If you’ve been reading this site for a while you’ve probably noticed one thing that doesn’t fit amongst everything else: Love Live. Cutesy anime girls dancing and singing amongst everything else which happens to be metal, metal, and more metal.
Guilty pleasure? I don’t know about guilty but definitely a pleasure.
I was lucky enough to take part in the Aqours 4th Live foreigner lottery and the latest lottery kicks off tomorrow – October 2nd. It runs through the 15th. Winners are announced on the 18th. They’re moving fast which hopefully bodes well for the Love Live Festival getting a lottery because that’s what I’m really gunning for. The reason why a foreigner lottery is beneficial is because the competition is much, much less. You’re only vying for tickets versus other non-Japanese nationals which makes the pool much, much smaller. Said foreigners also need to be able to actually, you know, fly to Japan, which for a lot of them they don’t have the money to swing $1000 flights on top of everything else you’d do on a trip. Even rarer are the fabled eventers who go to Japan just for an event before flying back home.
They’ve followed feedback and it’s a little more worth it than when I first went. You got two nights, one concert in the past. Now you get three nights and both concerts.
Check out http://www.lovelive-anime.jp/nijigasaki/news8.php for more information.