14/12 Popcorn Concert Repo + 18/12 VS Arashi Park at Fuji TV
I know it's pretty late to be posting this now but i thought maybe there may still be people who are interested. (:
I would start about queuing for concert goods and stuffs too, if u aren't interested u could just skip to the concert bits.
14/12 Popcorn Concert Repo
BEFORE CONCERT
me an ninoohno #39;s concert tickets. got it mailed to the hotel we stayed at, and we couldn't contain our excitement seeing the tickets.
we reached at 7am+ and look at this queue... -.- we regretted not taking a video as we walked from the start of the queue to where we stood eventually.
then think again, look at this huge group of people queuing. it's the 5th day of concert goods sale and the queue is still...
anyway there's actually 2 concert goods sale area, we weren't queuing at this area.
even a huge crowd to take photo of the 5 popcorns...
a close up! (: too bad, we didn't took a photo of it at night. it's nicer.
tokyo dome~
cd and dvd sales area.
the banner~
this is where we queued for our goods. both areas are packed. however, after the goods sale started at 9am+, we got everything we wanted by 10.15am, so it's quite fast i feel.
in which magazine stores are genius.
they laid out all arashi books/magazines and whatever not out. they even had 2008 maou +act and many long ago magazines.
so many fans walked by and entered! i'm curious how much they earned. and it's interesting how i stood there, and so many ppl walked by and went "why so many ppl? ah, it's arashi... sugoi." and "ah, arashi! *runs into the store*.
even the cd store located in the shopping mall nearby is geared up. not only we were taking photos, there were other fans who took too.
some close ups. they wrote details about their solos and album~
there were shops selling hair accessories of 5 colours nearby. and it's limited sale till 16/12(the last day of tokyo concert)
there r really ppl who go there, grab all 5 colours and buy, it's not even cheap...
there's even a store that sells leggings/tights and labelled clearly AMNOS, and wrote "if u wear colour that represents ur bias, maybe ur eyes will meet!". i was totally lol-ing when i read that... MUJI also displayed tumblers and pens of 5 colours. a store put up nino and group uchiwa too. it's really interesting looking at all these...
fans cosplay. amazing. kaibutsu kun, yamada taro monogatari, enomoto kei etc. u name it, u have it. (almost)
popcorn costumes! cute. we saw a little boy wearing this too!
CONCERT
our seating, not exactly awesome, but the fact that we could be in there is worth celebrating i guess.
with the fact we are overseas fans.
i can't put up a detailed repo like others, but these r tiny bits that i can rmb. It's my first Arashi concert btw.
-During the part where they were complaining about the dance, Ohno said something about how the fans would love to see those poses, and fans screamed in agreement.
-Other members asked Ohno to demonstrate what facial expression each one of them should have when they do the final pose, initially he was unwilling but he did anyway. He later simply instructed them. Aiba was to stuck out his chin, others i can't rmb. lol.
-Aiba was saying about a dance step for the song before MC, and he said tsuite oide, and Jun was like “wasn’t it kakenukero?”. then regarding about the dance step, apparently aiba has mistaken about the correct dance step, he took one big step instead of sliding or something (i can’t rmb). Aiba did his way, and Jun demonstrated the correct way.
-When members were complaining about the ending pose, they actually asked Ohno to demostrate the facial expressions each members are supposed to have.
-When Ohno was instructing the pose for Nino, he touched Nino’s chin and everyone screamed. He touched to simply lift his chin upwards thats all though.
-I forgot which song was it exactly, but Ohno was playing on the travelator on the stage, he was really cute. The fans around the arena area were squealing at his actions.
-When on the popcorn balloon, Sho threw the balls without looking, he was like throwing them all at once anyhow. Others apparently aimed and threw. lol.
-Aiba was on the hanamichi, he wanted to throw the towel to the staff (i think), but he missed it and it was still on the stage, so he picked it up and threw it again. (i noticed this cos i was constantly looking at him when he’s on our side)
-During Lucky man(popcorn man), whenever popcorn was said, sho would hit his own popcorn head. it was sooo cute.
-When Aiba mentioned about the cute kittens, Nino was like “huh?” and both him and Jun went to disrupt his speech. And Aiba was like “this is my time right?” Then i forgot what they said, Aiba continued “let me start it all over again” and he make the speech again with kitten still i think.
-When Sho was making the speech, i forgot what he said, but the audience clapped, and he was making a “i’m flattered” face and thanked everyone.
-During MC, mentioned about Kamisama no Karute 2, Sho said about doing the same role again then added “well, of cos it’s the same role though” and we laughed. He mentioned about Nazodi being filmed in Singapore etc.
-Sho and Aiba went to backstage, so there’s only MNO on stage. So they started saying about platina data, Ohno asked him “you had to run alot right”, and Nino was like “sou desu” or "azamasu" and nod his head in a nonchalant way. Then with every question Jun and Ohno asked, he replied like that all the way~ It was funny.
-During MC, someone mistaken another two about wrong dance steps, then apparenly they didn't, they were just smiling at one another.
-During a day in our life, there’s juntoshi. Jun touched Ohno’s face affectionately, and Ohno gave that satisfied face (which was really cute) and we all screamed.
-There’s junba too, i think they leaned their heads on one another or something. (can’t rmb clearly what they did exactly)
-Jun was shaking his butt in the most cute manner you can ever imagine when he was wearing his popcorn dress. He was really shaking it in such a cute way. hehe.
-Ohno' solo: The dance this time round is really mild, no major movements, hence most of the time i was just paying attention to his voice. It's really really good. I stopped waving my penlight but just stood and listen. The high note gave me goosebumps, it was that good. It's amazing listening how the entire dome quieten down and with only his voice reverberating in the dome.
-Nino's solo: He was on our side for this, but... all we could see was his back. lol. I had a hard time deciding to look at his back with my own eyes or stare at the screen. I was looking more of his back in the end. I think his voice was slightly shaky, but it's still beautiful with the piano. I keep checking the lyrics on screen to see if he messed up but i didn;t realise, apparently he did from other repos i read... I like how there were clips of njii playing on screen towards the end, a beautiful solo.
-Aiba's solo: His was the first, and i immediately noticed it when he was missing fr stage. I thought the dance was pretty nice, and an overall fun and joyful performance. (: (i really can't rmb exactly what he did, but the dance was good, yeah.)
-Sho's solo: Before his solo started, there were instructions in English on the screen. ENGLISH. lol. It was something about us waving the penlights. His solo was kinda fun, with him waving the red towel (cloth?). Very cute. and we the audience joined in whenever he did the waving motion, other times, we simply just moved our penlights. It's nice to see how the whole dome had penlights in a waving motion.
-Jun's solo: His was out to kill fangirls. His solo followed right after the cutesy popcorn costume, so everyone left, and he is the only one on stage in the popcorn costume. he started saying "konbanwa~" in a very adorable voice, and rattled about how his father's balloon was awesome. then next moment, he took off the popcorn head dress in a sexy manner and threw it, and starts sweeping back his hair in a really hot way. He starts undressing on stage, and well, when he's topless, of course everyone screamed. He sits on the make up table on the stage and starts spraying water on his hair... being sexy i guess. then he put on this coat and his solo starts. he had DJ MJ too, and well it was good. He did make us shout along or something. ^^
-They had a dance on the main stage before face down performance, and it was so cool!!! It was even better when they were on the moving stage, with coloured fires during face down performance. Anyway, from my angle, all i could see was their back during face down, but ahh, the part when they were on the floor, it was still enough to make me scream.
-Tsuite oide had the legendary fishing dance step, it's cute. hehe.
-I really love superfresh performance, i used to not really like this song but after this performance, ahh, i'm in love with it. The went on separate hanamichis, i think sho, nino and ohno was on our side. They had marching steps, with heads tilting uniformly to one direction at some point. Really nice.
-I forgot which song but they were on centre stage, and they were kinda lined up with juniors, and they had those kind of wave thingy movement. i don't know how to describe it well, but it was pretty good.
-They had balloons going round the whole dome, we thought we could see them clearly! but they didn't go all the way... -.- we had nino infront of us though, so we had a clear close up of nino in popcorn costume, aiba 2nd nearest. and others r way too far. But from what i could see, they were all waving hands, giving peace signs, smiling to all the fans. (:
-2nd encore, jun said something like "ah, u guys called so we came out~". ah, he really knows how to sweet talk.
-Ohno during ending speech said something about pls follow us forever or something along those lines, and at that moment, i was like "u bet i am gonna be with guys forever."
-When Ohno first came over to our side, he immediately did look up and i think he waved to someone on our level, so nice. T.T
-Jun fans on our side were pretty poor thing, cos he came to our side only during encore, Japanese fans beside me were saying "ah, finally, he's here!"
-We forgot about them having fireworks thingy and we got a shock when it went boom! lol.
-Refrain performance was nice with water and umbrellas.
-The water screens r great but i couldn't see clearly from my view, fr the screen, it looks darn good of cos. i was wow-ing...
-i think it was wish during encore, where arashi asked fans to sing. it was amazing hearing how the whole dome was so in sync singing the song together, felt really touched. I dont usually memorise their lyrics but at that moment, the lyrics came naturally.
-there were many parts when they asked us to go "HO~" "YEAH~" etc, and it's nice how all fans do it obediently.
-all arashi members were really constantly waving, smiling, giving peace signs etc to all the fans. they do look up and give these fans service too. not to mention ohno who fishes fans. but i really like Jun after this concert, he really looks at fans. I remember he did squat down on moving stage and look at fans below, waving n smiling to them. When concert ended, they tend to bow and wave in all directions right, i see Jun looking at upper floors, waving at our direction. He really cares for everyone. (:
-About the greetings, it felt surreal listening to those with my own ears. Ohno changed it to popcorn matsuri~ When Jun said 5 of them will make 55000 ppl happy, i think they really did. (:
Well, the concert was awesome. I think every Arashi fan really needs to attend their concert live at one point, it doesn't matter if u sit at the top of the dome or right at the side of the stage, the fact that you are there, in that space with Arashi for the 3 hours, it's a joy. Really.
After concert
Human traffic jam... There was a point where we had to stop on the walkway to the subway station cos there's just too many ppl.
oh ya, something not about after the concert, there were really lots of fans asking for tickets right from the morning, they stood on the bridge to dome..
18/12 VS Arashi Park at Fuji TV
I gotta love and than ninoohno or putting this day on our schedule to go Fuji TV because
WE MET ARASHI!!! THEY WERE FILIMING PROMO CLIP FOR THE VSA PARK RIGHT INFRONT OF US, LESS THAN 5M AWAY. SO NEAR TO THE EXTENT, U COULD HEAR THEIR VOICES.
talk more about that later.
photos first~
while we were taking photos, they were inside it all along... (we didn't knew of cos)
inside the fuji tv shop.
we took this at a distance because of barricades, Inititally we thought the barricades were for ppl who r queuing to enter, so we didn;t think much, later on we realise is cos Arashi was inside... lol. There were staffs standing outside all the way, yet they weren't giving out coupons for the park, we simply thought probably it has yet to start.
So while waiting aimlessly at the area, suddenly i see ppl coming out of the tent.
I saw the back view of Aiba and i immediately went "IS THAT AIBA?" to my friends, then we see the other 4 walking out!!!
(It's still a mystery why i could recognise the back view of Aiba, not that i see him everyday in real life...)
So we rushed there (well, walked there, we were so near, lol.)
Then we stood right infront of the barricades. What separated us from Arashi were staff and barricades.
All the staff were holding boards saying no photography.
We were really so near, we could see everyone of them so clearly, it wasn't even this clear at the concert.
I was so emotional i kept squealing, my fren said i was noisy. It was pretty cold that day but seeing them, we forgot everything.
A staff was setting the hair of Aiba at one moment.
They stood infront of that poster u see in the photo above in this arrangement:
(left to right) Aiba. Jun, Sho, Ohno, Nino.
I see Aiba and Jun scanning the crowd, and before they started filming, I heard and saw Jun looking at the crowd saying "the number of ppl here r pretty amazing".
Sho was really fast, they did it in one take, and they filmed them entering the tent.
A few minutes later, we went to another side when they exited, and we saw them leaving.
They left via this route, and i think they turned left at the end. Cos we saw staff entering that direction. lol.
Back to seeing them upclose, they really looked exactly the same as on TV.
Normally celebrities might look slightly different right, they don't. Of course, they looked super good.
Jun and Aiba was pretty tall and had a good built. Ohno and Nino were rather tiny. Sho was... I was kinda blocked by staff and camera n can't really see, but well, he is good looking!
Ohno stepped out and he was like slouching in one corner already, he has this soft soft feel. lol.
The whole process was less than 5 minutes, but it's so near and unexpected, me and my friends can never forget!
later on they removed the barricades and we took photo right at the location they stood. (:
shall talk about our rolling coin experience~
How the inside looked like, well, we couldn't take photo inside so... ):
They had two areas inside, one for rolling coin tower, another showcasing the props.
The bazooka they use actually has styrofoam as one of its material, and it's surprisingly small.
The kicking sniper pins were huge, it would be really hard to kick that down actually.
Cliff climb props, jumping shooter etc were all displayed.
Photos of Arashi in VSA were also displayed.
The huge bear claw for Fuku Arashi is inside too. We couldn't linger too long at the display section but u can keep entering.
queuing~ the coupon had to be collected back. ):
Anyway as u enter and start queuing inside, there's a video playing on the tv inside, with instructions n tips from Arashi and also cm preview of upcoming episode on Jan 3rd.
Rolling coin tower is unexpectedly hard to play. We were all pretty nervous when playing, to make it worse, the staff were clapping, the bg music for rolling coin tower is playing, and the staff adds comment like "the tower is shaking!" as u play the game... -.-
i toppled the tower in the end. it's hard to not make it slanted actually. =x
the brochure and sticker we got! (:
There's a gallery in Fuji TV when u can see displays of all their programmes including Fuji TV.
To end off, we saw Ogura san too!!!
He was filming in the studio, and we managed to take a peek from the gallery.