My Experience Attending ANISAMA WORLD 2025 in MANILA and Bushiroad EXPO 2025 in Manila (June 7 and 8, 2025) 😊😃😘🥰😍

Hello everyone, First and foremost I would like to apologise if I haven’t made a post about the recent ANISAMA WORLD 2025 in MANILA and Bushiroad EXPO 2025 in Manila last Saturday and Sunday June 7 and 8 2025 since I was there for the past 2 days and was very busy around that time and not to mention by the time I went home to my hometown which is Tarlac City we experienced internet connection problem here in my area so again I apologise for the delay. Before I continue I would like to mention what happened days before the ANISAMA WORLD 2025 in MANILA for those who don’t know that the event was initially scheduled to be held at Araneta Coliseum which has a 10k plus sitting capacity but due to low ticket sales caused by some contributing factors like miscalculation not only by Wilbros Live's part but from the organizers of ANISAMA itself cause if I were to ask 2months of preparation for such a big event like ANISMA is really short to market, promote, and sold out a venue with a size of Araneta Coliseum and if I were to ask they should have announced it in late 2024 or early 2025 so that they could have enough time and due to what happened they decided to moved the event to the nearby venue which is the New Frontier Theater also owned by the Araneta Group. And despite the issues that happened a couple of days before the event, the show itself really went great.
Anyways, I would like to share my experience attending both days
Since June 7, 2025, happened to be the Day 1 of Bushiroad EXPO, which coincides with ANISAMA WORLD, and since on Day 1 of Bushiroad EXPO there are no seiyuu guests, so I didn’t come early, unlike I did last year when on both days they had Chihaya Anon’s seiyuu and the guitarist for the real-life MyGO!!!!! The lovely Tateishi Rin-chan, so for day 1 of this year’s Bushiroad EXPO, I came to the venue around 3 pm and I was about to claim my freebie for the attendees of ANISAMA WORLD since both Bushiroad EXPO and ANISAMA WORLD have a collaboration event, but unfortunately, on the Day 1 of the EXPO I wasn’t able to claim my freebie since they ran out of stock, so I have to come back and claim it the following day, which I did, and the freebie I've got was an Ave Mujica Doloris postcard. Now back to Day 1 of Bushiroad EXPO and ANISAMA WORLD since I arrived in the venue around 3 pm I’ve met with a friend had a quick bite to eat in the nearest foodcourt withiin the venue since we came outside from Manila and forgot to take breakfast and lunch and after that we went straight to the venue for ANISAMA WORLD which is the New Frontier Theater and we entered the venue around 5 pm around 2 hours before the show starts at 7 pm and one of the firsts ones to perform is Ave Mujica and they performed 4 songs they are Georgette Me, Georgette You, Ave Mujica, 顔 (Alter Ego), and KiLLKiSS and the crowd errupted with Ave Mujica’s intensity and electrifying performance and I swear watching them perform live is in a whole different level than to just watching them online through streaming like on eplus and watching them performing live you will feel the intensity, adrenaline rush and their electrfying performance and hands down Ave Mujica is such a great live act. Anyways as much I wanted to talk about the other acts who performed on the event like FLOW, ASH DA HERO, Kitadani Hiroshi from JAM Project, MindaRyn, Maeshima Mayu, Miyata Toshiya and nobodyknows+ this post will take so long so I will skip it and only put emphasis on Ave Mujica since they are the only reason why I attended the event but that said each and every performers did such an amazing job. And remember when I said before in my previous posts that as an Ave Mujica superfan who’s been following them since they were introduced in 2023, and 8 years in total since I became a BanG Dream! Superfan in 2017, this is exactly one of my lifelong dreams, a live performance from one of the bands from the BanG Dream! Franchise, a live performance that I can attend physically, and I can finally say that one of those dreams that I’ve been longing for the past 8 years has finally come true. Now the next goal will be visiting Japan to watch them perform live, and I know it will happen eventually, so I will be looking forward to that.
And now about June 8, 2025, the Day 2 of Bushiroad EXPO, where we have 2 members of Ave Mujica as special guests, they are the band’s guitarist and Wakaba Mutsumi’s seiyu, the lovely Watase Yuzuki-chan, and the band’s drummer and Yuutenji Nyamu’s seiyuu, the lovely Yonezawa Akane-chan.
For this year’s autograph sessions, although the mechanics is kinda similar to the last year's event, where those who got a slot were determined via lottery but this time they’ve got 60 individuals and was divided into 2 groups, the first 30 participants who will be meeting Yuzu, and the remaining 30 will be meeting Akane-chan, and each participant should purchase a minimum of 3000 pesos worth of merch to join the autograph sessions. And I’m one of those lucky 30 individuals who’ve had a chance to meet Akane-chan in person. I was like sweet, I mean don’t get me wrong, I really love Yuzu as well, but the thing is we were just assigned 1 seiyuu per participant, which is a bummer, but that said. However, it was Akane-chan whom I had a chance to meet. I also managed to see Yuzu up close in person since she’s just sitting right next to Akane-chan. Anyways, while I’m waiting for my turn to meet Akane-chan, I was a bit nervous and really excited since among the members of Ave Mujica, it’s actually Akane-chan whom I often interacted with on Twitter, in fact, during the airing of BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! in 2023 after the airing of episode 5 when Nyamu appeared in the anime for the first time I went to Twitter to congratulate her, and back then she only has a couple hundreds of followers when I came to know her and imagine that now she has 90000 of followeres and in a way I’m happy to see how far she went like right now she’s one of the most popular seiyuus from the BanG Dream! Franchise and it took almost 2 years before I finally meet her in person and oh boy were heading to the most exciting part cause as soon as I've got my turn the first thing she does is complement my outfit and said I’m Kakoi which means I look cool, I mean there are cosplayers in the event that has better outfits than me but for her to say I look cool is something that is really sweet. cause I actually wear full leather outfit and if I have to describe it my fashion sense is kinda looks similar to Klaus Meine from Scorpions and to Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford during their prime back in late 70’s to early 80’s when they still has long hair and those were metal frontmen who influenced me and I emulate way before I even get deeper and deeper to the rabbithole of Japanese Rock and Metal Music, and to be honest I rarely get compliments, and for the said compliment to come from one of the people I really love, admire and looked up to is really something and I’m so flattered. Anyways, it seems like Akane-chan saw me in ANISAMA WORLD as well and asked if I had so much fun attending the event, and I mentioned again that I also watched the concert and told her it was so much fun, and she thanked me for attending these past 2 days. And I swear Akane-chan is such a nice and down to earth person and she really is such a sweetheart, that’s why no wonder why she's so adorable and everyone really likes her cause aside from her talent as a great drummer, and someone who can also plays guitar and sings, not only that she's a multitalented person but she’s also beautiful inside and out, someone who’s so nice and has a genuine personality and I swear after that encounter it only made me admire and love her even more.