Jul 20 2008
Concert Report: Ishikawa, 7/20, Evening
July 20th, 2008. I may have just had the best experience of my young life. My secret fear about going to the KAT-TUN concert was that I would discover that they weren’t really as great as I thought they were. Rest assured any of you who might have that same fear. In person, if anything, they’re even better, and certainly more handsome. All of them. Kame is the cutest thing ever. Seriously. I never fully realized how adorable he is. Once in his solo he did a kiss at the audience and this cute little embarrassed shrug that was just about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. I just wanted to put him in my pocket and take him home. Jin is absolutely beautiful. I always knew this, but it’s good to have it confirmed. Also, they are all really good dancers. Again, I knew this, but it’s good to have it confirmed.
I’ll go back to the beginning. The concert venue in Ishikawa is kind of in the middle of nowhere, so almost everyone going to the concert came through Kanazawa station, some 15 minutes away by bus. There was an entire fleet of buses taking people to the concert, all of which had “Emergency Bus” on the display, something that I found to be quite amusing. Oh no! It’s a KAT-TUN emergency!!
We got there about an hour and a half before the doors opened which was good because the line for concert goods was very short, but bad because it was rather hot and we had to sit out and wait for a while. We passed the time by painting our nails, freaking out over the fact that KAT-TUN was somewhere in that building right next to us, and trying to identify who’s hand was who’s in one of the pictures in my pamphlet. Did I mention that I bought a “pamphlet”? And by pamphlet I mean a hard cover book full of lots of thick, high quality, wonderful KAT-TUN photos. Definitely a purchase that I will not regret. I also bought one of the awesome sword-shaped pen lights, which really came in handy during the concert.
After we were finally herded inside, we found our seats. They weren’t the best seats in the world, but certainly not the worst, and since Ishikawa was a pretty small venue (about 7,000), there really weren’t any bad seats. All of them were on ground level anyway, no balconies. The rest of this will be in bullet points in what might approximately be chronological order. I apologize, but it’s such a blur right now that that’s the best I can do.
-Jin introduced the concert. It started so suddenly, with very little warning. Suddenly BAM! Jin is standing a matter of feet from me. Nearly had a heart attack.
-Kame had this giant piece of grass or something in his mouth during some of taboo (like a farmer). So random
-Kame planted a kiss on the cheek of one of the ABC boys
-During one song (gah! I can’t remember which one!!), Jin spent a lot of the time pretending his microphone was a flute. Ueda, meanwhile, jammed on the air guitar.
-During the introductions Koki, kept bowing for an absurd amount of time. It was funny.
-Nakamaru started doing belly dancer style belly roll things with his shirt pulled up a couple of times. LoL.
-The tengu skit was waaay funny. Kame’s “tengu” voice is great
-During “Lips” the microphones sprayed smoke (like in the PV). Jin attacked Junno with his, but then they both ended up ganging up on Koki who just closed his eyes and basked in it.
-Jin talked a lot during the MC. Probably more than anyone else except Maru. Yay! The best part was when he was talking about how some of the parents in the audience grab their little kid’s arms and wave them around and, and he did an impression of a kid being shaken like crazy by his mom.
-Jin and Kame sang a little bit together during the MC, both on the verge of cracking up the whole time. There were some REALLY intense fangirls sitting behind us, and a couple of them were so excited by this that they were actually crying. Like, tears were rolling down their cheeks as they hugged each other and squealed. Whoa.
-During “Mother Father”, Ueda was kind of crying…awww
-Also during “Mother Father” Koki put the ship’s bell on his head
-There was a section where they individually appeared on stage, supposedly running from the Tengu. Jin ran across the stage screaming and then “fell” off. Kame advertised some crunky, taking a bite with an ecstatic look on his face, Junno read one of his love letters, Ueda shot Junno off stage with increasingly large weaponry ending with a bazooka, all with an extremely devilish look on his face, and Koki and Maru did a bit of their Tanaka skit.
-At one point Nakamaru and Koki were pretending to cry, but Maru kept making this really funny face by opening one eye while he was doing it. As a side note, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up laughing during the concert. Some parts were super funny.
-During Junno’s solo, he went over and talked to a girl with a Junno uchiwa who was so excited she looked like she was about to faint. He asked her where she was from and she responded “Oosaka desu!” in the squeakiest voice I’ve ever heard, followed by, “Taguchi-kun DAISUKI!!!!”
-Jin sang the acapella beginning to “Bokura no Machi de” mostly without a microphone. It was soooo beautiful. As a side note, all of his singing sounded incredible, and he added his own vocal embellishments to just about every song.
-Kame, Jin, and Koki came by our section (at different times) on those little cart things they use. Jin actually came by twice, once on each side. I didn’t make eye contact with Kame, but he was so cute and sexy, and really close to where I was sitting, so I didn’t care. I made eye contact with Koki very briefly, and when Jin was coming by our section the second time, toward the end of the concert, I made eye contact with him! For reals! All I could do was grin like a fool and give a really awkward wave. This earned me a half-smile/half-smirk. I can now die happy.
-During the end of Jin’s solo, he danced down the center walkway under strobe lighting. It was fricking awesome.
-Nakamaru did this thing during his beat boxing segment were he hummed a tune while still keeping up the percussion part. I’ve never heard him do that before. It was impressive!
-Ueda sang really well during his solo. As someone who’s not usually a fan of his solo singing, I quite enjoyed it.
-During the encore “Real Face” Jin made Nakamaru sing part of his line at the beginning, and Nakamaru did the “ooh” thing at the end in such a sexual way.
-Junno did Koki’s rap at the end of Real Face “ore wa Junno!” with Jin, Ueda, and one more of them…maybe Kame?…standing right behind him and staring at him incredulously. I think he did a rather good job!
-My favorite performance was probably “Six Senses”, because it was fun to do the clapping and counting with them, and the dancing was great!
Three hours later, and I simply cannot believe that it’s all over. It flew by SO fast! I want to see another one! Like tomorrow! Overall, it was a surreal and wonderful experience. I might think of more things I’m forgetting later, but for now, I think I’ll call it an entry. As a final bit of advice. If there’s any way you can go to a KAT-TUN concert, DO IT.
*contented sigh*
~Celestia~
I’m happy for you!
ANY CHANCE DO YOU KNOW WHAT SONG AKAME SANG TOGETHER?
*SPARKLES*
oh gosh, you must have had good seats!!! seeing them so close!!! :DDDD
i love how you also confirmed what i know about their being pros at the game. <3333
thanks for sharing!
Hi there.
I like your review.
I can feel it. And, it’s lucky you can watched them through naked eyes.
I want to go there too, next year I guess.
And, I kept laughing at your story, when Junno did rap,
haha, I am not sure ; I think he’s bullied there again.
Yea, you will surely never believe it’s over,
It’s COOLEST!
thanks for the review.
gosh, am envious… i want to see jin perform too~ SO BAD. maybe someday. thanks for the report!
Wow!!!
I soooo wanna go to a concert lol!
Ur so lucky xD Thanks for the report!
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I loved your report, one of the best ones that I read so far…
I will, one day I will go to their show.
Funny, I have the same fear that you had before the show: are they that incredible as we think they are? I’m happy that they fullfiled your expectations…
Just a question: are you from Japan? Because I really wanted to talk to a person from outside Japan that went to their concert. I wanted to know what are the procedures for overseas fans. If it’s easy or difficult to get tickets, all that…
X3 You’re so lucky! I want see Junno do Koki’s rap and Maru’s “ooh” and AkaKame’s mine duet!
Kame is the cutest thing ever.
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Totally agree with you ^___^
Thanks a lot for sharing.
Gawd, I envy you so much it’s kinda painful >< Stupid not having the money to go to Japan in time for the concerts. The universe hates me, I just know it - timing has never been on my side.
(By the way, I kind of stalk your blog… I’ll try to comment more, ‘couse I love your updates, haha)
Aah~ You are so lucky!
Concerts are always a fantastic experience for me and I can only imagine how awesome it must be to see KAT-TUN.
Thank you for sharing!!! This was a fun read! ^___^
i’m enjoying reading your concert report!!^^
really hope one day i can go to their concert too >_______<
Thanks for your report^^~~
Sounds totally awesome! I really want to go to one of their concerts, but I live in the US and I’d totally just be staring at them not understand a word of it (( if I went soon cuz I don’t know Japanese yet )) I hope to see some fancams of this!
whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
how lucky you are can make an eye contact with them
if i do that
i don’t care if i die ^^ wkwkwkwkw
can i share your report in my forum?
credit is for you for sure…
@felice- we didn’t have like front row seats or anything, but we could see them really close when they came through the aisles on the cart things
@lalesca- no, I’m not from Japan. I’m from America, but I’ll be living in japan until August 2009 to teach English
@di- sure! share away, just be sure to link back here
ahhh,, you are sure lucky to have met the eye of jin!! ^^ *though it was half and half.. ^^
im happy for you.. ^^ next year ill go myself.. ^^
…WoW…
I have green eyes…thanks for sharing and look forward to reading more..^0^..love and laugh the part you wrote that.. I can now die happy..
About Kame, as I know you wasn’t his big fan, right?, but you mentioned that he’s the cutest thing ever … I couldn’t agree more coz the more I watched his performances, he seems to be real entertainer…not to mention, Jin, he’s always the best in my view…hehe
as you’ll be JP for a while, hope to get lots more of Kat-tun stories…hope i’m not asking to much..haha
…Ciao…
Your repo is nice. It’s so well organized.. XD
OMG!!!.. Lucky you!!!.. You got to witness so many fun things happening!.. I enjoyed the part about the Akame duet (LMAO.. It’d be embarassing to admit but I think I would’ve cried too.. XDDD –> intense fangirl warning.. XD), Maru singing Jin’s lines and Junno’s rap.. LoL..
Thanks for sharing!.. This totally made my day.. ^^
-Jin sang the acapella beginning to “Bokura no Machi de” mostly without a microphone. It was soooo beautiful. As a side note, all of his singing sounded incredible, and he added his own vocal embellishments to just about every song.
I’ve listened to some secret record of a shizouka concert. I wouldn’t say that Jin did perfectly in every single song, but seriously I was totally awed by his awesome voice in many songs, eg Crazy love, Our story, Six senses, KTF, DYES and others~
Thank you for your report^^
I loved the report!!!
Thanks!!!
awesome. totally….
OMG. we saw them at Osaka on the second night. Junno was soooo cute before his solo cuz he was fanning himself with his own fans. and with the juniors he brought on stage, who were in the audience and just jumped around and clapped while he performed.
and jin singing without time mike was amazing. omg he has skills. (All the fan girls near us kept yelling GAMBATTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” it was cute) I had chills.
Jin falling in the skit thing was funny. as was him yelling “Mother fuckers” every other song.
I don’t generally like Kame (his whole sexier then thou attitude) but his solo was one of the cutest things ive ever seen. I really wanted to put him in my pocket with his nerd clothes
it was like…the greatest experience ever. And i’m glad that Im not the only one who thought that >D ( total of 28 hours on a plane was TOTALLY WORTH IT. and I cant wait to see them next summer. ^_^)
Thanks for the report!
Even though i cannot go to a concert now, it gave me an idea of how it must have been. I’m a big Ueda fan, so if you recall anything more about his part please share with us! ^^’ (I was just imagining he singing Mother Father sort of crying XD)
Thanks for the awesome report ^^ I was at the Dome con last year, and right now I wish I had a better grasp of the Japanese language then, because so many things they did seem funny but I couldn’t follow
Anyway, the song that Jin and Kame sang, was it Nannen Tattemo?
I think I’d cry if I were there, too *___*
Thank you very much for this report!
I wanted to know something stupid.. does Koki has blond or dark hair at the moment? ^^” ….
i awlays think that kame is the best showman during kattun’s concert!
enjoy the end of your trip!
oh wow thanks for this review! I’d just recently watched the QoP unsubbed version of the Tokyo Dome Performance DVD. (I only understand a teensy weensy bit of Japanese D;) and it was fun to compare the content of the concerts.
Reading this JUST MAKES ME WANT TO GO TO THEIR CONCERT MORE!!!If Kame would pass by my seat even ONCE I’d day just as happily as you lol.
But I’ve no idea how to get tickets…:S Or how much they cost…..(I doubt i can even afford them.)
*digs a hole to hide in* I’m ashamed of my limited capabilities as a KAT-TUN fan sometimes…T_T
Anyway, another note to add, DAMN YOU! =P
I’d just spent the better part of two days reading your blog.
Why did you have to make your blog entries so insanely addictive and interesting?!
Thanks for taking time to make such detailed entires though
I’ll definitely be popping by again to get my daily fix of KAT-TUN. ^^