皆様のおかげ Summer Carnival! 2014/08/28 - Johnny's WEST Album release fan party

[mizuki_ichigou]

I know you’ve been waiting for this…I am so sorry but I initially didn’t plan to write a report as I had problems with understanding the dudes this time quite bad as I was in too high spirits to concentrate. So it’ll be a rather rough résumé of what I still remember after 10 days.

First of all, although Aiste and I balloted 3 times - thanks to you guys helping us out - we only hit once. But still…we got to go and we hit for A1 Block. The dudes were like IDK 3-4 m away at most. CLOSE. VERY CLOSE.

There were around 9,800 people in Yokohama Arena. They didn’t fill the whole place and a lot of seats actually remained empty which really made us sad and angry. Don’t ballot for a fan event and then don’t go in the end. Not cool. They had a center stage and two catwalk like things going to each side. No matter where you were seated I guess you could see the dudes quite well.

During the waiting time before the event started they kept playing the CMs for the album from time to time and everyone always went nuts.

It started right on time at 18.30. Lights went down and suddenly BAM we could see the dudes coming out from the door that was located on the other side of the stage where they greeted the fans with High5s and such making their way to the stage. Lucky fans on the other side. Lol They were wearing the red strawberry suits they also were at the はぴっくる performance. Pretty pretty strawberry suits. All of them looked good as fuck. What a surprise. Akito had bangs and a perm suddenly. Kami had his chicken hairstyle (how Shige nicely called it) - dark red and undercut which he styled in a way that it really looked like the thing chickens have…it looked good tho. Hamachan had no perm anymore and always fumbled around with his bangs - he basically looked like a KPop dude and the others made fun of that too. What a surprise. Juntasama, Shige, Ryusei and Nonchan looked as always.
Set List

1. Summer Dreamer
2. ええじゃないか
3. 粉もん
4. MC
5. Criminal
6. バンザイ夢マンザイ
7. MC (PV introduction.)
8. 夢を抱きしめて
9. Short MC (announcing that they’ll come down to us now)
10. ちゃうねん
11. P & P
12. Olé Olé Carnival!!
13. Juntasama announcing the last song
14. その先へ

During the first MC they were like ‚Aaaah…long time no see…’ and just fooling around. Talking about their butai a bit. Shige was being a dick all the time. He was so happy to be on stage again and to be with the dudes. He actually said that and then they started teasing Akito for being ‘fat’ and they attacked him in sumo wrestler style until he actually stomped the ground like a sumo wrestler and when he did the others jumped up as if the whole stage was shaking. It was hilarious. Then Shige found his fave victim and teased Juntasama like forever to the point…I don’t really know how that happened… but they were wrestling on the floor and Shige was winning and then he took Juntasama’s legs and started swirling him around. At first he wasn’t able to lift him so Juntasama was swishing over the floor. With his back. I really had the urge to go up on the stage and punch Shige at that moment. But on the other hand it is Junta’s fault for letting him do that with him. :D There was a lot of talk. But I only understood like 25% this time. Sorry. They also talked about popular songs and how Criminal seems to be quite popular to which Aiste and I responed with a loud ‘woooooooooooh’. We were the only ones. Kind of embarrassing. But we went ‘wooooh’ all the time to the point that Akito started laughing at it everytime. AKITO ALWAYS LAUGHS AT ME! CAN HE NOT MAYBE?!

During 2nd MC they were talking about photoshoots at some point and how Hamachan imitated all their typical poses in one of the mags. So they went through all their poses and we basically cracked up. Shige, Hamachan and Akito were on a high during that imitating stuff. Making fun of each other way too much. And in the end Hamachan was like ‘But Shige always does this.’ And he like winked with his one eye and did the finger pointy thing which Shige seriously ALWAYS does. I almost fell of my chair from laughing. And Shige was WAY too embarrassed. Loved it. Then they were like ‘Oh…we also will have a new single, you know…’ and then they introduced the Zipange PV first and everyone was like ‘Eeeeh? What about 夢を抱きしめて an SUPERSTAR?‘ But they didn’t give us any explanation and the PV was totally cute. Them fooling around. A little bit like My Home of Kanjani8 if you guys are familiar with that one. Akito wears a sume wrestler costume at some point. IT IS PERFECT. Believe me. And then they switched to 夢を抱きしめて PV which is very much KAT-TUNppoi but also very perfect. They had single shots in the PV and I think it started with Nonchan so the little girls went KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH like crazy as he is most popular. Then Kamichan. Almost as much KYAAAH as Nonchan as he is second popular. Than Ryusei who gained so much fans thanks to Again!! I am so glad about that. Shige. Well, yeah…he also got quite a lot of KYAAAHS. Still not as much as the others although he looked so good in the PV. I wanted to jump the screen tbh. And then the three older dudes got like no KYAHs and Aiste and I got so mad we screamed so hard but we were always a second too late to actually yell for them. Whatever. I hate 15 yo Japanese fans. They are too biased. Please love everyone. Seriously. Oh yeah…we also had to sit down during the second MC and then they were like ‘Hmmm…do you maybe wanna hear 夢を抱きしめて?!’ Lel. Of course we wanted to. We were supposed to remain seated during it as they had no performance but were just singing. IT WAS SO GOOD LIVE. I was wiggling my butt like crazy to it. And they all sounded way too good. Even Nonchan. And that is like a miracle. I also said that I got pregnant with Akito’s child after he sang the bridge. Because. That. Is. How. Amazing. That. Dude. Sounds. Live.

After that song they were like ‘Aaaaah…yappari…we want to meet you, right? Do you want to meet us too?’ Crowd yodeling. ‘Well then…we will come down to you~!’ We were supposed to remain seated again as they wanted everyone to be able to see them when they went through the aisles. They were down during ちゃうねん and P & P and during ちゃうねん Hamachan went left from us and I was already sad cause he was facing the other direction when he got really close to us but then he like looked at me/us from the edge of his eye and smirked. He recognized us from last time. I laughed so hard. Then P & P started and we were just dancing on our seats when Juntasama came walking behind us. We were in such high spirits cause WE FRICKING LOVE JUNTASAMA CAUSE HE IS PERFECT and then he like saw us and waved and he was like 1 m away and you could see him go ‘Oh…gaijins…happy…’ and smiled and then he looked at us again and YOU COULD LITERALLY SEE IN HIS FACE HOW HE REMEMBERED US AND HE STARTED SMILING SO MUCH THAT I DIED FOR A SECOND AND HE WAS SO HAPPY THAT WE WERE THERE AGAIN AND I AM SORRY BUT THAT DUDE SERIOUSLY IS SO PERFECT AND UNDERRATED AND I HATE EVERYONE WHO DOESN’T LOVE HIM! Then Junta went away and Shige came. I was standing next to a diehard Shige fan with 3 uchiwas with which she kept hitting me throughout the whole event. I mean…I thought I was already crazy when it comes to Shige. No. NOPE. I am pretty reserved it seems. At first he was like walking left from us. The same way Hamachan came. She switched places with the girl next to her to be at the fricking aisle. I laughed so hard when he looked into the other direction. But then he also made his way behind us and remember how I said that the dudes said that we should remain seated so they can see everyone? SHE CLIMBED HER CHAIR!!!!!! SHE CLIMBED HER FRICKING CHAIR. And again. Shige didn’t look into our direction. I was mad too cause I wanted him to see me again after I yelled ‘suki’ at him twice but well…can’t change that. Got a good view of his nice round butt instead. Won’t complain.

Then they went back on stage and did Olé Olé where literally nobody knew the dance to and I was like dancing my butt off as they showed us the fricking dance during the ええじゃないか events. And yes. It’s not that hard to dance it.

Then Juntasama thanked us all for buying the album and for coming along and supporting them bla bla bla and then その先へ started. I was on the verge of crying because it is my fave song. But gladly Shige messed up the first notes so I just giggled and didn’t cry. They were standing on the catwalk thingy during it. Only Juntasama on the main stage. And they were facing into different directions too. I was singing along with all my heart. Japanese fans were just waving their uchiwas or penlights. That’s so sad. And yes. After that they left through the same door they came in high5ing fans again. And before he left Shige said IN ENGLISH ‘Don’t worry, I’ll be back.’ Thank you. I would’ve understood that in Japanese too. I don’t really know why he said it in English. But I think he finally saw me during その先へ but I also might just be a delusional fangirl here hihi. Everyone was waving in the camera and Nonchan was the last one to leave and he was like ‘DAISUKI’ and blew a kiss in the camera. Fangirls died. Nonchan was being a dick throughout the whole thing. Way too full of himself. I was very much disappointed in the baby. But after seeing him in the butai now I think someone told him to calm down a bit. He’s normal again now.

We tried to do an encore and ジャニストcall afterwards but we were like 10 people and some official dudes already went on stage to announce the end.

We then cha chaed our way out of YokoAri to ちゃうねん and that was it.
Sorry fort he really weird report and all the personal comments but yea…IDK how to write a report without putting my personal opinion and stuff into it. And obviously I like Shige best so I pay a lot of attention to him. And then to the 3 older dudes. Sorry again.

EDIT: I forgot I actually took a pic of the stage before the event. Here you go~