Bikkuri Project

How to write this? Everything is all a crazy blur. So much to process…I think I’ll write a full disclosure of Day 1, and then anything different or notable will be under Day 2.

DAY 1

Well, let’s start at the beginning. For the first night’s concert, after an exciting day of vacuuming, washing dishes, and doing laundry, I caught a train to Shinjuku. I’d never been to Shinjuku before, and it was quite overwhelming. Tons of people, flashing lights everywhere, pretty typical Tokyo stuff really. Check out my Japan blog if you want more on that. Well, I was supposed to take the “East” exit to meet CK, but unfortunately, there were 3 “East” exits. “East”, “Central East”, and “South East”. I found the latter one first, and then had to spend a while wandering around the building trying to figure out which way was East. For the record,  the correct exit would have been “Central East” and my sense of direction is horrible. Well, we managed to meet up without further mishap and arrived at the concert venue just as they were starting to let people in.

Our seats were pretty high up in the balcony section =( The good news was that we were almost exactly dead center, and we were seated in front of an aisle, meaning there was no one standing up directly in front of us. The concert started a bit late, but when they brought a keyboard out on set, we knew that it was time for some Mano.

Lucky Aura- I’m really glad that Erina sang her new song, because I like it much better than Mano Piano. For the record, she did indeed play the keyboard in this one too, and it looked more difficult than her piano part in Mano Piano. ManoEri as adorable. Absolutely adorable. I’m not totally sure, but it looked like she was getting teary-eyed when she thanked everyone at the end.

Sono Bamen de Bibicha Ikenai Jan!- Surprisingly, a great song to open the concert. It’s not my favorite just for listening to, but it worked well live. Lots of fun energy.

Mikan- Another surprise here, how much I enjoyed this. I finally get Mikan. It’s so much more fun to dance along to during a concert than it is to listen to on its own.

MC- Member introductions. JunJun was so cute, because she forgot to go when it was her turn. She had the most adorable puzzled look on her face when the others were trying to get her to go. After the introductions were over, Gaki-san said, “Hold on! JunJun, are you asleep??” Lol.

Pepper Keibu- Outfits are hot, and so was the dancing at the bridge.

Top/YAH Aishita!- I enjoyed both of these, but nothing specific stands out right now.

Inspiration- Least favorite song of the concert. Sorry.

Ambitious- Second least favorite song of the concert. Sorry again.

Purple Wind- Okay, but still not my favorite.

Lemon Iro to Milk Tea- Yay Rokkies! Eri lead tonight (Reina lead on night 2) I thought I would hate the outfits, but somehow I didn’t. Really cute.

MC- What I got from this MC was Reina making some kind of horrible pun on her name “Amoreina” as in “Amore” fused with her name, and throwing a fit when the others didn’t get it.

Tan Tan Taaan- I was so excited when Sayaka and Yuu walked out with Koharu. They were all singing live too! I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m in the minority who really likes this song. I like it a lot better than Anataboshi in fact.

That Aika solo with a really long name- I like the song. I don’t love it, but I like it. Aika is cute, so is her outfit, and yes she’s improved a lot, though there were still a few questionable notes in there.

GuruGuru Jump- This one had such a silly dance. It was almost MiniMoni-esque. MM’s next original album is shaping up great, if only they’d announce it.

Ai-chan Solo- Boring. I blame the song, not the girl. Also, her white foofy dress was ruined by the black boots she was wearing underneath.

Take off is Now- Oh my! This had some sexy dancing. The girls were even feeling each other up at several points. LOVE the dance, and the song’s not half bad either.

MC- JunJun demonstrated how she can make herself cry, earning many shouts of “Moe~!” from the audience. Koharu tried to do it. The first time she just yelled “Waaa!”, and on the second attempt she broke into a grin after trying for about 2 seconds. Failure Koharu.

Dou ni mo Tomaranai- Don’t remember a whole lot about this.

Koi no Dial 6700- One of the highlights of the concert. LinLin was so great starting off with the “Rinrinrinrin” part. I love that they gave her the part that’s essentially chanting her own nickname over and over. The girls seemed to have a lot of fun hamming it up for this song. At one point they spell out 6700 with their bodies.

MC- Ai and Risa. They’re very cute together, but they talked a lot. At one point, Risa mentioned Reina, and she suddenly popped out from backstage and waved.

Souda! We’re Alive- And now we enter the “classics” portion of the concert. This song was my personal favorite of the night, mostly because I loved shouting the “go! go! go! go!” parts. Needless to say, the audience got really into it.

Roman My Dear Boy/ Onna ni Sachi Are- Good good. Nothing like a round of high-energy singles to whip the crowd into a frenzy.

Koko ni Iruzee- And said frenzy reaches its peak. So much fuuuuun live. Everyone is jumping all over the place, audience and girls alike. One thing I did notice was that Aika delivered her “break through” line the best I’ve heard her do it.

Resonant Blue- Yay! I love this song, and I love it even more live.

Encore- And now, I shout myself hoarse on “encore!!”. It takes quite a while for the encore to happen, you know. They make it seem so short on the DVDs.

Ame no Furanai- Beautiful. Just beautiful. JunLin solos FTW.

Aozora ga Itsumademo- Kind of overused as a closer, isn’t this? Ah well, it leaves everyone in a happy mood, so I guess it’s good.

DAY 2

Arrived at Shinjuku and still couldn’t find that damn Central East Gate, so I gave up and took the South East gate and then trotted around the building again. I got to the concert venue just as the afternoon show was getting out and waited a surprisingly short time in line to buy a proper Gaki-san green glowstick and some lovely pictures of her. My seat today was still in the balcony and central, but another block of seats down, right behind the family section. Since I was there a bit earlier today, I had some time to really take note of which T-shirts the fans were wearing. I think that Ai-chan and Eri were the most common. Then Reina, Risa, and Sayumi all looked pretty even. Next would probably be Koharu and Aika, and the pandas last. It really surprised me how few red (koharu) shirts I saw. However, every single little girl I saw had some kind of Koharu souvenir. No doubt she is popular with the kids.

Now some bullet points of the night.

-No ManoEri. Aw, too bad.

-Overall, I’d say the girls sang better tonight but danced a bit less energetically. It’s the last show of the weekend, so they were probably pretty beat.

-The wota next to me were once again quite considerate. The guy on my left apologized profusely and asked me for permission when he wanted to change into his new Eri shirt while we were waiting for the show to start, and the guy on my right helped me figure out how to make my glowstick glow. I was trying to shake it into submission and was clearly getting nowhere. Lol.

-I forgot to mention before, but there’s this part toward the end of “Inspiration” where Gaki-san and Ai-chan are singing something together, and they’re like pushing their faces together and trying to sing into each other’s microphones. It’s really cute.

-During the 7th/8th gen MC JunJun and Koharu got into an argument over who loves Morning Musume the most. I don’t remember Koha’s exact words, but it was something like “sugoi suki!” or “daisuki!” and she held it out so long she started to sound like a balloon that someone was slowly letting the air out of. JunJun countered that she has everyone’s posters on her walls and she says goodbye to them before she leaves. Koharu asked if she had a Koharu poster, and JunJun said no! LOLOLOL

-The Rokkies MC had Eri and Sayu trying to guess the name of a shrine from Reina. They both wanted to answer at once, so Reina sat at the front and held out her hands, first person to grab her hand got to answer. Eri got there first, but Sayu started hugging and cuddling Reina, so she let Sayu answer.

And finally, I just want to say, GAKI-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!! I thought I loved Risa before, but I love even more now. She’s such an amazing performer, really. Sweet, dead sexy when the song calls for it, and always practically bouncing off the stage. For example, during Koko ni Iruze on the “lonely boys and girls” part everyone is standing in a line and doing the waving thing, but only Risa wasn’t just waving but also jumping up and down. Love love love love love her!

OyaSayumi,

~Celestia~

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