me too, well, we mobbed each other, and a couple of them were gushing about how happy they were and how much they love me and how much they appreciated that kind of opportunity, and it just made me cry harder. I’m happy, yes, but I’m sad too. So sad.
It’s over, and we’re about to go out separate ways. Of all of us, I think Liz understands the most, because there were tears in her eyes, too.
I need to get ready to go to Japan for a little while.