Jump Festa 2001

Event	Jump Festa 2001
Location	Makuhari Messe
Date	2000.12.23 - 2000.12.24
Time	9:00 - 17:00
Cost	free

Event report version 0.8 by Hitoshi Doi, 2001.01.09

Although this event took place on December 23 and 24, 2000, it was called Jump Festa 2001. This event was free, and open to the public.

On 12/23, I arrived at Makuhari Messe at around 7:00, thinking that it wouldn't be too bad (crowd wise). I was wrong. It was very crowded, mostly with grade school and junior high school kids. I thought that I would be in for very bad wait..

But it turned out that there were two lines. One for the main entrace, and one for the goods. There were over 10,000 people in line for the goods (as the line of people wound around the Makuhari Messe building). But there were only about 1000 people lined up for the main entrance. So I wasn't in such a bad position after all. Also instead of letting in at 9:00, they let in at 8:30 because of the crowd.

After I got in, I headed directly for the Banpresto booth, where there were only a few people (all of them my friends), and stayed there the whole day. Nagai Nobuko, Tsuchiya Mieko, and Sawai Natsumi were going to be the emcee girls at the Banpresto booth on 12/23. Takahira Jun, Shintani Sayaka, and Minano Fuuko were going to be the emcee girls on 12/24.

Photos, videos were allowed! (^_^)

The schedule for the Banpresto booth on December 23 was as follows.

time	event	guests
10:00	Opening	Natsumi
10:30	Super Robo Pinball	Nobuko, Mieko
10:45	DJ - booth intro	Natsumi
11:00	Super Characters Live	Kageyama Hironobu, Kitadani Hiroshi, Natsumi
12:00	Super Robo Talk	Midorikawa Hikaru, Inada Tetsu
12:30	Summon Night 2	Miyakoshi Masato
13:00	Super Robo Pinball	Nobuko, Mieko
13:15	One Piece	Nobuko, Mieko
13:45	DJ - booth intro	Natsumi
14:00	Super Robo Talk	Midorikawa Hikaru, Inada Tetsu
14:45	Summon Night 2	Kobayashi Yumiko, Sugita ?
15:15	DJ - guest talk	Natsumi, Kageyama Hironobu
15:30	One Piece	Nobuko, Mieko
16:00	Super Robo Pinball	Nobuko, Mieko
16:15	Super Characters Live	Kageyama Hironobu, Kitadani Hiroshi, Natsumi

Nagai Nobuko was wearing an orange and white checkered, short sleeve sweater top, a short orange mini skirt, and white boots. Tsuchiya Mieko was wearing a blue and white checkered, short sleeve sweater top, a short blue mini skirt, and white boots. Sawai Natsumi was wearing a pink and white checkered, short sleeve sweater top, a short pink mini skirt, and white boots when she was doing the narration. But for the Live stage, Natsumi wore a yellow sweater top and long blue skirt.

Super Robo Pinball

This was a 15 minute stage where Nobuko and Mieko introduced the Super Robot Pinball Game. There was also a game battle between two people who were brought up onto the stage. The winner got a present. Most of the participants were kids.

One Piece

This was a 30 minute stage where Nobuko and Mieko introduced the One Piece game and goods. Then at the end of the stage, Kitadani Hiroshi came to sing the old opening song to One Piece, We Are.

Super Characters Live

This was a 45 minute stage with songs by Kageyama Hironobu, Kitadani Hiroshi (singer), and Sawai Natsumi. The songs were:

Dragonball Z (Kageyama Hironobu)
We Are (Kitadani Hiroshi) [old opening to One Piece]
Getter Robo (Kageyama Hironobu)
? (Kitadani Hiroshi) [One Piece song]
Hagane no Messiah (Kageyama Hironobu) [Super Robo Alpha Gaiden]
Soldier Dream (Kageyama Hironobu) [Saint Seiya]
Toki wo Koete (Kageyama Hironobu, Kitadani Hiroshi, Sawai Natsumi) [Super Robot Taisen F]
Cha La Head Cha La (Kageyama Hironobu, Kitadani Hiroshi, Sawai Natsumi) [Dragonball]

For the final stage, Nagai Nobuko and Tsuchiya Mieko also came out to sing Cha La Head Cha La. Actually they didn't know the song, so they didn't sing much. They just danced around looking cute. (^_^;

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