Blog - Weekly revue: 2019 week #41 (October 5 to 11)

Weekly revue: 2019 week #41 (October 5 to 11)

QP traces in Koenji

Food: - Curry at Indo Fujiko, Kōenji
- Philly cheese steak sandwich & poutine at Robson Fries, Shimokitazawa
- Triangle Curry in Shibuya
- Tofu steak & more at Ichioku, Roppongi

Music event: Went to see Pizzicato One at Billboard Live Tokyo! The 2nd of two sets. Konishi Yasuharu sang all songs himself, accompanied by a band of piano, vibraphone, guitar, woodbass and drums. Half of the songs were from Pizzicato Five's repertory, and the rest were songs he contributed to other artists. Awesome show!! The show was recorded and will be released as a live album! Already I can't wait to hear it again!

By the way the pianist this time was singer-songwriter Yafune Tetsurō (known for his work with Hoshino Michiru, Wakita Monari, Mia Nascimento, etc.). It was his first appearance with Pizzicato One!

Set list: The Awakening * / Tokyo no machi ni yuki ga furu hi, futari no koi wa owatta. (Original: Mizuno Mari) / The Work of God * / Message Song * / Y.O.U. (I Wanna Be Like You) * / chikyū saigo no hi (Original: kuso yarō All Stars) / From 3000 Feet The Sky Of Tokyo (Original: Ino Hidefumi) / Drinking Wine * / Gondola no uta ** / namida morokunatta. (Original: Yoshikawa Tomoko)
Encore: kanashii uwasa (Original: The Scooters) / Love Again * / To Our Children's Children's Children *
* Original: Pizzicato Five
** Original: Pizzicato One

Talk event: On Wednesday October 9, I went to a talk event featuring manga artist Maki Hirochi, celebrating the completion of her long-running (7 years!) series "It will be breakfast at Tiffany some day" (いつかティファニーで朝食を(. Held at Bookstore B&B in Shimokitazawa, the event also featured with her friend Yuuki of band Chai. They talked about various topics relating to the comics, with of course a lot of food talk!

The event was actually supposed to coincide with the release of the last book from the series. However, as it was announced in detail by the artist on Twitter, just about three days before release day, it turned out that the printed product had the final chapter mistakenly published in an unfinished form (missing important final touches and corrections). That caused a lot of trouble, and the official corrected release ended up being postponed towards the end of October. Still, the author and publishing company make it possible to correctly print a small number of copies just for the event's audience. It's too bad that such trouble occurred with the last volume of a successful series, but still it was relieving that it could somehow be fixed, with even the miracle small pressing that looks just as perfect as the real thing should. Whew!

Again congratulations for this awesome series' completion! :)