Tackey & Tsubasa OUR FUTURE concert report November 1, 2, 3

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Earlier this month I was lucky to get to attend Tackey & Tsubasa's OUR FUTURE tour in Tokyo together with lovespiral, pinkpapyrus and Rin-chan! Thank you girls for the company! :3 And a special award for my friend M-san who is the most awesome person alive - as always I owe her EVERYTHING and some more. ♥♥♥

ANYWAY!! I finally got around to writing up my report, so

First thing first! I have to warn you that this is going to be looong! And while I try to be as detailed as possible, it's going to be jumbled and random! So good luck to you if you're planning on reading this, lol! \^_^/

Goods!
I was so sad that there once again wasn't a pamphlet. Pamphlets are always my favorite goods, so it was really a pity that there was none. But other than that I LOVED the goods this time! <3 The ♥-logo was a given - lovespiral kept saying before they had showed us the goods how they absolutely must use the heart as their concert-logo! And they did! ^^ LOVED it~!
And since I'm a sad person I of course bought everything, lol...



Everything! ^^

There was a scrunchie, and since I'm a big fan of scrunchies I had to buy two...! I bought one for use, since I use them all the time and this one is actually really nice! It's a cute purple colour, and it's quite big. "TACKEY & TSUBASA" is written quite discreetly on it in white letters. And the best thing - It's got sparkly rhinestones on it! *_* A few silvery ones that's really pretty - seriously, not tacky at all! I used it around one of my hairbuns for the thirs con and there was several of the japanese fans who came up to me and complimented my hair!! :3333 ♥


The other goods were a "dress sticker", which is a sticker you put on your pasmo- or suica-subway card, to make it prettier, and a T-shirt with the heart logo on it -the staff members T-shirts were black. And of course takitsubas ones were pimped out with sequins and glitter! Pretty!
Then of course there was my second favorite goods - uchiwas! And, even though both of them looked very serious in their pics, they both looked very pretty! ♥♥♥ And as always there was a muffler-towel for Sora no Screen! ^^ Always so much fun to wave it around during the cons! (Though I only bothered to bring mine out for the 1st con, lol... XD)
The photosets and the clerafiles this time was so nice, I loved them! And I loved it that there was two versions of the clearfile, and that both were unit-ones! :333 I wanted a unit uchiwa too... :3

Free goods!
When we entered Yoyogi Stadium, we were handed first a pair of 3D glasses to use for watching the 3D videos on the big screen, and then we were also handed a pair of sparkly pom poms! Takki had said before the concert that he wanted the fans to bring pink pom poms for his solo corner! But to make sure no one would be left out he gave all of us takitsuba coloured pom pom's for the concerts! One blue and one pink one. ^^ Of course, since they were for Takki's solo, they are shiny! ^^

Setlist!
-3D opening video.
-Journey Journey~bokura no mirai~
-Hey Now!
-Yamanotesen Sotomawari
-Venus
-Aishiteru ze, T&T
-Takitsuba call
-Mini MC
-Ai wa Takaramono
-L.O.V.E
-Billions of You
-Spotlight
-Diamond
-Queen of R
-Hey! Listen to the music
-3D video
-Gimira
-MC part
-Tomo Yo
-Kimagure JET (Takki solo)
-Imagine (Tsubasa solo)
-Cherry Sweet
-Real DX
-Yume Monogatari
-Ho!Summer
-X-Dame-
-One Day One Dream
-Kamen
-Samurai
-Sora no Screen
-Luv the Shangri-La
-Heartful Voice

Encore 1st show:
-Jikan Ryoko
-Love Spiral
-Ai wa Takaramono
-Hito natsu no
-Crazy Rainbow

Encore 2nd show:
-Love Spiral
-Jikan Ryoko
-Journey Journey
-Hito Natsu no
-Ai wa takaramono
-Crazy rainbow

Encore 3rd show:
-Love Spiral
-Jikan Ryoko
-Journey Journey
-Hito Natsu no...
-Ai wa Takaramono
-Crazy Rainbow
-Venus
-Yume Monogatari

Seats:
1st con: 2nd floor stand, pretty much as high up as you could get, just by the backstage! The seats were quite bad but I'm still quite fond of seats like that - for the 1st con they're all right at least, especially since you get a nice overview look of the whole stage arrangement - how the runways goes around the arena, how the stages are built, where the carts might go. And there's of course that AMAZING feeling of INTENSITY and PASSION and extreme HAPPINESS and EXCITEMENT when the lights goes out and everyone rushes to stand up and all the penlights are lit up... that sea of penlights are one of the most beautiful sight I know! ♥ Oh, and, while sitting up there I saw two boys entering the stand-seats on the opposite side from us! They were seriously adorable, one of them dressed in a bright pink suit with a matching hat, and one of them wearing a blue suit with a matching hat! I remember that I turned to pinkpapyrus and was all, "LOOK AT THEM! BOYSSSS!!!" All super DXcited! XD I saw them the day after that too, they were standing up doing the takitsuba call super loudly before the con started! ♥

2nd con: Awesome seats oh my god. ;_; My friend M-san saved our lives by helping me and lovespiral to get tickets in the arena-section for an okay price (but, my goodness, they were still so expensive... what happened??? O_O), and we were just two rows from the backstage oh my gooooddd we were seriously so close. They didn't do many songs on the backstage though, but maybe that was for the best or I would've totally combusted or self ignited or whatever... died from bloodloss from nosebleeding too much!

third con: We were in stand-block, but on the 1st floor. 6th row in the middle of the arena, so pretty much right by the center stage and close to the runway!! These seats were also quite great, though I still feel disappointed that they were mostly on the main stage during the whole con!

Juniors! The main juniors were FourYou (4U?) and They Budou And then there was also Junior Boys as a side dish. I'm not too familiar with either of them, but of course I know Tatsumi from FourYou since I know Tsubasa and Tatsumi is one of Tsubasa's boytoys. And I've liked TheyBudou as a unit ever since they were in Tsubasa's solo stuff before - I don't know them, per say, but they're very very talented! Junior boys were just... there. ^^;;;;
And of course FiVe was there too, but Ishigaki Daisuke must've gotten lost somewhere (or maybe he was, you know, with Question? somewhere) because they had another keyboardist called Imai Tsubasa! He also played keyboard during the first run of the D&R shows in the beginning of 2009, so I've seen him before! Tsubasa still thinks it's super amusing that they've got the same name! XD)

Guests for the concerts were 1st con, Sakamoto from V6! I LOVED it that he was there. I've always been so fond of Sakamoto and he is also so so handsome! *_*
For 2nd con, it was the whole Kis-My-Ft2. Of course I was massively excited, since Fujigaya is my favorite Jyani-boi after takitsuba. So Fujigaya is my #3, and he was thereee... I had all three of my favorites in the same room at once ahhhhh it was almost too much for my poor, fragile heart to take! :333 The funniest thing was that when I stood in line for the concert my friend K emailed me and wrote, "Look out for kisumai-boys at the con - I think they might be on their way because I just met them at the subway!" and she wrote that she thought she'd seen Kitayama, Yokoo and Senga (I think?) on the subway station of our hotel and they were heading towards Harajuku. And she was right~!

For third con the guests were ABC-Z and Hasegawa Jun! Hasejun seemed sort of... awkward I don't know? The conversation didn't flow as well as it did with the other guests... maybe he was nervous? Or maybe my listening skills are too bad to understand the nuance of the discussion. I just know that to my ears, seemed like the flow of the conversation was smoother with ABC-Z! (And don't misunderstand me, I really like Hasejun!!! :333 But we all know that takitsuba and abc-z really get along well and they have worked together so much these past few years so they're really familiar with each other and seem to like each other so much!)

Anyway, maybe I should finally start on the actual report-part of the concert, lol! ^^;;;;

Opening:
As the light went out in Yoyogi Stadium (which actually feels really tiny - and it's not that small at all! It's not that different from Yokohama Arena, size wise!), and all the penlights were switched on, they opened the concert with a 3D video. The music that was playing was a sort of slightly eerie sounding action melody which made your heart start beating a bit faster! It was a short action movie with takitsuba running around in casual clothes (they were both wearing jeans, and tanktops and unbuttoned shirts - Takki a white one, and Tsubasa a black one, I think? They both looked smashing gah!).
They started out separately, running through a building that seemes like a werehouse or something like that. Big and empty, with stairs and things. In my delusional mind they were of course runninga and fighting to get to each other. Because that makes sense. *nods* Put some symbolism in there, good job boys! ^_^b

Takki came running down the stairs and I think someone tried to beat him with a metalpipe? But that might also have been later. Anyway, he was insanely kakkoii and just punched the guy in the face, and kept running all manly and cool and hot. The film changed to Tsubasa who came running and ahhh why is he so amazingly beautiful even when he's supposed to be all manly and hardcore and cool and waahhhh! *wibble* He was also running, and there was some badguys coming after him too, and then he did that amazing HIGH KICK that kicked the badguys teeth out (you could actually see the teeth flying out with the 3D effect... looked kind of disgusting! XD). But, guys, HIGH KICK! His legs! ~;___;~)

They were running again, and you could see some more fighting scenes, and then they would finally reach each other. They were both followed, so they were soon surrounded by bad guys coming up closer and closer... and ahhhh, I wish I could show this to everyone, but the way they stood, with their backs against each other, like they "always have each other's backs'", and then they would just turn their heads toward each other and Takki would start smiling this smirk and then Tsubasa would smile too and it was so so so GUH-worthy that I didn't even know what to do with myself! Anyway, Tsubasa started taking off his shirt and then he threw it at the camera and that's when the camera faded to black. By now a slower version of the Journey Journey had started playing, but only the ra ra ra part.

And this was when the concert started! The real melody of Journey Journey started playing and at the same time, Takitsuba would rise from under the stage to the top of the stairs on the main stage! They would appear standing hand in hand for all the concerts, and as they sang the "te wo tsukame" part, they'd raise their joined hands and do the "pumping fist" motion before they'd let go of the others hand! This was when pyrotechnics would go off and the concert really started!
I think I already mentioned this somewhere, but Journey Journey was such a great opening song - I was a bit doubtful at first, to open the cons with this song, but it makes sense when you're there because it's such a happy, hopeful song that you just get instantly high tension when you hear it!! Perfect for a takitsuba con!! ^_^
I also love that when you watch them on the big screens, the camera zooms in on their joined hands for a while before they raise them! Love love love that! ♥

Oh, and everytime they did Journey Journey they wanted the audience to sing along to the "ra ra ra" part several times. ^^ It was so cute~!

And seeing them live again, after almost a year... it makes that feeling appear again. It gets stronger every time - how I just want to follow them forever. They care so much about their fans, and they love their fans so much, and they always wants us to be part of it, feel like a part of the concert - singing along, dancing along, doing the furitsuke not for them but with them! That's why they're always the best for me - they care so much about their fans and they are so grateful, always. And that's why I was so sad when I thought they wouldn't come back, and that's why I am so happy that they're back again so strong and so happy and so definitely wanting to do this together again. I might be a delusional major major major fujoshi but no matter how hard I try I can't understand the one-T-only fans. Because no matter what their relationship is or has been or will be... they love being together, love making music together, love having concerts together! Shouldn't that be enough for us also to accept both of them, because they mean so much to each other?

Ahh, I digress. ^^;;; Sorry, this was a con-report, not a takitsuba-ship-manifesto! (though it's not that big a difference at times, lol! XD)

Back to concert!
They were both so pretty! Takki is very very blonde and his hair is quite short. Shaved stripes on the side of his head! Of course he looks gorgeous - he always always always does. He looked so happy, all three days!
Tsubasa was quite tanned! Not too much, but he looked really fresh and healthy and his new haircut was really nice - not that different from before, still longer in the front and with a perm, bit it was much shorter in the back and he DID NOT wear the bra-strap (the one that all the soccer players wear nowadays) around his head, to lovespirals relief! XD (Well, he did wear the strap for the encores but that's okay, I think!)

Their opening-outfits were cute - so much sparkles, but still kind of classy (Oh my god, my sense of what is classy has changed a bit through the years ever since I got into Johnnys!). The pants were silver and SUPER sparkly. But they were glittering so prettily whenever they were walking... or moving their hips, he he heee (read: VENUS). The pants were also very VERY flattering for romeo and juliet! They wore white longish-coats. Tsubasa was also wearing the scratch tattoos for every show. But different ones for all concerts, and placed on different places of his body. (I am so sad about the lack of hadaka/shirtlessness of this con... I wanted to see more tattoos... and more skin. ^^;;;)

For the 2nd song, Hey Now they made their way down from the main stage through the runway and towards the center stage! Hey Now is the B side of Journey Journey and here comes a bad!fan-confession, but I don't think I'd even listened to that song a single time before the concert... fail! But now I LOVE the song! It's also very happy and energetic and cute and catchy! There's a lot of fist pumping and yay going on! I really loved this song during the con's! ^^ So much hand clapping and hand waving and fist pumping already - it was a high tension concert from the very start!! ^^ Oh, and they sang most of this song on the center stage!

Next up was Yamanotesen Sotomawari! I think this song was the one that was most fun during the whole concert!! The dance, the song, the everything was soooo much fun and takitsuba kept smiling and laughing away, and it was so obvious that they were enjoying this song so much!
They went through the carts from the center stage towards the back stage and this was, during the 2nd con, when they came closer to us for the first time ahhhh my heart! I was so doki doki. It hits me every time how extremely beautiful they both are in real life. Takki is alwats gorgous - probably one of the most gorgeous human beings in the world, is my humble opinion, but still... to see him up that close is just... ♥♥♥ he is so beautiful!! (And tiny!! XD Even his feet looks so small when you see him up close and he's not wearing those boats for shoes he's usually wearing).
Tsubasa though, who's not always that photogenique ^^;;;; and sometims seems to just test us what with his hige and his strange haircuts and odd clothes... up close, shaved, nice hair, perfect skin...he looks out of this world. So insanely beautiful in real life that it takes my breath away, always and every time. ♥♥♥

The dance was the same as in the PV but they came walking along the runways, Tsubasa on the left side, and Takki on the right side of the arena. They were still wearing the long coats. They changed some in the lyrics, too, it was sooo much fun! I fail, and I'm not even sure if they did this for all of the cons but at least for the con on the third, they changed one verse to "takitsuba no tabi" and changed the station names to Fujisawa and Hachioji! So so cute! And I didn't realize before the last con either that there was a "cartoon" style video playing on the screens, with the yamanote sen, and then small Takki's and Tsubasa's popping up in the video now and again - it was drawn the same way as the christmas card Tsubasa had for his TSUBASANTA shows in 2008, lol. XD So so cute!
The best thing about it, though, was how extremely smiley takitsuba was!

As one of my friends Rin-chan said when we chatted on the phone for a bit - it was the first time for her to attend a takitsuba concert but she was so impressed and loved it - especially that it was so obvious that they had So Much Fun! Even though they work hard, it's so obvious that they're enjoying it so much - doing concerts, being together, performing together - that they can afford to play too! Just have fun!
I think they're good for each other - I think Takki helps Tsubasa with his "perfectionist-anxiety" quite a lot. Tsubasa always put on great solo shows, but you can also tell how stressed out he is at times - needing to do everything perfectly, and worrying worrying worrying... with Takki, he can relax a bit more because Takki is always there too. And for Takki, I think he lets his workoholic side get a little break too - because with Tsubasa he can have fun and play around for a bit! ^^ That's how it seems to me at least! :)

My point is - they were just playing around having fun in Yamanotesen Sotomawari that's why it was soooo much fun to dance along too!! ♥♥♥

Next up was VENUS. Ahhh, Venus... it's my least favorite song with them but somehow I still enjoy it so much during concerts! XD This time was no exception, especially during the 2nd con!!! *____* They performed it on the backstage and we had seats right in front of the backstage for the 2nd concert, and... there is this thing that Tsubasa does with his hips during the chorus of this song. The part where it's part of the furitsuke to make the "ok" sign with your right hand and raise it over your head multiple times (ahahaha, I'm terrible at explaining things! Fail!). Anyway, Tsubasa has this thing he does with his hips when he does that move and it's just so insanely ero and gah hippppsss. I don't think I even looked at Takki during this song... but on the other hand I wasn't even looking at Tsubasa's face either. All I can remember is hipshipshipships~! Such a beautiful sight, to have Imai Tsubasa doing indecent things with his hips right in front of your eyes. :33333 I think it was during this song that they did the kind of... eh, dance where they all stand in a line and do moves synchronized sort of? I don't kow what it's called but it was cool at least so here's a pic to show you what I mean:



After Venus, it was time for Aishiteru ze, T&T! As I mentioned, we had really crappy seats during the first con... but we still got to see Tsubasa quite close during this song! I was so sure they'd do Aishiteru ze on the runway, as they usually do that, so when the lights went out after VENUS, and the music to Aishiteru ze started playing... I could see Takki run from the backstage, down on the runway and... up the stairs on the opposite side of the arena. And my mind went all "!!!!!!!!!!" and I flailed at lovespiral and pinkpapyrus "IS TSUBASA COMING UP HERE?????"

AND HE WAS! Oh be still my beating heart. It's always so intense, to see him up so close like that, I can't help it but I always get really weak in my knees and it's still so unreal... that they're actually real. I feel kind of sad for admitting that lol! XD

Anyway, Aishiteru ze was fun, as always, but not too rabu rabu. Tsubasa said pretty much the same thing for all the concerts, something like, "I've just turned 30... and for so long/for that long, I've loved him... Takizawa Hideaki!"
Takki's was very cute, saying something along the lines of "Why are you all the way over there (on the other side of the arena)? I'm feeling lonely... I love you, Imai Tsubasa!"

For the second show, I think Takki's was something like "My partner turned 30 years old... from now on too I'll continue to love him, Imai Tsubasa!"

I can't remember the third one at all I fail at everything in life ahhhhhh ;_______;

Of course there was also Aishiteru ze's thrown at FiVe, FourYou and "YOUtachi" but... I don't care that much about that. but it was there, so all is well. XDDDD
After Aishiteu ze, of course it was time for the TAKITSUBA CALL!! Always one of the main highlights of their concerts! It's always so much fun to see what they'll come up with next and they never fail to deliver!
For the first show, after they'd both reached the main stage (they went through the arena STAND section with carts between the 2nd and 1st floor, btw) Tsubasa paused and put out his arms waiting for Takki to give him a hug! And of course Takki is silly as always and he pretended to be nervous, "preparing" to attack, and then he flung himself at Tsubasa! It was soooo cute! Takki was on one knee, Tsubasa standing up straddling Takki's leg.... *_* It was a pretty long hug, with Tsubasa's arm around Takki's shoulders, and Takki's arms around Tsubasa's waist! And after the looong hug, Takki lifted Tsubasa up and spun him around! SO insanely adorable! Tsubasa almost looked a bit dizzy when Takki finally let him down... but on the other hand, I think I would get dizzy and weak in my knees if my prince charming lifted me and started spinning me around. XDDD





For con two, things got even more interesting! It went pretty much the same way - Takki pretending to be shy (Did I imagine that he at one point pretended to fix his hair and making himself look pretty before diving in for the hug? XD)
Anyway this time there was actual groping going on! (Well... not as much groping as it was patting but you know...) Tsubasa kept patting Takki's head while Takki was DEFINITELY stroking Tsubasa's butt! I thougt I was going to die. Oh, Takki, pretending to be shy... he can't fool us!! :333
When they let go of each other, Takki seriously fell down on the floor - it was hilarious, he pretended to be slayed by the Tsuba!sexy and he just lay on the stage floor and twitched for a bit! And all the while you could see this huge smile on his face so so so cute! XD Tsubasa was not impressed and signaled to him to go do his job properly. XD

The third concert was the BEST! They were already so high tension at this part! The hug would start as in the previous concerts, but here, you could see Takki smiling this half coy-half smirk kind of smile and then he would suddenly look up just a litte - for real face no one has ever looked as adorable as Takizawa Hideaki did here! - and he started triling his fingers up Tsubasa's arm. It was like one of my fantasies were coming true on the stage in front of me - it was brilliant! ♥ It wasn't just cute and adorable but it was quite ero and sexy too! And I especially loved it that it was Takki who instigated this! *______*

After that we got to shout their names for a while - for the first and 2nd con we were on Tsubasa's side, on the 3d we were on Takki's! ^^ During the last concert, the best thing ever happened! As they walk around looking for things to use for the call, or even for people to sout their names, they usually walk by themselves... but this time, they waited for each other, took each others hand and walked down the runway between the main stage and the center stage hand-in-hand. But that's not the only thing that happened... after a few steps, Tsubasa stopped, and since they were holding hands, Takki stopped too. And Tsubasa would let go of Takki's hand and rearrange it - His hand was on top (hehehehe...) and now they twined their fingers together! It was sooo adorable and we finally got proper handholding and not that awkward thing they usually do trying to hold on to microphones and whatnot at the same time! It was so so so cute! And Takki looked so happy about it too - Tsubasa kept walking forward and Takki walked, like, maybe half a step behind him looking oh-so-very happy to be led by Tsubasa. So so whipped, Takizaa, sooo whipped! XD



Everyone was "Hyuu~Hyuuu~" ing them so much here it was so cute! :333

After that they continued on with looking for uchiwas and things and they chose some random people to scream their names; mostly men of course! XD Tsubasa asked "Danshi dake" (boys only) to scream his name during the 2nd and 3d concert... and their were so so many!!! And Tsubasa looked so incredibly happy about that too! Takki looked quite impressed too and kept aplauding them and laughing! But seriously you guys.... there was so many men there! I saw quite a lot, and judging by how strong the Tsubasa-call was, there really must've been MANY there!! So wonderful!!
Tsubasa at one point during the 2nd show, I think, took a Tsubasa uchiwa and started petting it really lovingly! but when he started screaming Tsubasa's name, he accidentaly screamed into his microphone so it got REALLY loud! He looked a bit surprised himself and Tsubasa kept laughing at him! XD


Tsubasa did the same thing both during the 2nd and 3d concert - he found himself a Takki uchiwa, and then at one point he'd hold it downwards and pretended to cry! He held it the way you hold a picture at a funeral in Japan and so he was pretending that Takki was dead!?!?! Tsubasa, YOU so weird!! And he'd sort of scream out "TAKKI!!!" in total agony as Takki stood behind him flailing like mad, pointing at himself and saying things like, "Imai-san! Imai-san! Ikiteru!" (I'm alive!) It was odd but hilarious!


Then, when the Takitsuba call had seemed to end and they were both getting ready for the mini MC part, Tsubasa suddenly escaped!! He jumped down from the center stage, and was suddenly standing right infront of the audience, chilling and hanging with them for a while! Takki looked a bit confused for a second but then he started calling for Tsubasa to come back up on stage, they're having a concert right now! And Tsubasa would turn to him and with this TOTALLY devilish smile on his face, he was all, "Nuh-uh. I'm not coming unless you blow me a kiss~♥" And Takki was all "But Imai-san...!"




Here he is, just chillin', waiting for his aikata to give him a chuu~



Of course Takki blew him a kiss in the end, and then Tsubasa would happily come back up on stage! Once again, SO ADORABLE! :333

After that started the short MC part and... honestly I can't remember much from the short MCs at all, I fal so much! For the 1st show I can't remember ANYTHING at all, other than how they said it's their first time in Yoyogi, thank you all for coming, YAY! sort of. And during the 2nd show they announced that Kis-My-Ft2 was there as guests! :D Taipiiiii~! ♥ On the third show they announced that ABC-Z was there!

They did the MC on the center stage, and as the next song was Ai wa Takaramono, they also did that on the center stage! I think I love Ai wa Takaramono more and more every time I hear it!! The furitsuke is soooo difficult though, lol, but I love (trying) to do it!!
In fact, takitsuba has probably seen that there are a lor of people that have difficulties doing it right because they kept asking us at the mini MC before they started singing if we could all dance along to it, or do we think it's difficult? :D And no matter how much they say that we don't have to do the dances right, how it's okay to dance along your own way... it's no doubt whatsoever that they LOVE seeing everyone dance in sync with their penlights. They both keep saying how pretty it looks! ^^;;; Ah need to practice my furitsuke again....

After Ai wa Takaramono, it was time for another "new" song from the Trip&Treasure album! L.O.V.E! This is suuuuch a nice song! And no furitsuke, you could just stand and listen to it, clapping your hands! It was great! :D And it's got a nice rythm that just makes me want to dance... I don't think I stood still for the whole concert (Well... save for diamond and Imagine that is ha ha ha! ut more on that later!) I hadn't even realized this during the concerts, but lovespiral told me that they did the "marriage walk" though the juniors during this song! The same way they did during their debut-con! ♥

For the next song, they changed costumes! They were now in black suits and looked so handsome! (We finally got some tight pants on them, wohooo~!) They appeared on stage on the "top" of the main stage, on top of the stairs! And now it was time for Billions of You, which I hadn't listened to a lot before the concert but ohhh it's so pretty! I love it!!! The stairs was lit up in many colors and it just looked so pretty as they walked up and down the strairs (save that I always get nervous when there are stairs... stupid WORLD WING trauma...!), standing in different formations and on different steps. It looked really pretty as the stairs would also change places and slide around a bit!



This was the part when there was several new songs. After Billions of you I got to hear my favorite song from T&T-album! It was time for SPOTLIGHT. Ahhh I love love love this song so much! The stairs was sliding around on this one too, and it looked so pretty. There's not much to say about this other than the fact that I LOVE the song so much! The sound is a bit similar to PERFUME's and since I LOVE their music.... ♥♥♥

After this song, this eerie sound started, and the arena went dark, really dark, there was smoke and laser lights flashing and... then DIAMOND started! How do I even begin to explain how it was to see DIAMOND? Let's start with saying that it was coreographed by Travis Payne. We've known ever since last year that Travis Payne and Tsubasa are crushing on each other like woah, so I'm not THAT surprised that he actually coreographed a dance for these concerts. But, still... I want to know how it came about? Did Tsubasa ask? Did Travis offer? Did Tsubasa blabber on so much about how he's about to have concerts with his aikata that Travis thought it was endearing ? Did Takki KNOW the amount of hiprolls he'd have to do?

The song started with the video screen showing a huge picture of a diamond. They were now wearing black capes with red insides and they looked seriosuly dashing and sexy and hot and intense and passionate. *____*
The dance started and it's just... Travis did NOT disappoint, of course. I can understand though, that it must've been challenging for Takki to rehearse the dance, it's so Tsubasa stylized. It's got jacket play, intense hip-action and the kind of sensual, ero moves you associate with Tsubasa and not as much with Takki! Though Takki did absolutely great too - he managed hip rolls just fine. XD




It's great to see something on a Takitsuba con that's not coreographed by Sanche-san - Sanche-san does great, of course, but I think it's good for them to be challenged in other dances too. And this was perfect. *_*
It was seriously so hot - it was all slinky, sexy, and so much HIPS. Tsubasa would again and again put his hands over his crotch in those tight black pants and just.... gnhhhhhhhh, do indecent things with hips and I would die again and again! Thank you, Travis! ♥ I hope to see you do more dances for Takitsuba in the future! \^_^/ (Seriously, he should just make the choreography for ALL takitsuba concerts in the future.... or, ahh, imagine another run of World Wing... with dances by Travis Payne... I think that would finally kill me off, for real face.)

After Diamond, I finally got to see Queen of R! It was the first time I saw this performed live, and even though it wasn't a special performance per say (It was mostly them just dancing a bit, doing the hand moves along the runways (I think?) but since this is one of my favorite songs, I'm so happy to finally get to hear it in concert!! ^___^

HEY! Listen to the Music is always great live! The *stomp stomp CLAP* everyone does together is always so much fun! And then the waving along to the Odore dance with me is even more fun! They performed this one from the backstage I think? It feels like I saw them up close here for the 2nd concert, lol. XD My memory, yo~

After this song, they disappeared backstage and it was time for all of us to put on our 3D glasses again - 3D video time! They showed the same video all three days - I'm not sure if they changed the video during the tour, or if they showed the same one during the whole run?

It was time for "Tsubako no Heya" which basically means that Tsubasa "parodies" Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's TV show Tetsuko no heya! Tetsuko is one of those old ladies that seems to adore Tsubasa to no end, just like Mori Mitsuko-san! ^^
Anyway, Tsubasa would appear in a dress, leggings and this HUGE wig! His face was also painted in white and with red and black patterns. I'm sure there's some special significance to this, or some kind of japanese cultural reference I'm not getting. He was called Tsuba-mon though, and I've tried to google it, but the only thing I could find is that "mon" means gate? And appearently, "tsuba" can mean guard... So was he some kind of guardian of the gate? WTF? I don't get it. Need to study more Japanese history. Because, honestly, i didn't understand Tsubasa's get-up at all. ^^;;;;; Maybe it's just that he's some sort of Tsuba-devil?

ANYWAY onto the important stuff! Takki came on screen dressed up as his sachou character. The yankee-styled one with long black coat and yellow wig and sunglasses. He looks so cute in it, even though he tries to look badass. XD
Tsuba-mon presented todays guest, Takki-sachou, and when Takki sat down in the sofa for his interview, he saw that it wasn't Tsubasa at all! So he he was all, "Who are you?" And Tsubasa would answer "Tsuba-mon" and then Takki would say that he'd been invited over for an interview with Tsubako, so where was she? And it seemed like she was on vacation, so Tsuba-mon would handle the interview instead. And it was soooo bad lol, I was laughing so much! It started with how Tsuba-mon would be all "Woah, your outfit is so strange!" And Takki woould be all upset and ask for Tsubako! And then the interview would start and they'd talk about Takki ranger and Tsubako asked him to sing a bit of the TAKIranger song and he got to sing, like, one line from it and then Tsubako told him that it was enough! XDDD

The funniest thing was, though, how Tsubako told him to send a greeting to his mother "Yayoi-san" which was sooo funny, because Takki would be all, "Oi, don't say her name!!" Tsu then told him to tell her thank you, and Takki actually did so, looking really embarressed while he did so! It went something along the lines of, "Itsumo arigatou kore kara mo yoroshiku...." and then Tsubasa would stage-whisper beside him to also tell her he love her... and Takki would finally relent with a "Aishiteru yo. >_<". And he really looked soooo embarressed it was sooo cute! :DDDD

Then the interview was over and it it made Takki-sachou upset, because appearently there was a lot of other questions on the interview-sheet! ^^

After the video ended, it was time for Gi Mi Ra. And I loved what they'd done with the song - it's not a song I like very much, but they'd made it to a skit and it made it so much better. Takitsuba appeared in strange outfits like so:



And they'd mostly run around doing silly stuff, like using waterguns on FourYou who were dressed in leopard print spandex loooolllll..... I don't even know! They were also wearing swords, and on the third con when Takki was going to pull his sword out (that sounds so dirty...) he instead pulled out a flower, lol! XD It was such a fun perf over all - at random times they would turn to each other and either make funny faces or kissy faces. ♥

After Gi Mi Ra was finished a sort of strange melody started playing and two paper screens were pulled out. They were lit up from behind and Takitsuba would stand in between the screens and the lamps and there'd be shadow play of them undressing and getting changed (though you could totally tell they were both wearing clothes already under their costumes...



Anyway, it was fun to see them get changed and it was a really neat idea! ^^ Fanservice, I love it~♥

They came out wearing very casual clothing for the MC! Tsubasa came out wearing T-shirt with some kind of beaded print (?) around the collar (the collar was quite wide/low/whatever you might call it ahhh prettyyyyyy collarbones)!! Takki was wearing light jeans and a pink tanktop! :3333



The first con was mostly spent talking about Tsubasa's birthday! Tsubasa looked so happy, talking about how they'd went to a chinese restaurant and when they'd went inside the private room he'd gotten nervous because there was just him and Takki there... and he'd asked where is everyone else. But takki said it was only going to be the two of them and tsubasa was really happy about that. Said it made him feel dokidoki suru, like they were on a date... Takki protested here, "I tought it was a good opportunity for us to get to talk like men! About manly things!" And Tsubasa completely ignored him lol. XD
talked about how they'd eated expensive food... then they'd taken a limousine to the party where their friends (and family?) was. On the way they'd been drinking champagne and watching Takitsuba PVs. (And I bet there was some fooling around too, judging by Takki's guilty-but-oh-so-pleased expression \^_^/)

Tsubasa said he got a giant flatscreen 3D TV from Takki. And then Tsubasa was all, "Oh and you turn 30 soon too! I wonder what i should get you then?" And Takki was already getting flustered, and was all, "No you don't need to give me anything! Anything is fine, nothing special is needed no no no!" And the greatest part about it is that I actually think he's honest... he seriously means that when he says it. He's so generous and giving and he hoonestly want nothing back - he just wants the people around him to be happy. It doesn't matter if it's a totoro clock, or if it's a rented tokyo dome... he just wants them to be happy. And of course... he always spoils Tsubasa a little extra. ♥ :333333

Anyway, Tsubasa turned to the audience and asked us for advice, "What do you think I should get him?" And you could practically see the devil-horns growing and Takki's nervous eye-tick coming... People yelled out lots of different proposals, but Tsubasa got stuck on the one calling out "Tsubasa!!" And of course he was all, "Eh, Tsubasa? I should give him me? :D"

Takki: No no, not that not that!
Tsubasa: But you said anything is fine ^_~
Takki: Yes, anything is fine, but not Tsubasa...
Tsubasa: So what do you want then?
Takki: Anything is fine but...
Tsubasa: So I'll give you me! My feelings!
Takki: IMAI-SAN! They'll believe you!
Tsubasa: Kokoro to karada (My body and my heart) I will give you!
Takki: No, just give me ?????-set instead!

And in the end, Tsubasa won and Takki lost. As per always. XD

After a while they also mentioned that there was a special guest in the audience! Sakamoto-san from V6 was there!! Tsubasa's eyes were shooting hearts at him! They asked if Sakamoto was enjoying the concert, and he said that it was fun, and takitsuba looked super happy! I always get happy too, seeing senpais like that attending their concerts! ♥♥♥

2nd MC!
I don't remember too much from the 2nd but I'm gonna give it a try. Kis-My-Ft2 was there and got to chat for a little bit I think? They also announced that Tsubasa's play GABRIELLE CHANEL will be aired on TV in December. (I think December 21?) It's from the run that was recorded in May this year, at Nissei theatre.
Tsubasa also let his moouth run wild again. Said how he'd made his scedule free in January so he can join Takki in Kakumei - it can be Takitsuba Kakumei instead (Oh my, I'd ♥ that more than anything!!!) and they came speaking about Takki's butai's and I think at one point, Tsubasa was all, "but, how come I always die when I'm in your plays?" And they even mentioned Johnny-san! I didn't really understand everything but it was something like how Johnny-san had seen one of Takki's butai's once, and Tsubasa hadn't died, and Johnny had said something like, "But why didn't Tsubasa die?" or something like that! XDDDDD
Oh, Kis-my-Ft2 also announced a new single, to be released in December!

3d MC. They mostly talked to ABC-Z here! And a bit to Hasegawa Jun, of course! Not too interesting, to be honest. It was fun when Tsubasa made fun of Takki a bit, about how Diamond is coreographed by Travis Payne, and then Tsubasa would pretend to be Takki during rehearsal, trying to do the hiprolls with a really confused look on his face! Soooo cute! Takki's defence, "But it was difficult!!" I don't remember in which concert this was, but Tsubasa also announced that FourYou will be doing several activities next year - like SHOCK and I think they said PLAYZONE. (Does that mean that Tsu will be doing playzone next year again??)
Oh, and they also said that the crowd for this con was amazing! They said we were so high tension - the crowd had been great the other days as well, but we were somethng extra on this day, they thought! ^3^
Ohh, and I loooved Tsubasa's shoes for the MC! It was really cute and pimped out UGG's! ♥♥♥

After the MC, they said they'd went to Ishinomaki to hold a charity concert. They showed a video from there, along with videos of them visiting a few places that was ruined by the earthquake and tsunami in March. Such a sad, but still beautiful and hopeful video. While we got to watch the video, takitsuba were singing Tomo yo

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After the MC it was time for first junior corner, and then into the solo-corners! FiVe sang their song "CRY" which I found really pretty at the time; I don't remember it now at all but I remember that I liked it at the con! XD
And next up was FourYou who performed PGF (Positive Girlfriend). I LOVE PGF so I absolutely loved this! And, I never realized before, but Tatsumi's voice is really nice!
As for the solo corners, Takki was first with Kimagure JET! And it was honestly the best Takki solo I've seen so far! IT WAS SO CUTE!!!! Like, I don't have enough words to describe the cute!!!
The dancers for this song was Tatsumi and Matsusaki from FourYou! And it was so funny, because they were wearing their suits from the PGF-song still, when takki suddenly appeared in the STAND VIP section! It was so much fun, he was standing there in the middle of the people sitting there - for the 2nd and third con he suddenly lay down in Kis-My-Ft2 respectively ABC-Z's laps. XDDD Adorbs.
He stood up after a while, and started making his way down towards the runway... handing out signed heart-shaped balloons. Oh Takki. ♥♥♥♥
As he came onto the runway, there was a bike waiting for him! he rode it to the main stage where junios were waiting for him; one time they were waiting for him with a STOP-sign, telling him it wasn't allowed to ride a bike inside the arena, and on one of the shows they were waiting with water, towel and fans, pampering him like mad when he came up to them! XD I think it was someone from TheyBudou who patted Takki's face with a towel and then smelled the towel, lol. XD




About here, suddenly FourYou would say something like, "Oh, it's time to get changed!" and they pulled down their pants right there on stage, revealing jeans shorts, high socks and a jeans vest with the text "We ♥ Takki" written on the backs lol! ^^; The funniest though was that the shorts got progressively shorter... Comparision:




On the day of the last con, when the shorts had gotten SUPER SHORT, Tatsumi pointed to his leg/thigh/crotch area and proudly announced, "THIS IS MY SEXY ZONE!" ......

Anyway! Before the cons, Takki had asked us all to bring pink pompoms for his solo... and so many had brought them!! For the third con it almost seemes like the whola arena was swishing bright pink pompoms around! It was so much fun to do the furitsuke with pompoms!! And EVERYONE used them, seriously. If you hadn't brought your own, you used the ones you got! Some used both lol! XD You could hear the arena swishing with every move we made!! XD
Oh, and Takki was wearing the most adorable pink suit with short pants and high socks! SO SO SO cute!
The song was supposed to start with Takki/Tatsumi/Matsusaki doing a cheerleader style, "READY SET GO!" call. And at every show, Takki would yell at FouYou for not doing it right! He pretended to get really angry with them - for the first time he only yelled at Tatsumi, saying he didn't do it properly - I think it was just that Takki wanted to yell at Tatsumi for anything! (for obvious reasons... Honestly Takizaaa - jealousy is an ugly thing! ^_~)

Though for the second con, Takki actually yelled at Matsusaki so my jealousy-theory might be off! He didn't think he was high tension enough, and that Kisumai would never do it that half-heartedly! So of course Takki asked Senga to show how to do it properly - he did perfectly! Then it was Tamamori's turn, and he did... okay, sort of. XD

On the third day Takki yelled at the both of them, because they were too high tension during the READY SET GO, and jumped infront of Takki - Takki got upset because it's his solo number so he should be the one standing in the front! Tatsumi started whining that it was just because he was nervous that ABC-Z was there. Takki said ABC-Z would never make that mistake! So of course all of ABC-Z had to demostrate how to do it properly... Hasshi was a bit too excited and waved his pom pom's around so much that he dropped one of them - it just flew out of his hand as he was waving it around! Everyone laughed at him, poor thing!!



When the song started, it's pretty much the same dance as it was during the BEST tour I think, just a few added moves and, of course, the pom poms. But as the song was ending, and the music was fading out and they were heading backstage... suddenly the music would start again and it was time for the chorus AGAIN! So everyone again started to wave their pompoms madly! And it continued like that for a while until Matsusaki would yell out, "MOU II!" (THAT'S ENOUGH!!). Takki would be all "??? :((((" and look at tatsumi if he didn't want to go at it again... Tatsumi would also shake his head, and FourYou left the stage, leaving Takki alone. The lights went out, and Takki would stand in a single spotlight, looking sooo sad and lonely as the music for "Epilogue" started playing!! Like lovespiral said, it was seriosuly "Forever Alone!Takizaa!" XDDDD

After Kimagure JET, it was time for Tsubasa's solo. He did IMAGINE from PLAYZONE and ahh it was oozing of sex and pheromones and ohmygod I thought I was going to die. It was so funny because at one time I managed to pull my eyes away from Tsubasa and Tsubasa's hips, and you could see that pretty much everyone in the arena was standing still just staring, staring, staring! People weren't even moving their penlights! XD I was just completely mezmerised, because the dance was absolutely perfect (if you haven't seen the performance yet, make sure to watch the new PLAYZONE DVD because it's the same choreography there and he's totally sexing it up on stage and it's a MUST WATCH!)
The performance started with a videomontage of PLAYZONE and then the music to GUYS PLAYZONE started and it's such a GREAT song! Everyone was chanting the "HEY YOU GUYS! GUYS PLAYZONE!" part! ♥♥♥



Tsubasa was wearing red pants and a black "army/military"-style jacket to it. He honestly looked sooo good! *_____* And the dance is seriously just sex... so much hips and crotchgrabbing and then at one point he goes down to the floor on his knees, spreads his legs and starts... moving and I don't even know how to describe it but it's out of this world and so extremely ero that I thought I was going to die from nosebleeding too much... or get dehydrated at least, from all the drooling!

There was only one solo song each - I approve! ^^ So we went straight back to unit songs here - now time for Cherry Sweet. Tsubasa changed his black jacket to a red one, still with a ind of army-look to it. Takki also appeared in red pants, and with a longish red coat!
I... don't remember much from this? My mind was slayed dead by the sexy.



After that, though, it was time for a sort of BEST OF-medley! Here we got to hear REAL DX (Always so wonderful! Lovelovelove it! Intense dancing, great song!), Yume Monogatari (One of the best concert-songs! Everyone knows this song, so there's always sing-along, everyone knows the furitsuke, everyone loves dancing along and the "TAKKI!!" and "TSUBASA!!" calls during this song are always super-intense!! Ho!Summer will always be the happies song for me, and ahh lovelovelove! I love it that they always turn their backs to us and do the butt-shake during the "koshifuri gimi" part. XDDD Next up was One Day One Dream and Kamen (I still want them to do the "Body roll-thingy" towards each other during this song but why don't they doo iiitttt, god whyyyyy???) and Samurai! For Samurai, there was the usual fire coming from the stage (we were so close to the mainstage during the 3d show that you could actually feel the heat from it lol!) and Tsubasa totally switched on his rocker!persona and he was moving his mic-stand around, headbanging, spraying water over himself with his water bottle.... yeah, um. Hot, yes! *_* Somewhere along these songs, they'd removed their jackets and they were now in the red pants and black tanktops. Tsubasa's was cut so low in the neck guhhh collarboonesssss!



For all these songs, the PV's were showing on the main screens! ^^

Sora no Screen! I only used my towel for the first con, lol... other than that just swished my penlight around! :D

After that it was time for Luv The shangri-la, which is also a great song!! Seriously, the more I listen to it, the more I like the whole Trip&Treasure album! It's got a whole bunch of really great songs!!

The last song for the sceduled concert was their new single, Heartful Voice! Suuuuch a gorgeous gorgous song! But I was freaked out by how everyone already knew the furitsuke... of course there had been people attending the cons before that, but come on people, the PV wasn't released until the show on the 2nd, so for the 1st con I didn't even know there WAS furitsuke. Ahhh, booh! I didn't even bother trying to learn it, I was too busy oogling our boys and being really desperate by this point because "ohmygodconcertisalmostovernoooooo ;_____;"!

Anyway, Heartful Voice is seriously gorgeous and I think it's my favorite song with them since Koi Uta was released. ♥ Their voices blend so well together in slow songs so it always sounds extremely gorgeous.




Though, I must say that it was quite difficult to concentrate on the song/performance at times, because it was during this song that things would fall from the cealing all over the place! There was streamers and balloongs and snow and confetti and even MORE balloons and then suddenly a small amount of paper hearts that everyone in the arena-seats were fighting over LOL! Still so bummbed out I didn't get a paper-heart......... >_____< though after the 2nd con, me and lovespiral were both madly searching the floor for streamers and balloons and whatnot... if I hadn't done it so many times before I might've felt a bit silly for picking up trash from the floor! ^^;;;

The concert was over here and they had their ending speeches... I don't remember mch else other than the "thank you for coming here today, we're so happy etc etc etc." Then they clasped hands uwaahhhhhhh *___* and bowed and went backstage. Whenever I see them grab each other hands at the end of the concerts, I can't help it but I always always think about how Takki said once that that is his favorite part of the concerts... to stand there with Tsubasa, hand in hand, and looking out at the audience. ♥♥♥ Oh Takki, when you just say things like that... ♥



Anyway, they came back after we'd been clapping for a few moments, and they did a few encores!

This is jumbled for all three concerts, I don't know what happened where or how, but this is sort of how it went!
Jikan Ryoko is sooo cute, always! Love Spiral is a given for encores... encores just aren't complete without lovespiral! And I think it was efter these two songs they did it the first time, on the 1st show... they grabbed each others hands, and then Tsubasa pulled their hands up... and kissed the back of Takki's hand!!! ♥♥♥ Takki looked shy but happy and of course kissed him back! :3333 When we wouldn't let them leave, they stood chatting for a while, and they then started moving their hands a bit, holding pinky, index finger and thumb out... so of course Ai wa Takaramono was next!!

After that came Hito Natsu No - also perfect for encore, since it's sooo energetic and such a happy song! ^^ They were about to leave again after this song, but once again we wouldn't let them go - kept chanting "Mou ikkai, mou ikkai!" (Again, Again!). If I remember correctly they pretended to ignore us at first... told us they couldn't hear us at all! So we chanted more and more, higher and higher! And so suddenly they started spinning their fingers around, and then announced CRAZY RAINBOW! And they all did the spinning thing and ran across the floor of the stage and the runways doing it! So cute!

On the 1st show, this was the best... as they once again thanked FiVe and FourYou and they had left the stage, and they once again grabbed each others hands, Tsubasa kissed Takki's hand again and it turned into a kissing battle! Takki kissed Tsubasa's hand, and Tsubasa kissed again, Takki wouldn't give up either and when Tsubasa finally won the battle, they'd kissed each others hands seven times Hyuuuu~Hyuuuuu~




During the second con, there wasn't as many kisses, sadly... but they were a bit longer and it was still very very cute! :333

On the third concert though... There was hand kissing, but then, somehow things ended like this:





I don't know how it happened, but suddenly, Takki was worshipping Tsubasa's butt!?!?!?! (Of course I don't blame him, it's totally a butt worth worshipping and praying to!! TsubAss is perfection!!) And it was sooo adorable!At each show, before Crazy Rainbow I think it, where they all stood in this position, standing with their knees bent, and they all stood facing Takki who said something and then the song would start... and as they all did that on the 3d, Tsubasa instead turned to stand with his back to Takki, with his butt up... and you coould see the wheels turning in Takki's mind... and he did it! He looked so pleased that he did it too, it was sooo funny! XD And after this exchange, Tsubasa said something and Takki got sooo scandalized and went all "IDOLS DON'T DO THAT!" or something... but I didn't understand at all what Tsubasa said booh! Tey looked cute at least, because Takki threw himself infront of Tsubasa to shut him up!



Look how smiley they are!! :3333

But this was such a funny part of the concert! Me and lovespiral was talking about that, too after the concerts were over, how happy we were that no matter how shy Takki sometimes get, and how scandalized he (pretends to) be by Tsubasa's dirty mouth, he always follows his lead, and he is always the one to be most happy and amused by it! And Tsubasa always know just how far he can push it too - he never goes too far! ♥ TakiTsuba ♥

As far as random observations go, I have one! I don't know why i think this, but it seemed to me as if it took them a while to get used to being in Yoyogi, instead of Yokohama! They seemed a bit "insecure" at the first con, I thought - but that only makes sense, since YokoAri has been their "home arena" for so many years! It probably took a while to get used to the difference.

And for this time, I think we're done. My gosh, this got toooooo long - no one will be able to even read through it! XDDDD I think I mostly write it down for myself, though, because I hate it when time pass and I forget more and more about the concerts... I've already forgotten so much. ;____; It always helps so much to keep the memory alive when you write your own con-report and can go back to reread it and relive the memories. :3

I am sure I will come back to edit this a gazillion times before I'm happy with it, but I really want to post this now... it's already been too long since the concerts, so I need to get it done now!
And I'm sorry if there are (m)any mistakes here - my japanese listening skills are BAD, so I might've misunderstood a lot, and I'm sorry that there are definitely parts that are mixed up and confused in my lovesick brain! m(_____)m

Most important though! Thank you, Takizawa Hideaki and Imai Tsubasa! For an amazing time at your three concers in Yoyogi Stadium! Yappari, Takitsuba concerts are always the greatest and Always and Forever, you are the best! Thank you for being you and thank you for working so hard for us, and ♥ thank you for being Tackey & Tsubasa♥.