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The first performance of XYZ TOUR 2020 -DJ Style-, a ladies only Valentine’s day concert at Zepp Tokyo!! Performers were luz, Araki, Meychan, un:c, nqrse, and Senra!

♥ I had to book it from pretty far away so i got there pretty late, but my ticket was also in the 2000s so I made it just in time for my section to get in~ I opted to line up for the goods because I was really worried they would sell out if i didn’t (i was right) and grabbed un:c and araki’s valentine’s acrylics + the usual shirt and towel~ I really liked the towel this time around! everyone else's acrylics had already sold out but luckily i was only targeting the two i got hhha

un:c's keychain! adorable.......

♥ THEY CAME OUT FOR ALICE IN NY AND STARTED DANCING IN SYNC FOR THE CHORUS WE WERE ALL LOSIN IT
♥ it was very simple moves but they looked so good and it was such a huge surprise omfg
♥ they completely changed up the setlist!! there was a medley near the end with a bunch of older songs though~ some solos became duets and it was a lot of fun to see such a shake-up from the last tour!!
♥ they had music videos up for every song, as the stage background
♥ un:c cut his hairrrrrr it looked so good even from where i was!!!
♥ luz’s hair was (temporarily?) pink again~
♥ meychan sang junky night town orchestra and then left the stage, but there was a quiet moment in the dark that lasted longer than usual, and then we heard him stifling his laughter because he walked back onto stage with senra for a duet LOOOOL….. senra was like "where were you going you still have something to sing!!!"
♥ meychan and luz sang cantarella! i was so surprised when i heard the instrumental start up
♥ luz never flirts with meychan which i find so funny but it's definitely because meychan can't handle it lgmgkglgofl
♥ of course, they also sang boys & girls and yurufa~ i say this every time but senra during the chorus is always A+
♥ luz and un:c sang otome kaibou together!!!! i was so happy…… luz did the nyan nyan part
♥ near the end luz went and like caressed un:c's face and brought their faces so close together……. it's always a great sight to see because he's much taller than un:c so he had to lean down and un:c looks up
♥ after otome kaibou, un:c was left on stage to sing shinu toki wa shineba ii solo! it was an unexpectedly serious song from him, but his cover of it is so good i understand……. he didn't get to move around energetically as much as usual for it, but place of that he sounded SUPER cool
♥ during narumey magnet, the did the same dumb thing they came up with at aranarumey where they walked off to opposites sides of the stage near the end and walked towards each other slowly during the ending instrumentals, while twirling their fingers at each other….. when they met, touched hands, and turned towards us awkwardly, nqrse immediately pushed meychan away and walked off stage LOOL
♥ then, nqrse sang rumour!! i really liked it
♥ he also did ghost with araki (the spotlights on the audience for this was really cool, a bunch of web shapes) and fixer with senra
♥ FANATIC was still the full version!!! another song that's fun as hell
♥ Of the medley, i remember: call boy (senra/araki), fansa (un:c/NQRSE OMFG HE WAS SO CUTE), angel (un:c/araki), venom (un:c/????), platonic girl (un:c/araki), and nounai shaker (senra)
♥ i liked that all the calls were on the screen!! i still couldn't do most of them but at least i could do the end of センラくんのちょっといいこと見てみたい LMAO that song is wildly fun
♥ This time was a popper that let out a bunch of streamers! when he shot it open he paused for a moment to look at it and was like "that wasn't as impressive as i thought it'd be"
♥ senra/meychan/nqrse/araki recollection endroll~
♥ for gigantic otn senra and un:c were dancing wildly as usual
♥ un:c and luz were also doing something really cute with each other to the side… jumping and dancing or something
♥ they all jumped onto the front platform but un:c didn’t make it and i think senra? helped pull him up to stand with them properly
♥ at the end with the click sound they all did finger guns back to back in pairs
♥ luz and un:c’s part during deriheru changed a little! luz went back to get the DJ and led him to the front with an arm thrown around him, then he crouched down to flirt with him as the song started up again and un:c popped up from behind the DJ set with his hand over his mouth in fake shock, running over to embrace luz
♥ i don't know which group song it was, but luz ended up going for meychan and he started screaming for help while holding one arm out to keep him back….. it was so funny cuz it was this giant clad in white towering over a panicked screaming guy
♥ Last was my favourite forever, secret answer~
♥ they kept making fun of luz being cool during the breaks…. in particular i remember nqrse stepping up to the middle platform and going “saikou” like he does at the end of fanatic….. i think someone also imitated his “yoku dekimashita” in secret answer

Encore
♥ they danced for finale as well……… screams………. they even had like formations where they stood really close together during nqrse's rap part it was really neat
♥ un:c and meychan did mafu and soraru's rap section with senra!!!!
♥ luz's Oh baby, I love you! was so cute we all died
♥ When we were going to take a picture, luz pronounced the "r" really hard, so everyone was like "omg he's like a native speaker"
♥ he then turned to the right, saying that there was only one person who could call out the cameraman properly, and meychan (directly beside him) was like "me?!" and luz went "no not meychan, the other guy" and walked past him to araki LOL
♥ Someone was really embarrassed over the dancing during mc and i want to say it was luz but im not sure? they said they thought it'd be something that made us happy so they practised really hard for the past three days~ they really liked the chorus part of valentine kiss……... they kept doing it, especially un:c and araki
♥ They said they didn't know when they'd get to perform it again since it's so specific to Valentines Day, but it's something that would be fun for the audience to follow along with as well, and tried to teach us how to twirl our hand and put a finger to our lips

♥ luz was definitely embarrassed about something at some point and they made fun of him….. cute
♥ meychan danced a bit during mc but really exaggeratedly
♥ senra imitated shoose's slightly lewd dances and luz told him he shouldn’t be doing that LOL
♥ meychan: he walked to the middle of the stage and immediately acted like a crazy person, yelling and throwing up his arms asking for cheers LOL and no one tsukkomi'd him so he turned around like :'(
♥ he said he counted how many songs there were and there were 42 and everyone was like WHOAAAAAAA until “no that was a lie i didn’t count at all”
♥ luz: nqrse stepped out to call for luz since he always calls everyone else, but then he jumped into the kradness imitation again LOL
♥ luz asked if we gave chocolates, then said we should give them lots so please do (i gave chocolates but i don’t even know if they were allowed because by the time i got there there, there were only letters…. granted i got there really late and some people were there since morning for goods so they probably cleared the boxes at least once…..)
♥ he asked if we were having fun and we all cheered wildly!! then he turned to nqrse and asked him and he gave a half-hearted “yeah wheeeee” while half raising his arm LMAO im sure he was having a blast though he’s just Like That and i love him
♥ luz told us that his earring got caught on his shoulder when he was starting FANATIC and he was a bit worried about that, but when the song started he somehow got free!! however….. there were 6 little balls on the earring….. so he asked the others to check how many there were and unc stepped up to peer at it: there were 3 left
♥ they joked that those were life points used up to sing FANATIC
♥ then, someone in the audience shouted that the broken part was still on his shoulder so senra went to check and they were still hanging there!! luz just stopped and turned to look at us as someone on stage laughed wildly
♥ senra: when he stepped up someone (unc?) said there was a streamer in his hair so he and someone else went to brush through his hair but there was nothing there
♥ he talked about his outfit and pointed out the gigantic button-up shirt he was wearing. i didn't really understand what he was getting at (maybe that it's really plain?) but he took off his jacket to make a point and the audience started screaming loool then meychan went "ecchi….!!!!" in the funniest fucking voice i started laughing like mad
♥ nqrse: he talked about his outfit as well: he said imagine cutting open and skinning a fish (?) and that’s what it looked like HAHAH he lifted up his usual black poncho-type thing to show the pink patterned shirt underneath
♥ un:c he said he was the last to speak so he thought a lot about what to say, and there was One Thing he could do and stepped up to the front as the lights faded to a spotlight on him and everyone else went to sit in the back while muttering that He Really Didn't Have To
♥ He talked about Valentine's Day for a bit, and was being really roundabout…. he giggled so much LMAO and luz was like GET ON WITH IT but he said he hadn't done it in so long that he needed some time…. then finally he said "Concerts are…" and got us to shout "VALENTINE'S SEX!!" as lighting had a field day with pink and purple lights + the spotlight
♥ he apologised to any parents in the audience lool
♥ when he returned to his spot, nqrse told him that he really needs to explain exactly why concerts are sex for those who don't know and he was like "oh yeah"
♥ he said something about giving and receiving and exchanging and someone cut him off like "YOU'RE MAKING IT SOUND EVEN WORSE"
♥ mc was the brought back to luz to close, and he talked seriously for a bit but then they got derailed somehow? when they got back to him, he said he'd forgotten what he wanted to say and blamed meychan, who in turned yelled very loudly while pointing at un:c "IT'S THAT SEX OJISAN'S FAULT"
♥ un:c started laughing and was like "pls no" but then said when the day was over he should change his twitter icon from the cute valentines' one to SEX OJISAN and everyone else was like "you'd really better not"
♥ i feel like i never really mention nqrse and araki's talks, but they're usually pretty adult-like….. they usually say things very properly and it makes them feel so mature LOL
♥ the last song, as always, was CocktaiL~ un:c and senra both did the mixing motions even though they weren't next to each other and were very cute
♥ They got together and held hands, bowed and said thank you, then went to the sides of the stage to wave at as many people as possible~ then they got together again and said sayonara as we all laughed
And that was it!! a lovely valentine's day full of surprises~

Aranarumey at Zepp Tokyo, with guests luz, un:c, and senra!! This was a special additional performance of their new years’ tour to celebrate nqrse and meychan’s birthdays today!! I talk a tiiiiny bit more about the regular performance setlist etc in yesterday’s notes.

✦ After kami no mani mani, araki wished meychan and nqrse a happy birthday~ nqrse immediately mentioned their twitcast last night where the royal scandal commercial appeared, saying that they intended to sing happy birthday after it turned midnight but as they were searching for it, they heard luz's voice from the tv LOL
✦ they discussed their ages; meychan is turning 24! nqrse said he was turning 25 and i genuinely thought it was a joke but this seems to be true so like, TIL………….
✦ araki mentioned that there’s lots of themes to today’s concert - aranarumey new years’, narumey birthday, and XYZ
✦ meychan’s hair was different from yesterday! one side was tucked behind his ear this time, it looked great
✦ during narumey magnet, they actually did the thing they said they were going to do yesterday, and when they finished they were like “why did we do that”
✦ today when they went to ring the bell, araki said that since they have so many guests, it's possible that nothing will happen this time…. but luz appeared!! he said he was dressed as a god, in white loose clothes. nqrse called him mont blanc because of the design on his right side
✦ they asked luz to ring the bell the second time, and for some reason he got directly behind the torii to swing it from there?? he barely got any sound out of it and araki was like, “amazing, i’ve never seen someone swing so vigorously for so little sound to come out” then nqrse took it from him swished it a little, and the sound was fine LMAO
✦ luz finally got sound out of the bell, and………… un:c appeared on the second floor balcony?! he kept looking down at us and grinning as the others on the stage casually him what he was doing up there and played dumb when they said he should be down there with them… he was wearing his XYZ DJ style outfit from last year
✦ they waited for un:c to join them, then the third ring brought out a wooden box you throw coins in, wheeled out by staff, and senra crawled out of it!! he wore what he wore at Osaka; a neat red and black suit~
✦ when they all lined up, luz said “these members are basically XYZ, and you know what that means……. “ and Alice in NY started up!!! omg the screams
✦ at one part the pairs all lined up back to back but luz like turned his face to senra and took his chin in his hands
✦ they went into Boys & Girls -> Fansa (un:c) -> balleriko (luz) -> yurufa -> senra solo!!
✦ i was super happy to hear the team paripi and team naruse songs……… once team paripi were left on the stage after alice in NY, we all knew what was gonna happen and were so excited!! they talked for a little bit and kind of alluded to what them being on stage meant for the next song
✦ i love fansa so much un:c always looks so cool getting us to headbang and he waves at the audience all cute
✦ he took off his jacket about halfway though :^) also at the end he jumped off from the platform and he went SO HIGH when the others came out later they were telling him he jumped “up to here” while stretching their arms like all the way above their heads LMAO
✦ luz got us to wish narumey a happy birthday in the middle of his song~ he also twirled his mic out of nowhere and looked too cool to exist
✦ after luz’s solo, he said he wanted to ring the bell again to call someone out and we saw nqrse and senra rush behind the set LMAO nqrse was like "you need to tell us beforehand if you're gonna do something like that!!!"
✦ they made fun of him and asked if this was his one-man, then imitated him being all cool during his solo asking us to jump and bring the house down
✦ honestly luz’s face seemed to turn red like every time he had MC with the group today LOL they kept making fun of him and he was really cute……………………...
✦ they pointed out how luz and senra were in such nice clothes and asked nqrse what exactly the theme of his outfit was
✦ they said araki’s was dead flowers
✦ senra’s growls during yurufa were A+ as usual and luz kept swishing his cardigan around and the way he moves…… idk how he does it but he always comes off as so sultry KJGnfjdhgjak
✦ side note for the rest of the show but nqrse does some amazing growls as well thanks
✦ I didn’t know senra’s solo even though everyone else was able to do all the calls perfectly but i do faintly recall seeing the end once, where he goes off stage and grabs two of those long modelling balloons to let go of so they fly off the stage…. this time everyone went onto the stage with him with their balloons in their colours and they all let them off together at the same time for the end!! luz let one of his go super late and someone yelled at him LMAO
✦ for one song with just the aranarumey members they asked us to turn around….? and turn back around when the song started…. i didn't really get the gag but when we all turned around someone on stage exclaimed so loudly "BLACK!!!" because of everyone's hair LOL

Encore
✦ erakute erai really is such a fun song…… meychan and araki were waving their towels wildly as they sang but nqrse Did Not
✦ for today’s calligraphy prompt, they handed it over to luz and he said he and un;c came up with it: “a summary of this year in one kanji"
✦ everyone kind of reacted like ??? ? ? ? ?? ????? this year just started??? and un:c had to step in and be like, no,, what he means is, a kanji to summarize your goal for this year” and then turned to him like, you can’t say it like that it’s too confusing…..
✦araki said that since there’s so many people they have to split the calligraphy into groups!! i thought they were going to do 3 and 3, but for some reason they went by 2’s and I only understood at the end why
✦They got the birthday boys to go first, and meychan looked super unprepared LOL they talked about how it’s nerve wracking to be watched while writing, but that nqrse’s writing is super nice
✦ araki: meychan’s….. well, his has a flavour to it
✦ meychan just stood there panicking without having written anything while nqrse calmly finished his
✦ he ended up writing 食 and said he wants to eat lots of new things this year
✦ next were luz and senra! when luz picked up the ink , everyone was slightly alarmed, but he turned around and was holding the board like a paint pallette and they started laughing…… he also raised his brush from the ink a few times to let it drip back in
✦ he wrote his kanji so quickly violently omfg and his was huge….. he stared at it for a while and then called nqrse over, who took a look and started laughing without saying anything…… luz wanted to confirm the strokes or something because he kept making hand motions and looking confused
✦ when they revealed their writing, we could see that luz wrote 初 but it was like……. missing a stroke and super rough….. araki also pointed out that half of it wasn’t level with the other half……. his signature was also weird it looked like ろす to me but he probably just ran out of ink because no one else pointed it out
✦ senra’s kanji was very very neat and pretty, in contrast
✦ last pair was araki and un:c!! araki very loudly said he doesn’t want anyone to even get a small glimpse of what he was going to write, so he turned the entire board around. they asked un:c if he was going to do the same and after slight deliberation he turned his around as well, so we just watched the backs of two boards with the others making comments occasionally…… meychan tried to look at araki’s and got yelled at so loudly LMAO he didn’t even have the mic
✦ they said they’d reveal theirs at the same time and it turns out they had actually written “happy birthday”!! the keyboardist started playing and we all sang happy birthday to narumey as a gigantic cake was wheeled out!
✦ they gathered around and told us that the cake had their aranarumey illustrations on it, and that it looked super fancy and rich
✦ meychan took one look at it and said it’d be dangerous if someone chose to pick this particular cake up to shove into someone’s face
✦ the two of them futzed around with the cake for a bit but i didn’t really understand what was going on… they were kind of picking at it with spoons but didn’t eat any or anything
✦ araki told them he had something for them and went back to the torii, opening the coin box!! he said lots of things were in there~
✦ he brought out two large village vanguard bags, one for nqrse and one for meychan!! luz followed with his own gifts: it was a gigantic gucci bag, from which he pulled out a smaller gucci bag for nqrse, and a brown bag i couldn’t identify for meychan
✦ they seemed so surprised but happy~ they were told to open them right away on stage, so they started digging though araki’s bag first!! he said there was something pretty funny in meychan’s
✦ nqrse was like “this guy thinks im 8 yrs old” as he brought out like 6 pokemon figures LOL he said he was really happy though!! meychan got a giant plush snorlax face tissue holder, and the two of them also got matching snorlax cookie tins!
✦ luz said he got their shoe sizes previously for this, implying the gifts were shoes, and meychan’s definitely looked like a shoe box but nqse’s was a sleek and flat black box?? it turns out it was a really nice scarf!! luz told him to wear it and he made to put it on the calligraphy stand at first to luz acting kind of panicked HAHA he put it on properly and looked very nice though
✦ meychan’s gift from luz actually was shoes~ someone said all he’d been wearing were crocs recently and he said he really did need new shoes so he was pleased
✦ luz mentioned that he had intended to buy shoes for nqrse too, but as he walked around he ended up getting the scarf instead
✦ nqrse said that he’s starting to receive more and more gucci gifts from fans recently…… damn son
✦ They told meychan to put the shoes on right then so he does, while complaining that no one will get to see them properly from the stage anyways….. when he finally gets them on he steps onto the platform to show them off
✦ nqrse made sure to tell us that they received presents from senra and un:c backstage too!! I don’t remember what senra got nqrse, but they said he got meychan a fucking?? segway and they were playing around with it a little before the show…… you can see in the video they uploaded to twitter but it totally wasn’t what i was imagining what i heard “segway”..... still though it looks expensive omfg
✦ un:c got them…?? cotton candy?? they said something about making it backstage so idk
✦ nqrse then said he and meychan had something to tell everyone else, and i saw the keyboardist duck back over to the keyboard! the happy birthday instrumentals started up again, and the two of them sang “thank you everyone” to the tune of happy birthday, and another cake was wheeled out! it was tiny and apparently in the shape of a cat….. luz looked at it and asked if it was naruse’s image cat but it was just some random cat lmao
✦ apparently that morning the two of them had went to look at cakes because they figured there’d be cake for them and wanted to get one for everyone else as well!! so he said the big one would be for the two of them and everyone else can eat the tiny one
✦ luz picked up the smaller cake to hold for the picture but everyone in the audience made very concerned sounds at him LMAO they told us it’d be fine though
✦ when they finished, they were about to wheel the big cake away but someone in the audience shouted, asking if they weren’t gonna eat any? so nqrse swiftly fed meychan to lots of screams, scooped up some for himself, and then started wheeling it away
✦ meychan chased after him, scrambling to pick up a fork, so he slowed down a bit and let him feed him~ he looked so cute turning around and chomping on the cake!! everyone screamed a lot, then meychan turned around to look at us before disappearing and put that same spoon, that he just fed nqrse with, in his mouth smfh
✦ nqrse talked about how they didn’t have a birthday event last year, so araki said by all means they should do one again next time!!
✦ they mentioned how this was senra’s second performance and how it’s nearly become aranarumeysen
✦ they finished with shake it!! again, as a group! i was able to grab some streamers this time~
✦ everyone stayed to bow this time!! they did the peko peko pan pan pekori~na at each side of the stage
✦ luz did his usual of blowing kisses and waving flirtily at the audience :^)

flower stands and merch~

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!

I went to the last day of C97 Winter Comiket! I went to see AsEver (ASK, Aomofu, Yumamiya, Kyi), Atelier Malletto (Asamaru, Jack, Yumamiya, Tourai, Keito, Tama, and the rest of asamack family), un:c and Araki, and NORISTRY! I also went to pick up some things for a friend at Hydamio and Naryo’s tables.

✦ We got to West Hall 4 at around 10:30? and went straight to AsEver’s table, who were already pretty busy! yumami and aomofu were running the front of the table, while ASK was in the back handling the actual goods! He was still efficient as always….. He looked like a blur LMAO
✦ nobita from At. Malletto was managing their line, wearing both ask’s t-shirt and the at.mal hoodie~ AsEver and at.mal were right next to each other, sharing a table, so it was a really neat setup!
✦ asamaru was nearby managing at.mal’s line for some reason?! other staff were handling the table, and one was the really pretty lady i saw at their event from last time
✦ I ended up in aomofu’s line! i had a LOT of stuff to get omg and I almost forgot to hand them Linn’s letters…… I told them they were from my friend in Singapore and aomofu was like Oh!! and probably knew immediately who i was talking about LOL…. I feel like I also heard ASK exclaim in reaction in the background
✦ Aomofu had red streaks in her hair and was wearing a hat~ ASK was also wearing his blue hat, and both of them were in quite light-coloured clothes? I don’t remember what yumamiya was wearing at all…………….. I want to say it was the white and black (?) striped t-shirt he wore to CGS but I really don’t remember because my brain was rushing like hell

✦ Then, I picked up the full sets from At.Malletto!! asamaru was so far from the actual line for some reason (their line hadn’t picked up yet at this time) so i went to him to confirm and he was really cute LOL he was also in the at.mal hoodie~
✦ The coasters are absolute GORGEOUS they’re porcelain and the illustrations are so delicately pretty!!! It didn’t occur to me at the time but i really should have gotten more than one set of them for myself ;o;
✦ Tourai wasn’t there when I went, but apparently he was there for a bit in the afternoon!

✦ Next stop was un:c and araki! araki’s hair was SO dark PINK he was basically glowing??? their table was very easy to find because of him. he and unc were both wearing caps, and i think black t-shirts? Their line was also pretty short and i ended up on unc’s side of the line~
I had been so rushed I had totally forgotten to ask for a handshake from anyone i saw, but I got to blurt out a “have a happy new year!!” to un:c and he smiled big (even through his mask) and said it back to me!! floats away
✦ it totally didn’t register in my mind until way later when i got to sit down and reflect on my meetings but un:c was in glasses………… We ended up going back into the hall to walk by them again so I could confirm it and he really was so i had like a mini-breakdown as hisame egged me on even further o|-<

✦ I actually wanted to check out glutamine’s table because he was so cute last time but i totally forgot in the scramble…. he was right next to un:c’s table though apparently

✦ My trip to NORISTRY’s table was really really quick…. he was in a t-shirt as well! There was only one person in front of me and I only needed the CD
✦ his CD was a weird price so i had to fish for coins for a bit in a panic but they thanked me for giving exact change so it was probably alright LOL
✦ I think I totally could have talked to him but I hadn’t thought of anything beforehand and i was still in RUSH MODE

✦ At Hydamio’s table, the line was a little confusing but I ended up getting to him pretty quickly as well! he was actually standing to the side, so there was no table between him and the customers? He like immediately recognised that I was a foreigner somehow, so I told him, yes, i was, and he was so excited LOL he kept trying to speak English to me!!
✦ I handed him linn’s letter, and told him it was from my friend Linn from Singapore. He was like oh!!! and said something about English? I think it might have been about her being a translator lol
✦ I had a shopping list that I was referring to and he made to like take it from me to help but I still wasn’t really thinking so I just quickly listed out everything to him. When I said I wanted a postcard he seemed a little surprised and happy?? He said to say thank you to my friend. When he handed me everything he said thank you in english to me like 5 times it was very cute LOL

✦ I also went to naryo and victream’s table and got the wrong CD for linn LMAO……….. It was also a very quick visit so I don’t remember much here either
✦ We also went to check out Royal Scandal’s table at the J line but they weren’t selling what hisame was looking for so we ended up not lining up….
✦ We retreated outside so i could organise and pack the crazy amount of shit i bought, then went back in to take a look at everyone again from afar HAHAHA…….. the lines for everyone were really starting to build…. un:c and araki’s line had to be cut in half and put somewhere else
✦ When we returned outside to meet Yuu, we noticed just how many AsEver fans were gathered around the area LOL it seemed like a mini fanmeet
✦ We ended up having to make a loop back through the hall to exit Big Sight, so Yuu went back to get things from AsEver! Their line seemed to have calmed down a lot, and aomofu was probably on a washroom break because ASK was helping out at the front
✦ I considered lining up for un:c’s table again because shut up……... i even went to the back of the line but I really didn’t have anything else to get….. we also had karaoke reservations to get to, so I decided against it and we left~

The Haul

Chang Gero Sonic 2019! Performers were Gero, Asamaru, ASK, amu, Araki, Alfakyun, un:c, Underbar, Wolpis Carter, Dasoku, clear, Glutamine, Kettaro, Kouhey, Kogeinu, koma’n, that, Tightson, nero, VALSHE, Piko, Pokota, Mi-chan, Meychan, Megatera Zero, Yuge, Hanatan, Rapbit, and Ren!

✦ I was in the fanclub line, so I got in very early! It was super hot for May and the sun was shining so brightly. They sped quite quickly through the numbers so even though mine was quite high, I got in within 15 minutes
✦ I had a lot of things to get for myself and my friends who couldn’t attend so I rushed over the ASK’s table to grab yumamiya’s badge set and the new accessory made by aomofu! As I walked over, there were people making surprised sounds behind me, and I realised as I actually looked at the table that yumamiya himself was there!! And, beside him was aomofu! They were both wearing masks (aomofu was sick :( ) but it was very easy to tell it was them
✦ I quickly got my things from aomofu while kind of staring at yumamiya in shock before heading over to the official goods line, which was already starting to build up
✦ Halfway through that line, I found out the type c t-shirt was gone…….. I picked up kuji (my luck was terrible) and then a different shirt
✦ I headed over to asamaru’s table, where they had two lines which were also starting to get long….. I ran into a friend I made from koge’s birthday event and we ended up spending the rest of the day together
✦ I got a Bunch of things from At.Malleto and gave them linn’s letters
✦ Cloak was really expensive so we ended up leaving the venue during DJ time for me to put my things in another locker and grab more cash…. I really wanted to be there for DJ but there wasn’t much choice….. I went all the way to zepp tokyo because I knew there were lockers there and it turns out sakata was having a one-man there?!
✦ We then went back and I handed the letters I forgot to yumamiya and aomofu, who had just cleared their line. They looked at them, kind of processing the names written on them, before yumamiya handed aomofu hers like, こうかな？ it was very cute……
✦ I put the actual performers’ letters in the gift box and basically made it just in time for the first stage to start!
✦ Each set of performers were divided by stages, and there was a small break between each stage. To the audience, the blue stage was on the left, and the red stage was on the right. The first stage started with the red stage!
✦ Gero came out and called everyone else on stage to sing Gyoukou dance~
✦ I immediately saw ask, who had??!?!?!? BLUE HAIR?!?!??! and I could see his did the nicorai tattoo on his neck again………….. god…………………….
✦ And of course gero’s hair was red!! It was so unusual to see the two of them like that

First Stage
✦ The first stage performers were glutamine, kouhey, tightson, rapbit, hanatan, underbar, megatera zero, and piko!
✦ Piko did a wonderful tengaku and I was so relieved to confirm ASK wasn’t going to be singing it this year LOL…….
✦ Tightson did his version of renai circulation, which I’ve always really liked!! He also did a collab with rapbit!
✦ Megatera sang charles and got us to sing along with him during the chorus. He was really really good……
✦ It was so hot that I got really worried about drinks, so we ended up leaving the stage to grab a bunch of bottles.
✦ During that time, Hanatan sang!! Even from the back, she was amazing. Her vocal power was incredible and you could tell that everyone was blown away by her voice………. Everyone like stopped what they were doing to turn to the stage and watch
✦ Underbar was very cute as usual!! Everyone really loves him… He also sang yi er fanclub with glutamine
✦ The ending song was rolling girl, which they sang as a group.

Second Stage
✦ Nicorai stage! pokota, ASK, kogeinu, that, gero, yuge, nero, and dasoku
✦ Gero explained that nero was here to stand in for dasoku because if dasoku sang with nicorai as well he’d have too many parts on stage LOL
✦ Gero said that with dasoku gone he looks tiny standing amongst everyone else
✦ He had everyone along the line introduce themselves, and ASK talked about his blue hair! He and gero stood next to each other and said they were a duo :’)
✦ As a group, they talked about how because they’re old they never stop talking, especially targeting yugepo
✦ gero kept trying to throw the conversation over to koge and make him talk because he kept pretty quiet :’)
✦ They STILL ended up talking a lot and pokota blamed yuge while pointing at him
✦ They all sang GOLD together! And nero did dasoku’s rap part!! It was so surprising but really refreshing, and he was really good!
✦ Gero was wearing sunglasses when he came out, but as they were singing this song someone walked over to him and pulled them off to wear for themselves
✦ gero and yuge were messing around pretending they were on a motorcycle or something
✦ ASK sang scissorhands and was way too cool…… He makes such grand gestures on stage……..He also changed his outfit a little from the MC at the start??
✦ Nero sang risky game and sounded lovely as usual…..
✦ Pokota also changed outfits, but his was??!?!?! super fancy omfg he was in like a white costume tuxedo and looked super good…. He sang a ballad with zimuinG on piano!
✦ yuge sang ten faced
✦ Kogeinu sang USA!! He had the XYZ crew (gero, piko, araki, un:c, and meychan) as his backup dancers. They were so energetic LMAO some of them were messing around with the dance a little!! it was cute. I was watching un:c for most of it so I couldn’t tell you much else about the others but he was really good at dancing it’s ridiculous……….
✦ koge kept turning around to look at them looking kind of bewhildered LOL….. At the end he watched them a little and tried to dance along as well!! He was properly dancing along to the all-famous chorus from the start though
✦ koge and ASK matryoshka!!!!
✦ The dagero crew (dasoku, gero, that, yuge) came out to sing DaRoWay! Zatton played the guitar for that part
✦ To end, the 2nd stage members (minus dasoku) sang fire flower
✦ ASK and that?? shared a mic and two others did too but I really don’t remember who…. I feel like one of the pair was koge

Third Stage
✦ Performers for this round were alfakyun, un:c, araki, meychan, wolpis carter, and piko!
✦ this stage was honestly so wild…. It was a whole bunch of high-energy people singing high-energy songs!! I could barely see the stage half the time because everyone in the audience was partying so hard along with them
✦ alfakyun sang seisou bakuretsu boy, araki sang dappou rock?, meychan sang mabel
✦ wolpis sang children record! during his MC part, he said he was 24 years old and an old uncle, and that at this age he gets tired after only one song. which was a very daring statement considering the performers he was amongst that day (there were probably only 2 or 3 people younger than him???)
✦ someone in the audience shouted something at him, and he purposefully misheard, going “hmm?? poop? poop???” I think they were saying “ganbare!” or something, but after a while he relented and sent them a flying kiss right through the mic and everyone lost it
✦ I really liked wolpis’ outfit a lot…………….. he wore the special orange akemashite omedetou tte ie T-shirt under a really nice blue/aqua windbreaker? and loose pants
✦ un:c sang churira chururira dadada!! he was energetic with it as always, and I really liked when he did the “shippo dasu obakasan” part….. he turned around, put his leg on the platform, and waved his hand around like a tail and was so cute
✦ alfakyun and araki sang rettou joutou and it was SUCH a blast! I was so glad to finally hear this song performed at a concert!! They were So Powerful and fakyun really hit the notes just right
✦ un:c, fakyun, and i think piko were on stage together from one song? and un:c told us they were going to call someone else to join them!! we all called for meychan and he appeared~ They talked for a bit as a group, then araki quietly walked out to stand in the middle of the stage, looking very sad. when they all saw him they totally lost their shit because un:c had forgotten to call him out too OMFG
✦ un:c kept apologising through his laughter, and the others were saying they were wondering why he wasn’t called but didn’t say anything about it
✦ They got araki to return backstage so they could call him out properly, but when we called his name no one came out right away…. then suddenly he blasted out from the opposite side of the stage?! un:c chased after him for a while while we all shrieked with laughter
✦ They sang a group gigantic OTN!
✦ the last group song was deriheru yondara kimi ga kita! Halfway through the song, kouhey joined them and like completely took over the performance?! apparently it wasn’t planned at all but it was SO FUNNY OMFG and he was really good
✦ during one of the group songs, i saw un:c go back to where wolpis had kind of retreated in the back of the stage and pull him by the arm back to the front where everyone else was, while still singing?? He seemed like such a nice big brother there ahhhhh………..
✦ un:c jumped up SO HIGH while he was behind everyone else WTF

Fourth Stage
✦ Performers for this stage were clear, dasoku, asamaru, amu, mi-chan, kettaro, koma’n, pokota, ren, and VALSHE!!
✦ I had actually left the audience area during the break to try and get some more merch, but when I met up with my friend and I saw that yumami wasn’t at ASK’s table anymore, i told her we really had to go and we rushed back over to the blue stage
✦ pointfive sang two or three songs? I could see asamaru had hung his phone on a strap around his neck, where surely jack was watching from
✦ He was also wearing the at. malletto hoodie and seemed very insistent on wearing it even though it was so hot that day LOL he kept kind of pulling it off and letting it hang on his arms but never fully took it off
✦ during MC, clear asked why everyone was looking at him?? they called him their leader and he was like THERE’S NO LEADER
✦ the pointfive members left the stage, leaving only mi-chan! then, the rootfive members came out, carrying some clothes. They danced around him in circles, throwing the clothes at him, until he was properly dressed to match their nice patterned outfits (earlier with pointfive he was in a simple white shirt and pants)
✦ rootfive sang merry go round and surprised so many people by breaking out into dance!
✦ a mix of rootfive and pointfive members came out to sing magnet together! then, the remaining members joined halfway through. When they reached That Part, gero interrupted right on cue and started talking to the voice in the sky!!! The voice greeted us and they talked for a bit. There was so much cheering and yelling…….. we were so delighted he decided to appear again :’) Then, everyone, including the voice, sang the last part of the song together!
✦ asamaru and pokota kept playing around with dasoku’s arms… they each grabbed him on one side and made him pump his arms up and down while he just stood there with an unchanging expression
✦ dasoku and ren came out on stage and dasoku was immediately like, so what on earth was wolpis carter talking about earlier
✦ ren: at our age, you get tired before you even sing at all!!!!
✦ Ren had specifically grown a beard and wore glasses for CGS (he’s now normally clean-shaven and wears contacts) because he said people definitely wouldn’t be able to recognise him otherwise
✦ they sang eh? ah, sou. together and were arm in arm for most of it, it was really nice to see ;v;
✦ clear sang a really lovely from y to y…… he sounded so gentle, and the wind started blowing a little, so the atmosphere became so soft to match him…..it was really lovely
✦ ketsukoma did a duet as well!
✦ ren, mi-chan, and pokota? sang a song together!! t seems it was the first time that particular group had sung together?
✦ VALSHE finally appeared to sing migikata no chou and was SO charismatic OMFG we all yelled so much for her!!! she was so cool and sounded absolutely perfect. she really got the audience pumped up!!
✦ Then, dasoku and clear joined her, and it was time for VASOCLEAR IMITATION BLACK!!!! it was so amazing to listen to after all these years….. Nearing the end, dasoku and clear started walking closer and closer to VALSHE, who was standing in the middle. We knew it was coming, but i still almost couldn’t breathe LOL…….
✦ 「二人とも大好きだよ」
✦ she delivered her line perfectly and the roar from the crowd was absolutely deafening, man
✦ during MC, clear was thinking back to how valshe was always in his namahousou…. they talked about how she and dasoku would fight all the time
✦ The three of them had such incongruent fashion styles LMAO valshe was wearing a lot of fancy frilly black clothes, clear was in a neat and low-key blue cardigan, and dasoku was in a normal black hoodie
✦ Everyone joined them on stage to sing a group senbonzakura!!
✦ pokota was totally fanboying over vasoclear, and he said that valshe didn’t really talk much backstage, but she talked so much while on stage???
✦ They looked like they were having so much fun singing together!! amu in particular seemed so active. I saw him and valshe singing directly at each other and it looked like they were having a blast~ But then suddenly, everyone fell back and knelt down in what seemed like slow-motion, leaving VALSHE standing in the middle as the focus, as she sang her solo!! it was magical and i really loved that moment a lot….. it’s still something that hangs on my mind even now
✦ amu really was so active this time around! I’m glad to see he had lots of parts in the group songs, even though he didn’t sing a solo. asamaru also didn’t have a solo :’)

Fifth Stage
✦ Gero’s stage! He did some solos and collaborations with a bunch of other participants!
✦ Gero sang Setsuna Trip with un:c, Black Rock Shooter with VALSHE, and duets with araki and alfakyun as well! really, some dream collabs for me
✦ Gero came out with a speakerphone and looked super cool….. He shouted into it, then sang a solo Kutabare PTA!
✦ gero’s mic died during mc while he was alone, so he kept going “PENIS” to test the mic. Wolpis walked out telling him “You shouldn’t say things like that!! even though i said poop earlier”
✦ Then they kept going back and forth, repeating both words and combining them until they had a mess on their hands
✦ gero called wolpis the guy who wants to sing in a high tone! he also said that neither of them had sung the song they were about to sing together before…?
✦ It was dramaturgy!!
✦ Just be Friends was with koma’n on piano + singing harmony!
✦ someone near the front of the audience collapsed in the intro to the song, so gero stopped the performance and waited for her, while talking with us. He told us to take care during concerts and that if you need to rest, please do so! He said it’s no trouble at all and he’ll always wait for those who collapse. He’s really so sweet about things like this….. When it seemed like she was okay again (or got treatment?) he had us all give her some applause and then returned back to the song
✦ I THINK this stage is where there was a group Tokyo Winter Session with Gero, alfakyun, ASK, and Hanatan? Meychan took halyosy’s part, and Piko took 96neko’s! meychan and piko were actually so funny singing together but piko’s voice really did fit the girl’s part perfectly

Farewell
✦ Everyone came onto the stage, and the atmosphere was so great?! They were all so chatty with each other and shaking hands and stuff
✦ faneru made an appearance as well!!! i was so, so happy to see him on stage with everyone. gero put an arm around him and had him trapped while he told us all, “here’s faneru!!!!!”
✦ faneru gave asamaru a HUGE hug!! he was also wearing the At. Malletto hoodie~
✦ I also saw dasoku hug someone but I don’t remember who…..
✦ faneru got passed around the stage so much…. I saw him with ASK and pokota and koge at separate points
✦ he was there for the picture as well!!
✦ he said he probably wouldn’t be making another appearance next time (doubt)
✦ To take the commemorative photo, gero got us all to yell KOUHEY SAIKOU and then someone was like CAN WE AT LEAST SAY CHAN GERO SONIC SAIKOU and gero was like OKAY KINJOU SAIKOU but then for the actual thing he said kouhey again anyways
✦ everyone’s last words went by really fast this time around!
✦ meychan: gero mentioned how he was a fan that lined up for him at comiket
✦ araki: he said he was kouhey’s fan ~~and went to line up for HIM at comiket!! (??he'd never been to comiket)~~ kouhey stepped out and gave him a firm handshake
✦ megatera had another concert to be at that night so he left early in the day
✦ asamaru had jack talk to us again, through his phone!!
✦ ASK was last in the lineup and someone before him said something really good? I think it was one of the rappers. and gero was like THIS GUY SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE END WTF
✦ someone said kouhey stunk of alcohol loool a lot of them had been drinking backstage
✦ They all sang Mind Craft together!! it looked like so much fun…… they were all encouragingly pushing each other to the front to sing with gigantic smiles on their faces, it felt like a festival
✦ ASK said tightson was crying so gero turned around to look at him but he totally wasn’t LOL
✦ for the final bow, they were lined up in two tiers! faneru somehow got pushed into the front and ended up right next to koge~

extra bits I couldn’t place:
✦ someone almost fell off the blue stage but I don’t remember who……….. i think it might’ve been pokota?
✦ we got ASK’s…. bone sausage……..

✦ gero got us to yell “kouhey” so many times for like no reason…. he loves him
✦ cleanero sang stardust utopia!!!! I was so happy because I really do love their duet of it Most
✦ gero told us that some kid saw him while he was out buying something a few days ago? and said annyeonghaseyo to him (because of his red hair)
✦ clear, amu, and kettaro? were arm in arm jumping up and down for a group song and looked like they were having a lot of fun
✦ someone accused dasoku of not being excited and he was like “no this is me being excited”
✦ Gero said that during VALSHE’s migikata no chou, everyone backstage was yelling

Thank you Chang Gero Sonic for another awesome festival!!!!!!!!!

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

I went to XYZ's Yokohama Arena performance!! It was the finale to this year's summer tour. The performers for this night were luz, araki, kradness, mafumafu, meychan, nqrse, senra, shoose, soraru, and un:c. There were two new muffler towels specific to this performance being sold!

✦ The entire performance was non-stop, with no time for any MCing!! It really impressed me how easily one song flowed into the other, and how smoothly everyone rotated through the stage. sasuga organiser luz
✦ They started with the usual crew for Alice in NY!!
✦ meychan and senra sang Recollection Endroll, and suddenly araki and nqrse joined them?! They all did the dance part and we all screamed
✦ for soraru's I Fake Me, mafu was present to play the guitar!
✦ They then went into their duet, Black Christmas! the serifu lines were excellent as usual, thanks
✦ the lighting effects for ghost were so, so cool!! it looked kind of like spiderwebs covered the entire stage.
✦ nqrse and mafu's lung power during that song were amazing
✦ luz lifted shoose's shirt in Mixed Juice AGAIN, killing me instantly
✦ FIXER WAS GOOD (soraru and nqrse)
✦ nqrse called soraru out as either "oji" (uncle) or "ouji" (prince) and I couldn't tell which it was…. it sounded like prince to me…… later on he mentioned in his MC which one it was but i still couldn't tell LMAO
✦ There was a short DJ part, then they went into a nonstop medley of previous XYZ songs!! It was so much fun…..
✦ The first song in the set was USA!! kradness, meychan, araki, and shoose. I'm so glad they brought it back LOL i love seeing them dance to it
✦ shoose and senra did cat eye make, and shoose did pink cat and danced to it like usual and gave me a heart attack
✦ LUZ AND UN:C DID QUEEN OF HEARTS AAAHHHHHH luz knelt down to un:c and took his hand…. I'm pretty sure he also kissed it
✦ I also really loved gokuraku jodo to much!!! It was un:c, shoose, and senra!! There was one part where the camera was on un:c and it looked like he was singing directly at the camera…. he was motioning with his hands and looked SOO GOOD…..
✦ Araki's ECHO was awesome
✦ meychan and kradness' otome kaibou was in this medley so it wasn't the full song 0:
✦ Gigantic O.T.N. was shoose, meychan, senra, un:c, kradness, luz! senra was dancing wildly and shoose joined him??? I have no idea what the hell they were doing but they looked like crazy people
✦ I think this is where Shoose fell very impressively as they all headed back from the middle stage to the main stage…. right in front of the platform that everyone was standing on
✦ They helped him get up, and then while they all sang luz kept bending over to check his legs worriedly, it was cute
✦ WORLD'S END DANCEHALL!!! un:c came out without his jacket and was so energetic AHHHH he and araki really suited this song a lot!! At one point, unc sat down on the platform with one leg up on it and was like poiting at the audience…. he looked so cool…
✦ un:c's fansa was a blast as usual!!! He went to the middle stage to sing and i almost cried LNFKDJHD it's just such a perfect setting for that song... the middle of an arena surrounded by lightsticks
✦ kradness sparkled so much during his solo Inocho no Justitia….. he was especially good today, imo!!!
✦ Roki was araki, nqrse, mafu, and soraru!! Soraru sang the first part with a rather high voice and sounded so cute…….
✦ FANATIC was great, I was at the front of my row so I could headbang as hard as i wanted
✦ Mrs. Pumpkin's Comical Dream was the upload crew: nqrse, luz, mafu, soraru! So was Panda Hero. There were four narrow screens lined up at the back of the stage, so each performer was zoomed in on and featured on one screen. the effect was really really nice!
✦ Soraru sounded sooooo good in Mrs. Pumpkin…… That lovely low voice
✦ Every time they were on the middle stage together, luz would go drape himself over soraru
✦ un:c really waved so much at the audience…. He especially went to the sides a lot
✦ during one of the group songs where they were all lined up, un:c and shoose sang directly at each other even though they were on opposite sides of the stage??
✦ some songs had fire jets on stage, and one time there were even fireworks! Those surprised the hell out of me
✦ Last song was Finale!! It was the actual upload crew, which was pretty neat

Encore

✦ The encore started with secret answer! Everyone was on stage for it. Mafu was actually playing the guitar for it, which I thought was a neat touch. un:c did the death metal scream B^)
✦ During deriheru, as they were walking back to the main stage, luz kept clinging to soraru's back and holding on the back of his jacket then soraru pulled away from him and said something like "yada kono hito…." he said it twice LOL
✦ during the band introductions (deriheru) they all sat down, but the notable ones were senra and mafu, sitting next to each other very properly seiza with their backs ramrod straight and hands on their laps….. then right next to them was soraru, crosslegged and casually hunched over HAHAHA i thought it was such a funny contrast
✦ there was a different bassist today!! nqrse said he and this guy looked alike
✦ when they resumed singing deriheru, they brought the dj in to sing as well!! During un:c and luz's usual part, he was sitting with luz, then un:c ran in and took him, sitting next to him on the platform that everyone else had jumped onto and sharing a mic until the end!!
✦ balloons in everyone's colours were released onto the audience in the middle of one of the group songs!! I was in the stands very far up, so no balloons came my way, but I got to see the amazing view of thousands of colourful ballons floating down…… It looked like a fantasy festival!!! I really liked it….
✦ luz told us to sit down for the MC portion~ mafu sat down and then they yelled at him so he got up, but then when our attention was off him we noticed soraru had also decided to sit down LOL they yelled at him too
✦ people wanted to stand for the picture and he was like WOW you guys sure have energy!!
✦ shoose MC: He said he's not good at talking, and that this is the first time he's talked in front of this many people. Again, he acted like most of the audience wouldn't know who he was and introduced himself very politely…. He said he had an announcement: He fell
✦ Apparently there's something wrong with his knee…? I hope he's okay but he seemed to be alright.
✦ I don't remember a lot of the MCs…….. most of them were pretty short and general about XYZ's history and how far it's come from then. A lot of them said they thought really hard about what to say today. They also made sure to mention that XYZ is more than just the people present on stage today!!
✦ araki MC: When he stepped up to talk, he made a sort of yelp that wasn't into the mic at all but we all could still hear him loud and clear? incredible.
✦ a few of them (mostly nqrse) told him not to use the mic but luckily he kept it this time LOL
✦ ever the mature one, he talked pretty seriously about XYZ and how far it's come, and that it's thanks to all of us. As he walked back, nqrse jumped in suddenly and said that araki was way more like a rapper than he was?! and started rapping the last few words he said LOL
✦ soraru MC: He said he was honoured? to be standing on stage with these 10 people, then corrected it to 9 (minus himself) and people giggled at that... Someone in the audienfe shouted something at him and he went his usual "eh…?" and lost his thread a little, it was cute
✦ He said that people told him he wasn't allowed to have a 10 minute mc, so he thought long and hard about what to do and came up with sonething. He told all of us to stand up and held a rock paper scissors championship! If you lost or tied with him you must sit down (i lost immediately….) He kept going for a while, until there were about 5 left? one girl in the middle kept winning and they even spotlighted her LOL she got so many cheers every time she won…… Eventually she lost and everyone was sitting down? then soraru asked, how many rounds was that…? And there was silence because he didn't even count himself…… then he was like yeah okay thanks everyone and everyone was like WHAT, THAT'S IT??? so he went, "fine, the last few winners get a present from luz after this" and someone else yelled "THATS DEFINITELY A LIE OKAY GUYS"
✦ meychan MC: he went to the middle and greeted us, then soraru interrupted him and said that he's? new? so he'd tell him what to do. He motioned for meychan to go to him and then whispered something. meychan returned to the front of the stage and looked like he really didn't want to do whatever it was….. I didn't understand what he said at all but some people started making hissing sounds IT WAS SUPER WEIRD and meychan was like I DONT LIKE THIS
✦ un:c MC: He said that he couldn't think of what to say today and ended up not sleeping much last night. He talked seriously a bit about how XYZ started and everything, and how it's amazing that they're at an arena now. There was one part where he suddenly stopped talking and waved the mic away from his face? i wasn't sure if he messed up or if he was close to crying or something but the audience all cheered him on and he laughed. He then said he had something he wanted to do and everyone was like OHHH?? mafu interrupted and yelled something at him but i don't remember what it was exactly…… They all went to the back to sit down and watch, and un:c took to the middle stage!! He said asked if we were all feeling good, then said he felt good to and that live was SEX!!!! (the audience joined in as well) He then stood there looking very pleased with himself, and ran back to join the others
✦ luz MC: He was talking very softly and seemed to have trouble getting some of the words out…... I couldn't tell if he was crying, but he was at the very least very close to it….. he kept fiddling with his earpiece/face with his left hand as he talked….. He said he's not that good with words and thought a lot about what to say last night
✦ He talked about how XYZ started, and that as the organiser he was supported a lot by nqrse in particular. He mentioned that XYZ is not just the performers that were on stage today, but many many more as well. It's thanks to them and the people that go watch them that they were here today! He said that he'd never forget the view today, and we all quietly waved our white penlights for him
✦ last song was cocktail, luz announced it very softly
✦ i could hear people were wailing softly at his solo….
✦ He went to put his arm around nqrse as they sang and in a rare turn of events nqrse missed his line? it seemed like he was a little choked up too…….
✦ shoose's voice and style really is suited to this song
✦ I ttthink this is where they lit up the stage with disco balls…. it looked super impressive
✦ They waved goodbye with rhe band members, and i saw about half of them greet the band members and give them hugs before they left… cute
✦ when waving goodbye, they started at the front, then went to greet the people to the sides. they all lined up and then the bgm was lowered as if they were gonna say something, but I guess they weren't because mafu was like "ummm it's ok to turn on the music…..! [slightly panicked and in English] SOUND UP"
✦ as they walked from the left side of the stage to the middle, meychan and unc brought up the rear. meychan was so clearly crying the entire time lol………. he kept looking up and laughing (at himself?) and unc patted him on the back as they walked, then ruffled his hair
✦ when they walked to the middle stage, they couldn't figure out how to line up and ended up in a circle, but soraru got left out somehow and wandered the middle looking for a spot…. then luz grabbed him and dragged him next to mafu and they all rearranged themselves into a kind of line
✦ when they returned to the main stage they all bowed at the front again, but they put their hands together and said sayonara to us LMAO luz said something about it being the XYZ way
✦ while some people were milling about waving just a little bit more before leaving, luz bowed at us alone one last time, for a very long time

I had such a blast!! It was such an emotional end. I'm very proud of them.

The first day of XYZ Tour in at Zepp Tokyo!! Performers were luz, Araki, un:c, Shoose, nqrse, Meychan, KOOL, and Gero. The setlist is the same as Nagoya's first day.

- During Mixed Juice, luz and shoose did their usual flirting, but this time luz FULLY pulled shooses' shirt up and like exposed his entire tummy and i died
- During shoose and nqrse's duet, nqrse kept screaming about shooses' thin legs
- I think nqrse also mentions during a group song that he's lost weight recently and he says this like 3 times
- He's always interjecting funny shit regardless of the atmosphere of the song
- During Team Paripi, Meychan asked everyone what they did this summer: un:c moved, meychan streamed A Lot, and araki stayed at home..... To this, meychan was like "SEE WE'RE NOT PARTY PEOPLE AT ALL?!" and araki was like "we'll start from now!!"
- un:c took off his jacket halfway through Cycle~
- Again, lightsticks were turned off for un:c/KOOL's Cycle, but this time they stayed off through KOOL's solo and araki's solo, then were brought back on for meychan and luz's duet, only to be turned off again for luz's FANATIC, which was super fun as always
- During Million Dollar Baby, shoose and un:c sat down on the platform and sang at each other really cutely.....

- When they're finished, they call everyone out for gigantic OTN, and then they go into deriheru!
This time, un:c is the one to sit in luz's lap
- during Deriheru, meychan introduces the keyboardist but then he suddenly starts playing..... Happy Birthday! and un:c exclaims "we're doing it now?! Here?!" while luz replied "There's no other time to do it but here~"
- They bring out a cake for him, and tell the audience they have a special present for him!! He's guided off the stage by Araki and nqrse
- While waiting, they discuss his special present: gero says that he'll be so shocked he might not want to show up ever again, and they all agree that they want to be watching from the audience instead, and start pointing at guest viewing area, saying they should just leave and go there right now. They predict what he'll say when he sees what they have prepared (MAJI KA) and it is revealed that nqrse is the mastermind behind it all.... Gero tells us a wig is involved and we can mostly guess what's happening at this point
- un:c finally comes out and he's...! in a girls' sailor uniform!!!! He's got a fluffy light-coloured wig and everything. the skirt is actually fairly short, as we could see when he stepped up ont he the platform to show off the outfit.... He keeps pulling at the skirt and is in some kind of shy girl pose HE WAS REALLY CUTE.... I'M SORRY
- He also kept having to push hair out of his face cuz the wig was so fluffy.....
- gero's is lounging on the floor and says something that makes unc walk on over to him, straddle him and flash him, then squat down on him like he's in some sort of strip club...................
- luz? says that since we've had this outfit specially prepared, they want him to sing in it one more time, and they send him off to sing the first part of Fansa one more time.... The spotlight is on him and it's clear he was definitely not expecting to sing again, because he made like he was about to keep going after the first chorus but wasn't sure
- They then finish off deriheru with him like that, but instead of the normal performance where luz is lying on the platform and un:c runs to him, un:c is standing on the platform and luz walks onto it, grabs his chin and pulls his face to his....... it was quite the scene
- He still grabs luz's leg after that like normal though LOL
- They also go into Cocktail and he clearly wants to change out of it already, but they won't let him..... He ends up laughing his way through his first few lines of the song and it's really cute...... everyone cheered him on
- They ALL do the mixing motion in the song this time, which was super amusing to watch
- Again gero, meychan, and un:c kept doing the nikuchomo motions, and others would also join in

ENCORE

-Gero and KOOL's death metal scream during secret answer is so good I know I mentioned it last time as well but they are SO GOOD

- We take a picture with the cake, and as it's brought it again, gero comments that it's properly got orange on it!! Meychan takes a look and says, "no there's not" (there definitely is, if you look at their pictures?) and gero looks at him like he's crazy.... He tries to reason it out for a while before gero articulates this thought
- Someone mentions that un:c's art is on the cake!! And he says "yeah, I made it!" to which gero is like "YOU MADE THE CAKE???" (no)
- We take the picture by saying un:c-san, omedetiiiii
- They say nqrse should feed un:c the cake, so unc steps up to him at first, but takes steps back as we watch nqrse pick up the Entire Cake
- He ends up taking a bit out of it while nqrse tries to push as much of the corner into his face as possible, covering about half of him.... then un:c turns around to look at us while he's chewing, as everyone calls him cute~
- He spends a long time wiping his face, and nqrse takes the towel from him because it actually got on his clothes as well LOL

- While waiting for his name to be called (first), KOOL was doing a cute little dance from side to side
- He said that his hair always gets super messed up at concerts and his stylist gets maed at him... He talks about how he wants the blue to represent the sky, but since it's quite a dark shade he's fine with it representing the ocean

- They decided to let the audience decide whether to call gero Gero, or Kinjou. They counted down and let us shout as loud as possible, and when gero stepped up to talk he said he had no idea which was louder LOL
- Gero says he wants a Team Zucchini since there's a team nqrse and team paripi, and turns to un:c to invite him since meychan doesn't want to do it. un:c speaks agreeably but gero goes "YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU ACTUALLY HAVE ANY INTENTION OF DOING IT DO YOU" and un:c's like "nonono by all means" (doubt)
- gero said he saw un:c's balls
- Kony's name was brought up in regards to nikucho but I don't remember the context anymore. Something about him being the Most Powerful

- Shoose greets us politely and then says, "i must be too tall, huh?" and crouches down like a yankee to many people screaming... You can hear gero going "an aura's coming out?!"
- He stands back up and nqrse appears from behind and looks through from between his legs.....
- Shoose says that the two before him are always so powerful, so gero and KOOL go to proudly stand arm-in-arm while gero points at luz and says he always tsukkomis them
- Shoose mentions his one-man, and says that there's probably many people that don't know him, but it's fine if you ~do it now~
-I think most people missed it because he didn't get much of a reaction, so they made him say it again to prompt us LOL
- He also says that we should go to subsequent XYZ shows but gero tells him they're already sold out, so he tells us that we should just go stand outside instead

- There's some confusion on the next person to talk: People were expecting nqrse, but I think luz wanted people to call him?
- Eventually nqrse takes the center and luz ends up on his side, and gero physically drags shoose over to his other side, sets him in place, and tells them to Do It
- nqrse does the buruzon chiemi bit properly this time, still with gero providing BGM, and luz takes off his jacket again......
- nqrse also imitates kradness, and luz laughs and tells us he really loves imitating him

- luz calls meychan nikuchomo but he ignores that and steps out normally, telling us that he's got an announcement!! He tells us that on October 26th, he....... IS GOING TO WATCH SHOOSE'S ONEMAN!!! and we're all like jeeeez DUDE
- He turns to shoose and they start bowing rapidly at each other as he asks for permission to go LOL and shoose is like "of course by all means!!"

- Araki talks pretty seriously about making the most of the time they have right now, because time passes fast!!
- He also mentions un:c's birthday, but he says that it "often" happens during the summer and everyone's just like ??????????? often??????

- un:c starts in a similar vein but also keeps saying that his mind's gone blank and he can't think of anything to say
- He said that when he was brought into and saw the sailor uniform laid out for him, his vision went dark. He told nqrse that he "will remember this"
He talked about how there was a sudden earthquake and storm after it became his birthday, and he said it seemed like a bad omen.... and he was RIGHT (re: uniform)
- He did his Sex Talk and said it'll be short so people went "EHHHHH" but he replied that he "likes it short" (?)

- luz goes last, and reminds us again to please take care of ourselves and if you feel like you might faint, not to hesitate to call for help. It looks like someone actually did need help, so he points them out and gero steps in to reassure them that there's nothing wrong with getting help, and that everyone is worried for them. He gets us all the clap when they're able to get up again.... a sweetheart ;v;
- luz messed up some of his words again, it was pretty cute
- He also did the nikuchomo motion but kept moving back and forth and gero pointed out that that's incorrect? and he was just like "but we've been doing it like this the entire time....." and trails off quietly
- he calls everyone his beloved XYZ members~

- gero says it's sayonara and luz tells us that it actually is sayonara for him and KOOL! They all bow and say sayonara.
- Again, nqrse doesn't hold meychan's hand, poor boy..... Then araki doesn't, so gero directs him to grab un:c's hand instead, who immediately takes his hand away... He then reaches tot he other side and grabs luz's wrist, who doesn't pull away but just kind of freezes there and they look at each other for a moment..... meychan finally lets go and araki and nqrse take his hands at last LOL
- luz gives un:c such a gentle and pure hug
- luz and shoose also do something to the side as theyre waving but I couldn't see... I heard people scream though

I'm so glad I was able to go to this performance.......... I screamed so much and un:c birthday celebration was so worth it

The second day of XYZ Tour in at Zepp Nagoya!! Performers were luz, Araki, un:c, Senra, nqrse, Meychan, Kradness, and SILVANA

Kradness and Meychan dueted Otome Kaibou! I thought Kradness might be singing it when he sang it at Underbar Fes hahaha
Team nqrse debuted their original song today!! It was really good and even though they were all just standing there for the most part luz somehow made himself look very hot
Senra's growls during the chorus are SO GOOD!! It's totally missing from the recorded version, because in place of it is an autotune effect which is also really nice but not quite the same....
I also really like nqrse's solo, This night. I assume amatsuki's going to join min on it later? The lighiting for it is all pink and nice and it flashes to the beat in a really nice way. And of course he's super cool singing it!
Kradness' jacket was SO SPARKLY they ended up referring to him by his jacket for most of the show
During Team Paripi's talk, meychan said he wanted to say something he probably shouldn't say and the other two were like, what is it? 'we're not like party people at all, are we...?" He kept talking but the other two were stood ned to each other regarding him like, :/
During the group songs, un:c went over to Kradness A Lot and shared mics with him at least twice for no reason?? they both had mics... their heads would get so close together it was cute....
un:c also stood up on the drummer's platform a LOT he looked so cool up there LOL

During today's gigantic OTN, araki? and nqrse sat seiza across from each other and started bowing, then everyone else started copying them until luz was the only one left standing, and he was pointing at everyone's heads and almost patting them
During the band introductions, nqrse kept screaming about the bassist's leg sand felt them up, then started picking at his bass again
meychan introduced the keyboardist and said it was his birthday!! ... to which everyone else started yelling that he was a liar LMAO
luz then did the same thing with the guitarist, then said himself that he was lying~
un:c and meychan seemed to have a lot of fun doing the nikuchomo motions during deriheru, they were so cute
un:c waved directly at a lot of people again.... I was a little closer this time so I could see it for myself... he'd nod when he made eye concact and smile so brightly

Encore

SILVANA asked us if we did anything summer-like and said that he went to the beach in boots even though he knew he was going to the beach
Senra talked about his extremely tight shiny pants and how he could barely move in them
luz waited for Kradness to introduce him while looking at him very intently.... When Kradness realised what he was supposed to do, he did a very grand twirl (sparkling a lot in the process) and gestured to luz, saying his name loudly
Apparently luz has the intonation for "two days" wrong (I can't tell...) so the audience kept laughing and trying to help him correct it.... nqrse suggested that it's the same intonation as "mayonnaise" but he was able to say that just fine... He seemed so confused.... then he messed up the pronunciation of something else and told us, "I'm really not doing this on purpose..."
nqrse said it was the drummers birthday and we all sang hbd for him, luz gave him the mic and he was like "what should I do" and said hes been with xyz for a while but this is his first time talking
he stood up and went to the front and was trying to do something, but messed up and had to repeat it?
They made fun of meychan's jacket and he brought up that he's actually wearing.... two ties.....
araki started his talk like HEY HEY HEY YEAH YEAH so they called him gero
un:c drank so much water while everyone was talking LOL I wonder if it was something he ate
He started his talk by saying that something about the start of this tour feels so nostalgic... He talked about how nothing lasts forever (so he wants to do what he can now?) and that he's getting old LOL
un:c told us that he was doing something new and is gonna be an idol, then went into the sex thing and you could hear someone saying "that's not good"
meanwhile, luz was giggling like mad and at the end he said "boku sore suki"

For today's group picture, luz made sure to note that he was sitting properly like everyone else, unlike yesterday
During the bow, again nqrse wouldn't let meychan hold his hand.... and this time araki, on his other side, even joined in , so meychan ended up making a sad face and covered his face... Everyone tried to cheer him up but nqrse still refused to touch him LOL
While they all waved goodbye for the night, unc waved ssooo much and made finger hearts and big hearts and took time at each section of the stage like twice... it felt like they had a lot of time to wave today
At the very, very end, they all got on to the middle platform to bow one last time and meychan ended up next to nqrse again.... nqrse made a disgusted face but SILVANA pushed them together anyways HAHAHA

The first day of XYZ Tour in at Zepp Nagoya!! Performers were luz, Araki, un:c, Shoose, nqrse, Meychan, KOOL, and Gero

opened with Alice in NY, with Shoose doing Senra's part
Shoose and luz's Mixed Juice was super spicy... they danced in sync at parts and were all over each other as usual
I love un:c and shoose's Million Dollar Baby so much....! Their little dance in the middle is so cute... Also I guess here un:c flat laid down and lifted his leg all the way up for like no reason?? it was great
Team Party People (Araki, Meychan, un:c) came out for the only MC (it was pretty much non-stop for the rest of the show) and taught us what to say during their song!! One of them said that if if anyone of XYZ were to be in team paripi it'd be them (???)
Gero and KOOL did a duet and they both yelled "ARE YOU FUCKING READY???" at us it was great
un:c's fansa was sooo cute he blew kisses and made hearts
When he said the "I'll make them my treasure" line you could hear the sparkles in his voice
shoose and nqrse singing Higai Mousou Keitai Joshi (wara) also brought out tonnes of screams
un:c and KOOL sang cycle!! They got us to turn off all our penlights and bring out our towels, it was very fun!!
The lights mostly remained off for KOOL's solo; his original song!!
luz and meychan's duet was such a turn from luz's usual in that he didn't try to do anything racy at all, which was suprising
luz also sang his original, FANATIC, and this time I was familiar enough with the hand actions to do it~
at the very end of FANATIC, luz would whisper a very soft 「最高」that made everyone yell.....
He then called everyone out for Gigantic OTN!
It was absolute chaos on stage for that song?! people were running around singing with each other and throwing their arms over each others' shoulders...... Gero/shoose/KOOl in particular seemed to be having their own little dance party for the most part
un:c ran off stage to the right and we were all like ?!?!? until he returned like nothing happened? Then he ran off again and more people followed, with gero yelling at them from the other end
eventually everyone ran off with him expect for luz, who kind of just stood there looking confused until they all finally returned.
They went into deriheru, which was marignally less chaotic, and un:c and luz did their usual thing where they faced each other and un:c crouched down and grabbed luz's leg, staying like that til the end of the song while everyone was all standing next to him
I'm not sure which song it was, but at one point KOOl ended up on luz's lap and they (sort of) both did sit-ups together?
They did band member introductions during deriheru, and nqrse introduced the bass!! He yelled a lot aboutn how thin his legs were, and then went up to him and started picking at the bass as he was playing
The last song was CocktaiL!! At the 混ぜ合わせて　いけますように line, gero, shoose, and KOOL all did wild mixing motions and looked like they were having the time of their lives...... They really seemed like they were having fun together today
The three of them also kept doing the nikuchomo motions during one of the group songs
At some point kool or shoose had grabbed the other and pulled them really really close??? I don't really remmeber exactly what happened but it definitely Happened

Encore

For Secret Answer, Gero and KOOL did Sekihan's death metal scream~
Roki
KOOL and Gero both talked super fast for their encore, because they were told they only got 3 minutes each? Luz called both of them weird but when he introduced shoose he called him the Kirameki Ouji
Gero was introduced as Kinjou, and walked in saying that he's a youtuber LOL.... He mentioned that he wanted to do Summer Zucchini Party with meychan again this year, but blamed meychan, saying he didn't want to do it
meychan defended himself by asking how many days gero was able to participate in for this tour ("two.....") and said that that's way too much effort to come up with a bit for just two days..... gero still wanted to do it, and then targeted un:c and said he wanted to invite him to join in as well
Shoose walked to the centre stage and said that he's going to be a completely different mood from the first two. He tried talking really fast at first to match them, but immediately gave up and gave us his usual very polite "Nice to meet you, my name is Shoose"
He said that many people might not know him, but he'd like for us to at least remember his name... Then he mentioned that he's having a One-Man Live in October, with luz and senra as guests. He said that *the three of them* will work hard and then cut himself off, going "What am I even saying, this is my one-man"
He called luz to the front for this, and then somehow nqrse interrupted and stood between them, saying it looks like he's Buruzon Chiemi with B
They all made him do the skit, but he didn't actually know it that well? Gero provided the BGM but nqrse couldn't get the tempo quite right, so the audience said it along with him and he ended up yelling at us and telling us that we should be the ones rapping instead LOL
He attempts one final time and luz actually takes off his jacket at the right timing, which shoose kind of slides one shoulder of his jacket down... many screams
For meychan's talk, he was trying to follow up on something nqrse was doing and messed up, so gero told him to redo it from the beginning. He then stood there waiting for luz to re-introduce him but luz was kind of silently spaced out... When he finally realised he was supposed to call meychan again he laughed so cutely?!
Araki was so loud that he exclaimed that he didn't even need the mic, and handed it off to nqrse. His voice really did carry?! It was pretty amazing. But, as he kept talking, he did get a bit softer, and the audience souted out sometimes which meant we couldn't hear him during those times. He tried to get the mmic back from nqrse but nqrse wouldn't hand it back over for the longest time..... He finally shoved it at araki near the end liek TSK TSK
un:c talked about Boys & Girls and how Araki wrote the lyrics, DYES IWASAKI composed it, and he drew and made the video!! Luz started asking about meychan and what he did, and un:c got a bit flustered, saying that of course he helped out too!! he took lots of pictures for the video, but he ended up not using any of them....... BUT they gave him inspiration for what he actualyl wanted to put in the video...! At this, you could hear gero cackling softly like, not even one picture was used, how sad
Someone mentions his sex spiel so he goes into that and everyone else moves to the back of the stage to sit down.... He says his theme this time around is Idol, and every time he mentions the word "sex" the stage lighting turnes a purple-pink
it was a really long talk
They finish with Finale, and shoose and gero do the rap part together!! They sound so good
For the bow, meychan and nqrse end up next to each other, but nqrse absolutely refuses to let meychan hold his hand?? He kept swatting him away, it was super amusing.
As they all wandered the stage saying goodbye to the audience, gero and meychan did nikuchomo and the entire audience did it with them!! Then, un:c seemed to want to do it as well, so they both gestured to him and the centre stage like "go ahead" and we did it once again!! He seemed so happy LOL IT WAS REALLY CUTE....
They were SO energetic as they said goodbye and would be arm in arm waving at people..... un:c in particular seemed to wave really directly at people ... he made lots of finger hearts as well aaaaaaaa
They get together to say goodbye one more time, and all say "sayonara" to us as gero's been loudly doing this entire time LOL

They were all really so wild today.... The energy was sky high and it looked like they had a lot of fun! I had a lot of fun too. It was a great start to the tour!!

XYZ tour’s Valentine’s Day performance, ladies only! This was the first performance for this tour this year, held at Shinkiba Studio Coast. Singers were araki, un:c, shoose, senra, nrqse, piko, meychan, and luz. It was a very packed setlist with very little time for any mc!

They started off with U.S.A. sung by piko, meychan, senra, and araki! And what a way to start it off indeed, the energy of both the performers and the crowd was crazy! un:c and luz sang queen of hearts aaaaa and luz and shoose did R18!! luz’s hair was so cute with the black and white, I really like how it looks. All his duets were CRAZY fanservicey omggg every time he and un:c would switch places he’d do something…… and with shoose they were seriously all over each other the entire time omfg they had their faces so close together several times and luz literally pulled shoose’s off his shoulder at one point... they kept feeling each other up wow…… Shoose also sang proto disco!! which I wasn’t expecting at all?! Meychan and nqrse did yomosugara, then nqrse did a very very cool happy halloween~ he and senra also sang nectar together. Senra and shoose sang cat eye make together and as they walked towards each other it looked like shoose was going to do Something but it seemed like senra panicked and patted him on the shoulder instead HAHAHA cute. Shoose always sings along without the mic during his duet partners’ parts….. He always looks so cool wheeze. Then he sang and danced to pink cat again and it was very difficult to…. breathe……. やばいよこの人…. He had really cool??? light up shoes??? as well. All their outfits were so flashy in general, I loved it! Then!! shoose and un:c did million dollar dreamer!!!!! Yayyyy I really wanted to see them sing it together again! They did the dance in the middle and everything and were super cute….. un:c also sang dappou rock with piko and chururira chururira solo!! Both great songs to pump up the audience! He was sooo cute and would dance and shake his hips a lot, I loved it. It seemed to get pretty hot because he threw his jacket to the ground at some point. Luz and nqrse sang Higai Mousou Keitai Joshi!! and araki and nrqse sang hello dystopia. Araki and piko sang ghost rule together, and then piko sang haikei doppleganger solo! At some point, piko and luz sang issin furan together. As you’d expect, they flirted a lot with each other while singing and piko full on laid on the floor while luz was over him…… then when he got up he KISSED LUZ ON THE CHEEK to thunderous screaming. Piko also sang haikei doppleganer! Then, there was a group gigantic OTN and then everyone came in for roki and secret answer!

For the encore, they started with deriheru and then went into the last mc portion! Shoose was talking very politely and kept bowing. un:c did his usual sex thing and they even had proper seductive background music for it but he started snorting halfway through the delivery LOL. Once he started talking everyone was like "ahh....." and went to sit down in the back of the stage..... piko in particular was completely srawled out on the floor just lounging about. After he finished, un:c made luz to do the thing as well and he took forever to get to the point and it really seemed like he didn’t want to say it LMAOO he eventually finished with “concerts are like sex!!!” to much screaming. They also kept pretending to be kradness for some reason, it was pretty amusing. He’s such a bright personality…. The audience asked luz to dance to USA too since he didn’t sing it at the beginning but araki said he was doing it all wrong and that he needed to lean back more, demonstrating. Luz then leaned SUPER far back and fell over…. He got up and dusted himself off with a completely straight face while everyone laughed and said “it’s because I did it with all my strength, ok” un:c talked about how he’s been dieting and nqrse was immediately like, “shut up. Shut up I’m leaving” LOL but he continued on saying that since XYZ he’d lost x amount of weight and was very happy with himself! It seem that luz was also on a diet, so they told us about their sad meals before the show. nqrse then cut in saying he had chocolate today :^) Piko did his usual thing and got us to cheer a lot and ended by telling us we all stank :')

They ended the night with CocktaiL~

It was an amazing way to spend Valentines day!! I'm so grateful.......

I went to XYZ tour on 8/27!! The last Tokyo day~ The cast was luz, Araki, un:c, Gero, Shoose, Senra, and nqrse! I had work so I was late by about a half hour :( But I’m glad I went anyways!!

I entered in the middle of ECHO, which Araki and nqrse were doing like last time! Gero came pretty soon after with Outsider and Marionette Lovers (whispers MIND CLUSTER). He had time for some MC and was absolutely INCREDIBLE with the audience, were were laughing and cheering like crazy!! I love him….. He joked about how our (green) lightsticks looked like zucchinis. He also mentioned how today was his last day with the XYZ tour, because his tour starts next week!!

I completely didn’t recognise un:c omfg I hadn’t seen him for a long while!! he had such a flashy patterened outfit LMAO it was very cute…..

For Senra’s MC, he talked about his own outfit and how he’s a zucchini LOL he was in a green jacket suit and like??? green velvet pants…???

Shoose sang U and then Pink Cat!! HE’S SO DANGEROUS OMFG he’d even dance to parts of it???? HE WAS SMILING SEDUCTIVELY THE ENTIRE TIME IT WAS SUPER BAD FOR MY SOUL AND I KEPT HAVING TO COVER MY FACE…………… He also sings Million Dollar Dreamer with un:c!!! He’d pose at the left corner of the stage and smirk while un:c sang and they both got up on the middle platform to do a little dance for part of it?! OMFG THEY WERE SO CUTE they looked like they were having a lot of fun!!

Today’s gigantic OTN crew was gero, meychan, un:c, and nqrse!

For one of the group songs, they all stand together in the middle and sing the last part together!! but someone is crouched down clung to luz’s leg LMAO it was either meychan on un:c? Also when they introduce the bassist and he steps up to the front, nqrse yells “so thin~~~” and goes up to rub his leg

First song for the encore was performed by gero and meychan, who ran onto the stage in cutesy pastel maid outfits!! They wear bob wigs and everything…. They tell us they are Summer Zucchini Party and gero keeps making stupid faces and bending over in what could have been a cute pose LOL. At the end gero apologises to meychan’s mom and it becomes a running joke through the rest of the show as others also apologise to meychan’s mom. At one point gero lifts his skirt all the way up to flash us (the petticoat is still down). During MC, someone asks SZP what guy is their type and gero chooses araki!! meychan, after some thinking, turns around like, “shoose~” and they both go hug their boys… Then luz looks left out so he goes to hug nqrse who is beside him LOL

SZP say they have a big announcement: it’s un:c’s birthday!!!!! They bring out a cake and un:c is so surprised. He says during rehearsal he knew they had an announcement and was wondering what it was, but didn’t expect this at all! He even chokes up a little while making his speech and they tell him he cries too easily :’) He makes some joke about how during performances he and the audience both feel good so that’s basically sex right!!!!! and then someone brings up that since he did a duet with shoose that means……….?! Shoose’s expression was so funny here…. I can’t describe it but it was super entertaining.

They take pictures and then i think that's when SZP go back to change, leaving the rest of them to kill time!
For the start of Shoose’s MC a bunch of people call out very encourangingly “shoose-san kawaii!! ikemen!!”
There’s one really loud guy in the audience that catches luz’s attention so he banters with him for a while and asks him where he’s from (Nagoya). He tells the audience that it’s cool when you can meet interesting people like this during concerts. Meanwhile the guy is doing like? claw gestures? and un:c/shoose/nqrse are behind luz imitating him LOL they were so cute…. Speaking of that group, un:c kept walking past shoose to whisper things to nqrse while others were talking…?? It was very cute

meychan announces that he’s doing a one-man live at Zepp Tokyo on Christmas day!!! Upon hearing that, araki and senra walk up to him arm in arm in their red and green outfits and everyone cheers lol. luz jokes that XYZ should have a christmas performance and meychan’s like, please don’t!!!!

They end the night with cocktail as usual!!

(I looked up the setlist afterwards and found out that besides missing secret answer I also missed shoose singing cat eye make with someone and R-18 with luz…… lies down)

Hellooooo I went to XYZ tour 8/21!! The cast was luz, Araki, KOOL, Kradness, SILVANA, Soraru, nqrse, and Piko!

They opened with Secret Night!! WHICH I LOVE. A quick look around me told me there would be lots of blue and sure enough, soraru got the most ridiculous screams LMAO. He was then left to do a solo, Merry Bad End! He flipped us all off while singing the “nakayubi tomare” part it and was the best experience ever, 5000/10 thank you very much

The setlist was a lot of fun!! Soraru sang Charles and dueted inochi bakkari with luz!! When he was called, luz walked out carrying something and said soraru definitely wouldn’t wear it. It was a pair of sunglasses, and as expected, he put them on and was like “this is dumb” and put them down LOL but everyone was screaming…… luz solo’d lemon! SILVANA sang an acoustic for something that sounded really nice~ Someone sang alien alien which I LOVE! Piko sang oborozuki and it suited him a lot…. Araki and nqrse did ECHO and it was SO GOOD nqrse’s rapping really makes the song even better!! And his hair was so cute too…. It was almost just like his avatar! Curly and around the same length, but brown with pink streaks! He was super cute hahaha. Kradness was SO energetic!! I don’t know the songs he sang but it was really fun watching him and he got us all pretty pumped!! Two other songs that I got super super into were hibana, performed by araki, and ghost rule with araki+piko!! They were really fun to sing along to. Oh and Piko did haikei doppleganger SOOOO well, I love watching him get all hardcore LOL. luz and SILVANA also do a super cool thing with their performance where SILVANA acted as luz’s puppet on a string?! I was really impressed by his movements! they also had super close contact during that song, it was really Something

My favourite song was definitely Gigantic OTN….. Soraru, kradness, KOOL, and nqrse sang it together!! It’s just such a fun song and they got all of us to scream CHIN… chin chin… tokyo chin….. it was a good time…. They seemed to have a lot of fun with it and with each other on stage too
At some point after one of his solos luz takes of his jacket in a super showy fashion while standing on the elevated platform lol…. he looked super cool. Also I’m pretty sure he flirted with every single performer and some of the audience as well LMAO sasuga

For the encore, there were 3 songs! I don’t remember the first one but luz and SILVANA sang it, and then there was roki by araki and nqrse!! When they finished with that song, nqrse started speaking really weirdly and with super low energy and we could barely hear him LMAO but apparently he was doing a soraru impression, and araki followed suit…. And then they called the members onstage one by one, referring to every single one as soraru LOL they all talked like that so it was so hard to understand them!! kradness came out pretty early on and he tried to get us to cheer or something but we couldn’t hear him so when he faced the mic to the crowd he got nothing and was like, THIS ISN’T WORKING and reverted back to his normal self HAHAHA. luz walked on stage wearing sunglasses…… he went to grab soraru’s water bottle and drank out of it and said, “indirect kiss with soraru….” so people were screaming. When they called piko out, I think they said ahhh this one isn’t gonna play along BUT HE ACTUALLY DID FOR A BIT but gave up pretty quickly, it was great. Lastly, the real Soraru was called up and he’s just like, what’s with this, you all don’t sound like me at all, you just sound like you all got super big…… and he turned to the audience like, right?????

They each take turns closing! Soraru takes a drink and everyone screams kjghjfdhkgfkfd and he just kind of looks at us without much of a change in expression… Everyone somehow ends up mentioning soraru in their talks???? LMAO IDK WHAT WAS GOING ON BUT THEY WERE REALLY SHOWERING HIM WITH ATTENTION TODAY….. Araki talks about how he and soraru are in their thirties (i think re: how soraru was sleeping earlier?) and soraru’s like, no I’m still in my 20s (araki is too…???) and they talk a little bit and look to the left of the stage…. and KOOL is like, don’t look this way!!!! luz says something I don’t fully understand but the gist of it is that he wants soraru to ask us about himself and for us to call him “tensai”? he calls soraru up who has chosen to sit down on the floor and not pay attention LOL so he was just like what’s going on, I didn’t hear about this at all, what am I doing? and luz pulls him up on the raised platform and gets him to ask us! we all shout TENSAI and he’s like, “…hentai? they just called me hentai??” and luz is like NO and we all laugh so much….. soraru your ears…. please…. During SILVANA’s turn, soraru for some reason is making small gestures at araki who is right beside him and the audience screams a bit, so SILVANA turns around like what??? and turns to us asking us to please listen to him LOL…. KOOL said some people might not know one of the songs he performed very well, but the fun of concerts is that you can still get into the music (with everyone?). Piko was last and said something like he doesn’t know what to say!!! He ended up taking a lot and interacting with the audience though, he was so cool…! He asked the guys in the audience to cheer and all of like 10 or so voices and arms came up LMAO….. He singled out one of the dudes in the very front and asked him where he was from (Tokyo LOL) and asked him to use an “onee” voice along with him and the dude’s voice cracked as he yelled :')…. Then he told all the girls to try speaking in guys’ voices LMAO IT WAS A FUN TIME…. he got us to cheer a lot in the end too!! They talk about how kradness would have been a much better person to imitate, so a few of them make loud whoops… Then they made soraru do it too and it was REALLY CUTE………

Finally, the last song of the night is, of course, CocktaiL!! I really enjoy this song too~

Yay!

This is not very well written or anything and is 100% thought/word vomit as opposed to a real report but it sure describes some of the events of the day so if anyone’s interested!!

I saw gero say there was gonna be 5000 people so I wanted to get there early, but I missed my first bus so I barely made opening…. I went all the way to the back of the extremely long line before some girls asked me what number my ticket was and I realised I was 382 and where I was standing was in….. like the 2500s…… So I walked all the way back to the front.

Akiakane's illustrations of their avatars lined the walk into the venue

I’m really glad I got in early bc i had leeway to get shit before they were all sold out!! I ended up grabbing ASK’s earcuff even though i had decided earlier that I didn’t need it….. People were heading pretty frantically towards his merch line so I was like Okay same. It totally slipped my mind to actually get his CDs though and now i regret it :( I wanted to look at the tracklists…. I grabbed the character T-shirt and decided that was Enough for now. I intended to go back when koge and ASK were actually running their booths but i was too scared of losing my spots in the crowd so i never did……….

Super cute!!

There was all that collab food but I wanted to get a decent spot soon so I only grabbed a STRONG GERO and headed to the stage. I immediately regretted this because now I had this fucking cup with me and no bottled liquid supply, but I made it work

And here are the stages!

utsu-P was the DJ for the first hour and he played tonnes of good oldies from niconico, both vocaloid and not! It was a lot of fun and he got us pumped up!! It really set that nostalgic mood…. Lon’s ochame kinou was in there too ;o;

In the first stage, they immediately got everyone on stage and sang Mind Craft! I was scrambling to identify several people LMAO but Koge was pretty easy just from the way he generally dresses, and ASK was flashy as FUCK with tonnes of accessories….. He’s so TALL OMFG he and Gom seemed to be about the same height? They got dasoku to lift himself up on their shoulders HAHAHA. People that super stood out were underbar and araki…… underbar is obvious because of his outfit, but I’d never seen araki before so i thought he was a really really cool lookin girl LMAO his hair was so impressive!! All styled and curled and bright red!

After Mind Craft were some solos and collabs!! Glutan was first but i don’t remember the song…. Hanatan was absolutely amazing with Romeo to Cinderella!! I was so impressed by her voice control omg she’s a goddess……. cleanero sang Cantarella together and they were super good too!! I love them so much… They talked about how it was their first collab together and basically how nero got into utattemita. Touyu solo’d Unravel and hit those high notes so well?! And then Matryoshka with koge!! in a later stage gero joked that the two of them looked like a hip-hop duo and koge said that out of all utaite (present?) he probably looks the most like a he can rap LOL. Gom sang World is Mine and he struggled a bit with some parts, it was pretty funny! As expected of that song…… Underbar was SUPER cute and so energetic?? he did This is the Happiness and Peace of Mind Committee and changed the chorus lyrics to “underbar is? THE BEST” and the crowd was sooo into it, it was super fun! He did a duet as well, I think, but I don’t remember with who or what;; I think it was during this stage that Yugepo also joined someone for a Panda Hero duet while wearing a panda mask and ended up throwing it into the crowd at some point. tbh there are a whole bunch of performances that i’m missing it was such a whirlwind.

I was a bit off to the side during the first stage which was unfortunate because that’s where tissuehime was!! But, he came up to the front of the stage a few times to do his thing and he was reaaally goood!! I always loved his World is Mine!!!

In the second stage, it got a bit cramped because everyone was moving over to the front of the blue stage so i just kid of got pushed along a little…. But the dust settled eventually and there was enough room to move a bit. During the breaks, more of those classic NND songs would play and you could hear people singing along softly, it was a great atmosphere! They started the second stage with another group song! For solos, alfakyun sang Guren no Yumiya which was super fun to yell along with! she also sang ECHO in a duet with araki and rocked out pretty hard. Piko also did a solo here! Gero did a duet with ??? someone;;; and he came out wearing the character shirt…. It turns out the other guy was also wearing it under his normal shirt hahaha

At this point i was getting worried about dying of thirst at a critical time, so I made my way out of the crowd to hopefully very quickly grab some refreshments. I got two drinks and then decided that since i was out already, i should get some food too so i dont have to leave again. As i was looking for a place to sit, i see….. KONY?!?!?? HE WAS JUST SITTING AT A TABLE OMFG and the seat next to him was empty so I asked if it was free and then after a bit was like….. You’re kony right. And he was like yeah *thumbs up* but I couldn’t think of anything else to say in jp anymore so I just kept quiet and ate as other people came and asked him the same thing LFKGFK. I wish I had the presence of mind to tell him I love his singing voice… ;-;

Nero eventually appears on stage to sing JUST A GAME so I’m freaking out internally trying to finish my food and kony eventually leaves…… I joined the crowd again but things are kind of a blur from there til the end….. I can tell you nero was fucking amazing though. god i love his voice and singing for that song

In the third stage, Team Nicorai are first up, with Kogeinu, Pokota, ASK, Yugepo, Gero, and Dasoku! Gero poked fun at dasoku’s low tension and how he got banned from youtube for a bit, saying it’s because he was streaming every day lol. Pokota’s solo was amazing!!! He was ridiculously energetic and it was so infectious!! He’s so charismatic and pretty…. .Koge did Lost One’s Weeping and I was going absolutely NUTS I was so freaking happy!!! Near the end, he had to go an octave lower because it was just so ridiculous LOL but he really was amazing!! and he returned back to the high notes for the very end, so strong. (in his namahousou afterwards he said he wanted to do tengaku but then no one else was able to do Lost One hahahaha) ASK did Tengaku (i think he swapped his shirt from white/black -> black/red here for some reason??) which was GREAT and then!!!!! SUKIKIRAI DUET WITH HANATAN AAAHHHHHHHH THEY WERE SUPER FUCKING CUTE!!!! She walked on stage still holding a canvas shopping bag and had to turn around and put it back LOL so cute ;-; She was so good at making the cute interjections and he was moving all over the stage with grand actions and was even making flirting actions with Tissuehime…. I cant believe he seemed so nervous on twitter because hes definitely got some amazing stage presence…. He walked off at one point to grab a signed green ball to throw into the crowd! After that, Hanatan did Cendrillion with Pokotan!! Apparently they had never sung live together before this?! Which is shocking?! (Maybe it was just that they never sang Cendrillion together….. I didn’t listen properly….) but yeah, they were really good, and Hanatan hit all those high notes amazingly ;o; Yugepo sang Butter-Fly and we all sang the chorus along with him, it was so fun…… Yamadan came to sing something, and he threw a bunch of coins into the audience!

4th stage!! It’s time for pointfive!! They sang two songs together! [something] and Select Me! They talked about how it’s so amazing to have the group gathered together again, and how Dasoku hasnt changed at all (he really hasn’t). They keep teasing him about becoming a youtuber lol… Anyways he’s like, on the contrary, hasn’t clear changed a lot?? Because he was talking so much. He, in turn, complained that the rest of the group never says anything so he has to be the one!! For example, when they do their last words, the only thing the four of them have to say is “it was fun” so it leaves it on him to close it properly! But they just told him he should also just say “it was fun” and everything would be okay lol. clear did Little Travellersolo and they continued with the slower songs; dsk sang shinpakusu0822 and Mi-chan sang ???. His live vocals are so good…….
then. T H E N
dasoclear step out
and my mind is screaming MAGNET
AND IT IS MAGNET AND IM SCREAMING AND SO IS EVERYONE ELSE. They do the beginning just like their upload and sound fucking amazing but then halfway through?! GEROINTERRUPTS…… AND IM SCREAMING EVEN MORE NOW….. He jokes around with them and then mentions how he ALSO did Magnet with a guy named faneru and then NERUTAN’S VOICE APPEARS AND THERES MORE SCREAMING???? He’s backstage with a mic and he and Gero have a back and forth and it is revealed that he came all the way from Kumamoto for the event….!!! He also mentions Jack and there’s screaming but he’s like no no no that one’s not here though;;; They called faneru the voice in the sky and asked him to introduce himself and he goes RIGHT INTO THE BEGINNING OF THEIR MAGNET SKIT, PERFECTLY, WITH ALMOST EXACT INTONATION??? Gero swaps mixi for twitter and is like, “because now it’s twitter right!!” at the audience. I don’t know how this ended because I was too busy freaking out but eventually they get back to the song and Gero sings with DasoClear and they get the audience to sing too……Telling us to sing loudly so it reaches that voice in the sky… It was amazing

While I’m recovering from this blow to my life, that comes on and does another slow song. Then Halyosy comes out in an all-white suit and people are cheering really loudly! He did the slow version of konbini!!!!!!!!! He and that then sing Sakura no Ame together as Absorb :’) I think it was here that they switch places on the stage and That points and tried to direct halyosy into proper position on the stage?? pointfive joins them for one last song: Fire Flower! Thus ends the 4th stage.
Asamaru was really cute!! He was dressed very simply but nicely and is slim and small…. His face is also quite slim! He seemed kind of shy, too. Lots of people called him cute hahaha even other performers.

5th stage is Gero’s stage!! His band is set up and he rocks out to Two Breaths Walking, and then does a super emotional Just be Friends…….. I saw some people actually wiping tears away while he was singing. I don’t blame them, he sounded so so so so good?? During the MC part he talks about how he almost got married once…. And right after that he jumps right back into he rock LMAO he does alien alien with ASK (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and during his rap part he just danced without singing at all, I laughed so hard. Then, kinyoubi no ohayou with Gom! To introduce the song, he did an entire dumb horror story thing about how if you don’t say “ohayou” you’ll die or…. something LMAO IDK BUT IT WAS PRETTY AMUSING….. he kept using an ossan voice…. and then when gom walked onstage he tried to do the same…. Next was Ghost Rule with Araki, which was sooo good!! I think he also does akane-chanwith? glutamine? Then he does some of his own songs, which gom made for him way back when… the udon song was a blast to be a part of the audience for hahahaha. He tried to throw his towel into the crowd at the end but it just kind of fluttered a foot away from him into the stage edge…… So he picked it up, told us to pretend not to see that, and tried another time but it didn’t get much farther!!

To close, everyone gets back on the stage and they sing Smiling!!! I feel like koge and ASK got to sing a lot so I’m very pleased…. And there’s a lot of members there that could sing their original part so that was really fun to hear!! The final song on the night was Black Rock Shooter! They really looked like they were having so much fun on stage….. They kept pushing the mics onto each other and many eventually ended up sharing! I remember ASK and Pokota singing together for quite a while, and koge and dasoku also shared a mic! ASK was all over the stage, sharing the mic and hanging his arms around others, it made me so happy to see!! He really seemed to be having a blast. Someone accidentally knocks underbar’s hat off at one point but they retieve it quite quickly lol.

Then, it’s time for everyone’s closing statements. They all had the concert shirts on but koge just kind of hung his on his neck LMAO it was cute though… He let his hands hang from it too while everyone was talking. Koge goes first, and they go down the line. I can’t remember what exactly everyone said but they made me so happy…. There’s a lot of thanks to Gero, obviously…. And lots of hugging!! We shouted everyone’s names as they took their turn, and for clear people were shouting “kaichou!!” which got some of the performers to go “how nostalgic!!” The pointfive members talked again about how nice it was to sing together again….. Piko’s mic died at first so we were all ?!?!?! but I guess it turned on after that and it was all good. Everyone was being called -chan but with piko, gero called him kopi?? During dasoku’s part, gero said he dreams of rootfive being all together again, and pokota jokes that their dances are really tough so he’d have to work really hard lol. but it seems like the possibility is there so…. eye emoji. Marutan actually got Jack on the phone and holds the mic to the speaker?!?! he says “otsukaresama desu” and theres lots of screaming… Gero asks him to say more so he says one more thing: “mi~nna daisuki!!” and everyone’s like losing it, it was fantastic. I saw some people crying…. (in a post-live namahousou they revealed marutan had jack on the line with his phone in his breast pocket the ENTIRE EVENT LIKE WOW). Yamadan tells us he thought the coins he was throwing were chocolate so he put them in the fridge because he was worried they’d melt and get all over the place, but it turns out they’re plastic! They skip over Gom, who gero wants at the end, and go through everyone else! Touyu talked about how he’d always look at Chang Gero like “must be nice….” so he was very happy to be invited this time! Hanatan talks about her outfit; I think and she completely forgot to either plan her outfit or get proper shoes? I think she got some flip flops from the convenience store or something and everyone laughed. Nomiya Ayumi said that when she got the offer to participate , she was like, “Why me?!” because she hadn’t uploaded in so long. Gom was crying a lot and coul barely make his statement……. he got everyone to say “aishiteru yo” and he says it back!! gero then introduces his bandmates and gets them to say their last words! One of the members was also crying lmao… Another one forgot when he actually met gero (it was during a smiley*2 event) and Gero got right in his face challengingly HAHAH then!! then!!!! Faneru gets a last word too!!! Gero kept called him like… fakkun or somethign and it really threw me off lmao. He talks a little and there’s some screaming from one side of the audience…. I assume some people could see him from one side of the stage haha. He tells us to look up because that’s where he is… then tells us very gently that he’s doing well and i start crying so much….. They take a group picture and they split up the guys who show their face and the ones who don’t for the censor and there’s surprisingly few on the side that doesn’t!! koge, ask, marutan, hanatan, touyu…? gom? In any case, it was just a small handful… How times have changed…. And with that, it’s basically over!

Ah Kyouichirou appears on stage at some point near the end for some reason LOL and they make a joke about meatfive…
As they walk off the stage. underbar is jumping all over the place waving and he’s SO endearing???? I could hear people behind me murmuring that he’s really cute….. also ASKwas one of the last people the leave the stage….
On twitter later, I saw that akiakane, kaito (running ASK’s merch table while he was performing), and wolpis kater were also there!! And kony… I really wonder if there were others!

I had SO much fun, and just getting to hear nerutan again was already worth everything…. I’m so grateful to Gero for putting together such an amazing event with all this nostalgia and everyone’s singing was absolutely wonderful. I’ll never forget this!!

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