Blast in Miyagi sept 22
finished but I need to check it!
Today our seats were in the top of the first floor stands on the south side of the stadium (right facing the stage). We were about five or six rows from the top but the view was pretty good. We just couldn't see much of the sky because of the overhang of the 2nd floor. But there was one of the side stages were the towers go up right in front of us!
I went with cat, tiffany, and Jun. It seemed really loud tonight but I guess that's because we were in an area where the sound got trapped. And I don't know if was our elevation but it seemed easy to see the faces of the fans from where we were. There were a lot of uchiwas and stuff too that I could easily read.
The opening vtr was the same and Nino popped up in front of us. He waved to our section as well as the stands above us.
During Pikanchi Jun and Aiba were leaning against each other as usual and then later in the song they stood back to back. They didn't use the flying platform today, so instead Aiab came running out to our section on the long stage and waved at us a lot during Happiness.
Before Troublemaker started Aiba gave our section a rock sign (raising his pointer finger and pinky) and ran back to the center. When he went past Ohno they did a high five and then Ohno was headed to our section. He was waving at everyone as he went down the long side stage, looking back and forth around the arena. And when he got to the end he took great care to look around him, up at us on the first floor, and then at the floor above us.
For Love Rainbow they got on carts and Aiba came by our section again, waving a lot at the stands. The stands were definitely great for getting waves and things from them compared to arena yesterday.
The opening speeches were similar to the last days.
Aiba (as Jun): Hey Miyagi! It's been a while! I wanted to see you! Are you ready to have fun? Are you ready to be happy? We're going to make all of you happy!
Sho (as Nino): irrashaimase! x3
Arashi is here! x2
You're not loud enough!
*low voice* stay with us until the end!
Nino (as Aiba): ne ne ne〜
He said it wasn't enough!
Are you getting excited!
(Nino mumbled at the end and gave up on his impression I guess)
Jun (as Ohno): Hai〜x3
Can you do it? (Ikeru) x2
Should we do the normal one?
Miyagi arashi matsuri...
Us: day!!
Jun: *cute smile and piece sign with both hands *
Ohno (as Sho): *looks at Jun in embarrassment*
How are you Miyagi? (Choshi wa dou da)
How are the upper stands?
How are the lower stands?
Come on, how are the lower stands?!
We're ready to go!
Give us more.
Say Arashi!
Us: Arashi!! (X3)
Ok! Stay with us until the end! Let's get the party started!
I can't say enough about Ohno's impression. He leaned over when he asked about the "shita no ho" and at the end gave us a cheesy rappers hand gesture. His intonation is just like Sho and it still made me laugh.
The vtr about the solos was the same. Jyanakute was great again, I think the song and performance really suits Aiba and it was adorable.
Nino didn't make any mistakes during his solo and he seemed proud of it at the end of his song. He led into Oh Yeah he same as before.
Nino: Hey Blast in Miyagi!!
Put your hands up and say oh yeah!
Aiba came out to the stage near us again. We saw someone being carried out on a stretcher (actually there was another person later as well) and Aiba stopped to watch them for a few sections as well before he went back to waving around him. He waved a lot at the 2nd floor and us. And his fabulous cape was still fabulous tonight.
Zero-G was also great. For the first hip shaking Sho had a closeup and he nailed it enough to make us scream. They did close ups of almost all of them this time and they all did such a sexy job, I was proud. The last closeup was Aiba and Sho again and I was melting.
The vtr was different again, so I guess they must be changing the school every day. Today they had two schools and a junior chorus. The first school was going to attend the national championship but couldn't because their equipment was destroyed in the tsunami. They showed a clip of the body building exercises they do for the choir. The second school I think was a catholic school and their theme was "life is important" so they had done services for victims of the tsunami. (hopefully I got the information right I need to double check).
When the vtr was over the feed of the stage came on where the choir was already waiting.
Jun: Don't be nervous!
Sho: I think it's hard not to be in front of this many people.
Aiba: Don't put any more pressure on them!
The performance today was very powerful! Half of the choir was men so I think that made it stronger. We watched some of the news clips and none of them did the audio justice. I started crying a little tonight again, when they showed the clips of various people in tohoku. For the second half of the song Jun asked us to sing with them.
Aiba: I feel so moved.
Sho: Today the men's voices were strong!
Nino: Out of all the days we had the most men today. Their lower voices were amazing.
Sho: And in the vtr there were a lot of people that participated in the submitting their videos, including the Rakuten Eagles. Thank you!
I bet there were a lot of people that got offers to do a video but had to refuse because of time or something.
Jun: We're not done yet. Can you keep going?
Let's go to the second half! Love So Sweet!
Jun's transition was still a little awkward today. It's hard to get us pumped up after the moving choir performance.
Sho did his cute "Wo ho〜 love so sweet〜" during the intro and they went to the carts. Sho, Aiba, and Nino came to the right side first and got on together. Somehow they all started skipping in a circle together for a bit and then Sho went back to directing us to jump. The cart stopped close to our section and Sho was waving a lot at the stands. During the part at the end (akenai yoru wa nai yo) they all pumped their fists together at the section next to ours. Sho was jumping around a lot and at the end he gave our section a big maru o over his head.
When Kitto Daijyobu started Sho did the rap part while looking around at us and I was very happy to see him rap live. He was leaning over the railing of the cart too.
When Ohno and Jun came by, Ohno waved at our section and Jun was pointed at a lot of people on the front stands. When Bittersweet started during the opening solo Jun stared at Ohno and started petting his face and then they did the leaning back move.
When they got onto the main stage and started the dancing choreography, Jun waved happily at the camera.
The mc was really fun tonight!
Sho: Yeah〜
Us: Yeah!
Sho: good evening everyone and we are
All members: Arashi!
Sho: This is day three of four. Nino, how are you feeling?
Nino: I don't want this to be over.
Sho: How about you Aiba?
Aiba: It's a miracle that it hasn't rained at all for the last 3 concerts!
Sho asked again who brought a raincoat just in case and a lot of people clapped.
Nino: That's so nice of you.
There aren't even any clouds tonight.
Ohno: So tomorrow should be okay too.
Sho: you never know!
They showed the sky on the main screens and did a closeup of the moon. The feed switched and we could see the moon really clearly, even the craters and things. It was a half moon so Aiba said it looked like half a pancake I think. They made a few comments about how beautiful it was but Sho got them back on track.
Sho: Let's stop talking about the moon.
Ohno: The concert starts early so it was bright and hot but now it's a little chilly. So if it stated raining it would be cold.
Sho: You're so negative!!
Jun had them do a closeup of his shirt again and this time the camera slowly started moving down when no one recognized the patterns. When you could see the Satoshi graffiti on his leg people started gasping.
Jun: Isn't it amazing?
Ohno: I'm sorry. (moshi wake nai)
Jun: No! Don't apologize.
Ohno: I'm so embarrassed.
Sho: There's something I want to talk about. Can I talk?
Aiba: Do you mean that thing where words come out of your mouth?
Sho: Uhm, well yes. I want to talk about what we did yesterday.
A lot of people came by highway bus for the concert right? And returned home after? Well, I went back to Tokyo by car on Sunday night for News Zero. On the way I had to use the bathroom so I asked them to pull over at the rest stop. There were a ton of buses and I heard people chatted about how great the concert was! I was terrified!
But there was no break in the string of buses, so it was real oshinobi ryoko for me! In the bathroom I didn't know whether to cover my face or downstairs. Just like in the public bath!
The buses didn't stop so I felt like I was in Biohazard (Resident Evil).
How about you guys?
Nino: Work!!
Jun: Yes, we worked.
Aiba: I thought we had a vacation.
Nino: What?! I'm going to tell on you. Johnny-San!! Johnny-San in Tokyo!!!
Nino screamed reall loudly for Johnny! I was surprised. It seemed like they were all doing filming for something. Nino went to Yamagata, Jun and Ohno went to Ishinomaki, and Aiba went to Fukushima. Sho was asking what they did there but they wouldn't give us any details.
Jun: We want you all to watch the on-air later.
Aiba: You can watch it then, Sho-chan.
Nino: There were a lot of people from Yamagata that came to the concerts!
Sho: How do you know?
Nino: I asked them.
Ohno: I also had someone say to me, "Oh my daughter is coming on Monday. Yoroshiku na."
Ohno did a cute impression of a laid back person who raised their hand casually and kept walking. They had to clarify it was an older man.
Sho: Did you eat dinner together?
Nino: No.
Aiba: We were all different places and came back at different times.
Nino: I got take out curry on the way back and ate it in my hotel room.
Ohno: I ordered rooms service, Cesar salad.
Nino: What? Are you even a celebrity at all?
Ohno: it was big, though.
Sho: Jun had a meeting at night right?
Jun: Yes, I didn't get back until 12:30.
And actually, when I got back to the hotel I saw a strange old woman walking down the hallway in a robe. She was carrying an ice bucket and hunched over.
When I looked close I realized it was Nino.
He looked like a witch.
Nino: I was trying to find some ice.
Jun: So I ordered room service. Meat.
Ohno: Not a Cesar salad?
Jun: No.
Sho: What was your meeting for?
Jun: The dome tour.
Sho: Such a hard worker! So nice.
I'm going to go change now.
Jun: So what else did you do last night?
Ohno: I ate a Cesar salad.
Jun: It doesn't take more than 30 minutes to eat that.
Ohno: Um... I took a bath.
Aiba: I went to Ohno's room last night to drink.
Ohno: We scheduled it!
Aiba: It was fun. We were saying we need to go back to Ginza again.
Jun: You should just do it.
Aiba: It's hard to get the right timing.
Jun: You should give it the same priority as a job.
Aiba: We want it to be a private thing and relax!
I also brought some snacks to Ohno's room last night.
Jun: The cookies you like? That you brought to Hawaii?
Aiba: No a different one. I brought it to share but Ohno ended up eating all of it.
Ohno: I guess I ate more than just Cesar salad.
Sho: Okay. I think that's about enough. I guess you've reached the limit of your conversation when you keep talking about Cesar salad.
He gave us his introduction again and started to explain the dance but realized he didn't have "his assistant". He called for Nino a few times until he came out. Sho also asked him for an introduction so he said something similar to Sho. "I've been in Arashi for 16 years... I'm Ninomiya. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu."
They started teaching the song and Sho asked Nino to turn around and do it in the same direction as us (so we watched his back). When we were done with the set Nino looked over his shoulder and smiled cutely.
Sho: Kawaii!!
Nino still did the pull up move with wide eyes and a smile at the end. He turned around one more to practice after we knew most of it and Jun came onto the screen right at the end and dance in front of Nino so they were facing each other.
Sho: An amazing collaboration!
Jun did the introduction to the next section again and then asked us to stand and get ready (to be honest almost everyone in our section was still sitting during the explanation, even me because I was so tired). When we stood up Jun imitated the sound that the chairs made, and people chatting (basically that we made a lot of noise suddenly).
Jun: Are you ready to dance?
Are you ready to be happy? (the phrase he always says during his greeting)
Oops, I'm not the one saying that today!
Hadashi no Mirai was a lot of fun like usual and I still enjoyed Carnival Night a lot. Ohno came out to our side stage during the second half with his line of dancers so we got to watch it up close this time! Ohno was very graceful with the jumping moves. When Guts! came on he got on the tower platform and went up. He waved at us and the 2nd floor stands a lot.
For Fight Song they got on the carts and Nino came to our side. He was jumping a lot and at the end of the song he gave us a good job applause.
The next set of solos were the same. I got about half of the lyrics for Shos solo but I bet a Japanese fan got them all so I'll share them later. For Shos solo he ended on the side stage in front of us instead of at he back like I think he did the day before. During Ohno's solo they showed a live feed of the moon for a moment during the lyrics that included tsuki.
The interlude dancing was just as amazing as before and I got really excited watching. We could see Sakura pretty well from the stands.
For Pikanchi Double Jun came to our side and was doing a closed hand wave at everyone (he was doing that the previous show too). When he got on a cart he was looking at the tiny arena section in front of him but I could tell he was letting the anticipation build for us when he turned around. So he basically made us wait a few extra seconds and then when he turned to the stands we all screamed really loudly!
For Meikyu Love Song, the close ups were of Sho again and he did the come hither hand gesture. The second closeup was cute because he scrunched his eyebrows together first like he was trying really hard. Aiba came by our section on the cart and waved at the stands.
For Sakura Sake Sho finally came to our side.
But, he didn't come all the way to the end off the stage. He stopped short of the rounded part and was waving at the arena on both sides, then turned to the stands and waved his hands really widely. Of course I waved back and yelled as loud as I could. He still didn't come any closer to the stands but he did his rapping part right there looking between us at the arena and waving his arms in time with his words. Then of course they started heading back to the main stage. In the screens Jun grabbed one of the cameras and got really close to the lense, shaking it.
They still didn't use the flying platform. For A.RA.SHI
Ohno came to our side running with his arms spread out and waving them widely at us in the stands. Jun took off his jacket so he was just wearing the black shirt.
They all went back to the center stage for the greetings.
Sho: thank you everyone *bow*
Did you enjoy the second "Blast" concert? We wanted to do something to help and bring support to various areas. We're so happy it actually happened, and we want to thank the people of Miyagi.
There are people who came here from all over Japan, and even the world, so thank you.
To the people of Tohoku, we want you to know that you have, at the very least, this many friends of Arashi around you to support you.
I don't want to bring up this sad story again, but we'd be happy if our feelings reached you.
Let's continue on together in the future.
Ohno: Thank you. *bows*
Since our last concert in Miyagi 8 years ago, the situation here has changed. But we still feel that it's important to be here in person with you through this concert. I thought I wanted to increase the amount of people smiling as much as I could. I want to treasure this atmosphere. Let's continue to make Arashi together in the future. Please stay by our sides.
Aiba: Thank you. *bows*
Was it fun? I hope that it was a concert where you could smile and be happy.
Sho-chan said that we, Arashi, have this many people following us, and that brings such happiness. More than where you're headed in life it's the people that you're traveling with. I want to continue to go with all of you, one step at a time, without giving up.
Nino: Thank you. *bows*
This was a lot of fun.
It's a fun diet method.
My stomach isn't poking out now, but tonight I'll eat dinner.
And it'll poke out again.
That's life.
We all made a good memory here tonight. I hope we can all gain energy together.
We finally made it to Sendai. I don't know if it was early, or late. But this time we spend together, it has meaning to it.
If the mayor didn't invite us to come we wouldn't be here. If he hadn't asked us our dream wouldn't have come true.
This isn't the end. If you feel like you've lost all your energy, just ask the mayor. And we'll come and make happy memories with you again.
It was a lot of fun! Thank you!
Jun: Thank you. *bow* It was a lot of fun.
Arashi is 16 years old now thanks to you. A lot happened since then, for the five of us as well as everyone else. It was amazing.
I want to continue on this way.
Since 2007 we finally came to Miyagi.
Sorry for making you wait.
This concert was hot and exciting. Thank you all for coming.
Thank you. *bow straight at camera*
It makes me so happy to get to directly communicate with you.
After the earthquake I wanted to send a message here, that we're all connected that were all under the same sky. So it made me so happy to do this concert together. Please continue to follow the five of us.
Thank you.
I have one request. Could you turn the penlights off?
Yes, I know you can't turn the chemical lights off.
Jun acted so huffy when he made that comment like he was irritated at Aiba yesterday for pointing that out. A lot of people hid their glow sticks under their shirts or something.
They sang Hatenai Sora but we couldn't see the sky well from our seats. It was very beautiful.
They went below the stage and then came out for the encore again. The Vtr was the same, the members getting dressed and then trying to make us cheer louder for them.
They did Ai wo Sakebe and we danced along with them. I've remembered a lot of the moves and we practiced a bit last night haha.
At the end Ohno asked if we could still go. (Mata yarimasukai?)
Then told us to clap our hands. For Energy Song all five of them ran over to the right side of the stage. Jun was reaching out after Nino like he was trying to slow him down as they ran. He tried to grab Ninos jacket I think. Halfway through they ran all the way to the other side of the stage (left). Jun overtook Sho and Ohno and then Aiba did his best to beat him but realized too late I think. Nino didn't even keep up with the others. He was running as fast as he could but he was obviously too slow.
When they finished Jun said, "This is the last song."
The crowd screamed eeeeh so Jun repeated that it was the last sign in a curt voice and said "we have to go home." The crowd said eeeeh again and he ignored them.
We ended up sneaking out halfway through Yume Ni Kakeru because of the buses. We saw the fireworks then jogged to the bus area. We hear Jun ask what's out name from the outside so I yelled Arashi as I was running.
Tomorrow the last day!!