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Aqours First Live Asks Masterpost

I’ve compiled answers to all the asks I got back when the Live Viewings were happening in February and March! I wasn’t going to answer them until I finished writing up my LV report (currently on hold until I have a big enough chunk of time to finish and release the next part), but since that’s taking forever and Anime Expo is coming up, I figured I should just answer them all now before it got too late. It’s been over 4 months... _(:3 」∠)_

ASKS MAY CONTAIN FIRST LIVE SPOILERS.

I tried to write at least a couple of sentences for each to make up for the 3-4 month lag in answering, as well as lack of Shuka reaction pictures and tags for each individual ask (•̀ ∀ •́)ﻭ✧

(Note: I used blog preview to format the ask images in this post and it converted all the apostrophes back into HTML code for some reason wtf... so if you see random “'”s floating around in the asks, well...)

(Note 2: Some of the previews were so messed up that I just screenshotted the ask straight from the draft page lmao)

YES!! Everyone blew me away during 1st Live!! Actually you could tell that they were kind of underprepared BUT All of them were trying their best and having the time of their lives doing what they love… there’s nothing more amazing than that ;__;

Yozora totally broke me 😂😂😂 And to express how broken I was I broke like, 6 UBs during Shuka’s solo dance… (:D)|￣|＿ I love Shuka’s dancing… the whole thing was beautiful tbh

Thank you for taking the time to talk to me and sorry I didn’t answer this for four months :’)))

hi anon! I hope you had a great time at the 1st Live LV! Hope Shuka (…or Rikyako actually) didn’t end up giving you cardiac arrest on Day 2, because you have to at least live to see the next set of live viewings coming up in a couple of months :3c

Shuka’s legs are nice, aren’t they? :D is that too creepy for me to say LOL Makes you appreciate how many You costumes come with short shorts :)))

@icedq: why won’t tumblr let me @ you :(

I agree, Shuka’s dancing was incredible ;__; It’s like… not just the sheer amount of acrobatics she does, but also just how happy she looks when she dances? You can really tell that she loves dancing, and it makes me happy aaaaaaaa

WAIT I DON’T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING SUWAWA’S INTRO the struggle of answering asks 4 months late DID SHE HUG SHUKA AGAIN?

As for the encore, the one part I remember clearly is when Shukashuu zoomed down the runaway at full speed, ahead (pun intended) of everyone else in Aqours, like an excited little kid — even though she should have been super tired from all the singing and dancing. It was pretty memorable for a lot of people. A true display of Shuka’s limitless genki energy wwww

I’m glad the live made you so happy!! And that’s something I really love about Love Live!… it makes people smile (இ⌓இ )

Yayyy Aqours :D

I’m happy you enjoyed your Live Viewings so much! Seriously, you sound so excited ;__; Thank you for supporting Rikyako as well! Everyone has such big hearts… I’m sure Rikyako really appreciates all her fans T_T

“Love them all” is a great phrase to live by as an Aqours fan :3c You have my approval, I salute you (￣^￣)ゞ

Same!! I was literally on the floor dying when I heard that they wore MIRAI TICKET costumes at First Live. They look super nice on the seiyuu aaaaa I hope they wear them to AX… 

I find them cool because they’re pseudo-suits :3c

Hello and thank you!! I hope you enjoyed your LV in Thailand! I’m honestly touched that people halfway across the globe from me take the time to message me about what they love about Aqours and Shuka ;__;

I can tell that you like Shuka a lot (•̀ ∀ •́)ﻭ✧ So thanks for the message! I was able to confirm at my own live viewing that Shuka is indeed very cute, energy, beautiful, and a true Goddess :3c

@lmlm7 (tumblr won’t let me @ you either wow) Hi LM! Thanks for always following my blog! :D I really had fun watching First Live! (:D)|￣|＿

Sorry the LV posts have been taking forever… on the bright side, I’m probably going to acquire a lot of pictures that might interest you at AX this weekend :)

Look forward to it! o7

I did not watch a Day 2 Live Viewing because they weren’t offered in the U.S. T_T But… I’m spoiled for pretty much everything that happened that was different from Day 1 (thanks Twitter ( ‾▿‾ ))

Even so, I don’t remember hearing about Arisha scolding Shuka… 👀 Thanks for telling me and can’t wait to see it on Blu-ray ( *˙0˙*)

This I know I did, because I lost my voice after KoiAqua (… which was the second song in the setlist. And there were 20 songs in the concert. RIP)

Sorry you couldn’t attend a live viewing :( On the bright side, the Blu-ray is out in three months (dates are closer than you think!), which means I can go crazy with timestamping and gifing in three months. Look forward to it :)

Never been more alive :^)

Shuka blew my mind at First Live. So I guess it would be an understatement to say I had a good time :3c

Thanks for the good wishes o7

I… don’t remember if I did this, I’m sorry ;__;

My mind was completely blank for most of the Live Viewing. Everything was too overwhelming. Sensory overload. I can assure you that I screamed something along the lines of OMG SHUKAKUSKAKFLSA a lot.

… Actually I don’t even remember if I was coherent enough to scream SHUKASHUU lmao

First Live? Well, not completely (listening comprehension is difficult... even in English lol), but I can understand enough :O

To be fair, I’m pretty sure a large fraction of the people who went to see 1st Live outside of Japan don’t understand Japanese, but paid to see a LV anyway. It helps that the lives are mostly songs, rather than MCs and speaking portions. There are also parts like the call and responses that many fans already understand, even if they don’t know Japanese.

… Too late 😂 Pretty much continuously had genki-shock heart attacks throughout the entire live viewing…

But hey, I survived. And what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger :^) Onwards to 2nd Live!

@darkaac​ Wh What are you talking about? ( ⚆ ⌄ ⚆;;) Are you sure you have the right person :^)

@keipointo​ HELLO! Were you the person I shook hands with? I think that was you… Sorry for the awkwardness, I didn’t really know what to say _(:3 」∠)_ (But of course that’s not your fault at all! It was just my first time talking to a follower that I didn’t already know irl 👀)

I think… Yozora was my favorite performance out of the whole live… … Of course, that’s my gigantic Shuka bias speaking lol I was already spoiled for the solo dance from Twitter so I started freaking out and cracking UBs as soon as I saw Anchan and Aiai leave the stage on carts. The solo dance was so good…… I want to personally thank the choreographer for letting Shuka show off like that T_T The rest of the song was amazing as well. The star-drawing special effects, the stage effects, Anchan and Aiai’s singing, Anchan’s face at the end of the song… I love Yozora…

shukamod pieces were glued back together haphazardly following First Live. Everything is alright now (•̀ ∀ •́)ﻭ✧

Thank you for your concern ( ‾▿‾ ) Makes me wonder if I’m just as screwed for 2nd Live… (yes)

(Sorry for the censor, just trying to keep my blog family-friendly ( ⚆ ⌄ ⚆;;))

I lost my voice and my whole body was sore for a couple of days, but I made a full recovery (woooo)!! And oooh, did you go to the NYC viewing too? I think we had the worst weather. Seemed to be nice and sunny and not 20 degrees Fahrenheit at most of the other U.S. Live Viewing locations.

Hopefully I don’t have to pass out hand warmers at the next live viewing we get… But hm, if it’s 2nd Live then I don’t think it’ll be a problem, seeing as it’s August/September :D

I had a lot of fun! Thanks for thinking of me ;__;

?! So fast, anon. 2nd Live hasn’t even happened yet o_o

I assume you mean 1st Live? ... In which case, ONIBE is probably going to work on translating it, but no promises for now (especially since the Blu-ray hasn’t even come out yet).

We’ll see :)

Thank you, you’re so considerate ;__;

But considering this ask was from over three months ago, I’m sure that I’ve been taking too much time by now :’)

Thanks for reading it even though it got so long! Sorry you’ve been waiting so long for the other three parts…

And wow, that’s such a compliment ;__; I honestly don’t think I’m that impressive especially if you try to talk to me irl RIP social skills, but I like meeting other Aqours fans! I’ll be at Anime Expo, and I attend handfuls of events in the Boston area since I’m a local there. I usually post on my blog if there’s a major event I’m attending, so just let me know if you happen to be in the area as well and I’d be happy to chat :D (though knowing my luck and the Love Live! fanbase, you probably live somewhere far away)

Bam. 21 asks. AX asks coming soon.

tl;dr finally got around to answering these because LV report is way delayed and it would feel weird if I answered them after I answered the AX stuff, considering how old these asks are.

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