楽しいことばかりの人生。。。

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Tickets to Natsucon: 6500yen
Concert goods to remember the day: 17,000yen
Screaming "Sakura Sake" with 11,000 other people: Priceless

   
renchan5  and I think that Sho saw us, but more on that later.

First off, set list!!

1. Everybody Zenshin
2. Di Li Li
3. Kitto Daijoubu
4. Oh Yeah!
5. Friendship
6. Can't Let You Go
7. Jidai*
8. Yes? No?
9. Carnival Night Part II
10. Niji
11. Taiyo no Sekai
12. Wave
13. Love Situation
14. A Day in Our Life
15. Hadashi no Mirai
~~MC~~
16. Dear My Friend
17. Donna Kotobade
18. Hero
19. Yabai Yabai Yabai
20. Song for me
21. Cry for you
22. Kotoba yorimo taisetsuna mono
23. Kimi no tame ni boku ga iru
24. Pikanchi Double
25. A*RA*SHI
26. Sakura Sake
27. Be With You
28. Love So Sweet
~~Encore~~
29. We can make it!
30. Fight Song
31. Happiness

*I think this is "Jidai." I've only heard it a few times.

Next, the stage set up. (Sorry for my crap drawing with a mouse.)

The theme of this tour, as well as being "Time," is "words." When the concert opens, there are a ton of different words, in both Japanese and English, being projected all over the stage, and it's Arashi's way of making us think about all the words we encounter in our lives that shape us. Words like "Honesty, adventure, love, friendship, personality, etc." Kinda touching, eh?

Looking through the set list, I'll give you some highlights. Sho's new solo is HAWT. In involves red lighting and a couch. That's all I'm sayin'. *__* Aiba's solo is cute (of course), Ohno's is amazing as well, and Nino's is incredible because he comes out and plays piano. Jun's solo is... is... yabai? Seriously! It's "yabai" in both senses of the word. It's "risky" in that he moonwalks on the ceiling of the arena, and it's "cool" in that he moonwalks on the ceiling of the arena. XD It's the most amazing thing! I swear, he loves being dangled above peoples' heads. x_x

During "Wave" we actually got to do the wave! I've never done it here so I was excited! And the juniors helped us by running around the hanamichi so our wave wouldn't go too fast or too slow. Arashi was on platforms coming up from the hanamichi, and Ohno was the leader for our section. It was so cute watching him demonstrate how to do the wave. *^_^*

The MC was HILARIOUS this time! First Aiba starts off by talking about what they all said while out drinking last night. I guess our beloved Ma-chan made up a new drinking chant for when people chug. It goes like this:

"Zenzen nondenai! Zenzen yottenai! Konya kaesenai! Suteki na partner!"

To be honest, I should probably record this somehow so you can get the actual melody. ^_^;

Sho went on to talk about how much he loves supermarkets. (Da-hork!) I guess he doesn't go that often, but when on location he's always amazed at the variety of stuff in a Japanese supermarket. (Kinda reminds me of that episode of Ouran High School Host club where the rich boys go to the supermarket and Tamaki buys a dog. XD) For some reason, Sho also threw out some random Nagoya-ben. I swear to god he said, "どうえれー楽しかった!" which means "It was sooo much fun!" But I was just thinking, "Where did this random dialect come from, Keio Boy? Hmm?"

Then during the other part of the MC, Jun and Ohno went off for a costume change while Sho, Nino, and Aiba stayed out front. Aiba was asking them about YamaTaro and joked, "So it's a baseball drama, right?" There are actually two manga series with the title "Yamada Taro" and one of them is the prince and pauper tale and the other is a baseball story. After a bit of chat about the show, Jun and Ohno came back out and the others went to change.

Jun: Sorry, we really have no plan as to what to do for this MC.
Ohno: ... ... Wanna sumo wrestle?
Jun: o_0 Just the two of us??
Ohno: Yeah!
*They move chairs out of the way and start to grapple*
*Aiba comes back out*
Aiba: o_0?? What're you doing??
*Jun throws Ohno to the ground*
Jun: Leader suggested we sumo wrestle.
*Sho comes back*
Sho: Huh? Why are the chairs like this?
Jun: Leader and I were sumo wrestling. I won.
Ohno: Yeah, I suggested it but still lost.
Sho: -_-;

It was at this point Nino came back out in a horrid pair of white pants with stars on them. Everyone proceeded to take the piss out of him for being dressed like a dork. Nino then yelled at Ohno, "Yeah, well at least I don't look German like you!" Everybody else's outfits were kinda cool, just t-shirts or sports jerseys with casual track pants, but for some reason, they made Nino look like the tard.

They did a good job of going around in front of the fans, I think. Like I said before, there were platforms that extended up from the hanamichi and one of them was right in front of us. Sho came over a few times and got on the platform in front of us. Of course whenever Sho comes close to me, I immediately pull out my binoculars for a better look, and there were a few times where he was looking directly back at me! It startled me so I put the binoculars back down and said, "I'm sure he was just looking in our general direction." But then after the concert,

renchan5  said, "I think Sho found us. He kept looking directly at our group, and when I held up my uchiwa that said "point to us!" he really did, I think." I thought I was just imagining it, but Ren agreed that whenever Sho was on the platform in front of us, he seemed to be looking at our group and kinda squinting like he was straining to see better. And considering that we were four white girls in a sea of Japanese people, I'm sure we stuck out anyway.

A lot of girls wore yukata to the con, so I think I'm going to wear mine to Yokohama. And considering where our seats are for that one, I'm SURE I will be seen by somebody. I'm also going to carry both uchiwas that have windrette  's fan art on them. If we're lucky, someone will see her cute pictures! *^_^*

Lastly, a picture of the four Gaijin Fangirls!

 

L->R: goingasajet, inuhariko, me, renchan5