In the 98 days leading up to Aqours Finale live, each day I intend to write out the lyrics to one of their songs.
Similarly, as of the 2025/01/22 (five months out) each day I am writing out the most important part (to me) of 勇気はどこに?君の胸に! on index cards:
やり残したことなどない
そう言いたいね いつの日にか
そこまではまだ遠いよ だから僕らはがんばって挑戦だよね
Resources I'm using along the way:
Love Live Sunshine Colour Coded (I wish I had found this sooner!)
Aqours Kanji Lyrics Google Doc This is where I prep the lyrics from the wiki to be more intuitively laid out for how I read.
Draft Schedule Spoilers for what's coming up!
Interested in watching me write them out? I'm uploading the timelapse daily on instagram.
I intend to scan these properly at some point too - for now here are the poorly lit photos from the day.
未熟DREAMER
夢で夜空を照らしたい
ダイスキだったらダイジョウブ!
決めたよHand in Hand!
青空Jumping Heart (I was pretty torn between this kimikoko and step zero to one but here we go)
04/03 Day 42. Improving health wise!! Saw the osteo today and I can actually move my neck without pain again! My muscles have stopped spasaming and I feel like I have all this extra room in my lungs. Optimistic for the rest of the week.
03/03 Day 41. Still sick. Achievement of the day was having a proper shower and washing my hair (as opposed to just showering as a means of getting steam through sinuses).
02/03 Day 40. Still sick, back to not sleeping through the night.
01/03 Day 39. I slept through the night! After starting to move around the house unsupported I even managed the steps - small leaving the house time in the evening... Exhausted afterwards but yay for a bit of movement.
28/02 Day 38. I played a lot of boardgames online in the early hours of the 28th... Distract from the pain! Yay! GP was very helpful though and once I had the right balance of knock out pain relief and muscle relaxants I finally slept. Good company throughout the day and lots of good distractions.
27/02 Day 37. Peacefully goes to work... Then what's this? A migraine? Wherever could it have come from? Is it possible I completely overdid it yesterday but didn't realise because it was all fun things?
Got myself home safely and hung out in my dark cave. Passed out on the floor woke up in more pain, nerve flared up too, managed to get an emergency appointment. Yay for Ketorolac and family support, couldn't sleep through the night though :/
26/02 Day 36. [the calm before the storm] What a productive day! Heaps of trombone, felt like an admin wizard, juggling in the evening... All the fun things today
25/02 Day 35. Felt a bit off today, came home early and tried to rest.
24/02 Day 34. A busy morning at work and a great GP appointment to tweak the topiramate plan. Chris made sushi rice and it was so much fun to get to use the onigiri moulds I bought home.
23/02 Day 33.
22/02 Day 32. Trombone practice, rest and boardgames in the afternoon. Good self care today.
21/02 Day 31. Took today gently, still feeling pretty out of sorts after yesterdays migraine episode.
20/02 Day 30. A migraine day, lots of naps and no screen activities today. Perfect for handwriting practice later in the afternoon.
19/02 Day 29. A good busy day of AJC prep and life admin.
18/02 Day 28. I'd been singing along in the car earlier today and realised that while kanji is great for language learning - making me think about the meaning more. To really lock the consonant sounds in my brain for when it counts (you know 22 June when we're all sobbing along one last time) having the kana is more important. So here we have my first attempt at furigana!
17/02 Day 27. Busy day but a good chance to stop and write.
16/02 Day 26. Sleepily before bed. A big productive day tidying the house and doing a wardrobe clearout.
15/02 Day 25. At a good friends place, overlooking Sydney before driving back home.
14/02 Day 24. Lunch break at work, had to get in early today because as soon as I finished work we drove to Sydney to see the premiere of Hadestown!
13/02 Day 23. Written in bed... A great morning and fairly productive day at work until my vision started doing funky things and a migraine came in to write off the afternoon.
12/02 Day 22. Written at the hall in the final minutes of juggling, it was a great JuggleHub training numbers passing! A generally busy day between AJC admin and catching up on life admin.
11/02 Day 21. Leave got approved for JJF/MJC/AiScReam! Had some good trombone time in the afternoon (and my goodness it is nice to play unmuted at home). Kept chipping away at lyric kanji breakdowns.
10/02 Day 20. First day back in the office and thunderstorms meant an early start given car logistics. Definitely missing good public transport. Exciting neurologist appointment in the afternoon - can finally start reducing topirimate given good response to CGRP treatment.
09/02 Day 19. A busy day playing boardgames and doing AJC admin.
08/02 Day 18. Spent a lot of today rearranging the house, putting up posters and catching up on laundry. Most importantly though, first round results came out today! I officially have a ticket for Day 1 of Finale Live!!!!!!!
07/02 Day 17. Before bed after a day of catching up on medical appointments.
06/02 Day 16. On the floor home in Canberra unpacking - realising that I missed an entire day.
05/02 Day 15. Didn't complete. Entire day is kind of a blur of flights.
04/02 Day 14. Having just boarded the flights back to Australia.
03/02 Day 13. Akihabara Love Live Sunshine Gigo Collab Cafe.
02/02 Day 12. Kanagawa Prefectural Hall in between pieces at Yokohama Symphony Orchestra 737 Concert.
01/02 Day 11. Home after Day 1 of Love Live Series Asia Tour!
31/01 Day 10. Home after final rehearsal with Yokohama Symphony Orchestra
30/01 Day 9. Home after final juggling at Yokohama
29/01 Day 8. Home after a day of shopping in Yokohama and starting to pack to head back to Australia!
28/01* Day 7.5. I was pretty unwell on Tuesday and as I lay down to sleep I realised I hadn't written it out so this was technically past midnight but in the same waking cycle as the 28th
27/01 Day 6. Please appreciate Awashima hotel and the school in the far distance, Today I wrote out the bridge at the top of the View O observation deck in Numazu!
26/01 Day 5. Home after a great day of Pass Juggling in Shin-Kiba!
25/01 Day 4. At the Aqours Club pop up in Nagoya, I got to appreciate the Fantastic Departure costume set (but photos weren't allowed)
24/01 Day 3. Home after a sectionals rehearsal with the Yokohama Symphony Orchestra
23/01 Day2. Home after a great night of Juggling
22/01 Day 1. We all have to start somewhere so here it is! After a day adventuring into Tokyo, getting a cute stamp made in Nippori, doing a lap of the usual second hand anime shops in Akihabara and paying my respects at Kanda shrine I came home and put a pen to paper.