[Report] Kansai Johnny's Jr. Spring Special Show 2015 - March 31st - Encore
>>> Introduction <<<
>>> Part 1 <<<
>>> Part 1 (2) <<<
>>> Talk Parts <<<
>>> Part 2 <<<
For the last two songs, the staging was back to the two movable stairs, but all the boys "ignored" them and were singing on the main stage. I remember at some point during Bang Bang!! though, Richard went alone to the top of the left stairs and he was later joined by Kôja. The two of them were randomly fooling around, like they were jumping from the left to the right stairs, or waving at the audience and basically not dancing at all.
And that pretty much sums up how the last two songs went. The boys were just jumping everywhere and nobody was really following any choreography. I clearly remember about Michieda and Takahashi Kyohei skipping around the stage holding each other by the shoulders, and Yuri and Shô at the left side in their own little world doing weird faces and laughing wholeheartedly. And watching them all made me incredibly overwhelmingly happy ♥
[03:50] (Tôma) Everyone, thank you for today!
To end this show, let me introduce all my friends who worked hard today!
[03:58] First are the Fresh Junior!
[04:08] Kansai Johnny's Junior!
[04:16] Then we have Imae Daichi, Asada Junya, Ohashi Kazuya, Fujiwara Joichiro, Hayashi Matori, Koja Nairu and Kusama Richard Keita!
[04:29] (Kôji) Kaneuchi Tôma!
[04:35] (Tôma) Thank you very much!
[04:38] Mukai Kôji!
(Kôji) Onishi Ryûsei!
(Tôma) Nishihata Daigo!
[04:52] (Kôji) Hamanaka Bunichi!
(Tôma) Muro Ryûta!
(Kôji) Nagase Ren!
(Ren) Thank you very much!
[05:08] (Tôma) Everyone, once again thank you very much for today!
We really think it's all thanks to you that we could have such a funny concert
Let's end this show by you joining us to say our name!
[05:24] Let's do it!
We are Kansai...
[05:40] Thank you very much!
At this point, I was still happily smiling. But when the curtain went down and the lights up, I heard some sniffing sound coming from my right side. The girl next to me was hiding behind her handkerchief, crying.
One thing about me is that most of the time, I cannot not cry if someone around me is. So that girl crying (and worse: she wasn't the only one), the overwhelming feeling of happiness I had then, the voices of everyone screaming "Kansai Junior!": that was waaay too much for my poor heart to handle~
During this small break between Bang Bang!! and UME Going on!, the venue was filled with so much LOVE. I think it can't be heard from the recording but really, the Kansai Junior calls were SO loud! Definitely some of the loudest I have ever heard during a Johnny's concert ♥
Back then, I obviously didn't know the boys were about to come back and sing UME Going on! so I remember I suddenly got very sad when I realized the concert was actually over and that I wouldn't see these boys on stage before who knows when (And now I know it's probably never again for Tôma...). And to me at that very moment, that thought was heartbreaking. I knew the concert couldn't last forever of course, but I really wanted to see them just one last time. So I was staring at the curtain, hoping for it to rise again...
Which it did after a couple of seconds ♥
[00:48] (Kôji) Everyone! This time we met here at the Shochikuza for a short period of ten days but we really had a lot of fun. It's all thanks to you fans, thank you very much!
[01:03] If we get another opportunity to meet each other, please come to see us again then.
Thank you very much for today!
[01:18] Bye bye! Thank you!
[01:23] (Tôma) Is it really fine to end like this!?
(Kôji) Say that from the start!
[01:32] I was just talking but you actually want to have some more fun, right!?
Can you make some noise!?
[01:45] That's not enough to get us excited...
Can you scream to the point of losing your voice?
[01:55] Can you scream louder?
Nagase Ren, can you?
Everyone can you make some noise?
[02:06] Let's do one more song!
I had never considered UME Goin on! to be song that could make one cry until that evening. Us fans, the boys, most of us were smiling and singing and dancing and miserably crying all at the same time x)
When the song ended, Tôma came to the front of the stage. You could tell he was trying to hold back his tears but it wasn't very successful. Daigo and Ryûsei were not even trying to hide that they were crying. Ryûta, Kôji and Ren were facing the floor with a serious look on their face, and I could see Kôji had tears in his eyes. Bunichi was on the left side of the stage, looking at them with a little "motherly" smile. The other Junior were standing behind the seven "main members", all holding each other by the shoulders.
They were so beautifully perfect and they looked like a big family and that was just...Ugh, my Kansai Junior feels ♥ ;__;
I definitely got that this wasn't a normal concert ending, but I still couldn't tell nor hadn't figured out why. (Yes, I'm usually terribly slow at understanding things 8D; ) I was just so happy to be there at that exact moment. I was proud of the boys, and I was proud to be a Kansai Junior fan ♥
After the curtain went down for the last time, the staff had a hard time to get everybody to leave the venue. They were walking around, telling us to go but people just wouldn't move aha! I don't know if I'm speaking for a majority but I didn't feel like the last Kansai Junior calls were actually to make the boys come back. I felt it more like a response to Tôma's speech, as if to show that we were there and that yes, we would continue to support Kansai Junior from now on. I was looking around me and there were all these persons crying, smiling, calling for the boys...I was amazed to think that they were loved by so many people. I'm sure I will never forget this very special moment when the Shochikuza became one to cheer for the boys ♥
I'm not of those who leave the venue as soon as the show is over, because I want to stay inside the venue for as long as I can. And that evening, I really didn't want to leave that bubble of Kansai Junior love. And another reason why I couldn't go was that I was too busy trying to make my tears stop 8D; Which I completely failed at, because the overwhelming feeling of love in the air combined to the never-ending Kansai Junior calls just made it impossible!!
When the calls ended after looong minutes and when I had finally managed to dry my tears, the girl next to me, the first I saw crying after Bang Bang!!, asked me if I was ok. (I can't talk to people first, so it's always nice when a fellow fan makes the first move and talks to me ^^) After I told her that yes, I was ok now that I wasn't crying anymore, we spent a few minutes talking about our bias (she was a fan of Kazuya), about how great that show had been, about how awesome Kansai Junior are, and she told me that she didn't really know what made her cry (Which means I wasn't the only one who didn't know for Tôma) but she just felt overwhelmed, like I did x)
We were having a nice after-concert chatting, until we eventually got kicked out by a staff member since pretty much everyone had already left by then. We went down the stairs together and before we went our separate ways, she told me "It's embarrassing that I have to ride the train when my eyes are still red from crying..." Well, I had to go back to a dormitory where people I was going to live with for the next six months saw me walking the lobby with red eyes and an uchiwa popping out from my bag, so I think I won the embarrassing situation battle xD
We waved at each other, I took a last video of the venue and a last glance at the poster and it was time to head back to the train station...
It's weird because now that this post is written and up, I feel like this concert really belongs to the past....It may sound stupid, but I think I still haven't fully recovered from Tôma leaving Johnny's. It's like...I know I'm incredibly lucky that I got to see so many shows in such a short amount of time. I enjoyed every single one to the fullest of course, but I think I kind of took for granted the fact that there would be another one for sure in the future when actually, anything could happen. And it's even more true when it comes to Junior. Too bad I learned that the hard way, but the positive aspect is that the experience of "losing" an artist I really loved a lot made me appreciate the concerts I went to see after this one even more.
And for making me realize that, and for soooo many other things, I'll be forever grateful to Kaneuchi Tôma ♥
>>> Part 1 <<<
>>> Part 1 (2) <<<
>>> Talk Parts <<<
>>> Part 2 <<<
For the last two songs, the staging was back to the two movable stairs, but all the boys "ignored" them and were singing on the main stage. I remember at some point during Bang Bang!! though, Richard went alone to the top of the left stairs and he was later joined by Kôja. The two of them were randomly fooling around, like they were jumping from the left to the right stairs, or waving at the audience and basically not dancing at all.
And that pretty much sums up how the last two songs went. The boys were just jumping everywhere and nobody was really following any choreography. I clearly remember about Michieda and Takahashi Kyohei skipping around the stage holding each other by the shoulders, and Yuri and Shô at the left side in their own little world doing weird faces and laughing wholeheartedly. And watching them all made me incredibly overwhelmingly happy ♥
[03:50] (Tôma) Everyone, thank you for today!
To end this show, let me introduce all my friends who worked hard today!
[03:58] First are the Fresh Junior!
[04:08] Kansai Johnny's Junior!
[04:16] Then we have Imae Daichi, Asada Junya, Ohashi Kazuya, Fujiwara Joichiro, Hayashi Matori, Koja Nairu and Kusama Richard Keita!
[04:29] (Kôji) Kaneuchi Tôma!
[04:35] (Tôma) Thank you very much!
[04:38] Mukai Kôji!
(Kôji) Onishi Ryûsei!
(Tôma) Nishihata Daigo!
[04:52] (Kôji) Hamanaka Bunichi!
(Tôma) Muro Ryûta!
(Kôji) Nagase Ren!
(Ren) Thank you very much!
[05:08] (Tôma) Everyone, once again thank you very much for today!
We really think it's all thanks to you that we could have such a funny concert
Let's end this show by you joining us to say our name!
[05:24] Let's do it!
We are Kansai...
[05:40] Thank you very much!
At this point, I was still happily smiling. But when the curtain went down and the lights up, I heard some sniffing sound coming from my right side. The girl next to me was hiding behind her handkerchief, crying.
One thing about me is that most of the time, I cannot not cry if someone around me is. So that girl crying (and worse: she wasn't the only one), the overwhelming feeling of happiness I had then, the voices of everyone screaming "Kansai Junior!": that was waaay too much for my poor heart to handle~
During this small break between Bang Bang!! and UME Going on!, the venue was filled with so much LOVE. I think it can't be heard from the recording but really, the Kansai Junior calls were SO loud! Definitely some of the loudest I have ever heard during a Johnny's concert ♥
Back then, I obviously didn't know the boys were about to come back and sing UME Going on! so I remember I suddenly got very sad when I realized the concert was actually over and that I wouldn't see these boys on stage before who knows when (And now I know it's probably never again for Tôma...). And to me at that very moment, that thought was heartbreaking. I knew the concert couldn't last forever of course, but I really wanted to see them just one last time. So I was staring at the curtain, hoping for it to rise again...
Which it did after a couple of seconds ♥
[00:48] (Kôji) Everyone! This time we met here at the Shochikuza for a short period of ten days but we really had a lot of fun. It's all thanks to you fans, thank you very much!
[01:03] If we get another opportunity to meet each other, please come to see us again then.
Thank you very much for today!
[01:18] Bye bye! Thank you!
[01:23] (Tôma) Is it really fine to end like this!?
(Kôji) Say that from the start!
[01:32] I was just talking but you actually want to have some more fun, right!?
Can you make some noise!?
[01:45] That's not enough to get us excited...
Can you scream to the point of losing your voice?
[01:55] Can you scream louder?
Nagase Ren, can you?
Everyone can you make some noise?
[02:06] Let's do one more song!
I had never considered UME Goin on! to be song that could make one cry until that evening. Us fans, the boys, most of us were smiling and singing and dancing and miserably crying all at the same time x)
When the song ended, Tôma came to the front of the stage. You could tell he was trying to hold back his tears but it wasn't very successful. Daigo and Ryûsei were not even trying to hide that they were crying. Ryûta, Kôji and Ren were facing the floor with a serious look on their face, and I could see Kôji had tears in his eyes. Bunichi was on the left side of the stage, looking at them with a little "motherly" smile. The other Junior were standing behind the seven "main members", all holding each other by the shoulders.
They were so beautifully perfect and they looked like a big family and that was just...Ugh, my Kansai Junior feels ♥ ;__;
I definitely got that this wasn't a normal concert ending, but I still couldn't tell nor hadn't figured out why. (Yes, I'm usually terribly slow at understanding things 8D; ) I was just so happy to be there at that exact moment. I was proud of the boys, and I was proud to be a Kansai Junior fan ♥
Click to viewAfter the curtain went down for the last time, the staff had a hard time to get everybody to leave the venue. They were walking around, telling us to go but people just wouldn't move aha! I don't know if I'm speaking for a majority but I didn't feel like the last Kansai Junior calls were actually to make the boys come back. I felt it more like a response to Tôma's speech, as if to show that we were there and that yes, we would continue to support Kansai Junior from now on. I was looking around me and there were all these persons crying, smiling, calling for the boys...I was amazed to think that they were loved by so many people. I'm sure I will never forget this very special moment when the Shochikuza became one to cheer for the boys ♥
I'm not of those who leave the venue as soon as the show is over, because I want to stay inside the venue for as long as I can. And that evening, I really didn't want to leave that bubble of Kansai Junior love. And another reason why I couldn't go was that I was too busy trying to make my tears stop 8D; Which I completely failed at, because the overwhelming feeling of love in the air combined to the never-ending Kansai Junior calls just made it impossible!!
When the calls ended after looong minutes and when I had finally managed to dry my tears, the girl next to me, the first I saw crying after Bang Bang!!, asked me if I was ok. (I can't talk to people first, so it's always nice when a fellow fan makes the first move and talks to me ^^) After I told her that yes, I was ok now that I wasn't crying anymore, we spent a few minutes talking about our bias (she was a fan of Kazuya), about how great that show had been, about how awesome Kansai Junior are, and she told me that she didn't really know what made her cry (Which means I wasn't the only one who didn't know for Tôma) but she just felt overwhelmed, like I did x)
We were having a nice after-concert chatting, until we eventually got kicked out by a staff member since pretty much everyone had already left by then. We went down the stairs together and before we went our separate ways, she told me "It's embarrassing that I have to ride the train when my eyes are still red from crying..." Well, I had to go back to a dormitory where people I was going to live with for the next six months saw me walking the lobby with red eyes and an uchiwa popping out from my bag, so I think I won the embarrassing situation battle xD
We waved at each other, I took a last video of the venue and a last glance at the poster and it was time to head back to the train station...
It's weird because now that this post is written and up, I feel like this concert really belongs to the past....It may sound stupid, but I think I still haven't fully recovered from Tôma leaving Johnny's. It's like...I know I'm incredibly lucky that I got to see so many shows in such a short amount of time. I enjoyed every single one to the fullest of course, but I think I kind of took for granted the fact that there would be another one for sure in the future when actually, anything could happen. And it's even more true when it comes to Junior. Too bad I learned that the hard way, but the positive aspect is that the experience of "losing" an artist I really loved a lot made me appreciate the concerts I went to see after this one even more.
And for making me realize that, and for soooo many other things, I'll be forever grateful to Kaneuchi Tôma ♥