Sunday, July 5, 2009

Moi dix Mois ANIME EXPO


Hello everyone! Did you enjoy my updates on Moi dix Mois from Anime Expo? I am pretty tired since I didn't get much sleep from the event, but now I am home with all my new goodies. 

Blue Moi meme Moitie rose 髪の櫛. 

I will now sleep, good night!   

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Moi dix Mois Anime Expo Day 1~3


Today was an amazing concert by Moi dix Mois, once again! 

Me and Kazuki woke up around five in the morning to start changing into our Moi-meme-Moitie outfits. I decided on wearing an older dress and wore my new brown wig.
 I ended up wearing my brand new Moi meme Moitie PVC boots. Back in 2003, some of you may remember, I posted that someone stole them when I was changing for a Mois concert and they were stolen in my Moi meme jawstring bag. It made me quite upset because I had been aiming to get those for so long when they came out and then a girl stole them. BUT, after battling and bidding in auctions, I finally got them two months ago and never wore them yet. They were brand new with tags for 56,000 yen! Anyways, I decided on wearing them with my Moitie lace OP and my wig and a lot of Moitie acc. 
What acc? I wore my MmM coffin and cross bracelet,  lace MmM bracelet, lace up MmM wrist cuffs, Moitie watch, Moitie coffin ring [black and blue], Moitie rose ring and Moitie cross coffin ring [the silver and blue one]. 
I wore my iron gate Moitie bow too, it matched since it was black and white. 

After Kazuki got ready in her church gate, we went out for breakfast down in Culver city at the Royal-T cosplay cafe. It is really fun and nice there! 
The maids there complimented me and Kazuki on our outfits, one of the women, Alice, asked what brand we wore. I said we were wearing Moi meme Moitie , Mana's brand, because we were attending his concert. I then find out she was attending too!

After our breakfast, we headed over to the LACC and made it in time for the opening ceremonies. 
This is what the Opening ceremonies looked like.  They were so amazing and funy! Kengo's english has gotten so much better.

After the opening ceremonies, we headed down to the dealers room to raid the Moi dix Mois booth. I had brought not too much money with me, so I had to put some things back [I kept picking up items and then when the girl told me the amount I was SHOCKED.]
At the booth, I bought two Moi dix Mois flags, a Moi dix Mois poster [only can buy at Anime Expo], two moitie straw hats in blue and black, another moi dix mois pendant,  two church gate sun dresses, a Moitie skirt, three pairs of Moitie socks and the Moi dix Mois jawstring bag! I had picked up about ten more items but like I siad, I had to put them back...

I had spent already too much.. the pedant was 30$, the two dresses were $430 each, and etc. Kazuki had bought over 4,000$ of Moitie too! 
While standing at the Midi:Nette booth, Alex, Helena, Kasse, and Lexi had joined us, all dressed in their Moitie. Alex was wearing full EGA Moitie, including the shoes. Helena, who had come all the way from Mexico to see them, was wearing the full Iron Gate set! Helena was borrowing Alex's 'lace race' JSK along with white moitie socks, brown shoes , bat bag and a nice Moitie blouse. Kasse had on her Mon+Amour necklace, a moitie blouse, then the rest was offbrand. Lexi was borrowing my long white one piece. 

Once we met with them, we explored the dealers room a bit more then around 1:55, we headed up to the concert hall to get ready for Moi dix Mois!! We were all the way in the front, soon to be Mana's side. We stood there for about thirty minutes while "electronica" music played, like the usual. Finally Moi dix Mois music started to play and everyone quickly stood up! Finally, the lights dimmed, the stage lights light up and the members slowly entered onto the stage. Everyone screamed when they came out, but even more when Mana entered the stage. We all screamed very loudly and Mana ended up blowing us kisses! They played all the songs from DIXANDU, and a few older ones, like Vizard.

Within the first song, everyone jumped around, head banged, etc. The members were wearing their full Dixandu gear and looked amazing~ My son had came along to see them too, and he really liked it.
When VIZARD blasted, strobe lights had started to flash and the smoke machines got more intense. Seth's hair blew in the 'wind' that was produced, it was so lovely. 

The concert was almost two hours, and was one of the best Moi dix Mois concerts I've been to. 

After the concert, we got stopped a few times then headed down to Little Tokyo. I had so many Moitie bags [I had my bat bag, three Moitie shopping bags from the dealers room, and the cathedral shoulder bag.] I put them in the hotel before we left in Alex's car. When we got down there, we went to Mr.Ramen, my favorite shop. We had also went into Cure, where I spent much more money... I purchased an Art Cube poster, that I was shocked to see, Visual Kei DVD with Mana on it, GACKT blue and red DVD, two Gackt CDS, and a Kaya calendar. 
 I had already spent much at anime expo, for I bought around 10 Gackt cds, a few Klaha, a Baby bag, and much more...

After our purchases, we went into the mall and went to the arcade. We did a few purikuras in the mall there and played different games. 

We went back to our hotel then rested and went back to the convention at night in different gear; I wore my new straw hat with the black, church gate with the white, black Moitie lace socks, moitie platforms and a short sleeve moitie lace blouse. I kept my brown wig on since it matched. 

We attended the 18+ rave, which was quite fun! Kazuki wore full Angelic Pretty instead, since it was more festive for raving. We danced until one in the morning then had to go back and sleep. Tomorrow was the panel of Moi dix Mois, and we had to be refreshed for it.

We went to sleep when we got home then woke up at eight in the morning. I ended up wearing something more 'sweet'. I wore my Moitie butterfly skirt, rose frill blouse, black Moitie socks and then I planned on wearing my 8inch Moitie high heels but they BROKE right when I walked out! I ended up wearing my platform elastic MmM shoes. I dyed my blonde hair before we came to CA, so I wore it up in small puffs.

Kazuki wore a black Angelic Pretty one piece with everything else Moitie.
We got to the room where the panel would be an hour before. Once the panel was starting, we rushed up to the front and talked to some friends who we knew there. All the attendees in the front wore head to toe Moitie, or mostly MmM. We sat down in the first row near where Mana would sit.

The panel was great! If you want to read it, Tainted Reality has it posted.
K was really funny for he said he saw a spiderman attackign the mcdonalds sign down in Santa Monica, ahaha.

Once the panel was done, we were informed that there was an autograph session, which shocked us. Kazuki quickly ran off into the dealers room to the KERA / MidiNette booths to buy a new Moitie dress she didn't have. Luckily, they were selling the long Cathedral OP at the KERA booth for $530! She changed in the bathroom then came back and she joined me in the line, with our friends from yesterday.

After fourty minutes, we got into the room and saw all three members; K , Mana and Sugiya. Seth and Hayato were not here for the panel nor autograph signings. 
I was the first in our group. I slowly approached them then had them sign my Moitie handkerchief. Luckily I always carre it with me. Sugiya was first, then K then Mana last. 
Sugiya was very shy, he nodded and smiled at me and shook my hand. I talked to K for a little, he was surprised I could speak Japanese so well! I then told Mana that I thought his concert yesterday was amazing, the best one I had seen from them. He then smiled, shook my hand, nodded and gave me the handkerchief gently. 

After everyone else from our group was done, we left the room, then went into the dealers room again. I  bought a few more Moitie items then went to a few anime screenings. 
The rest of our day consisted of us doing more purikura , going out to eat, then going back to rave. 

Day three we skipped AX , so it is not too important.

I wil lwrite about Day four tomorrow! Good night!