this is gonna get long
so i guess i better get to writing this before i forget any more details (did scribble in my notebook, but it was a long, full day, so i'm sure i missed some things even then) also should mention this is less of a report, since i can't remember all the songs/order of things, and more just me being a spazz XD;
Crea May 15 1pm show - Hasshi Produce
so i guess start from the morning?
-woke up early enough (even though i'd gone to bed so late) that i had time to make the not-so-well-done side to my uchiwa (should've cut the letters bigger, but ah well) before grabbing some conbini food and heading out
so because of buying kabuki goods earlier in the month already, luckily i knew where i was going for the most part, plus i had plans to meet up with flailinginlove who let me borrow her je penlight and recorder, since i was happy to record the show in exchange for her helping get me the ticket. check her lj for downloads
except this time i was coming from the jr yamanote instead of the local train to hibiya, but with a couple phonecalls we managed to meet up just fine, and my wandering also helped me get an idea of how the stations were situated to the theatre, so good to know for later
anyway, met up with chris ok, and she showed me where the theatre was exactly before lining up to try for extra tickets, but no luck :( so we went and had an early lunch (i just had a small avocado salad though, since still had some onigiri) while she showed me how to not set the penlight on seizure mode and such XD ...before i headed in
so i guess starting with my seat - was 3 rows from the back, but aisle! was calm before going in, but the moment i found my seat and sat down i got really excited, had a hard time finishing glueing the last couple letters to my uchiwa. also looked around while waiting for it to start to see if any guests had come, but though i think there was someone trying to be incognito in one of the boxes, my angle of vision was too sharp so i couldn't really see
then the show started, and right away in the first song ebi ran into the aisles, and they also had boxes set up about halfway down, so they stood on those while singing too, and tsuka ran past, and then suddenly the people in front of me were calling 'hasshi!' and i barely had time to free up a hand when he ran past me so i didn't even have time to turn my uchiwa (but hopefully he saw/liked my 'canada kita!' pun too ^^ ) and i kinda got to halfway high-five him :) (because it's such a tiny theatre, of course it's easy for them to go all the way to the back!)
oh, and we got introductions. i think? i feel like we did but i totally forgot till just now. uhhh...one of those times i'd need to get a proper reminder.
after was the gagsical (which always makes me think gagsicle, like it's some kind of popsicle or something), which i had been worried i wouldn't be able to follow easily, but i didn't need to be~ it was actually rather hilarious, because it was basically just totally making fun of their intense butai schedule from last year, plus the many different takki butai, with some other references thrown in. (and now i must apologise for not remembering exactly which takki butai was in which theatre when). first totsu comes on in character and starts a call+response going 'tei-geki!' and then after a while one of the other guys comes to challenge him (i think it was gocchi) going like 'nonono, get outa here, it's nissei' and eventually hasshi comes out to support totsu, then, like what must always happen where jyannis exist - battle mode start! (kakumei vs kabuki/teigeki vs nissei) hasshi and totsu vs tsuka and gocchi as i recall, first a bit of dance battling, to which hxt retaliate with....human rifle (as seen here) and then the other jrs there (aka taiga-tachi) join in to support before hxt get ko'd (read: knocked offstage)
then i think this was the point where kawai appears in his she loves me role at the top of the stairs pointing out that 'it's none! we're at crea! ku-ri-e' and that the other shows/theatres don't matter right now XD
and then switch to shock reference XD i forget how gocchi ended up switching roles, but either way, somehow hasshi and gocchi have switched to casual clothes, and have an epic sword fight in which kawai very properly fails to give gocchi an appropriate weapon when he loses his sword (fish hat for the win)
after which we get an awesome koichi = koichi comparison and gocchi 'flies' from the stairs singing shock ...with a little help from kawai&totsu XD before doing won't you dance with me vs hasshi (with backup from taiga-tachi)
and at some point during all this tsuka shows up as the female heroine from shock, high-pitched and be-wigged and all...but apparently not looking enough the part, because everyone else was like "who are you supposed to be?" XD
and switch again, this time to shonentachi! so it was so lucky i was able to watch the dvd before going to japan! i forget exactly what they did in reference to it though :S didn't write any notes down about that part >.>; but i'm sure i was amused
oh...i just found a blog that has a report/notes (gonna use this to help jog my memory, cause my notes are kinda fail(edit-and another good one) )...oh right, the shonentachi bit or just after or so was when they had hasshi come out and tsukkomi everyone else with a giant fan XD ahh i was talking to chris about this part after the show but didn't write it down, that was silly :S umm lesse...mostly he kept smacking the other guys upside the head, but then to gocchi he smacked his stomach, so gocchi was like 'ow, why'd you do that, at least smack my head like everyone else'
basically it was hasshi x kawai (1st) because kawai came out as hong kong san and then hasshi came out being like 'no one knows who you are being, what is this?', and there was a girl in the front row who kept laughing, and then they kept interacting with her, and i guess whoever she was with, since they were having fun making her laugh because of kawai getting smacked, so then when it was tsuka's turn she kept laughing and he was happy, but she didn't laugh when he smacked gocchi
and cue getting back into singing stuff! i think this is where they did a medley of various older songs before going into theirs? um, long intro where i believe taiga-tachi were dancing, and then ebi show up in a couple different groupings singing on the stairs *totally listening to it trying to remember* ...hasshi was in be a man ...and at some point you realise goseki's disappeared while the stairs have been pulled forward with the others singing on them...when taiga-tachi pull the stairs apart and boom. goseki dancing on a table. which, to copy chris, was AWESOME. like hello goseki you are winnar.
now as for order of pretty much anything else after this except at the very end....i don't remember at all :S
they had a different song run into vanilla? (white jackets, hasshi needs to be less distracting when his shirt's unbuttoned like that but not really) they came on from the top levels one at a time during whatever the first song was, hasshi on SL went down the ladder at the side, and was looking really good leaning over it and such *.*
AND IT HAS A SECOND VERSE WUT. I SPAZZED.
in general i remember them doing vanilla, a to z, inazuma venus (omg i actually got to do the hand gestures in a concert! SO YAY!), crush i think all somewhat one after the other? oh wait no, inazuma was later?
also i don't remember exactly when taiga-tachi did their spotlight performance, but they often did flippy dancing fun intros, or were on the levels at the back of the stage, and for their main performance they did perfect! i didn't think i'd heard it already, but i was like 'oh! this is kat-tun's new song! omg!!' right after they started and was all asdkjf ♥ and started following along really quickly also they had some cool lighting i remember (i'm sure it involved backlight and sexy sidelight), and they were dressed in nice black costumes, so they looked really cool! and taiga made me squee with his solo ...plus omg yasuken rapping was really good! he looked good doing it~
then after a few songs kawai announced that it was mc time ...they talked about how nervous hasshi was and some other things ...i'd have to listen to the audio for this part to remember everything, since something like their regular talking is a bit hard for me to follow...
oh yeah, i'd totally forgotten they did sayonara box! that was really fun to hear live! (probably cause no kawai dancing on a box to give me the reminder XD)
ah, at some point soon after the gagsical, they also did skits/monomane/games like something that would be in shokura ...question participated in this too, with hong kong san running it (it was before or just after the fan tsukkomi bit)
one part involved saying various things to hasshi, and kawai also got them doing various random things/telling stories/monomane
i mostly didn't get what yasuken's story was about, except something about nabesho's sweater...
hasshi went up and did some adorable baka dance monomane thing which he said he learned the night before from watching on youtube XDD (after the show at one point i ended up chatting with another hasshi fan who told me it was related to whinnie the pooh? (i guess some japanese version of disney's or something)
...ah actually, i must've misunderstood her, it was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcfYZLos-Yo XDD
akkun went up too, and tsuka and totsu both were some of the ones to say things to hasshi (like cheesy lines or whatever) ...umm, i can't remember what they said though :S
so back to mc...um yeah, kawai basically lead it, and hasshi didn't actually talk very much (was probably too nervous) because right after was his solo bit
AND THIS IS WHERE LIFE BECOMES PERFECT. BECAUSE THAT BOY STARTED OFF ACAPELLA. AND IT MADE ME CRY BECAUSE IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL AND ASKJFSFUGH.
450$ concert ticket + airfare, hotel cost, etcetcetc AND 5 YEARS OF WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT all became completely worth it in that one frozen bit of time where he stepped out from centre back stage in front of the backlights they had there, just him and a microphone and THAT VOICE. omg i can't even write this right now without becoming emotional. i think i was standing again and i just stood there and closed my eyes for a moment and just listened. when i mentioned to colin earlier today how much just my concert tickets for this trip had cost, he asked me if, knowing i would've been able to see the other show would i have still gone and bought the ticket for hasshi's show off auctions, and i didn't even have to think a split second before saying yes, because hearing that voice coming from the boy standing some-odd feet in front of me belting out a song in a silent theatre was worth it all.
and then he sang some more. his duet with totsu was just perfect, and there was that moment at the end (which is where that photo i got was from) when totsu turned to him to whisper something in his ear, and he just got the most perfect adorable smile on his face
and he just sounded so shy and nervous and happy when introducing the song rikiya had written for him (i actually didn't catch till reading reviews after that rikiya had specifically writen it for him-thought it was just a five song i hadn't heard at the time), but then when he asked the 'staff-san' to bring out chair and stand as akkun came out with an acoustic guitar i knew it was gonna be good
and again i was mesmerised... he sounded so so good (even the really high part in the middle that ended up sounding a bit weird in the recording didn't at all sound off hearing it live)
...and then he was like 'i want to do the next song with some of the jrs' and omg ai nante. seeing massu and yasuken and taiga show up i was already excited, and then getting to hear them all along w/ hasshi! massu had solo lines first, and boy, can that boy sing. like i already knew he could sing from hearing him on shokura, but that doesn't compare to real life. soooo naturally talented, it really impressed me almost as much as hasshi's voice does. and yasuken just looks totally cooler irl (rather than just cute), and taiga's voice is so cute~ and the four of them sounded really so amazing singing together (plus ai nante's such a good song for showing off voices)
and then bringing out everyone else to end with sekai ni hitotsu! it was so fun to do the hand motions along with them~
...but it was hilarious how kawai came out as the staff to set up the stuff for the akkun/hasshi duet XDD
he totally set up the stand for hasshi, and then hasshi was like 'no,no, that's for him (akkun)' and kawai was totally going overboard being super exact setting it up XDD
and then bringing gocchi too afterwards when hasshi called to them that he was done, and kawai was being all manegerial instructing gocchi on exactly what to do (with gocchi nodding going 'hai. hai. ah, hai!' in a very goseki way XDDD) ...except he had to repeat himself cause gocchi was all 'yes, got it' ...and then didn't do anything at first XD it was pretty lulzy XD
and then of course...they can't end the show without their newest songs! itsutsu was just so pretty to hear live...all the really high parts near the end sounded so good! and like just in general, after hearing kawai live i've fallen for him more cause i like his singing! and of course totsu sounds so good too - getting to hear him live reminded me of when i first heard a solo of his doing midnight train i think it was...
but first we got more gocchi-dance...i forget if it came right after hasshi's bit? or no, i think there were more songs in between (ah! i've also missed question's singing bit! i was sad there was no ishigaki, but still awesomepossum i got to hear some question live too~ umm, i've now listened to the part 1 medley so i'm forgetting what they did this show...i think it was just mezamero yasei? i remember singing along to that!)
anyway, back to gocchi ...near the end there was a bit of a break, then gocchi comes on wearing this clown mask (y oh y did you have to go w/ american grotesque?) and this sound byte he mimes to comes on, and there's dim, streaky lighting in this part...and then come the beats, and he dances, for like a good couple minutes. AND IT'S AWESOME. ...and then the others show up too (bemasked) and they do this whole awesome choreography bit with the masks and it would've been totally the awesomest thing evar in life...except those masks were creepy when they upped the light levels and you could see them clearer ;_; but they quickly took them off and went into...
bokura no love and peace!!! bestest ebi song ever! it's so fun and genki and omg they looked so happy singing it and i already spazzed a lot after watching it on shokura yesterday...except the crea version has a second dance bit, and the part where the older 4 are dancing one-by-one in a semicircle matched to where hasshi moves in his choreo looked even cooler cause they had spots going on and changed the colours to blue and green i think it was
plus they're wearing the new yellow costumes, which look really good on them! (like those are some nice pants...imeanwut?)
and i swear at the end they were even more excited running and jumping from one side of the stage to the other...and then with that bow at the end, gah it made me start crying again and it was so awesome...and then they went from that right into itsutsu no negai and just...it was such a perfect end
...except i'd been a bit disappointed they only ran through the audience once. which they fixed by coming back out and singing daybreaker as an encore! in the new green costumes~
and this time i saw hasshi coming earlier, so was ready with my '100tei♥' pun, and fully got to grab his hand and high five him! and then right after gocchi comes up and stands on the box in my aisle to sing, and then he's totally grinning that amazing goseki grin and points toward the people on my side of the aisle (and i've made sure to have the 'from canada' side of the uchiwa again) and he just runs up and high fives absolutely everyone he could
and also the girl who was sitting beside me was a kawai fan, so at the start we agreed that if he came by i'd let her reach around me, which worked out great because he came by too!
and then after that encore, just as i was thinking ok, maybe they really won't come out again (after waiting a bit), all of a sudden people are squeeing and i look up and hasshi's peeking around behind the speaker stack stage left (SO CUTE *_* ), and then the others follow out after and hasshi's asking us how the show was/etc, and then i hear them saying something about nissei and having a leading show there, but something about it's gonna happen only if us fans show our support i dunno cause everyone's kyaa-ing and it was just like, such an awesome thing for them! :D
and just, the whole show was just so amazing, and i finally got to hear so many songs i love live, and hasshi is a beautiful being and just absolutely darling and when can i go back and see him again? T_T
after the show, i got out in time to line up with chris to try for evening tickets as well, but no luck again, and also snowqueenofhoth came down too, and another friend of hers, so after checking out what was going on at hibiya park hoping for cheap street food (there was a thai culture festival), but instead only getting hit on by some random guys, we ended up having thai food anyway since there was a restaurant rachel'd been meaning to try that was under the train bridge (it's so cool how japan just uses *every* odd space like that to it's fullest) which was actually pretty tasty! i had some shrimp that had a bit of spice to it, and a yummy coconut pudding for desert
...oh man, and now i've just seen the crea reports in the usual mags, and realised there's so many little cute moments i remember but haven't actually written down >.>;; i feel like i'm writing an epic here XD well, considering how epic this was to me, i guess i am? XD;
so then even though i'd been meaning to do it for years, and chris invited me to come with, i didn't try to go see shokura taping the next day ...and was feeling disappointed about having to miss it, until cue awesome concert luck week starting with...
Crea May 25 6pm show - Part 4
so the 25th was the day we were getting back into tokyo after doing the kansai/onsen circuit, and i'd really really wanted to see oor then because none of the other shows i'd tried to get tix for/etc had worked out, but by the time any good standing tickets showed up on auctions it was just not feasable for me to get them that way, and so i was left with the evening planned for a show, but no show to go to and i wouldn't be getting into tokyo till about 230pm, so i figured what the hell, why not try for crea's extra tickets?
best idea ever!!
i literally checked into our hostel, double checked there weren't any oor tix left for sure (since chris had seen a couple for sale at a shop in shibuya listed on their website a couple days before, but of course they were gone by then) and then headed out to crea
cue best timing ever. first thing that happens to me after i get off the yamanote and start walking to the show? overhear some girl saying someone's been spotted, and i follow her and look in front of me (since i was getting to a stopped streetlight anyway), and hashimoto ryosuke is standing there. right in front of me. i think i actually stopped breathing for a good second or 2. i don't think i could've even squeed or said anything or broken out in a smile even if i tried, my heart was beating so fast. and not only him, but iwamoto and abe too, chatting about some new spikey bling hikaru was wearing. and then before i could think a fedora zips past my face and suddenly i realise gocchi just ran right past me close enough he would've knocked into my bag had i been carrying it on the other side. all i could think as i kept walking after the light changed and they ran towards the theatre (obviously in a hurry to get there in time, since it was already 4) was that i really was ok with not winning a ticket, because life. you have just been made holyshit.
but apparently it hadn't yet. 2nd bit of luck was that i happened to choose the same day the girl i'd met the first time, hito-chan, was seeing the show (she'd mentioned going to pt 4, but i didn't know which day), which was really great, because i was already high tension after the hasshi incident, and then kinda just broke down after i heard my number called for the ballot. i'm not even sure how i managed to give them my name and then trying to give my cell number, my hands were shaking so hard lol ...and then my legs kinda just gave way and i was like 'suwatte, i have to sit down' in less coherent japanglish, and even though i had nodded understanding at the lady giving me instructions on when to come back to pick up the ticket, i realised a couple minutes later after calming down a bit that i hadn't even processed what she'd said, so hito-chan helped me out before meeting up w/ her other friends going to see the show too
since we had a bit of time until the doors opened and i could pick up tickets, we went to a nearby foodstand and i got a drink (since even though it was close to dinner, there was no way i could eat anything) and we found a place to sit and chat, and so i could calm down more. (i really don't even know how i managed to write a coherent text to colin saying i'd gotten the ticket/etc)
time came for me to pick up the ticket, and when it was my turn the only seats left were at the very back-either the wheelchair seats where you couldn't stand up, or a row of 7 extra seats at the very back (must be where the media person who was taking pictures during the pt3 show was situated), which is where i chose to be, since i could still get 3rd in from the aisle, so knew that'd be fine for seeing anyone coming up the left aisle
(unfortunately the girl in front of me was a little taller, and had like 4 uchiwa, so i did have to crane my neck to see over her a few times, but i still say i chose the better seat)
i hadn't brought my uchiwa even though i still had it w/ my luggage (didn't want to carry it around if i hadn't gotten the ticket), but that just meant i wasn't worrying about it and could flail all the more XD
so anyways, part 4. (i'm...not even bothering with the order - you can find a good japanese report here)
instead of taiga-tachi, the extra jrs involved were the chibis (morishin, japanese hi, hhj), and there was more focus on them (which meant i got to hear a bunch of different songs than last time~)
hearing bitter moon live + seeing morishin interact w/ ebisno made me actually like the kid a bit. and hey, i've admitted before that i think he's got a good voice! also really fun hearing 1 for u live too. both those songs are catchy, so i enjoyed that medley ^^ but omg, D.N.A. on the other hand...the moment that song started playing i cringed and facepalmed and laughed all at the same time XDD;;; that is one song i never thought i'd say i've seen perf'd live lol ...the chibis doing it i liked their perf more than chibi-annoying-voice-yuto though, so it wasn't so bad. i really did just sit there laughing for most of it though (and hoping it didn't end up stuck in my head the rest of the night lol)
what i really liked was how much k-t they did! (as i said, no uchiwa = plently of flailing occured, and this was one of the reasons). lips was awesome (omg ebi!), and then 6nin snowman doing never again was just asdkfj sexy and awesome
and then when sanapi started in on shelter i just spazzed! he was dressed in black and made it sound really good, and non looked so good in the fedora he wore for hanasanaide ai...
for the first break, instead of the gagsical like in pts 1/3, they had all the chibis + some of the other guys do various monomane/etc ...apparently this is the same as what fumi did in his solo show i think?
...started off with fumi walking out in the most amazing jacket and keitai tengoku starts playing and he does the yara-ish skit with hearing a phone ring and complaining to the audience before realising it's his phone
at some point he gets the rest of ebi out on stage and they all do matsujun's love so sweet monomane, like as if fumi was teaching them :D and then later at the start of the chibis' bits, fumi sings lionheart, but with different monomane! first was kimutaku, then he also did higashiyama and nishiki and of course matsujun before ending with kimutaku again XD
umm...and the part where the jrs they're gonna interact with come out was cute - he introduced them like "next is johnny's jr" i think? and then they come out and start doing some choreography...and then suddenly pose like it's the end of the song, so of course ebi (who are also on stage at this point) all do a double take and are like "owari?!" XDD ...and then the kids do a really good job freezing in their poses during the *entire* segment (except for when they're asked to do their skit
there were a bunch of different monomane and things, not all of which i got...but one of the best was sana-non doing pair monomane, whre non was singing (pretty!) and sanada imitated gaya's walk for the intro (lots of 'maegami' flipping XD) and then went into i think it was yara's dance style? ...it was really random, and fumi made them do it again XDD
also during this part shintaro was totally hiding in the back, and hiding behind sana-non, and at one point when fumi was like 'ok, now it's your turn' he tried to run away and sana-non actually picked him up and dragged him to the front squirming XDD it was fricken adorable XDDD ...and then while the older 3 were talking a bit he ran upstage again and they had to push him to the front again XDD
...and so then he did crayon shin-chan monomane....which of course meant part way through someone replied....that someone being hasshi!XDD (who was standing off to the side stage left)....and who then started chasing shintaro around the stage while they were both still doing the voices XDDD
...and this is why i can't hate on shin so much anymore, because the kid's actually pretty adorable...
anyways, overall ebi did a bunch of the same songs as part3 (i can't remember if they did any different ones except lips?), just less because there was more concentration on the chibis/snowman
i actually managed to remember (and actually understood! :D) a lot of the first mc, which started off ebi and then sananon joined
first the older ebi got to reminiscing on their first performances after joining je, and then they call out sana-non and ask them how uni is/etc, and if they were making new friends (and kawai mentioned something about not having much luck making friends in uni?) ...and they talk about all this uni and reminiscing for a really long time so at one point hasshi made a bit of a noise and fumi was like 'is there a problem?' to which hasshi replied about how he did have to get up the next day for school and all XD fumi's comeback was to drop to the floor exclaiming "generation gap" (in english, yes!) XDD (i think that might've been before the uni talk actually)
then at some point non brings up how his first impression of ebi was stretching, cause he saw tsuka stretching super-bendy ...and this lead to fumi showing how inflexible he is by doing a jump to second position and explaining how he used to do it better but now he can only go so far, and then tsuka just drops into splits (of course) ....and then did one better by going over to one of the staircases and placing one leg on the second step before going into the splits (so yes, doing a more than 180 angle :S)
at one point too non says 'kawai kakkoii' and so fumi replied "6nin meishi iku" (even though ebi+sananon of course = *7* ppl ...oops!) so then the rest were all "eh? 6nin?" and he got a bit in trouble over that lol
the next 'mc' corner was a batsu game with 6nin msm (there was a lot of nonsana/6nin division the whole show unfortunately...which kinda worries me, but i hope for the best...) and totsu-sensei (aka tamo-san according to sakuma ...because totsu did something to his eyes earlier he was wearing shades the whole show to hide them, and apologised by explaining he was like 'nakano sun plaza-san', but i agree, first thing i thought when i saw him was tamori XD)
aka, the following involved me actually getting to hear the rest of msm talk (read: say dorky things)! actually in person! omg!
so 6nin came out and sat onstage with big sketchpads and totsu on stage left with a tray of some kind of dark green drink...which was apparently specially made by non XD
basic rule was if they didn't all get the same answer, they had to drink a shot of the green stuff, if they do, totsu drinks
first question was "who's the most unique in msm" ...to which date immediately raises his hand straight up asking "sensei, 'unique' to imi shiranai" ...and yes, i actually facepalmed...kinda just giggling a lot now though remembering again, because he was pretty adorbs ...so totsu explained and when they showed their answers, iwamoto had the most votes...including from date, who drew the best picture of him ever XD it was rather hilarious cause he flipped his book and everyone else was all "wtf who's that??" but really, you could tell right away cause he got iwa's hairstyle perfect XD (it was even more gelled up in the middle the day i watched) and date was pretty cute about his drawing XD being all like "eh, isn't it obvious?"
...but since not everyone said that it was iwa, they lost. their reactions to the drink were pretty bad lol...poor boys XDD date let out the first 'ugh >.<' while some of the others had to sit down or were bent over
next question "who's the biggest eater" ...i actually didn't understand this one till they discussed it after, but everyone else did, cause right away all msm + the audience were like 'oh of course it's him' ...they even asked the audience 'you all know who it is right?'
...except apparently the winner of the question himself, date, didn't yes, i know this seems to be very date-centric. not my fault he's such a cutie dorkface! cause he i think said non or someone? i don't remember
....so they lost again. best reaction this time? fukka calmly going to the back of the stage and hugging one of the posts at the back (he kinda grabbed it and slowly spun himself around) XDD ...he was definitely just like "*drinks green stuff* ...ok. and now i need to go back here for a minute ;_;"
then totsu asked a couple random really long complicated questions where there were at least a couple ppl (sakuma included both times i think) who had no idea what he was on about, before settling on "most popular jump serial right now"
...which abe had to get a hint for....but in the end everyone came up with, of course, one piece (although....a couple almost didn't quite get it...a few near spelling mistakes lol >.>; )
also, fukka = adorable because his answer came complete with the cutest mushroom drawing XD i wish there'd been someone photographing that day just so i can show the various doodles they did, cause they were awesome!
so totsu's loss
which lead to him drinking the stuff, then he kinda gave a face and gagged on it, and then ran across the stage twice before having to sit down XDDDDD after which he called out non's name slightly annoyed XD
seriously. i kinda felt bad for those guys, but also, best reactions to see ever XDDDDD (i can see why takki likes to dokkiri them so much :S XD)
chibis also sang hitomi no screen (yay hand motions) and we also got msm doing a sexy dance break bit which was awesome! and involved flippy sakuma! i think that was before never again?
and it was so fun doing the motions for to be or not to be as well! (by nonsana! i don't remember much about it, but i remember they looked good :D oh right, non had a fedora, i approved of this)
all the little chibis did sekai wa hitotsu ni naru made, and i actually enjoyed going along with the nyc-version moves to yuuki 100% ^^
and of course we still got goseki's super hot table dancing in that one medley, and also the creepy clown masks into super hot ebi dancing near the end...before love and peace! which is still now my favourite ebi song of life because they always are so obviously partying while singing it! (and anything that involves hasshi jumping up and down doing v-signs wins my life and heart, really) i am so so so so thankful i got to hear this song live again. it just makes me so happy thinking about it again. (hasshi's solo parts even made me tear up ._. )
and once again, we got daybreaker as the encore....which was even better this time and why i decided my seat choice was a good one. at one point sana and non came up to the mid-audience boxes (and also fukka and kawai were on them at some various point? not the same time though i don't think) ...and then as i was wondering if we'd get anyone coming up the aisle...tsuka shows up so i got to high five him....then suddenly hasshi's there right after tsuka turned around, and i just go "hasshi!" cause he was looking away a bit, so he turned right around and his face just lit right up in such a smile! and he reached out right for me and grabbed my hand! like full on grasped it with a face of recognition! (remember i didn't even have my hasshi uchiwa, and wasn't right at the aisle, so he had to reach past 2 other ppl to get to me!) it was a perfect moment cause i will not forget that boy's face right then ^________^ last time i only managed a quick high-five, but this time he definitely stopped just to grab *my* hand
just. such a perfect end to all the luck i had that night ^____^
...i know i've missed a lot in these spazzes (that's why i linked to a couple blogs that were written up sooner...), but heh, i think there's more than enough anyway? next i guess i think there was still a bit i wanted to write about l'arc...um. good thing i have notes? ...kinda?
i'm gonna go listen to bokura love&peace again now :D
edit: another blog, this one with descriptions of what the chibis did in the may 25 mc segment: http://beforesunrise2.blog104.fc2.com/?m&no=332
Crea May 15 1pm show - Hasshi Produce
so i guess start from the morning?
-woke up early enough (even though i'd gone to bed so late) that i had time to make the not-so-well-done side to my uchiwa (should've cut the letters bigger, but ah well) before grabbing some conbini food and heading out
so because of buying kabuki goods earlier in the month already, luckily i knew where i was going for the most part, plus i had plans to meet up with flailinginlove who let me borrow her je penlight and recorder, since i was happy to record the show in exchange for her helping get me the ticket. check her lj for downloads
except this time i was coming from the jr yamanote instead of the local train to hibiya, but with a couple phonecalls we managed to meet up just fine, and my wandering also helped me get an idea of how the stations were situated to the theatre, so good to know for later
anyway, met up with chris ok, and she showed me where the theatre was exactly before lining up to try for extra tickets, but no luck :( so we went and had an early lunch (i just had a small avocado salad though, since still had some onigiri) while she showed me how to not set the penlight on seizure mode and such XD ...before i headed in
so i guess starting with my seat - was 3 rows from the back, but aisle! was calm before going in, but the moment i found my seat and sat down i got really excited, had a hard time finishing glueing the last couple letters to my uchiwa. also looked around while waiting for it to start to see if any guests had come, but though i think there was someone trying to be incognito in one of the boxes, my angle of vision was too sharp so i couldn't really see
then the show started, and right away in the first song ebi ran into the aisles, and they also had boxes set up about halfway down, so they stood on those while singing too, and tsuka ran past, and then suddenly the people in front of me were calling 'hasshi!' and i barely had time to free up a hand when he ran past me so i didn't even have time to turn my uchiwa (but hopefully he saw/liked my 'canada kita!' pun too ^^ ) and i kinda got to halfway high-five him :) (because it's such a tiny theatre, of course it's easy for them to go all the way to the back!)
oh, and we got introductions. i think? i feel like we did but i totally forgot till just now. uhhh...one of those times i'd need to get a proper reminder.
after was the gagsical (which always makes me think gagsicle, like it's some kind of popsicle or something), which i had been worried i wouldn't be able to follow easily, but i didn't need to be~ it was actually rather hilarious, because it was basically just totally making fun of their intense butai schedule from last year, plus the many different takki butai, with some other references thrown in. (and now i must apologise for not remembering exactly which takki butai was in which theatre when). first totsu comes on in character and starts a call+response going 'tei-geki!' and then after a while one of the other guys comes to challenge him (i think it was gocchi) going like 'nonono, get outa here, it's nissei' and eventually hasshi comes out to support totsu, then, like what must always happen where jyannis exist - battle mode start! (kakumei vs kabuki/teigeki vs nissei) hasshi and totsu vs tsuka and gocchi as i recall, first a bit of dance battling, to which hxt retaliate with....human rifle (as seen here) and then the other jrs there (aka taiga-tachi) join in to support before hxt get ko'd (read: knocked offstage)
then i think this was the point where kawai appears in his she loves me role at the top of the stairs pointing out that 'it's none! we're at crea! ku-ri-e' and that the other shows/theatres don't matter right now XD
and then switch to shock reference XD i forget how gocchi ended up switching roles, but either way, somehow hasshi and gocchi have switched to casual clothes, and have an epic sword fight in which kawai very properly fails to give gocchi an appropriate weapon when he loses his sword (fish hat for the win)
after which we get an awesome koichi = koichi comparison and gocchi 'flies' from the stairs singing shock ...with a little help from kawai&totsu XD before doing won't you dance with me vs hasshi (with backup from taiga-tachi)
and at some point during all this tsuka shows up as the female heroine from shock, high-pitched and be-wigged and all...but apparently not looking enough the part, because everyone else was like "who are you supposed to be?" XD
and switch again, this time to shonentachi! so it was so lucky i was able to watch the dvd before going to japan! i forget exactly what they did in reference to it though :S didn't write any notes down about that part >.>; but i'm sure i was amused
oh...i just found a blog that has a report/notes (gonna use this to help jog my memory, cause my notes are kinda fail(edit-and another good one) )...oh right, the shonentachi bit or just after or so was when they had hasshi come out and tsukkomi everyone else with a giant fan XD ahh i was talking to chris about this part after the show but didn't write it down, that was silly :S umm lesse...mostly he kept smacking the other guys upside the head, but then to gocchi he smacked his stomach, so gocchi was like 'ow, why'd you do that, at least smack my head like everyone else'
basically it was hasshi x kawai (1st) because kawai came out as hong kong san and then hasshi came out being like 'no one knows who you are being, what is this?', and there was a girl in the front row who kept laughing, and then they kept interacting with her, and i guess whoever she was with, since they were having fun making her laugh because of kawai getting smacked, so then when it was tsuka's turn she kept laughing and he was happy, but she didn't laugh when he smacked gocchi
and cue getting back into singing stuff! i think this is where they did a medley of various older songs before going into theirs? um, long intro where i believe taiga-tachi were dancing, and then ebi show up in a couple different groupings singing on the stairs *totally listening to it trying to remember* ...hasshi was in be a man ...and at some point you realise goseki's disappeared while the stairs have been pulled forward with the others singing on them...when taiga-tachi pull the stairs apart and boom. goseki dancing on a table. which, to copy chris, was AWESOME. like hello goseki you are winnar.
now as for order of pretty much anything else after this except at the very end....i don't remember at all :S
they had a different song run into vanilla? (white jackets, hasshi needs to be less distracting when his shirt's unbuttoned like that but not really) they came on from the top levels one at a time during whatever the first song was, hasshi on SL went down the ladder at the side, and was looking really good leaning over it and such *.*
AND IT HAS A SECOND VERSE WUT. I SPAZZED.
in general i remember them doing vanilla, a to z, inazuma venus (omg i actually got to do the hand gestures in a concert! SO YAY!), crush i think all somewhat one after the other? oh wait no, inazuma was later?
also i don't remember exactly when taiga-tachi did their spotlight performance, but they often did flippy dancing fun intros, or were on the levels at the back of the stage, and for their main performance they did perfect! i didn't think i'd heard it already, but i was like 'oh! this is kat-tun's new song! omg!!' right after they started and was all asdkjf ♥ and started following along really quickly also they had some cool lighting i remember (i'm sure it involved backlight and sexy sidelight), and they were dressed in nice black costumes, so they looked really cool! and taiga made me squee with his solo ...plus omg yasuken rapping was really good! he looked good doing it~
then after a few songs kawai announced that it was mc time ...they talked about how nervous hasshi was and some other things ...i'd have to listen to the audio for this part to remember everything, since something like their regular talking is a bit hard for me to follow...
oh yeah, i'd totally forgotten they did sayonara box! that was really fun to hear live! (probably cause no kawai dancing on a box to give me the reminder XD)
ah, at some point soon after the gagsical, they also did skits/monomane/games like something that would be in shokura ...question participated in this too, with hong kong san running it (it was before or just after the fan tsukkomi bit)
one part involved saying various things to hasshi, and kawai also got them doing various random things/telling stories/monomane
i mostly didn't get what yasuken's story was about, except something about nabesho's sweater...
hasshi went up and did some adorable baka dance monomane thing which he said he learned the night before from watching on youtube XDD (after the show at one point i ended up chatting with another hasshi fan who told me it was related to whinnie the pooh? (i guess some japanese version of disney's or something)
...ah actually, i must've misunderstood her, it was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcfYZLos-Yo XDD
akkun went up too, and tsuka and totsu both were some of the ones to say things to hasshi (like cheesy lines or whatever) ...umm, i can't remember what they said though :S
so back to mc...um yeah, kawai basically lead it, and hasshi didn't actually talk very much (was probably too nervous) because right after was his solo bit
AND THIS IS WHERE LIFE BECOMES PERFECT. BECAUSE THAT BOY STARTED OFF ACAPELLA. AND IT MADE ME CRY BECAUSE IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL AND ASKJFSFUGH.
450$ concert ticket + airfare, hotel cost, etcetcetc AND 5 YEARS OF WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT all became completely worth it in that one frozen bit of time where he stepped out from centre back stage in front of the backlights they had there, just him and a microphone and THAT VOICE. omg i can't even write this right now without becoming emotional. i think i was standing again and i just stood there and closed my eyes for a moment and just listened. when i mentioned to colin earlier today how much just my concert tickets for this trip had cost, he asked me if, knowing i would've been able to see the other show would i have still gone and bought the ticket for hasshi's show off auctions, and i didn't even have to think a split second before saying yes, because hearing that voice coming from the boy standing some-odd feet in front of me belting out a song in a silent theatre was worth it all.
and then he sang some more. his duet with totsu was just perfect, and there was that moment at the end (which is where that photo i got was from) when totsu turned to him to whisper something in his ear, and he just got the most perfect adorable smile on his face
and he just sounded so shy and nervous and happy when introducing the song rikiya had written for him (i actually didn't catch till reading reviews after that rikiya had specifically writen it for him-thought it was just a five song i hadn't heard at the time), but then when he asked the 'staff-san' to bring out chair and stand as akkun came out with an acoustic guitar i knew it was gonna be good
and again i was mesmerised... he sounded so so good (even the really high part in the middle that ended up sounding a bit weird in the recording didn't at all sound off hearing it live)
...and then he was like 'i want to do the next song with some of the jrs' and omg ai nante. seeing massu and yasuken and taiga show up i was already excited, and then getting to hear them all along w/ hasshi! massu had solo lines first, and boy, can that boy sing. like i already knew he could sing from hearing him on shokura, but that doesn't compare to real life. soooo naturally talented, it really impressed me almost as much as hasshi's voice does. and yasuken just looks totally cooler irl (rather than just cute), and taiga's voice is so cute~ and the four of them sounded really so amazing singing together (plus ai nante's such a good song for showing off voices)
and then bringing out everyone else to end with sekai ni hitotsu! it was so fun to do the hand motions along with them~
...but it was hilarious how kawai came out as the staff to set up the stuff for the akkun/hasshi duet XDD
he totally set up the stand for hasshi, and then hasshi was like 'no,no, that's for him (akkun)' and kawai was totally going overboard being super exact setting it up XDD
and then bringing gocchi too afterwards when hasshi called to them that he was done, and kawai was being all manegerial instructing gocchi on exactly what to do (with gocchi nodding going 'hai. hai. ah, hai!' in a very goseki way XDDD) ...except he had to repeat himself cause gocchi was all 'yes, got it' ...and then didn't do anything at first XD it was pretty lulzy XD
and then of course...they can't end the show without their newest songs! itsutsu was just so pretty to hear live...all the really high parts near the end sounded so good! and like just in general, after hearing kawai live i've fallen for him more cause i like his singing! and of course totsu sounds so good too - getting to hear him live reminded me of when i first heard a solo of his doing midnight train i think it was...
but first we got more gocchi-dance...i forget if it came right after hasshi's bit? or no, i think there were more songs in between (ah! i've also missed question's singing bit! i was sad there was no ishigaki, but still awesomepossum i got to hear some question live too~ umm, i've now listened to the part 1 medley so i'm forgetting what they did this show...i think it was just mezamero yasei? i remember singing along to that!)
anyway, back to gocchi ...near the end there was a bit of a break, then gocchi comes on wearing this clown mask (y oh y did you have to go w/ american grotesque?) and this sound byte he mimes to comes on, and there's dim, streaky lighting in this part...and then come the beats, and he dances, for like a good couple minutes. AND IT'S AWESOME. ...and then the others show up too (bemasked) and they do this whole awesome choreography bit with the masks and it would've been totally the awesomest thing evar in life...except those masks were creepy when they upped the light levels and you could see them clearer ;_; but they quickly took them off and went into...
bokura no love and peace!!! bestest ebi song ever! it's so fun and genki and omg they looked so happy singing it and i already spazzed a lot after watching it on shokura yesterday...except the crea version has a second dance bit, and the part where the older 4 are dancing one-by-one in a semicircle matched to where hasshi moves in his choreo looked even cooler cause they had spots going on and changed the colours to blue and green i think it was
plus they're wearing the new yellow costumes, which look really good on them! (like those are some nice pants...imeanwut?)
and i swear at the end they were even more excited running and jumping from one side of the stage to the other...and then with that bow at the end, gah it made me start crying again and it was so awesome...and then they went from that right into itsutsu no negai and just...it was such a perfect end
...except i'd been a bit disappointed they only ran through the audience once. which they fixed by coming back out and singing daybreaker as an encore! in the new green costumes~
and this time i saw hasshi coming earlier, so was ready with my '100tei♥' pun, and fully got to grab his hand and high five him! and then right after gocchi comes up and stands on the box in my aisle to sing, and then he's totally grinning that amazing goseki grin and points toward the people on my side of the aisle (and i've made sure to have the 'from canada' side of the uchiwa again) and he just runs up and high fives absolutely everyone he could
and also the girl who was sitting beside me was a kawai fan, so at the start we agreed that if he came by i'd let her reach around me, which worked out great because he came by too!
and then after that encore, just as i was thinking ok, maybe they really won't come out again (after waiting a bit), all of a sudden people are squeeing and i look up and hasshi's peeking around behind the speaker stack stage left (SO CUTE *_* ), and then the others follow out after and hasshi's asking us how the show was/etc, and then i hear them saying something about nissei and having a leading show there, but something about it's gonna happen only if us fans show our support i dunno cause everyone's kyaa-ing and it was just like, such an awesome thing for them! :D
and just, the whole show was just so amazing, and i finally got to hear so many songs i love live, and hasshi is a beautiful being and just absolutely darling and when can i go back and see him again? T_T
after the show, i got out in time to line up with chris to try for evening tickets as well, but no luck again, and also snowqueenofhoth came down too, and another friend of hers, so after checking out what was going on at hibiya park hoping for cheap street food (there was a thai culture festival), but instead only getting hit on by some random guys, we ended up having thai food anyway since there was a restaurant rachel'd been meaning to try that was under the train bridge (it's so cool how japan just uses *every* odd space like that to it's fullest) which was actually pretty tasty! i had some shrimp that had a bit of spice to it, and a yummy coconut pudding for desert
...oh man, and now i've just seen the crea reports in the usual mags, and realised there's so many little cute moments i remember but haven't actually written down >.>;; i feel like i'm writing an epic here XD well, considering how epic this was to me, i guess i am? XD;
so then even though i'd been meaning to do it for years, and chris invited me to come with, i didn't try to go see shokura taping the next day ...and was feeling disappointed about having to miss it, until cue awesome concert luck week starting with...
Crea May 25 6pm show - Part 4
so the 25th was the day we were getting back into tokyo after doing the kansai/onsen circuit, and i'd really really wanted to see oor then because none of the other shows i'd tried to get tix for/etc had worked out, but by the time any good standing tickets showed up on auctions it was just not feasable for me to get them that way, and so i was left with the evening planned for a show, but no show to go to and i wouldn't be getting into tokyo till about 230pm, so i figured what the hell, why not try for crea's extra tickets?
best idea ever!!
i literally checked into our hostel, double checked there weren't any oor tix left for sure (since chris had seen a couple for sale at a shop in shibuya listed on their website a couple days before, but of course they were gone by then) and then headed out to crea
cue best timing ever. first thing that happens to me after i get off the yamanote and start walking to the show? overhear some girl saying someone's been spotted, and i follow her and look in front of me (since i was getting to a stopped streetlight anyway), and hashimoto ryosuke is standing there. right in front of me. i think i actually stopped breathing for a good second or 2. i don't think i could've even squeed or said anything or broken out in a smile even if i tried, my heart was beating so fast. and not only him, but iwamoto and abe too, chatting about some new spikey bling hikaru was wearing. and then before i could think a fedora zips past my face and suddenly i realise gocchi just ran right past me close enough he would've knocked into my bag had i been carrying it on the other side. all i could think as i kept walking after the light changed and they ran towards the theatre (obviously in a hurry to get there in time, since it was already 4) was that i really was ok with not winning a ticket, because life. you have just been made holyshit.
but apparently it hadn't yet. 2nd bit of luck was that i happened to choose the same day the girl i'd met the first time, hito-chan, was seeing the show (she'd mentioned going to pt 4, but i didn't know which day), which was really great, because i was already high tension after the hasshi incident, and then kinda just broke down after i heard my number called for the ballot. i'm not even sure how i managed to give them my name and then trying to give my cell number, my hands were shaking so hard lol ...and then my legs kinda just gave way and i was like 'suwatte, i have to sit down' in less coherent japanglish, and even though i had nodded understanding at the lady giving me instructions on when to come back to pick up the ticket, i realised a couple minutes later after calming down a bit that i hadn't even processed what she'd said, so hito-chan helped me out before meeting up w/ her other friends going to see the show too
since we had a bit of time until the doors opened and i could pick up tickets, we went to a nearby foodstand and i got a drink (since even though it was close to dinner, there was no way i could eat anything) and we found a place to sit and chat, and so i could calm down more. (i really don't even know how i managed to write a coherent text to colin saying i'd gotten the ticket/etc)
time came for me to pick up the ticket, and when it was my turn the only seats left were at the very back-either the wheelchair seats where you couldn't stand up, or a row of 7 extra seats at the very back (must be where the media person who was taking pictures during the pt3 show was situated), which is where i chose to be, since i could still get 3rd in from the aisle, so knew that'd be fine for seeing anyone coming up the left aisle
(unfortunately the girl in front of me was a little taller, and had like 4 uchiwa, so i did have to crane my neck to see over her a few times, but i still say i chose the better seat)
i hadn't brought my uchiwa even though i still had it w/ my luggage (didn't want to carry it around if i hadn't gotten the ticket), but that just meant i wasn't worrying about it and could flail all the more XD
so anyways, part 4. (i'm...not even bothering with the order - you can find a good japanese report here)
instead of taiga-tachi, the extra jrs involved were the chibis (morishin, japanese hi, hhj), and there was more focus on them (which meant i got to hear a bunch of different songs than last time~)
hearing bitter moon live + seeing morishin interact w/ ebisno made me actually like the kid a bit. and hey, i've admitted before that i think he's got a good voice! also really fun hearing 1 for u live too. both those songs are catchy, so i enjoyed that medley ^^ but omg, D.N.A. on the other hand...the moment that song started playing i cringed and facepalmed and laughed all at the same time XDD;;; that is one song i never thought i'd say i've seen perf'd live lol ...the chibis doing it i liked their perf more than chibi-annoying-voice-yuto though, so it wasn't so bad. i really did just sit there laughing for most of it though (and hoping it didn't end up stuck in my head the rest of the night lol)
what i really liked was how much k-t they did! (as i said, no uchiwa = plently of flailing occured, and this was one of the reasons). lips was awesome (omg ebi!), and then 6nin snowman doing never again was just asdkfj sexy and awesome
and then when sanapi started in on shelter i just spazzed! he was dressed in black and made it sound really good, and non looked so good in the fedora he wore for hanasanaide ai...
for the first break, instead of the gagsical like in pts 1/3, they had all the chibis + some of the other guys do various monomane/etc ...apparently this is the same as what fumi did in his solo show i think?
...started off with fumi walking out in the most amazing jacket and keitai tengoku starts playing and he does the yara-ish skit with hearing a phone ring and complaining to the audience before realising it's his phone
at some point he gets the rest of ebi out on stage and they all do matsujun's love so sweet monomane, like as if fumi was teaching them :D and then later at the start of the chibis' bits, fumi sings lionheart, but with different monomane! first was kimutaku, then he also did higashiyama and nishiki and of course matsujun before ending with kimutaku again XD
umm...and the part where the jrs they're gonna interact with come out was cute - he introduced them like "next is johnny's jr" i think? and then they come out and start doing some choreography...and then suddenly pose like it's the end of the song, so of course ebi (who are also on stage at this point) all do a double take and are like "owari?!" XDD ...and then the kids do a really good job freezing in their poses during the *entire* segment (except for when they're asked to do their skit
there were a bunch of different monomane and things, not all of which i got...but one of the best was sana-non doing pair monomane, whre non was singing (pretty!) and sanada imitated gaya's walk for the intro (lots of 'maegami' flipping XD) and then went into i think it was yara's dance style? ...it was really random, and fumi made them do it again XDD
also during this part shintaro was totally hiding in the back, and hiding behind sana-non, and at one point when fumi was like 'ok, now it's your turn' he tried to run away and sana-non actually picked him up and dragged him to the front squirming XDD it was fricken adorable XDDD ...and then while the older 3 were talking a bit he ran upstage again and they had to push him to the front again XDD
...and so then he did crayon shin-chan monomane....which of course meant part way through someone replied....that someone being hasshi!XDD (who was standing off to the side stage left)....and who then started chasing shintaro around the stage while they were both still doing the voices XDDD
...and this is why i can't hate on shin so much anymore, because the kid's actually pretty adorable...
anyways, overall ebi did a bunch of the same songs as part3 (i can't remember if they did any different ones except lips?), just less because there was more concentration on the chibis/snowman
i actually managed to remember (and actually understood! :D) a lot of the first mc, which started off ebi and then sananon joined
first the older ebi got to reminiscing on their first performances after joining je, and then they call out sana-non and ask them how uni is/etc, and if they were making new friends (and kawai mentioned something about not having much luck making friends in uni?) ...and they talk about all this uni and reminiscing for a really long time so at one point hasshi made a bit of a noise and fumi was like 'is there a problem?' to which hasshi replied about how he did have to get up the next day for school and all XD fumi's comeback was to drop to the floor exclaiming "generation gap" (in english, yes!) XDD (i think that might've been before the uni talk actually)
then at some point non brings up how his first impression of ebi was stretching, cause he saw tsuka stretching super-bendy ...and this lead to fumi showing how inflexible he is by doing a jump to second position and explaining how he used to do it better but now he can only go so far, and then tsuka just drops into splits (of course) ....and then did one better by going over to one of the staircases and placing one leg on the second step before going into the splits (so yes, doing a more than 180 angle :S)
at one point too non says 'kawai kakkoii' and so fumi replied "6nin meishi iku" (even though ebi+sananon of course = *7* ppl ...oops!) so then the rest were all "eh? 6nin?" and he got a bit in trouble over that lol
the next 'mc' corner was a batsu game with 6nin msm (there was a lot of nonsana/6nin division the whole show unfortunately...which kinda worries me, but i hope for the best...) and totsu-sensei (aka tamo-san according to sakuma ...because totsu did something to his eyes earlier he was wearing shades the whole show to hide them, and apologised by explaining he was like 'nakano sun plaza-san', but i agree, first thing i thought when i saw him was tamori XD)
aka, the following involved me actually getting to hear the rest of msm talk (read: say dorky things)! actually in person! omg!
so 6nin came out and sat onstage with big sketchpads and totsu on stage left with a tray of some kind of dark green drink...which was apparently specially made by non XD
basic rule was if they didn't all get the same answer, they had to drink a shot of the green stuff, if they do, totsu drinks
first question was "who's the most unique in msm" ...to which date immediately raises his hand straight up asking "sensei, 'unique' to imi shiranai" ...and yes, i actually facepalmed...kinda just giggling a lot now though remembering again, because he was pretty adorbs ...so totsu explained and when they showed their answers, iwamoto had the most votes...including from date, who drew the best picture of him ever XD it was rather hilarious cause he flipped his book and everyone else was all "wtf who's that??" but really, you could tell right away cause he got iwa's hairstyle perfect XD (it was even more gelled up in the middle the day i watched) and date was pretty cute about his drawing XD being all like "eh, isn't it obvious?"
...but since not everyone said that it was iwa, they lost. their reactions to the drink were pretty bad lol...poor boys XDD date let out the first 'ugh >.<' while some of the others had to sit down or were bent over
next question "who's the biggest eater" ...i actually didn't understand this one till they discussed it after, but everyone else did, cause right away all msm + the audience were like 'oh of course it's him' ...they even asked the audience 'you all know who it is right?'
...except apparently the winner of the question himself, date, didn't yes, i know this seems to be very date-centric. not my fault he's such a cutie dorkface! cause he i think said non or someone? i don't remember
....so they lost again. best reaction this time? fukka calmly going to the back of the stage and hugging one of the posts at the back (he kinda grabbed it and slowly spun himself around) XDD ...he was definitely just like "*drinks green stuff* ...ok. and now i need to go back here for a minute ;_;"
then totsu asked a couple random really long complicated questions where there were at least a couple ppl (sakuma included both times i think) who had no idea what he was on about, before settling on "most popular jump serial right now"
...which abe had to get a hint for....but in the end everyone came up with, of course, one piece (although....a couple almost didn't quite get it...a few near spelling mistakes lol >.>; )
also, fukka = adorable because his answer came complete with the cutest mushroom drawing XD i wish there'd been someone photographing that day just so i can show the various doodles they did, cause they were awesome!
so totsu's loss
which lead to him drinking the stuff, then he kinda gave a face and gagged on it, and then ran across the stage twice before having to sit down XDDDDD after which he called out non's name slightly annoyed XD
seriously. i kinda felt bad for those guys, but also, best reactions to see ever XDDDDD (i can see why takki likes to dokkiri them so much :S XD)
chibis also sang hitomi no screen (yay hand motions) and we also got msm doing a sexy dance break bit which was awesome! and involved flippy sakuma! i think that was before never again?
and it was so fun doing the motions for to be or not to be as well! (by nonsana! i don't remember much about it, but i remember they looked good :D oh right, non had a fedora, i approved of this)
all the little chibis did sekai wa hitotsu ni naru made, and i actually enjoyed going along with the nyc-version moves to yuuki 100% ^^
and of course we still got goseki's super hot table dancing in that one medley, and also the creepy clown masks into super hot ebi dancing near the end...before love and peace! which is still now my favourite ebi song of life because they always are so obviously partying while singing it! (and anything that involves hasshi jumping up and down doing v-signs wins my life and heart, really) i am so so so so thankful i got to hear this song live again. it just makes me so happy thinking about it again. (hasshi's solo parts even made me tear up ._. )
and once again, we got daybreaker as the encore....which was even better this time and why i decided my seat choice was a good one. at one point sana and non came up to the mid-audience boxes (and also fukka and kawai were on them at some various point? not the same time though i don't think) ...and then as i was wondering if we'd get anyone coming up the aisle...tsuka shows up so i got to high five him....then suddenly hasshi's there right after tsuka turned around, and i just go "hasshi!" cause he was looking away a bit, so he turned right around and his face just lit right up in such a smile! and he reached out right for me and grabbed my hand! like full on grasped it with a face of recognition! (remember i didn't even have my hasshi uchiwa, and wasn't right at the aisle, so he had to reach past 2 other ppl to get to me!) it was a perfect moment cause i will not forget that boy's face right then ^________^ last time i only managed a quick high-five, but this time he definitely stopped just to grab *my* hand
just. such a perfect end to all the luck i had that night ^____^
...i know i've missed a lot in these spazzes (that's why i linked to a couple blogs that were written up sooner...), but heh, i think there's more than enough anyway? next i guess i think there was still a bit i wanted to write about l'arc...um. good thing i have notes? ...kinda?
i'm gonna go listen to bokura love&peace again now :D
edit: another blog, this one with descriptions of what the chibis did in the may 25 mc segment: http://beforesunrise2.blog104.fc2.com/?m&no=332