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Shenzhen Game Show 深圳國際電玩節
So, I have successfully gone to Shenzhen and back. In a way, it was half-a-wasted trip. In the end I did get the signed merch, but I really made the trip for the artist meet and greet, which, didn't happen, because of time constraints.
Price for the ferry ticket was actually more expensive than that to Hong Kong. And the terrifying thing? I was sitting for a while and then noticed… there are no safety belts! OMG!
Didn’t want to waste my phone battery (I knew I would need to use the maps and the subway app function), I brought a cheapo and light MP3 player. Also got quite a bit of reading done during the almost 80-minute ride.
It’s indeed a nifty looking seaport! And I took a photo of the signage pointing to the cruise center, I was worried by the time I returned the sun would have set and I’d sort of get momentarily lost. It was moot though, on my way back the sun was still up.
A bit of a blundering in the subway system and finally I reached the destination. Think of it like Comic Con or something, but this is Game Con or Game Show.
Almost had some kind of trouble with the QR code ticket, but in the end I was able to go in.
I spent like 20 minutes wandering for a bit.
But the real reason I was there was to see Masami Okui, an artist I’d been following since my high school years. Fan digression: Works of note would be opening track to the anime Slayers “Get Along” (duet with Megumi Hayashibara) but I guess her real shining glory was the opening track to Revolutionary Girl Utena, “輪舞 revolution”.
The promotional leaflets and info had harped about how you should only by “official merch” but I couldn’t find them. Anyway, when it was the mini concert time (14:20), I meandered to the stage area and saw people had bought merch, and those with merch had priority access to the stage seating… so I had to queue until all the priorities had gone in. Mini concert with 4 songs sung.
And what do you know, the set list had exactly the 2 tracks I wrote of haha
輪舞 revolution
Blood Blade
Insanity
Get along
I’m not surprised about Blood Blade as it’s the theme song of a new-ish game. Maybe Insanity was a game song as well? This I’m not too sure.
After the concert and knowing of the merch available, I renewed my vigor to bloody hunt for the merch. And I found it. I had walked past that place. It was just a table. Not even a booth!
Meet and greet with signing for this artist was supposed to start at 15:20, so I was standing there waiting, when someone else asked and I, in my limited putonghua knowledge, sort of understood everything’s delayed. When I asked what time they thought this would delay to, they said 17:00. Well, shit. It takes one hour from the convention center to the ferry terminal, and I have to leave at 17:00.
Anyway, after grumbling in my limited putonghua with the staff, she said she’d help me take the merch to sign. Which is grand. But. THE POINT WAS TO GO MEET HER! But I really couldn’t help it. 18:30 was the last ferry of the day, and I had to take that ferry back. If I took the train it’d be like 3 hours and my car was parked in Macau side ferry terminal, not at the Chinese border, so I’d have to make another trip to go get the car.
Of course I made a token “thank you to the kind staff but I couldn’t meet you!” grumble on twitter and the artist replied “we’ll meet next time”. Excuse my Japanese if anything’s grammatically wrong.
But still, because the staff had to wait until the artist was in the waiting lounge or whatever, so it was pretty close to 17:00 when I actually left. I had to run for it, some guy saw me running near the exit of the subway and wanted to hitch me a ride on his... moped? Scooter? But I waved him away and ran, and I cut it pretty close, when the guy at the immigration was asking me a lot of questions. “Your passport is from Austria. So after Macau, are you going back to Austria? No? Are you coming back to Shenzhen? No? I don’t understand?” And I had to give him my Macau resident card to make him understand that I live in Macau (which I had told him already, but he didn’t seem to believe me).
This ferry had safety belts and I put them on. More reading, and last two nice sunset views.
This is that “Famed” HZM Bridge (Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge for those who are interested)
The lights in the far left side is probably Macau, I think.
Price for the ferry ticket was actually more expensive than that to Hong Kong. And the terrifying thing? I was sitting for a while and then noticed… there are no safety belts! OMG!
Didn’t want to waste my phone battery (I knew I would need to use the maps and the subway app function), I brought a cheapo and light MP3 player. Also got quite a bit of reading done during the almost 80-minute ride.
It’s indeed a nifty looking seaport! And I took a photo of the signage pointing to the cruise center, I was worried by the time I returned the sun would have set and I’d sort of get momentarily lost. It was moot though, on my way back the sun was still up.
A bit of a blundering in the subway system and finally I reached the destination. Think of it like Comic Con or something, but this is Game Con or Game Show.
Almost had some kind of trouble with the QR code ticket, but in the end I was able to go in.
I spent like 20 minutes wandering for a bit.
But the real reason I was there was to see Masami Okui, an artist I’d been following since my high school years. Fan digression: Works of note would be opening track to the anime Slayers “Get Along” (duet with Megumi Hayashibara) but I guess her real shining glory was the opening track to Revolutionary Girl Utena, “輪舞 revolution”.
The promotional leaflets and info had harped about how you should only by “official merch” but I couldn’t find them. Anyway, when it was the mini concert time (14:20), I meandered to the stage area and saw people had bought merch, and those with merch had priority access to the stage seating… so I had to queue until all the priorities had gone in. Mini concert with 4 songs sung.
And what do you know, the set list had exactly the 2 tracks I wrote of haha
輪舞 revolution
Blood Blade
Insanity
Get along
I’m not surprised about Blood Blade as it’s the theme song of a new-ish game. Maybe Insanity was a game song as well? This I’m not too sure.
After the concert and knowing of the merch available, I renewed my vigor to bloody hunt for the merch. And I found it. I had walked past that place. It was just a table. Not even a booth!
Meet and greet with signing for this artist was supposed to start at 15:20, so I was standing there waiting, when someone else asked and I, in my limited putonghua knowledge, sort of understood everything’s delayed. When I asked what time they thought this would delay to, they said 17:00. Well, shit. It takes one hour from the convention center to the ferry terminal, and I have to leave at 17:00.
Anyway, after grumbling in my limited putonghua with the staff, she said she’d help me take the merch to sign. Which is grand. But. THE POINT WAS TO GO MEET HER! But I really couldn’t help it. 18:30 was the last ferry of the day, and I had to take that ferry back. If I took the train it’d be like 3 hours and my car was parked in Macau side ferry terminal, not at the Chinese border, so I’d have to make another trip to go get the car.
Of course I made a token “thank you to the kind staff but I couldn’t meet you!” grumble on twitter and the artist replied “we’ll meet next time”. Excuse my Japanese if anything’s grammatically wrong.
But still, because the staff had to wait until the artist was in the waiting lounge or whatever, so it was pretty close to 17:00 when I actually left. I had to run for it, some guy saw me running near the exit of the subway and wanted to hitch me a ride on his... moped? Scooter? But I waved him away and ran, and I cut it pretty close, when the guy at the immigration was asking me a lot of questions. “Your passport is from Austria. So after Macau, are you going back to Austria? No? Are you coming back to Shenzhen? No? I don’t understand?” And I had to give him my Macau resident card to make him understand that I live in Macau (which I had told him already, but he didn’t seem to believe me).
This ferry had safety belts and I put them on. More reading, and last two nice sunset views.
This is that “Famed” HZM Bridge (Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge for those who are interested)
The lights in the far left side is probably Macau, I think.