[8UPPERS] Back from Oita
I went to the Saturday second show and Sunday first show in Oita! Just got home. For both shows I had standing (tachimi) tickets, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. The shows were fun, as usual! :-)
Some quick recaps of the two shows (including spoilers...)
[Edit] Added an important part at the bottom that I should have mentioned!! Haha. It happened during the Sunday first show.
Proactiv CM - Saturday 2nd was Kudo from JOKER (AGAIN) and Sunday 1st was Ma Ryonjun, LOL. Maru being a Korean star. This was hilarious, haha.
Wink Killer Game (Sat. 2nd) - Shota was Wink Killer and he won. Instead of doing a pyramid though, he said he wanted someone to read him a letter, lol. Everybody said Ohkura should do it because he thought he got killed by Ryo but Ryo wasn't the killer. So Ohkura read a letter to Shota. It was the normal "I've been with you for 12, 13, 14 years now... you are always reliable, we have fun together blah blah blah" but in the end, when the guys said "How about a P.S.!?" and then Ohkura said "P.S.... I think your new perm makes you look cute." HAHAHA. Ohkura said he was so doki doki (nervous) that he doesn't remember most of what he said. Shota and Ohkura both looked shy and they shook hands in the end. The guys wanted them to do more than that though, haha. They said that it was the third time Shota won (Ryo read to him in Ishikawa when I went, Yoko said he read him a letter once too). Yoko said "It'll be interesting to hear a letter between Hina and Subaru... or Ryo and Ohkura... or Maru and Yasu. Hey, I'm left out!"
Wink Killer Game (Sun. 1st) - Yoko was Wink Killer and even though it wasn't the prettiest victory, he won. They did the pyramid. Maru, Ohkura and Ryo went straight to the bottom row on their own. Shota kept on rubbing Ohkura's butt. Hina and Shota got on the next row. Before Subaru jumped on to the top, he rubbed Ryo's butt and Yoko ordered him to do more, haha. Yoko made them make a gorilla face and Hina and Shota kept a straight face LOL!! Yoko made them do the gorilla face again after the pyramid and said that it was a father and son gorilla.
MC (Sat. 2nd) - I won't write a detailed one for now, but basically it was teasing Yoko and making him be in a B-gatan type position, haha. It was Yoko on one side and rest on the other. The six of them asked who Yoko wanted to be on his side, and he first called for Subaru. The six had a "discussion" and Subaru said "Muri (impossible)." Then Yoko asked for Ohkura, and they had another "discussion" before Ohkura came out to say "Muri." Yoko asked for Subaru again and Subaru looked like he was so happy that Yoko called him. But, they needed to "discuss" it again and the answer was "Muri." Yoko asked for Subaru for a third time, but of course his answer was "Muri." Yoko asked for Maru, and after their "discussion" Maru said "OKAY!!" and he ran over to Yoko in a crazy way, hahaha. He kept on imitating what Yoko was doing, like becoming his mirror image. Yoko kept on saying he changed his mind, he doesn't need Maru, but Maru kept on playing with Yoko. It was quite hilarious. In the end, the six said that Yoko should be asking for everyone because together they make K8. Yoko said "Can everyone please come back?" and the six had another "discussion" and lined up in one line to say "Muri." After that was all settled and everybody went back to their positions, Ryo said "Yokoyama-kun, do you really not like Yasu and I??? We are hurt!!! Think about how we felt!!" Hahahaha. Poor Ryo and Shota (and Hina, actually).
MC (Sun. 1st) - Yoko and Maru went to an onsen together and Yoko said Maru had asked him what he'd do if he kissed him right there. The previous day, Maru asked Yoko "I wonder how You-chin's lips will feel if I kissed him." Maru said that the falling leaves he saw outside the window made him feel the lonliness of autumn and then he saw Yoko's lips. Yoko said he needed to ask the guys about this because it'll affect their career. Subaru said "No relationships within the group, please!!" Ohkura said "While you're dating, it will be fine, but what happens if you break up? Your ex will be working with you the entire time! We don't want awkwardness!" Ryo and Hina kept on yelling at Maru too because his answers to their questions were very vague and made everyone wonder if he really was gay. Ryo said "Maru, your answers are so grey. Answer in black or white!" The guys said that being gay is not a problem, but please go to Arashi or somewhere else and keep it outside of the group. Throughout the MC they talked about Maru's tendencies. Maru said he liked girls who would give him a kiss when he comes back from work, and Ryo said "with lips (like Yoko's)??" Maru said that for magazine interviews, they were often asked who within the group they would want to get married to etc. and his answers always varied. When he said "sometimes I would say Murakami-kun...," Hina yelled "STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!" Subaru said "Your tight jeans is making me think of you in a different way now..." lol. After all the fuss and once Maru left the stage, Ryo said "You know, throughout this whole conversation, Yasu was awfully quiet!!" Hina said "He was laughing every now and then." Shota said "Yeah, it was funny." Yoko said "We don't need two people in the group who are like that!" Shota said "I've become much manlier these days! I like girls who can cook well and who can line up their shoes nicely (when they take them off)." So they made Shota introduce the next song in a manly way. I thought that there were many Shota fans in the two shows I went to; he was getting "kyaaaaa-d" a lot :-)
Today, everyone was in a great mood. Subaru and Ryo were in fabulous moods, haha. I saw Subaru talking to Shota constantly (off-mic) and making Shota laugh. I have no idea what he was telling him, but there were hand gestures and stuff that was making Shota laugh. Subaru seriously was talking almost non-stop! Glad to see everyone having fun!
[EDIT] I forgot to mention... during the rock medley on Sunday, after all the kissing story during the MC, Yoko put his arm around Maru while he was playing the bass (he's done this before), and Yoko looked into Maru's face and Maru turned so that their lips were almost touching, and then Yoko kissed Maru's cheek. His lips looked so soft even on the screen, lol. Maru didn't really have much of a reaction so I think he seriously didn't know what to do about that situation, hahaha.