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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.

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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

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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!!
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I went to i-STAR FES in Shibuya! This event is spread across many different venues and features many many different performers from niconico. Due to time and venue capacity, I had to make some difficult decisions on who I wanted to see… Here was my schedule for the day!



un:c had kradness as a guest. For the special collaboration stage, the performers were taruchio/morudeo, taruchio/ajikko, ankler/fenikuro, piko/kradness, and piko/alfakyun feat. SLH! Gero’s guests were glutamine and alfakyun.



NORISTRY Stage
I didn’t go early enough to get into the venue for nori…… Instead, I ended up in the TV viewing area outside in the bar. His audience was quite mixed, and you can tell they are all so endeared to him…. We were all amazed that he filled up so quickly, and our outside area was very full as well;; He sang fixer, otome kaibou, tobacco, shoujo rei, inochi ga kiwareteiru, and roki!! A godly setlist tbh. Everything was absolutely amazing but tobacco in particular really took our breath away….. It was so emotional and I almost even cried myself, he was so powerful!! After the song ended there was silence, and then the guy beside me murmured “this guy is really amazing” I’M SO PROUD OF HIM….. he really is amazing live, and so adorable!!! His actions on stage are so cute and everyone always reacts with joy to anything he does. Shoujo rei also made me very happy, because I really love that song. I head he did the ballad version at MUSICARA later that night, but I really do like the original the most….. For inochi ga kiwareteiru, he said it was his first time singing it and was very nervous. He did end up forgetting some parts but he pushed through and still sounded very good!! Ending with roki, he did those growls amazingly! He also tried to take selfies during that part, cutie. My goodness I wasn’t even in the venue and I was still blown away by his entire performance. He ended by laughing and telling us that he’d be at the audition stage, then skipped off stage.

After having to wait outside for nori, I was very nervous about all the others I wanted to see, so I tried to head to the others as early as possible. I quickly picked up gero’s treasure tour bracelet (which I had wanted but couldn’t afford during the actual tour (;-;)9) and an i-STAR FES T-shirt, then headed over to see un:c!

un:c stage
This was my first time seeing un:c outside of XYZ!! While waiting for the performance to start, we could hear him and the band practising a little behind the closed curtains. I don’t know the title of the first song he sang, but it was a nice rock tune. I was also happy to see pasta there, in the band! un:c talked to us a little bit, introduced himself, and said he wasn’t going to do his usual thing because there’s probably many people watching that don’t know him too well and it wouldn’t be a good first impression of him. Everyone went EHHHHH but he insisted he wouldn’t say it. He sang platonic girl and taught us the motions for the stop/sit down parts! His way of talking to the audience is very cute…. He also did two duets with kradness! One of the songs was Deriheru Yondara Kimi ga Kita and they taught us the song actions as a team! They talked about how long they’ve known each other and stuff as well. They really seem to get along well…... Kradness was wearing a really cute sporty/baggy outfit that suits his frame a lot…. after that song, kradness left the stage, and un:c sang some more solos. It think one was shiwa? He also talked to the audience again and eventually was cheered into doing his sex schtick by the audience, but he said it so embarrassed it was very cute. Also, pasta laughed so incredibly loudly when he said “sex” omg. He then got all the band members to introduce themselves. He said he had another duet to do, and we all went OOOH??!! and kradness stepped out again!! he came out like, “wow it’s been a while everyone!! how are you!! your faces seem so familiar!!” They sang a honeyworks song which they uploaded last year? Then to end, un:c sang chururira chururira dadada! It was super fun. He took off his jacket at some point and looked very cool….. He also danced a lot and shook his butt it was so cute lol

Special Collab
I stayed in the venue for the special collab! It got really crowded, probably from all the various fans and the people camping for monopale who were next. Tarachio and morudeo sang a song I didn’t know at all, but it was super energetic and a lot of fun! Then morudeo swapped out of the stage with ajikko and they sang that fighting dreamers song, which was also super fun! Ankler and fenikuro sand rain stops, goodbye and it was very pretty. Piko and kradness sang platonic girl, then kradness left and alfakyun came onto stage wearing the same patterned cardigan as piko?! Apparently they just happened to buy the same thing. They talked a bit (their chemistry is sooo good) and then called out SLH!! they gave the mic to karasu to speak and everyone kept shouting that he was cute :’) they also called piko cute, but then fakyun pointed at him and was like “hai, busuuu” They sang roki with SLH dancing next to them!! I was really pleased to see SLH because I had to miss them to see nori at the start. I love their choreo for roki a lot…. Thus ends this stage.

Underbar stage
Underbar is another one of those guys who is just universally adored!! He started with gigantic OTN and then yi er fanclub! Of course, those were his usual freedom versions, but then he did a ballad very seriously and sounded really lovely! He talked to us for a bit and asked who was seeing him for the first time. A bunch of people in the front row raised their hand and he was like, “It’s your first time? Wh-why do you have all that merch--”. He then taught us the actions for the next two songs! First was for kochira koufuku anshin iikai desu, which everyone knew right away hahaha. He was surprised and said, “wow!! it’s become famous, good!” He sang a song I didn’t know with the actions he just taught us, and then ended his performance with kochira koufuku anshin iikai desu. He really was so cute and an amazing performer.

ROOTFIVE stage
They opened with proto disco!! Kettan’s rap really is good……. I don’t know the rootfive songs very well but they were all really nice! There was a cat one… and they did nyan nyan motions. I know they do a lot of dancing but it still surprises me every time I see them dance LOL they were really good!! mi-chan especially did some unexpectedly good body rolls. They had a lot of time for mc portions, and spent a lot of it talking about others lmaoo. They asked if we had seen kony around (I didn’t see him all day u_u) and kettan said he was probably sitting on a chair somewhere… they discussed how they’re so concerned he’ll just drop dead one day and continued on for a bit before moving onto their next target, dasoku. They talked about how they were “missing” a member and that kawamura-san sings roki and charles every day at home and we all laughed a lot at that. They also discussed how mi-chan is so into tennis. Someone asked him if he liked tennis or singing more, and he spent a long time thinking before he answered that it depends on the day and that they’re so different it’s hard to compare. He considers tennis more of a hobby that isn’t associated with work, and asked the others if they had anything else like that. I don’t remember koma’ns answer, but kettaro’s answered pretty quickly with mahjong. They then turned to pokota and called him ojisan, then said his hobby was definitely collecting rakuten points. Apparently he’s really amassed a lot of points?! The way the discussed how he’d constantly be collecting them and what he’d use the points for was really amusing. They closed with merry go round!

Megatera Zero Stage
I wanted to get a god spot to see gero and didn’t realise until rootfive ended that megatera zero would still be performing in the stage gero would be at. I didn’t know him well but decided to check it out anyways, and he turned out to be really amazing! He just ended a song and was talking a bit when I walked in. He asked if anyone had birthdays today or tomorrow, then told them to stay where they were and that he’d go see them later?! He then sang this birthday song that was really sweet, and jumped off the stage in the middle and ran to each person and gave them hugs!! There were about 5 people, and first guy was right next to me so I was really surprised when he came charging in to embrace the guy. I thought that was super cool of him….. He also sang Deriheru Yondara Kimi ga Kita! His performance was very much rock style, so I had a lot of fun! He’s got a super powerful voice and seems very comfortable on stage.

Gero stage
Last stage for the night! Again, the band and singer were practising a little behind the curtains before the start. People started singing along, and when they were finished you could hear gero saying “mmm it’s a good song” and half talking to the audience, cute.
They opened with his usual starting music, which I wasn’t expecting! He sang roki, outsider, nonsense bungaku, beloved survival, udon, and the six little bandits! The duets were akane-chan with glutan and something I’m not familiar with, with fakyun. In the middle of one of his mc portions, a girl in the very front seemed to have collapsed and needed help. When staff went over to her, gero also noticed and stopped what he was doing to ask if she was ok! He looked very concerned but still joked around a little. He asked if she drank any water a few times, and told us all that we need to take care during such long events. He then turned back to her and said, “Are you REALLY okay? Do you have water? Did you eat? …What’s your favourite food? [pause] ….. Mine is fried rice.” and we all laughed. He continue talking and waited until she got up and said she was ok before moving onto the next song ;v; a sweetheart! For nonsense bungaku, he wanted us to “dance” in a weird way by pumping both arms up and down?? and then he turned to pasta and tried to get him to do it and pasta was like, “pls not everyone in this audience knows me you not give them a weird impression”. He asked if anyone’s introduced the band yet and pasta said that un:c did it earlier, but since that was so long ago gero decided to have them introduce themselves again! Then, he called glutamine on stage and he came out “dancing” and everyone cheered. He had to charge over from his own solo stage, which ended just 5 minutes before gero’s started! Gero said that he told glutan that if he can’t make it in time it’d be ok lol. They talked about singphonight and I guess they sang akanechan there too?? They were very energetic and it was a fun performance. Then he sang with alfakyun, who was also super energetic! I really enjoy her dry humour. They yelled a lot in their song too and it really pumped us up! All his solos were also really good, as usual!! I had soooo much fun, especially with bandits at the end!

And that’s all for i-STAR fes! I didn’t try any of the collab food but piko and nori’s had sold out fairly early in the day… There were times when other performers would pass by as I was on my way to another venue. I even saw akatin with some friends, even though he wasn’t a performer! There was a board where you could write a message on a cute hot air balloon sticker and stick it there, and it had a whole bunch of messages from so many different fans! It was a really cool event and it was nice to see so many people sing in one day.

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Held at Zepp Tokyo, this concert featured luz, kradness, gero, shoose, SILVANA, senra, piko, and meychan!



My ticket number wasn’t the best so I was a little far in the back…. I still went and picked up the tote, which I missed at Valentines, and was surprised to find out that it was actually a grab bag!! It was filled with so many goodies from past years -- I ended up with a t-shirt and towel from 2016, a handful of badges, un:c’s acrylic stand, and a few other things! It was really worth it.

They started with U.S.A! This time the crew was gero, meychan, kradness, and shoose!! It was really great watching them dance to it. Luz sang bittersweet, and this time I was finally familiar enough with it to really enjoy it. It’s a good song….. SILVANA did kimi ga ikiteinakute yokatta, and it was really good! I don’t listen to that song enough….. He also dueted otome kaibou with meychan aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I loved it!! and Alien alien with kradness~ kradness and piko did platonic girl!

GERO!!!! came in and sang Unknown Mother Goose perfectly, as usual!!! It’s been a while since I saw him and I missed him a lot so I was super super happy. He also was responsible for the one mc portion in the entire show, and also killed it. He made us laugh so much! He talked to us about summer zucchini party, and thanked us for all the green lightsticks. He said that SZP is dead now so they won’t be making an appearance tonight, but maybe possibly in the future they will [laughter] as, uh, zombies. He then called out all the people who go to lives and go crazy with the lightsticks for their favourites but then only wave a little when their fave isn’t up or even put them away and start fixing their hair LMAO I WAS SCREAMING WITH LAUGHTER……….. his imitations of those people and the faces he made were great and also He’s Right. He also asked where everyone came from, and if there was anyone from overseas! Someone from around the front said korea, and he was very surprised! He asked them who they were there to see while pointing at himself and nodding and I thought I heard them reply… KOOL…..??? He wasn’t a performer that night though so maybe I was mistaken…. it definitely wasn’t gero though LMAO he made his usual face and then asked if there were any others! Someone said “Hawaii!!” and he was like wow really!! “Sorry it was a lie!!!” and we all laughed. Then someone else piped up with Canada?! omg I started yelling a bit too but I was too far back..... shoutout to you my Canadian bro. He kept going back to them and the hawaii person throughout the night he was so stuck on it LOL. Gero also sang Udon, which I also missed a lot, and dueted something with meychan

Senra sang first lady, and then dueted cat eye make with shoose. At some point, shoose put his leg up on the little elevated part of the front of the stage, so senra pulled his pants leg up a little and was like, nice legs!!! Shoose then did his pink cat + dance and we all lost it…… as…. usual god he’s too much I can’t HANDLE HIM………. He also did a very racy R18 with luz and they were even more into it than at Valentines omfg….. caressing each others’ faces, grabbing at each others’ clothes, pressing up against each other LMAO THEY’RE THE MASTERS OF FANSERVICE IT WAS ABSOLUTELY NUTS. For his solo, luz laid out on the ground to lots and lots of screams. Luz also did his duet with piko, isshin furan, and that was even more of a scene. About 2/3rds of the way through the song, luz pushed piko down until he was lying on the floor and straddled him for the rest of the song………. they stayed like that the entire time, still singing, until the song finished, then luz got up and gave piko a hand up, who was going “I can’t be a bride anymore!!” They talked about it in the mc later, but before the performance started I think luz already gave piko some warning that he was gonna do Something :’D. Piko also did haikei doppleganger and ghost rule!!! I also haven’t seen him in a while so I had a lot of fun with those songs!

Then, a group did gigantic OTN, and everyone joined in for roki and secret answer!! Shoose did the “shhh” part (I think he always does) and everyone screamed so loud…….. kradness was also super good in it!! Shoose also actually yelled for his part of roki, which was really unexpected! He sounded super good though…… it was pretty refreshing.

For the encore, they came back and sang Deriheru Yondara Kimi ga Kita, which was super fun!

Then, it was time for mc! Shoose was the first up, and announced his tour! Luz went up to him and asked him what the tour name was, and in that pause senra, in a very deep and suave voice, went “Deeper”, to the delight of the audience. They went through this another like three times with senra interrupting every time, and by the time senra actually let shoose say it, he could only say it in a small voice and laughed through it, it was very very cute. He wrapped up his talk and actually yelled his last few words very energetically?! It surprised everyone, even those on stage LOL.

Senra interrupting everyone became the running joke as they went down the line. Luz also announced his tour and senra said the title was “Deeper”, but after that luz didn’t want to say the actual title for some reason and kept insisting it was “Deeper” In the end he never said it and only spelled it out?? He also got everyone to tell him “aishiteru” but skipped over senra and senra was like “that’s ok, I knew it”.

Meychan also had a tour announcement, and told us about the date for his tokyo performance. When asked about his tour’s name, some (senra, probably?) cut in with “meychan’s party” and someone else was immediately like, wow lame. When he told us the actual title (it was a weird one) he said that some of the audience was making faces like they expected him to say it was another joke, but it really is that, please believe him.

Gero was introduced by luz by his full name LOL people had been shouting his kinjou & hiroki all night…… he started his talk by immediately pointing out a shoose fan in the front who had “くつ” (EN:shoe) on their lightsticks and turned to shoose like, you’re being called a shoe, you know??? what?!?! are you okay with that?!?! a shoe!!!! and someone tried to pipe in with “th…that’s because in English…..” but he had already moved on and was talking about how they switched the lightsticks and it now said “つく”-- “YOU’RE BEING CALLED TSUKU!!! [WILD LAUGHTER]” Meanwhile shoose was just standing there probably not knowing what to say LMAO. Gero also announced chang gero sonic and said that some of the participants of XYZ will be there! So many people shouted that they’re going~

Piko also announced his tour! But, when he went to announce the name, he paused for a long time, expecting senra to cut in, but nothing happened LOL. He turned around to senra like, eh? And they all laughed….. so he tried again while looking directly at gero, but gero turned his face behind and up into the ceiling LOOOL. I think his tour doesn’t actually have a name yet…? And when they asked him for the dates he got embarrassed because it just so happened to be the same tokyo date as meychan hahahha. He then did his usual thing and asked for the girls and guys in the audience to cheer! He also interrogated a bunch of the guys but I don’t really remember what he asked them anymore… he did single out a tall guy around the middle of the audience and commented on his height lol. He ended his talk with lots of egging us on to cheer!!!

They ended the night with CocktaiL for a perfect finish~
They all took a bow together while standing on the platform and said thank you at the very end but they were super scattered and we all ended up laughing! Then, they split to wave at the audience and gero had somehow gotten his hands on one of the green streamers that shot out into the audience and tied it in a bow around meychan’s head. Luz got the all together again for a more proper goodbye, and then they finally left the stage!
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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~


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