[news & report] Camui Gakuen
The 92nd Camui Gakuen de Dashite Kudasai started at Osaka Campus on October 28th, before traveling to Hokkaido Campus for Halloween and Aichi Campus on November 3rd.
It seems a good time for a recap post!
All of the photos posted have been posted publicly by Kaicho, the senpais or news outlets. However, some of the photos are spoilers for the shows, so if you want to avoid knowing anything, don’t open the LJ cut!
Osaka Campus
Hokkaido Campus
Platinum Box filming in Sapporo
Aichi Campus
At all of the shows, the senpais have been selling bromides again as part of their sales contest. The two teams are -
Team A - Yuki-senpai, Ma-senpai, Rassan-senpai, Tennen-senpai and Yusuke-senpai.
Team B - YOU-senpai, TAKUMI-senpai, Sato-senpai, Val-senpai, Hayato-senpai and Shinnosu-senpai.
The teams are selling different bromides and are, in fact, selling their own bromides. So, Team B are only selling bromides featuring the senpais in Team B, and Team A are selling bromides featuring themselves and Kaicho. If you want the full set, you need to go to both teams. Also, you can’t get Kaicho bromides by going to Team B.
The rest of this is spoilery, so it’s going under a spoilers cut.
[spoilers ネタバレ]
As always, Gakuensai is split into two halves - the entertainment show and the performance by the music club.
The show starts as is customary with the school bell, school anthem and speech by the vice-principal. His name is Kamei and in Hokkaido for the Halloween show he was dressed as a turtle version of Piccolo from Dragonball Z, as the Kame part of his name means turtle in Japanese.
Then out comes Kaicho to the sounds of ‘Kimi ga Oikaketa Yume’, he gives a speech, announces the winners of the Miss and Mister Balue Hearts competition and introduces F9. Kaicho gives each senpai a nickname, but I can remember them other than Mr. Slow Motion for YOU-senpai and Mr. Prince [face] mole for Val-senpai. Kaicho then announces the winner of the senpai sales contest.
So far, the winners have been-
Osaka - TAKUMI-senpai
Hokkaido - Sato-senpai (his hometown)
Aichi - Yuki-senpai.
After introducing the senpais, Kaicho leaves the stage. The senpais dance to Paparapa briefly before they leave too.
Shinnosu-senpai, who isn’t introduced by Kaicho at the start, comes out dressed in his costume from the MOON SAGA parody show. After speaking to the crowd for a little while, he starts to answer some questions that fans wrote before the show. The questions can be a little random and have so far included “what color are your pants?”, “what Halloween costume do you like?” and “when will there be an international fanclub?”
After Shinnosu-senpai has finished stalling for time, the senpais come back out dressed in the new Gakuen training outfits ready for the games. The games are designed to test their strength and spirit, and like last year Kaicho comes out to watch and laugh.
The first test is “what’s in the box?” Like last year, a senpai has to put his hand in a box and guess what is in inside. In Osaka, the first box was an iguana and the second box cockroaches, in Hokkaido it was snakes and then millipedes, and in Aichi it was an owl and mealworms.
With the snakes in Hokkaido, Kaicho was giving the senpais asked to play the game (two of the new dancers) advice on how to touch the snakes safely. As soon as the game was over, Kaicho went over to the box, put his hand in and picked up one of the snakes. He tried to get it out of the box, but wasn’t successful. He was really calm and confident with the snakes. When the millipedes came out next, he reverted back to freaking out.
Kaicho = good with reptiles, still a baby when it comes to bugs.
The second challenge is sushi roulette. Each senpai eats a piece of sushi, but two are spiked with wasabi. In Osaka, this game didn’t work very well as they began by getting the senpais to choose one at a time and the first two who chose, Rassan-senpai and Val-senpai, got the spiked ones. They changed it in Hokkaido and Aichi so that everyone eats at the same time. The senpais who get the spiked sushi try to hide it, but are usually not successful.
After this, Kaicho chooses somebody for the batsu game. In Osaka it was Val-senpai, in Hokkaido it was TAKUMI-senpai and in Aichi it was Rassan-senpai. The batsu game is chosen by spinning a wheel that has several options. One of the options is to kiss Kaicho, and TAKUMI-senpai was kinda eager to do that one while he still had his mouth full of wasabi! The second part of the batsu game is to be the lead dancer and singer for a short blast of Koakuma Heaven.
Then, it’s interval time.
As always, the music section starts with a video. Yuki-senpai arrives at school and still wants to take over. He meets the four new dancers, who look kinda feral, and they attack him. Kaicho comes to Yuki’s rescue and transforms into a Gundam, shooting the four dancers (and later Yuki-senpai) while doing Gundam impressions.
The live starts with a very short blast of Hotei’s “Thrill”. The first proper song is Bump of Chicken’s “Tentai Kansoku”. For this song, Kaicho asks everyone to take off their necktie or ribbon and swing it around.
The next song was by T.M. Revolution. Kaicho explained that Nishikawa-kun has many good songs, many of them with a summer theme, so let’s perform two - “Hot Limit” and “High Pressure”. But, T.M. Revolution is similar to T.M. Network, so let’s do the T.M. Network song “Get Wild” too! I can’t remember the correct title for this T.M Revolution/T.M Network mash-up, but the three songs were stitched together quite well. There were different hand actions for each song, and the senpais went to different sides of the stage depending on the song. Kaicho got a little confused about what side of the stage to be on in Hokkaido, and I’m not sure if that was a genuine mistake or part of the show.
Somewhere around here, Kaicho explained a new Gakuensai word - “yorotikuv”. It also has a few hand gestures. For “yoro”, you make a heart shape with your hands. For “tiku” you stretch your arms out and put your hands in front of you with your index and middle finger in the shape of sideward Vs. And then for “v”, you put your fingers, still in this V shape, on your nipples. If you watched the LINE LIVE CAST then you might have seen the senpais do this a couple of times. Whenever Kaicho says “isshou ni” [together] everybody responds with “yorotikuv”.
Kaicho said that there had been many requests for them to perform the Bz Ultra Soul Medley on this tour. So, this time, they’re doing “Bz Ultra Soul Medley Part II”. It features nine songs, but Kaicho said not to worry and that they have time to do nine songs, just like he has time to do his long MCs. The first song, “LOVE PHANTOM”, and the last song, “Koi Gokoro”, are the same but the rest are different. There’s a lot of English lyrics, and in Osaka they’d managed to misspell “communication” when they showed the song titles on the big screen. It was corrected for Hokkaido.
Next, was a song by G-G-G-G-GACKT. Kaicho explained that they had planned to do “Jounetsu no Inazuma” again, but Kaicho wanted another fun song instead and so changed the plan the day before the tour started. It stressed the senpais and made them sweat a bit! It also made Kaicho sweat… The GACKT song chosen is “Koakuma Heaven”, but it’s performed at high speed - so it’s considerably faster than the regular version. Kaicho said that there are a lot of hand actions for the song. In fact, there are too many for him to explain so he won’t bother. And the fans had better get the movements right, because Kaicho and the senpais are going to be copying the fans. This song was done without the school blazers and wearing cat ears.
The next couple of songs are the customary ballads. The band are all wearing black coats and Kaicho has his fur coat. He has a “conversation” with a female student, and offers his coat, while he’s still wearing it, to warm her up. It’s a cute link into saying “Dakishimete”, the title of the next song by Mr. Children. A recording of this was included on the nine.nine boxset.
Following “Dakishimete”, is “Mikazuki” by Ayaka. This performance is amazing… The arrangement is very bare and the band only play parts of it - the rest is Kaicho and a piano led backing track. Kaicho really lets rip with some notes in this, and sounds fantastic.
Then, it’s time for one of the audio skits while senpais are getting changed. Only this time, the skit isn’t just audio, it’s performed on stage. It’s two weeks before Gakuensai starts, and Hayato-senpai, Yuki-senpai and the four dancers come out on stage to practice. They say that there is nobody in the hall, but if they try hard enough, maybe they can hear a crowd reaction! The dancers and sometimes Yuki-senpai, do little performances and impressions. The best one I saw, was Yuki-senpai impersonating Kaicho, if Kaicho was a train station employee charged with organising people on the train platforms. In Hokkaido, they did this skit in the nurse uniforms.
After they’ve finished, Val-senpai comes on stage dressed for the Balue Hearts set and freaking out about how the set is going. The rest of the band follow him shortly afterwards. Again, in Hokkaido they wore the nurse uniforms. Val-senpai introduces them - Shin-chan (Shinnosu-senpai) on bass, Same-chan (TAKUMI-senpai) on drums and Gasshi (Kaicho) on guitar. They all ignore him.
The first song that the Balue Hearts play is The Blue Hearts’ “Hito ni Yasashiku”. The last line of the chorus line in the original version is “Ganbare” [do your best], but they change it to “Okibari”, which has the same meaning, but is Gakuensai language. Val-senpai tries to talk to the band again, but they still ignore him. Shin-chan tries to fight him, Gasshi accidentally on purpose nearly smacks Val-senpai with his guitar and Same-chan acts like he isn’t there.
Val-senpai is fantastic and really funny during this. He usually makes Shinnosu-senpai break character and laugh, and sometimes gets Kaicho smiling too. TAKUMI-senpai has the best and most consistent angry face ever, though. The final Balue Hearts song is “Chiisana Koi no Uta” by MONGOL 800.
While the stage is being set up for the next set, an audio skit plays where Yuki-senpai is worried. S.E.X JAPAN are set to take the stage to do their X Japan covers, but this year there is no Toshi-senpai and there is nobody else who can sing! Yuki-senpai gets a phone call from YOU-senpai and it is explained that Kaicho is sorting it out and has gone to France.
In Osaka, as soon as France was mentioned about 75% of the crowd screamed because they knew what was coming…
For the S.E.X Japan set it is YOU-senpai and TAKUMI-senpai on guitar, Sato-senpai on bass and Kaicho, in a great new wig, on drums. And the singer is Chacha-senpai!! The first year that Chacha-senpai sat out Gakuen, the reason given was that he was in France, so apparently Kaicho went to France to get him back. S.E.X JAPAN perform “Silent Jealousy” and “X”. It’s the same X set as always, but it’s good to have Chacha-senpai back!
A video shows next, and Yuki-senpai has drawn up some complicated plans on the blackboard, that also involve other schools - the Kishidan, VAMPS, Golden Bomber and LUNA SEA schools. He needs some help so he wanders around the school grounds. He finds YOU-senpai and Sato-senpai relaxing together in a hot spring, and Hayato-senpai, Val-senpai, TAKUMI-senpai and Shinnosu-senpai locked in a tough battle of Twister in a classroom. None of them will help him, so he tries the room that belongs to the dancers. He finds them half naked and half wearing the girls uniforms. Finally, he goes to Kaicho with his worries of the future of Camui Gakuen and Kaicho… does something. I don’t actually remember what Kaicho does…
It’s time for the last song, and it’s a cover of Morning Musume’s “Love Machine”. Everyone, including Chacha-senpai, is in the girls uniforms and wearing cat ears. The lyrics have been changed to fit Camui Gakuen. The chorus line involves the crowd singing “yoro-yorotikuv” and “Seito Kaicho”, and at one point they even manage to get a magnum reference in the lyrics. Kaicho sings his lines in his falsetto/girl voice, but other members sing in overly gruff male voices and dance in a more masculine way (on purpose).
A few cries of “gokigenyo” later, and it’s finished.
Today is Tokyo Campus!
The show in Saitama on Saturday will be broadcast live on NicoNico - http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv239392789
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It seems a good time for a recap post!
All of the photos posted have been posted publicly by Kaicho, the senpais or news outlets. However, some of the photos are spoilers for the shows, so if you want to avoid knowing anything, don’t open the LJ cut!
Osaka Campus
Hokkaido Campus
Platinum Box filming in Sapporo
Aichi Campus
At all of the shows, the senpais have been selling bromides again as part of their sales contest. The two teams are -
Team A - Yuki-senpai, Ma-senpai, Rassan-senpai, Tennen-senpai and Yusuke-senpai.
Team B - YOU-senpai, TAKUMI-senpai, Sato-senpai, Val-senpai, Hayato-senpai and Shinnosu-senpai.
The teams are selling different bromides and are, in fact, selling their own bromides. So, Team B are only selling bromides featuring the senpais in Team B, and Team A are selling bromides featuring themselves and Kaicho. If you want the full set, you need to go to both teams. Also, you can’t get Kaicho bromides by going to Team B.
The rest of this is spoilery, so it’s going under a spoilers cut.
[spoilers ネタバレ]
As always, Gakuensai is split into two halves - the entertainment show and the performance by the music club.
The show starts as is customary with the school bell, school anthem and speech by the vice-principal. His name is Kamei and in Hokkaido for the Halloween show he was dressed as a turtle version of Piccolo from Dragonball Z, as the Kame part of his name means turtle in Japanese.
Then out comes Kaicho to the sounds of ‘Kimi ga Oikaketa Yume’, he gives a speech, announces the winners of the Miss and Mister Balue Hearts competition and introduces F9. Kaicho gives each senpai a nickname, but I can remember them other than Mr. Slow Motion for YOU-senpai and Mr. Prince [face] mole for Val-senpai. Kaicho then announces the winner of the senpai sales contest.
So far, the winners have been-
Osaka - TAKUMI-senpai
Hokkaido - Sato-senpai (his hometown)
Aichi - Yuki-senpai.
After introducing the senpais, Kaicho leaves the stage. The senpais dance to Paparapa briefly before they leave too.
Shinnosu-senpai, who isn’t introduced by Kaicho at the start, comes out dressed in his costume from the MOON SAGA parody show. After speaking to the crowd for a little while, he starts to answer some questions that fans wrote before the show. The questions can be a little random and have so far included “what color are your pants?”, “what Halloween costume do you like?” and “when will there be an international fanclub?”
After Shinnosu-senpai has finished stalling for time, the senpais come back out dressed in the new Gakuen training outfits ready for the games. The games are designed to test their strength and spirit, and like last year Kaicho comes out to watch and laugh.
The first test is “what’s in the box?” Like last year, a senpai has to put his hand in a box and guess what is in inside. In Osaka, the first box was an iguana and the second box cockroaches, in Hokkaido it was snakes and then millipedes, and in Aichi it was an owl and mealworms.
With the snakes in Hokkaido, Kaicho was giving the senpais asked to play the game (two of the new dancers) advice on how to touch the snakes safely. As soon as the game was over, Kaicho went over to the box, put his hand in and picked up one of the snakes. He tried to get it out of the box, but wasn’t successful. He was really calm and confident with the snakes. When the millipedes came out next, he reverted back to freaking out.
Kaicho = good with reptiles, still a baby when it comes to bugs.
The second challenge is sushi roulette. Each senpai eats a piece of sushi, but two are spiked with wasabi. In Osaka, this game didn’t work very well as they began by getting the senpais to choose one at a time and the first two who chose, Rassan-senpai and Val-senpai, got the spiked ones. They changed it in Hokkaido and Aichi so that everyone eats at the same time. The senpais who get the spiked sushi try to hide it, but are usually not successful.
After this, Kaicho chooses somebody for the batsu game. In Osaka it was Val-senpai, in Hokkaido it was TAKUMI-senpai and in Aichi it was Rassan-senpai. The batsu game is chosen by spinning a wheel that has several options. One of the options is to kiss Kaicho, and TAKUMI-senpai was kinda eager to do that one while he still had his mouth full of wasabi! The second part of the batsu game is to be the lead dancer and singer for a short blast of Koakuma Heaven.
Then, it’s interval time.
As always, the music section starts with a video. Yuki-senpai arrives at school and still wants to take over. He meets the four new dancers, who look kinda feral, and they attack him. Kaicho comes to Yuki’s rescue and transforms into a Gundam, shooting the four dancers (and later Yuki-senpai) while doing Gundam impressions.
The live starts with a very short blast of Hotei’s “Thrill”. The first proper song is Bump of Chicken’s “Tentai Kansoku”. For this song, Kaicho asks everyone to take off their necktie or ribbon and swing it around.
The next song was by T.M. Revolution. Kaicho explained that Nishikawa-kun has many good songs, many of them with a summer theme, so let’s perform two - “Hot Limit” and “High Pressure”. But, T.M. Revolution is similar to T.M. Network, so let’s do the T.M. Network song “Get Wild” too! I can’t remember the correct title for this T.M Revolution/T.M Network mash-up, but the three songs were stitched together quite well. There were different hand actions for each song, and the senpais went to different sides of the stage depending on the song. Kaicho got a little confused about what side of the stage to be on in Hokkaido, and I’m not sure if that was a genuine mistake or part of the show.
Somewhere around here, Kaicho explained a new Gakuensai word - “yorotikuv”. It also has a few hand gestures. For “yoro”, you make a heart shape with your hands. For “tiku” you stretch your arms out and put your hands in front of you with your index and middle finger in the shape of sideward Vs. And then for “v”, you put your fingers, still in this V shape, on your nipples. If you watched the LINE LIVE CAST then you might have seen the senpais do this a couple of times. Whenever Kaicho says “isshou ni” [together] everybody responds with “yorotikuv”.
Kaicho said that there had been many requests for them to perform the Bz Ultra Soul Medley on this tour. So, this time, they’re doing “Bz Ultra Soul Medley Part II”. It features nine songs, but Kaicho said not to worry and that they have time to do nine songs, just like he has time to do his long MCs. The first song, “LOVE PHANTOM”, and the last song, “Koi Gokoro”, are the same but the rest are different. There’s a lot of English lyrics, and in Osaka they’d managed to misspell “communication” when they showed the song titles on the big screen. It was corrected for Hokkaido.
Next, was a song by G-G-G-G-GACKT. Kaicho explained that they had planned to do “Jounetsu no Inazuma” again, but Kaicho wanted another fun song instead and so changed the plan the day before the tour started. It stressed the senpais and made them sweat a bit! It also made Kaicho sweat… The GACKT song chosen is “Koakuma Heaven”, but it’s performed at high speed - so it’s considerably faster than the regular version. Kaicho said that there are a lot of hand actions for the song. In fact, there are too many for him to explain so he won’t bother. And the fans had better get the movements right, because Kaicho and the senpais are going to be copying the fans. This song was done without the school blazers and wearing cat ears.
The next couple of songs are the customary ballads. The band are all wearing black coats and Kaicho has his fur coat. He has a “conversation” with a female student, and offers his coat, while he’s still wearing it, to warm her up. It’s a cute link into saying “Dakishimete”, the title of the next song by Mr. Children. A recording of this was included on the nine.nine boxset.
Following “Dakishimete”, is “Mikazuki” by Ayaka. This performance is amazing… The arrangement is very bare and the band only play parts of it - the rest is Kaicho and a piano led backing track. Kaicho really lets rip with some notes in this, and sounds fantastic.
Then, it’s time for one of the audio skits while senpais are getting changed. Only this time, the skit isn’t just audio, it’s performed on stage. It’s two weeks before Gakuensai starts, and Hayato-senpai, Yuki-senpai and the four dancers come out on stage to practice. They say that there is nobody in the hall, but if they try hard enough, maybe they can hear a crowd reaction! The dancers and sometimes Yuki-senpai, do little performances and impressions. The best one I saw, was Yuki-senpai impersonating Kaicho, if Kaicho was a train station employee charged with organising people on the train platforms. In Hokkaido, they did this skit in the nurse uniforms.
After they’ve finished, Val-senpai comes on stage dressed for the Balue Hearts set and freaking out about how the set is going. The rest of the band follow him shortly afterwards. Again, in Hokkaido they wore the nurse uniforms. Val-senpai introduces them - Shin-chan (Shinnosu-senpai) on bass, Same-chan (TAKUMI-senpai) on drums and Gasshi (Kaicho) on guitar. They all ignore him.
The first song that the Balue Hearts play is The Blue Hearts’ “Hito ni Yasashiku”. The last line of the chorus line in the original version is “Ganbare” [do your best], but they change it to “Okibari”, which has the same meaning, but is Gakuensai language. Val-senpai tries to talk to the band again, but they still ignore him. Shin-chan tries to fight him, Gasshi accidentally on purpose nearly smacks Val-senpai with his guitar and Same-chan acts like he isn’t there.
Val-senpai is fantastic and really funny during this. He usually makes Shinnosu-senpai break character and laugh, and sometimes gets Kaicho smiling too. TAKUMI-senpai has the best and most consistent angry face ever, though. The final Balue Hearts song is “Chiisana Koi no Uta” by MONGOL 800.
While the stage is being set up for the next set, an audio skit plays where Yuki-senpai is worried. S.E.X JAPAN are set to take the stage to do their X Japan covers, but this year there is no Toshi-senpai and there is nobody else who can sing! Yuki-senpai gets a phone call from YOU-senpai and it is explained that Kaicho is sorting it out and has gone to France.
In Osaka, as soon as France was mentioned about 75% of the crowd screamed because they knew what was coming…
For the S.E.X Japan set it is YOU-senpai and TAKUMI-senpai on guitar, Sato-senpai on bass and Kaicho, in a great new wig, on drums. And the singer is Chacha-senpai!! The first year that Chacha-senpai sat out Gakuen, the reason given was that he was in France, so apparently Kaicho went to France to get him back. S.E.X JAPAN perform “Silent Jealousy” and “X”. It’s the same X set as always, but it’s good to have Chacha-senpai back!
A video shows next, and Yuki-senpai has drawn up some complicated plans on the blackboard, that also involve other schools - the Kishidan, VAMPS, Golden Bomber and LUNA SEA schools. He needs some help so he wanders around the school grounds. He finds YOU-senpai and Sato-senpai relaxing together in a hot spring, and Hayato-senpai, Val-senpai, TAKUMI-senpai and Shinnosu-senpai locked in a tough battle of Twister in a classroom. None of them will help him, so he tries the room that belongs to the dancers. He finds them half naked and half wearing the girls uniforms. Finally, he goes to Kaicho with his worries of the future of Camui Gakuen and Kaicho… does something. I don’t actually remember what Kaicho does…
It’s time for the last song, and it’s a cover of Morning Musume’s “Love Machine”. Everyone, including Chacha-senpai, is in the girls uniforms and wearing cat ears. The lyrics have been changed to fit Camui Gakuen. The chorus line involves the crowd singing “yoro-yorotikuv” and “Seito Kaicho”, and at one point they even manage to get a magnum reference in the lyrics. Kaicho sings his lines in his falsetto/girl voice, but other members sing in overly gruff male voices and dance in a more masculine way (on purpose).
A few cries of “gokigenyo” later, and it’s finished.
Today is Tokyo Campus!
The show in Saitama on Saturday will be broadcast live on NicoNico - http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv239392789
Photo sources -
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