Nakano Miyabi (Minyo Girls)

Nakano Miyabi Live at Aeontown Kamisato (2023/07/29)

This summer I had the chance to see Miyabi's mini-live in Kamisato, a place where I had frequently seen both Wasamin and Minyo Girls before Covid. Moreover, this was the first time I was seeing Miyabi in almost 3 1/2 years. She has grown a lot in that time, both physically and professionally. So I was really looking forward to seeing her.



I headed up to Kamisato in the morning, just below the Saitama/Gunma prefectural border. The buses from the station to the mall run infrequently, so despite the oppressive heat I decided to make the 1.5 kilometer walk to the mall. After all, I would have plenty of time to cool off before her performance.

Just an aside, the reason I took so long to post this report was that I was concerned about the posting of the below videos. It turns out that Miyabi's management (her parents) approve of posting her live videos on YouTube. So that's cool. Anyway, I got there early, and watched a karaoke event while I waited for Miyabi's set. To my surprise, Miyabi made a guest appearance during the karaoke event to promote her performance. Plus, she did a short rehearsal



I don't have the entire setlist, but Miyabi sang quite a few songs, including both Zenbon Zakura (which she sang for The Voice) and Tomei Kouka, which is one of her recent original songs. I love it so much. If you haven't seen the original PV, here it is...


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Anyway, here are my recorded videos of this song and the song she performed on The Voice, with permission from YouTube (except in select countries)


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Anyway, it was a fun show, and Miyabi's mom came over to me to say hello/ At first I didn't notice her next to me. but then I realized she was trying to get my attention. I hadn't seen Miyabi's mom in quite a while, but she was a good friend to me while I was looking for work in Japan back in 2019.



I had two greeting ticket for after the event. I bought a "cool towel" with her logo in it, but decided against the necklace/fan, despite how comfortable it looked. I waited for my turn to finally meet with Miyabi, and I got a special extra-long encounter since they had a problem with the cheki camera, so she and I talked for over a minute. It was basically reminiscing about how long it had been since we had met, and that I loved Toumei Kouka, both the song and the MV. I thought about grabbing more tickets, but the bus back to the train station was coming soon, and I wanted to grap dinner from the Taiwan Fried Chicken show that specialized in giant fried chicken the size of your head...



Miyabi has a mini-live coming up in November, and I'm thinking about attending. We'll see. But I am happy to see that she is doing really well, and will be graduating high school in the coming months.