Moe Age @ Milky Marketplace in Atlantic Times Square in Monterey Park, CA 3-23-25
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Asayoru Maid Cafe Presents the Milkyway Marketplace’s First Idol Experience with Vendors, Idols, and Fun!
At the beginning of the month is when the maid cafe in Monterey Park known as the Asayoru Maid Cafe, would be hosting an event titled the "Milkyway Marketplace", with anime themed vendors, idol performances, stamp rally, costume contest and much more. Taking place Sunday March 23rd from 11AM to 6PM, various vendors would be set-up, along with several idol performers including BGIE, Strawberry Sunday, and Moe Age, the Asayoru Maid Cafe's very own idol group. Other idol performers were present as well as many people dressed up, with others browsing the vendors and other shops within the shopping plaza.
Having gotten there close to 1PM, the next idol performer would be an idol group known as BGIE or "Bubble Girls Idol Experience, whose membership would change from a five piece down to a four piece. But this did not dismay the performance, even under the heat of the sunshine! Their performance was energetic, with some minor technical difficulties, with the microphone set up, the performance did go off without any further problems. They performed for a solid 30 minutes, performing their hit "Penlights", that got the audience chanting and raving like no tomorrow.
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Following this idol group would be a duo idol act known as Strawberry Sunday, who like many idol's, has their take of cover songs among other songs, they got the crowd hyped up, with lots of momentum, energy, and way more chanting and shouting within the audience. Even a mini mosh pit, jump line formation occurred during one of their cover songs by the idol group known as FESTIVE. It was a lot of fun and very moving.
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Moving along, would be the Asayoru Maid Cafe's idol group Moe Age! A large crowd would be forming for these idols, with their performance lasting a good 30 minutes straight, with they too having some technical difficulties as well, it did not stop the angst and hypertension of the performance. The crowd gave it their all energy with a circle pit forming, others waving their hands in the air, light sticks and pen lights too, with all else just being so enthralled to be there in the moment!
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All in all it was a fun time, with vendors, idols, plenty of music, shopping, and much else, that it made this day time evening, one that will likely happening many more times, this was just the first, out of many to likely follow suite.
Akiba Live Japanese Idol Culture Show Brings the Energy to Little Tokyo!
Down in Downtown LA where Little Tokyo is known for all things Japanese and kawaii A.K.A. cute, is where some events were taking place, one down the street at the Little Tokyo Galleria shopping mall, a Hello Kitty flea market was being held, with over 100 items available for purchase featuring Hello Kitty! A lot of other items were available as well, including appeal, stickers, key chains, jewelry and shops with a lot of the same items. It was a free all ages event so it did bring a crowd, which made it felt roomy.
After browsing around and grabbing some late lunch, there was a mini Japanese idol concert, happening at the Little Akihabara shop, which has been known to be turned into various “pop-up” events, ranging from maid cafe’s, store fronts, and feature live shows like karaoke, and even concerts. Today’s day time event was titled the Akiba Live Japanese Culture Idol Show Event! It had 5 artists performing, having gotten there a bit late, only catching the late performance of Deco*Pro, a vocaloid cover band, where they would sadly lip sync, and dance to various vocaloid songs such as some from Hatsune Miku and her other vocaloid friends. Their performance was catchy and very interactive, with the audience, teaching all there first hand how to chant and shout back, and wave your hands and light sticks if you had any!
Following them would be duo idol group Strawberry Sunday, who has performed their own material, and covered a number of other acts, even doing solo performances during today’s performance. Now their performance was very bouncy and upbeat. Them giving off such energy and angst during their performance, that they had the crowd in an uproar with excitement. During the finale of their set would be a cover of Jrock act Babymetal’s track “Headbanger” and everyone was into it. Having starting a mosh pit, or trying too at least, was fun, with lots of headbanging to follow through of course! It was so much fun catching this duo giving it their all.
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Next would be Hamu Cotton, catching her performance briefly, she gave off a more mellow yet spunky presents. Her stage antics being fun yet fulfilling. Her interactions with the crowd kept them interested, and very invested in the entirety of the performance. She provided various covers during her set and some other songs that had the crowd on their feet, eagerly wanting more.
Lastly would be maid cafe’s own idol group Moe Age! They brought their energy being the headliner of today’s performance. They giving off the energy non-stop, the crowd interacting with jumping, filming, shouting, and chanting it made their set so much fun to witness. Having seen them prior, this performance felt more comforting. I myself was headbanging and rising my light sticks high with such energetic movements it was never ending. They are surely an act to not miss and see once at least!
MOE AGE:
All in all, today’s mini idol show event was a fun filled one. Lots of energy given off, with everyone there having a kick out of it all. Surely idol culture is slowly seeping into the Cali terrain and we are all welcomed to it!
