[Report] Tour 2007: May 5 @13:00 Yokohama
Tour 2007: May 5th, 2007 @13:00 Yokohama
[Opening]
The screen shows some motorcycle gangs and the guys come into the arena one at a time riding their super tiny bikes. All except Yoko were wearing sunglasses and were acting totally bad-assed. They went a lap around the arena in their mini bikes. Reminded me of the Kazutori Dan (when K8 including Uchi and Nakai played the BUN BUN game with Mechaike members) because they were like YOROSHIKU!
[Edit] There was a person on mixi who caught what the words were on their long white jackets:
Subaru - Right: "全国制覇" (Conquer the nation), Left: "健康第一" (Health comes first), Back: "すばる<3" (Subaru <3)
Ryo - Right: "漢邪仁榮斗降臨" (Here comes Kanjani Eight), Left: "世界平和" (World Peace), Back: "全 國 (錦) 制 覇" (Conquer the nation, with 'Nishiki' in the middle)
Maru - Right: "漢邪仁榮斗降臨" (Here comes Kanjani Eight), Left: "天下無双" (Not really sure... but something like 'the one and only?'), Back: "蛮！！蛮！！" (BAN! BAN! lol)
Shota - Right: "乱舞" (Basically means like let's get wild?), Left: "汝の幸せは我幸せ" (Your happiness is my happiness, something he always says) Back: "漢邪仁榮斗降臨" (Here comes Kanjani Eight)
Ohkura - Right: "たちゅよし♡" (Tachuyoshi <3), Left: "愛羅武勇♡" (I lo ve you <3 - made the kanji sound like it), Back: "必殺仕事人" (Hissatsu Shigotonin, from the drama)
Hina - Right: "漢邪仁榮斗降臨" (Here comes Kanjani Eight), Left: "我友永遠不滅" (I guess he wants to say his friends are forever), Back: "全国制覇, 本家村上組 ∞代目 組長" (Conquer the nation, ∞th leader of Murakami-gumi)
Yoko - Right: "漢邪仁榮斗降臨" (Here comes Kanjani Eight), Left: "全国制覇" (Conquer the nation), Back: "絵にならぬ 美しすぎて 死ぬことも 愛すことも" (Cannot be a picture because it's too beautiful... to die and to love... Yoko being poetic!??!)
1. Zukkoke Otokomichi - Yoko miss-timed the "One... Two... One, Two Woo!" count right from the get-go. Subaru was kinda off on the notes for the first chorus too, so it started off weird but ended up very interestingly. They did the "line up in one line, switch it up and pop up" dance (I don't know how you wanna call that) and Baru constantly had his hand on Shota's ass. Shota and Baru also did that weird wing-flapping move like they did on SCP. During that freedom-dance toward the end (where they start doing the slow-mo moves in the PV), Subaru sat on Shota, who was on the floor, and put his skirt over his face. Shota was in there for a good few seconds, and finally when he was released, he had Yoko thrusting his crotch BUN! BUN! to his face. Oh the poor kid (He likes it though) :-) [EDIT] I just read the pamphlet and in Subaru's part, it said that he has a "long skirt" for one of the costumes and when he wore it, he felt good with the wind coming through and he wanted to not wear his underwear sometimes. Imagine if Baru hadn't worn his underwear when Shota was inside that skirt... lol Oh Baru...
2. Kanfuu Fighting - Weird to see them sing this song in the ZOM colorful outfit but it was good nonetheless. Subaru still says "Genki ga nai tokiiii" for that last part.
3. Sukiyanen Osaka - Didn't expect this song to come up this early so it was a pleasant surprise. They turned back to face the audience sitting behind the main stage, and then turned around to face the front again, but Ryo forgot to do that and was late to turn around.
[Greetings]
Ohkura - Couldn't say the title of the tour correctly and needed some help from Shota/Maru.
Shota - "Say YEAH!" "Say YEAH YEAH YEAH!" then "Say oooOooOoOooOOOoo"
Maru - When he tried doing the PAAAAAN, Hina held his hand from behind and didn't let him. Maru asked to have another chance at it and was finally able to do it.
Hina - Bowed to each part of the arena and said hi.
Yoko - Apologized for messing up right from the start.
Subaru - Was very normal so don't remember what he said...
Ryo - "I am Nishikido Ryo. *I* am Nishikido Ryo. Do you know Nishikido Ryo? Well, I guess you do if you're here."
4. Explosion - No shirt rip because their outfit wasn't the rippable kind.
5. Misetekure - Lots of fire. Ohkura on drums, Shota on guitar and Maru on bass, as usual.
6. Eden - Everyone played an instrument. Subaru's accoustic guitar played the intro and Shota's melody added on as well as Ryo's guitar, Maru's bass, Ohkura's drums, Yoko's bongo (?) and Hina's bells, which later he replaced with the keyboard. Shota's guitar solo was a beauty.
7. Stereo - Ryo's solo. It was a very realistic (the lyrics were) love song, written and composed by Ryo. I always like Ryo's lyrics (I liked Race, Potential and now this one too) but not a big fan of his melody because I think it's too low for his voice. Shota, Maru and Ohkura played as well and Shota's voice (harmony) sounded really good with Ryo's. I hope the chorus is in the CD too!
8. Forward - Hina's solo. Choreographed by MA's Yara. Cool dance! Hina wrote the lyrics.
9. MAGIC WORD (Boku nari no) - Maru's solo. I was dumbfounded by the craziness of it all, haha. There was this kid being bullied by a few other kids and cried for help. They called "Maruyama-sensei" and Maru showed up wearing a cape. On the screen, there were three Marus saying BAN BAN!! BAN BAN!! BAN BAN!! throughout. He finally reached the main stage and told the kids "This song will cheer you up!" and started lifting huge (fake) weights. He was wearing tight pants with huge star mark prints on them. His overall song went like this: "Raise your right hand! Make sure you have enough space in front and in the back. PAAAAAN!!" The chorus was mostly PAAAAAN PAAAAAN. During one of the PAAAAANs, he broke open a huge balloon that had many little balloons inside. Maru and the bully kid raced for it and Maru had won, but the song went "Even if you lost this race, you're not a loser" or something like that.
10. Mamoritai - Ohkura's solo. Another love song. Basically saying he'll throw anything away to protect you. At first he was sitting on a chair but stood up and walked over to the other side as the song went along. In the end, he wrote "まもりたい (mamoritai)" in the air (showed on the screen). I love his low voice, but the very high notes he had to hit during this song he seemed to have difficulty with. This song was good but I think I liked Butterfly better.
11. Eight Ranger - This was the episode of "Love and Friendship." Blue told the other Rangers that he had fallen in love and had already confessed. He was to hear the reply from the girl that day. Black wondered what kind of confessions the other Rangers have done before, and "mucha-buris" the others. First up was Orange. He laid on the floor and pretended he got a phone call. Basically what he said was "Yeah... yeah, I have something to tell you. Well, it could wait til tomorrow, it's no biggie... ehhh... well..... I've liked you ever since the day I met you!" Yellow sat on the floor and got a phone call as well. Basically, "Hey what's up. What? Are you serious? You broke up with him? Yo, you shouldn't say bad things about him like that... you liked him. Hey, stop saying things like that... I might let it slip that I like you... No I'm not joking! I'm serious!" (he was seriously into it, the actor in him, haha). The last target was Green, who didn't want to do it but did anyway. "Heyyeyyy I'm drunk!! Haha, whaaat, you broke up with him? Why? Are you serious? Well then..... come over." then Nasu smacked him, haha.
Anyway, so they did that bit and Blue left saying he's gonna go ask the girl what her answer was. The rest of them were worried whether Blue could handle it himself or not, so decided to spy on him from afar. Blue went over to the mannequin (way taller than Blue) and started making small conversation like "The weather's really nice today." Then the mannequin mucha-buried Blue telling him to do something funny. So Blue, making sure the mannequin was watching (facing the right way) and said "COMPASS!" as he jumped up a bit. It was cute and silly. Blue asked the mannequin what her answer was and said "I'm sorry, I have someone I like..." and Blue got all depressed and started crying. But, she continued, "...and that person is standing right in front of me! It's you!!" and Blue got all happy and the six of them watching from far were happy as well. Blue started singing an "I am happy" song (I don't know what the song is) and danced with the mannequin and gave her kisses. The other six on the other hand danced around with sticks, which turned into flowers and they danced happily for Blue. Then they all said that it was time to go home and they'll meet tomorrow again, promising not to be late etc. Black was on his way home, saying how happy it made him feel that another Ranger was happy. Then he saw the mannequin talking to a tiny little kid (a junior wearing a Suka-J jacket) and overheard the mannequin saying that she's just playing with Blue because he easily fell in love with her after she was a bit nice to him. So Black got upset and didn't know how to let Blue know without hurting his feelings.
The next day they all met again (Black was late) and Blue told the other five that his confession went well and that he had a girlfriend now. Orange was like "Good for you! She was pretty!" and Blue was like "How do you know?!" (because they were "spying" on him). So Black came in and Blue wanted to deliver the good news, but Black cut him off and said "Blue... I have something to tell you... I LIKE YOU so you should break up with that girl." Blue was upset because he thought Black was just being jealous and trying to ruin his happiness, so Blue punched him and ran away. Yellow punched Black as well, saying "Why did you have to do that!" and Orange tried to convince Yellow that Black is not the kind of person who would hurt people like that. Nasu, Green and Red decided to go look for the others, and Red walked EVER SO SLOWLY over to where Blue was. Red kept on touching his wings on his helmet.
Black begged the little kid to give Blue a chance with the girl because he was really serious about her. He gets punched all over, and Orange went to protect him. Then Orange called Yellow over and told the two to forgive each other because they both knew they didn't mean the words and the punches. Red and Blue were watching that from the other side and Red was like "See, Blue? Everyone cares about you." and started singing "Kono hoshi ga kagayaku wake" (can be heard in Excite! DVD) very dramatically (not as dramatically as he did in Osaka Dome though, haha) and made Blue look up and spread his arms when the lyrics said so. They walked together to meet up with the others, with Red turning back to look into Blue's eyes every now and then. Then Red pushed Blue to the rest of them and Blue ran over to Orange, who was waiting with his arms spread out, and jumped on him. Blue had both of his legs wrapped up around Orange's right leg, haha. Then they talked about how awesome to have great friends like you guys etc. and Blue was encouraged to go talk it out with the girl.
Blue went over to the girl, who was with the little kid, and Blue was like "He's small too! Smaller than me, even!!" (she was picking on how small Blue was earlier) The others told him to punch the girl, and he was about to, but Blue said that he couldn't punch a girl and the other guys came over to him saying "You're strong!" "You have a nice heart" etc. Blue wanted her to be happy, so he kinda walked away. Green tells her "...Don't think guys are that easy." Blue told the girl, "Be Happy!" and she said "You too!" and Nasu didn't like the way she said it so he smacked her. Then he was like "Oops! I smacked her! Sorry." and then the mannequin was like "HAHAHHHAHH HAHAHA" and went all crazy, haha, so they all ran away. Red kept on touching Blue's wings on his helmet.
Green encouraged Blue by saying, "Look around, there are so many cute girls here (in this arena)!" Blue thanked the others for their support. Blue and Red bowed at the same time and Red bowed so far that he started trying to put his head between his legs and to the back. Nasu smacked him and told him "We get what you want to do! Stop!" then Black said "Nasu wants to thank you, too" and Blue and Nasu did the bowing thing and Nasu was so flexible that he didn't even have to bend his knees. It was such a two-folded pose that Blue was like, "Haha, it is like a cell phone!"
I think at the end, Black wanted to thank every one so he ran up to the main stage, took graviuer idol poses as he punctuated each word saying "Thank you." After a good laugh, they went on to sing their next song.
12. Arigato - One of their songs from their new album. It starts off with Yoko's solo. I think each member had a solo part. I had heard it on the recomen clip beforehand so it was familiar to me :-)
13. Yajirushi - Very similar to the previous nation tour; Subaru, Ryo and Ohkura appeared on the moving things in the stands.
14. Obachan Rock - The rest of the guys popped up on the lower level stands and moved around. I was paying attention to Subaru way up in the stands, then Shota popped up from very near so it was a VERY joyous occasion for me... :-)
[MC]
Hina started off by saying that they had a guest at the concert. Yoko was like "This person has been on a roll these days..." and apparently Shota heard something from the crowd and said, "I just heard someone say 'Johnny-san?' when you (Yoko) said something about that person being on a roll." Then Yoko said "I wonder what kind of soup he would bring this time..." and the crowd was like kyaaaaa but I didn't get it until a few moments later and I was like "Oh, him AGAIN!?" ...the last time I went to a concert in Yokohama in December, Tegomasu came to the show I was in. This time, it was only Massu but still, he took the MC time away from my K8 members! Haha. Nothing against Massu though, really.
They asked Massu if he sees any differences from the Ryo in NewS and Ryo in K8. Massu said not really... and that Ryo looks like he is enjoying the concert a lot. Yoko asked who talks the most during NewS MCs and said it was usually Koyama. Massu is afraid to speak up because whenever he does, Ryo is standing there with his arms crossed staring at him. Ryo protested by saying "Yo, don't say stuff like that! I'm doing my best too, you know!" Massu and Ryo said that YamaP is very weird during MCs because he is never paying attention. One time, when Massu was preparing for his solo after an MC, YamaP came back on to the stage saying "By the way, I'm doing a commercial for Widder in Jelly (sorry I don't know how to spell out the thing in English)..."
They asked him what Tegoshi was doing and Massu said that he was working. Then Yoko started saying "Well, you know if you're a duo, usually one guy ends up having more to do than the other..." kinda saying that Massu wasn't working as much as Tegoshi was, and Yoko's like "Wait! I totally didn't mean it that way!" but ended up picking on Massu saying "Your beard is growing (because you haven't been working)!" Maru played along saying "I'll lend you my really good shaver," then Hina said "I'll teach you how to put foundation on after you shave."
While they were talking, apparently Baru farted and Maru and Ohkura were commenting on it. Maru was explaining how the fart sounded (couldn't catch much because they were laughing) and Hina apologized to Massu "I'm sorry we're such a dirty group." At one point, I forgot where, Maru called Hina an Occhan-like Oniichan and got smacked at. He said, "Well at least he's an oniichan, just that he's very occhan-like!" I think Maru enjoys being smacked at. Haha. Massu complained that Yoko said he would go to a NewS concert but never has. Hina said that they had, just that they didn't go visit their dressing rooms (I don't know if they were joking or not). Anyway, Yoko said "I'LL DFEINITELY GO NEXT TIME." and all the others said "Don't make such promises!" "You never know if you're free that day or not!"
They thanked Massu for coming and said after he left that you can never dislike Massu for anything (because he's a good kid). Then they started talking about what they had for dinner the previous night. All 5 of them except Yoko and Baru went out to eat nabe. They shared vegetables, ended with Ryo's zosui (you put rice and eggs in the last bit of nabe and make it like a rice soup) and they enjoyed the meal. Ohkura asked if he could have dessert (surprise!) and ordered a "Polar Bear ice cream." They all expected a small dish, but they were surprised to see the ice cream come in a big bowl. Yoko asked Ohkura if he had finished the whole thing, and he said "Yes." Shota complained that Ohkura called him "Maru" at one point during the dinner. Apparently, Shota was wearing a tank top and streched his arms out showing his arm pit. Ohkura wanted to say that it was "maru-mie (you can see it clearly)," but ended up saying "Maru, mie teru yo (Maru, it's showing)."
Yoko was curious as to what kind of conversation went on at the dinner table (he definitely hates being left out!). Hina said "It is a lot of fun if the all of us are here" and Yoko was like "Wait a minute, what do you mean... you mean it WOULD be fun if the 'all of us' were there? Right?" And they were like haha, yeah yeah, and said that they are VERY SENSITIVE to the phrase "ALL OF US." (assuming with all the Uchi things... it must be very hard for them to try avoiding mentioning him. I think many fans get sad when they say "seven" instead of "eight," but it's not their fault... they really can't say it out right because Uchi is 'inactive' as of now).
Subaru said he went back to the hotel early to get a good night's sleep, but he was still sleepy, haha. Hina said that Subaru really sleeps a lot during concert time. Yoko said that his mom was at the show the night before so they went out for dinner together. Yoko took her to a good restaurant in Tokyo. Yoko complained that his mom kept on choosing the most expensive things on the menu and Hina teased that she must have been looking just at the price and not the food itself. Yoko asked everyone to guess how much the wine that the mom ordered cost. He said "You'll really freak out... 280,000 yen (=roughly 2800 US$)." and we were all like "EHHHHHHHHH!" but he said "Well, not really, it was about 15,000 (=roughly 150 US$) but still! It's expensive!"
Then somehow they started talking about some trivias that they knew. Yoko said that the order of how lucky the fortune telling words are (you get 大吉、吉、中吉、末吉、小吉、凶、大凶) and they were discussing the order of it because usually, you would think that 中吉 would come before 吉 but it actually doesn't. Ryo talked about why the holiday week in Japan right now is called "Golden Week." It's because movie theaters usually make lots of money during this time and it shows that "the money moves" during this week. Also, he said that on NHK (a national broadcasting station in Japan), they try to avoid using foreign words so they call it the "Oogata Renkyu" instead of "Golden Week." It just means "a big holiday." Then Ryo also talked about shishamo (kind of fish) and that we only eat the female of that kind and he doesn't know where the male goes.
Yoko shared another trivia. He said the candy Milky, known for its catch phrase "it tastes like mama," (because it has a soft, milky taste to it), has a 1 out of 50,000 percentage of having a "papa taste" to it. According to Yoko, some consumer called in and complained that the candy didn't taste like mama. The person who answered the phone said "...then maybe that was papa's taste," and the likelihood of that kind of call being made was 1 out of 50,000 so that's how it came to be, lol. Also, as another trivia, he said "My mom's name is Minako" and we were all like oookkaayy... haha.
Yamada shared some trivias of their own as well while setting up for the next song. Shota said that breast milk is a kind of blood. He doesn't know why, but that's the way it is. Maru said that sweat is water inside the blood.
15. Itsuka, Mata (accoustic version) - I'm assuming this is what is in the bonus track for Limited B. Subaru sang the whole song and the rest played the instruments (like Onigishi). Shota's guitar had some problems so it took them a while to set up, so Yoko filled in the gap by whatelse but talking some more, haha. I like this song so I enjoyed the performance. After they finished, they stood up and started commenting on how "Hokkori" (means nice and warm... it's a Yasuda-language, haha) this song made them feel. Ryo felt "Hokkori," Ohkura felt "Hokkori," and Maru felt "Bokkori" and Hina teased Maru because he just couldn't help trying to be silly. Some felt "Mokkori," which means that ...umm, the lower part of the body is "bigger"... haha. Anyway, Shota had already gone to prepare for the next song and the rest talked about the upcoming album. Originally, the short movie clip was supposed to be 5 minutes, but since it was too funny and couldn't be cut, it ended up being more than 10 minutes long.
16. Watashi Kagami - Yasu's solo. He sang with an overall pants on and sat on a chair in the middle of the stage with his accoustic guitar. He played some and the background music joined him in. He wrote and composed but too bad I can't remember the lyrics much because I was more focused on his pretty face on the screen rather than the lyrics, haha. It was a nice song, though!
17. Ruwa - Subaru's solo. This boy needs no microphone, seriously; such a STRONG voice! It's like a mixture of Greedy and Every day Music. One part of the lyrics was very suggestive like Greedy, but the way he showed his lyrics on the screen was a lot like Every day Music. It was a typical Subaru solo, a type of song that only Subaru would be able to sing.
18. WONDER BOY - Yoko's solo. Very much like Fantastic Music from the previous tour. If I had never heard Fantastic Music, I would have thought, "Wow, this is so Yoko-ish and awesome!" but personally, I liked Fantastic Music better. Wonder Boy had phrases such as "Say doon! doon! doon!" and "Ussu!!" etc. SO many juniors came out during this song.
19. Junior medley - Sorry, wasn't interested so wasn't paying attention... at all, haha. If it were the Kansai juniors, I probably would have recognized a few names and faces (because they are on TV quite frequently these days in Kansai promoting their Osaka-Jo Hall concert, which is today May 6th).
20. Kanashii Koi - Definitely was not expecting this song!! I was suprised and happy. My seat by the way was behind the "main" stage (it's a 360-degree stage so basically there is no back or front but still, we were behind) so I got to see them really close but mostly their backs. I enjoyed the butt wiggle during this song, though. Shota was at the far left, which is closer to where we were seated <3
21. Osaka Rainy Blues - During the intro, Shota was doing the most random and weirdest moves! He was flying and dancing around like Swan Lake, then stopped all of a sudden and stood still until they went down and started the song after Subaru's solo. The pen lights were pretty during this song as always.
22. Futari no Namida Ame - A new song from their album. This was VERY INTERESTING. They had this huge light ball thing from the ceiling and started dancing like a 70's type dance. They each had a mic stand and would go dance near whoever was singing at the time. When they all sang together, they had some hand moves that go along with the song. I liked the way the song sounded so I can't wait to listen to it on the CD.
23. Osaka Romanesque - Okay, this came at an unexpected timing as well. Good thing I forced myself not to read any of the con reports or set lists before I left for Yokohama!! Ryo and Shota were sitting next to each other on a higher stage and it was very cute. They were chatting together throughout the show (off-mic) and really looked like they were best friends. Really, the sitting together was cute!
24. Heavenly Psycho - This was during the "Let's sing together with Ryo-chan!" segment (as he named it himself). Apparently, this is where Ryo had to fill in the empty space when the others had to change. In other shows, he played Samurai Blues, but for our show, he played Heavenly. The crowd sang together, but toward the end, he messed up a guitar chord so he apologized and started from the part where he said "thank youuuuu" (I like how he started from this again, haha).
25. (Don't know the title) - Subaru BAND's new song. ANOTHER new song! This was a fast-paced song and Shota's guitar solo was a beauty again. The lyrics were something about raining and how flowers bloom (...is it just me or do flowers always bloom in Subaru's songs? haha) and all that. Can't remember much as I was focused on watching the little boy on guitar with his yellow puffy skirt and pink leggings, again.
26. Do you agree? - Can you imagine that song being played by a little boy in a yellow puffy skirt with pink leggings? Well, it was and it was cool. Hahaha.
27. Ai ni Mukatte - Usually Kuchibue no Mukou is after Do you agree, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear this song live. Shota, Maru and Ohkura kept playing their instruments, too. I kinda thought that this would be a band song when I first listened to it before ZOM came out (this song is the C/W for ZOM) because of the big bass line and not-so-complicated guitar phrases. I don't think they played the instruments for the CD, but they were holding them during the concert.
28. Sayonara wa Itsumo - Another new song from the upcoming album. It was a nice song that is along the lines of Romanesque, Itsuka Mata and Mirai no Mukoue. The order of the solo parts was, as far as I remember... Subaru - Maru - Shota - Chorus - Yoko - Hina - Ohkura? - Ryo? I don't remember those two. Can't wait to listen to the song when it comes out on CD!
[Encore]
1. Mugendai - The fans sang the first eight words as usual, and I caught the last few words on screen in their Ranger colors (for example, Egao was in purple, Yuuki in red, Tabidachi in black... I couldn't see if Yuujou was in pink or not). Always a good song to sing along to.
2. Zukkoke Otokomichi - Okay, honestly, this song is really great and all but there were just TOO MANY FREAKIN JUNIORS ALL AT ONCE. It was almost impossible looking for the seven boys. Gosh! Ohkura was wearing an "I <3 curry rice" t-shirt, which is like those I <3 NY shirts just with a drawing of curry rice instead of "NY." All the others wore the tour t-shirt. While Hina was calling out the names of the juniors that supported them throughout, he was reading the names off a paper on one of the speakers, and I guess it was hard to read or something, so Ryo held on to Shota's mic while Shota fixed it for him. Hina gestured a "thank you" to Shota. It was an interesting thing to see and something that you'd only be able to see if you were sitting in the back of the main stage (and always have your eyes focused on one specific guy, haha). Maru pointed at some nearby staff members and thanked them while Hina said thank you to the staff members.
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K8 concerts are always fun and I enjoyed this one very much as well. However, personally, I really don't like it when they try to fit in a junior medley because there is always a break in my mental hyperness. That always lowers my spirits, haha. Oh well, I guess Mr. Johnny wants to sell those juniors out as well.
Anyway, I'll be going to a show or two after the album is out as well, so hopefully I'll enjoy them in different ways (they'll probably change the set list up a bit too)!!
By the way, they just announced during one of their concerts that they are going to add Okinawa shows so September 22 will NOT be the very last show. The added shows will be on the 29th and 30th. I guess the crowd was like "ehh...." haha. Sept 22 was special in many ways (Baru's b-day, K8's nation-wide debut date, Ryo's niece or nephew's b-day, lol) so it kinda sucks that they added shows after the 22nd, but you can't help it! They're popular! Haha.