The Digitalian 27 Nov 2014
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karenedIt has been a long while since I last posted, but in the end the only place where I can gush freely about my fandom is here!
Today, it's all about The Digitalian Osaka leg, 27 Nov 204.
There is always one (or more) moment during concerts when I feel really emotional, such as the"my first and probably last concert" moment during encore of 5x10. This time, it was also during the last song of The Digitalian. On the screen was a photo montage of Arashi's photos throughout the ages. And then suddenly, photos of fans at the concert hall appeared. Each photo was linked to several others, forming an intricate web of relationships. Each web then formed 1 member. That really brought tears to my eyes. Through Arashi, I've got to know a lot of amazing people and friends. They made learning more fun and gave purpose to long hours revising. Thanks to this, I've managed to make Japanese friends outside of the fandom as well. When I'm tired or unmotivated, their songs give me energy and their tv shows bring me laughter. I'm so glad that I stumbled onto this group and for all the experiences since then!
Highlights of tonight's concert:
- The stage layout is quite unique. The main stage is a V shape with a huge vertical screen on each side of the V, making it easy to watch both the real people and the zoom-in footage at the same time. The moving stage is also a V shape with the pointed end replaced with a flat portion. I think this is great for stand seats which are slightly off center, and allows the members to go closer to fans. Even the hanamachi is shaped in a cross, with the branches go off diagonally. Meaning, the branch ended right in front of me!!
- Aiba's solo! Omg he must have felt ridiculous, but kuddos for giving it his all. The dance was so....silly! Like a kid trying to be sexy but failing in all ways (well, the sexy moves were well executed but the rest of it was just plain silly). Still, because Aiba's the one dancing this, it didn't feel unnatural at all. In fact, I liked his solo the most. Highest entertainment value. Even Nino had to poke fun of it during his closing MC!
- Speaking of which, Nino's solo with his guitar was such an interesting blend of cool and cute. He totally went against the cuteness in the lyrics as he worked his fingers up and down the guitar strings. My second favourite solo!
- There was a small incident which made me appreciate Ohno a whole lot. The members were waving their hands to a song, and then Ohno suddenly threw a quick peace sign before he returned to waving. I bet he must have seen a "peace sign please" uchiwa.
- During certain segments, the screen would show the heartbeat rate of each member. Jun's was always the highest. And the lowest? No, not Ohno. Sakurai Sho!! When everyone's heartbeat rate was over 100, his would stay at 90+. Maybe it was as he said, it's not that he's not excited. It might be that he's already dead! Lol...
- The encore was such a surprise because the members rode out on helium filled balloons which had their old albums/singles printed all over. And then they launched into a medley of their old songs, one from each year. The later ones such as GUTS and Calling were sung in full. However, this time round they didn't appear in the concert Tee, which was the usual practice. I had thought that they would give one more encore, but nah, that was it.
- Ohno's surprise birthday song! I wasn't expecting it because there was one year where they didn't celebrate at the concert because the birthday was a few days prior. However, they did it this time round! During the MC, Jun asked that we can change the colour of the light on our fanlight according to what our neighbours are doing. It's like a 'make Arashi happy' thing, to see everyone become one and the hall turn into a single colour. What he said was really odd, actually. He then continued to suggest, for example, if the song is the OST of a partcular member's drama, we can change the fanlight to his colour. And then he continued, "Alright, shall we do it? The next song is..."
Suddenly, the happy birthday song started to play! So everyone changed to blue (mine was already blue hehe). Sho later said that when Ohno realised what was happening, he made a face to Sho, who was beside him, and said, "お前ら…" He was all "It's tiring" lol...he just doesn't want to bother with handling the spotlight, as usual! While pushing the cake to the front, Sho went too fast and caused the flames to extinguish, but Ohno just gamely pretended to blow the candles. He got some cream on his scarf, and became probably the most moe person to ever say that cream is delicious, right after licking it off his scarf!
Of the 3 concerts I've attended celebrating his birthday, the celebration today is the shortest (I can never forget the one where Jun held up a flipchart to silently communicate with fans how to participate in the surprise). However, the happiness is not any less.
- I have experienced this 'synchonised penlight' concept before at Mayday's concert. However, I think Arashi brought it up a notch. The lights changed frequency at different rates, sometimes slow to match the beats of a song and sometimes fast to create the image of glittering diamonds. Also, there were a lot of colours which fans cannot change to by ourselves, such as white and orange. We can only change it to one of the 5 official colours. All these made the concert hall really beautiful and often create effects which caught us by surprise. The only complaint would be that the light is with the uchiwa, so I had to remember not to raise the uchiwa when doing the furitsuke in case I block the people behind.
All in all, また"嵐に出会えってよかったなー"って感じ！
Today, it's all about The Digitalian Osaka leg, 27 Nov 204.
There is always one (or more) moment during concerts when I feel really emotional, such as the"my first and probably last concert" moment during encore of 5x10. This time, it was also during the last song of The Digitalian. On the screen was a photo montage of Arashi's photos throughout the ages. And then suddenly, photos of fans at the concert hall appeared. Each photo was linked to several others, forming an intricate web of relationships. Each web then formed 1 member. That really brought tears to my eyes. Through Arashi, I've got to know a lot of amazing people and friends. They made learning more fun and gave purpose to long hours revising. Thanks to this, I've managed to make Japanese friends outside of the fandom as well. When I'm tired or unmotivated, their songs give me energy and their tv shows bring me laughter. I'm so glad that I stumbled onto this group and for all the experiences since then!
Highlights of tonight's concert:
- The stage layout is quite unique. The main stage is a V shape with a huge vertical screen on each side of the V, making it easy to watch both the real people and the zoom-in footage at the same time. The moving stage is also a V shape with the pointed end replaced with a flat portion. I think this is great for stand seats which are slightly off center, and allows the members to go closer to fans. Even the hanamachi is shaped in a cross, with the branches go off diagonally. Meaning, the branch ended right in front of me!!
- Aiba's solo! Omg he must have felt ridiculous, but kuddos for giving it his all. The dance was so....silly! Like a kid trying to be sexy but failing in all ways (well, the sexy moves were well executed but the rest of it was just plain silly). Still, because Aiba's the one dancing this, it didn't feel unnatural at all. In fact, I liked his solo the most. Highest entertainment value. Even Nino had to poke fun of it during his closing MC!
- Speaking of which, Nino's solo with his guitar was such an interesting blend of cool and cute. He totally went against the cuteness in the lyrics as he worked his fingers up and down the guitar strings. My second favourite solo!
- There was a small incident which made me appreciate Ohno a whole lot. The members were waving their hands to a song, and then Ohno suddenly threw a quick peace sign before he returned to waving. I bet he must have seen a "peace sign please" uchiwa.
- During certain segments, the screen would show the heartbeat rate of each member. Jun's was always the highest. And the lowest? No, not Ohno. Sakurai Sho!! When everyone's heartbeat rate was over 100, his would stay at 90+. Maybe it was as he said, it's not that he's not excited. It might be that he's already dead! Lol...
- The encore was such a surprise because the members rode out on helium filled balloons which had their old albums/singles printed all over. And then they launched into a medley of their old songs, one from each year. The later ones such as GUTS and Calling were sung in full. However, this time round they didn't appear in the concert Tee, which was the usual practice. I had thought that they would give one more encore, but nah, that was it.
- Ohno's surprise birthday song! I wasn't expecting it because there was one year where they didn't celebrate at the concert because the birthday was a few days prior. However, they did it this time round! During the MC, Jun asked that we can change the colour of the light on our fanlight according to what our neighbours are doing. It's like a 'make Arashi happy' thing, to see everyone become one and the hall turn into a single colour. What he said was really odd, actually. He then continued to suggest, for example, if the song is the OST of a partcular member's drama, we can change the fanlight to his colour. And then he continued, "Alright, shall we do it? The next song is..."
Suddenly, the happy birthday song started to play! So everyone changed to blue (mine was already blue hehe). Sho later said that when Ohno realised what was happening, he made a face to Sho, who was beside him, and said, "お前ら…" He was all "It's tiring" lol...he just doesn't want to bother with handling the spotlight, as usual! While pushing the cake to the front, Sho went too fast and caused the flames to extinguish, but Ohno just gamely pretended to blow the candles. He got some cream on his scarf, and became probably the most moe person to ever say that cream is delicious, right after licking it off his scarf!
Of the 3 concerts I've attended celebrating his birthday, the celebration today is the shortest (I can never forget the one where Jun held up a flipchart to silently communicate with fans how to participate in the surprise). However, the happiness is not any less.
- I have experienced this 'synchonised penlight' concept before at Mayday's concert. However, I think Arashi brought it up a notch. The lights changed frequency at different rates, sometimes slow to match the beats of a song and sometimes fast to create the image of glittering diamonds. Also, there were a lot of colours which fans cannot change to by ourselves, such as white and orange. We can only change it to one of the 5 official colours. All these made the concert hall really beautiful and often create effects which caught us by surprise. The only complaint would be that the light is with the uchiwa, so I had to remember not to raise the uchiwa when doing the furitsuke in case I block the people behind.
All in all, また"嵐に出会えってよかったなー"って感じ！
