2023's Bigミュージカル『刀剣乱舞』 Ticket War Part 1 : Why it's harder to get tickets
Story time no one cares about
Back in 2018 i had the chance to watch toumyu live in paris. 5years later i am trying to go to tokyo see toumyu again and i'm bringing you with me on the quest to get tickets !
In order to avoid creating messes of taylor swift proportions or worse every stage that has more demand than tickets available for sure you have to enter a lottery to have the right to buy one or 2 tickets.
And then you remember you are not in japan.
Up until now, very understandable and quite clever but japan has to be japan. You have rules and prerequisites that keep foreigners out.
For every account creation , you will have to enter a japanese real adress :
-> you totally can use your tenso adress for that (it's a japanese PO box/shipping service)
You will have to fill a phone number. it needs to be japanese issued number starting 070, 080 or 090. In order to recieve the activation code via SMS you will need to have a real one.
->The easiest service for forgeigners in japan is mobal but the sim card works only in japan. If you're like you will need a friend in japan to lend you their phone number and tell you the sms they recieve whitin the proper timeframe.
for a lawson account you have to fill in in order :
- your name then name again in katakana
- your postal code
- your prefecture and adress
- phone number
- gender
- date of birth
And Because you are here as a fan you will pay if you really want a chance at getting tickets. There are a bunch of lotteries, first for the different premium fanclubs and then whatever remains get to the general sale or lottery.
For toumyu we will have a maximum of 7 fanclub lotteries a premium lottery and the general sale
Fanclub Lottery list :
the first fanclub lottery and the only done over is the Official site Premium Fanclub lottery that accepted entries from 2/28 12:00 to 3/6 23:59
the next one will be the pre-order bonus for the Soundtrack album of Toumyu's Kosui. The cd will contain a code and a link to the lottery site for application.
it will look a little like that.
the lottery will accept entries from march 14th to 19th.
We can expect actor's fanclub to start lotteries from the 22nd of march to around the 28th like the one that has already been announced for naoki kunishima's upcoming fanclub
i will keep this tumblr updated when we will have more fanclub announces
and finally the elusive internationnal lottery, that i wished was more frequent
Notable warnings
As usual no fanclub is free, generally around 500yen a month it can be higher or require to get a yearly subcription in order to be able to enter.
most fanclubs accept foreign cards no problem.
the official rules prevent fans to get several accounts on every paying service to try to get tickets but there are a lot of multi account users out there
"General" Lottery list :
The general lottery also called Lawson ticket pre-request lottery is the last one, the only free of charge to enter
On the same site just before there will be an LEncore advance lottery for paying members of that service
And then if you have the luck to get through this you have the paying problem !
but to pay on lawson tickets you will have only 2 options :
- the Jp credit card that is very hard to obtain
- or paying in the conbini.
i will do a complete conbini payment guide later but in summary you have to send someone, in japan, pay in the family mart within 3 to 5 days of selection !
getting a ticket feels like :
upcoming on part 2 first lottery results, general ticket choice for toumyu advices and a few horror stories around getting tickets
