ジャニーズWEST - Naniwa Zamurai Dangoro Ichiza 2015.01.13 @ Nissay Theatre
Okay...I will try to write a report on the butai. It will probably be a rough one with a lot of fangirling and spazzing in it but as I didn't write one on Ippatsu Meeeeeee I think I should at least try for Naniwa Zamurai.
It's been 2 days now since I went. And to let you know...I balloted 3 times for the thing but because JE sucks and I am not a FC member I only hit once. Still trying to go at least a second time. They still have extra balloting going on so cross your fingers please~! :D
So I only hit once but the seat I hit for was !!!! it was a GC seat, A row, Seat 3. Let me show you a pic from the Nissay site where my seat was so you know HOW amazing it was.
Yes. YES! Senpaitachi would be close or so I thought. Then I don't know if you guys heard about it but after the first show twitter went crazy because apparently Nonsuke and Shige were entering the GC stands during ちゃうねん. So no one first knew where exactly they entered and stood so there I was the little Shige fan that I am...hoping...HOPING SO MUCH...he would be right there. Then people actually confirmed that they came through those doors of which one was right next to me and then . . . little Marieke started crying cause it actually is like this.
No Shige for me. Okay. I love Nonchan a lot so I was also happy with that. I mean just having the chance to be like 2 cm away from one of them is like !!!! isn't it?
I got to Nissay at around 6ish, play would start at 6.30. I was nervous as heck as I went alone and let me tell you...the stares you get as the tall blonde lonely girl aren't always nice and also I always get incredibly nervous in general when I go to West things alone. Excitement and social fear. Yay.
I took pics of all the posters and flowers and then headed straight to the goods. Bought the poster, bag, pamphlet and Clearfiles of Nonsuke, Shige and Juntasama. Also another pamphlet and Hamachan clearfile for my friend.
Poster.
Flowers. Everyone was taking close pics of the Dorian (Little Tokyo) flowers but I was like meeeh don't want to wait just to take a better pic of that.
Goods.
Before going I jokingly said I will ask the person sitting in the Shige seat on the other side to switch with me but I never would've dared to do that in real life so after getting the goods I walked to me seat and was like OMFG THIS IS CLOSE OMG SENPAITACHI HAVE TO NOTICE ME!!!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! CLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!
So I sat down in my Nonchan seat. Took that pic when suddenly two girls approach me.
Girl: You are Shige's fan, aren't you?
Me: Eh...yes...why...eh? Yes?
Girl: Well, I have the seat on the other side and you know that Shige will come there during showtime, right?
Me: -shaking- Yes...but...hm?
Girl: Would you like to switch with me?
Me: -internally screaming- Yes...but...err...is that even allowed? I mean I like Nonchan too I think I will be fine here...
Girl: Okay...thanks anyway...
She was so nice and cute. And I mean they were two and I was alone so she would've had to seperate from her friend and I literally already pictured me sitting next to Nonsuke anyway...HOWEVER after 5 minutes I changed my mind and ran over to them to tell them that after all it's okay and we should change cause then I could be close to Shige and she could be close to Nonchan. So she went over to ask the woman that initially had the seat next to me to change as well cause yes. They were 2 and I was alone.
She came back with the sad news that the woman didn't want to change. PFFFFF. We both were so disappointed but also like 'Can't change it then! Enjoy Nonchan! Enjoy Shige!' So time moved on and I was getting all hyped by myself ocassionally looking over to the 2 girls who kept also looking at me all the time. 6.25 the Nonchan girl gets up and runs over to my side again and just tells me 'Hurry! Run over! We will switch! It's okay! My friend doesn't mind!!!!' So I run over to the other side. My seat then was this perfect thing here:
The view was pretty much the same just the other side. So yes. I ended up in the seat where Shige would HOPEFULLY come out during ちゃうねん。
Then the play starts.
Characters:
Shigeoka Daiki - Shigekawa Daishi - Grandson of an old famous actor that used to act at the Nakano family theatre
Nakama Junta - Nakano Jun - Son of the family that owns the theatre in which everything takes place
Kiriyama Akito - Kirimoto Akito - Old friend of Jun, went to Todai to study but quit and became a cigar smoking yakuza landlord
Kotaki Nozomu - Kotaki Nozoka - Aspiring (hip hop) dancer and friend of Jun who seems to live in the theatre
Hamada Takahiro - Hamazaki Takashi - He is all about money. Saves it all. Wants it all. Also stupid little Hamachan. Friend of Jun also living in the theatre
Fujii Ryusei - Fujisawa Ryu - Aspiring actor who suddenly shows up at the theatre
Kamiyama Tomohiro - Kamiya Tomomi - Intelligent tiny man XD and also friend of Jun who lives in the theatre
This is really only a rough summary of what I understood because parts were really quite hard for me to follow thanks to my lack of Japanese.
I will also call the dudes by their real names cause elsewise I will get confused. Sorry.
It's an old theatre somewhere in Kansai and the Obaachan who owns the place cleans it. It is obviously indebted and old and no one puts money into it anymore. It belongs to the Nakano family.
Nonchan enters the stage with ghetto blaster (more like a tiny cd player) on his shoulder playing hip hop. Obaachan scolds him for only caring about new stuff and if it wasn't for the like of him the theatre would still be going like it was in the times of Shigekawa Danzaburo (Shige's grandfather who Obaachan has a severe crush on) and you can see stupid Shige faces on the background while Obaachan flails. Nonchan is all like 'Can't be helped' and rushes off to his dance lesson leaving his music with Obaachan who starts wiggling her butt it.
Then Okaachan comes back from running errands followed by Hamachan carrying all the food to earn 100 Yen. That dude is all about money. Kami appears and is like looking at the colors of the theatre and pretends to take pictures and all that jazz while striking stupid poses.
Talk about how the theatre can't be saved. Obaachan being sad. Hamachan and Kami go look for Junta who is in his room contemplating about the world or whatever XD He looked really emo. The three think about a way to safe the theatre but can't come up with anything when suddenly there's a bang and Obaa- and Okaachan come running to the dudes for help from 2 yakuza looking guys. Entry Akito. In his oshare orange yakuza suit.
//It is apparently now a thing whenever Akito enters the stage we all laugh. I don't know why or how but it is a thing now.//
They're all like 'Yooooo give us the money you owe us' etc. and suddenly they all recognize Akito again and he's like 'I quit todai and wanted to make money.' And then 'But we were always friends' etc. Akito being a stupid little dick not accepting that and I think he like gives them a time limit to pay their debts and leaves.
Everyone is in shock and Obaachan is on the verge of crying cause it is the thing Ojiichan built and so on. Entry Ryusei. They ignore him in the beginning and then go 'Who the heck are you?' He introduces himself as an aspiring actor who looks for a place to act. They explain them their situation and he's like 'Dammit but I learned from THE Shigekawa Danzaburo!!' and Obaachan looses her shit and is like 'OMG WHERE IS HE?! HE COULD SAVE US!!!!!' and apparently all these years he was just in the neighbouring city. Obaachan almost has a heartattack and Junta, Hamachan, Kami, Nonsuke and Ryusei decide to look for Shigekawa to find a way to get the money or safe the theatre.
Scenery change. Shige and his father (I think) on stage practicing and old play. And Shige is like putting no effort into it and goes 'BUT I WANNA BECOME POPULAR AND HOLD A CONCERT AT TOKYO DOME!!! I DON'T WANNA DO THIS!!' While he is whining is grandfather enters and scolds him and is like 'If you wanna do that you have to start with tiny steps so you better practice this now!' The other dudes enter and are all like 'OMG IT IS REALLY HIM!!!' pointing at Shige. And Shige is totally confused and asks them 'Who exactly am I?' 'Shigekawa Danzaburo.' 'No...that's my grandfather.' and points to his grandfather. Other dudes are confused cause Shige looks like the man on Obaachan's pics (FROM IDK 50 YEARS AGO OR SO EEJITS!!!).
I don't really know how but somehow they end up practicing a scene from the Dangoro Ichiza play all together and decide that that is the thing to safe the theatre with.
They had back to the theatre and Shige's granddad acutally mobilized all of his former ensemble and also I have no clue why but Akito and his minions join too and then we see a lot of rehearsing going wrong for that play. It is a butai in the butai. 50% really serious and amazing to see West acting real traditional scenes but then we also have 50% of ad libs and jokes. A few of my fave things I remember:
-Kami is the one to kill the dude and who has to commit suicide then...he starts and when is done cutting his stomache open he starts yelling 'ITAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ITATATATATATATATATATAIIIIIIIIIIII HURRY!!! CUT OFF MY HEAD IT HURTS SO BADLY!!!' to the guard next to him.
-The 6 others are some samurai storming the house of Kami's character cause he never really commited suicide and they try to enter the house and fail. Then Nonchan is like 'Leave it to me' and rings the bell at the door, no one opens so Nonchan turns around and says 'No one's home we gotta get back later.' Shige is like the leader of them and gets angry at them being unable to enter so he gets out his apparently magic drumstick and the walls surrounding the house tumble down.
-Inside the house they find a lot of unused bows rowed up and Junta starts playing Ee Janai Ka on them.
-After the intense (and actually really pretty cool) sword fight Hamachan realizes that they are standing on a lake that is frozen so he starts doing some iceskating. He soon is joined buy Nonchan, Ryusei and Junta. Akito scolds them but then joins too. Some classice music is happening while they seriously do pirouettes and shit and then the music switches to Swan Lake and THEY DO A FRICKING BALLET ROUTINE.
Okay. In the end of the play they are all likie 'yaaaay. This will safe it!' and then Akito goes like 'It's okay...you don't owe me anything anymore. I quit this whole business.' And Shige's granddad and Obaachan get married and everything escalates. :D
Then BAM West are still wearing their Samurai outfits when the show time starts it's ええじゃないか and we are all rather like 'Oh...it's happening already...are we supposed to dance along? Yes no?' Nonchan had to tell us like 5 times that it's okay to dance along. The shitty thing about Nissay though is that you are not allowed to stand up during show time to pay respect to the theatre. I don't get it but okay.
After ええじゃないか Hamachan, Nonsuke, Ryusei and Kami disappear to get changed. Shige, Akito and Junta introduce the other actors and then disappear to get changed.
Hamachan and the others give us a cute little MC before the other 3 are back.
Show Time setlist:
1. Can't Stop
Nonchan messed up the Ooooooooh in the beginning but OMG he nailed the bridge. This song is SO amazing live. They sound amazing and the performance is A+ too.
2. Dance Break
It was all dark when this started and they wore white gloves in UV light so it looked pretty amazing and yea...I was yelling.
3. Superstar
THIS SONG. Doesn't get the Japanese fance excited in the beginning. They always need a moment but I am like wiggling my butt to it so hard.
4. シルエット
Okay. So...this is like my most most most most most most most favorite thing they ever did and when I read that they did it during show time I got all excited. Shige introduced it which made it like even 9870870 times more HNNNGH for me. This song means a lot to me and it brought me to quite some tough times here in Japan not too long ago so seeing this live. I can tell you I fought but I started bawling my eyes out half way through and sang along as if there is no tomorrow. Akito and Junta actually saw me wiping my tears away and the smile I got from Akito after he saw that....undescribable.
5. Member Intro Rap
Was better than it was at the con cause Shige and Kami pretty much stuck around till the end to teach us the different dances for every member and also what exactly to yell. At the con we all were like 'What are we supposed to yell?' Especially for Junta. But now I know it's JunJun. Thanks, dudes.
6. ズンドコパラダイス
THIS SONG IS SO MUCH FUN! I LOVE THE FURI I LOVE THE PERFORMANCE IT IS STUPID IT IS PERFECT
7. Restaurant Rainbow
I didn't really understand what it was all about but they had a quote one of them once said and the MC (this time Nonsuke) had to guess who it was. A lot of teasing each other. Nonsuke trying to figure out who it was and he went for Junta but it was Kami's quote and then Kami had to act out a scene where his quote could be used. It was something like 'No matter where when it is with you it is always fine.' Yes. And they made Kami and Shigeko, his girlfriend, enter a haunted house where they were scared by the horse ghost Hamada. I laughed a lot. It was ridiculous.
8. ちゃうねん
The song I was most nervous about and it started and I danced along and suddenly a theatre staff is like 'Sorry...can you move your bags a little bit further in?' I did and looked down again...to find only Junta, Hamachan and Akito down in the audience. I have literally no idea where Ryusei and Kami where and then BAM the door behind me opens. Shige. SHIGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I am still shaking just remembering it. He was like 2 cm away. I saw him so well. And yes. He noticed me. But DAMN...that stupid piglet is SO shy. Like seriously...he kept waving and smiling at the Japanese fans and then always peeped down at me and like he was so shy. He already was when he saw me at the first con but I thought maybe he was confused. No. Shige is goddamn shy. And like dude...you're not the one to freak out. I am!!!!! XD I had to remind myself to breathe. And also tried to memorize as much as possible about him. He looks so different from up close. Also like 584387454368 times better. And...he dropped his stupid sweat on me?! Did I ask for that? No. I didn't. I also had a hard time not poking him. XD Like he was so close and he kept looking but not smiling so I really thought about poking his butt or arm. But I found it rude so I didn't. What else? His eyes. OMG. His eyes. They're so so so so so so so so so so pretty. And his scar on his arm is still not better. ;~; It's better than it was during Gomen ne Seishun but it's still there. Still wondering what happened. Yes. I had a lot of time to study him. XD The best though was that I kept singing along to ちゃうねん. Dancing was impossible I would've constantly hit him. And then we came to the 'eenen' part that repeats itself and I was sitting there looking at him smiling and singing and he saw me singing along and was like 'Oh' because he apparently didn't expect me to know the lyrics? Stupid little piggy. I looked over to Nonchan once and yes. Nonchan looked nice. And then I looked to the stage to find Juntasama looking at Shige and me and he smiled so much. Dude was so happy.
9. ジパングおおきに大作戦
Fun as always but I seriously have no idea how the furi goes. No idea.
10. 粉もん
Kami stroke some stupid poses apparently during the intro dance so that Shige missed his whole first part. Leaning over, holding his belly, laughing and yelling OIIII at Kami.
11. Rainbow Dream
It was exactly like the perfomance at last year's Naniwa Zamurai.
End.
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Some more after thoughts about senpaitachi noticing. This is very subjective and not objective at all and you are welcomed to just ignore this.
So you have to know that during the first con I was in the first row of the arena which is the first stand section in YokoAri. So I was like right in their faces. And Kami, Nonsuke, Ryusei and Shige noticed me. Kami smiled and waved. Nonsuke recognized me again and had a little laughter break down. Ryusei smiled and looked handsome. And yes...as mentioned Shige was thousand shy. But also Akito saw me but whenever he passed me he decided to ignore me. Akito. My safe haven. The guy I want as best friend. Akito. Who always waved at us in the past.
So during the play I was quite into their faces too and the moment Akito turned around to introduce himself our eyes locked and I could see that something was still off with him. I had no idea why. Usually I always got a laugh or smile or anything but I did not. He was the only one though to actually notice me during the play. And he kept looking and checking my reactions and stuff it was almost kind of creepy but then again I look at him most of the time too can't blame him then ay.
However...during ええじゃないか Ryusei noticed me and he smiled and waved and was happy. Kami also noticed me somewhere around that time and was also like 'Oh hello again' smiling and waving.
Then during the MC we had time to pull out our uchiwa and penlights so I got my 'Ramen Tsukemen Shige Ikemen' thing ready cause I want piggy senpai to notice it (which he refuses to do) and when Akito came back on stage he looked up saw that uchiwa and frowned. He seriously frowned. I was like 'hmmm...is he maybe angry cause I turned out to be a Shige fan?' For Typhoon dreamer I had no uchiwa. Obviously...Shige wasn't there why should I bring a Shige thing then. But yea...I am Shige biased but I love all of those 7 dudes so much. If I didn't I wouldn't have even bothered to go to Typhoon Dreamer 5 times. FU too Akito. He was mad because of that. And I guess he already saw the uchiwa at the con too and that's why he behaved so jerkish.
As I said...Akito kept watching me and my reactions and then シルエット started and I was singing my heart out and he was pretty much at the same height as GC so it was perfect to look at him and then I started crying and wiping my tears and that's when I finally got my Akito smile again. That's when he finally decided that I am not only a Shige fan but apparently am a fan of everyone and it's okay for him to smile at me again. You guys have no idea what that smile meant to me. Cause I wanted it...no, I needed it. This sounds weird but I need Akito a lot to give me strength and then I am thrown off badly when he doesn't give me what I want. I got it then. And during 粉もん as well. I think everything is alright again now...but this was really a weird experience.
Whatever...Nonsuke noticed me somewhere throughout show time and I got a nod and another stupid grin from him.
Shige didn't bother to notice me until he was right next to me.
Juntasama though...I was really afraid to see his reaction to me waving a Shige thing cause in the past I behaved a lot like a Juntasama fan and when he finally saw me during ちゃうねん, before Nonsuke and Shige came out , he was so happy to see me there again and then he saw the uchiwa and like he was surprised. You could tell...but he was like shrugging his shoulders and sending me one of his perfect smiles. Thank you, Junta.
Hamachan though. I know that Hamachan seriously thought I was his fan for several reasons and he didn't see me until ちゃうねん either. Shige was still not next to me. And Hamachan came and I was like 'AWWWW HAMACHAN!!!!' and he saw me and like his face lit up and then . . . he saw the damn uchiwa and his face froze...he turned his head down and never looked up again. I am so fricking sorry. ;~;
I think in general the old farts thought I was there for them and I am. Definitely. But I still love Shige most and I can't help and change that.
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So. Yes. This is another of my crappy reports. And sorry for the emotional outburst up there. :D
It's been 2 days now since I went. And to let you know...I balloted 3 times for the thing but because JE sucks and I am not a FC member I only hit once. Still trying to go at least a second time. They still have extra balloting going on so cross your fingers please~! :D
So I only hit once but the seat I hit for was !!!! it was a GC seat, A row, Seat 3. Let me show you a pic from the Nissay site where my seat was so you know HOW amazing it was.
Yes. YES! Senpaitachi would be close or so I thought. Then I don't know if you guys heard about it but after the first show twitter went crazy because apparently Nonsuke and Shige were entering the GC stands during ちゃうねん. So no one first knew where exactly they entered and stood so there I was the little Shige fan that I am...hoping...HOPING SO MUCH...he would be right there. Then people actually confirmed that they came through those doors of which one was right next to me and then . . . little Marieke started crying cause it actually is like this.
No Shige for me. Okay. I love Nonchan a lot so I was also happy with that. I mean just having the chance to be like 2 cm away from one of them is like !!!! isn't it?
I got to Nissay at around 6ish, play would start at 6.30. I was nervous as heck as I went alone and let me tell you...the stares you get as the tall blonde lonely girl aren't always nice and also I always get incredibly nervous in general when I go to West things alone. Excitement and social fear. Yay.
I took pics of all the posters and flowers and then headed straight to the goods. Bought the poster, bag, pamphlet and Clearfiles of Nonsuke, Shige and Juntasama. Also another pamphlet and Hamachan clearfile for my friend.
Poster.
Flowers. Everyone was taking close pics of the Dorian (Little Tokyo) flowers but I was like meeeh don't want to wait just to take a better pic of that.
Goods.
Before going I jokingly said I will ask the person sitting in the Shige seat on the other side to switch with me but I never would've dared to do that in real life so after getting the goods I walked to me seat and was like OMFG THIS IS CLOSE OMG SENPAITACHI HAVE TO NOTICE ME!!!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! CLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!
So I sat down in my Nonchan seat. Took that pic when suddenly two girls approach me.
Girl: You are Shige's fan, aren't you?
Me: Eh...yes...why...eh? Yes?
Girl: Well, I have the seat on the other side and you know that Shige will come there during showtime, right?
Me: -shaking- Yes...but...hm?
Girl: Would you like to switch with me?
Me: -internally screaming- Yes...but...err...is that even allowed? I mean I like Nonchan too I think I will be fine here...
Girl: Okay...thanks anyway...
She was so nice and cute. And I mean they were two and I was alone so she would've had to seperate from her friend and I literally already pictured me sitting next to Nonsuke anyway...HOWEVER after 5 minutes I changed my mind and ran over to them to tell them that after all it's okay and we should change cause then I could be close to Shige and she could be close to Nonchan. So she went over to ask the woman that initially had the seat next to me to change as well cause yes. They were 2 and I was alone.
She came back with the sad news that the woman didn't want to change. PFFFFF. We both were so disappointed but also like 'Can't change it then! Enjoy Nonchan! Enjoy Shige!' So time moved on and I was getting all hyped by myself ocassionally looking over to the 2 girls who kept also looking at me all the time. 6.25 the Nonchan girl gets up and runs over to my side again and just tells me 'Hurry! Run over! We will switch! It's okay! My friend doesn't mind!!!!' So I run over to the other side. My seat then was this perfect thing here:
The view was pretty much the same just the other side. So yes. I ended up in the seat where Shige would HOPEFULLY come out during ちゃうねん。
Then the play starts.
Characters:
Shigeoka Daiki - Shigekawa Daishi - Grandson of an old famous actor that used to act at the Nakano family theatre
Nakama Junta - Nakano Jun - Son of the family that owns the theatre in which everything takes place
Kiriyama Akito - Kirimoto Akito - Old friend of Jun, went to Todai to study but quit and became a cigar smoking yakuza landlord
Kotaki Nozomu - Kotaki Nozoka - Aspiring (hip hop) dancer and friend of Jun who seems to live in the theatre
Hamada Takahiro - Hamazaki Takashi - He is all about money. Saves it all. Wants it all. Also stupid little Hamachan. Friend of Jun also living in the theatre
Fujii Ryusei - Fujisawa Ryu - Aspiring actor who suddenly shows up at the theatre
Kamiyama Tomohiro - Kamiya Tomomi - Intelligent tiny man XD and also friend of Jun who lives in the theatre
This is really only a rough summary of what I understood because parts were really quite hard for me to follow thanks to my lack of Japanese.
I will also call the dudes by their real names cause elsewise I will get confused. Sorry.
It's an old theatre somewhere in Kansai and the Obaachan who owns the place cleans it. It is obviously indebted and old and no one puts money into it anymore. It belongs to the Nakano family.
Nonchan enters the stage with ghetto blaster (more like a tiny cd player) on his shoulder playing hip hop. Obaachan scolds him for only caring about new stuff and if it wasn't for the like of him the theatre would still be going like it was in the times of Shigekawa Danzaburo (Shige's grandfather who Obaachan has a severe crush on) and you can see stupid Shige faces on the background while Obaachan flails. Nonchan is all like 'Can't be helped' and rushes off to his dance lesson leaving his music with Obaachan who starts wiggling her butt it.
Then Okaachan comes back from running errands followed by Hamachan carrying all the food to earn 100 Yen. That dude is all about money. Kami appears and is like looking at the colors of the theatre and pretends to take pictures and all that jazz while striking stupid poses.
Talk about how the theatre can't be saved. Obaachan being sad. Hamachan and Kami go look for Junta who is in his room contemplating about the world or whatever XD He looked really emo. The three think about a way to safe the theatre but can't come up with anything when suddenly there's a bang and Obaa- and Okaachan come running to the dudes for help from 2 yakuza looking guys. Entry Akito. In his oshare orange yakuza suit.
//It is apparently now a thing whenever Akito enters the stage we all laugh. I don't know why or how but it is a thing now.//
They're all like 'Yooooo give us the money you owe us' etc. and suddenly they all recognize Akito again and he's like 'I quit todai and wanted to make money.' And then 'But we were always friends' etc. Akito being a stupid little dick not accepting that and I think he like gives them a time limit to pay their debts and leaves.
Everyone is in shock and Obaachan is on the verge of crying cause it is the thing Ojiichan built and so on. Entry Ryusei. They ignore him in the beginning and then go 'Who the heck are you?' He introduces himself as an aspiring actor who looks for a place to act. They explain them their situation and he's like 'Dammit but I learned from THE Shigekawa Danzaburo!!' and Obaachan looses her shit and is like 'OMG WHERE IS HE?! HE COULD SAVE US!!!!!' and apparently all these years he was just in the neighbouring city. Obaachan almost has a heartattack and Junta, Hamachan, Kami, Nonsuke and Ryusei decide to look for Shigekawa to find a way to get the money or safe the theatre.
Scenery change. Shige and his father (I think) on stage practicing and old play. And Shige is like putting no effort into it and goes 'BUT I WANNA BECOME POPULAR AND HOLD A CONCERT AT TOKYO DOME!!! I DON'T WANNA DO THIS!!' While he is whining is grandfather enters and scolds him and is like 'If you wanna do that you have to start with tiny steps so you better practice this now!' The other dudes enter and are all like 'OMG IT IS REALLY HIM!!!' pointing at Shige. And Shige is totally confused and asks them 'Who exactly am I?' 'Shigekawa Danzaburo.' 'No...that's my grandfather.' and points to his grandfather. Other dudes are confused cause Shige looks like the man on Obaachan's pics (FROM IDK 50 YEARS AGO OR SO EEJITS!!!).
I don't really know how but somehow they end up practicing a scene from the Dangoro Ichiza play all together and decide that that is the thing to safe the theatre with.
They had back to the theatre and Shige's granddad acutally mobilized all of his former ensemble and also I have no clue why but Akito and his minions join too and then we see a lot of rehearsing going wrong for that play. It is a butai in the butai. 50% really serious and amazing to see West acting real traditional scenes but then we also have 50% of ad libs and jokes. A few of my fave things I remember:
-Kami is the one to kill the dude and who has to commit suicide then...he starts and when is done cutting his stomache open he starts yelling 'ITAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ITATATATATATATATATATAIIIIIIIIIIII HURRY!!! CUT OFF MY HEAD IT HURTS SO BADLY!!!' to the guard next to him.
-The 6 others are some samurai storming the house of Kami's character cause he never really commited suicide and they try to enter the house and fail. Then Nonchan is like 'Leave it to me' and rings the bell at the door, no one opens so Nonchan turns around and says 'No one's home we gotta get back later.' Shige is like the leader of them and gets angry at them being unable to enter so he gets out his apparently magic drumstick and the walls surrounding the house tumble down.
-Inside the house they find a lot of unused bows rowed up and Junta starts playing Ee Janai Ka on them.
-After the intense (and actually really pretty cool) sword fight Hamachan realizes that they are standing on a lake that is frozen so he starts doing some iceskating. He soon is joined buy Nonchan, Ryusei and Junta. Akito scolds them but then joins too. Some classice music is happening while they seriously do pirouettes and shit and then the music switches to Swan Lake and THEY DO A FRICKING BALLET ROUTINE.
Okay. In the end of the play they are all likie 'yaaaay. This will safe it!' and then Akito goes like 'It's okay...you don't owe me anything anymore. I quit this whole business.' And Shige's granddad and Obaachan get married and everything escalates. :D
Then BAM West are still wearing their Samurai outfits when the show time starts it's ええじゃないか and we are all rather like 'Oh...it's happening already...are we supposed to dance along? Yes no?' Nonchan had to tell us like 5 times that it's okay to dance along. The shitty thing about Nissay though is that you are not allowed to stand up during show time to pay respect to the theatre. I don't get it but okay.
After ええじゃないか Hamachan, Nonsuke, Ryusei and Kami disappear to get changed. Shige, Akito and Junta introduce the other actors and then disappear to get changed.
Hamachan and the others give us a cute little MC before the other 3 are back.
Show Time setlist:
1. Can't Stop
Nonchan messed up the Ooooooooh in the beginning but OMG he nailed the bridge. This song is SO amazing live. They sound amazing and the performance is A+ too.
2. Dance Break
It was all dark when this started and they wore white gloves in UV light so it looked pretty amazing and yea...I was yelling.
3. Superstar
THIS SONG. Doesn't get the Japanese fance excited in the beginning. They always need a moment but I am like wiggling my butt to it so hard.
4. シルエット
Okay. So...this is like my most most most most most most most favorite thing they ever did and when I read that they did it during show time I got all excited. Shige introduced it which made it like even 9870870 times more HNNNGH for me. This song means a lot to me and it brought me to quite some tough times here in Japan not too long ago so seeing this live. I can tell you I fought but I started bawling my eyes out half way through and sang along as if there is no tomorrow. Akito and Junta actually saw me wiping my tears away and the smile I got from Akito after he saw that....undescribable.
5. Member Intro Rap
Was better than it was at the con cause Shige and Kami pretty much stuck around till the end to teach us the different dances for every member and also what exactly to yell. At the con we all were like 'What are we supposed to yell?' Especially for Junta. But now I know it's JunJun. Thanks, dudes.
6. ズンドコパラダイス
THIS SONG IS SO MUCH FUN! I LOVE THE FURI I LOVE THE PERFORMANCE IT IS STUPID IT IS PERFECT
7. Restaurant Rainbow
I didn't really understand what it was all about but they had a quote one of them once said and the MC (this time Nonsuke) had to guess who it was. A lot of teasing each other. Nonsuke trying to figure out who it was and he went for Junta but it was Kami's quote and then Kami had to act out a scene where his quote could be used. It was something like 'No matter where when it is with you it is always fine.' Yes. And they made Kami and Shigeko, his girlfriend, enter a haunted house where they were scared by the horse ghost Hamada. I laughed a lot. It was ridiculous.
8. ちゃうねん
The song I was most nervous about and it started and I danced along and suddenly a theatre staff is like 'Sorry...can you move your bags a little bit further in?' I did and looked down again...to find only Junta, Hamachan and Akito down in the audience. I have literally no idea where Ryusei and Kami where and then BAM the door behind me opens. Shige. SHIGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I am still shaking just remembering it. He was like 2 cm away. I saw him so well. And yes. He noticed me. But DAMN...that stupid piglet is SO shy. Like seriously...he kept waving and smiling at the Japanese fans and then always peeped down at me and like he was so shy. He already was when he saw me at the first con but I thought maybe he was confused. No. Shige is goddamn shy. And like dude...you're not the one to freak out. I am!!!!! XD I had to remind myself to breathe. And also tried to memorize as much as possible about him. He looks so different from up close. Also like 584387454368 times better. And...he dropped his stupid sweat on me?! Did I ask for that? No. I didn't. I also had a hard time not poking him. XD Like he was so close and he kept looking but not smiling so I really thought about poking his butt or arm. But I found it rude so I didn't. What else? His eyes. OMG. His eyes. They're so so so so so so so so so so pretty. And his scar on his arm is still not better. ;~; It's better than it was during Gomen ne Seishun but it's still there. Still wondering what happened. Yes. I had a lot of time to study him. XD The best though was that I kept singing along to ちゃうねん. Dancing was impossible I would've constantly hit him. And then we came to the 'eenen' part that repeats itself and I was sitting there looking at him smiling and singing and he saw me singing along and was like 'Oh' because he apparently didn't expect me to know the lyrics? Stupid little piggy. I looked over to Nonchan once and yes. Nonchan looked nice. And then I looked to the stage to find Juntasama looking at Shige and me and he smiled so much. Dude was so happy.
9. ジパングおおきに大作戦
Fun as always but I seriously have no idea how the furi goes. No idea.
10. 粉もん
Kami stroke some stupid poses apparently during the intro dance so that Shige missed his whole first part. Leaning over, holding his belly, laughing and yelling OIIII at Kami.
11. Rainbow Dream
It was exactly like the perfomance at last year's Naniwa Zamurai.
End.
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Some more after thoughts about senpaitachi noticing. This is very subjective and not objective at all and you are welcomed to just ignore this.
So you have to know that during the first con I was in the first row of the arena which is the first stand section in YokoAri. So I was like right in their faces. And Kami, Nonsuke, Ryusei and Shige noticed me. Kami smiled and waved. Nonsuke recognized me again and had a little laughter break down. Ryusei smiled and looked handsome. And yes...as mentioned Shige was thousand shy. But also Akito saw me but whenever he passed me he decided to ignore me. Akito. My safe haven. The guy I want as best friend. Akito. Who always waved at us in the past.
So during the play I was quite into their faces too and the moment Akito turned around to introduce himself our eyes locked and I could see that something was still off with him. I had no idea why. Usually I always got a laugh or smile or anything but I did not. He was the only one though to actually notice me during the play. And he kept looking and checking my reactions and stuff it was almost kind of creepy but then again I look at him most of the time too can't blame him then ay.
However...during ええじゃないか Ryusei noticed me and he smiled and waved and was happy. Kami also noticed me somewhere around that time and was also like 'Oh hello again' smiling and waving.
Then during the MC we had time to pull out our uchiwa and penlights so I got my 'Ramen Tsukemen Shige Ikemen' thing ready cause I want piggy senpai to notice it (which he refuses to do) and when Akito came back on stage he looked up saw that uchiwa and frowned. He seriously frowned. I was like 'hmmm...is he maybe angry cause I turned out to be a Shige fan?' For Typhoon dreamer I had no uchiwa. Obviously...Shige wasn't there why should I bring a Shige thing then. But yea...I am Shige biased but I love all of those 7 dudes so much. If I didn't I wouldn't have even bothered to go to Typhoon Dreamer 5 times. FU too Akito. He was mad because of that. And I guess he already saw the uchiwa at the con too and that's why he behaved so jerkish.
As I said...Akito kept watching me and my reactions and then シルエット started and I was singing my heart out and he was pretty much at the same height as GC so it was perfect to look at him and then I started crying and wiping my tears and that's when I finally got my Akito smile again. That's when he finally decided that I am not only a Shige fan but apparently am a fan of everyone and it's okay for him to smile at me again. You guys have no idea what that smile meant to me. Cause I wanted it...no, I needed it. This sounds weird but I need Akito a lot to give me strength and then I am thrown off badly when he doesn't give me what I want. I got it then. And during 粉もん as well. I think everything is alright again now...but this was really a weird experience.
Whatever...Nonsuke noticed me somewhere throughout show time and I got a nod and another stupid grin from him.
Shige didn't bother to notice me until he was right next to me.
Juntasama though...I was really afraid to see his reaction to me waving a Shige thing cause in the past I behaved a lot like a Juntasama fan and when he finally saw me during ちゃうねん, before Nonsuke and Shige came out , he was so happy to see me there again and then he saw the uchiwa and like he was surprised. You could tell...but he was like shrugging his shoulders and sending me one of his perfect smiles. Thank you, Junta.
Hamachan though. I know that Hamachan seriously thought I was his fan for several reasons and he didn't see me until ちゃうねん either. Shige was still not next to me. And Hamachan came and I was like 'AWWWW HAMACHAN!!!!' and he saw me and like his face lit up and then . . . he saw the damn uchiwa and his face froze...he turned his head down and never looked up again. I am so fricking sorry. ;~;
I think in general the old farts thought I was there for them and I am. Definitely. But I still love Shige most and I can't help and change that.
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So. Yes. This is another of my crappy reports. And sorry for the emotional outburst up there. :D