Down in Downtown LA where Little Tokyo is known for all things Japanese and kawaii A.K.A. cute, is where some events were taking place, one down the street at the Little Tokyo Galleria shopping mall, a Hello Kitty flea market was being held, with over 100 items available for purchase featuring Hello Kitty! A lot of other items were available as well, including appeal, stickers, key chains, jewelry and shops with a lot of the same items. It was a free all ages event so it did bring a crowd, which made it felt roomy.
After browsing around and grabbing some late lunch, there was a mini Japanese idol concert, happening at the Little Akihabara shop, which has been known to be turned into various “pop-up” events, ranging from maid cafe’s, store fronts, and feature live shows like karaoke, and even concerts. Today’s day time event was titled the Akiba Live Japanese Culture Idol Show Event! It had 5 artists performing, having gotten there a bit late, only catching the late performance of Deco*Pro, a vocaloid cover band, where they would sadly lip sync, and dance to various vocaloid songs such as some from Hatsune Miku and her other vocaloid friends. Their performance was catchy and very interactive, with the audience, teaching all there first hand how to chant and shout back, and wave your hands and light sticks if you had any!
Following them would be duo idol group Strawberry Sunday, who has performed their own material, and covered a number of other acts, even doing solo performances during today’s performance. Now their performance was very bouncy and upbeat. Them giving off such energy and angst during their performance, that they had the crowd in an uproar with excitement. During the finale of their set would be a cover of Jrock act Babymetal’s track “Headbanger” and everyone was into it. Having starting a mosh pit, or trying too at least, was fun, with lots of headbanging to follow through of course! It was so much fun catching this duo giving it their all.
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Next would be Hamu Cotton, catching her performance briefly, she gave off a more mellow yet spunky presents. Her stage antics being fun yet fulfilling. Her interactions with the crowd kept them interested, and very invested in the entirety of the performance. She provided various covers during her set and some other songs that had the crowd on their feet, eagerly wanting more.
Lastly would be maid cafe’s own idol group Moe Age! They brought their energy being the headliner of today’s performance. They giving off the energy non-stop, the crowd interacting with jumping, filming, shouting, and chanting it made their set so much fun to witness. Having seen them prior, this performance felt more comforting. I myself was headbanging and rising my light sticks high with such energetic movements it was never ending. They are surely an act to not miss and see once at least!
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All in all, today’s mini idol show event was a fun filled one. Lots of energy given off, with everyone there having a kick out of it all. Surely idol culture is slowly seeping into the Cali terrain and we are all welcomed to it!
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