This time last week, I was hit by a Storm in Tokyo Dome...
Well, 1hr into the concert anyway lol.
Thus it's only appropriate for me to post my Concert Day "Report" now =X *gets bricked*
Okay...where shall I begin...probably from the start I guess? Entry will be locked in a week XD;
And to save the eyes of anyone who isn't interested in my fangirling of Arashi, I'll put everything
As I was unable to take an earlier flight(i.e. fly Fri night, arrive Sat morn), I only arrived in Japan at 4.50pm which meant, of course, that by the time we settled everything, it'd be too late for me to head over to Tokyo Dome to buy Concert goods. So I decided, rather than rush over just to try my luck, I'll head over to Tokyu Hands to get the blank Uchiwa frame to complete my uchiwa, write out my concert goods list to show the staff, head to bed asap and wake up early in the morning to head to Tokyo Dome to queue for con goods.
A shot of my completed uchiwa!!
Woke up at 5.30am(all timings will be Japan Time btw) to get ready to head out to queue for Concert goods. With allowance to snooze for about half an hr, wash-up, have a nice leisurely breakfast of melon-pan & a cup of Royal Milk Tea warmed up in another cup of freshly boiled water, watch abit of morning news and change before heading out of the hotel at about 7.15am. As we passed the key to the staff I asked how long it'll take to head over to Korakuen and was told about 15min oops. Lol I figured it'd be fine. Earlier is better than later after all.
On the way I was greeted by Nino and his Vitamin B2 Drink for Extreme Fatigue drink lol.
I should've expected that there'll be even earlier birds of course lol. I was still vaguely-shocked to see a long queue for concert goods when I got there though. =O
Random shot of the people in front of me
Also a video of my position in the queue and how long it takes me to walk to the front lol...I forgot about the 90sec flickr limitation but the queue is actually 2min 30s from my position lol
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With that done we headed for lunch at Tokyo Dome City lol. McDonald's was packed with people who were done with con goods purchasing so we went to a restaurant that looked like it specialized in katsu?
A well earned meal LOL It was incredibly yummy but I couldn't really finish it =(
I also took out my penlight and pin badge to take a shot
I'm so happy that it had green coz green's Aiba's color lol The blue represents Ohno so you can bet it'll be pinned to my UtaOni cap at ToyCon LOL
Also, the cute thing about the penlight was that it had 2 light options!!
After our tummies were filled and we had rested enough, we headed back to the hotel so that I can unload all the concert goods. They were HEAVY srsly...and I didn't even buy many extras...I only bought one extra of each( no towel. Too ex ;_;) save for the small items like the strap, pin badge, masking tape and plaster set.
Of course, I couldn't resist taking a photo of all the goods displayed out .__.;
With the goods reorganized and neatly packed away I settled down to take a hour long nap in preparation for the exciting night! When I woke up, I changed into my Scene Coordi lol.
As it would've been impossible for me to complete my UtaOni costume to bring over, I was determined to wear the Con colors and this was what I came up with in the end lol.
Can you see my Aiba pinbadge? lol
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Attempting to write this while I’m still high from the concert but ] it’s gonna be all over the place so I’ll just do it in point form.
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lol yes that's pretty much my report of the concert itself. As I walked back underground to my hotel I chanced across this ad.
Of course I couldn't resist snapping a shot XD; It helps that my favorites are all on the side nearer to me? =x
Snapped this as well coz it reminded me of Arashi Show Time and サーカス XD;
On my way back, I was SO HUNGRY after the concert that I threw my original plans of going to check out the light display at Tokyo Dome City after the con to head back to the hotel and get food =( So I dropped into Family Mart to get this...
Obviously I was so hungry I got myself quite a big bento D: I actually finished 90% of it though!
Also got myself a can of really light, fruity sake lol. Nice way to end the night methinks? =x
Here's the proper setlist from the concert taken from arashi_on here!
Tokyo Dome Day 3 Set List
movin' on
Love Rainbow
Troublemaker
Attack it!
Greeting
Everything
T.A.B.O.O
Let me down
Mada ue Wo
kagero
Oh yeah!
Shizuka na Yoru ni
1992*4##111
Carnival night
One Love
Hadashi no Mirai
Fight Song
MC
Yuukai tsukai Kaibutsu-kun
MC - Surprise Birthday Party for Ohno(Ashita no Kioku)
Don't stop
Refrain
Dear Snow
Ano hi no Christmas
Come back to me
Magical song
PIKA★★NCHI DOUBLE
Love so sweet
Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono
Believe
Circus
Accent dance
Monster
Greeting
To be free
Sora Takaku
Encore 1
Summer Splash!
Kitto Daijoubou
Happiness
My Girl
Encore 2
Hatenai Sora
Encore 3
Sakura Sake
And that pretty much concludes my very first concert experience, at an Arashi Concert no less!! I can die happy now *__*
[edit] Forgot to mention, when I was at the front desk of my hotel waiting to print my boarding pass, I had a nice little chat with one of the staff(who is pretty cute and looks a little like raydance's type. The megane salaryman type LOL) coz he asked how I found Tokyo so far etc and if I've gone anywhere else besides Tokyo before which i said yes Osaka last year. He asked if I had Takoyaki and I told him yes definitely but what I really liked was okonomiyaki lol. Then I told him that I came to Japan for the Arashi concert and he was like "ahhh Arashi! Dare no fan desu?" and I replied that I was Aiba's fan coz he's cute and cool at the same time LOL
Thus it's only appropriate for me to post my Concert Day "Report" now =X *gets bricked*
Okay...where shall I begin...probably from the start I guess? Entry will be locked in a week XD;
And to save the eyes of anyone who isn't interested in my fangirling of Arashi, I'll put everything
As I was unable to take an earlier flight(i.e. fly Fri night, arrive Sat morn), I only arrived in Japan at 4.50pm which meant, of course, that by the time we settled everything, it'd be too late for me to head over to Tokyo Dome to buy Concert goods. So I decided, rather than rush over just to try my luck, I'll head over to Tokyu Hands to get the blank Uchiwa frame to complete my uchiwa, write out my concert goods list to show the staff, head to bed asap and wake up early in the morning to head to Tokyo Dome to queue for con goods.
A shot of my completed uchiwa!!
Woke up at 5.30am(all timings will be Japan Time btw) to get ready to head out to queue for Concert goods. With allowance to snooze for about half an hr, wash-up, have a nice leisurely breakfast of melon-pan & a cup of Royal Milk Tea warmed up in another cup of freshly boiled water, watch abit of morning news and change before heading out of the hotel at about 7.15am. As we passed the key to the staff I asked how long it'll take to head over to Korakuen and was told about 15min oops. Lol I figured it'd be fine. Earlier is better than later after all.
On the way I was greeted by Nino and his Vitamin B2 Drink for Extreme Fatigue drink lol.
I should've expected that there'll be even earlier birds of course lol. I was still vaguely-shocked to see a long queue for concert goods when I got there though. =O
Random shot of the people in front of me
Also a video of my position in the queue and how long it takes me to walk to the front lol...I forgot about the 90sec flickr limitation but the queue is actually 2min 30s from my position lol
================Written on the spot with my phone================
- It's an incredibly surreal feeling standing in the queue for Arashi Con Goods from 7.45am onwards surrounded by Japanese fangirls and watching more walk pass me to get to the back of the queue lol...
- I can't believe I left my earphones in the hotel...but then again it's interesting to listen to the fangirls talk about Arashi and school lol
- Oh and I saw a Corgi shuffle pass earlier and the girl behind me went, "Eh even a wan-chan came" rofl
- Just saw a rori! minus pettis though lol.
- 9.22am - Gave in to placing the plastic bag on the floor to sit on lol...the girls behind me went "ii na~" wistfully as I sat down lol...
- 9.30am - Mum came over(she spent most of her time sitting near the front of the queue and come over intermittently to ask if I wanted to go the toilet) to tell me about the display that was setup in front of the Dome so I ran over to get a photo!
Polaroid ver is pretty too LOL
- 9.45am - Security guard started going around announcing they'll be opening soon and everyone started standing up lol
- Panorama of the goods booth!
- Goods were divided up so I had to move from right to left to get all the goods on my list which actually made things faster I think? Even if it means we were moving from queue to queue lol.
- I was in and out of the goods enclosure in like...50min =O FAST! After which I sat at a corner and did abit of quick reorganizing and packing of the goods I purchased lol.
- Part of me regretted not bringing my Arashi bag along to carry goods lol. I brought my KittyLab eco bag instead coz it's lighter and easier to fold and squeeze into my swimmer pouch.
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With that done we headed for lunch at Tokyo Dome City lol. McDonald's was packed with people who were done with con goods purchasing so we went to a restaurant that looked like it specialized in katsu?
A well earned meal LOL It was incredibly yummy but I couldn't really finish it =(
I also took out my penlight and pin badge to take a shot
I'm so happy that it had green coz green's Aiba's color lol The blue represents Ohno so you can bet it'll be pinned to my UtaOni cap at ToyCon LOL
Also, the cute thing about the penlight was that it had 2 light options!!
After our tummies were filled and we had rested enough, we headed back to the hotel so that I can unload all the concert goods. They were HEAVY srsly...and I didn't even buy many extras...I only bought one extra of each( no towel. Too ex ;_;) save for the small items like the strap, pin badge, masking tape and plaster set.
Of course, I couldn't resist taking a photo of all the goods displayed out .__.;
With the goods reorganized and neatly packed away I settled down to take a hour long nap in preparation for the exciting night! When I woke up, I changed into my Scene Coordi lol.
As it would've been impossible for me to complete my UtaOni costume to bring over, I was determined to wear the Con colors and this was what I came up with in the end lol.
Can you see my Aiba pinbadge? lol
================Written on the spot with my phone================
- While walking to my gate I saw 2 full Roris wow O_o
- OMG MY SEAT IS FUCKING BETTER THAN EXPECTED!! I'M TO THE LEFT(or right depending on the view) OF THE STAGE OMG OMG I'M FREAKING OUT IN SILENCE NOW.
- 1 moar hour till the concert starts!! Watching the stadium slowly but surely fill up is kinda fun lol
- 5.46pm: OMG saw an UtaOni cosplay and from what I can see from my distance it looks like she managed to buy the exact rainbow material! maaan I want...dunno if I'll pass any material shops while I'm here hmm...
- wow I also saw 2 girls wearing wigs O_o
- 5.55pm: OMG IT'S ALMOST TIME!!! and I'm vaguely amused that a lot of the ladies at my block are of the older age. crap I feel old lol...
- woah just saw 2 gyarus complete with big hair
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- 9.10pm: OMGOMGOMG I'M SO PRE-ORDERING THE DVD WHEN IT COMES OUT NXT YR!!
- THEY CELEBRATED OHNO'S BDAY AT A CON FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! MINNA SAN JYU DA!!!
- OMG THEY CAME OUT FOR 3 ENCORES!!!! T.H.R.E.E!!!
- Rotfl as we squeezed out of the Dome there was this HUGE wind that pushed everyone out.
- Aiba came to my side soooo many times!!! <3
- ok srsly I was teary when the con started but when they sang To be Free near the end of the concert proper the tears just rolled down. It didn't help that Aiba was right in front of me ;_;
- I'm soooo glad I opted for the last concert at Tokyo Dome!!!
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Attempting to write this while I’m still high from the concert but ] it’s gonna be all over the place so I’ll just do it in point form.
- First thing’s first, as I walked in and realized where exactly my seat was, I really freaked out from excitement. We already analyzed that the seats were good and that I would be pretty close to them until I saw this year’s stage layout and thought damn...BUT TURNS OUT I WAS RIGHT NEXT TO THE STAGE!!! OMG SO HAPPY CAN?!
- When the concert started with moving on and they came out, I screamed with the rest of the fangirls and became all teary eyed even though they weren’t THAT near me. I had to dab my eyes with the back of my hand every now and then in between waving my pen light around.
- Speaking of the penlight. I’m upset that I dropped it and one of the 3 light tubes spoilt =( I only realized it during the MC segment =(
- I swear my right arm is gonna hurt SO BAD after 3 hours of ALMOST non-stop waving but…but…but…IT’S SO DAMN WORTH IT!!!
- Songs/Bits I was most hyped up for(not in order) off the top of my head,
- マダ上ヲ
- Kagero
- Troublemaker
- Fight Song - Sho did that dumb Takada dance from Arashi ni Shiyagare twice as he walked past my side of the dome!!! ROTFLOL
- Happiness
- Attack It!
- Oh Yeah!
- Kotoba yori Taisetsu na mono - another of those songs that raised everyone's excitement!
- Accent Dance - Kinda like a remix of Remarkable, OMGOMGOMG SO DAMN SEXAH I WANT TO LEARN D:
- サーカス - The performance is so...so...gorgeous...if not for the horrendous costumes... D:
- Monster - Began after Accent dance with a BANG! Srsly Monster is like the new truth lol
- To be Free(2nd last song)
- Magical Song - AIBA SOLO!!! His dance and costummeeeee!!! It lights upp!!!! <333
- T.A.B.O.O - Sho was sooo sexah!!!!
- Believe
- Arashi Show Time - OMG AIBA & MATSUJUN WIRE ACTION!!
- 5sec of Truth during Accent Song lol…OTL
- Dear Snow - SNOOOOOOOWWWW!! SO PRETTY!!!
- ユカイツーカイ怪物くん
- MJ Stage - this game bit where he was suspended in front of the giant screen and made it look like he was playing a game lol. SUUUPER cute. It was the prelude to his solo "Come back to me" which got strangely stuck in my mind for the next couple of days...
- 果てない空(Encore 2) - Gorgeous song and I loved how Sho went "It's you" and Nino replied "It's me?" when MatsuJun declared that Nino will choose what song to sing LOL
- Sakura Sake(Encore 3) - LOVE LOVE LOVE!! It's another of those really fun songs srsly!!
- Carnival Night - WITH THE GIANT MOVING SCREEN PLATFORMS!!
- Hadashi no Mirai - complete with dance movements!!
- Ano hi no Merry Christmas - soooo pretty!!
- マダ上ヲ
- Johnnys rears it’s wtf-is-this-shineh-monstrosoity head with the costumes for Circus DD: like…omg…wtf is that… DDD: But the performance itself was really cool!! Just…wtf is that costume?! DDD:
- During Carnival Night the 5 giant moving screen platforms made their appearance!! They were so prettily done up in the Concert's design theme! MatsuJun’s platform paused right in front of us!!
- Nino's solo "19994##111" was incredibly sweet! It ended with balloons made to form "I love you" and they burst the giant round ones to release the smaller, heart-shaped ones and it looked soooo pretty as they floated down to the stage!
- The MC Segment was pretty lol when they did different MC opening versions by the diff members rotfl. MatsuJun's version was incredibly lol coz he got the girls to cheer first, after which he got the men to cheer AND IT WAS SO LOL!!! Also how they kept mispronouncing Nino's Gantz on purpose rotfl! You can read the whole MC over here! http://bit.ly/gQs8f0
- After Ohno sang Yukai Tsukai Kaibutsu-kun, the rest of them came on stage to continue the MC segment and promptly chased him off lol. While he was off-stage changing, Aiba, Nino & Sho started talking but I wasn’t really paying attention coz MatsuJun was holding a sketchbook and flipping the pages to tell us about surprising Ohno by celebrating his Bday early!! Coz his birthday never coincides with the concert dates he never got the opportunity to celebrate it on stage like the rest awwww <3 The cake was SO TALL LOL!
While Aiba, Nino & Sho were in the middle of lighting the 30 really tall candles Ohno suddenly came out and went DDD:(I love how the staff also collaborated by telling him his earpiece was spoilt and made him remove it so that he couldn't hear what was going on on stage LOL) so they pulled him over and said to him that they thought they’d celeb it early since it’s his 30th birthday and it should be celebrated with a bang after all(okay actually I’m making this bit up. I don’t really know what they said exactly haha) but after the whole Dome sang Happy Birthday he proceeded to blow out the candles lol.
After blowing out the candles, the members proceeded to tell him that they have one more present for him that they all made together and made him stand to one side to watch the screen. Ashita no Kioku then started playing omg! What appeared on screen then was similar to the video from last year’s 5x10 concert performance of Ashita no Kioku just that it was a completely Ohno montage lol. It ended with a photo of kid Ohno with a skinhead rotfl. Ohno had a dropped jaw throughout the video rotfl particularly at the end at the final photo lol. He was tearing omg!!! He was even choking when he said thank you to the rest of the members!! <333
At the end, Nino presented him a dvd of the video with that specific photo as the cover photo rotfl! Then they told him to say a few words to the audience. What I rem most was him saying that, because everyone is Arashi, it should be everyone’s birthday which means that everyone is 30 today LOL. That became his catchphrase for the rest of the concert lol. Minna San Jyu Sai da!!! ROTFLOL Noooo I don’t want to be 30 2 years early Ohnoooo!!
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THE photo. lol. Screencapped from the 5x10 Con DVD XD;
- Hearing Ohno go KYO TOKYO NO MATSURI DA!! In real life is incredibly lol!
- Despite seeing Arashi live and watching them actually walk past while singing and waving, it still feels rather unreal somehow…DDD: but well I was also super reluctant to watch the screen often whenever they were too far away to see much so as far as possible, I’ll still watch them instead of the screen, sneaking glances when necessary like for e.g. during the MC segment and Ohno’s bday.
- When they started singing To be Free, Aiba walked over to my side of the dome and got onto a circular platform which I expected they would use somehow or other. Omg srsly…I was just singing along and tears rolled down my face… ;__; I was teary when the concert started and they were singing movin' on but...at To be Free...omg... T__T
- We got not one, not two, but THREE ENCORES!! For the 2nd encore, they came out and MatsuJun was like, “…yonda?” and everyone went HAAAAAAAAAAI!!! After which he went, “We came!” and they were like okay since we’re here we’ll sing one more song for you and gives the honor to Nino to choose the song so of course he chose the theme song of his currently airing drama Freeta ie wo kau. <33 After that song they were like okay yes we’re going now byeeee!! It was fun!! Ohno please give everyone your last words and of course Ohno went “MINNA SAN JYU DA!!”
The audience then tried again shouting “ARASHI ARASHI!” and the staff were all trying to get everyone to quiet down but after abit of calling THEY CAME BACK OUT LOL! MATSUJUN’S EXPRESSION WAS SO LOL!! He gave this =___= face with a raised brow but then asked us again “Yonda?” 3 times, the third time he went put more energy into it!!! Then after a pause he said again, “We came!” so they said okay last song and started singing Sakura Sake!!!!! <333333333 Surprisingly after that, the audience stopped trying their luck lol. I guess 3 times is the max no. of encores they can try for? BUT THE FACT THAT THEY CAME OUT THE THIRD TIME OMG!!!
It was also incredibly lol watching the poor staff waving their arms in the "quiet down" gesture to get the fans to stop calling out for Arashi and then suddenly KYA and MatsuJun is out followed by the rest of the members lol. Srsly, poor staff lol.
- During one of the encore songs, I was so happy swinging my penlight from side to side that I swung it right into the railing .___.;
At the end of the concert I had a major headache and was soooo hungry omg lol. As we slowly made our way out of the dome, the minute we got to the door there was this HUGE GUST OF WIND that just BLEW everyone out the door. It was incredibly lol actually![edit] Oh yes risa6chan reminded me what's the cause. Pressure difference lol =x
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lol yes that's pretty much my report of the concert itself. As I walked back underground to my hotel I chanced across this ad.
Of course I couldn't resist snapping a shot XD; It helps that my favorites are all on the side nearer to me? =x
Snapped this as well coz it reminded me of Arashi Show Time and サーカス XD;
On my way back, I was SO HUNGRY after the concert that I threw my original plans of going to check out the light display at Tokyo Dome City after the con to head back to the hotel and get food =( So I dropped into Family Mart to get this...
Obviously I was so hungry I got myself quite a big bento D: I actually finished 90% of it though!
Also got myself a can of really light, fruity sake lol. Nice way to end the night methinks? =x
Here's the proper setlist from the concert taken from arashi_on here!
Tokyo Dome Day 3 Set List
movin' on
Love Rainbow
Troublemaker
Attack it!
Greeting
Everything
T.A.B.O.O
Let me down
Mada ue Wo
kagero
Oh yeah!
Shizuka na Yoru ni
1992*4##111
Carnival night
One Love
Hadashi no Mirai
Fight Song
MC
Yuukai tsukai Kaibutsu-kun
MC - Surprise Birthday Party for Ohno(Ashita no Kioku)
Don't stop
Refrain
Dear Snow
Ano hi no Christmas
Come back to me
Magical song
PIKA★★NCHI DOUBLE
Love so sweet
Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono
Believe
Circus
Accent dance
Monster
Greeting
To be free
Sora Takaku
Encore 1
Summer Splash!
Kitto Daijoubou
Happiness
My Girl
Encore 2
Hatenai Sora
Encore 3
Sakura Sake
And that pretty much concludes my very first concert experience, at an Arashi Concert no less!! I can die happy now *__*
[edit] Forgot to mention, when I was at the front desk of my hotel waiting to print my boarding pass, I had a nice little chat with one of the staff(who is pretty cute and looks a little like raydance's type. The megane salaryman type LOL) coz he asked how I found Tokyo so far etc and if I've gone anywhere else besides Tokyo before which i said yes Osaka last year. He asked if I had Takoyaki and I told him yes definitely but what I really liked was okonomiyaki lol. Then I told him that I came to Japan for the Arashi concert and he was like "ahhh Arashi! Dare no fan desu?" and I replied that I was Aiba's fan coz he's cute and cool at the same time LOL