My trip to Japan was so much fun.

I never wanted to leave. I didn't really do any touristy type of stuff. Spent most of the time wandering around and getting lost, but the beautiful thing about that was I discovered lots of neat little places and met really nice people that way.

Also, I finally got to see my favorite vocalist, Takayuki Tazawa, at his show on March 28 at Takadanobaba Club Phase. I was so impressed by his voice in person! I wanted to cry when I finally heard "love letter" live. It took a lot of power to hold in all the emotions that I was feeling while he was singing. He's such an amazing singer and performer!!

Have I also mentioned how handsome he is in person?! Haha. I was eating my anpan outside while waiting, and the first time I saw him walking right in front of me on the way to the venue, I apparently went comatose, according to my friend, haha. My brain registered it was him, and I completely froze, and my friend got all worried like "What the hell is wrong with you?!"

All I could say was, "Takayuki just walked right in front of me..." (*____*  )

The 2nd time was when we were hanging outside in front of the office where the tickets were going to be picked up, and we were laughing and joking around about things that happened earlier that day, when he came outside to take a look at the vending machine. I pretty much froze again and couldn't speak, lol.

The 3rd time he came out of the venue was when we were waiting a little ways down the street, and he was walking toward the Family Mart. Again, I froze, and stared (><;;;  ) I honestly have never been rendered speechless like that in all my life, haha.

And then during the show, he was the 4th to play, and I couldn't stop smiling (><;;;   ) "love letter" was the last song in the set, and like I said, I got really, really emotional during it. I love that song so much, and he sang it so well. But the other songs before that were the songs that are on his myspace, and other songs that I hadn't heard before, but throughout the whole entire thing, he was just so entertaining to watch, and he's so funny!!! Sigh.

Afterwards, my friends and I were chillin in the lobby, and we saw a bunch of the performers there. But then! Takayuki came out, and my friend stopped him and asked for a picture to which he said he couldn't do, but then he straight up jumped on him and gave him a hug! LOL. Then! My friend started to say, 'Oh, this is Val-"

And I started to say "Otsukaresama desu" but before I could get the whole thing out, Takayuki straight up hugged me, too!!! (><;;;   ) I don't even know if he recognized me or not from all the myspace comments I've been leaving or whatever, but it seemed like he knew who I was, lolll. In any case, he hugged me o(><;; o  )

...I don't really remember anything else from that night because I was in such a state of shock! I'd been waiting a long time to finally hear Takayuki sing in person and to get a chance to say how much he's inspired me, but I really didn't expect lose my ability to speak or think, hahaha.

Anyway, I'll write more about the rest of my trip and upload pictures. If I think too much about what happened, I'm going to spaz out again, hahaha.