Igaguri Chiba at FanimeCon 2012
A video I found, I hope is useful o.o 

.: Not too in detail but here is fanimes report on chiba

shiriarukiraa:

Japanese vocalist Igaguri Chiba was one of the first Guests of Honor to kick off this year’s FanimeCon with an hour-long Q&A on Friday evening.

Chiba started his music career as an original member of the rock band Sendai Kamotsu, a collaboration of six co-workers from a freight company. As a homage to their job they wear red jumpsuits, as well as wild makeup to hide their identities. Unfortunately, the bad has been on hiatus since their employer went bankrupt during the recession. Since then, Chiba has continued his career as a solo artist.

When asked what it’s like being a solo artist in comparison to being in a band Chiba said, “When you’re on your own, there’s so much more [you have to do.]” But said that having a back up band and back up dancers helps.

Chiba’s appearance at FanimeCon marks his first trip overseas.  He explained how he really wanted to go somewhere he really liked, which led to his trip to San Jose.

As for FanimeCon, Chiba said he likes the cosplay, and that he found the quality of people’s costumes to be very good and was shocked at just how well-made they were. When asked about the FanimeCon’s theme, sports, Chiba stated that his favorite was baseball and that he knows how to play it. 

Questions ranged from his favorite music, favorite TV shows, whether or not he has a makeup artist and if he had hair under his shawl. Chiba also spoke about his most embarrassing, yet proud, experience (when he went naked onstage once) and how interesting it is to hear his music in AMVs. He even performed a vocal scale upon one fan’s request and gave hugs and fist bumps to a few other avid fans.  

Chiba-san was the headliner performer at MusicFest on Saturday evening, held across the street at the Civic Auditorium.

Chiba at FanimeCon 2012 
Source: FanimeCon Site

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nightmare-a-day:

Someone help this guy he’s about to give birth (?)

For you who were looking for some report of Chiba’s event, the user @cherry1608 tweeted a bit about it to NaitoUsa (this sounded stalkerish, lol, but they retweeted on their page). Take a look, it seemed to be fun!

And thanks to apydizz (don’t know if you have a tumblr account) this song is stuck in my head right now. B|

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nightmare-a-day:

Chiba is already in California! Hide yo kids hide yo husband

Did you see his album cover? To be honest I was expecting something crazier, like Gira Gira Boys (I’ll never forget that parody of Nirvana’s Nevermind LMAO), but anyways. If you like Sendai Kamotsu/Chiba songs, get it! If you live in California, go see him! Let’s support teh gei-ness!

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Shoxx vol.233 July 2012 -Ruka
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Shoxx vol.233 July 2012 -Ruka
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