Takitsuba 10th anniversary event in Tokyo Dome, 2012.09.08-09. pt 1!
ALWAYS SO SLOW WITH MY REPORTS OMG. m(___________)m
Yes! So I went to Japan once again, this time to celebrate Tackey & Tsubasa on their 10th Anniversary Events in Tokyo Dome!
It was very different from usual Takitsuba lives (apperently it was mr. Johnnys who had planned and produced most of it?), but I am so grateful that I managed to go and I'm happy I could get to celebrate with them and all the other takitsuba fans. It's so precious to think about how they've been debuted for 10 years now. (Or as Tsubasa is so careful and fastidious to point out as soon as anyone says that - how they've known each other for more than 17 years now. And still acting like newlyweds! :333)
I'm so happy they're still together, so happy they're still making babies music, and that they're most importantly - still having so much fun together!
Me, lovespiral and pinkpapyrus were staying at the same hotel so we headed off for Tokyo Dome pretty early in the morning, about an hour before the goods stands opened. I think it was mostly because I was paranoid that the goods would sell out, lol! In the queue for the goods we also met up my friend Rin and we also saw Mi-chan and peachy_penguin very quickly!
The queue for the goods were pretty "long" even though we got there so early! And it quickly got even longer, so despite being super tired and walking around on practically no sleep, I was happy we were there so early, especially since I also bought goods for friends.
The color theme of the goods was gold/black/white, and it all looked very classy and nice! ^^
Here are some of the goods:
The penlight! It was super pretty, and glowed yellow. It was definitely the most pretty takitsuba penlight so far. ^^
silicon bracelelet. They have different ones for each venue - so different colors, and then they change the name of the cities as well.
The towel.
The two T-shirts. The black one is super pretty and made in a really nice and soft fabric.
The white one has a really cute print on the back! Different takitsuba pictures making a big "10" print on the back.
Some sample pages from the pamphlet:
The pamphlet cover was gold, and it was really pretty!
They also had clearfiles and photo sets that I forgot to take pictures of, and they're already stored in their folders and albums and I'm to lazy to go pull them out right now. Sorryyy m(___)m
After having bought goods, we headed back to the hotel and dropped off all our stuff. Went to have lunch at an awesome sandwich place in Akasaka and then I think we pretty much headed back to Tokyo Dome right away. I think. On the way there for the 2nd time that day, we saw this truck, which advertised Takitsuba's TEN album, and played Koakuma Juliet as it was going around! :D
The first time I saw it I pretty much just flailed and squealed, and tried to dig out my iphone fast enough to manage to snap a picture of it. Was too late, though, but got this picture a few minutes later as we got closer to Dome and saw the truck again. :3333
Outside dome:
There was also this thing, a sort of takitsuba anniversary board with "greetings" from different work partners, magazines, tv stations and such.
We entered the doors pretty much as soon as they opened. The first day I had very nice seats together with my friend - since there wasn't any arena seats, we was on the 12th row from the back stage, but a bit to the left! Which was great! I was amazed we managed to get such great seats in such a huge arena!! On the 2nd day, though, we were instead very high up - somewhere in the middle of the third tier. I didn't mind though, because we were in dead centre and I had a beautiful view of the fabulous stage setting which was like a party of rainbows and glitter and balloons. Like so:
It looked really relly pretty and colorful. I loved all the balloons! ♥
I also made a little map for you in case you get confused by my explanations below:
Be awed by my paint skills. \^_^/
The takitsuba call started pretty slowly on the first day. I wans't that surprised, since it was a given that there would be so many fans of other groups there - the rumours were saying Kisumai, ABC-Z, Hey Say JUMP, Yuma, YamaPi and so on and so forth... (and the rumours were right, they were alllll there.) I'd have still loved to hear the usual powerful takitsuba call, though... It was better the second day, though!
The setlists for the two days were pretty much identical, but with some slight changes. So I'll put them both up here just because.
Setlist 2012.09.08
1. Sora no Screen
2. Yume Monogatari
3. Venus
4. Jikan Ryoko
5. Can Do Can Go (kouhais)
6. Takizawa solo sorner
- Kimagure JET
- Words of Love
- Motorcycle race thingy
- Kiseki
7. Tsubasa solo corner
- Marching dance
- Get Down
- Axel
8. ABC-Z song. Stars something?
9. Kis-My-Ft2 song. She!Her!Her!
10. KAMEN.
11. One Day One Dream
12. To Be or not to Be
13. Ai Check it
14. Scary cage falling thingy
15. Ho!Summer
16. Hito Natsu No...
17. Love Spiral
18. MC PART
19. True Heart (during MC)
20. Heartful Voice (during MC)
21. ABC-Z song, Zutto love.
22. Kis-My-Ft2 song. Wanna Beeee (with Takki!)
23. Sexy Zone song - their debut song and then some kind of christmas song.
24. Random song medley with Kansai Jr's and NYC and IDK.
25. Hey Say JUMP song. Super Delicate?
26. Koakuma Juliet (with Yara Tomoyuki)
27. 24 Jikan Be Happy
28. Yamapi arrives!
29. Pride The End (with Yamapi)
30. Yamanote sen sotomawari
31. PaPiPuPeYappo Alright!
32. Kizuna mo Kiseki mo Koko ni Aru (♥ the sappiest love song there ever was! ♥ )
33. Samurai
34. Kamira Tamara
35. Ikiteru Akashi
36. Introductions of everyone.
37. Real DX with everyone.
38. Epilogue ♥
39. Journey Journey ~bokura no mirai~
40. Ai wa Takaramono
41. Thank you & farewell speeches
ENCORE
42. WonderlanDream
43. Yume Monogatari
Setlist 2012.09.09
(pretty much the same as the first day, but with a few changes!)
1. Sora no Screen
2. Yume Monogatari
3. venus
4. Jikan Ryoko
5. Can Do Go (kouhais)
6. Takizawa solo sorner
- Kimagure JET
- Words of Love
- Motorcycle race thingy
- Kiseki
7. Tsubasa solo corner
- Marching dance
- Get Down
- Axel
8. ABC-Z song. Stars something?
9. Kis-My-Ft2 song. She!Her!Her!
10. Kamen
11. One Day one Dream
12. To be or Not To Be
13. Ai Check it!
14. Scary cage falling thingy
15. Ho!Summer
16. Hito Natsu No...
17. Love Spiral
18. MC part
19. True Heart
20. You & I (♥♥♥)
21. ABC-Z song, Zutto Love (?)
22. Kis-my-Ft-2 song, Wanna Beeee (With Takki)
23. Sexy Zone song - their debut song and then some kind of christmas song.
24. Random song medley with Kansai Jr's and NYC and IDK.
25. Hey Say JUMP song.
26. Koakuma Juliet (with Yara Tomoyuki)
27. 24 Jikan Be Happy
28. Yamapi arrives (and delivers flowers and presents)
29. Pride the End
30. Yamanote sen sotomawari
31. PaPiPuPeYappo Alright!
32. Kizuna mo Kiseki mo Koko ni Aru (♥ the sappiest love song there ever was! ♥ )
33. Samurai
34. Kamira Tamara
35. Ikiteru Akashi
36. Introductions of everyone.
37. Real DX with everyone.
38. Epilogue ♥
39. Journey Journey ~bokura no mirai~
40. Ai wa Takaramono
41. Thank you & farewell speeches
ENCORE
42. WonderlanDream
43. Yume Monogtari
44. Crazy Rainbow
ONTO THE ACTUAL REPORT! \^________^/
As a fan of takitsuba for so long, I had SO many feelings concerning these shows. I was so insanely proud that they could hold these concerts at Tokyo Dome, on their 10th anniversary, because it's such an honour and as a fan I was really grateful for this opportunity for them. They started their debuted run at Tokyo Dome and so it felt great that they could be there for their 10th anniversary concerts as well, even though I generally like smaller venues much more.
I am also proud as a fan for these two being so well respected in the Jimusho and especially that the two of them - Takki in particular - are so loved by the younger Johnny's, be it debuted ones or juniors - that they could celebrate it with so many of them. Even though I did have opinions about that as well, but more on that later... ^^;
Before the concert started, we could either amuse ourselves by counting how many balloons there were in the stage area, or trying to find out how many colours of the rainbows they'd used or watch the TV screens where they at random times showed a few different advertisements and commercials. On the first day, it was suddenly announced that they were going to release the recent Playzone on DVD. It was met with much joy and happiness fromt he audience who screamed loudly and applauded at the news! :333
They were also doing advertisements for Koishi's Endless Shock and the new play Johnny's World. I think they played the Cosme commercial as well, but I'm not at all sure about that.
The concert started promptly at 17.00. Of course. The lights dimmed and the sea of penlights was so beauuuuutiful. There were mostly yellow penlights glowing - the color of the takitsuba 10th anniversary penlight - but mixed with other colors from other concerts. On the first day I saw several people with penlights from old takitsuba concerts, and also from Takki's most recent solo tour, also mixed with a few others from kisumai and hsj and the generic Johnny's penlights as well. As I mentioned before, I usually don't like going to concerts at Tokyo Dome, in all honesty I always say that I'm happy that takitsuba performs at smaller venues, because you can NEVER get a good enough seat at Tokyo Dome, no matter what. It's just TOO big. But for this time, this special occasion, I was really happy - and really, nothing beats the sight of +40000 blinking penlights. It's gorgeous!
The concert started with Kis-My-Ft2 and ABC-Z coming out on stage, presenting the concert and saying how it's Tackey & Tsubasa's 10th anniversary and yay, and here they are... Tackey & Tsubasa! And the takitsuab call started!
And so they arrived, to the tune of Sora no Screen! On the first day it was difficult to locate them. There were no spotlights on them for the first few seconds, but then they were lit up and we could see them, hiiiigh up above the main stage, in these flying gondola-cages. They were on their respective sides (Takki to the left, Tsubasa to the right) and they sang the song as the cages slowly started moving towards the middle stage!
As they came closer we could see the outfits more clearly, and it was white gorgeous outfits, a bit similar to the oens they were wearing in the RealDX PV. Not entirely the same, but the detail with the fetish arm-thingy with an open side and ribbons. Yeah, pictures will explain better:
I think they arrived at the center stage as Yume Monogatari started. I think somewhere before this, as they were still in the flying cages, there was some kind of firework thingy going off and they were caught in a rain of sparkly fireworks or something. It looked very pretty.
Anyway, I thiiiink they were still at the center stage for the rest of Yume Monogatari, because I think they stood there doing the dance. Then it was time for VENUS, which was also on the center stage. Gah, they looked soooo good in the white outfits. *_* (The photos from above are both from Venus!)
After Venus, it was time for Jikan Ryoko which, well, they sang it. Somewhere. hahahaaa, so many impressions, everything is blurring together. XD Anyway, they sang this song and it's cute and sweet and they walked form the center stage towards the back stage where they ended it and then they suddenly just... disappeared. I was a bit wtf, for a while there on the first day and wondered where they'd gone to.
It turned out it was time for their kouhai's to perform Can Do Can Go, which is a song I really love! And I think it was Kisumai and abc-z who performed it. Maybe. It was cute, with the original dance and everything. During the Can Do Can Go performance, a bunch of short video clips of takitsuba and others from when they were still juniors were playing. We could see takitsuba, Aiba, Sho, Matsujun, Yamapi... I think we could even see Kohara Yuki for a second! ♥
After the Can do Can Go corner, it was time for Takki's solo corner. (the solo corners started so soon... after only about 20 minutes. O_O One of the reason I think they were really having a difficult time planning these events to manage to get the time to fit everything in. ^^;;;)
Anyway, Takki started with what I think must be his favorite solo - Kimagure JET! He arrived on a small 4-wheeler and drove from the mainstage and towards the center stage where he stopped, got his pink pom poms, and started doing the usual Kimagure JET dance that NEVER STOPS BEING CUTE. It's so much fun. : DDD And Takki looks more than adorable, doing it! :333 I think this might be my favorite solo of his as well ha ha. (Not couting Kareha no Kage, which I've never seen live... so that one doesn't count!) I loved the outfit for his solo, those insanely sparkly pants. ♥
After finishing Kimagure JET he did WORDS OF LOVE, and I love that song as well. For his solo part, he was wearing his super sparkly golden pants, and the black jacket and top with lots of sparkles.
The dance was really great and hot, and he did parts of it on top of the 4 wheeler, where in time to the music, him, ABC-Z and Kisumai started humping the air. They all did in in sync to the beat of the music, except for the 2nd day where they all one time paused and I think Tsukada from ABC-Z was the only one to do it, and they all smacked him on the head for it. XD
As WORDS OF LOVE were still ending a bunch of "bad guys" on motorcycles came out and started driving around the arena. There were ramps placed out at different places in the arena, so they did a few tricks where they flew up in the air and stuff. In true Johnny's fashion, a story with absolutely no plot whatsoever started, and the motorcycles started hunting Takki, and kisumai/abc-z would call out things like, "Takki, be careful". Then they drove around for a bit until they caught him as they were up on the main stage and had a fight where Takki beat them up... but then they started hunting him again on the 4 wheeler, and Takki got speed on it and went up on the biggest ramp that was placed on the right side of the arena, then he flew high up in the air and then... tadaaa, disappeared. Or fell down. Or something, idk. As I said, no sense was made in Johnny's. Ever.
Right after him disappearing, Takki appeared on the center stage suddenly, and started to sing Kiseki, the beautiful piano version! He sang most of it by himself, but then after a while, Tamamori from kisumai joined him and they sang parts of it together while someone, idk who, was playing the piano. Then Takki got some kind of wires strapped onto his belt or whatever, and suddenly he was flying. He was also holding this big silver stick (very phallic, mind you!) in his right hand, as he was raised up in the air, doing a heroic pose and flying towards the top end of the main stage!
... Takizaaa....
Then as the music to Kiseki was still playing, he set fire to his silver stick, and then also lit up a giant olympic fire on top of the backstage. This sounds a bit silly, but at the same time as he lit the fire, this huge cage/construction thingy was lit up. There was two of them, one on each side od the stage, and in them was 55 (on each side) little "rooms" for a junior, who all stood in one of these things dancing. It looked suuuper pretty and wow! *___* As everything - the fire, the jr boxes, everything - was lit up simultaneously - te whole audience went "Ooohhhhhhh!" at once. It was so gorgeous!
And you can trust Takizawa Hideaki to recreate the Olympic opening with fire at a concert ha ha ha.
After this extravagaza, it was time for Tsubasa's solo corner, presented by Nakayama Yuma. He started on the main stage, but on this moving see through platform - the ones they often use for countdown, I think? He was with a couple of his kouhais, I'm not sure how many... but they were standing in a V formation, so there was at least a couple of them. They were all carrying big flags with "ALA" printed on them. (Ala is "Tsubasa/Wings" in Spanish.)
Tsubasa was wearing his long black army style jacket (the same as the one he wore for Playzone when he performed Diamond, I think?) with the red fabric on the inside and he looked gorgeoouuusss. I think he wore his hair in a ponytail for the 2nd day, but not for the first? Or the other way around.
They did a sort of march on the moving platform (I think it was pretty similar to the one Travis Payne coreographed for Michale Jackson's This is It tour, for the They Don't Really care About Us song.) It was really stunning, and powerful to watch. Tsubasa did many MJ'esque types of poses (it seems MJ is his in thing for the moment!). At the end of the march (when the platform had reached the center stage), Tsubasa would do these cool poses where he pointed first to his right and BANG, an explosion would go off from where at he was pointing. And then he'd point to his left and BANG, an exlosion from that direction. And then he did a super hot move while pointing to his front, and BANG a whole lot of massive explosions would go off to signal the start of.... GET DOWN.
The first thing that hit me with this was WOW, how much Tsubasa has really really grown since their debut. He's changed so much, and grown so much and his voice is So Much Better now. It makes me so proud to be his fan. ;___; The difference in his voice was really wow, and you can totally tell how hard he's worked in his vocal lessons.
After Get Down, he did Axel on the center stage, starting out with a few flamenco moves. I know he stood at the spot and did that move where he stomps one of his feet and claps his hands above his head while turning. It looked gorgeous. Then he started performing it and ahhh, I love this song - and this dance - so much.
After Axel, it was time for the first kouhai section. ABC-Z started by performing a song. It was cute, and they performed it on the back stage, so pretty close to us for the 1st day! :D Kawai's hair was sort of strange, but they were all really happy and energetic. I'm not sure what the song is called but they were singing about stars a lot, so stars something I presume?
Then it was time for Kis-My-Ft2 and ahhh I really really like this group. They performed She!Her!Her! which I absolutely love. Fujigaya looked gorgeous. ♥
After these two songs, takitsuba were back on stage again. It was time for KAMEN, and woah, their outfits here. *_* They came out on stage, wearing black suits. Takki's was a regular black suit (I think they both were in a sort of velvet-y fabric?) with blazer and a yellow sparkly shirt. And Tsubasa... his blazer was insaaanely low cut and he was wearing NOTHING AT ALL UNDER IT. On both days you could seriously hear how the audience took in a sharp breath, all at once. XDDD Then there was a couple of strangled noises, I think some of them might've been from me ha ha haaa. His hair was in a pony tail again and he was wearing a black hat and ahhh, I have no words to describe how yummy he looked. *_*
And I have to mention this here, because Tsubasa has really been on FIRE lately. IDK if they're just isnanely happily married right now and he's really comfortable with his body, or he's already started working out and training hard for the BURN THE FLOOR shows, but there is just SOMETHING about Tsubasa when he dances right now. I've seen him live many, many times, and I've seen trampy Tsubasa before, but the dancing he does now has reached like... a whole new level of sluttyness. *__* It's all hips, hips, hips, and slinky moves and crotch grabbing and hip rolls and rolling of hips and butt and hips hips hiippppssss. oh my god. *___________*
Right as Kamen ended, they started with One Day One Dream. I think they were on the raised cranes for this one, because I have a picture in my head of Takki waving his towel and not throwing it down to the people below him. XDDD Takki also knows the art of trolling, very well! >___< Probably learned it from Tsubasa, I want to recall that those horrible dokkirir's on the jr's didn't start until he and Tsubasa started to work together again after the hiatus...
After One Day one Dream, they went back to the small stages on either side of the arena, on the runways, to do To be or not To Be. And Tsubasa was on the other side from where I was sitting buuuutttt, his hips were completely out of control for this one! There kept coming strangled noises from the audience during this song, because somewhere during it he opened up the blazer completely and ahhh, his chest and his tiny waist ahhhh he looked so perfect. Kept grabbing his crotch and swipe his blazer back on purpose to show off his body and waahh. I couldn't tear my eyes away, seriously. I couldn't tell you a second of what Takki was doing during this song because my eronoculars were glued to Tsubasa's hips, butt and crotch during the whole thing. Takki was probably dancing as well. Or oogling Tsubasa, we will probably never know.
Also need to mention that Tsubasa's pants were riding reaaaaally low on his hips. *________* I don't know how I survived this outfit/performance, seeeriousllyyyyyy.
Here came Ai Check It! and it was sooo strange. I think they did the song in... carts at first? IDK. But then they went back down and went into bigger cages or something? They were both in one cage each and the cages were raised really high up.I think Kitayama from kisumai was with Takki in his and Fujigaya?? with Tsubasa? I'm not sure, I couldn't really tell. I just know that Fujigaya did the rap for Ai Check it, so I'm pretty sure he was in one of the cages.
Anyway, they were up in these cages and suddenly something "went wrong" and the cages stopped moving and started wobbling or something... and then suddenly the doors to Tsubasa's cage opened (Tsubasa's cage was muuuuuch closer to the ground that Takki's, btw...) and then he... fell out? To this big soft air mattress or something. We all yelled, because it looked scary. And I did a double take because Tsubasa is so afraid of heights!! ;_;
Then it was Takki's turn... Kitayama yelled something like, "Takki, are you okay!" but did nothing to try and help him as he slid out of the cage, hanging from it wriggling and kicking... and then he fell down, and oh my god, it looked TERREFYING because it was a fall from SO high up! ;_; I know I was covering my mouth with my hands and penlight and was holding my breath the entire time. Then Takki asked Tsubasa if he was alright, Tsubasa answered "Un, daijoubu~" and then suddenly... Ho!Summer started.
And this was a really fun, different take on Ho!Summer that I really loved!! It was something different from what they've ever done before!
They came out in tiny boats, shaped like logs, going on these water "slides" or whatever you could call it. Around them water was sprouting all over them and the setting! :D Then to add to all that was cute and lovely, Tsubasa was in his boat in only bath trunks!! So, completely shirtless, and doing all he could do get wet, putting his head in the bursts of water and doing to furitsuke moves in the water and everything... he did EVERYTHING he could to get into the water!
... while Takki did his best NOT to get wet. XDDD He was soooooooooooo cute during this. For the first day, he was wearing the white concert T-shirt, pink checkered swimming trunks a big swimming ring (PINK!) and an umbrella (PINK!). The second day, he defied his nipple complex and came out shirtless! ♥
1st day Takki:
2nd day Takki:
Takki was so cute dancing in his boat with his umbrella. He was smiling so much! Somewhere along the line, a gazillion juniors came running out also dancing along, all wearing swimming trunks ha ha haaa. XDDD
The funniest thing, though! My friend told me that a few days later, during their concert in Fukushima Takki told the audience something funny during the MC! Appearently, during one of the dome performances of Ho!Summer, while they were changing into their Ho!Summer outfits Takki kept looking for his underwear... but he couldn't find them, and being super stressed, he didn't have the time to keep searching for them... so he had to put on his swimming trunks without anything under them and head out to perform the song! He said he couldn't let loose and play around as much as he wanted to during the song because he didn't feel comfortable while not wearing any pantsu. XDDD
(OMG, I just realized... this also mean he did one of the MC's like this ha ha haaa, Takizaaaa!!! XDDDD)
After they ended the MC and went back to change again, though, he finally found his underwear... it turns out that Tsubasa was wearing them!!! Tsubasa made an innocent look and denied stealing them, because appearently it was the staff who had laid out all the clothes. So he didn't know. But then he said that this would explain why he felt like the underwear was too snug for him ha ha haaa. OMG, Tsubasa. ^^;;;;;;;;;;;;;
After Ho!Summer the big carts going around dome came out and they went into one each. Hito natsu No... were starting! ♥♥♥ Tsubasa put on his leopard print bathrobe for this and as he went into the cart he lost the lyrics and it went completely quiet for a while! XDDD Soooo cute. I don't remember if it was the first or the 2nd day he forgot the lyrics but he did so one of those days.
Then it continued onto Love Spiral which I always think of as an encore song, so it was a bit strange to hear it in the middle of a concert. XD But it's always fun to wave your arms to. XD
The carts moved back to the main stage, where they did the MC part in these very casual outfits. Tsubasa in swimming trunk and bathrobe, and Takki in pink trunks (minus underwear for one day!) and a white con t-shirt. :3333
The MC's were pretty hilarious, especially on the 2nd day!
Both days are kind of blurred in my memory, so I'm just going to list some of the highlights that I can remember. I know they started promoting the new cosme make up. They were talking about how a new line of cosme make up were going to be on sale on September 11 - Cosme Premium, and how they were also going to release a special "Takitsuba anniversary make up kit". They showed the powder box on the first day, and Takki showed a picture of the two of them that came included with the powder! He was saying things like, "So if you put this picture in the powder box, you can always have us with you and you can even see takitsuba while you're doing your make up!" as he put the photo in the same place as a mirror will usually be. On the 2nd day they also showed a lipbalm stick with takitsuba's picture on them.
The takitsuba make up is really really pretty!!
On both days, Takki pretended to use the powder, pretending to put it on his face with a really cute expression. He'd have the powder box opened, and then he'd look at the mirror/takitsuba picture in it, and then pretend to take the powder pad and putting it on his face. He looked super adorable. Tsubasa also pretended to help by going in to pat his face. XDDD The audience hyuuu~ed them. A lot.
It made me happy, because it really felt like they had to tone down the rabu rabu level during these events, since there were so many fans of other groups there as well... so every time the fans hyuu'ed them I got really happy. XD
They started both MC's by themselves, to have their kouhai's join them later on. They talked about how it's their 10th anniversary, of course, and how they are releasing a new album. How so many of their fans must've been their fans for a long time, because they released a special "request cd", and the fans voted their pre debut song "Real DX" for the number one popular song, and that's a song that's been with them since before the debut.
They talked about the past 10 years, about their fans and how grateful they are for everything. And when Takki asked about what has changed, Tsubasa answered that he "Likes Takizawa even more now". ♥ Takki giggled and smiled embarrassedly, looking super shy. ♥♥♥
They talked about some general promotions as well, and I think Tsubasa talked about Burn the Floor for a bit. Said he's happy and honoured for the opportinity.
The best part of the MC's must've been the part where Tsubasa started talking about them doing a drama again. XDDD They talked about how they when they were really young were in the school "drama" Kaiki Club. Tsubasa said that maybe they should do another Kaiki Club, and asked if we all wanted to see them in school uniforms. Everyone hyuued them like crazy, while Takki were doing more of his scandalized sounds and flails behind Tsubasa. Everyone said they wanted to see them in school uniforms. Tsubasa kept going on and on about them, saying maybe it should be the girls sailor school uniforms that they're wearing. XD
"We want to see~!" we all yelled, of course.
Then there was something about how it could also be a romance drama, and Takki was, like, "A love story? Between us?" And Tsubasa was all, "Of course. There is only two of us~♥"
"WE WANT TO SEEEE~!" We all screamed like mad, again.
After a while, the kouhai's all came out. ABC-Z had a pretty big part of it, and they're all hilarious. XD Tsubasa and Hasshi had this really fun anecdote from when they were in Playzone. Appearently, they had a special way to greet each other in the mornings. They debated whether they should do it right there on stage now, to show everyone, and in the end they decided to do it.
And they just... they did this whole thing with a sort of sing-song-voice and with overly cute, simpering expressions. It was so cute.
Tsubasa: "Good morning, Hashiyama-kun~♥"
Hasshi: "Good morning, Tsubayama-san~♥"
Tsu/Hasshi: "Yoroshiku!"
It was so random and ODD, but so so cute. XD Takki looked very charmed as well. XD
Another kouhai who got a lot of time in the spotlight was Nakayama Yuma! And, wow, I have gotten such a good impression of this kid! He seems so sweet, kind, hardworking and humble!! I'm totally impressed! :3 It seems like takitsuba really likes him as well. Because they harrassed him SO much, looool! XDD It started already on the first event, where they said that Yuma has worked closely with both of them, since he's been in Playzone and Kakumei. Then they asked him who he likes the most, Takki or Tsubasa.
Poor Yuma said he couldn't choose one. He likes both the same amount. They're both kind senpai's, or something, that's helped him and taken care of him. So he couldn't choose one. But they kept insisting, but he still didn't give an answer, so they said they'd get back to him later. The first day it ended with him saying he liked the one with the letter "T" in their name. LOL. Poor Yuma. XD
The second day, it was hilaaarious, because they'd been talking about somethign else and then suddenly I think it was Takki who started it with a random "YUMA! We're not letting you off that easily this time!" and they kept nagging him about who he liked more. XD And after having bugged him about it for a loong time, he eventually answered that his favorite is "Imai Hideaki!", in a slightly panicked voice. I felt sooo sorry for him, lol! XDDD
At some point, right before the end of the MC, where everyone had (purposely, I think? XD) ignored parts of kisumai, they were all, "Hey!! Don't forget about us!" and Tsubasa kept teasing them and bunching them together and called them all "Nikaido-tachi". XD Everyone kept lol'ing at them. XD
There was also a funny story that I didn't really listen to (after takitsuba had left to go backstage and change for their next song). It was something about kisumai having been in Hokkaido during the coldest part of winter, and someone had locked someone outside in the cold. I think Fujigaya were the guilty one ha ha ha. XDD maybe it was Miyata who was locked outside, I'm not sure?
There are so many things I'm forgetting about the MC, booh. X_X
Let's move on anyhow. ;_; As I mentioned, takitsuba disappeared to change outfits for the last few minutes of the MC. They came back in the black outfits from before, the one where Tsubasa didn't wear anything under the blazer. He still didn't wear anything under it, and all was glorious. They had a short MC part again, where they on the first day did a super short takitsuba call - it never really caught on, I'm not sure what happened... but they were suddenly gripping each others hands, and trying to push at the other one, or something? It was a sort of battle, where they then started to try and, idk, push at each other or something? And then Takki did it - dived in and first put his palm flat on Tsubasa's bare chest and then i think he tried to pinch his nipple!! Everyone hyuuu'ed them, and Tsubasa looked slightly shocked, rubbing at his chest, and Takki looked super pleased with himself.
Sadly I don''t have a photo of nipple grabbing, only of them later on skipping merrily together.
And here was the time for the ballad corner. They sang True Heart! I as talking with my friends before the show, wondering if they would even sing True Heart, and I was wondering if they even hated it. XD It's so strange how they haven't been singing this at all for so many years - there must be a reason. But anyway they did sing it here. ♥ And it's such a lovely song. And again I was floored by how much their voices have changed though the years, you could really really tell the difference from the old recordings compared to how their voices sounds now. On the first day they did Heartful Voice, which right now is my favorite single by them. It really is such a gorgeous, melodic song and their voices blend so well together and the harmonizing is gorgeous. The 2nd day they sang You&I instead of Heartful voice. And You&I is also one of the prettiest songs they've got. The lyrics and the melody is lovely. It was great to hear this song live - I don't think they've performed it for years and years, right? So it made me really really happy to get to hear it live! ♥ Good choice, boys!
Oops. I broke LJ. If you want to read the 2nd part, you can do so: HERE!