I'm kind of in a brain fog atm so this might be less coherent than I intended it to be.

I haven't really said anything outright about this, but I'm planning to go to Aikatsu Music Festa 2018 next February. It was always kind of something I said I needed to do since watching MF 2016, but not something I would ever make concrete plans for. I've bought tickets for both days now, so it's become a lot more real. This is the Aikatsu! 5th Anniversary concert, so it feels especially important to be there. The concert is going to be at Nippon Budokan, which is a much larger stage than Aikatsu has ever been on before so it will be interesting. To put it in a little bit of perspective, MF 2016 and 2017 were held at Tokyo Dome City Hall which has a capacity of around 3,000. Nippon Budokan holds around...5 times that amount or something. I'm honestly surprised it's going to be at a venue this large but anyways moving on.

February is going to be my first trip to Japan, at the moment I'm planning to go with 6 friends. We don't have any concrete plans yet because things are a ways off, but if anyone has any advice or things to do that I should know about you can hmu on twitter. Right now the only plans for things I want to do are play Aikatsu DCD and the love live pilgrimage. I've seen Sumi's list of things to do so don't link that to me probably.

On the same note, you've probably noticed my stream is pretty fckin dead lately. I've basically tripled my hours at work now to be able to afford this trip in time, on top of a full time class schedule in the final semester of my program. To say I'm perpetually exhausted is a bit of an understatement, and it's only the first week. Not that this is anything new by any means, but you'll probably be seeing really sparse streams from me lately and I'm really sorry about that.

From reading my twitter, you all probably know that Aikatsu is super important to me. Even though I'm into idols in general, I'd say this is the only group I would ever actually seriously make plans to make this trip for (besides a μ's comeback). I've only been into Aikatsu for around 2 years, but both Star Anis and Aikatsu Stars have a special place in my heart. Since Aikatsu is kind of flopping in general lately, news of the series or the two associated groups ending would not be super surprising, making this trip even more important to me. I can't really express it in words, and even if I tried none of you are into Aikatsu enough to really understand but I REALLY want to see Ruka perform before she graduates from the group, and especially before she graduates from being Akari and Aikatsu Stars fully takes over and this concert might be my last chance to do that.

Anyways thats about it. If anyone has any advice for brain fog hit me up on twitter too i feel like shit.

TL;DR: Going to Japan in February really excited