Apr 19, 2025

The only thing I had in my schedule today was watching that Miku movie with my sister. Time flew by pretty fast, to be honest. We had lunch at home and the nuggets and bacon I bought during my last shopping trip was the BAMF of the day. Seriously, those were just that good, especially the nuggets. Although, I probably would've enjoyed them crispy and not still-soggy, but it's fine since I just microwaved them to hell. We finished eating and then left relatively on time. The trip to Robinsons Magnolia was long, though. Thankfully, we didn't take a full hour, or something. Traffic was relatively low, so that was nice. I arrived at the right spot, too, and met up with my sister shortly afterward. We went upstairs to the 5th floor where the cinemas were at and there were a lot of people. There were some people cosplaying, bringing their Miku dolls, etc. I took a few pictures and my sister got us popcorn and water and then we went inside to watch the movie. I'm not going to give my review of it, but I was really blown away. I thought it was just some random, goofy movie about Hatsune Miku. I thought it would be just like the Minecraft movie: a goofy plot and just people having fun. It delved into deep, emotional topics which made me cry a bit. There was a line in the movie that went something like, "if I was stuck in the bottom of the sea, I think I would be happy if someone just understood me." The guy was referring to how Miku was just sad because nobody understands her. That honestly struck my heart because I've been so alone lately, life's great but I deal with some stuff from the past. For the longest time, no single person actually knows the full extent of what I'm going through. It makes me sad at times. The movie also had some emotional parts that I could relate to, but most of the time my jaw was just on the floor because this movie got real serious. I honestly thought this was just going to be some goofy movie, not deal with real-world feelings and stuff. My sister was, of course, crying or teary-eyed throughout it. I went in blind for the movie, as blind as one can be. I didn't read the synopsis, didn't read the plot, didn't read any reviews, I didn't even see the trailer much, to be honest. And I was just at awe at how touching and beautiful this movie was. Definitely my top movie so far in 2025. At the end, there was a special performance, which was so nice. The girl that sat to my left brought out a lightstick and we waved it around while Miku and the other Vocaloids from Crypton also sang along. All in all, the movie was nice. There were some jerks sat directly behind us who kept blabbering through some parts, but it was still great that they kept quiet during the important parts of the film. There was that weird ambient sound, too, and it was coming from the in-theater air conditioning. The speakers weren't in a full surround sound configuration, too. I only heard sound from the screen itself. My sister and I definitely agree that it sucks that this movie only had its theatrical run in Robinsons Movieworld. They don't even have VIP screening! But whatever, you take what you can get in life and the movie was still really touching, so I'll take that as a win. We went out, took some pics of the Miku poster outside, and walked around the mall. We bought some stuff at Miniso and my sister was really interested in some of the Harry Potter merch inside. After that, my sister and I ate Pepper Lunch at the food court downstairs and we noticed that the mall was really hot inside, which was weird. I don't really expect a mall to be hot inside. We went to other places: that pet store, N.Cat to check out ILLIT albums (none were there), we visited a Japanese store (Konbini Store), we got matcha, and we visited the park. The mall was really big! The layout was honestly confusing as hell. But it was nice to walk around and explore a new mall. I was weirded out to see Mondi show up on my IG map and that he was here in Robinsons Magnolia as well. I messaged him and he was generally just shocked that his location was tracked. At the end, we visited the Gashapon Bandai Official Shop Philippines. They had a lot of gashapon machines and I bought around 30 tokens, which was around 1,900 or so? I can't recall how much exactly, but it was around that price. Too bad we didn't buy anything directly-Miku related because all of the Miku gashapons were sold out. We tried a Crypton Vocaloid gashapon, though, and my sister got Kaito. I tried a Sanrio "lightstick" gashapon and I was lucky enough to get Cinnamoroll! I was happy and we used up all of the 30 coins on other gashapon capsules. After that, we booked a ride home. We got home okay and it was a long ride, too. My sister was really happy regardless. She seemed to enjoy it because she visited a new mall and got to see so many new stuff. The Miku movie being great and impactful was just the cherry on top, honestly. All in all, today was fun and I spent the rest of the night just chilling and catching up on all my journal entries.