What a week it has been ^3^

I nearly died earlier this week (like a few days ago...)! My muscles started to hurt incredibly bad, but specifically my arms and legs. I dont know why, but i instantly started to cry, and i cried so much that my nose was full of snot and i genuinely could not breathe. I took a few painkillers, then i woke up and it was all gone!

I guess if theres one thing i can learn, its that pain is never permanent. Ever! I try my best to tell myself this. I can get as angry or tense as i want, but in as little as a few minutes, or as much as a few hours, it all just disappears and things are okay. It's really weird but it's good for keeping my feelings at bay. #MeaningfulLifeLessons #Important 

That and also for whatever reason seeing the new kyusaku/shinsaku goods just brought my mood down a tiny bit when i thought about it too deep. I dont think i can imagine next year passing without me seeing golden bomber live...but at the same time ill be too busy with reality to the point where i also cant imagine myself...GOING...lol (im in so much pain...)

Anyways! Tomorrow's Friday so no fasting. Yay! I'm gonna have a nice breakfast hopefully. And then finally go to that accessory store. PLEASE GOD LET ME GO TO THAT ACCESSORIES STORE. I have to! I must! Ive been wanting to go for literally months! 

I took my mandatory mid-blog break of unspecified time and i saw a picture of (can you guess) Kenji shirtless in a hotel room bed and is it ok that my entire body just started getting really really warm? Like abnormally warm? I feel like this is a new level of delusional for me. The only thing supposed to be making my body this warm should be like...a bad fever or something i dont knowwwwwww

Above: Real image of me thinking about all the perverse Kenji Darvish images ive seen over the years

I've been looping songs. I always loop songs. But this week's song is interesting even to me

I'm no stranger to Mounir's music...before Perfume and Golden Bomber he was all i listened to (because my parents would blast his music in the car all the time). I feel like he has better songs than this one, but it isnt bad by any means. It's catchy! But it feels like one of his more experimental songs. I dont know. All this man's fans are like three times my age ill just stick to my shallow GB songs or something. It's one of those songs id recommend only if youve listened to more of his songs...u get me?

It's 3 am...shit...

Uhm, bye!

~Cat

GOLDEN BOMBER MERCH HAUL JULY '24! \(^o^)/ early birthday gift/post-exam treat? idk lol

 helloooooooooooo!!!!!!!

sorry for the lateness in making this post ^^' no reason i was just...pre-occupied...you'll see why later on

i ordered all my stuff in late june, around the 20th (kiriba!) and it all arrived on the 16th!!!!!! shockingly fast because everything arrived to the warehouse on the 10th. and i used small package which takes me like 2 weeks on average...

my mom let me order some more merch!!!! which was incredibly kind of her q-q hopefully once my results come out i'll get good grades which means MORE!!!!!! (although my computers actively dying so maybe i need to...NOT buy dvds lol) 

i'll start off with misc stuff and then go on to dvds and cds! 

first off, some cheki and a photo!! my first cheki ever actually LOL. they're all from 2012...i think :p top 2 i know for sure are from '12, the suit one is from some golden album related event (maybe an issho baka concert?) and the other from an obama blog book signing event. cuuuute. i think the bottom one is late 2012. he often parted his hair like that during the fanclub tour that year. 

funny story; the cheki of him in a suit came in a set with the big golden album photo. when i opened the packaging, they were in a thin box for an iphone 4 screen protector???? i was really confused and wondering if i got scammed...thankfully not lol

a kenji-colored keychain from the hadaka no ousama tour, 2013. it was common for every tour to have keychains that were member colored, especially in the early 2010s. i like kenji's because a) kenji and b)....PINK. i want ten of them. wonderful keychains.

i cant wait to hang it on a bag or something. im too scared to do that. but i want to. maybe i can hang it on whichever bag i'm taking for the day...yeah!

a pin from the kyan hage tour, 2014. came with my narcisse kenji necklace as a bonus. i like it. not much to say :p i wonder what i can use it for...

the necklace in questionnnn~~~~ isnt it nice...i can already imagine myself wearing it...repping my favorite kenji alter ego...kyaaaa

a closer look at the engraving ^.^

last but not least of the misc. things....MY JUNKO BAG!!!!!!!!! i remember finding it for 450 yen back in may, asking to buy it, my mom thought it was ugly, someone else bought it, i got sad, for a while the only listing of it was 2500 yen...but then my friend sent me a 1500 yen listing right after my exams were done!!!!! my mom actually likes it now though...i dont know if youll read this but thank you aru q_q she sent me the listing with the cheki too. saved a life...

the back...her name's junko @ reita no yome (reita's wife LOL. like the bassist of the gazette) but here its...all stars!!!!

...and the inside ^.^ no pouches inside which is to be expected but i like when bags have little pockets for things. lol

OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!! found a signed copy for 500 yen. why not snag it? it's a good book and a bit more interesting than the second book imo; there's posts from his livedoor blog too!! (he describes them as being negative and advises skipping them LOL poor thing) o_o how cool is that!!! there's a little flipbook of him getting naked in the corner of the pages too. cuuuute. the special gravure at the start consists of pompadour kenji, mukku cowering in fear, narcisse kenji, NAKED kenji (twice actually...) and its terrifying. but this is it. the true essence of kenji is in this book. this book and kenji are one. he is obama blog. obama blog is kenji

OBAMA......TWO! it even comes with the CD!!!!! 

the gravure in this is a bit better. not much nakedness until the very end...hehe

it starts off with a few alter ego; him in his dance my generation makeup, narcisse kenji, p.e teacher kenji (?????????) and...kenji darvish! its a nice book too. mostly just blog posts from 2011-2012 ;3; at the end there's a pic of him showering. heheehehhehehe

the 8cm cd (3rd pic), natsumonogatari was originally a song from a band kenji was in called hellcopter. he was 20 when he recorded the song and he was on vocals AND guitar! there's a cool interview about it all. here you go

and now we move on to cds and dvds! ^q^

sho kiryuin's first solo CD, life is showtime!!! it's a solid song. came in a set with a few things and a win is a win i feel...this is type b, the oni version. the oni version of the music video just has shots of kirisho instead of the kamen rider guy (not too into kr im sorry) at the start. very nice! it came in a set so i think its just a nice addition to my collection!

the past masters! shokai genteiban type B specifically. niceeee...lots of old rarities * . * its so fun watching it all. kenji's old makeup was really really really elaborate.

the booklet itself issss around 16 or so pages? it's fairly thick, just has lyrics and member shots :p i think i want type A now...lol

overall, if you want older concert stuff, go for type B. if you want more of the members being stupid, go for type A ^^ simple! the cd will stay the same no matter which one you pick lol

oh kinbaku pick!! the kenji camera version!!! 

i bought this back in may, but it got cancelled. words can not describe how happy i am now that i have it ;_; i have yet to watch it, but usually member versions before kyan hage are kinda hard to find, so this was a total steal...and it came in a set with a bunch of other stuff!!!! (keychain, another dvd, past masters, obama blog book 2) all that for 980 yen!!!! im so so so happy...i think i also want the kenji ver. for the issho baka concert. every time i save it it gets sold out before i get to it LOL

speaking of issho baka...my collection of issho baka dvds is complete!!!!! \(^o^)/ woohoo!!!!

i love this series of concerts sooooo much * . * mainly for makeupless kenji okay. he seemed so embarrassed in the first concert after the fourth stageplay but in the 1.15 concert he seems much happier hueheuehuehe q-q although he does rush to put his makeup back on LOL. what i found interesting about the 1.21 dvd is that no shokai genteiban of it exists??? which is strange ;-; but at least it means i dont have to dig for anything else LOL

we're at the last stretch of the post!!! last but most certainly not least is ZENRYOKU BAKA!!!! their last concert of 2010. a very interesting one, and also where we see christine yutako for the first time!!! this is also my first shokai genteiban dvd of a concert!!! i'm beyond happy to have this T_T like actually. i got it for really cheap, and even though the listing description talked about the condition of the disc, both seemed to play just fine

...or so i thought

the omake dvd ripped just fine, but the live dvd. ;_; it took me a whole day to even figure out what to do. i thought it was a drive related issue. it wasnt; it was more of a software one. it would go up to 12 percent whenever i ripped it using dvd decrypter alone, so i had to redownload ripit4me because it needed a PSL file. something like that. i spent nearly all of yesterday trying to rip it. several cases of my drive warming up my couch. my dvd vibrating inside the drive. that was why i was pre-occupied...as mentioned earlier

AAAHHHH ITS OVER!!!!!!!!!! I WROTE A POST!!!!!!!!!!! ...although i may edit it to add a thing or two later lol

is there anything here you find interesting? anything you like? anything the two of us own? o3o let me know!!!

bye bye!

~Cat

2.13.24 my (mostly) golden bomber merch haul!!!

 hello!!! 

sorry for not updating this thing -.- i have studying to do...obviously lol. alevel bio is killing meeeeeeeeeee X< 

anyways. no long intro about my feelings....the title says it all! i recently got my exam results, so i bought a bunch of things to celebrate how good i did!!!!

....i wanna show you all what i got!!! ^o^ im writing this on my phone so i hope things are formatted well!!

(well...was...i ended up finishing this on pc anyways lol)

i bought these on the 19th of january...and after waiting for so long because of ONE cd, it finally arrived yesterday!

oh and also song of the post is haruuta by hy4_4yh cus why not

without further ado...

LET'S BEGIN!!!!

starting off strong with shinda tsuma ni niteiru kenji version!!! no obi sadly but still a cool thing to have nonetheless. <3 i love kenjis singing voice sooo much...it's really rough but also there's an interesting sort of 

when i tried ripping the disc it registered as the kyan yutaka vocal version so i had to fix it myself. lol

a detail i thought was really cute! a message from kenji in the tray of the cd case :o the text translates to something like "i'll send my singing voice to the world" but i could be wrong...ferry cute...i love kenji

of course, it came with the body perfume card.....very sexy but i have to guard this thing with my LIFE in the worst case scenario that my mom might see it (lol)...im also too scared to open it and smell the body perfume. not because itll smell bad (lol) just because...well...just because! i think the smell might be too strong... >_> and itll leave a mark...

haruuta by hy4_4yh!!!!! this cd took so long to arrive T___T worth it though. i love it!!! such cute songs. such a cute design too.....its so....catcore

utatta is probably one of my favorite b-sides now lol. its so adorable

apparently kimi x4 is a cover of a song from ezaki masaru's band from the 90s, strobe roadies. he said so in a blog post of his from when the single released :p its such a cute song. 

OH MY SWEET HONEY BUNNY! YOU ARE MY NUMBER ONE! YOU ARE SO CUTIE! >v<

didnt take a pic but the tray has like a cheetah print design where the disc should be. cute!

speedy wonder by hy4_4yh!!!! been looking for this one for a while too!!!! i love the whole design *_* the title track reminds me a lot of 2010s ayumi hamasaki...sort of...lol. i love the tonal shift like two or so minutes in

atashi no hikari is a cute j-r&b style song...tbf in the early 2010s hy4_4yh were REALLY into namie amuro

i love 2010s hy4 so much...ezaki masaru is a genius producer im so serious

this ep has such a cool and distinctive pop sound to it. i wish itd end up on streaming already T_T 

kyan hage but...KENJI! and unlike yutaka......kenji has a wonderful head of hair xoxo 

it's a 2-disc dvd too. imagine my luck!

super cute kenjicchi from the disc...

issho baka dvd!!! one of my favorite tours. it feels like 2012 was such a busy year for golden bomber...issho baka, oh kinbaku pic, kinbaku all stars, golden album...if only i could time travel...

i like the plot of the tour too. sho plays a guy named baka yamada (yes. thats his first name ok...its written in kanji as if its a genuine name LOL) in the intro. he ends up getting rejected from his job because of his name, which causes him to get mad at his wife (played by yutaka), which THEN causes him to end his life by jumping off a bridge but instead he ends up on the stage LOL

i liked seeing keni without makeup. he's a bit sexier without makeup but >_> shhhh dont tell a soul

tag yourself im all the extra "etc."s

stylish weapoooooooon!!!!! cool concert dvd. mainly just bought it because it was old >_> its the oldest kinbaku dvd in my collection currently! i love the pink theming...

oneman kowai. wow memeshikute's popularity really got to kirisho didnt it. poor guy!

haven't gotten around to watching it...dont tell anyone

the guy on the cover is kenji. the character he plays is actually...just called one man. wow

golden clips!!!!! getting this was sooo hard...it got sold like three times before i could buy it :'> still survived though so HAH

mainly bought it for the trauma kyabajou pv...

the booklet!!!! i think dvd booklets should be the norm. honestly...

and that marks all the optical media i got!!! now...for the misc. merch ^^

can badges!!! top left is from hadaka no ousama 2013 i believe? top right is from oh kinbaku pick 2012, bottom left is kinbaku all stars 2012, idk about bottom right :p i attached the hadaka no ousama one to my outing bag!!!

was so happy to get this...if you're the seller and you come across this i hope you have a good day today. guessing by the color scheme it was probably kenji themed too

still attached him to one of my bags regardless LOL

a phone charm from the issho baka tour :> it wont look good with my current phone case, but i'm waiting on another one so hopefully it'll look better with that...

and this is the pencil case i keep all my can badges and phone charms (issho baka one+a pre-existing collection of mine) in it ^.^ not bought from buyee, but rather a supermarket that had it in some sort of bargain bin. the tag says its from 2014 i think? idk. i cant be bothered to check LOL but i just use it as a storage unit lol. no reason as to why its here besides i just think its cool and i love ruby gloom

kinbaku all stars 2012 t-shirt!!!!! ^q^ buying this was a total gamble!!!! i had no idea whether itd fit or not (although it is a free size) but it fits so woohoo!!!! 

now...me and jun are one in the same...

last but not least...

kenji plushie!!!

from the hadaka no ousama 2013 tour!!!!! he's so adorable...i slept with him beside me last night q.q 

i think this haul is very telling of who my favorite golden bomber member is

isn't he just adorable

thank you for reading this post!!!!!!! genuinely, thank you :>

i hope you enjoyed something here. is there something in this haul the two of us own? something from the haul that you want to own? something you just find interesting? tell me all about it!!!!

this haul was sooo worth all the tears i cried doing 15 mark pseudocode questions...

~Cat