The strange song, and the Kamitsubaki Yoyogi battle in 2024, have ended! 🌹 To those who watched, to all of you who always support, to everyone involved with Kamitsubaki, thank you so, so much. … pic.twitter.com/2Pm1OaU7eI @(virtual_kaf) January 14, 2024
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- It was amazing~~~~~~~
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Somehow, I felt like I can’t lose when someone of the same age accomplishes so much (?)
- (Since Hanafu and I were both born in December 2003)(?)
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Actually, it was my first time attending a virtual live event, and I was impressed by that itself.
- The virtuality of the live performance was highlighted.
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I was so unfamiliar with live events that I didn’t realize I needed to buy the light sticks beforehand once I entered.
- I wanted one~~
- I ended up shaking a water bottle.
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I’m curious why people with physical bodies didn’t come down to the ground at the same height as Hanafu.
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Since it was my first virtual live event, I’m not sure if it’s common, but I liked that the screens on the left and right showed a different perspective from the actual-size Hanafu on the center stage.
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When viewed from a distance at an angle, I felt like the actual-size Hanafu screen alone lacked presence, and
- The side profile angle videos on the left and right panels made up for it.
- I think it’s important to view it from the front.
What was that rotating flower thing?
- Was it taking only the physical body’s silhouette and reconstructing it in a virtual space? The rotating flower appeared as a “new body” rather than the “original physical body,” and I think that’s great (blu3mo)(blu3mo)(blu3mo)
- It’s definitely a parallel existence, and it’s unclear how much is virtual/real, creating an ambiguous presence.
- I thought it was portrayed that way. Since only the silhouette’s image was shown even in the live performance, it’s unclear how real the rotating flower’s body is.
- In photos, it looks like it appeared with a physical body
- In the venue, I got the impression of a “mysterious presence that is neither clearly virtual nor real.”
- While Hanafu’s usual avatar aims to “make a virtual body more real,” I thought the rotating flower aims to do the opposite by “making a real body (probably) more virtual.”
- By approaching the boundary between virtual and real from both sides, it seems like they are trying to blur the line?
