2016.02.16 Show by Rock Musical!
I had two plays this day and I started it off with the afternoon, 2pm show of Show by Rock!! Prior to seeing this I had watched the anime and been playing the game!
First Half!
(Written at the time >) So far so good!!! The humour parts HAVE to be improvised!! I swear most of it is improvised because the audience and everyone on stage were pissing themselves xD Yone even had to turn away from the crowd at one point cos he was dying!
And they made Yone wear a hello kitty apron(!) which I hadn't seen in any previous stills from the show so I think that was a special surprise.*
*Later confirmed - yes this was unplanned/unscripted and a special thing today!!
When Romu brought it out Crow/Yone was like 'seriously?' And put it on him and he turned around and all the girls squealed xD
And towards the end Crow was on the floor and Romu embraced him and sat on him in such a BL way!! We were all dying xD This show has SO much fanservice <3
I want their songs on a CD!!!*
*Later confirmed: They have released the two songs available on itunes and two other places! Unfortunately not as a CD =[
*Just discovered now: The songs will be with the DVD release BUT it might only be with the special preordered editions...
Seriously ShinganCrimsonz had me pissing myself whenever they were on stage xD whether it was Yone sticking his ears (the ones on his head) into people or during Toraikon's live when they were all on the floor shaking like they'd been electrocuted xD
There was also a mini battle scene between Shigan and the smaller band and it was so funny!! They did about 3 mini battles against each other. The first battle was between the leaders (so Yone and the guy on the far right) and their guitar skills.
Then it was a battle of flexibility between Daibo and (I think) the guy in the middle. This skit went on for ages and it was so funny! First they did copy the clapping rhythm, and then it was who's the most flexible by Daibo doing a flip (and the other guy following by doing a cartwheel xD) but before they started the 2nd flexibility challenge, Daibo went over to the other guys side and was like 'I need to start from here. I wanna come here. Get out of my way!' 'You're the one who came over to my space!' 'Get out of my space! I need this space! Move away' 'But it's my space!' XD
And omg everytime they went into the rules of the battle; after almost every word Shingan were like 'un....un un.....un....un un un un' (The smaller guys) 'I've not said the rules yet!'
(Crow/Yone) 'No, he really is listening!' XD
Then it was who can hold the note the longest between Sephiroth's musical double and the orange guy (am I making ANY sense? xD Hopefully y'all understand who I mean from the pictures cos I can't find my pamphlete and I only remember Crow, Brom and Shuzou's names) and obviously Shingan lost and his crying was hilarious xD he quickly recovered too which was even more hilarious!
In the end the new band lost xD
Seeing Shuzou's personality get darker and darker was a little sad ='[ he was so genki and pikapika in the beginning and so funny that he had a spot light everytime he did the peace sign.
Also I really hated his manager. He played an evil manager so well! But he was also on a hooverboard so I was always worried, especially cos he moved and span around a lot, that he was gunna fall off the stage either will it or miss a step! =/
^ He uploaded this during out 20 minute break xD
^ The pink one is the one that was bought for Yone (I think) and what he was forced to wear xD
Second Half!
They had a screen up which said 'please turn your lights on when 'such a line' is said. So we were all ready to go!
The second half was mainly the lives and then the two bands' manager's history and bringing Shuzou back to the good side ^_^
We actually stood up for ShinganCrimsonz' live which was weird at first but everyone was in on it so it was very good!! They seem closer when we stood up too xD Shame the song performed was so short thought! ='[
Then we saw Shachou roll up in tight jeans and a jacket, all rocket style and it was then that the story about the two manager's past comes out and that they were bandmates but wanted different things and he tells this story to Shingan. At the end of this scene they went to hug their manager, but also then started to pull Shachou's jacket and pants down xD and he was like 'stop doing that! Don't do that! Don't touch me!' Cos they were grabbing his butt too! xD and he liked half hopped off stage cos his pants were all the way down xD
Luckily Shuzou found the light again and thanks Crow for helping him and apologised to his bandmembers.
Then the two bands did a song together at the end, but before that Yone said he didn't want to and everyone put on their lights, I think he was suppose to say more but I think because he reacted to quickly, he stopped his line and went 'well if you insist!'.
It was a very sexy end when they were bowing they all did these reallt sexy poses and stuff xD Most people here are definitely Yone fans.
Yone chocked over his line at the end which was so cute xD
Daibo was left to do the DVD announcement and was like 'you can see this all again if you buy it and if you think you're friend would've loved to have seen it then you can see it all on DVD... Probably' XD haha
At the end they thanked the audience as part of the cast cos obviously we had lights and stood up and they fed off our reactions when doing the comedy and everything xD and Yone grabbed his tail naturally at one point, quickly realised, and we laughed when he quickly let go of it again xD
Oh and the amount of times Yone's shirt showed his lower stomach <3 It was a NICE shot that we got every few minutes >.<
Mini Live and Presents!
After about a ten minute wait they came out and did a Mini live with Shingan first. After they finished Yone said:
'We'd love to do another song but'
Crowd: Eeeehhhh!!!
Yone: You see they're waiting behind and it's their turn
Crowd: Eeeehhh!!!
Yone: So we have to let them go.
* We all reluctantly allow it xD *
Trichronica *I'm pretty sure that's not their name but what I call them haha* did their song too.
THEN they announced that they had presents to give away. Three Trichronica one's, one each with a member's plushie and two Shingan ones which were material posters. Then they said 'we have ONE last special one that has ALL the Shigan member plushies in' no one of my row won any of the prizes xD
Finally they did the joint song one more time and came out through the crowds. Yone was defo the fan favourite xD but one girl freaked when Mitsuya went past her xD she definitely started crying xD I was in the middle of a row so wasn't near any of them but they still went past my row which was great =]
Final Note
Once it was finally and unfortunately done, everyone was like 'we should go eat ramen' we were ALL craving ramen xD
Also once it was finished I had to run to my next play: Tenimyu! xD
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Overall: The story is pretty decent but ultimately a safe plot, but turns out it's the same plot as what was in the anime, only more male characters based. << That's literally my only negative for the entire play I think! The music, sounds, costumes, lighting, use of cg, humour and acting are all amazing! I was entertained from start to finish! I love how hilarious this was and how talented they all were in feeding off the crowds laughter and reactions! The nice extra surprises like the cooking apron and the mini live and giving prizes away were nice touches too. Also: RAMEN!!!
Rating: 8/10