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Dempagumi.inc Performed on the Main Stage at Japan Expo USA! (reported by Ally & Sally)
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Dempagumi.inc performed on the main stage at Japan Expo USA on August 23, as a part of their first North American appearance.
This continues Dempagumi.inc’s tour around the world, which previously saw events at Japan Expo’s home convention in Paris, France, as well as various events in Hong Kong.
In addition to two live “showcases”, the group is holding two autograph events, and a panel. One live showcase, one autograph event, and the panel were held today, and the second live showcase and autograph event will be held tomorow on August 24th.
The first Dempagumi.inc event of the day was the autograph session in the afternoon. A group of North American fans welcomed the girls to the event with pen lights and shouting out the group’s name as the signing started.
One of the girls at the front of the line was wearing Sabotage-like sunglasses and a fake moustache in support of the group. Later in the line was a group of 4 Dempagumi.inc fans who came from Japan to see the group.
Unfortunately, we were not able to stay at the autograph event for long, as we had leave soon to the line for the live showcase.
Before the showcase began, some of the fans from the start of the autograph line distributed call books produced by Ally & Sally.
The books had calls and translations of a number of Dempagumi.inc’s songs alongside art contributions from various Japanese artists and comments from fans all around the world.
Ally & Sally also led the crowd in a impromptu call practice session before everybody was let into the event hall. Earlier in the day, they held an informative fan panel about Dempagumi.inc and Dear Stage.
Soon after everybody was let into the event hall, the background music stopped and the Dempagumi.inc Overture began as usual.
However, in a rare move, after the overture, they started wandering around the stage and launched straight into Sabotage. The reception from the audience good, with quite a few people already familiar with Dempagumi.inc’s music.
The group of fans from Japan led the crowd in cheering with calls and otagei, and the energy level stayed high throughout the entire live. The complete set list was as follows, and even includes one of their newest songs that hasn’t even been released on CD yet!
Sabotage
W.W.D.
Demparade Japan
Den DenPassion
ORANGERIUM
Notto Bocchi… Natsu
Kira Kira Tune
Future Diver
As soon as the concert ended, some people rushed outside to purchase Dempagumi.inc goods and cheki photos while we heard Gamushara Ouendan cheering the girls backstage before coming to take over the stage itself. Most of the goods sold, with the books and cheki photos selling out completely.
After the goods sales was the Dempagumi.inc panel, which was a fun-filled session of Q&A. About half of the time was spent with introduction and the girls asking the audience questions, then the remaining half consisted of the audience asking questions.
We will cover the panel contents in more detail later, but some of the highlights were:
Dempagumi.inc covered Sabotage because their producer Mofuku-chan is a Beastie Boys fan and kept asking for half a year if they could do a cover.
<Nemu> She, child. <Pinky> I’m not child!
Eitaso’s favorite idols are all groups that exist only in anime/manga/games like 765 Production’s girls from THE iDOLM@STER and u’s from Love Live.
Pinky asked if the cosplayers present made their own costumes, and a group of 3 members of The Garrison from Attack on Titan, a regular titan cosplayed with only tight shorts, and a super-large titan made their presence very known.
Moga quietly mentioned that the regular titan’s gut was sticking out quite a bit.
At the end of the panel, they announced that the songs “W.W.D. II” and “Notto Bocchi… Natsu” while having a CD release date of October 2nd, are currently available on iTunes.
Tomorrow will be Dempagumi.inc’s last day of official convention appearances, with the autograph ticket line opening at 8:30, the autograph session beginning at 10:00, and the concert running from 17:15 to 18:00 (all times US Pacific).
reported by Ally & Sally
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