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I went to Underbar Fes at Club Citta!! Performers were Underbar, Shijin, Nero, NORISTRY, Ikasan, Morudeo, Yutori, Zuzu, Kradness, Tarachio, Kony, and Alfakyun!

They gave us a little badge at the start~



Before the performance began, they played underbar's originals while we waited and so many people sang and danced along!! It seemed like they were having a lot of fun..... Underbar's fans always come off to me as so pure and enthusiastic lol

The performance started with an original song from underbar!! It's the first time I've gotten to see him with his backup dancers. He was super cute! Shijin came out to join him, acting like? a knight? servant…? They both left, and a small video (close to his usual hand-drawn style) came up, explaining the situation. Underbar wanted to bring a bunch of people to his planet, so he chose people he often ate out with. Now they're trapped on his planet and need to sing to get out!! The audience played the part of residents of his planet.

The first pair to come out were Ikasan and Alfakyun! They spent mc making big deal out of being trapped, and then ikasan went to sit at the front right corner of the stage to watch fakyun's solo performance, where she sang Rettou Joutou!!! Energetic right of the bat. She then changed places with Ikasan, who sang plus danshi!! Ikasan kept pulling fakyun onto the middle stage to participate and it was clear it wasn't planned LOL but they looked like they were having so much fun.... They then dueted Charles~

Next pair was NORISTRY and Nero! They renamed everyone with underbar world names (○○daba). Nero sang Renai Philosophia (incredible lung capacity wtf), and Nori sang a breathtaking tobacco..... You could feel the pure awe from the audience when he was done, it was really incredible. They dueted something together as well, with nori being excited about it as always :')

Kony and Kradness were after them. Their mc part was so ENERGETIC they were talking so fast and loudly?! Kradness said kony was a year older than him, so he should go first. He sang the jazz arrangement of Mr. Music!! It was super nice to see him singing again~ since he's always so busy with work..... Kradness did his duet, then they did U.S.A. together!! Kradness mostly danced along (i'm sure he's experienced by now) but kony looked at him and shook his head like NO WAY;; lolll i would have loved to see him do it too though

Tarachio and Zuzu screamed SO MUCH OMFG they were so funny!! I barely had any idea what was going on but it was a total blast. Zuzu kept wondering why on earth he was invited when he's a let's player, but he was so good!! he sang? one of his own songs? I'm not actually sure but it was definitely a gag thing… He had the lyrics appear up in a video, and it was funny stories from his school days or something. It was so fun to watch…. Tarachio sang a normal rock song but with such incredible POWER he was very cool!!

Morudeo and Yutori were also really good, but I don't remember what exactly they sang anymore ;-; They also had an incredible amount of energy, though.

Last performer to come out was shijin, alone!! He was acting super weird, still talking strangely and acting like he was part of planet underbar, but then he stopped halfway and faced us, saying "What on earth am I doing….." He sang two solos, one being an original (!!) , then underbar joined him for their freedom version of shinde shimau to wa nasakenai~

At some point, the rest of the cast came out from the left side of the stage! Shijin tells them there's a quiz they have to do to get off the planet, and then underbar pushes him in with the group and tells him he's part of it too LOL. The first 7 questions are personal questions about underbar, like what juice he likes, how many people are in his family etc. The audience immediately started making signals for the performers LOL but the questions got harder and harder as they went on….. It was so chaotic on stage because the entire group was loud as hell, yelling and talking amongst each other. Alfakyun, NORISTRY, and ikasan were in the front so I got most of their banter. At one point, fakyun was trying to hint at what was being censored in one of the questions (a store name) and nori completely couldn't get it, so he turned slowly to ikasan, who loudly exclaimed "Don't look at me!! I have no idea!!!". Another question that was super entertaining was about how much alcohol underbar could take: A. 1 drink (>_<) ← cute!! B. 3 drinks C. 5 drinks D. [something about not knowing his limit yet] They were surprisingly lower volume for this question, until alfakyun said that they Definitely know the answer to this question, because they Know him. And if the answer is different, that means he's a LIAR. He kind of had an 'oh shit' expression on his face at that, which was super cute. They all voted for D, but the answer that came up was…. A!!!!! They all went to mob him on the other end of the stage, yelling and pretending to kick and punch him. He shoo'd them away and made the excuse that the people "behind" chose the answer and they all started yelling again LOL The 8th and 9th questions didn't seem to have anything to do with him and I barely understood them haha;; one was a history question. The last question was worth an extraordinary amount of points: "How is underbar feeling right now?" The answer turned out to be the unlisted answer E, so everyone lost and couldn't go home!! They all ran off and there was a 20 minute break.

The first pair to return to the stage were…. NORISTRY and alfakyun!! they came out from opposite ends, and nori kept calling himself "noridaba". They pretended to fight, and then fakyun did her solo! it was immediately followed by nori's solo, and then they sang A Whole New World (in English!!) together. They were really good….. Nori adds a lot of singing to his songs, so she followed suit and the surprise on his face was so great!! Their expressions as they watched the other singer hit those notes were fantastic.

Next were nero and kony!! nero kept calling kony mama, so the audience followed suit, but then he turned to us suddenly and looked at us very intensely, saying "I'M KONY". They did their solos (I remember kony's being a jazz arragement of karakuri pierrot), and then dueted a ballad! Kony actually lifted nero off the ground and carried him over his shoulder off the stage?! Everyone screamed…..

Next, kradness and ikasan came out running and screaming from opposite sides of the stage. Kradness said he'd sing a song a little unusual for him: Otome Kaibou! I don't remember their duet u_u They're both so tall they matched, in a weird way. Lastly, the group of let's play guys came out together and everyone was losing it!

Morudeo, Yutori, Tarachio, and Zuzu. They were complete chaos on stage, and couldn't stop laughing, especially zuzu. They said they wanted to keep the mood of all the pretty ballads, so yutori was going to sing one as well! the three others left the stage, and he went to stand in the middle. As the song started, he laughed into the first lines, and the music stopped and the group stormed back onto the stage, screaming at him. He blamed zuzu for laughing so much beforehand, and when they were done harassing him they left again and he safely sang the ballad properly. Following up after him was morudeo, also with a ballad! His went normally, but the beginning was acapella and I was really impressed by how confidently he sang it….. When he was done, they made zuzu sing a solo, with tarachio standing behind on stage to monitor him. It…. was not a ballad at all LOL and tarachio had so many tsukkomi parts….. It was absolutely hilarious though, he's so good at making people laugh!! The other two returned, saying that he ruined the mood they created HAHA.

Shijin then joined them, waving his sheet of lines in front of his face as he read them off, and they all yelled at him to remember his lines properly HAHAHA. They sang deriheru together!! They were so high-energy and were jumping all over the place! morudeo ended up taking off his jacket at some point because of that. It was super fun…… They ran off to the left of stage, with shijin kind of doing some kind of crabwalk shuffle as the last to leave…… Then they appeared again and ran through the middle props because apparently they went the wrong way LOL

Lastly was underbar's part!! He sang two originals solo, and was adorable as always~ He sang roki with fakyun, and panda hero with kradness and ikasan!! They did his freedom version, which surprised even him!! He seemed really happy about it ;v; He finished with, of course, Kochira, Koufuku Anshin Iinkai desu! He said that since we're all from his planet, we should all know what to do, but juuust in case, he wanted to tell us how to do the actions! (basically everyone really did know though LOL) The rest of the cast came out behind him in a line as he sang, and all did the saikou desu!! They finished with Bokura no Festival, which was so fun live?! They danced a lot, especially nori and ikasan! Nori and nero would also step out of line and look straight at each other for their harmony parts….. It was fun singing along, too! When they finished, they said goodbye and filed off stage.

The encore chant is so cute!! The audience all says "underbar wa saikou desu!" They returned and sang yi er fanclub together~ For the HOO HAA punching motions, fakyun and kony would turn to punch nero, who was between the two of them. Fakyun also ran over to the other side of the stage to put her arm around ikasan's shoulder for some reason? Cute.

For their last words, a lot of them talked about how they were younger (many students!!) listening to ansan and looking up to him. Fakyun declared that she loved him with that completely straight face of hers, and then punched him for real. She missed the first time and like punched his ribcage LOL. Zuzu was last, and did some sort of gag which tarachio filmed on his phone….. Underbar was completely blank-faced at it, and asked him to do it again, so the audience started cheering for it as well. He did a completely different gag, and then was asked to do one more?! They were all great though LOL and then he turned around and blamed tarachio for having to do so many.

This fes was a gathering of such high energy people!!! I laughed so much, and they put on an amazing show. I hope underbar continues to hold this every year, it was so fun!!

An event for 20+ attendees to drink and listen to utaite sing through the night!! Hosted by Kony again, this time the lineup was alfakyun, irei ryou (rairu), clear, Nero, koma’n, Kettaro, NORISTRY, and Mary! Utamaro, eMu, shack, and Nayugorou started off the “session” part of the event, after the main performances. It got pretty wild as everyone got more and more drunk but we got to see a lot of collaboration and it was super fun!!

I really don’t remember the first hour much;; That was when all the legit performances were done. As the event began, all of the main cast got on stage right away. It seems some of them had already been drinking before the event started! 

• Alfakyun in particular kept talking about drinking
• Cleanero did digitaliser
• KETSUKOMA were in sunglasses and hawaiian shirts and said something about coming back from California? I didn’t really understand what they were talking about but they were pretending to have an american accent
• KETSUKOMA did what i think was a rootfive song? They danced as they sang and were super good… 

After all those performances, everyone filed onto the stage with drinks in hand! alfakyun was carrying two cups and everyone laughed at her. Kony talked a bit to lead up to the KANPAI but rairu had already nearly finished his drink during that time LOL so fakyun gave him one of hers! We all cheers’d and then there was a break for everyone to get drinks. This is where it gets pretty messy, so I think a lot of what I remember isn’t chronologically correct!!

About half the audience broke from the front of the stage to head for the bar, so i followed along! Outside in the bar area, some of the performers were already mingling. I remember Kony and rairu for sure…. there was kind of a buzz at one point and i turned around to see [redacted] right behind me!! they were being pushed along by fakyun and I think they had one other person in their party? I grabbed a drink and headed back to the stage floor, which had cleared out so much that I ended up getting pretty close!

The session starter crew came in with their drinks and sang a song together as a group, with fu-rin and wing left of the band members. Each of them were going to do solos! I don’t remember who was first, but apparently that group song was what he was intending to sing solo so he had to find something else on the fly hahaha. They ended up pulling out an ipad to help everyone look for songs/lyrics/scores as they sang. One of them sang shoujo rei, which I love a lot, so i was really pleased! I *think* it was eMu? Nayugorou was last (she lost at rock scissors paper and still walked onto stage at first until eMu complained lol). She sang a lovely Metronome and was kind of staggering around because she was already pretty drunk haha

After their performances, they asked if anyone in the audience wanted to come up and sing but only the really drunk people were yelling LMAO so wing said she might be able to get a special guest, if they’re still around!! I don’t know if they’re allowed to be named since another person that ends up singing later on very clearly asked us not to say anything about them performing…… so….. After a few moments [redacted] appeared on the stage, surprising me and the rest of the audience!! They sang 3 rock songs (senbonzakura!!) at full power and was like, “Isn’t this basically a one-man live?!”. There was kind of a commotion behind me and I turned around to nero almost right behind me!! He was cheering and waving his arms around for [redacted] like a fangirl, and then they walked off stage and he was like “huh….? It’s over already???” and looked soo heartbroken LOL….. Some others took the stage: clear, who sat in a chair, and I think nori and rairu? nero kept waving at those two and making hearts….. Then clear went “eh? where’d nero go?” and everyone around me immediately pointed to him hahahahaha I think? they sang? and many people started swapping in and out after that!!

• One guy that said he was koma’ns drinking friend hopped on stage and nearly did a comedy routine?? he was very energetic! his singing voice was really amazing too!! he sang with two or three others, while koma’n was in the back of the audience area somewhere. 
• koma'n ended up coming onto the stage with a group of others, but i really needed to pee so i left for a bit! Outside, I saw that a bunch of the performers were just hanging around talking to attendees/friends. I remember seeing Nayugorou in particular, pretty close to the doors. When i got back, I was surprised to see [redacted] on stage with the group that had walked on when I left!!! They had already finished singing and were wrapping up, but I was there in time to see them give a gigantic smooch on the cheek to someone (rairu??) to thunderous cheering.
• Mary, who had looked pretty nervous for most of the day, showed up at some point and nero got her to sing a very cute kataomoi solo!!
• Kettaro was pulled into the stage at another point and I think he sang with someone else?
• Kony sang marunouchi sadistic with a group!!
• fakyun dueted Hit You 8759632145 Times With This Piano with someone! That person said he thought of a song to sing and told us, “it’s the song wing hates”
• while someone else was singing, kony did a tequila shot to lots of cheers
• With the exception of wing, most of the band members were swapping in and out, so a lot of the performers ended up taking over the intruments!! especially all the percussion LOL mary seemed to take a liking to them.
• During one song, nero played the drums while kony, fakyun, and mary all hit the cymbals and other extra percussion
• For another song, nero took the bass!!
• Another well-known bassist (i should know his name but i forgot!!!) ended up climbing onto the stage to play for us a bit.
• they sang memeshikute again with a big group! maybe this was before the cheers? The people in front of me were actually moving along with their dancing
• Fakyun was made to sing even though she wanted to go back and drink LOL she kept talking about her umeshuu. Kony wanted her to do tequila shots, so she called out [redacted] to make them take one with her. They ended up singing sakuranbo and kony would chant during the chorus to get them to drink?? She ended up taking two of them and then kony gave one to wing! they caleld fakyun so manly~ and she said she was definitely not appearing again on the stage after this
• [redacted] pointed out that there seemed to be quite a few males in the audience and did their usual thing with the crowd
• kony also kept saying mey-chan for some reason, and someone else on stage was like “mary????” but we didn’t really get any clarification because he was so drunk…..
• [redacted] also sang magnet with nori!!!!! he looked so surprised and excited and starstruck when he was called up LOL THEY WERE SO GOOD……. It was a piano-only accompaniment at that point because everyone else had disappeared…. After that was when [redacted] told us that we couldn’t say they sang tonight and everyone was like ok!!!!

Really random bits:

• Nero’s hair was super cute for this event… It was like…. a very relaxed look? He didn’t have his usual middle part!! someone (nori?) kept pointing out how cute he was and he was like “that’s embarrassing~” (cute!!!)
• A lot of them were getting real feelsy with each other as the night went on, probably partially because they needed to support each other so they didn’t trip and fall LOL.
• mary had found herself a spot at the front of the audience instead of on stage LOL, it seemed like she had friends with her!! One of her friends sang a few lines on stage before passing it off to someone else!
• nori and rairu talked about how they knew each other a while back and rairu was like half a head shorter than nori, but now he’s HUGE
• some cleanero fangirls were behind me and got clear to sing fire flower!! it was super fun
• Two people on stage were chanting the pokeball catching sound as someone made their way to the bass and wing played the “captured” jingle when they got to it
• nori and rairu seemed to be on stage a lot?? nori seemed to have his wits about but rairu looked pretty dang drunk to me.
• nori flirted with the audience and all the members a lot??? he kept making cutesy motions and winking and waving. He seemed really popular with the crowd

As it was nearing time to close, only wing, nori, and rairu were left on stage. They tried to find kony for a while and he finally showed up, drunk as hell, and sat down on the chair on stage and looked like he was about to pass out about 75% of the time. rairu finished the drink he was carrying and then mary gave him hers from the audience which he downed immediately. nero also appeared, responsible as ever, and helped with closing!! Kony said it was fine to go until the very last minute (It was supposed to close at 4:00 but the venue was booked til 4:30) because we’d all pick up and leave very quickly, right?? and we all agreed :’) Some people that were still present made some personal announcements, and then kony and nero talked about how they might do something like this again, maybe!! And so, it was the end, and we all picked up and left quickly as per instruction, to catch our morning trains home. 

It was such a crazy and fun experience and I’m really glad I went!! I hope I they do this again sometime~