King KinKi Kids 2011-2012 Tokyo Dome 3rd Day concert Report
King KinKi Kids
2012.01.01 Report
★ I was staying at over rin_neechan's house during the concerts so in the morning we already had all the goods and stuff we needed, which we decided not to leave so early this time. (Because I only had skirts with me and it was freezing haha!) But I wanted to meet a Machida fan I know who found out she can make it to the concert afterall, so we got out slightly early. Just as we were about to leave, there was a big earthquake (M7).
★ Once we got there, I noticed this awesome thing. The people in the hotel near the Tokyo Dome had put out many uchiwas and message boards in their windows, from 剛♥ to a ferrari towel hahaha.
Here is a picture hopefully you can see it because I'm lazy to upload it to other picture platforms
★ So I met my fan friend and gave her one of the tapes I caught from the time I was at Arena seats. MA fans sticking together!! And afterwards I went to meet Rin in our seats at gate 20. The thing with our seats that we were right under lights that are always on. Kind of sucky at first but once you get used to it, it's not so bad. Also while we were at the corner, it was 1st floor so we got great view of the stage.
★ The girls few steps ahead of me had 4 uchiwas that spelled Unko (a picture of poop). I just thought they were awesome. Then I saw the back and it was for Yuuchans. I thought they were even more awesome. (Then during the concert they shouted for Yonehana with me, from that moment on they were epic.)
★ The woman who talked before the concerts talked even longer this time, explaining there were cameras, if we felt bad we should go out etc etc. There were a lot of security people too. Speaking of unrelated things to the concert, I saw many cosplaying kids that I thought were adorable. Most of the cosplayers were from Endless SHOCK and KinKi has really really hot male fans who all look like Tsuyoshi.
★ The concert starts with Time, Koichi and Tsuyoshi against this huge clock and they are moving around it. The clock comes out to the main stage first and then moves towards the arena seats and above them, carrying them to the center stage. It was really awesome and Tsuyoshi was leaning against the back, holding on to the sides. The thing with the clock is that it's laying down first so it goes from _ to L, I don't know if I can explain it well. But I thought it was really awesome. MA and 4U and dancers come out wearing these silver black alien type of clothes and I think dancers have these weird head things over their head. It's the first song so MA and 4u walk towards the center stage, on the K's, and at the end they all lie down not moving.
★ The next song is Love in the phi. They're still dancing on the K shaped midways while KinKi is on the center stage. They take off the head stuff. It's really cool because the whole audience (almost) knows the choreography. The penlights looked really cool.
★ at Bonnie Butterfly, MA and 4U are going to go main stage. They had plenty of time to interact with the audience so at the pauses of this song, they waved and smiled at the audience. It was really, really cute.
★ Family~hitotsu ni naru koto~. I think KinKi was also on the main stage at this song. The screen was showing Tokyo streets and random people moving but I thought it would be much cooler if the cameras had shown the audience. It would be really moving and KinKi like, but they didn't do it. Maybe they hadn't thought of it or thought it was too cliche. Then again fangirls love cliche so...
★ Right before Family starts and there are solo dances from all of MA and 4U. It's nothing energetic or breakdancing like, but more emotional. It ends with Maachin who is on the main stage, looking all angsty and sitting on one of the stairs at the side. The screens had a zoom in on his face ♥ The pretty man. Maachin's dance was different each time, slightly more improvised. It was really cool. The theme for the concert of 1st, nanan resembled it to "praying". I don't understand much of dancing so I'll wait for the DVD to watch it better. I was kind of going like MaachinMaachinMaachin in my mind to clearly remember the details.
★ Kimi to boku no naka de. 4U and MA wear colorful satin shirts for this one. I could immediately spot Yara in Red because he is moving all around. They are all at the higher stage on the main, walking around. Machida was wearing blue and Yone was wearing Orange. The choreography was really funny with a lot of walking and moving. At one point during the dance Koichi was looking at Machida and they were playing around together. One of the 4U guys and Yaracchi was back-to-back and I'm guessing it was Matsuzaki but I'm not sure, he put Yaracchi up on his back and Yara was throwing his legs up and around. It was really funny but it was for like 3-4 seconds.
★ Tsuyoshi's solo dance! I remember thinking each time, God Tsuyoshi's such a good dancer. A few years ago KinKi didn't even bother to dance much hahaha so I was kind of surprised to see it. He was really cool and MA soon appeared from the back to dance together with him. It was a really rare collaboration since usually Ma was always behind Koichi, even during KinKi concerts, if Koichi was moving to the left of the stage with half the dancers, all of MA was definitely behind him and the Dancers were with Tsuyoshi (this concert too.) But during this solo dance TsuyoshixMA collaboration was really cool. MA were wearing black suits and hats if I don't remember wrong.
★After Tsuyoshi's solo dance was Koichi's laser dance. A big green laser light and Koichi moves his hand up and around it to make it move with the music. He slashes it into two, makes it go up and down etc. It looked really cool.
★Negau ijou no koto, inoru ijou no koto. What a long name for a song. But anyway, in this song they are wearing these Irish like clothes, it's what Nanan said, I don't remember what they were wearing at all hahaha. I don't remember anything interesting about this stage.
★Ne ganbaru yo, MA and Yuuchans move to center stage with KinKi again.
★Eien no BLOODS, Fukuchan and Maachin was having a staring contest. They were looking really serious until they broke it off and then they were laughing, it was adorable.
★MC time! MA and Yuuchans went backstage after the song ended and KinKi introduced themselves. There was a huge cake on the big screen behind and Tsuyoshi made Koichi put the fire on for the candles. But he has to do it really seriously or it won't work. So Koichi tries it halfassed , which it doesn't work. And Tsuyoshi teases him like, do it for serious! Don't fool around. Eventually Koichi manages to put the candles on, and Tsuyoshi then tells him to put them off. Everryone laughs. Koichi protest why does he do all the work, but does it anyway.
★ After he successfully puts off the candles of the image, Tsuyoshi tells him to cut the cake, so Koichi does his best, adding a lot of energy and doing slashing motions. But it never works. After a minute or two, Tsuyoshi paused and said "oh sorry, it's just an image, you can't cut it." Koichi was like, FML!
★ So MA and Yuuchans finally come out with the cake!! They were also wearing either glasses or hats of happy birthday. Yara had happy birthday glasses and Yone had a birthday cake hat.
★ I messed the timing a bit but Tsuyoshi was at first wearing this birthday hat that looked a bit like cake and had candles on the sides and I'm sure you might have seen the pictures of it already. Well, the deal with the hat was that it moved from side to side and it was programmed to sing a birthday song. TO KOICHI. It literally went (music) Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Kouchan, Happy birthday to you (music) while swaying around. Tsuyoshi put a mic to it and made us all listen. Then he said we should sing with it, but do it really quietly so we can also hear the hat.
★ The result? 55000 people at once whispering really quietly with a hat singing "happy birthday kouchan". It was super cool.
★ The hat Tsuyoshi was wearing should be moving side to side but Tsuyoshi is wearing it wrong so when the song ends, the hat is falling towards his eyes, because it was moving back and front instead. Koichi makes fun of him saying his hat always ends up falling on his face.
★Tsuyoshi makes Koichi wear the hat and Koichi plays around with it a lot.
★Back to when MA came on stage, they appear to be the God of Cake! The 7 of them pose around the strawberry cake like they're Buddha or an Indian God something hahaha. Tsuyoshi thanks the Gods and they break the pose, showing off the cake.
★Tsuyoshi had already given his gift (the hat) but it's not the only thing. He says recently Koichi is really into games, so he had gotten him a game related present and hands him a small bag. Koichi looks at it and doesn't show us, in return making us all go, Show us Show us!
★ It's red pants for emergency : http://cuw.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=39&PHPSESSID=2k9udbqebpng8ujuqitgrhd7f5 this one to be precise! Koichi shows us the kanji one by one and cracks us up. Someone close to my seat shouted out "Wear it!" but they didn't hear, a shame.
★ It's not the only gift so Tsuyoshi gives him another bag, saying it's because Koichi likes games. To which Kouchan goes, ohhhh this one I can actually use though! It's a hair tonic. hahahah.
★ His last gift is a really big package, and everyone gets curious. Tsuyoshi says it's quite big too, because Kouchan likes games. Koichi opens it fearing the worst. It's LIFE, the board game. Kouchan is like, I don't have anyone to play this with! So Tsuyoshi says you can play it with these guys ( MA&4U) and turning to yuuchans he goes "You can change your occupation with this." Kouchan says "But I don't want to change my occupation." In the end they decide to play it in Fukuoka (Jinsei game instead of trump cards hahaha! I want to know how that turns out)
★Kouchan is really upset with the gifts because he can't use them (playfully) so he says I don't need these gifts. These guys (MA&4U) actually got me something really cool though.
★The gift from MA&4U is the latest model of an air cleaner.
★Last gift from Tsuyoshi is , ofcourse, a writing. 毛無 (Readen as Ge-mu (Game) literally meaning No-hair.) Maachin carries it to stage and he's all smiley-smiley.
★Speaking of the cake, Tsuyoshi and MA&Yuuchans started a meeting while making Koichi light up his own cake. To which Koichi is like, what is this, self service on my birthday....
★I actually forgot to include the cake MC ahhaa. Well, adding this here. Koichi looks at all the strawberries and starts to eat them really really quickly. And Kosshi (I hope it was Kosshi or Eru will kill me for mistaking the names of Yuuchans) shows that he can eat just as quickly. Seeing this Matsuzaki brings his face in between Kouchan and Kosshi, counting how many strawberries they're eating. Tsuyoshi says "Yonesan, aren't you going to do the thing you always do?" So it's STRAWBERRY TIME. While Kou and Kosshi eat and Matsuzaki counts them, the others walk around them in a circle going strawberrytimestrawberrytime. It was hilarious.
★In the end it was a draw with 27 strawberries. hahaha. Kosshi was really fast in eating.
★From then on, the topic of countdown! Koichi talks about Andalucia! During Andalucia, He is standing right next to Matchysan, and there was a moment where they throw their jackets down and pick it up with their teeth right? At that time, Matchy san isn't moving and he's too close to Koichi so he is troubled where to throw his jacket without hitting Matchysan. He gets really troubled there but manage it somehow after long and difficult process (which we don't realize at all at the real show, what a pro!). After listening to Koichi go on and on about how Matchysan was so close to him so he couldn't dance easily, Tsuyoshi looks at him and says ; "In other words Matchy-san was being a hindrance." To which Koichi stops and fails because no, that is not what he meant (but it exactly sound like it.)
★After that it's still Andalucia talk. Koichi throws his hat somewhere and loses it during the dance. It seems that his hat flew all the way to where Yone is ♥ Yonehana actually has a mic and confirms this epic moment. "I got it and danced like this." And he renacted the scene by dancing it. Tsuyoshi and Koichi look at him amazed. I think it was Tsuyoshi who said "It's really impressive you could do that right on the spot."
★Speaking of Countdown, I want to include the topic of Leader. It's hilarious, Leader is seriously very kind. So because Leader can't dance, Tsuyoshi and Leader are playing the guitars right? At the time they go out, Tsuyoshi is playing his guitar going all cool-face moment! And he looks back because Leader is taking too long to see that he's going out from backstage while letting Jr's pass first or paying attention to not hit anyone.
★Speaking of leader, he had a really early morning job the day they went to Hatsumoude. So while usually Leader is the one who gives money to Koichi so he can properly visit the temple, this time he wasn't there so Koichi had no money. Tsuyoshi says that he's 33 now, he should properly bring his own money. Koichi says he will, he will next time. So Tsuyoshi asks him what he did next and who he got the money from? Koichi apparently looked all around and asked the first person he had eye contact with, who was his manager.
★Koichi's praying pattern was 1-1-1 (100 yen, 100 yen, 100 yen) Tsuyoshi says it's not bad, or 100 yen, 300yen 100 yen is good too. Or maybe 5-5-5 since 5yen is lucky. Tsuyoshi asks why Koichi went witht he 100 yen pattern and Kouchan laughs all sheepishly saying "Because I received only 300 yen from manager" HAHAHA. Beggars can't be choosers.
★Back to Yonehana though he is so quick at thinking. He can also pick up stuff that fell down while putting it in the choreography or good at following adlib. God I love him ♥
★Koichi is still wearing the dancing singing hat but he doesn't want it so it's the auction joke again. He says who wants it and all of MA and Yuuchans raise their hands going Me me me, and people in the audience raise their hands too. Koichi gives up and says nah I'll keep it ♥
★I don't remember the rest of the MC much but I'll add it if I remember more. I hope we'll see it all in the DVD.
★Dousoukai! This song they have this whole stage of funny stuff going on and I never get to realize all of it. Yaracchi has a bouquet of flowers confessing to someone. Maachin is late for an appointment and going "I'm sorry!!!". I remember I saw Yonehana hugging someone, but nanan couldn't see it, so I'm not sure. I could check other reports but I'm lazy hahah (fail reporter) ! If you heard of it, please let me know too! Well they all have fun during this song. Like in the 31st concert Koichi had kicked Matsuzaki. In the first, he was riding someone. A part of the stage is moving so they all run on it or play around, it's hilarious. Yuuchans are really energetic.
★Before the Passion song MA has a solo dance part. They are on the upper stage and the three of them dance amazing. I have been keysmashing in my mind the whole 3 days. I can't wait to see it in the DVD. It's very Yaracchi like so I was suspecting it was him who made the choreography. Yuuchans dance on the lower stage while the stage with MA goes dark and then they all dance together until KinKi comes up and sings.
★2nd movement was the next song but I don't remember anything specific about it. Also I'm sorry but this song is so boring even though watching the dance is fun.
★Destination. MA was really cute at dancing to it. The member introductions were during this song I think. They first introduce the band, then dancers. While they introduce with the group name, everyones names come up on the screen behind them, it looks really cool. KinKi introduces 4U first. Then Yonehana, Machida and Yara ♥ YoneYara danced acrobatic while Maachin did his robotic breaking dance thing.
★99% Liberty! I love this song, it makes me so excited.
★Somewhere in the middle of the set list there is a part where the guitarists come out in the stage and MA, 4U and KinKi go all worshipping hahhaa. I don't know how to explain it. Like they play air guitar or headbang. This concert though, diffferent from the ones behind, MA and 4U dropped to their knees and like moved their head in circular motions? (Think of HAIR choreography of Kisumai). It was so sexy I stopped breathing for a moment. Ofcourse I have to admit I was staring at Yaracchi all the time.
★The encore was Bokura no senaka ni wa hane ga aru. KinKi came out in those baloons again. This time I had no eye contact hahaha. The first two days I made them but my seat was kind of in an awkward place this time. It was OK though. Tsuyoshi was at our side but Koichi didn't make it there.
★Last Greetings! Bullying Yuuchans again. I'm afraid I don't remember the names they made for them. This time, I really took too long to write this report haha. It's probably out there somewhere though or you can wait for the DVD!
★Again the MA introductions were Yonehanasan, Machidasan and Yarasan. I screamed as loud as I can but I doubt it reached them hahaha.
★After introducing Yara, Koichi called him back again and Yaracchi came out looking all cute and happy. Koichi said that Yara was one of the choreographer assistants for SHOCK this year and there was an amazing reaction of people going uwaaaaa! Yaracchi looked all smiley and he went backstage. I was about to cry hahaha. I'm so proud of him!
★No one sat back down after they said goodbye and goodnight and we all went KinKi, KinKi, KinKi. The security at the arena seats were trying to get everyone to sit down and the usual woman speaking through the concert hall was going "please don't rush out" (which was funny because no one wanted to leave anyway). Wel it was kind of obvious there won't be only one encore at the last day but it was still very cool when they came out. Koichi was wearing the birthday day!
★They sang Secret Code and it was amazing! I love Secret Code. Everyone knew the choreography to this one too, and Yuuchans and MA were all around the stage waving the silver tapes around, getting the fans to jump up with them and High Tension.
★At one point Koichi made his hat sing and dance, And surrounding Koichi was Maachin, Yonehana, Kosshi and Matsuzaki. They mimicked the hat and were swaying with it , it was really cute.
★After Yone and Kosshi jumped to the side stages, Machida was about to follow them when Matsuzaki gave him a tape going like, if you want it please use it. So Maachin took it and was all Kyaaa Kyaaaa! Going to quote nanan on this one saying "which one of you is the older one?!" hahaha.
★At the last talks, Koichi finishes and everyone is listening seriously and moved and everything, he mentions the earthquake in the morning and hopes that it will remind us to stay as one.
★But when it's Tsuyoshi's time to speak, Kouchan can't stay still and he's like a little kid, staring up his hat and while Tsuyoshi is trying to talk, the audience is holding themselves back while secretly giggling. Tsuyoshi notices this and looks at Koichi all at this "mother" look, like can you please stay still for one minute.
★Koichi acts all cheeky and nods but once Tsuyoshi starts to speak again, he is still not staying still, now making weird moves while trying to stay still, playing with the tapes at his feet, getting us to giggle again.
★Eventually , in a miracle way, Tsuyoshi manages to finish the concert hahahaha.
★ I really can't wait for the DVD. There are a lot I remember but not so detailed so I can't put it to words, and I want to see MA more close. I had been using this really cheap binoculars so they really weren't much helpful.
This was the concert report for Kouchans birthday concert! After the concert was done, we all left and got out. It was really crowded outside. The exit gates of Tokyo Dome is amazing, the wind is super strong. During August I found it hilarious the girls would go Kyaaaa but this time I was also wearing a short skirt so it was not as funny hahahah! Well they were shouting please hold on to your scarves, glasses, hats! before you go out. A lot of people were staring at my MA uchiwa when we left because I didn't have the time to get dressed inside the concert hall. After we left, we stopped by the conbini because the train station always gets so crowded, and then seperated. I went back to my room and turned on the heater because omg Rins house was freezing!! hahaha.
Coming up next, Look at Star cross interview and Yone's Jweb translations. I'll do them soon, I swear.
PS. Here is another report of the same day by iceblueaya. She remembers the KinKi parts more detailed (since I'm not embarrassed to admit I was staring at MA all through the concert and have no proper recollection of anything else.)
Kind of related while kind of not but I'm always kind of upset when KinKi fans don't care about MA :( Is it just me?
2012.01.01 Report
★ I was staying at over rin_neechan's house during the concerts so in the morning we already had all the goods and stuff we needed, which we decided not to leave so early this time. (Because I only had skirts with me and it was freezing haha!) But I wanted to meet a Machida fan I know who found out she can make it to the concert afterall, so we got out slightly early. Just as we were about to leave, there was a big earthquake (M7).
★ Once we got there, I noticed this awesome thing. The people in the hotel near the Tokyo Dome had put out many uchiwas and message boards in their windows, from 剛♥ to a ferrari towel hahaha.
Here is a picture hopefully you can see it because I'm lazy to upload it to other picture platforms
★ So I met my fan friend and gave her one of the tapes I caught from the time I was at Arena seats. MA fans sticking together!! And afterwards I went to meet Rin in our seats at gate 20. The thing with our seats that we were right under lights that are always on. Kind of sucky at first but once you get used to it, it's not so bad. Also while we were at the corner, it was 1st floor so we got great view of the stage.
★ The girls few steps ahead of me had 4 uchiwas that spelled Unko (a picture of poop). I just thought they were awesome. Then I saw the back and it was for Yuuchans. I thought they were even more awesome. (Then during the concert they shouted for Yonehana with me, from that moment on they were epic.)
★ The woman who talked before the concerts talked even longer this time, explaining there were cameras, if we felt bad we should go out etc etc. There were a lot of security people too. Speaking of unrelated things to the concert, I saw many cosplaying kids that I thought were adorable. Most of the cosplayers were from Endless SHOCK and KinKi has really really hot male fans who all look like Tsuyoshi.
★ The concert starts with Time, Koichi and Tsuyoshi against this huge clock and they are moving around it. The clock comes out to the main stage first and then moves towards the arena seats and above them, carrying them to the center stage. It was really awesome and Tsuyoshi was leaning against the back, holding on to the sides. The thing with the clock is that it's laying down first so it goes from _ to L, I don't know if I can explain it well. But I thought it was really awesome. MA and 4U and dancers come out wearing these silver black alien type of clothes and I think dancers have these weird head things over their head. It's the first song so MA and 4u walk towards the center stage, on the K's, and at the end they all lie down not moving.
★ The next song is Love in the phi. They're still dancing on the K shaped midways while KinKi is on the center stage. They take off the head stuff. It's really cool because the whole audience (almost) knows the choreography. The penlights looked really cool.
★ at Bonnie Butterfly, MA and 4U are going to go main stage. They had plenty of time to interact with the audience so at the pauses of this song, they waved and smiled at the audience. It was really, really cute.
★ Family~hitotsu ni naru koto~. I think KinKi was also on the main stage at this song. The screen was showing Tokyo streets and random people moving but I thought it would be much cooler if the cameras had shown the audience. It would be really moving and KinKi like, but they didn't do it. Maybe they hadn't thought of it or thought it was too cliche. Then again fangirls love cliche so...
★ Right before Family starts and there are solo dances from all of MA and 4U. It's nothing energetic or breakdancing like, but more emotional. It ends with Maachin who is on the main stage, looking all angsty and sitting on one of the stairs at the side. The screens had a zoom in on his face ♥ The pretty man. Maachin's dance was different each time, slightly more improvised. It was really cool. The theme for the concert of 1st, nanan resembled it to "praying". I don't understand much of dancing so I'll wait for the DVD to watch it better. I was kind of going like MaachinMaachinMaachin in my mind to clearly remember the details.
★ Kimi to boku no naka de. 4U and MA wear colorful satin shirts for this one. I could immediately spot Yara in Red because he is moving all around. They are all at the higher stage on the main, walking around. Machida was wearing blue and Yone was wearing Orange. The choreography was really funny with a lot of walking and moving. At one point during the dance Koichi was looking at Machida and they were playing around together. One of the 4U guys and Yaracchi was back-to-back and I'm guessing it was Matsuzaki but I'm not sure, he put Yaracchi up on his back and Yara was throwing his legs up and around. It was really funny but it was for like 3-4 seconds.
★ Tsuyoshi's solo dance! I remember thinking each time, God Tsuyoshi's such a good dancer. A few years ago KinKi didn't even bother to dance much hahaha so I was kind of surprised to see it. He was really cool and MA soon appeared from the back to dance together with him. It was a really rare collaboration since usually Ma was always behind Koichi, even during KinKi concerts, if Koichi was moving to the left of the stage with half the dancers, all of MA was definitely behind him and the Dancers were with Tsuyoshi (this concert too.) But during this solo dance TsuyoshixMA collaboration was really cool. MA were wearing black suits and hats if I don't remember wrong.
★After Tsuyoshi's solo dance was Koichi's laser dance. A big green laser light and Koichi moves his hand up and around it to make it move with the music. He slashes it into two, makes it go up and down etc. It looked really cool.
★Negau ijou no koto, inoru ijou no koto. What a long name for a song. But anyway, in this song they are wearing these Irish like clothes, it's what Nanan said, I don't remember what they were wearing at all hahaha. I don't remember anything interesting about this stage.
★Ne ganbaru yo, MA and Yuuchans move to center stage with KinKi again.
★Eien no BLOODS, Fukuchan and Maachin was having a staring contest. They were looking really serious until they broke it off and then they were laughing, it was adorable.
★MC time! MA and Yuuchans went backstage after the song ended and KinKi introduced themselves. There was a huge cake on the big screen behind and Tsuyoshi made Koichi put the fire on for the candles. But he has to do it really seriously or it won't work. So Koichi tries it halfassed , which it doesn't work. And Tsuyoshi teases him like, do it for serious! Don't fool around. Eventually Koichi manages to put the candles on, and Tsuyoshi then tells him to put them off. Everryone laughs. Koichi protest why does he do all the work, but does it anyway.
★ After he successfully puts off the candles of the image, Tsuyoshi tells him to cut the cake, so Koichi does his best, adding a lot of energy and doing slashing motions. But it never works. After a minute or two, Tsuyoshi paused and said "oh sorry, it's just an image, you can't cut it." Koichi was like, FML!
★ So MA and Yuuchans finally come out with the cake!! They were also wearing either glasses or hats of happy birthday. Yara had happy birthday glasses and Yone had a birthday cake hat.
★ I messed the timing a bit but Tsuyoshi was at first wearing this birthday hat that looked a bit like cake and had candles on the sides and I'm sure you might have seen the pictures of it already. Well, the deal with the hat was that it moved from side to side and it was programmed to sing a birthday song. TO KOICHI. It literally went (music) Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Kouchan, Happy birthday to you (music) while swaying around. Tsuyoshi put a mic to it and made us all listen. Then he said we should sing with it, but do it really quietly so we can also hear the hat.
★ The result? 55000 people at once whispering really quietly with a hat singing "happy birthday kouchan". It was super cool.
★ The hat Tsuyoshi was wearing should be moving side to side but Tsuyoshi is wearing it wrong so when the song ends, the hat is falling towards his eyes, because it was moving back and front instead. Koichi makes fun of him saying his hat always ends up falling on his face.
★Tsuyoshi makes Koichi wear the hat and Koichi plays around with it a lot.
★Back to when MA came on stage, they appear to be the God of Cake! The 7 of them pose around the strawberry cake like they're Buddha or an Indian God something hahaha. Tsuyoshi thanks the Gods and they break the pose, showing off the cake.
★Tsuyoshi had already given his gift (the hat) but it's not the only thing. He says recently Koichi is really into games, so he had gotten him a game related present and hands him a small bag. Koichi looks at it and doesn't show us, in return making us all go, Show us Show us!
★ It's red pants for emergency : http://cuw.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=39&PHPSESSID=2k9udbqebpng8ujuqitgrhd7f5 this one to be precise! Koichi shows us the kanji one by one and cracks us up. Someone close to my seat shouted out "Wear it!" but they didn't hear, a shame.
★ It's not the only gift so Tsuyoshi gives him another bag, saying it's because Koichi likes games. To which Kouchan goes, ohhhh this one I can actually use though! It's a hair tonic. hahahah.
★ His last gift is a really big package, and everyone gets curious. Tsuyoshi says it's quite big too, because Kouchan likes games. Koichi opens it fearing the worst. It's LIFE, the board game. Kouchan is like, I don't have anyone to play this with! So Tsuyoshi says you can play it with these guys ( MA&4U) and turning to yuuchans he goes "You can change your occupation with this." Kouchan says "But I don't want to change my occupation." In the end they decide to play it in Fukuoka (Jinsei game instead of trump cards hahaha! I want to know how that turns out)
★Kouchan is really upset with the gifts because he can't use them (playfully) so he says I don't need these gifts. These guys (MA&4U) actually got me something really cool though.
★The gift from MA&4U is the latest model of an air cleaner.
★Last gift from Tsuyoshi is , ofcourse, a writing. 毛無 (Readen as Ge-mu (Game) literally meaning No-hair.) Maachin carries it to stage and he's all smiley-smiley.
★Speaking of the cake, Tsuyoshi and MA&Yuuchans started a meeting while making Koichi light up his own cake. To which Koichi is like, what is this, self service on my birthday....
★I actually forgot to include the cake MC ahhaa. Well, adding this here. Koichi looks at all the strawberries and starts to eat them really really quickly. And Kosshi (I hope it was Kosshi or Eru will kill me for mistaking the names of Yuuchans) shows that he can eat just as quickly. Seeing this Matsuzaki brings his face in between Kouchan and Kosshi, counting how many strawberries they're eating. Tsuyoshi says "Yonesan, aren't you going to do the thing you always do?" So it's STRAWBERRY TIME. While Kou and Kosshi eat and Matsuzaki counts them, the others walk around them in a circle going strawberrytimestrawberrytime. It was hilarious.
★In the end it was a draw with 27 strawberries. hahaha. Kosshi was really fast in eating.
★From then on, the topic of countdown! Koichi talks about Andalucia! During Andalucia, He is standing right next to Matchysan, and there was a moment where they throw their jackets down and pick it up with their teeth right? At that time, Matchy san isn't moving and he's too close to Koichi so he is troubled where to throw his jacket without hitting Matchysan. He gets really troubled there but manage it somehow after long and difficult process (which we don't realize at all at the real show, what a pro!). After listening to Koichi go on and on about how Matchysan was so close to him so he couldn't dance easily, Tsuyoshi looks at him and says ; "In other words Matchy-san was being a hindrance." To which Koichi stops and fails because no, that is not what he meant (but it exactly sound like it.)
★After that it's still Andalucia talk. Koichi throws his hat somewhere and loses it during the dance. It seems that his hat flew all the way to where Yone is ♥ Yonehana actually has a mic and confirms this epic moment. "I got it and danced like this." And he renacted the scene by dancing it. Tsuyoshi and Koichi look at him amazed. I think it was Tsuyoshi who said "It's really impressive you could do that right on the spot."
★Speaking of Countdown, I want to include the topic of Leader. It's hilarious, Leader is seriously very kind. So because Leader can't dance, Tsuyoshi and Leader are playing the guitars right? At the time they go out, Tsuyoshi is playing his guitar going all cool-face moment! And he looks back because Leader is taking too long to see that he's going out from backstage while letting Jr's pass first or paying attention to not hit anyone.
★Speaking of leader, he had a really early morning job the day they went to Hatsumoude. So while usually Leader is the one who gives money to Koichi so he can properly visit the temple, this time he wasn't there so Koichi had no money. Tsuyoshi says that he's 33 now, he should properly bring his own money. Koichi says he will, he will next time. So Tsuyoshi asks him what he did next and who he got the money from? Koichi apparently looked all around and asked the first person he had eye contact with, who was his manager.
★Koichi's praying pattern was 1-1-1 (100 yen, 100 yen, 100 yen) Tsuyoshi says it's not bad, or 100 yen, 300yen 100 yen is good too. Or maybe 5-5-5 since 5yen is lucky. Tsuyoshi asks why Koichi went witht he 100 yen pattern and Kouchan laughs all sheepishly saying "Because I received only 300 yen from manager" HAHAHA. Beggars can't be choosers.
★Back to Yonehana though he is so quick at thinking. He can also pick up stuff that fell down while putting it in the choreography or good at following adlib. God I love him ♥
★Koichi is still wearing the dancing singing hat but he doesn't want it so it's the auction joke again. He says who wants it and all of MA and Yuuchans raise their hands going Me me me, and people in the audience raise their hands too. Koichi gives up and says nah I'll keep it ♥
★I don't remember the rest of the MC much but I'll add it if I remember more. I hope we'll see it all in the DVD.
★Dousoukai! This song they have this whole stage of funny stuff going on and I never get to realize all of it. Yaracchi has a bouquet of flowers confessing to someone. Maachin is late for an appointment and going "I'm sorry!!!". I remember I saw Yonehana hugging someone, but nanan couldn't see it, so I'm not sure. I could check other reports but I'm lazy hahah (fail reporter) ! If you heard of it, please let me know too! Well they all have fun during this song. Like in the 31st concert Koichi had kicked Matsuzaki. In the first, he was riding someone. A part of the stage is moving so they all run on it or play around, it's hilarious. Yuuchans are really energetic.
★Before the Passion song MA has a solo dance part. They are on the upper stage and the three of them dance amazing. I have been keysmashing in my mind the whole 3 days. I can't wait to see it in the DVD. It's very Yaracchi like so I was suspecting it was him who made the choreography. Yuuchans dance on the lower stage while the stage with MA goes dark and then they all dance together until KinKi comes up and sings.
★2nd movement was the next song but I don't remember anything specific about it. Also I'm sorry but this song is so boring even though watching the dance is fun.
★Destination. MA was really cute at dancing to it. The member introductions were during this song I think. They first introduce the band, then dancers. While they introduce with the group name, everyones names come up on the screen behind them, it looks really cool. KinKi introduces 4U first. Then Yonehana, Machida and Yara ♥ YoneYara danced acrobatic while Maachin did his robotic breaking dance thing.
★99% Liberty! I love this song, it makes me so excited.
★Somewhere in the middle of the set list there is a part where the guitarists come out in the stage and MA, 4U and KinKi go all worshipping hahhaa. I don't know how to explain it. Like they play air guitar or headbang. This concert though, diffferent from the ones behind, MA and 4U dropped to their knees and like moved their head in circular motions? (Think of HAIR choreography of Kisumai). It was so sexy I stopped breathing for a moment. Ofcourse I have to admit I was staring at Yaracchi all the time.
★The encore was Bokura no senaka ni wa hane ga aru. KinKi came out in those baloons again. This time I had no eye contact hahaha. The first two days I made them but my seat was kind of in an awkward place this time. It was OK though. Tsuyoshi was at our side but Koichi didn't make it there.
★Last Greetings! Bullying Yuuchans again. I'm afraid I don't remember the names they made for them. This time, I really took too long to write this report haha. It's probably out there somewhere though or you can wait for the DVD!
★Again the MA introductions were Yonehanasan, Machidasan and Yarasan. I screamed as loud as I can but I doubt it reached them hahaha.
★After introducing Yara, Koichi called him back again and Yaracchi came out looking all cute and happy. Koichi said that Yara was one of the choreographer assistants for SHOCK this year and there was an amazing reaction of people going uwaaaaa! Yaracchi looked all smiley and he went backstage. I was about to cry hahaha. I'm so proud of him!
★No one sat back down after they said goodbye and goodnight and we all went KinKi, KinKi, KinKi. The security at the arena seats were trying to get everyone to sit down and the usual woman speaking through the concert hall was going "please don't rush out" (which was funny because no one wanted to leave anyway). Wel it was kind of obvious there won't be only one encore at the last day but it was still very cool when they came out. Koichi was wearing the birthday day!
★They sang Secret Code and it was amazing! I love Secret Code. Everyone knew the choreography to this one too, and Yuuchans and MA were all around the stage waving the silver tapes around, getting the fans to jump up with them and High Tension.
★At one point Koichi made his hat sing and dance, And surrounding Koichi was Maachin, Yonehana, Kosshi and Matsuzaki. They mimicked the hat and were swaying with it , it was really cute.
★After Yone and Kosshi jumped to the side stages, Machida was about to follow them when Matsuzaki gave him a tape going like, if you want it please use it. So Maachin took it and was all Kyaaa Kyaaaa! Going to quote nanan on this one saying "which one of you is the older one?!" hahaha.
★At the last talks, Koichi finishes and everyone is listening seriously and moved and everything, he mentions the earthquake in the morning and hopes that it will remind us to stay as one.
★But when it's Tsuyoshi's time to speak, Kouchan can't stay still and he's like a little kid, staring up his hat and while Tsuyoshi is trying to talk, the audience is holding themselves back while secretly giggling. Tsuyoshi notices this and looks at Koichi all at this "mother" look, like can you please stay still for one minute.
★Koichi acts all cheeky and nods but once Tsuyoshi starts to speak again, he is still not staying still, now making weird moves while trying to stay still, playing with the tapes at his feet, getting us to giggle again.
★Eventually , in a miracle way, Tsuyoshi manages to finish the concert hahahaha.
★ I really can't wait for the DVD. There are a lot I remember but not so detailed so I can't put it to words, and I want to see MA more close. I had been using this really cheap binoculars so they really weren't much helpful.
This was the concert report for Kouchans birthday concert! After the concert was done, we all left and got out. It was really crowded outside. The exit gates of Tokyo Dome is amazing, the wind is super strong. During August I found it hilarious the girls would go Kyaaaa but this time I was also wearing a short skirt so it was not as funny hahahah! Well they were shouting please hold on to your scarves, glasses, hats! before you go out. A lot of people were staring at my MA uchiwa when we left because I didn't have the time to get dressed inside the concert hall. After we left, we stopped by the conbini because the train station always gets so crowded, and then seperated. I went back to my room and turned on the heater because omg Rins house was freezing!! hahaha.
Coming up next, Look at Star cross interview and Yone's Jweb translations. I'll do them soon, I swear.
PS. Here is another report of the same day by iceblueaya. She remembers the KinKi parts more detailed (since I'm not embarrassed to admit I was staring at MA all through the concert and have no proper recollection of anything else.)
Kind of related while kind of not but I'm always kind of upset when KinKi fans don't care about MA :( Is it just me?