TeniMyu senshuuraku FOOO~!
Well, another Live Viewing has come and gone! I haven't missed a Live Viewing yet since they started them, and it really is a completely different experience sharing a theater with a bunch of other people who laugh and clap at a screen, where no one can hear you or appreciate it, and still feel the bond with other fans :3
It was interesting when the official blog posted the other day about how it was decided that there would start to be Live Viewings:
Towards the end of the first season of TeniMyu, there started to be performances touring the entire nation, and the performances in each city were a great success. And just as now, the Tokyo Return final senshuuraku was extremely popular, and over 100,000 people tried to reserve the only 1-2000 tickets available.
The draw of a stage performance, if you were to put it into words, is that time, that place." But in fulfilling that "same time, same place," there was of course a limit on the number of seats in a single theater. We wanted to share with all the fans supporting TeniMyu that deep emotion that comes with the final senshuuraku, being there "at the same time", and after some discussions with people in the film industry [...] we started having live viewings.
I remember watching that first one at Shinjuku Wald 9, where every single screen was "hijacked" to show the TeniMyu Live Viewing. It was totally worth it, and I've never missed a Live Viewing since, also always seeing it in that same Shinjuku Wald 9. Thanks for the memories, guys, and keep them coming!
(also on the blog on another entry, they posted a pic of Nagayan and Yuuta when Nagayan came to see the show and talked about how Yuuta was super bummed that he wouldn't be able to talk to Nagayan [because he had to do the miokuri that day] and said, "たかしさん、帰っちゃいますかね…" ["I bet Takashi-san'll leave huh..."] but Nagayan was an amazing sempai and waited patiently until Yuuta'd done miokuri to all the audience members leaving [takes ~half an hour] to chat ;~;)
Now that that bit of sappiness is out of the way...
One of the things you of course miss with a Live Viewing is actually BEING THERE in the theater with everyone; this of course can't be helped, but this time TeniMyu decided to reach out and make it a little more like "home" away from home :3 Before the show started, we got to have a private little video (only the movie theaters) with the Fudoumine boys! They gave shoutouts to all the theaters and were generally adorable, and they also showed up at the end to give their thoughts on the show (in lieu of a miokuri, which we of course couldn't take part in).
Probably one of my absolute favorite parts was one teeny little thing they did during Depend on Me. This is why having cameras and close-ups and planned angles is such an amazing thing:
DVD SHOT FROM THE ORIGINAL 'MORE THAN LIMIT' WITH TUTI AND NAGAYAN:
DVD SHOT FROM THE NEW RUDOBUKI PERFORMANCE WITH JIN AND YUUTA:
What's that? It's too blurry? Well, sorry XD You'll have to wait til the ACTUAL DVD comes out. Because that, ladies and gents, is a representative shot of what you'll eventually see: A full HUMONGOID close-up that lasts like 2 long seconds of Jin with his hand caressing Yuuta's back in support. JUST WHAT. WHAT GUH. AALIUSHDLAD.
And the best part was Oumi's comment at the end (when the Fudoumine boys had to give their favorite moments) AND HE CHOSE THAT CLOSEUP SHOT. In his own words, "It's like, you see that and it's totally 'DOKI!'"
I wanted to just roll around on the floor a few times. THANKS FOR THE GP FANSERVICE, TENIMYU :333333
At another point in the show, the houselights (in our theater) came up prematurely and started to cut off Wada's Dream Maker solo XD;;; oops. And I dunno if he'd only just started doing it when I watched near the end of the run, but at the start of the 2nd half of the show when Fuji hangs up on Mizuki (after Mizuki steals Yuuta's phone in the middle of talking to Fuji to try and get Fuji to pay attention to him) he totally does this flamboyant tsubame gaeshi move before snapping the phone shut XDDDD MITSU YOU BEAUTIFUL THING YOU.
By the end of the show, everyone was of course bawling. Seigaku held it together quite well: eeeeeeexcept for IkePi. Poor guy, he had his back turned to the audience literally half the ending greetings because he was crying so hard XD;;; St. Rudolph as a whole was much the same. Motoyama-sensei commented that crying like that, they weren't a very "Elite" group, but more a "Delete" group XD Mizuki protested this and said they were just "Delicate" XDDDDD NICE.
Overall, a very well-spent 3500 yen :33333 CAN'T WAIT FOR THE DVD!
It was interesting when the official blog posted the other day about how it was decided that there would start to be Live Viewings:
Towards the end of the first season of TeniMyu, there started to be performances touring the entire nation, and the performances in each city were a great success. And just as now, the Tokyo Return final senshuuraku was extremely popular, and over 100,000 people tried to reserve the only 1-2000 tickets available.
The draw of a stage performance, if you were to put it into words, is that time, that place." But in fulfilling that "same time, same place," there was of course a limit on the number of seats in a single theater. We wanted to share with all the fans supporting TeniMyu that deep emotion that comes with the final senshuuraku, being there "at the same time", and after some discussions with people in the film industry [...] we started having live viewings.
I remember watching that first one at Shinjuku Wald 9, where every single screen was "hijacked" to show the TeniMyu Live Viewing. It was totally worth it, and I've never missed a Live Viewing since, also always seeing it in that same Shinjuku Wald 9. Thanks for the memories, guys, and keep them coming!
(also on the blog on another entry, they posted a pic of Nagayan and Yuuta when Nagayan came to see the show and talked about how Yuuta was super bummed that he wouldn't be able to talk to Nagayan [because he had to do the miokuri that day] and said, "たかしさん、帰っちゃいますかね…" ["I bet Takashi-san'll leave huh..."] but Nagayan was an amazing sempai and waited patiently until Yuuta'd done miokuri to all the audience members leaving [takes ~half an hour] to chat ;~;)
Now that that bit of sappiness is out of the way...
One of the things you of course miss with a Live Viewing is actually BEING THERE in the theater with everyone; this of course can't be helped, but this time TeniMyu decided to reach out and make it a little more like "home" away from home :3 Before the show started, we got to have a private little video (only the movie theaters) with the Fudoumine boys! They gave shoutouts to all the theaters and were generally adorable, and they also showed up at the end to give their thoughts on the show (in lieu of a miokuri, which we of course couldn't take part in).
Probably one of my absolute favorite parts was one teeny little thing they did during Depend on Me. This is why having cameras and close-ups and planned angles is such an amazing thing:
DVD SHOT FROM THE ORIGINAL 'MORE THAN LIMIT' WITH TUTI AND NAGAYAN:
DVD SHOT FROM THE NEW RUDOBUKI PERFORMANCE WITH JIN AND YUUTA:
What's that? It's too blurry? Well, sorry XD You'll have to wait til the ACTUAL DVD comes out. Because that, ladies and gents, is a representative shot of what you'll eventually see: A full HUMONGOID close-up that lasts like 2 long seconds of Jin with his hand caressing Yuuta's back in support. JUST WHAT. WHAT GUH. AALIUSHDLAD.
And the best part was Oumi's comment at the end (when the Fudoumine boys had to give their favorite moments) AND HE CHOSE THAT CLOSEUP SHOT. In his own words, "It's like, you see that and it's totally 'DOKI!'"
I wanted to just roll around on the floor a few times. THANKS FOR THE GP FANSERVICE, TENIMYU :333333
At another point in the show, the houselights (in our theater) came up prematurely and started to cut off Wada's Dream Maker solo XD;;; oops. And I dunno if he'd only just started doing it when I watched near the end of the run, but at the start of the 2nd half of the show when Fuji hangs up on Mizuki (after Mizuki steals Yuuta's phone in the middle of talking to Fuji to try and get Fuji to pay attention to him) he totally does this flamboyant tsubame gaeshi move before snapping the phone shut XDDDD MITSU YOU BEAUTIFUL THING YOU.
By the end of the show, everyone was of course bawling. Seigaku held it together quite well: eeeeeeexcept for IkePi. Poor guy, he had his back turned to the audience literally half the ending greetings because he was crying so hard XD;;; St. Rudolph as a whole was much the same. Motoyama-sensei commented that crying like that, they weren't a very "Elite" group, but more a "Delete" group XD Mizuki protested this and said they were just "Delicate" XDDDDD NICE.
Overall, a very well-spent 3500 yen :33333 CAN'T WAIT FOR THE DVD!