[01:18] [L_K] can you get me goto yuko’s autograph?
[01:19] [Danchou] i could try
[01:19] [L_K] thank you
[01:19] [Danchou] you like mikuru!?
[01:20] [L_K] not mikuru
[01:20] [L_K] goto yuko
[01:20] [L_K] i’m a big fan of the otoboku internet radio show
[01:20] [Danchou] ah
[01:20] [Danchou] no love for the other 2?
[01:20] [L_K] no
You’ll most likely get lost reading the rest of this entry. Feel free to take advantage of the handy glossary at the bottom.
So the voice actresses from Haruhi were coming to America at the end June for Anime Expo. My only concern was getting Gotou Yuuko’s autograph because Aya and Minori are non-existent on my radar. Now, I’m much too beautiful to wait outside under the hot California sun to get an autograph so I asked a mercenary to do my bidding.
Word on the street was that two days of waiting in line and two cancellations later, only about a 100 people got pre-signed posters and the three ladies were nowhere to be found. Worst. Autograph Session. Ever.
Shit happens, right? Life is not all peaches and cream. You’d think that’d be the case here, too… but the paranoid conspiracy maniac in me smelled something fishy. So I went to their blogs and started reading. Here’s what I learned…
- Minori went to America
- Minori went to America to go eat at McDonald’s
- Minori went to America to go eat at McDonald’s and ORDERED A FUCKING SALAD!!
Seriously, though, it seemed like they all had enough free time where they could have spared a few hours to sign some autographs. But, of course, considering the logistical boobery that manifested itself over the entire convention (or so I’ve heard), the situation could have been out of their hands entirely. I can’t really blame anyone based on heresay and speculation, especially since I didn’t have to physically sacrifice myself to wait in line for 20738 hours. I’m not mad, but I’m definitely not writing this entry with glee.
After I heard the bad news from my mercenary that he was returning home empty-handed, I had an idea. I was going to write a letter to the Otoboku Internet radio show and fabricate some sob story about how I waited 12 hours under the sun and I had to be admitted into the hospital for heat stroke – all for the sake of Yuuko. I decided against it for three reasons.
- It’s not fair to those who actually waited if I somehow managed to weasel an autograph out of Yuuko
- I don’t know how to say heat stroke in Japanese
- Yuuko was replaced by Kanda Akemi as co-host of the radio show the week after Anime Expo
Now, I love Kanda Akemi. She’s funny and I even read her blog (one of two that I read, Naba-chan being the other), but she does not have any chemistry at all with the other co-host. So in the span of a week, I find out that I’m not getting my autograph and the Otoboku radio show goes to shit. I’m sitting at my desk right now staring at my two unsigned Radio CDs, which are now obsolete (because they changed hosts).
Did I mention that they are unsigned?
Gotou Yuuko owes me $60 US Dollars.
Glossary for the layperson reading this entry.
The three ladies from Japan:
- Hirano Aya 平野綾 – Can go from zero to skank in 4.6 seconds
- Chihara Minori 茅原実里- The inspiration for this entry’s title. Completely useless, otherwise.
- Gotou Yuuko 後藤邑子 – The central character of this story. She’s awesome.
Haruhi = Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱) – Obscenely popular anime from 2006. The ladies came to America to promote the domestic release. I liked the show, but not as much as…
Otoboku = Otome wa Boku ni Koi Shiteru (乙女はお姉さまに恋してる) – Obscenely bad anime from 2006. A boy dresses up as a girl and attends an all-girls school. I loved it, but that’s because I like dumb shit. Yuuko has a role in this anime as well.
Otoboku Radio CD – A CD version episode of the Otoboku Internet radio show. Very expensive.