Christmas memories, Manacle and Aphrodite live, Saya and Yuji live, being alone on Christmas too

Hi Derek, thank you as always for an audio post. I always look forward to them and they are the only podcast I can listen in one go rather than in chunks over a few hours or days. The doc is getting close to completion. I look forward to it a lot and I will do my best to contribute as much as I can to it. I look forward to seeing the different types of tiers and I will make sure to promote the doc wherever I can. I'm sure even those not familiar with underground idols will be interested and fall in love with it just as I have. 2021 is around the corner. 2020 was a difficult year full or hardships, but you showed your passion and you achieved things I could only dream of. Your hard work paid off. I hope to be in Japan at the end of 2021, to experience your hard work in person in terms of watching Miho, Kosame and the mystery idol number three. Lots of love, Romy

Hey Derek, glad to hear you had some company for christmas. I spent it mostly alone. Only visited my parents for one evening and spent it with my sister a friend couple of the family eating self made Pizza. What you said about rules i had to experience first hand today. I wanted expressing disappointment to an idol on social media about something. Since i wanted make it easy for her, i translated it to japanese, which turned out into a big mistake. At least without backchecking it. I got a unexpected rude answer and was shocked the comment that was meant to show deep disappointment suddenly read more like Klaus Kinski on rage after retranslation. Took me a whole day to apologise and fix that. Lesson learned. Double triple and quater check if you use a language you don´t are full familiar with. The translating algorithm and my lack of adapting cultural differences want to see me dead. But anyway... Your doc is so near. The poster with Chihiro looked awesome. The Title sounds so great – the image is perfect to attract people. If i found this as a complete foreinger on a DVD shelf i would be catched and buy it. As said speaking for myself you definetely have a good tier reserved. Lets see how far i will come with that ammount in the credits. Regarding sales this has the highest buying priority. So if you want plan cheki sessions this month better consider that. In talks i heard other members here will do the same. We will rock this. Do you plan to announce it like a crowdfunding or just put every tier for preorder into the store? But as said. Speaking for myself – i believe in the doc – i am hyped since July or August and i wanna see it so bad and i am very curious for the different editions. You got every support i can give and this has first priority this month. This time everything counts. Let´s make this big. Not break even. B – I – G! This year in retrospective you achived an insane ammount of goals, After the Himari photobook last year you made a big handfull more, everyone a great character capture of each idol. Despite any hardship caused by Covid you did a birthday live. Even if it didn´t come out break even it definetely spread many artists more popular into the west which is a big win win for everyone. For expample i wasn´t familiar with Last Question or Emomomo7. Now i own every CD and DVD of them you have on Idol Underworld. Slowly restocking other Bands over the next months. And i didn´t even mention Merry Bad End.What an idol Group. Wow. And on top ot the cake you started producing Miho and Kosame and a mysteriuous third Idol for later 2021 already in the first steps until announcement. So the golden 2020 Brent Rambo Meme definetly goes to you. Take care and hear ya soon. If we don´t hear before. Have a great 2021. May it be healthy, may it be successful. You rule.

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Once again, fascinating details about your idol life in Japan ! I look forward to all of this, you know. I am so happy that the doc is coming out ! I will do what I can to support and hope you know this ! Please keep these reports coming, some of us may never get to Japan, sad as that is, and it is helpful to hear your experiences ! Happy holidays !