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Rika Matsumoto sang the Pokémon theme on pavement at LOCAL FOOD FIGHT in Tottori. The event had advertised 50,000 attendees. Attendees and vendors said the real crowd was a few hundred. There was no stage. The mic cut out and tracks failed. She kept performing and turned the problems into jokes. The organizer has deleted its accounts and stopped responding.

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