Tomohisa Yamashita Live Tour 2012 EroP 8/29 Wednesday Night
EroP 8/29 Wednesday Night
Last!
Didn't feel like waiting in the heat, so I showed up right as they opened the doors. My seat was on the north side tonight.
I spotted the numerous cameras, so I think this will probably be included in the DVD. I also heard people spreading the rumor about the surprise idea suggested by a Japanese fan on the net. I'll talk about how well that went later. The screens displayed "Final" on them.
Yamapi came out on his lips for "Ero". By the way, there were a TON of "whooo~"s tonight. (It sounds like the second half of "Yahoo" when we say it.) As we threw our hands up in the air to the beat, we yelled it every time. He changed the "Bye Bye" to "Suki da zo!"
"Let's get closer!" The talk part for "Ai, Texas" was "Today, as I was looking at your faces on this side (south), and this side (north)... Ah! And the arena too! I thought...You're all so 'ero'!!!" We cheered loudly. "Let's make this the best memory of summer!"
"Have fun at the final show!" "Hadakanbo", "Kimi to Kaze to Mikazuki", and "Inside, Outside" finished and he said, "I'm EroP!" He did his armpit-covered wave. "You're all so excited that it surprised me. Are you having fun?! This will be the final festival of this summer. I hope we can become one and that-" He fumbled with his words a bit. "Ah, I screwed up. I'm just a mess. Since it's the end of summer... (Whooo~) Ah, it came out again. You know, out of the many Johnnys concerts, the EroP ones are the only ones that always have "Yahooo~"s in it. (Whooo~) You can ask me to do anything you want. Let's have fun 'til the end."
I thoroughly enjoyed "Love Chase", "One in a Million", and "Hit the Wall" for the last time. He said, "Put your hands up" in both Japanese and English tonight.
"Gomen ne, Juliet" and "Boku Dake no Kimi ni" were in the middle and on our side. To get off the raised "P" stand, he kicked backwards to open the door without looking. The yells in "Turn Off the Lights" were the usual ones.
"Party Don't Stop" was the most exciting part!!
He played with the cameras and blew his kisses, then went back to the main stage with the dancers. THEN! In a pause in the song, a trap door in the bottom of the stage opened and who popped out but Katori Shingo!! We were all going wild at that! (It's not something I mention often, but I'm actually a big fan of Katori. I was VERY happy he showed up tonight.) He sang the end of the song with Pi too!
Yamapi told us with a smirk, "I told you today was going to be a festival." Shingo smiled and introduced himself, "I'm Katori. Ohayo gozaimasu. (Said monotone like in the song). Thank you." We were still very excited, so we screamed back. Yamapi said, "Sugoi."
Katori went on to say, "This side (south), this side (north), and the arena, you're all so ero! I saw it." He turned to Yamapi, who was grinning. "I think you all know, but we're doing a drama together called "Monsters". We worked on the collaboration song for the SMAP album together too."
Yamapi said, "All I could think about earlier was that I'd messed up while I was talking." Katori nodded. "Yeah, the arena. But this is really amazing. To everyone here, you're not Yamapi, you're EroP. Everyone, what do you think of EroP?" We cheered to show our approval.
After a brief explanation of how Pi had gotten the "EroP" name, i.e. blaming it on his manager, he told us that he'd try to let out more of his erotic side, instead of hiding it. Katori said, "So, you are ero." We "whooo~"ed again. Yamapi confessed, "I am."
Katori got us to yell again with, "How's EroP?!" He mentioned how Yamashita had shown up on "Sma x Sma" with Kimura.
Pi laughed, "I'm very surprised that I'm standing on the same stage as a SMAP member."
Katori bragged to us, "I'm with Yamapi every day. We film together, e~very day. It hasn't started on TV yet, but..." While he was talking, he'd stepped closer and closer to Yamapi, until he was directly in front of him, staring him in the face. "I can get very close." We "whooo~"ed excitedly. "So you know, Yamapi smells very nice."
Pi grinned at our reactions. "Katori-san does too."
Impressed by Yamapi, Katori said, "I can't believe you're doing this whole thing by yourself. It's amazing. At SMAP's concerts, there's at least one of us in each place. So there's someone for everyone to look at. But you're doing it by yourself."
Y: "I get a lot of energy from everybody. It's ero-ero power!"
K: "Everyone has your uchiwa too. At our concerts, whenever I wave at someone with my uchiwa, they hide it."
Yamapi changed the topic to underwear after he saw someone waving a pair. "Some of the fans are carrying it with them. They are the special EroP underwear that came with the album when they bought it. I've seen uchiwa that say "put it on your head" because I'd done it before.
K: "What do girls think of that?"
We cheered.
K: "So today's your last concert."
Y: "I was really nervous at first, but now I'm getting more relaxed. But I'm also sad that it's ending."
K: "What concert was the one that got the most excited?"
Y: "Today."
The crowd shouted "Yay!"
K: "You gave the right answer."
Y: "So I made the new song with him and since it was the first time, I also asked for some advice. I told him that I thought my fans were important, but he told me I should treat them more like lovers."
We laughed and yelled back. Katori directed us to do Tamori-san's clap at the same time. If you don't already know what it is, then don't worry.
Y: "That's why I've been saying it."
Us: Whooo~
Y: You're so excited. And I saw how much effort you put into some of your outfits." (Hinting that they were erotic.)
Katori made us laugh as he slowly listed off, "So you're his lovers. And you'll buy his goods, his tickets, his CDs, and watch his TV shows. You're ALL his important lovers." ^_^ He returned his attention to Yamapi. "You're all alone up here most of the time. What do you talk about? Do they just tell you, "Do _!"?"
Y: "I talk about the campaigns that I've been on, the fan club that was just made, and they ask me questions."
K: "Questions? I have one. Can I stay here?" He turned to tell us, "This got decided very suddenly. We'd talked a little about when to come out and what to do while we were filming, but not when I should leave."
Y: "Well, I'm going to do the question corner next."
K: "I'll do anything."
Y: "Then can you go to that side?"
Katori repeated with a blank look, "That side? What?"
Y: "There are stairs over there. You can take questions for either you or me. Both is fine."
Katori kept turning back to Yamapi, asking uncertainly, "Is it really okay for a star to go down there and leave the stage? Um, I'm going now." He took a few steps and stopped. "You know, the height of the stage is very important. It's the height that makes a person a celebrity. Is it actually okay to go down?" He finally got all the way off the stairs and looked around in surprise at how close the fans were.
Y: "How about you do the first question?"
K: "No, you do it. I don't know what I'm supposed to do."
Y: "It can be a question for either of us."
Katori rejected that, whining, "Yamapi de ii yo." (Just stick to asking Yamapi.)
The first girl said, "Today, the last concert is finishing and it's really sad. What should I do?"
We laughed. Yamapi answered, "I'll do another concert again soon. You'll just have to wait a little while. Listen to the album in the meantime."
K: "Yamapi says he'll be doing another concert soon." He picked a girl. "Do you have a question for Yamapi?"
Girl: "I think that Yamapi's armpit hair has become thinner."
Katori laughed as Pi tried to rebuke that statement. "I haven't done anything with it."
K: "Since when has this happened?"
Girl: "Since 'Love Chase'."
Y: "I think that was something to do with the lighting. My armpit's are completely natural."
K: "SMAP hasn't made it to that level yet either."
The next girl said, "I'm going to be playing a basketball game soon. Will I win?"
Y: "I'm NOT a psychic. But I think you'll win."
Katori was playing around with something that a fan had passed to him before picking the next person who was an older lady.
She said to him, "Show me your body." We laughed hysterically at that and Shingo's face.
K: "What?" He leaned in to listen to what she had meant. She pointed at his arm and chest, probably meaning either of them would be fine, but Katori had other ideas. He opened his jacket and pulled her in for a big bear hug.
Shakily, she said, "I'll never forget this for the rest of my life."
Katori smiled at her and said cheekily, "Please cheer on SMAP too."
Yamapi had moved over closer to where Katori was and told him they should choose the last person. Shingo got distracted by a fan that had managed to grab his finger and hold him back. He teasingly yelled, "Give back my finger!" and then asked Yamapi, "The fans are so close! Is it always like this?"
The last person they picked was a foreign fan who was very excited and stumbled over their words a little. "I'm a Hong Kong fan. I want to join the fan club. Why... How should I?"
Y: "You should be able to join." (I think he meant the international one, but they meant the official Japanese one.)
Girl: "No, you need a Japanese address.
Y: "Okay, then I'll talk to them." Ahaha.
Girl: "And I want to say I'm sorry about having my I-pod." (The staff had probably taken it at the gates or something and it had most likely had all her Yamapi music on it.) "They said it was okay, even though it was in my bag, but they took it."
K: "Which do you like better, your i-pod or Yamapi?"
Girl: "Yamapi."
K: "As expected of a Yamapi fan. I'm standing this close to her, but it's perfectly okay." The fan had been staring at Yamashita the whole time while Katori held his mic out for her to speak into. We had to laugh when she reached out and took the mic away and started talking again.
Yamapi said with a big grin, "Xie xie. Thank you," as Katori pretended to be annoyed at how funny Pi found it and said, "Give my mic back."
K: "Yamapi concert's are so close up."
Y: "It makes me very grateful." He told us, "I was talking with Katori-san about this earlier and he matched the silver and black outfit for me." Their outfits went along very well together. Katori looked very stylish. ^_^
K: "I told the staff that it'd be fine if I made the outfit myself from my own clothes, so I asked Yamapi what colors he'd wear. When he said silver and black, I frantically started thinking about what I should pick." In my opinion, he choose perfectly. "I hope you'll watch the drama and keep supporting Yamapi. Oh, and there are a lot of important people over there (he pointed at the VIP section) so everyone should say 'Yamapi wo yoroshiku onegaishimasu' to them." (A phrase used when you hope that people will treat someone favorably in the future.) "When I say 'ready~', please say it." We all followed his lead and Yamashita bowed to both Katori for going out of his way to do that and the VIP section.
K: "It might be something small, but in the end, it could make his future. Don't let the passion in your hearts fade. Treat him well from now on. Yamapi, you should wrap this up. I'll be here until the end and I'll be checking on you." As he went down the stairs into the back of the stage, he stopped suddenly and said, "Suki da zo!"
Now that his sempai wasn't on the stage anymore, Yamapi playfully collapsed to his hands and knees in relief that the pressure was gone. "I was so nervous! Is it okay if I drink this?" It was so cute! He recovered and got back up. "We're filming the drama now. We play the roles of cops, but Katori-san is more carefree while I'm the son of a distinguished family."
Us: Whooo~
Y: "It should be interesting. Oh, and there's one more thing. There're a few kouhai that are here tonight too." He introduced the people that had come. There were 6 of them that stood up. Bakarea was there and Yamapi talked with them briefly about their concert and upcoming movie.
Yamapi started to wrap up the MC. He pointed out into the crowd. "To the woman that hugged Katori-san before, you cheated on me, didn't you? But that's okay. I'm an adult. It's okay if you cheat, so long as you come back to me in the end."
Us: Whooo~
It was time to pick the winners tonight. Pi said, "We're going to do a ballot now, but the winners always get so shy. They just freeze. Like they're half conscious. Please relax when you get up here. And when I announce the seats, there have been some times when I get no reactions at all. Please try to."
The first one in the south stands C block didn't yell much, but the second in Arena C-6 sure did.
Y: "Ii ne~." (Nice. That's the way to do it.)
He sidetracked on the fact that there were a lot of guys in the audience. "Being surrounded by so many girls all the time, I'm just happy when I say something and the guys can get it. Can all the men in the crowd say "EroP"? (They did.) You can ask me any kind of muscle training questions."
After "Kibou ~ Yell", he thanked the staff. "Seriously, thank you. I ate dinner with about a hundred of the staff members after one of the concerts and there were so many that did lighting, the band, build the stage, and then there are the fans that came. Thank you to everyone. This time that you gave to spend with me is very important. Please-
He messed up his words again. ^_^ He got so annoyed at himself that he did this cute frustrated stomp with his feet. We "whooo~" to let him know that we liked it. He did his Rola impression in return. "Have fun and enjoy the second half!" (There was no special cheer, just "Yay!" from us.)
The band performed their intro and Pi came back out for "Be the One", "Shiver", and "Romantic". The two young women that got chosen were welcomed onto the stage. While he sang, Yamapi stroked the hair of one of the girls. When he sat down, he did his silly awkward kick to cross his legs.
"Where are you from? (Saitama.) Saitama, eh? What's your name? (Chika.) Chika. Who are you here with? ("My friend, Nagomi." who yelled out loudly from the crowd at that.) Whoa! Thank you. How old are you? (17.) Then you'll be taking your college exams soon? (No.) But you're in high school, right? (Yes.) But no studying for exams? (No.) Really? Is that okay? (I probably can't make it into college.) Well, they are re-airing "Dragon Zakura" on TV now. You should watch that for some hints."
I'd just happened to have watched a bit of that on TV today.
He wiped the sweat off his forehead and then forcibly re-crossed his legs the other way.
"What's your name? ("Hasugi." She'd said it rather unemotionally, probably still in shock from being chosen.) Are you mad right now? ("No." She smiled a little.) Where are you from? (Tokyo.) Who are you here with? ("My friend, Ryo-chan." The smile disappeared again.) Did something bad happen today? (No.) Are you having fun? (Yes.) How many of you came together? (The two of us.) What is your hobby? (Yamapi.)" He stood up and said, "Did you hear that? Her hobby is Yamapi. You get 200 points."
The Ero Pandas came out for "Baby, Baby" and Pi complained about being shoved into the yellow YamaP-chan outfit. He did his groping gesture again and after we yelled, he casually said, "Azasu~" (Thank you.) Let's samba time! Yahoo~!" We kept copying him until the dancers came out. He did a silly dance and then tried to imitate the dancer's moves. Pi said, "Oh my! Oh my!" as they stole his jacket.
When he started his "live changing", he said, "Since this is the last night, why don't I do the bottoms too?!" Yamapi pulled off his pants, leaving him in boxers. He "hid" his *package* with the silhouette of his hands and shook his hips around. Next, he tugged on his 'Carina' pants, posing to show off his muscles several times and struggling to get his shirt on. "It's the last day, so it's fine to take it all off!"
The gangsters came out after "Carina". Pi scolded, "Why are you trying to ruin the final concert? You shouldn't be carrying such dangerous things. I bet you're just jealous that I was with those girls. Stop! I'm gonna remember you for this." And he got shoved into the box.
He kept complaining, "Let me out! Is that a camera? Yamapi is in big trouble. Help me! And it's shaking now. This is bad. This is very bad." He's always funny when he's begging for help.
We enjoyed "Blood Diamond", "Odoru Yoru", "Perfect Crime", and "Nayami no Mori no Mannaka". He told us, "I said it before, but I want to say 'thank you' again. When I see your faces and know that you're having fun because of something that I've done, I'm very grateful. Even when you've all become old ladies, (We laughed.) and I've become an old man, let's keep having fun together. With my kouhai and sempai here too, I feel very warm inside."
The juniors that got introduced in "Candy" were Kazunoshi and Minato. Kazu got stuck trying to come up with a hobby until he thought of dance and Minato said his favorite sempai was Yamashita.
Pi traveled around the arena on his P cart during "Dance Jam" and "Touch You". "Thank you for coming. Please be careful getting home!" Like we were even close to being ready to leave.
He waved to us using both hands and legs. ^_^ There were spinning fireworks at the top of the stage that went off too.
The first encore was predictably "Daite Senorita" and "Seishun Amigo" at the top of the stadium. He blew lots of kisses for the second song.
At the back screen, it said "Good work on your tour," from the staff members. He came out in a black EroP shirt. "Did you call?" (Yeah!) He nodded his head quickly at our yell. "Bye. (EH?!?!!) Of course I wouldn't really leave! I'm really sad that this is ending. I'm always at my happiest in concerts. Do you want to do one more? (Yeah!) When I was going around before, even the people in the very last rows were jumping around and waving a lot." (Whooo~)
After "Loveless", we started shouting "one more" again and he asked us, "You really want to do another? Do you? This will be finish up the tour. Let's have some more fun then!" (Whooo~)
In "Ai, Texas", he took off his black t-shirt, revealing the white one under it, and threw it into the crowd. As he went by the VIP section, he bowed to them politely. Then he blew us some more kisses. "My armpit hair hasn't gotten thin!!"
He left again and I could tell that the fans were still trying to figure out when would be a good time to try to start singing for the surprise, but since there was no real leader to help them with it, they just stuck with the "one more" chant.
The third encore started when he reappeared. "I'm EroP! Encores always make me happy. (Whoo~) A few months will have passed before I can do another concert, so I hope tonight will stay in your memories. Is it okay if we all get 'ero' now?!" He performed "Ero" as the last song. The white shirt came off too and got tossed away. The "Bye bye" was changed to "Aishiteru" (I love you). "For real, thank you so much.
Yamapi left again and we started the "one more" call, hoping he'd come back out since it was the last night. And he did!!
He didn't have a mic with him and he gestured for all of us to be quiet. But instead of giving him the opportunity to yell to us without his mic, the fans took that as the perfect chance to start singing "Nayami no Mori no Mannaka".
It worked rather well when the rest of the crowd figured out what to do. Pi looked around at us as we sang together with a surprised expression that gradually changed into a smile. When we finished the chorus, we cheered to let him know we were done and he wasn't sure what to do for a second. He motioned for us to "wait" and ran to go get a microphone.
"Just now, I was going to yell 'Thank you' without the mic, but then you all surprised me by singing. That was great. Thank you... Usually, when you just read magazines or watch me on TV, it's hard to know what I'm really like. Did you have fun with me today? (Yeah!) But you really surprised me. From little kids to 'shi no giri giri no hito' (people who look like they're about ready to die ^_^ Ahaha!), everyone was singing." He pulled away his mic and stepped forward.
The whole stadium went silent as he yelled at the top of his lungs, "Minna no koto ga daisuki!" ( I love you all!) As expected, we "whooo~"ed in reply. He went back to the stairs and turning around one last time, blew us a kiss.
I think our excitement level peaked when Katori showed up, but that was a perfect end to the night. The concert ended at 8: 50, much later than the other ones. Yay~ (^_^)v
Thank you for reading.
<3
Last!
Didn't feel like waiting in the heat, so I showed up right as they opened the doors. My seat was on the north side tonight.
I spotted the numerous cameras, so I think this will probably be included in the DVD. I also heard people spreading the rumor about the surprise idea suggested by a Japanese fan on the net. I'll talk about how well that went later. The screens displayed "Final" on them.
Yamapi came out on his lips for "Ero". By the way, there were a TON of "whooo~"s tonight. (It sounds like the second half of "Yahoo" when we say it.) As we threw our hands up in the air to the beat, we yelled it every time. He changed the "Bye Bye" to "Suki da zo!"
"Let's get closer!" The talk part for "Ai, Texas" was "Today, as I was looking at your faces on this side (south), and this side (north)... Ah! And the arena too! I thought...You're all so 'ero'!!!" We cheered loudly. "Let's make this the best memory of summer!"
"Have fun at the final show!" "Hadakanbo", "Kimi to Kaze to Mikazuki", and "Inside, Outside" finished and he said, "I'm EroP!" He did his armpit-covered wave. "You're all so excited that it surprised me. Are you having fun?! This will be the final festival of this summer. I hope we can become one and that-" He fumbled with his words a bit. "Ah, I screwed up. I'm just a mess. Since it's the end of summer... (Whooo~) Ah, it came out again. You know, out of the many Johnnys concerts, the EroP ones are the only ones that always have "Yahooo~"s in it. (Whooo~) You can ask me to do anything you want. Let's have fun 'til the end."
I thoroughly enjoyed "Love Chase", "One in a Million", and "Hit the Wall" for the last time. He said, "Put your hands up" in both Japanese and English tonight.
"Gomen ne, Juliet" and "Boku Dake no Kimi ni" were in the middle and on our side. To get off the raised "P" stand, he kicked backwards to open the door without looking. The yells in "Turn Off the Lights" were the usual ones.
"Party Don't Stop" was the most exciting part!!
He played with the cameras and blew his kisses, then went back to the main stage with the dancers. THEN! In a pause in the song, a trap door in the bottom of the stage opened and who popped out but Katori Shingo!! We were all going wild at that! (It's not something I mention often, but I'm actually a big fan of Katori. I was VERY happy he showed up tonight.) He sang the end of the song with Pi too!
Yamapi told us with a smirk, "I told you today was going to be a festival." Shingo smiled and introduced himself, "I'm Katori. Ohayo gozaimasu. (Said monotone like in the song). Thank you." We were still very excited, so we screamed back. Yamapi said, "Sugoi."
Katori went on to say, "This side (south), this side (north), and the arena, you're all so ero! I saw it." He turned to Yamapi, who was grinning. "I think you all know, but we're doing a drama together called "Monsters". We worked on the collaboration song for the SMAP album together too."
Yamapi said, "All I could think about earlier was that I'd messed up while I was talking." Katori nodded. "Yeah, the arena. But this is really amazing. To everyone here, you're not Yamapi, you're EroP. Everyone, what do you think of EroP?" We cheered to show our approval.
After a brief explanation of how Pi had gotten the "EroP" name, i.e. blaming it on his manager, he told us that he'd try to let out more of his erotic side, instead of hiding it. Katori said, "So, you are ero." We "whooo~"ed again. Yamapi confessed, "I am."
Katori got us to yell again with, "How's EroP?!" He mentioned how Yamashita had shown up on "Sma x Sma" with Kimura.
Pi laughed, "I'm very surprised that I'm standing on the same stage as a SMAP member."
Katori bragged to us, "I'm with Yamapi every day. We film together, e~very day. It hasn't started on TV yet, but..." While he was talking, he'd stepped closer and closer to Yamapi, until he was directly in front of him, staring him in the face. "I can get very close." We "whooo~"ed excitedly. "So you know, Yamapi smells very nice."
Pi grinned at our reactions. "Katori-san does too."
Impressed by Yamapi, Katori said, "I can't believe you're doing this whole thing by yourself. It's amazing. At SMAP's concerts, there's at least one of us in each place. So there's someone for everyone to look at. But you're doing it by yourself."
Y: "I get a lot of energy from everybody. It's ero-ero power!"
K: "Everyone has your uchiwa too. At our concerts, whenever I wave at someone with my uchiwa, they hide it."
Yamapi changed the topic to underwear after he saw someone waving a pair. "Some of the fans are carrying it with them. They are the special EroP underwear that came with the album when they bought it. I've seen uchiwa that say "put it on your head" because I'd done it before.
K: "What do girls think of that?"
We cheered.
K: "So today's your last concert."
Y: "I was really nervous at first, but now I'm getting more relaxed. But I'm also sad that it's ending."
K: "What concert was the one that got the most excited?"
Y: "Today."
The crowd shouted "Yay!"
K: "You gave the right answer."
Y: "So I made the new song with him and since it was the first time, I also asked for some advice. I told him that I thought my fans were important, but he told me I should treat them more like lovers."
We laughed and yelled back. Katori directed us to do Tamori-san's clap at the same time. If you don't already know what it is, then don't worry.
Y: "That's why I've been saying it."
Us: Whooo~
Y: You're so excited. And I saw how much effort you put into some of your outfits." (Hinting that they were erotic.)
Katori made us laugh as he slowly listed off, "So you're his lovers. And you'll buy his goods, his tickets, his CDs, and watch his TV shows. You're ALL his important lovers." ^_^ He returned his attention to Yamapi. "You're all alone up here most of the time. What do you talk about? Do they just tell you, "Do _!"?"
Y: "I talk about the campaigns that I've been on, the fan club that was just made, and they ask me questions."
K: "Questions? I have one. Can I stay here?" He turned to tell us, "This got decided very suddenly. We'd talked a little about when to come out and what to do while we were filming, but not when I should leave."
Y: "Well, I'm going to do the question corner next."
K: "I'll do anything."
Y: "Then can you go to that side?"
Katori repeated with a blank look, "That side? What?"
Y: "There are stairs over there. You can take questions for either you or me. Both is fine."
Katori kept turning back to Yamapi, asking uncertainly, "Is it really okay for a star to go down there and leave the stage? Um, I'm going now." He took a few steps and stopped. "You know, the height of the stage is very important. It's the height that makes a person a celebrity. Is it actually okay to go down?" He finally got all the way off the stairs and looked around in surprise at how close the fans were.
Y: "How about you do the first question?"
K: "No, you do it. I don't know what I'm supposed to do."
Y: "It can be a question for either of us."
Katori rejected that, whining, "Yamapi de ii yo." (Just stick to asking Yamapi.)
The first girl said, "Today, the last concert is finishing and it's really sad. What should I do?"
We laughed. Yamapi answered, "I'll do another concert again soon. You'll just have to wait a little while. Listen to the album in the meantime."
K: "Yamapi says he'll be doing another concert soon." He picked a girl. "Do you have a question for Yamapi?"
Girl: "I think that Yamapi's armpit hair has become thinner."
Katori laughed as Pi tried to rebuke that statement. "I haven't done anything with it."
K: "Since when has this happened?"
Girl: "Since 'Love Chase'."
Y: "I think that was something to do with the lighting. My armpit's are completely natural."
K: "SMAP hasn't made it to that level yet either."
The next girl said, "I'm going to be playing a basketball game soon. Will I win?"
Y: "I'm NOT a psychic. But I think you'll win."
Katori was playing around with something that a fan had passed to him before picking the next person who was an older lady.
She said to him, "Show me your body." We laughed hysterically at that and Shingo's face.
K: "What?" He leaned in to listen to what she had meant. She pointed at his arm and chest, probably meaning either of them would be fine, but Katori had other ideas. He opened his jacket and pulled her in for a big bear hug.
Shakily, she said, "I'll never forget this for the rest of my life."
Katori smiled at her and said cheekily, "Please cheer on SMAP too."
Yamapi had moved over closer to where Katori was and told him they should choose the last person. Shingo got distracted by a fan that had managed to grab his finger and hold him back. He teasingly yelled, "Give back my finger!" and then asked Yamapi, "The fans are so close! Is it always like this?"
The last person they picked was a foreign fan who was very excited and stumbled over their words a little. "I'm a Hong Kong fan. I want to join the fan club. Why... How should I?"
Y: "You should be able to join." (I think he meant the international one, but they meant the official Japanese one.)
Girl: "No, you need a Japanese address.
Y: "Okay, then I'll talk to them." Ahaha.
Girl: "And I want to say I'm sorry about having my I-pod." (The staff had probably taken it at the gates or something and it had most likely had all her Yamapi music on it.) "They said it was okay, even though it was in my bag, but they took it."
K: "Which do you like better, your i-pod or Yamapi?"
Girl: "Yamapi."
K: "As expected of a Yamapi fan. I'm standing this close to her, but it's perfectly okay." The fan had been staring at Yamashita the whole time while Katori held his mic out for her to speak into. We had to laugh when she reached out and took the mic away and started talking again.
Yamapi said with a big grin, "Xie xie. Thank you," as Katori pretended to be annoyed at how funny Pi found it and said, "Give my mic back."
K: "Yamapi concert's are so close up."
Y: "It makes me very grateful." He told us, "I was talking with Katori-san about this earlier and he matched the silver and black outfit for me." Their outfits went along very well together. Katori looked very stylish. ^_^
K: "I told the staff that it'd be fine if I made the outfit myself from my own clothes, so I asked Yamapi what colors he'd wear. When he said silver and black, I frantically started thinking about what I should pick." In my opinion, he choose perfectly. "I hope you'll watch the drama and keep supporting Yamapi. Oh, and there are a lot of important people over there (he pointed at the VIP section) so everyone should say 'Yamapi wo yoroshiku onegaishimasu' to them." (A phrase used when you hope that people will treat someone favorably in the future.) "When I say 'ready~', please say it." We all followed his lead and Yamashita bowed to both Katori for going out of his way to do that and the VIP section.
K: "It might be something small, but in the end, it could make his future. Don't let the passion in your hearts fade. Treat him well from now on. Yamapi, you should wrap this up. I'll be here until the end and I'll be checking on you." As he went down the stairs into the back of the stage, he stopped suddenly and said, "Suki da zo!"
Now that his sempai wasn't on the stage anymore, Yamapi playfully collapsed to his hands and knees in relief that the pressure was gone. "I was so nervous! Is it okay if I drink this?" It was so cute! He recovered and got back up. "We're filming the drama now. We play the roles of cops, but Katori-san is more carefree while I'm the son of a distinguished family."
Us: Whooo~
Y: "It should be interesting. Oh, and there's one more thing. There're a few kouhai that are here tonight too." He introduced the people that had come. There were 6 of them that stood up. Bakarea was there and Yamapi talked with them briefly about their concert and upcoming movie.
Yamapi started to wrap up the MC. He pointed out into the crowd. "To the woman that hugged Katori-san before, you cheated on me, didn't you? But that's okay. I'm an adult. It's okay if you cheat, so long as you come back to me in the end."
Us: Whooo~
It was time to pick the winners tonight. Pi said, "We're going to do a ballot now, but the winners always get so shy. They just freeze. Like they're half conscious. Please relax when you get up here. And when I announce the seats, there have been some times when I get no reactions at all. Please try to."
The first one in the south stands C block didn't yell much, but the second in Arena C-6 sure did.
Y: "Ii ne~." (Nice. That's the way to do it.)
He sidetracked on the fact that there were a lot of guys in the audience. "Being surrounded by so many girls all the time, I'm just happy when I say something and the guys can get it. Can all the men in the crowd say "EroP"? (They did.) You can ask me any kind of muscle training questions."
After "Kibou ~ Yell", he thanked the staff. "Seriously, thank you. I ate dinner with about a hundred of the staff members after one of the concerts and there were so many that did lighting, the band, build the stage, and then there are the fans that came. Thank you to everyone. This time that you gave to spend with me is very important. Please-
He messed up his words again. ^_^ He got so annoyed at himself that he did this cute frustrated stomp with his feet. We "whooo~" to let him know that we liked it. He did his Rola impression in return. "Have fun and enjoy the second half!" (There was no special cheer, just "Yay!" from us.)
The band performed their intro and Pi came back out for "Be the One", "Shiver", and "Romantic". The two young women that got chosen were welcomed onto the stage. While he sang, Yamapi stroked the hair of one of the girls. When he sat down, he did his silly awkward kick to cross his legs.
"Where are you from? (Saitama.) Saitama, eh? What's your name? (Chika.) Chika. Who are you here with? ("My friend, Nagomi." who yelled out loudly from the crowd at that.) Whoa! Thank you. How old are you? (17.) Then you'll be taking your college exams soon? (No.) But you're in high school, right? (Yes.) But no studying for exams? (No.) Really? Is that okay? (I probably can't make it into college.) Well, they are re-airing "Dragon Zakura" on TV now. You should watch that for some hints."
I'd just happened to have watched a bit of that on TV today.
He wiped the sweat off his forehead and then forcibly re-crossed his legs the other way.
"What's your name? ("Hasugi." She'd said it rather unemotionally, probably still in shock from being chosen.) Are you mad right now? ("No." She smiled a little.) Where are you from? (Tokyo.) Who are you here with? ("My friend, Ryo-chan." The smile disappeared again.) Did something bad happen today? (No.) Are you having fun? (Yes.) How many of you came together? (The two of us.) What is your hobby? (Yamapi.)" He stood up and said, "Did you hear that? Her hobby is Yamapi. You get 200 points."
The Ero Pandas came out for "Baby, Baby" and Pi complained about being shoved into the yellow YamaP-chan outfit. He did his groping gesture again and after we yelled, he casually said, "Azasu~" (Thank you.) Let's samba time! Yahoo~!" We kept copying him until the dancers came out. He did a silly dance and then tried to imitate the dancer's moves. Pi said, "Oh my! Oh my!" as they stole his jacket.
When he started his "live changing", he said, "Since this is the last night, why don't I do the bottoms too?!" Yamapi pulled off his pants, leaving him in boxers. He "hid" his *package* with the silhouette of his hands and shook his hips around. Next, he tugged on his 'Carina' pants, posing to show off his muscles several times and struggling to get his shirt on. "It's the last day, so it's fine to take it all off!"
The gangsters came out after "Carina". Pi scolded, "Why are you trying to ruin the final concert? You shouldn't be carrying such dangerous things. I bet you're just jealous that I was with those girls. Stop! I'm gonna remember you for this." And he got shoved into the box.
He kept complaining, "Let me out! Is that a camera? Yamapi is in big trouble. Help me! And it's shaking now. This is bad. This is very bad." He's always funny when he's begging for help.
We enjoyed "Blood Diamond", "Odoru Yoru", "Perfect Crime", and "Nayami no Mori no Mannaka". He told us, "I said it before, but I want to say 'thank you' again. When I see your faces and know that you're having fun because of something that I've done, I'm very grateful. Even when you've all become old ladies, (We laughed.) and I've become an old man, let's keep having fun together. With my kouhai and sempai here too, I feel very warm inside."
The juniors that got introduced in "Candy" were Kazunoshi and Minato. Kazu got stuck trying to come up with a hobby until he thought of dance and Minato said his favorite sempai was Yamashita.
Pi traveled around the arena on his P cart during "Dance Jam" and "Touch You". "Thank you for coming. Please be careful getting home!" Like we were even close to being ready to leave.
He waved to us using both hands and legs. ^_^ There were spinning fireworks at the top of the stage that went off too.
The first encore was predictably "Daite Senorita" and "Seishun Amigo" at the top of the stadium. He blew lots of kisses for the second song.
At the back screen, it said "Good work on your tour," from the staff members. He came out in a black EroP shirt. "Did you call?" (Yeah!) He nodded his head quickly at our yell. "Bye. (EH?!?!!) Of course I wouldn't really leave! I'm really sad that this is ending. I'm always at my happiest in concerts. Do you want to do one more? (Yeah!) When I was going around before, even the people in the very last rows were jumping around and waving a lot." (Whooo~)
After "Loveless", we started shouting "one more" again and he asked us, "You really want to do another? Do you? This will be finish up the tour. Let's have some more fun then!" (Whooo~)
In "Ai, Texas", he took off his black t-shirt, revealing the white one under it, and threw it into the crowd. As he went by the VIP section, he bowed to them politely. Then he blew us some more kisses. "My armpit hair hasn't gotten thin!!"
He left again and I could tell that the fans were still trying to figure out when would be a good time to try to start singing for the surprise, but since there was no real leader to help them with it, they just stuck with the "one more" chant.
The third encore started when he reappeared. "I'm EroP! Encores always make me happy. (Whoo~) A few months will have passed before I can do another concert, so I hope tonight will stay in your memories. Is it okay if we all get 'ero' now?!" He performed "Ero" as the last song. The white shirt came off too and got tossed away. The "Bye bye" was changed to "Aishiteru" (I love you). "For real, thank you so much.
Yamapi left again and we started the "one more" call, hoping he'd come back out since it was the last night. And he did!!
He didn't have a mic with him and he gestured for all of us to be quiet. But instead of giving him the opportunity to yell to us without his mic, the fans took that as the perfect chance to start singing "Nayami no Mori no Mannaka".
It worked rather well when the rest of the crowd figured out what to do. Pi looked around at us as we sang together with a surprised expression that gradually changed into a smile. When we finished the chorus, we cheered to let him know we were done and he wasn't sure what to do for a second. He motioned for us to "wait" and ran to go get a microphone.
"Just now, I was going to yell 'Thank you' without the mic, but then you all surprised me by singing. That was great. Thank you... Usually, when you just read magazines or watch me on TV, it's hard to know what I'm really like. Did you have fun with me today? (Yeah!) But you really surprised me. From little kids to 'shi no giri giri no hito' (people who look like they're about ready to die ^_^ Ahaha!), everyone was singing." He pulled away his mic and stepped forward.
The whole stadium went silent as he yelled at the top of his lungs, "Minna no koto ga daisuki!" ( I love you all!) As expected, we "whooo~"ed in reply. He went back to the stairs and turning around one last time, blew us a kiss.
I think our excitement level peaked when Katori showed up, but that was a perfect end to the night. The concert ended at 8: 50, much later than the other ones. Yay~ (^_^)v
Thank you for reading.
<3