天の声

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~

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

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 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)