May 02 2009
Morning Musume Concert Report- Tokyo, 5/2, First Show
I saw the first ever live performance of “Shouganai Yume Oibito”!!! Suck on THAT…you…people who…um…wait, who am I being hostile towards again?
I`m getting ahead of myself. As I mentioned in a previous post, I had 11th row almost center tickets for the first Tokyo show of this Morning Musume tour. On the video screen on the train there was an announcement that there were delays with the line I needed to take to finish the trip to Nakano! Oh no! For a while I panicked, thinking that if the delays were bad enough I might be late for the concert. Fortunately, the train arrived as scheduled, so I guess they cleared up the problem. Phew!
They were kind of late with letting people in, so I amused myself by playing “count the females” again. I got to 78 this time! I saw one girl cosplaying those leopard print costumes, and she did a really good job with it.
So, when I got inside, I noticed that the guy in front of me was wearing a ManoEri T-shirt. An odd thing to wear to a Morning Musume concert unless…yep! Erina opened the concert with her new single, complete with Egg background dancers.
Bullet points from now on.
-I`m sooo glad I bought a good ticket to this show. It`s the first one where I felt zero inclination to look at the big screen because I could see them all so well! I`m positive I made eye-contact with Risa this time. Definitely once, maybe twice. I nearly cried. LOL
-Speaking of female wota, there was a group of girls a ways behind me who would not stop shreiking Ai-chan and Gaki-san`s names during quiet moments. Wota all around me were craning their heads back to try to figure out where the extremely loud female voices were coming from.
-The further down in the crowd you get, the more proficient the wota are at the dances. I mean, most of the crowd knows the prominent hand movements for a lot of the songs, but there were a few guys who knew EVERY move for EVERY song, including those being performed for the first time on this tour. I don`t know whether to be impressed or scared.
-As I said before, they replaced “Egao Yes Nude” with “Shouganai Yume Oibito”. Risa got as far as saying the release date of the single before the crowd started screaming. We knew what was coming! They performed it in those lovely pink and blue costumes too.
-Speaking of costumes, there sure are a lot of different costumes for this tour. 18 in total. Opening marching band costumes, red dresses under those, pink and blue dresses under those, plaid jounetsu no kissu costumes, eri`s solo costume, JunLin`s pastel rainbow fine emotion dresses, Aika`s solo costume (w/huge hair bow), Gaki-san`s purple solo dress, Sayu solo black and red dresses, jun/koha`s MC dresses, group silver zipper dresses (medley), pink kousui dresses (jun/koha), Reina solo costume, Ai solo white dress, Take off is Now costumes, Guru Guru crazy rainbow dresses, leopard print group costumes, and “samba” encore costumes.
-Eri did the solo MC tonight. Interestingly enough, there were an unusualy large number of Eri fans in the crowd, something she commented on herself. I wonder if that was a coincidence.
-I realized this concert that Aika`s solo is a real idol song. Well, duh, but I mean that it`s more of an idol song that most h!p stuff. It`s hard to explain. Maybe it`s just that the beat is especially suited to wota-gei, but in some fundamental way it reminds me of “Romantic Ukari Mode” (another very idol-y idol song).
-I think my favorite song tonight was “How do you like Japan?”. Being in the front section, it`s about the closest to a rock concert that you can expect to get from a Morning Musume live.
And oh my gosh was I tired after that. I barely made it up all the stairs at the various train stations on the way home. Well, I`m looking forward to seeing the show one more time with CK next weekend. It`s the very last show of the tour, so I couldn`t find very good tickets. Still, no doubt it`ll be awesome to see the last show. For future MM concerts, I`ll definitely be shelling out the cash to buy the best seats I can, because it`s totally worth it. Oh, and by the way, I`ve officially renewed my contract, so I will be staying in Japan another year. Here`s to many great concerts to come!
~Celestia~
Thank you! I love your reports. It’s the closest I will ever get….
OMG, the show was so great! And you are totally right. Being that close is so awesome! I am glad they replaced Egao with the new single! And all of the costumes were cute.
oh and…The Bigaku=<3
Congrats!! You are so lucky to be able to make it to those! I can’t wait to see the dvd, which is of course all I’ll get to see. For now anyway…*shifty eyes*
As always, love your page!
Lucky for being one of the first few to see “Shouganai Yume Oibito” live in concert. And a big congrat for the renew contract and the many more great concerts to come! Look forward to reading your reports on them =)