Future Fantasy in Kobe & Shizuoka, 8/8 & 8/11
FUTURE FANTASY
TOMOHISA YAMASHITA BEST LIVE TOUR 2016
Kobe 8/8 and Shizuoka 8/11 Report
Awesome concert!!! FF is shorter than A NUDE but it was so great seeing the performance of the songs we've never seen before (from Asobi & YOU) and even if there's a lot of old songs too, there's usually an effort to make something new out of it...they're usually remixed, mashed up or added some effect to make it refreshing. The stage may look simple - no walkways due to the small venue, just an elevated stage but the lights were really beautiful and made the whole concert more splendid as it is. Yamapi sang his heart out, his dancing is impeccable. His pro dancers are the best. I love the camaraderie they have which is evident in their interaction in the concert. And despite being short as mentioned, the concert and performances are as full-packed as it can be. We all know how Yamapi flourishes when he's on stage right? :)
So without further ado, here's my overdue report on the Kobe (1st day) and Shizuoka concerts. Like how I usually do my reports, it's condensed into one since it's usually the same but I distinguish differences if there is - mostly applies on the MC. Won't detail the stage description anymore as well as the costumes since it's been seen in the news coverage already on TV ad print. But this is not complete okay? It's just as far as I can remember! And warning, major spoilers. Don't read if you want to be surprised or something.
START! Lights dim as soon as it reaches concert time, a video plays and the voice chants FUTURE FANTASY. Yamapi is shown in the video dancing. Then a seat appears on top of the center elevated stage.
LET IT GO
Yamapi is seated, unmoving, he sings. After the 1st chorus, the male dancers appear on the main stage. Yamapi stands up, still no dancing just minimal movement but enough to elicit screams lol then he finally goes down to the main stage by the front staircase which opens up and moves to side so that it's out of the way. In the final hook, Yamapi dances.
PARTY'S ON
Starts as soon as LET IT GO ends. After the opening lines, Yamapi removes his shades which is shown in the oval screen behind. Female dancers join them. It's a full dance - cool with deadly pumping lol. They move to the sides of the stage too. There's a call in the oh~oh~oh~oh~ooohh hook of the song. After Yamapi sings that part, the dance step involves moving back the body and putting the right hand to the right ear like prompting to hear something so the crowd answers back the oh~oh~oh~ooohh. And then the famous line in the song - Get down BITCH - it was awesome to hear it live lol there's still a bleep sound but Yamapi still says it clearly and his face is projected in the screen once more 😏
One in a Million
Continues immediately as well. Yamapi performs this with just the male dancers again. There's a short but cool dance break in the middle.
HELLO
Yamapi is projected in the screen with graphics that spells H-E-L-L-O when the song reaches that part (crowd joins in the spelling part). And in the last part of the chorus after "Hello, hello", Yamapi shouts "Say!" and the crowd answers "Hello, hello!" The cute dance steps spell HELLO too, the dancers are complete here. After the chorus, Yamapi greets, "Everyone, I missed you!!! Let me hear your voice." He asks the crowd to say "Yeah" for 3 times and asks for everyone's favor until the end.
[Video plays with Yamapi walking then he's ....behind bars? Then under the elevated stage, the 1st and 5th one, the female dancers appear and they are only seen in the dark stage because their costume had colorful lights.]
Dress Code:
Yamapi appears on the leftmost elevated stage. He dances alone, cool and sexy. Soon the girls go out to the main stage and Yamapi joins them by going down the staircase again, assisted by the girls. Yamapi dances with them on the main stage. This is probably like the Genshiteki ja Night from A NUDE.
Blood Diamond
The lights turn red. The male dancers join Pi as the girls exit. Same cool dance, cool lighting as well, the colors switch. There's a short pause mid part and when Yamapi and his dancers move their hands, it scatters silver confetti on stage.
Birthday Suit
Dancers bring out the bar and set it up right side of the stage. Yamapi on the left side, removes his tie and walks towards the bar. He sits first on the stool next to Nana then dances with her during the chorus. (For me kinda reminiscent of Carina in EroP). In the middle of the song, Yamapi mixes a drink. He's great!! It's a pink drink. It can be seen close up too through the screen. Yamapi dances with the male dancers and Nana til the end. In Shizuoka, Yamapi almost fails to catch the bottle at one point that he had a "whew" expression afterwards. He's really sweating so much.
After the song, Yamapi greets the birthday suit people - the audience whose birthday is that day. In Kobe, it's Yamashita Maiko-san and she's shown on the screen. Yamapi exclaims we have the same surname! In Kobe, it's Sekiguchi Sayuri.
It's hot! Hot! Yamapi exclaims and removes button of his polo (unfortunately there's a white shirt inside lol). Yamapi adds it's hot because the people of Kobe are hot (in Shizuoka he says it's because the people of Shizuoka are hot XD). Crowd cheers. Then he says that a birthday is a special day so he thanks people for coming to his concert and invites everyone to spend the best time together. Yamapi continues to talk about birthdays, encouraging when one goes home, even if it's a bit embarrassing to say, to thank ones parents as he sits on a stool at the center of the main stage, his dancers surround him either sitting on lower stools or the floor. Yamapi prepares the guitar and he stops since he's sweating a lot. In Kobe, he can't help but say "it's hot....well it's summer." he smiles cutely.
Everybody Up
Yamapi tests the guitar then breaks into the song. Nana sings back-up. Ricky plays the shakers. Rui plays the guitar as well. Tamiya/U-SK (sometimes I can't tell them apart since I'm seated far away, I'm sorry!) plays the Cajon. The other dancers with no instruments stand up one by one and move up to the elevated stage. Yamapi is focused in on the screen here as well.
After the song and it's quite silent as Yamapi prepares for the next song, some fans can't help but call out Yamapi's name or shout that he's cool/handsome so Yamapi replies "arigatou"
Kimi no Hitomi no naka ni marukute aoi hoshi
Yamapi says "Everyone, it's been a while. Thanks for waiting for me." Crowd cheers. "It's been 2 and a half years since my last concert." He continues how he thought when he entered Johnny's that he'll surely have concerts yearly but somehow it's been tough. This part got me teary-eyed. Then Yamapi goes on the time he created the YOU album. The director asked him what kind of songs does he want in it, Yamapi answered he wants the people who will listen to be lively and happy, to be motivated, such songs are what he wants to get across, that's what he talked about the director then. So the songs were written with that feeling and Yamapi sang the songs with everyone's smiles in mind. And now Yamapi wants to sing one of those songs, the intro begins and Yamapi plays the harmonica.
Moderenai kara
Yamapi sings this going up the the middle elevated stage. Lyrics of the song appear on the screen and occassionally, Yamapi is projeceted as well. Later on, screen shows black and white videos of people (minus their faces though) like holding hands, someone leaving, it's quite a sad video. Yamapi's voice fades a bit in the wasuretai kara part in the chorus
Ricky enters the main stage in a very colorful and bright exercise outfit lol. "Yamapi's very handsome isn't he?" he asks and adds "Kind too." Then he reports on Yamapi in the dressing room. Today, Yamapi ate Kobe beef. Then Ricky apologizes, he introduces himself and asks if the crowd is fired up *cheers* Great! Another Yamapi story, he does muscle training everyday, he uses the air bike. Does everyone too? Tomorrow let's do exercise, Ricky invites. And he invites to exercise today. Ricky's exercize! (it flashes in the screen spelled that way lol) He calls in first his assistants, Rachel and Nancy (Reika and Nana) who he says are sexy and have a nice body. Let's aim for that he adds lol
In Shizuoka, Ricky's dressing room report is that Yamapi ate Fujinomiya Yakisoba, even Ricky's share lol
Ricky goes through the steps one by one and there's a final run through of everything with music. Ricky praises everyone and instructs to do it the next song but for now he's out to go get ice cream.
Ice cream
Songs blasts as the dancers exit. Yamapi appears with a penlight in a cart and it moves from the right side to the left side of the stage. The 'exercise' taught by Ricky fits the chorus of the song and everyone dances along with Yamapi. The cart doesn't reach the stage exactly so Yamapi goes down and passes through the crowd to get up the stage. In Shizuoka, Yamapi moves from left to right. On the main stage, Nana and Reika are dressed up as ice cream girls ready to serve. There's also a story, Ricky's a policeman, he arrests U-SK the burglar. Yamapi even playfully kick the butt of the burglar but says they should just have ice cream. The girls serve them imaginary ice cream and everyone is genki. Yamapi continues the ice cream dance during chorus but without a penlight already. Next scene, Tamiya is an old guy with squibbly legs guided by a cane with Rui who is a kid. The girls serve them ice cream as well and everyone gets better. All of them dance together the last parts of the song.
After the song, one by one, Yamapi's dancers step on the stage and it makes a strong stomp sound and they exit afterwards. Yamapi tries it too when he's left on stage but unlike his dancers, Yamapi's step makes lame and weird noises lol leaving Yamapi quite frustrated. He tries it several times, stepping continuously and it makes whistling noises, queue in to YOUR STEP.
The sounds made by the stage in Shizuoka were funnier. There's a female voice saying "uuuh", "iyada" (no way), "yamete" (stop), "dame datte itteru desho?" (didn't I say it's no good)
YOUR STEP
Dancers enter once the song starts. A table with 7 cups was also set up behind them in the main stage. 6 were aligned properly while one is on the side. The dance steps similar to the 2 performances Yamapi had promoting before. In the hook part of the song where CUPS could be heard, the dancers play it behind Yamapi. After singing, Yamapi joins them in the middle and the 1 cup by the side earlier is slid to him. They do a cups exhibition, the crowd cheers. It was perfect in both Kobe and Shizuoka.
Kobe MC
- Yamapi begins asking, "Everyone are you having fun? Are you fired up? Do you like Yamapi?" YEAH!!!!! Yamapi's evidently pleased that he turns around and does the Takane skip on stage and screams "Wa~i!" (it's an expression of excitement) and adds, "I like you too!" He says thank you, he wants to speak a little and requests everyone to sit for a while.
- Yamapi says it's hot and thanks everyone for coming despite this. He also appreciates how everyone moves their penlight. He also mentions it's been 2 1/2 years since his last concert.
- Yamapi asks, the stage is bright, isn't it? He relates the producer has told him a lot of good things but Yamapi thought he wanted the best stage that would satisfy the audience with its glimmer. Then he exclaims tehepero! I've made you wait of course. He also talks about how hard the staff works for this tour.
- Before this tour started, Yamapi thought if he had the stamina. When the additional performances have been decided, he was asked this and he said, "I'm alright!" and he says "Next year I want to do 3! And everyone will do their best even from the morning lol.
- Yamapi talks about receiving courage from Ichiro the athlete
- Yamapi also notices a kid in front whom he asked how old, 9 years old!
Call and Response:
Say Yeah~!
Say Yeah~!
Say Kobe!
Say Kobe
Say Kobe
Gyuu~
Kobe
Gyuu~
So~
Bameshi
So~
Bameshi
Say Yamapi
Say Kobe
Say Kobe
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Gyuu - beef
Sobameshi - soba & rice cooked together
Shizuoka MC
- "Everyone are you having fun? Are you fired up? Are you hot? Do you like Yamapi?" YEAH!!!! Yamapi does the skip again. "I like you too!" And he does the "wa~i" again too. He's embarrassed as he requests everyone to take their seats.
- He first talks about the summer and how it's hot then he asks if everyone is watching the Olympics, particularly how awesome the gymnast Uchimura Kohei is who won back to back gold medals, something that hasn't been done by Japan in 44 years. Yamapi is moved, of course he's happy and being a Japanese it has given him courage and motivation to do his best. Yamapi says it takes a of practice of course.
- Yamapi runs everyday for 30 mins and so the result is that even if he has 2 concerts in a day, he doesn't get tired! "I'm amazing"
- Yamapi then talks about recently he had BBQ with his juniors. Crowd asks with who?? Yamapi answers the Sexy Zone kids among others. It's the 3rd year already of him doing this.
- Talking about Shizuoka, Yamapi says it's the locatin of Kinkyori Renai and that he stayed for 2 weeks. He says the atmosphere is good, the tea is good. Then he asks, is it true that tea comes out of the school's water supply? The crowd answers matter of factly it doesnt!! Yamapi says, "it's just a rumor? Sorry, forget about it!!" lol
- Then Yamapi asks what else is there in Shizuoka, what would be the recommendation? Crowd answers Sawayaka! Then Yamapi gets it, Sawayaka Hamburg! And agrees it's delicious although he hasn't tasted it, he wants to try eating it. What?! lol Yamapi enumerates more food, counting with his fingers! So cute (if he moved it more, he'd look like Takane again lol) Then he says he's from Chiba and there the food is peanuts. Whaaat?? lol Yamapi also mentions eating Ricky's yakisoba and apologizes
- Yamapi also talks that there's a lot in this concert tour. There's a lot of staff and hundreds of people coming to watch
Call and Response:
Say Yeah~
Say Yeah~
Say Yeah Yeah Yeah~
Say Yeah Yeah Yeah~
Say sawa
yaka
hamburg
hamburg
ocha
Say ocha
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Say fu
jisan
Say fu
jisan
Say Shizuoka
Say Shizuoka
Say Shizuoka
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Sawayaka Hamburg - Fresh Hamburg
Ocha - tea
Fuji-san - Mt. Fuji
Jr videos play
Can do can go
There's a door in the middle elevated stage that opens and that's where Yamapi appears. He moves to the left part of the stage (and there's a bit of a bad feedback of the mic in Kobe ><) then to the right side. He dances during the chorus of the song,
Sawarenai
Follows soon after. The entrance Yamapi entered through earlier opens and he takes the mic stand from it, he brings it in front and dances as he sings. The screen behind continues showing junior Yamapi performing the same song.
Neko neko rocket
Yamapi says this song was the one he first performed in Johnny's. He moves to the left of the stage and picks up a canon ball with a cat and fires sign balls to the 2nd floor. He moves to the center picks up another canon ball and fires it to the first floor. Lastly on the right side, he fires it to the 3rd floor. (In the Kobe show, a ball lands in front of me, between me and the person to my right and she was the first one to pick the ball). Yamapi didn't dance in this song.
Daite Senorita
The male dancers join Yamapi center of the main stage. After the hook, Yamapi says, "Kobe saikou!" (Kobe's the best.) This line usually varies in every concert. In Shizuoka, he says "Shizuoka saikou!" He tries to fit it in but it really had more syllables that he wasn't able to sing the first few words of the chorus at once.
Loveless
Rearranged to a more subdued tempo. No dance. He sings alone on the main stage going up the elevated stage. He also removes his black jacket.
Brodia
Female dancers appear one at a time and they do a lyrical dance as Yamapi sings and goes down. By the chorus, two rings descend from the top, one each in front of the girls. They dance on it, sit on like a swing, hang from it and spin as well. In the end, Yamapi throws a white rose.
Back to the dance floor
Dancers dance one by one on different parts of the stage. No Yamapi
Nocturne
The screen behind splits open and Yamapi appears. The song's remixed and the dance steps is bit different from A NUDE, I think it's less daring but with more movement that's really cool.
Odoru Yoru
Few lines of the intro plays as the lights flicker. Yamapi starts off the song with the refrain, then the stanza. The dance break mid-part involves a play with the lights and laser beams (like TOMO in SGSB) this replaces the mid-part dance involving the hands in EroP. This is performed with the male dancers. (I thought it's a shame that his clothes here are really loose it could have been sexier had his clothes been fit lol like in EroP)
Love Chase
Female dancers join here and it's the same performance that everyone knows. Yamapi gets rid of his cardigan like top here so he's left sleeveless.
Party Don't Stop/Touch You
Definitely one of my favorites. This remix or more like a mash up of Touch You and Party Don't Stop was just brilliant since both are favorite concert songs that will make your body move unconsciously. I've always loved fan participation like what is more popularly called as fan chants or calls. Party Don't Stop had that (1-2-3, Ohayo Gozaimasu! Hey!) and there's certain movement of the arms in the "rock your body~" part (the left, right, left-right-left). For Touch You, dancers hold up lights that changes colors and they made such beautiful patterns of it. Mid song, Yamapi shouts (in English), "Everybody let me see your hands up please" and then, "Let me show how we do.." then he and his dancers go into a very lengthy dance break that switches to different genres. JUST AWESOME, it's hard to describe since I am not a dancer and don't know its genres lol. In the hook of Touch You where the line is supposed to be "boku wa koko ni iru you" (I am here you know) he says "I am in Kobe you know" and "I am in Shizuoka you know" (he fits it in the lyrics again XD). This mash-up lasts for more than 5 minutes.
Dreamer
The intro breaks in and Yamapi thanks the crowd. He is left alone on stage again. He thanks everyone for the most fun time he had. Lyrics flash on the screen. By the end of the song in Shizuoka, Yamapi says "Shizuoka thank you for a really fun time. Let's meet again next year! Take care okay! Thank you!" He waves, "Everyone from the top, thank you, I can see you all clearly! Everyone's so warm, I'm really thankful. Bye bye!" Then he exits through the screen that split open and when it closes, it reveals a message from Yamapi which says it's been a while since he last performed for his sweeties so he had a lot of fun. It's his 10th year since his solo debut and his 20th year in Johnny's so it's a special year and to be able to see everyone's smiles is really a happy moment. So from now on, together with his sweeties supporting him, he'd like to walk to a wonderful future. He thanks everyone for today and his signature is affixed in the end. Then the tour logo flashes.
Crowd calls for Yamapi
Encore
Hadakanbo
Yamapi thanks everyone for the encore and performs the song how we are used to it including the calls (Oniisan, Oneesan, Hadakanbo!) and the dance
Ke Sera Sera
Same dance as well. Before the hook, Yamapi asks the crowd, "Everyone at the 1st floor,everyone at the 2nd floor, how are you doing? Shizuoka how are you doing?
Summer Nude '13
The ribbons fire up here just like in A NUDE. Mid part, Yamapi introduces his dancers who showcase their dance one by one: Ricky, U-SK (pronounced Yusuke who Yamapi adds is from Kobe in the show there), Reika, Nana, Tamiya (ojiichan! Yamapi calls out in Kobe), Rui, and of course Yamapi introduces himself and his sweeties.
Yamapi thanks everyone again, asks to clap for his dancers again, the staff and everyone who came goes to all sides of the stage and waves.
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Tomota-kun with the signed ball of the sweetie seated in front of us in Kobe.
TOMOHISA YAMASHITA BEST LIVE TOUR 2016
Kobe 8/8 and Shizuoka 8/11 Report
Awesome concert!!! FF is shorter than A NUDE but it was so great seeing the performance of the songs we've never seen before (from Asobi & YOU) and even if there's a lot of old songs too, there's usually an effort to make something new out of it...they're usually remixed, mashed up or added some effect to make it refreshing. The stage may look simple - no walkways due to the small venue, just an elevated stage but the lights were really beautiful and made the whole concert more splendid as it is. Yamapi sang his heart out, his dancing is impeccable. His pro dancers are the best. I love the camaraderie they have which is evident in their interaction in the concert. And despite being short as mentioned, the concert and performances are as full-packed as it can be. We all know how Yamapi flourishes when he's on stage right? :)
So without further ado, here's my overdue report on the Kobe (1st day) and Shizuoka concerts. Like how I usually do my reports, it's condensed into one since it's usually the same but I distinguish differences if there is - mostly applies on the MC. Won't detail the stage description anymore as well as the costumes since it's been seen in the news coverage already on TV ad print. But this is not complete okay? It's just as far as I can remember! And warning, major spoilers. Don't read if you want to be surprised or something.
START! Lights dim as soon as it reaches concert time, a video plays and the voice chants FUTURE FANTASY. Yamapi is shown in the video dancing. Then a seat appears on top of the center elevated stage.
LET IT GO
Yamapi is seated, unmoving, he sings. After the 1st chorus, the male dancers appear on the main stage. Yamapi stands up, still no dancing just minimal movement but enough to elicit screams lol then he finally goes down to the main stage by the front staircase which opens up and moves to side so that it's out of the way. In the final hook, Yamapi dances.
PARTY'S ON
Starts as soon as LET IT GO ends. After the opening lines, Yamapi removes his shades which is shown in the oval screen behind. Female dancers join them. It's a full dance - cool with deadly pumping lol. They move to the sides of the stage too. There's a call in the oh~oh~oh~oh~ooohh hook of the song. After Yamapi sings that part, the dance step involves moving back the body and putting the right hand to the right ear like prompting to hear something so the crowd answers back the oh~oh~oh~ooohh. And then the famous line in the song - Get down BITCH - it was awesome to hear it live lol there's still a bleep sound but Yamapi still says it clearly and his face is projected in the screen once more 😏
One in a Million
Continues immediately as well. Yamapi performs this with just the male dancers again. There's a short but cool dance break in the middle.
HELLO
Yamapi is projected in the screen with graphics that spells H-E-L-L-O when the song reaches that part (crowd joins in the spelling part). And in the last part of the chorus after "Hello, hello", Yamapi shouts "Say!" and the crowd answers "Hello, hello!" The cute dance steps spell HELLO too, the dancers are complete here. After the chorus, Yamapi greets, "Everyone, I missed you!!! Let me hear your voice." He asks the crowd to say "Yeah" for 3 times and asks for everyone's favor until the end.
[Video plays with Yamapi walking then he's ....behind bars? Then under the elevated stage, the 1st and 5th one, the female dancers appear and they are only seen in the dark stage because their costume had colorful lights.]
Dress Code:
Yamapi appears on the leftmost elevated stage. He dances alone, cool and sexy. Soon the girls go out to the main stage and Yamapi joins them by going down the staircase again, assisted by the girls. Yamapi dances with them on the main stage. This is probably like the Genshiteki ja Night from A NUDE.
Blood Diamond
The lights turn red. The male dancers join Pi as the girls exit. Same cool dance, cool lighting as well, the colors switch. There's a short pause mid part and when Yamapi and his dancers move their hands, it scatters silver confetti on stage.
Birthday Suit
Dancers bring out the bar and set it up right side of the stage. Yamapi on the left side, removes his tie and walks towards the bar. He sits first on the stool next to Nana then dances with her during the chorus. (For me kinda reminiscent of Carina in EroP). In the middle of the song, Yamapi mixes a drink. He's great!! It's a pink drink. It can be seen close up too through the screen. Yamapi dances with the male dancers and Nana til the end. In Shizuoka, Yamapi almost fails to catch the bottle at one point that he had a "whew" expression afterwards. He's really sweating so much.
After the song, Yamapi greets the birthday suit people - the audience whose birthday is that day. In Kobe, it's Yamashita Maiko-san and she's shown on the screen. Yamapi exclaims we have the same surname! In Kobe, it's Sekiguchi Sayuri.
It's hot! Hot! Yamapi exclaims and removes button of his polo (unfortunately there's a white shirt inside lol). Yamapi adds it's hot because the people of Kobe are hot (in Shizuoka he says it's because the people of Shizuoka are hot XD). Crowd cheers. Then he says that a birthday is a special day so he thanks people for coming to his concert and invites everyone to spend the best time together. Yamapi continues to talk about birthdays, encouraging when one goes home, even if it's a bit embarrassing to say, to thank ones parents as he sits on a stool at the center of the main stage, his dancers surround him either sitting on lower stools or the floor. Yamapi prepares the guitar and he stops since he's sweating a lot. In Kobe, he can't help but say "it's hot....well it's summer." he smiles cutely.
Everybody Up
Yamapi tests the guitar then breaks into the song. Nana sings back-up. Ricky plays the shakers. Rui plays the guitar as well. Tamiya/U-SK (sometimes I can't tell them apart since I'm seated far away, I'm sorry!) plays the Cajon. The other dancers with no instruments stand up one by one and move up to the elevated stage. Yamapi is focused in on the screen here as well.
After the song and it's quite silent as Yamapi prepares for the next song, some fans can't help but call out Yamapi's name or shout that he's cool/handsome so Yamapi replies "arigatou"
Kimi no Hitomi no naka ni marukute aoi hoshi
Yamapi says "Everyone, it's been a while. Thanks for waiting for me." Crowd cheers. "It's been 2 and a half years since my last concert." He continues how he thought when he entered Johnny's that he'll surely have concerts yearly but somehow it's been tough. This part got me teary-eyed. Then Yamapi goes on the time he created the YOU album. The director asked him what kind of songs does he want in it, Yamapi answered he wants the people who will listen to be lively and happy, to be motivated, such songs are what he wants to get across, that's what he talked about the director then. So the songs were written with that feeling and Yamapi sang the songs with everyone's smiles in mind. And now Yamapi wants to sing one of those songs, the intro begins and Yamapi plays the harmonica.
Moderenai kara
Yamapi sings this going up the the middle elevated stage. Lyrics of the song appear on the screen and occassionally, Yamapi is projeceted as well. Later on, screen shows black and white videos of people (minus their faces though) like holding hands, someone leaving, it's quite a sad video. Yamapi's voice fades a bit in the wasuretai kara part in the chorus
Ricky enters the main stage in a very colorful and bright exercise outfit lol. "Yamapi's very handsome isn't he?" he asks and adds "Kind too." Then he reports on Yamapi in the dressing room. Today, Yamapi ate Kobe beef. Then Ricky apologizes, he introduces himself and asks if the crowd is fired up *cheers* Great! Another Yamapi story, he does muscle training everyday, he uses the air bike. Does everyone too? Tomorrow let's do exercise, Ricky invites. And he invites to exercise today. Ricky's exercize! (it flashes in the screen spelled that way lol) He calls in first his assistants, Rachel and Nancy (Reika and Nana) who he says are sexy and have a nice body. Let's aim for that he adds lol
In Shizuoka, Ricky's dressing room report is that Yamapi ate Fujinomiya Yakisoba, even Ricky's share lol
Ricky goes through the steps one by one and there's a final run through of everything with music. Ricky praises everyone and instructs to do it the next song but for now he's out to go get ice cream.
Ice cream
Songs blasts as the dancers exit. Yamapi appears with a penlight in a cart and it moves from the right side to the left side of the stage. The 'exercise' taught by Ricky fits the chorus of the song and everyone dances along with Yamapi. The cart doesn't reach the stage exactly so Yamapi goes down and passes through the crowd to get up the stage. In Shizuoka, Yamapi moves from left to right. On the main stage, Nana and Reika are dressed up as ice cream girls ready to serve. There's also a story, Ricky's a policeman, he arrests U-SK the burglar. Yamapi even playfully kick the butt of the burglar but says they should just have ice cream. The girls serve them imaginary ice cream and everyone is genki. Yamapi continues the ice cream dance during chorus but without a penlight already. Next scene, Tamiya is an old guy with squibbly legs guided by a cane with Rui who is a kid. The girls serve them ice cream as well and everyone gets better. All of them dance together the last parts of the song.
After the song, one by one, Yamapi's dancers step on the stage and it makes a strong stomp sound and they exit afterwards. Yamapi tries it too when he's left on stage but unlike his dancers, Yamapi's step makes lame and weird noises lol leaving Yamapi quite frustrated. He tries it several times, stepping continuously and it makes whistling noises, queue in to YOUR STEP.
The sounds made by the stage in Shizuoka were funnier. There's a female voice saying "uuuh", "iyada" (no way), "yamete" (stop), "dame datte itteru desho?" (didn't I say it's no good)
YOUR STEP
Dancers enter once the song starts. A table with 7 cups was also set up behind them in the main stage. 6 were aligned properly while one is on the side. The dance steps similar to the 2 performances Yamapi had promoting before. In the hook part of the song where CUPS could be heard, the dancers play it behind Yamapi. After singing, Yamapi joins them in the middle and the 1 cup by the side earlier is slid to him. They do a cups exhibition, the crowd cheers. It was perfect in both Kobe and Shizuoka.
Kobe MC
- Yamapi begins asking, "Everyone are you having fun? Are you fired up? Do you like Yamapi?" YEAH!!!!! Yamapi's evidently pleased that he turns around and does the Takane skip on stage and screams "Wa~i!" (it's an expression of excitement) and adds, "I like you too!" He says thank you, he wants to speak a little and requests everyone to sit for a while.
- Yamapi says it's hot and thanks everyone for coming despite this. He also appreciates how everyone moves their penlight. He also mentions it's been 2 1/2 years since his last concert.
- Yamapi asks, the stage is bright, isn't it? He relates the producer has told him a lot of good things but Yamapi thought he wanted the best stage that would satisfy the audience with its glimmer. Then he exclaims tehepero! I've made you wait of course. He also talks about how hard the staff works for this tour.
- Before this tour started, Yamapi thought if he had the stamina. When the additional performances have been decided, he was asked this and he said, "I'm alright!" and he says "Next year I want to do 3! And everyone will do their best even from the morning lol.
- Yamapi talks about receiving courage from Ichiro the athlete
- Yamapi also notices a kid in front whom he asked how old, 9 years old!
Call and Response:
Say Yeah~!
Say Yeah~!
Say Kobe!
Say Kobe
Say Kobe
Gyuu~
Kobe
Gyuu~
So~
Bameshi
So~
Bameshi
Say Yamapi
Say Kobe
Say Kobe
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Gyuu - beef
Sobameshi - soba & rice cooked together
Shizuoka MC
- "Everyone are you having fun? Are you fired up? Are you hot? Do you like Yamapi?" YEAH!!!! Yamapi does the skip again. "I like you too!" And he does the "wa~i" again too. He's embarrassed as he requests everyone to take their seats.
- He first talks about the summer and how it's hot then he asks if everyone is watching the Olympics, particularly how awesome the gymnast Uchimura Kohei is who won back to back gold medals, something that hasn't been done by Japan in 44 years. Yamapi is moved, of course he's happy and being a Japanese it has given him courage and motivation to do his best. Yamapi says it takes a of practice of course.
- Yamapi runs everyday for 30 mins and so the result is that even if he has 2 concerts in a day, he doesn't get tired! "I'm amazing"
- Yamapi then talks about recently he had BBQ with his juniors. Crowd asks with who?? Yamapi answers the Sexy Zone kids among others. It's the 3rd year already of him doing this.
- Talking about Shizuoka, Yamapi says it's the locatin of Kinkyori Renai and that he stayed for 2 weeks. He says the atmosphere is good, the tea is good. Then he asks, is it true that tea comes out of the school's water supply? The crowd answers matter of factly it doesnt!! Yamapi says, "it's just a rumor? Sorry, forget about it!!" lol
- Then Yamapi asks what else is there in Shizuoka, what would be the recommendation? Crowd answers Sawayaka! Then Yamapi gets it, Sawayaka Hamburg! And agrees it's delicious although he hasn't tasted it, he wants to try eating it. What?! lol Yamapi enumerates more food, counting with his fingers! So cute (if he moved it more, he'd look like Takane again lol) Then he says he's from Chiba and there the food is peanuts. Whaaat?? lol Yamapi also mentions eating Ricky's yakisoba and apologizes
- Yamapi also talks that there's a lot in this concert tour. There's a lot of staff and hundreds of people coming to watch
Call and Response:
Say Yeah~
Say Yeah~
Say Yeah Yeah Yeah~
Say Yeah Yeah Yeah~
Say sawa
yaka
hamburg
hamburg
ocha
Say ocha
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Say fu
jisan
Say fu
jisan
Say Shizuoka
Say Shizuoka
Say Shizuoka
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Say Yamapi
Sawayaka Hamburg - Fresh Hamburg
Ocha - tea
Fuji-san - Mt. Fuji
Jr videos play
Can do can go
There's a door in the middle elevated stage that opens and that's where Yamapi appears. He moves to the left part of the stage (and there's a bit of a bad feedback of the mic in Kobe ><) then to the right side. He dances during the chorus of the song,
Sawarenai
Follows soon after. The entrance Yamapi entered through earlier opens and he takes the mic stand from it, he brings it in front and dances as he sings. The screen behind continues showing junior Yamapi performing the same song.
Neko neko rocket
Yamapi says this song was the one he first performed in Johnny's. He moves to the left of the stage and picks up a canon ball with a cat and fires sign balls to the 2nd floor. He moves to the center picks up another canon ball and fires it to the first floor. Lastly on the right side, he fires it to the 3rd floor. (In the Kobe show, a ball lands in front of me, between me and the person to my right and she was the first one to pick the ball). Yamapi didn't dance in this song.
Daite Senorita
The male dancers join Yamapi center of the main stage. After the hook, Yamapi says, "Kobe saikou!" (Kobe's the best.) This line usually varies in every concert. In Shizuoka, he says "Shizuoka saikou!" He tries to fit it in but it really had more syllables that he wasn't able to sing the first few words of the chorus at once.
Loveless
Rearranged to a more subdued tempo. No dance. He sings alone on the main stage going up the elevated stage. He also removes his black jacket.
Brodia
Female dancers appear one at a time and they do a lyrical dance as Yamapi sings and goes down. By the chorus, two rings descend from the top, one each in front of the girls. They dance on it, sit on like a swing, hang from it and spin as well. In the end, Yamapi throws a white rose.
Back to the dance floor
Dancers dance one by one on different parts of the stage. No Yamapi
Nocturne
The screen behind splits open and Yamapi appears. The song's remixed and the dance steps is bit different from A NUDE, I think it's less daring but with more movement that's really cool.
Odoru Yoru
Few lines of the intro plays as the lights flicker. Yamapi starts off the song with the refrain, then the stanza. The dance break mid-part involves a play with the lights and laser beams (like TOMO in SGSB) this replaces the mid-part dance involving the hands in EroP. This is performed with the male dancers. (I thought it's a shame that his clothes here are really loose it could have been sexier had his clothes been fit lol like in EroP)
Love Chase
Female dancers join here and it's the same performance that everyone knows. Yamapi gets rid of his cardigan like top here so he's left sleeveless.
Party Don't Stop/Touch You
Definitely one of my favorites. This remix or more like a mash up of Touch You and Party Don't Stop was just brilliant since both are favorite concert songs that will make your body move unconsciously. I've always loved fan participation like what is more popularly called as fan chants or calls. Party Don't Stop had that (1-2-3, Ohayo Gozaimasu! Hey!) and there's certain movement of the arms in the "rock your body~" part (the left, right, left-right-left). For Touch You, dancers hold up lights that changes colors and they made such beautiful patterns of it. Mid song, Yamapi shouts (in English), "Everybody let me see your hands up please" and then, "Let me show how we do.." then he and his dancers go into a very lengthy dance break that switches to different genres. JUST AWESOME, it's hard to describe since I am not a dancer and don't know its genres lol. In the hook of Touch You where the line is supposed to be "boku wa koko ni iru you" (I am here you know) he says "I am in Kobe you know" and "I am in Shizuoka you know" (he fits it in the lyrics again XD). This mash-up lasts for more than 5 minutes.
Dreamer
The intro breaks in and Yamapi thanks the crowd. He is left alone on stage again. He thanks everyone for the most fun time he had. Lyrics flash on the screen. By the end of the song in Shizuoka, Yamapi says "Shizuoka thank you for a really fun time. Let's meet again next year! Take care okay! Thank you!" He waves, "Everyone from the top, thank you, I can see you all clearly! Everyone's so warm, I'm really thankful. Bye bye!" Then he exits through the screen that split open and when it closes, it reveals a message from Yamapi which says it's been a while since he last performed for his sweeties so he had a lot of fun. It's his 10th year since his solo debut and his 20th year in Johnny's so it's a special year and to be able to see everyone's smiles is really a happy moment. So from now on, together with his sweeties supporting him, he'd like to walk to a wonderful future. He thanks everyone for today and his signature is affixed in the end. Then the tour logo flashes.
Crowd calls for Yamapi
Encore
Hadakanbo
Yamapi thanks everyone for the encore and performs the song how we are used to it including the calls (Oniisan, Oneesan, Hadakanbo!) and the dance
Ke Sera Sera
Same dance as well. Before the hook, Yamapi asks the crowd, "Everyone at the 1st floor,everyone at the 2nd floor, how are you doing? Shizuoka how are you doing?
Summer Nude '13
The ribbons fire up here just like in A NUDE. Mid part, Yamapi introduces his dancers who showcase their dance one by one: Ricky, U-SK (pronounced Yusuke who Yamapi adds is from Kobe in the show there), Reika, Nana, Tamiya (ojiichan! Yamapi calls out in Kobe), Rui, and of course Yamapi introduces himself and his sweeties.
Yamapi thanks everyone again, asks to clap for his dancers again, the staff and everyone who came goes to all sides of the stage and waves.
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Tomota-kun with the signed ball of the sweetie seated in front of us in Kobe.