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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.