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Araki, nqrse, and meychan’s new year’s concert at Zepp Tokyo!! The guest was Amatsuki~ The new years’ theme was really cute!!

✦ if you buy 8000yen or more of merch you get to do a high five event with aranarumey after the concert!! so the merch lineup was kind of insane LMAO i got there at the 11am opening and waited uhhhh 3 hours….. and the charms i wanted were already sold out :') it's okay though because i still got some very cute items!!
✦ they handed us a gift going into the venue! a fortune and a badge~
✦ the set on stage was so cute!! food stalls, but the words on it were the band instruments. in the middle was a torii with a bell
✦ I was pretty far in the back, so it was a little difficult to see what was going on sometimes

✦ the three of them came out and sang some songs, both solos and in groups!
✦ first song was kami no mani mani!! a great way to start off a new years' concert~
✦ i distinctly remember meychan's limelight and aranaru roki, but there were a lot of songs i knew and actually a bunch i just heard performed yesterday at nori's one-man LMAO
✦ araki's hair is still SO PINK
✦ meychan said that his computer? phone? couldn't recognise his face after makeup LMAO
✦ araki’s venom was GREAT at the very end he said “MEH!!!” before running off stage
✦ narumey magnet!! after it ended, nqrse was like, "we need to do something for the ending instrumentals…." (because it's quite long) so someone told them to twirl their fingers at each other
✦ nqrse seriously considered it, so they got the band members to replay the end and did it while approaching each other from opposite sides of the stage…. at the end, their hands met and they awkwardly turned to look at us for the finish LOL nqrse was like deadpan "yes this is good let's do this the next time"
✦ they asked if we went to visit the shrines yet, and when so many people raised their hands for "no" they shouted that we were definitely lying LOL
✦ they got us to bow and pray? it was specifically a bow, bow, clap, clap, and lo~ng bow. they then rang the bell but either meychan or araki messed up the first time and they had to redo it
✦ when they finally did it properly, amatsuki appeared in the middle!! they said it was amazing because this is the first time the guest matched outfits with the rest of them…. they recalled how miko gero was terrible and called senra a bartender (he was in a really nice red suit in osaka)
✦ someone said amatsuki was still in the middle of his one-man tour so he must be really busy, and thanked him for coming
✦ amatsuki + araki marionette lovers!! amatsuki said it was an unexpected request but he's very happy he was asked to sing it!! they did the hand motions, which araki practised a lot, apparently. amatsuki did those breathing noises at the beginning
✦ THIS NIGHT AHHHHHHHH they were very cool!! nqrse also did the marionette lovers motions because he wanted to
✦ amatsuki's solo was chiisana koi no uta!! he was super cute and got us to sing a lot of it…. he also crouched all the way down and watched us with a smile as we were singing it was cute
✦ he's such a cute and cheerful performer, i enjoyed watching him~
✦ they did a few more songs after amatsuki left! aranaru did Will O Wisp and were super cool….
✦ araki's hibana was also so fun!!
✦ the last song was recollection endroll! all three of them jumped onto the platforms at the end~ just like the way they normally do it
✦ someone called meychan an okinawan fish because of his light blue and pink outfit
✦ someone said they skipped their coming of age ceremony (which was today) to do the concert LOL i think it was amatsuki

Encore
✦ They came back to the stage to sing erakute erai!they got us to wave our penlights/towels~ it's such a cute and cheerful song
✦ I don't know what it's called, but they wrote out calligraphy to a prompt! today's was "something you wish you could erase from the past year"
✦ nqrse took the longest and people kept pressuring him to finish LOL he messed up one of the hiragana
✦ amatsuki: "Airpods" (in english); during one of the XYZ performances, he went out onto the stage to start singing, but his ear monitors weren't working!! it turns out he never out them on and was actually wearing his airpods
✦ meychan: "koebu"; i didn't really understand his story that much but it's an app of some sort? and it closed down, but he still had money in it….?
✦ araki: "unagi (eel) pie"; this is like some sort of long biscuit made of pie pastry. i'm not sure what it has to do with regrets but until last year he assumed it was eel flavoured and thought that was really weird….. then nqrse was like "what?? it doesn't taste like eel?? to which the audience was like "eeeeh…???"
✦ nqrse: "ate too much rice"; he says he loves rice too much so he eats a lot and gains too much weight during winter. During the summer, he tends to eat noodles, and he only eats about a hamsters' worth, so he loses weight.
✦ they also get the band members to share their stories! araki lent them his mic. like half of them are drunken ones and you could still hear araki acting scandalised all the way from where i was
✦ one of them was a story about how one of them got really drunk, meychan handed him some grass, and he ate the grass, to which there was immediately a roar from someone of "ISN'T MEYCHAN THE BAD ONE HERE"
✦ we all take pictures to nqrse? saying "akeome~"
✦ to close, everyone sang shake it!! together!
✦ streamers were shot out in the middle of the song!! people were still scrambling to pick them up as they started MC so nqrse lectured us like "hey now, hey, i know you love streamers but which do you like more, the streamers or us???"
✦ amatsuki left the stage, and the rest of them took their time to say their goodbyes to us, visiting the sides and getting everyone to bow and pray again
✦ luz came up somehow, so araki stepped onto the middle platform and imitated him, then they made meychan do it but he clearly wasn't sure what he was meant to do and kept turning back to confirm with the other two LOL
✦ he did luz's call and answer part from secret answer「良く出来ました♡」and was his usual slightly awkward self about it but i think he did it quite well LMAO i still laughed though

Hi Fives
✦ lots of people stayed for high fives!! they kept us in the hall, and as we exited we passed by the table where aranarumey were planted
✦ nqrse was first~ he was so cute and gentle and he had some really flashy pink eye makeup going on omg he was so sparkly
✦ meychan seemed so tall……. he was very pretty i was kind of thrown off….. perhaps its the Youth
✦ araki was so loud and cheerful omfg i couldn't help but start laughing when i got to him… he was kind of bent down a little as well, to more or less match eye level with attendees
✦ i don't remember what any of them said LMAO probably "thank you" but it went by so fast


some flower stands i caught before leaving zepp!
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Hikikimori demo FES ga Shitai at MetLife Dome! Performers were mafumafu, soraru, luz, araki, un:c, nqrse, senra, urata, shima, sakata, eve, sou, amatsuki, and shounenT! the secret guest was meychan
  • The lineup for goods was CRAZY long. I got there around 10/11am, but they were telling us even then that we wouldn’t make it for the start of the show if we lined up at that point? The show started at 3pm……….
  • I decided to try my luck anyways!! The line started from near the dome, but the actual food and merch was far away in a baseball field……. The line split when you got there, but the goods line still wound around and around
  • There were flower stands lining the walkway to the dome, but there were also a bunch at the baseball field!
  • Someone in the line faaar away from me had stuck on of amatsukis puppets on a stick and was waving it around above the crowd…. I thought it was funny
  • I waited for hours but it became clear that I really wouldn’t make it in time…. I left the line about 45 minutes from start and grabbed un:c’s collab drink instead, since the line for food was really short! It had an…… interesting consistency……… it sure matched the name
  • There was a big banner with the promo illustrations at the entrance to the dome! Inside, there was normal arena food.
  • My seat was on the arena floor, but almost all the way in the back! The cart passed by pretty close to me, at least
  • There was a countdown to the start of the concert, on the big screens at the front!
  • For each portion of the performance, the screen would show what group was coming up next. Between each portion was a small break where we’d all sit back in our seats for a few minutes


Amatsuki/ShounenT
  • Amatsuki was the very first up,with his backup dancers! He was so energetic and cute…. He really brought in the high energy from the get-go, and I was super impressed
  • He seems like the type of act that’d be a hit with younger kids
  • T-kun joined amatsuki for some duets, then did some solos!
  • He brought his guitar to play
  • He was very soft :)


USSS
  • Oh boy there was lots of shrieking behind me for these guys
  • They had one original where they had a bunch of swordfighting going on?! It was super cool and they had stuntmen doing backflips and shit all over the place i was blown away by the showmanship
  • There was this moving platform that they got on for a song and it moved OVER the audience to the middle of the arena?! It was so cool omfg
  • They sang senbonzakura and the energy of the audience was pumped to max!!!


EveSou
  • Eve sang nonsense bungaku ahhhhhh!!!!! I was really happy to hear it from him!
  • Sou was very small and cute!! You could feel his refreshing youth
  • The two of them dueted quite a bit of nayutalien!


XYZ
  • XYZ started with Alice in NY and???? MEYCHAN WAS REVEALED!! I was in such shock i just kept going WHAT??? WHAT??? As I strained trying to get a good look at them LOL
  • I’m really happy though!! I didn’t think they’d sing it because they were missing him, but I guess this was the plan all along
  • Performers for XYZ were luz, araki, un:c, nqrse, senra, and meychan!
  • Luz’s outfit was so good…. Apparently he chose it to match the Alice in NY illustration! A white suit with red half gloves, excellent
  • Nqrse was also in white, which I found kind of unusual! He looked really good though
  • I also liked un:c’s outfit!!! It was very casual but showy! red shoes!!
  • They did a non-stop medley of songs from their usual setlist and it was LIT AF I JUMPED AROUND SO MUCH
  • Meychan, araki, un:c, and senra did USA
  • They performed deriheru and gigantic OTN on the moving platform!!
  • There was a lot of chaos amongst them while they were on there LMAO lots of waving to the audience and messing around with each other!! I’m pretty sure I saw someone kneeling for someone else at some point… it was probably luz and unc during deriheru but I don’t actually remember……
  • There was something wild going on with luz and senra too
  • un:c was like half whipping off his jacket off his shoulder…………..
  • When they returned to the main stage, they sang CocktaiL to end their portion!


After the Rain
  • Soraru came out alone and sang some solos!
  • He sang Eureka, but it seems like the speakers werent working? We couldn’t hear him and i could only hear the band very very faintly….. He didn’t notice because he had the earpieces in, so he continued singing until like the first chorus
  • He had to stall for some time while they got things fixed! He mentioned that something similar happened during his tour earlier this year, so this feels kind of nostalgic
  • He sat down on the stool kind of old-man; straddled it and then squatted down
  • He almost pulled his legs into a crisscross but the audience made an endeared fuss at that so he noticed and stopped LMAO
  • I really do like eureka
  • Mafu joined him on guitar for ai fake me!
  • They were wearing inverse colours, which I thought was really neat! Soraru in all white, mafu in all black
  • They did some duets after that, then soraru left he stage and mafu did some solos!
  • Mafu told us to call out “the red guy” for a duet with him, and then amatsuki walked out telling him he really needed to be more specific because there was definitely more than one “red guy” guest that day?! (he specifically brought up araki but there’s also sakata….)
  • They sang kamatte choudai on the moving platform!! They even danced and were so cute omfg i think they did nya poses?
  • When i first saw that platform, I was wondering if they were gonna make soraru ride it as well, but i guess they spared him LOL


Encore
  • This was the group portion of the performance!
  • Secret answer was sung with XYZ and AtR!
  • I think un:c did sekihan’s death metal scream?! Which surprised the heck out of me
  • The entire cast joined in for super nuko ni naritai, on a moving cart that went around the arena!!
  • They were all made to put on the cat hoods
  • un:c knelt down for someone to put it on him
  • I think mafu was at the front, and luz was at the very back! It was a really huge cart so it was hard to see everyone…. Besides those two, I remember being able to see meychan in particular
  • Mafu wouldn’t let anyone take off the hoods until after the commemorative photo hahaha
  • After the photo, everyone started taking theirs off but luz just kind of stood there with it on, staring at us?
  • Last words from everyone!
  • Soraru: when he goes to see other peoples’ performances, he always ends up wanting to see that same view from the stage, so going to mafumafu’s one-man yesterday and then immediately being able to perform on the same stage today was like an instantly granted wish
  • ShounenT: he called the dome melonpan and then everyone after him down the line adopted the name as well
  • Luz: he called the hikifes participants the Avengers LOL
  • Araki: he used to play baseball as a kid, and mentioned something about dreaming of playing at the dome? But now he’s singing here instead
  • They finished with world domination!!
  • un:c and araki looked like they were having an absolute blast singing together to the side of the stage, they were like arm in arm
  • Urata was getting piggybacked as everyone waved goodbye, then he got off for a bit
  • Luz then picked him up for a piggyback and carried him offstage at the very end LOL

i went back for merch after he performance and the line was much more reasonable!! I was able to get everything I wanted so I'm pleased... I just wish i had some of it for the actual performance LOL
It was a really fun night!! They're all such impressive performers and it was cool to see so many of them together in one place
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Stars on Planet 2018
I went to both performances of this year’s Stars on Planet! Presented by ZimuinG, the singers were 96neko, Aho no Sakata, Amatsuki, Soraru, Natsushiro Takaaki, and Eve! The theme was Le Petit Prince.



I just barely made the start;; Even though i was cutting it really close, I wanted to pick up the towel and some of the blind draws for merch because I was worried they’d sell out like the shirt and signlight….. There was some confusion on my seat so it took a few songs before I was able to sit down! I was on the second floor so it was pretty hard to see, and i couldn’t see the top of the screen in the back so sometimes pictures or performers’ faces would get cut off;; but I was very close to the middle, at least!

They started with the story introduction, then everyone followed with solos. 96 mentioned this would happen in an earlier stream, but the audience was generally a sea of red and blue LOL because amatsuki, 96neko, and sakatan are red; soraru and eve are blue; and Natsushiro Takaaki was yellow! Soraru sang yoake to hotaru really nicely!! That’s around when I was able to get to my seat, which is very lucky because soon afterwards was 96neko’s solo!!! As soon as she walked onto the stage, even though it was completely dark, everyone knew who it was because of her silhouette HAHAHA…. She was wearing a black gown with red accents (roses?) and a very cute crown….. She had the cutest long blonde hair to match~ She sang so beautifully and it was my first time hearing her live so I cried the entire time….. Her voice is really really amazing!!! It’s so powerful and full of emotion and yet very very pretty…… The Prince’s flower bloomed behind her as she finished the song.

Sakata’s solo was a very cute song, I liked it a lot! I don’t know the title though~
96 and sakata sang kimi no shiranai monogatari together!! it was very pretty. They also sang another song with amatsuki and natsushiro! It was a lot of red lights punctated with a few yellows hahaha. In one of the group songs, 96 falls down the steps coming down and gave everyone in the audience a shock!! She got up and seemed to be okay though, which was a relief. They also did 3 nayutan seijin songs! Soraru and Amatsuki dueted the first one (Myoujou Galactica) and got the audience to all stand up and have some fun by singing along to some parts!!

96′s second solo was Starduster!! Her voice was SOOO POWERFUL it nearly blew my face off she was so good!!! It’s incredible that someone is able to sing live like that ahhhhhhhhhhh

At the very end of the story, actual actors came out, playing the prince and pilot!! I thought it was very nice….

They finished with little traveller. Eve, soraru, and 96 came to sing their parts, then the other three followed for the second verse. At the end, they went up one by one to take a bow as their name and birthdates/horoscope signs showed on the screen behind.

Then, there was an encore!! They did a bit of talking before the last song. 96 was actually pretty quiet at first!! She waved at us a lot though. She looked so tiny compared to everyone else omggg and her yukata was so cute!! She changed into a brown midlength wig, it was really pretty. Soraru seemed to be leading the talk for most of it. They walked up the stairs to see the boards where everyone had written messages on glow-in-the-dark stars to stick on, and I think soraru complained about heights hahaha. He asked if anyone wrote wishes, and said it was mostly names…. apparently he found one that says “may sakata always be happy (or healthy…?)”. When they returned to the front of the stage, 96 suddenly moved to the very end of the line to the left and amatsuki looked at her questioningly. Apparently she just wanted to be standing in the same order they were earlier lol. Everyone made pretty short statements! While the others were talking, they’d sit along the platform waiting. At one point 96 helps to fix either Eve or Natsuki Takaaki’s wires for his earpiece? They were cute. For 96′s part, she mentioned ZimuinG so she turns to the piano and is like “…oh he’s not even here” (he was behind them). They leave Amatsuki to talk last for some reason? Then, they take a commemoration photo with everyone. 96 gets helped up by the photographer~ They sing one last song (I FORGOT IT….) and the curtains are drawn!!

When the stage has cleared, the musicians return and they allow us to take pictures of the stage for 5 minutes! At the end there’s a bunch of dates and locations listed on the screen and I didn’t know what they were for, but found out later they’re for the exhibition and popup shop that they’ll be doing!! So I’ll be able to get the signlight yayy





We all file out and I try to get two more kuji but they’re sold out just as I get to place my order ;-; I head over to put stars on the board since I didn’t have time when I arrived and also grab a fan! I also send off my letters~



I line up to get in for the second performance, and when I’m in i grab some pictures of the standees!! I stood there for over 5 minutes waiting for it to be clear enough LMAO everyone kept running up to them…. especially soraru’s omfg it barely had a free second??



I also went to write some messages on the stars~



During one of the group songs soraru missed his lines twice it was really cute?? he was too busy like, smiling and waving and looking at the other members flmgnkdfjgfdgmnfg

This time I didn’t cry at 96′s first solo but I cried at her second…….. She was as perfect as she was in the first performance :’)

This time when they were called back for the encore, soraru started making his way towards the signed boards like, “let’s see what people wrote” and amatsuki, who was behind him starting next up the stairs, said “okay just you go, bye” They all eventually made their way up though hahaha. 96 was crouched at one sign for a long time reading the fewer ones on the bottom (most people put their stars at eye level, near the top!). Soraru again asks if anyone wrote any wishes and goes “Ah! This one says, ‘May Sakatan become smarter!!’” and Amatsuki pipes up with “Oh, this one says ‘May Soraru-san become a better person’”

The MC part for everyone is short once again!! 96 says she has an announcement!! ….She didn’t fall this time LOL. They talk about her super cool platform shoes and she tries to show them off (the yukata limits her flexibility a bit). Sakata has a red flower decoration in his hair (I’m not sure if it was there in the first performance?) and everyone shouts that he’s cute, to which he says “Everyone in the audience is the cute one~” and flirts with the camera DLKGHS the screams were deafening. He also goes up to soraru and touches his hair for some reason? I’m not sure if he was just bringing attention to his hair accessory or if he was adding to it lol

They got ZimuinG to talk a bit and he got lots of cheers and name calls~
They end the night with Natumatsuri!! It was so fun, I really love that song! As the curtains were closing they started crouching to wave at us for as long as possible….. They looked like they had a lot of fun and it was very cute!!

I ended up facetrading a girl for some 96neko merch~ Didn’t even try for soraru’s because everyone and their mom was on the hunt for his but it’s okay!!! At least I have something I wanted!



It was a really pretty performance! Everything was so atmospheric and fancy and the songs fit the story nicely! The outfits were all so nice too~

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