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Hi wolfx! Glad you could join us here! Since this is May’n 10th Anniversary, my partner and I decided to visit some of the sights we can identify her in. Most notably, the Taiyaki store at Ebisu and the picture of Sheryl Nome at UDX building at Akihabara. But since my partner (1st time in Japan) was very eager to get his hands on May’n Best Album, we headed out to Towers Records at Shibuya first. We found her ‘section’ but was empty! Sold out already? Apparently, the ‘sales’ only starts tomorrow. The sales person informed us that only Album A and Album C will be available. Album B will only available at Budokan. So….kind of disappointed, we headed to the next venue (after going to ANIMATE and Mandarake). The Taiyaki shop - Hiragi, It was a difficult place to find as we spent about an hour running around in circles. Even the locals have trouble giving us good directions (they tried their best) Finally, we found it and ate to our heart’s content. Undeterred, my partner decided to return to Tower Records and try again. His persistence paid off and and he bought Album A x 3. We dropped by Budokan on our way back and showed him around so that next morning he can get his bearings as he planned to line up early to get his hands on all the goodies. But that night, I caught fever and luckily the hotel staff gave me some medication to ease my situation. The next morning, my fever came back (later we’ll joke it off as May’n fever) and was kind of down and out. My partner left around 7am in the morning to Budokan and was raining the whole day. I managed to visit one place before going back to the Hotel. My partner, managed to get everything he wanted and dropped all the stuff back to the room before setting out again. Set my alarms for 4pm. No way was I going to miss the concert as that was the whole reason I was in Tokyo in the first place. Luckily the rain subsided as I made my way to Budokan. As I walked to the main staircase, I could hear ‘Diamond Crevasse’ being played. So I thought, ‘Oh, ok. Diamond Crevasse will be one of the songs’. I wasn’t sure that was just the mp3 playing or the actual final rehearsal’. It turned out to be the latter. As I walked pass the goodies shop, I smiled to myself. It seems everyone had the same idea; they came very early despite the heavy rain and did all the shopping! So now, there’s hardly anyone need to line up at all. (In the previous concert – Mic-A-Mania, even 1 hour before the concert, we couldn’t even get a peek at the goods) I met the other members of my party and we got to our seats. The set up of the stage was impressive. There were 5 giant 4 sided Diamond shape structures in a ‘V’ formation with the center moving into the stage. On both side of the stage, were staircase leading down to the Arena area. In the middle, there is a simple rectangular stage. Concert starts at 18.30pm. The clock showed 18.02 pm. It was a long and agonizing wait. 1 minute passed like one hour! But I know, once the concert starts, it will be over in like 40 minutes. To be continued……….

Was originally planning to do a year by year look at May'n career spanning the past 10 years but then there were too much work at the office, at home, my PC refuse to booth up every now and then, software malfunction, exhibition - Visual Arts Expo, which the father of Valkyries attended, preparing for my Tokyo trip and totally gave up on the 29th n 30th exhibition. So after finally meeting the man himself - Shoji Kawamori - friendly, open and hyper active brain. So after each day, I would go back and pack a little for my 2nd dose of Macross : LIVE! But May'n didn't turn out to be the 2nd! As we helped out a little at the SATELITE booth, they hinted that another person was suppose to come together but he missed his flight but at the same time he is here as a visitor only. On Sunday morning, as we were setting up our exhibits, he dropped by our booth. Casually dressed, no one recognized him, until I pointed out to Van Pang - TENJIN! After that, it was mayhem as everyone grabbed something for him to sign. With that done, and YES I managed to attend the Galactic Fairy's 10th Anniversary Concert. Happy to report that she is doing very well and something unexpected also, after her operation. Please give allow me some time to put all those wonderful memories onto paper. Will be back soon.

PV for Best Album Yamaidare darlin PV truck

I guess she's really recovering well. Can't wait to see the reviews of the upcoming concert. http://space.mayn.jp/media/17299196

Hmmm....i don't think that should be the case, after all she has it as 'LION - May'n ver.' Not sure what kind of contract Megumi's side has. Could be a copyright thing as each song has 3 parts, the Lyrics, the Composer and the Singer. So should any one of these have a tussle then things can get 'stuck'. But since this song was wriiten by Gabriela Robin and composed by Yoko Kanno (of course sung by May'n). Is Yoko is having problems with Hori Pro? Or much worse - with Gabriela Robin! (this can sound really strange as many suspect both of them are the same person!!!!) Well anyway, just hope that she gets to keep singing 'LION'

Yes, it's LION. I wonder why? Maybe some copyright thingy. If you look at all the youtube videos in the net, all her BIG four from Macross Frontier (meaning - ITEZA, NORTHERN CROSS, DIAMOND CREVASSE and of course LION) are all muted. Maybe they just managed to regained the rights for the first 3. As for the other songs, I don't think she has time to sing it them again as she was having problems with her vocal chords and only just recovered. When I last interviewed her in Bangkok, it seems they are still at the planning stage for the new album (they did say 'compilation'). They seem to be focusing on Hang Jam 2. Another clue that it's not a going to be a 'new rendition' of all her songs is that Hori Pro seems to be expanding rapidly with new singers and musicals - like Death Note.

May'n & Yoko during recording of Yamaidare darlin http://space.mayn.jp/media/17291529 Latest album http://mayn.jp/best_pov/ Anyone noticed one song missing from the list?

May'n is BACK! This is the first upload I found from a Chinese site. And she looks GOOD! She took a good rest and it does wonders. She is still wearing a 'voice enhancer' round her neck. The streaming is pretty bad at my place. http://www.bilibili.com/video/av2634234/

Aquarion Logos Opening song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXVjdlmp80E

Looks like she has been recovering well, poster of the upcoming 10th Anniversary Concert! http://space.mayn.jp/media/17276701

Yamaidare Darlin MV (1st chorus)

Yokohama animax music 2014, posted this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5F95Rkj2U8 Last song was awesomely done.

PV for CROSS Legion!

Almost forgotten this, was waiting for the actual day of the event but it seems so far away. http://space.mayn.jp/media/17258650 One of her ardent fans who came out with this idea, was thinking like 'Oh no, if I put this in together with all the thousands of balloons, how am I going to find it and take it back?' I'm thinking like...'Scuba gear and night vision goggles'

Finally some news on Aquarion Logos and Powers of Voice. http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000116530

This is the same one to vanpang's link. Just to put it here for easy reference in the future. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=42591 I'd only attended the concert on the 2nd night because during one of the interview sessions (i was very tired and sat outside while vanpang and Rafe did the interview) i woke up with a headache and didn't want to get my brain thumped by the sound system. Before May'n came on, I'd notice something different by the rest of the Japanese artist (Fripside, DJ Kazu and Eiru Aoi) which I did not observed in the previous AFAs. They all started to do the same thing May'n does! They picked up some of the local language and ate the local food! I guess they found out May'n way to win fans! XD But May'n is still way ahead in embracing the locals. XD If you hv read the interview, there was one part where she forgot what she wanted to say in Thai, you can hear the audience trying to help her out!

Sorry for the long pause. Yes, indeed we met up with the Galactic Fairy at AFATH 2015. Just finished my write up and handed it over to the PR on the Thai side. will post it up once they have approved it. As you probably heard, May'n is taking a long rest because of her vocal chords. Lets all pray and hope she recovers soon.

While performing in Thailand, her voice was a bit off. I suppose all that non stop tour + hang jam 2 + the occasional concerts began to take it's toll on her vocal chords. Hope she get well soon in time for the Budokan concert.

Start of the Animax Carnival concert.

More pix from animax carnival After the Meet n Greet session, the extra 10 lucky winners chosen by May'n http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/jameswmc88/media/Choosing_zpsbojzvnft.jpg.html?filters[user]=133666143&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0 During the signing session a surprise Fan joined the queue and May'n was surprised http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/jameswmc88/media/OOkun_zps5c39jn9w.jpg.html?filters[user]=133666143&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=1

It took 7 hours to load this one. (Hope it doesn't get banned just like the one before.)

Love, colored today.

May'n - Lethe

May'n dots and lines - The Movie! More from Animax

Yup. I am uploading more but it's so sloooooww. Nasi Lemak is a favourite breakfast dish here but it can be eaten anytime of the day, It's basically rice cooked in coconut milk, served with a portion of hard boiled egg, some fried anchovies, some fried peanuts. a few slices of cucumber and a sambal paste (seafood based paste, mashed with chilies, sugar and cooked with oinions and sometimes the fried anchovies are inside) That is the bare minimum. It can cost as little as MYR1.00 to adding fried chicken, squid, beef, etc and then the skies' the limit. Goreng Pisang is Fried Banana Fritters. Split the banana in two, dip it into a batter and deep fry it till golden brown. I do wish if she spoke in Japanese (nice to hear) but then the translator may not be up to the task and most or the meaning will be lost.. Guess you can't have everything. XD