The livereport for Buck-Tick's concert at Nippon Budokan will have to wait another week (sorry), so while you wait for that;
Happy new year!
söndag 28 december 2014
~Happy New Year~
I haven't been updating recently, mostly because I haven't been to any gigs these past week and a half, but also because I'm away from my dorm and doesn't have as much time.
The livereport for Buck-Tick's concert at Nippon Budokan will have to wait another week (sorry), so while you wait for that;
The livereport for Buck-Tick's concert at Nippon Budokan will have to wait another week (sorry), so while you wait for that;
onsdag 17 december 2014
Ｓｕｐｅｒ Ｓｅｓｓｉｏｎ －ｖｏｌ．１ー at Ikebukuro Edge
Last night I went in the awful rainstorm to Ikebukuro to attend 333music's event Super Session -vol.1- at Ikebukuro Edge! Reason: Közi would be there!
This was the first time at Ikebukuro Edge, and eventhough it was small I think it was really good to be honest. Not that much bigger than Ikebukuro Cyber but so much better.
Like mentioned the weather was horrible last night, it was raining a lot and the wind was kind of strong, and my train was late for some weird reason so I got there about 30 minutes after they called numbers (didn't really matter to me, I had a shitty number 150).
I didn't know much about this event other than it was presented by 33music, who also makes the Motto magazines Közi participated in before, and that it would be sessions.
When I arrived I was one of the last to show up. We all got a calendar for 2015 at the door (see picture). The event began at 7.30 with the first session band and I have no idea who those people were, but they did play covers of L'arc ~en ~ciel's Winterfall and Malice Mizer's Gekka no Yasoukyoku which made everyone really enthusiastic!
They played for about 30 minutes and then it was time for Közi!
For his session, on vocals we had Közi and the bassist from Kagrra, Naoki. Közi used his Malice Mizer guitar, the one from Brise live.
To begin with they played 4 songs, then they invited ISSAY to join them on stage! I don't know that much about ISSAY other than that he's friends with Atsushi Sakurai of Buck-Tick, but I kind of liked his vocals. Also the man looked like Dracula, what's there not to like.
They played 4 songs before ISSAY joined them. Then they played another 5, among them Christmas sucks and White Christmas.
The evening ended with a talk led by Naoki, everyone got back on stage with a rose in their pocket, except for Közi, he had it in his mouth like a cigarette. At the end he threw it out, I did not manage to grab it though.
Before leaving stage he announced that they had one more present for us (except for the calendar), they'd line up outside and thank us on the way out.
If only I would've known, I was thinking about buying a christmas present for Közi but didn't because I have no idea what to give, but if I knew I'd have the chance to give it to him in person I so would've thought of something.
While standing in line to go out I began feeling bad, like should I say something? I really want to say something. Maybe you're not allowed to (since it might stop the line). I don't want to be the crazy foreign girl who can't behave at japanese lives.
In the end I just looked up at him slightly while passing by, and I heard him saying arigatou. I felt like I'd die (I passed Közi, I stood within an arms lenght away! asdfghjkl-fangirl hysteria).
Közi seemed very happy tonight, and while watching him I realised how young he seems. I felt like he can't possibly be over 40 years old, he's like a boy! He has so much energy on stage, it's very amusing to see him live.
During the talk Közi announced that the new ZIZ cd will be released at their all night event later this month. I won't be there though, but I really hope it will be sold later because I really need a copy of that.
This was the first time at Ikebukuro Edge, and eventhough it was small I think it was really good to be honest. Not that much bigger than Ikebukuro Cyber but so much better.
Like mentioned the weather was horrible last night, it was raining a lot and the wind was kind of strong, and my train was late for some weird reason so I got there about 30 minutes after they called numbers (didn't really matter to me, I had a shitty number 150).
I didn't know much about this event other than it was presented by 33music, who also makes the Motto magazines Közi participated in before, and that it would be sessions.
When I arrived I was one of the last to show up. We all got a calendar for 2015 at the door (see picture). The event began at 7.30 with the first session band and I have no idea who those people were, but they did play covers of L'arc ~en ~ciel's Winterfall and Malice Mizer's Gekka no Yasoukyoku which made everyone really enthusiastic!
They played for about 30 minutes and then it was time for Közi!
For his session, on vocals we had Közi and the bassist from Kagrra, Naoki. Közi used his Malice Mizer guitar, the one from Brise live.
To begin with they played 4 songs, then they invited ISSAY to join them on stage! I don't know that much about ISSAY other than that he's friends with Atsushi Sakurai of Buck-Tick, but I kind of liked his vocals. Also the man looked like Dracula, what's there not to like.
They played 4 songs before ISSAY joined them. Then they played another 5, among them Christmas sucks and White Christmas.
The evening ended with a talk led by Naoki, everyone got back on stage with a rose in their pocket, except for Közi, he had it in his mouth like a cigarette. At the end he threw it out, I did not manage to grab it though.
Before leaving stage he announced that they had one more present for us (except for the calendar), they'd line up outside and thank us on the way out.
If only I would've known, I was thinking about buying a christmas present for Közi but didn't because I have no idea what to give, but if I knew I'd have the chance to give it to him in person I so would've thought of something.
While standing in line to go out I began feeling bad, like should I say something? I really want to say something. Maybe you're not allowed to (since it might stop the line). I don't want to be the crazy foreign girl who can't behave at japanese lives.
In the end I just looked up at him slightly while passing by, and I heard him saying arigatou. I felt like I'd die (I passed Közi, I stood within an arms lenght away! asdfghjkl-fangirl hysteria).
Közi seemed very happy tonight, and while watching him I realised how young he seems. I felt like he can't possibly be over 40 years old, he's like a boy! He has so much energy on stage, it's very amusing to see him live.
During the talk Közi announced that the new ZIZ cd will be released at their all night event later this month. I won't be there though, but I really hope it will be sold later because I really need a copy of that.
BUCK-TICK FISH TANKer's Only & Metaform Nights or Anarchy
The past weekend has been really busy, I have exams this week but haven't had time to study because both saturday and sunday I had to go all the way to Odaiba to see Buck-Tick! It was totally worth it though.
On saturday was the FISH TANKer's Only live, to be honest I joined the fanclub just so I could preorder tickets since I know they sell out (or almost sell out) kind of fast and I want a chance to get a good number. I didn't though, for this live I had number 2010 (Zepp Tokyo takes about 2700 people), but for some reason japanese fans seems to enjoy standing in the back (unless you're a crazy fangirl/boy), so I was acctually able to get kind of close without being killed. Let me just say getting to the middle of the stage is IMPOSSIBLE, but I was happy with standing on Imai's side.
Of course I bought some merch first, and I was very suprised to see that people lined up to do that, and it wasn't just a few people, the line was so big I didn't even see that it was a line. On Buck-Tick's webpage it says the t-shirts are sold out but I was happy to see they were sold here! Looks really pretty and it has the FISH TANKer's Only tourlist on the back.
I'm not used to going to bigger live events, so to be honest I felt slightly annoyed I could barely see anyone else than Imai because of all the arms and some tall heads. So I don't really remember what either Hide nor Yuuta was wearing, but Imai had white shirt and a black blazer with white/glittery polkadots, Yagami wore a black jacket with the Metaform Nights or Anarchy logo on the back. Atsushi entered stage with one of those black scarfs covering him up, a black (with slightly golden colors in it) frilly sleevless blous and black pants. I did not take any notes about in which order they played songs, or which, but they played all of Aruiwa Anarchy of course and some older ones.They acctually opened with Hyper Love! To me it looked kind of weird though, seeing Atsushi entering with his veil/scarf over himself I assumed they'd open with something heavier than Hyper Love. Other songs I was very pleased to hear was Heroin, Romance and Funny Valentine.
For this tour they played the Melancholia -Electria- version, and it was pretty awesome live!
I don't know if it was because of my location, next to the speakers, or if they acctually changed it a bit because the synth/electric melody was kind of hidden and it felt more rock than the recorded version. I really like the single version but this was great aswell. You could hear the guitars and bass a lot more.
Atsushi doesn't really do that much of an MC, he just said welcome, and some sex here and there, but during the presentation of the members, when he was introducing Imai he started patting his shoulder, it looked a bit weird in a fun way. I was a bit disapointed by the fact that they barely moved on stage. Imai was the only one I got a good look at because I was standing in his "zone", but Atsushi and Hide only came over to the left side of the stage during Once Upon A Time, and Yuuta I barely saw at all (being so small and all...).
They ended the night with Mudai, Tenshi wa dareda and Revolver (I was sort of hoping to hear Muma the nightmare...) and on our way out we were all handed a black bag with the tourlist for the FISH TANKer's Only gigs and some flyers.
Then I was back on sunday for the tourfinal!
Since FISHTANK had given me all my tickets the day before I didn't really have to get there so early (It went really smoothly to pick up everything and the staff was reall nice too), and this day I didn't have as bad number, only 879! I'd love to know how these lottery things work through FISHTANK, because I assumed us members would have like maybe tickets 1-500 or something, but it seemed it's completly random since I saw people entering way later with a fanclub ticket.
This evening I felt like I wanted to get closer to stage since I had a better ticket, so I tried to proceed as fast as possible and get myself a good spot. This time I wanted to get infront of the bars which devides the floor (on saturday I stood behind the first ones), I did but it was sort of close to the exit so I felt a bit sad I'll see the stage from the side... THEN some hoard of fangirls (I assume) stormed in and pushed us all so hard I ended up between Imai and Atsushi! This might seem like luck, but it really wasn't. First off they pushed us so hard I would've fallen to the ground unlss it wasn't so crowded and also, now we stood so close people couldn't get their hands down and it began to get kind of warm fast.
I thought that was bad, when Buck-Tick acctually entered it got worse. WAY worse. They opened with Iconoclasm and I can't say I saw a thing during that, I just tried to avoid being killed by people. There were arms everywhere and people jumped around, I fell into people several times and acctually hit my head in one guys back and all of a sudden I realised one guy nailed on to me using me like some sort of shield pushing me evencloser to the stage. I felt a bit sad since I really like Iconoclasm and I wanted to see the stage... When they proceeded to Devil'N Angel I realised that if I stood on my toes I was above most people, so I tried that, but then I lost my balance even easier, and all the way until Dokudanjou Beauty this guy was standing infront of me and I could feel how his back got even more sweatier by every song and I accidently shoved my hand up a wet armpit...
By LIMBO though, I was saved, people had then pushed my to the side so I was back on Imai's side of the stage. I couldn't be happier to have a somewhat bad spot.
It was still pretty crowded but not as much, and funny thing is I realised even the air got extremly warm! If I put my arms up I could feel the difference in the air, it was kind of creepy. I had to stand on my toes again to get some "fresh" air.
Anyway, back to the acctual concert.
The setlist was almost the same, but they exchanged some of the old songs, and I was thrilled to hear MAD! I just wish they'd take a break from the most resent albums, I'd love to hear more from Six/Nine, Cosmos, One life, One death etc. This evening Atsushi acctually got over to our side a bit more, but I have to say, he's way too much at the center. It feels like the members rarely move on stage to be honest.
One song I've learned to like is acctually DADA DISCO -G J T H B K H T D-. When I first heard it on the cd I mostly felt "wtf am I listening to", but I think the live's changed my mind. Same with Satan, I think Atsushi's vocals sounds really good singing it live. The songs I still don't get are masQue and Uchuu Cirkus. Didn't really like them on the cd, don't really like them now either, especially not masQue.
Before I knew it, the evening had come to an end. Time really flies by when you're having a good time.
On monday I recieved a mail from FISH TANK saying they recorded the tour final and it will be shown on Nico later in december. Looking forward to seeing the songs I missed...
Setlist:
ICONOCLASM
Devil'N Angel
PHANTOM VOLTAIRE
Dokudanjou Beauty -R.I.P.-
LIMBO
M.A.D
Bodoreru de nemurenai
Satan
Sekai wa yami de michite iru
masQue
Uchuu Cirkus
ONCE UPON A TIME
Melancholia -ELECTRIA-
Zekkai
Makka na Yoru
Aku no Hana
Encore 1
DADA DISCO -G J T H B K H T D-
NOT FOUND
Keijijou Ryuusei
Mudai
Encore 2
SURVIVAL DANCE
Tenshi wa dare da
REVOLVER
Next up I'll write a livereport from the Christmas event with Közi I went to last night!
On saturday was the FISH TANKer's Only live, to be honest I joined the fanclub just so I could preorder tickets since I know they sell out (or almost sell out) kind of fast and I want a chance to get a good number. I didn't though, for this live I had number 2010 (Zepp Tokyo takes about 2700 people), but for some reason japanese fans seems to enjoy standing in the back (unless you're a crazy fangirl/boy), so I was acctually able to get kind of close without being killed. Let me just say getting to the middle of the stage is IMPOSSIBLE, but I was happy with standing on Imai's side.
Of course I bought some merch first, and I was very suprised to see that people lined up to do that, and it wasn't just a few people, the line was so big I didn't even see that it was a line. On Buck-Tick's webpage it says the t-shirts are sold out but I was happy to see they were sold here! Looks really pretty and it has the FISH TANKer's Only tourlist on the back.
I'm not used to going to bigger live events, so to be honest I felt slightly annoyed I could barely see anyone else than Imai because of all the arms and some tall heads. So I don't really remember what either Hide nor Yuuta was wearing, but Imai had white shirt and a black blazer with white/glittery polkadots, Yagami wore a black jacket with the Metaform Nights or Anarchy logo on the back. Atsushi entered stage with one of those black scarfs covering him up, a black (with slightly golden colors in it) frilly sleevless blous and black pants. I did not take any notes about in which order they played songs, or which, but they played all of Aruiwa Anarchy of course and some older ones.They acctually opened with Hyper Love! To me it looked kind of weird though, seeing Atsushi entering with his veil/scarf over himself I assumed they'd open with something heavier than Hyper Love. Other songs I was very pleased to hear was Heroin, Romance and Funny Valentine.
For this tour they played the Melancholia -Electria- version, and it was pretty awesome live!
I don't know if it was because of my location, next to the speakers, or if they acctually changed it a bit because the synth/electric melody was kind of hidden and it felt more rock than the recorded version. I really like the single version but this was great aswell. You could hear the guitars and bass a lot more.
Atsushi doesn't really do that much of an MC, he just said welcome, and some sex here and there, but during the presentation of the members, when he was introducing Imai he started patting his shoulder, it looked a bit weird in a fun way. I was a bit disapointed by the fact that they barely moved on stage. Imai was the only one I got a good look at because I was standing in his "zone", but Atsushi and Hide only came over to the left side of the stage during Once Upon A Time, and Yuuta I barely saw at all (being so small and all...).
They ended the night with Mudai, Tenshi wa dareda and Revolver (I was sort of hoping to hear Muma the nightmare...) and on our way out we were all handed a black bag with the tourlist for the FISH TANKer's Only gigs and some flyers.
Then I was back on sunday for the tourfinal!
Since FISHTANK had given me all my tickets the day before I didn't really have to get there so early (It went really smoothly to pick up everything and the staff was reall nice too), and this day I didn't have as bad number, only 879! I'd love to know how these lottery things work through FISHTANK, because I assumed us members would have like maybe tickets 1-500 or something, but it seemed it's completly random since I saw people entering way later with a fanclub ticket.
This evening I felt like I wanted to get closer to stage since I had a better ticket, so I tried to proceed as fast as possible and get myself a good spot. This time I wanted to get infront of the bars which devides the floor (on saturday I stood behind the first ones), I did but it was sort of close to the exit so I felt a bit sad I'll see the stage from the side... THEN some hoard of fangirls (I assume) stormed in and pushed us all so hard I ended up between Imai and Atsushi! This might seem like luck, but it really wasn't. First off they pushed us so hard I would've fallen to the ground unlss it wasn't so crowded and also, now we stood so close people couldn't get their hands down and it began to get kind of warm fast.
I thought that was bad, when Buck-Tick acctually entered it got worse. WAY worse. They opened with Iconoclasm and I can't say I saw a thing during that, I just tried to avoid being killed by people. There were arms everywhere and people jumped around, I fell into people several times and acctually hit my head in one guys back and all of a sudden I realised one guy nailed on to me using me like some sort of shield pushing me evencloser to the stage. I felt a bit sad since I really like Iconoclasm and I wanted to see the stage... When they proceeded to Devil'N Angel I realised that if I stood on my toes I was above most people, so I tried that, but then I lost my balance even easier, and all the way until Dokudanjou Beauty this guy was standing infront of me and I could feel how his back got even more sweatier by every song and I accidently shoved my hand up a wet armpit...
By LIMBO though, I was saved, people had then pushed my to the side so I was back on Imai's side of the stage. I couldn't be happier to have a somewhat bad spot.
It was still pretty crowded but not as much, and funny thing is I realised even the air got extremly warm! If I put my arms up I could feel the difference in the air, it was kind of creepy. I had to stand on my toes again to get some "fresh" air.
Anyway, back to the acctual concert.
The setlist was almost the same, but they exchanged some of the old songs, and I was thrilled to hear MAD! I just wish they'd take a break from the most resent albums, I'd love to hear more from Six/Nine, Cosmos, One life, One death etc. This evening Atsushi acctually got over to our side a bit more, but I have to say, he's way too much at the center. It feels like the members rarely move on stage to be honest.
One song I've learned to like is acctually DADA DISCO -G J T H B K H T D-. When I first heard it on the cd I mostly felt "wtf am I listening to", but I think the live's changed my mind. Same with Satan, I think Atsushi's vocals sounds really good singing it live. The songs I still don't get are masQue and Uchuu Cirkus. Didn't really like them on the cd, don't really like them now either, especially not masQue.
Before I knew it, the evening had come to an end. Time really flies by when you're having a good time.
On monday I recieved a mail from FISH TANK saying they recorded the tour final and it will be shown on Nico later in december. Looking forward to seeing the songs I missed...
Setlist:
ICONOCLASM
Devil'N Angel
PHANTOM VOLTAIRE
Dokudanjou Beauty -R.I.P.-
LIMBO
M.A.D
Bodoreru de nemurenai
Satan
Sekai wa yami de michite iru
masQue
Uchuu Cirkus
ONCE UPON A TIME
Melancholia -ELECTRIA-
Zekkai
Makka na Yoru
Aku no Hana
Encore 1
DADA DISCO -G J T H B K H T D-
NOT FOUND
Keijijou Ryuusei
Mudai
Encore 2
SURVIVAL DANCE
Tenshi wa dare da
REVOLVER
Next up I'll write a livereport from the Christmas event with Közi I went to last night!
fredag 12 december 2014
Artnia
In 2011 on my first visit to Tokyo I got lost in Shinjuku one day, and while cursing over my bad sense of direction I found a Square Enix store! It had a kind of weird location, by the highway between Shinjuku and Harajuku, but I made many visits and spent a lot of money in that store... (among many random stuff, I bought a Sephiroth perfume).
Not only was this store really cool because it had a lot of Final Fantasy items, but it had an innersection which was kind of dark and had a lot of reflective glass. In this section they sold more expensive items, like perfumes and jewelry, and most importantly, they had a realsize Sephiroth lying under glass in the floor! They also had Gackt's outfit from the Redemption PV standing in that section.
When I went back to Japan in 2012 I went back to the Square Enix store of course, this time during the evening and I was just planning what I should buy and then get back another day. When I got back another day the store was closed. Close, closed. I was so angry that I didn't buy what I wanted that evening!
A couple of months ago a friend of mine told me there was a Final Fantasy café in Shinjuku somewhere and that we should go there. After a little google:ing I realised it was the Square Enix store which just changed location, and last saturday we went there to check it out!
I was very excited for this restaurant/bar they opened since they had some Final Fantasy themed stuff on that menu.
The store is located a bit away from the Shinjuku station, but I don't mind walking. Just walk down to the area with Forever21 and MaruiOne etc. The building looks very special, almost like a tiny spacecraft, white and somewhat eggshaped. They had cute decorations outside with Chocobos and Cactuars!
Just like the old store, it had two sections, the first with the café area and regular shopping, then they had a similar "dark" room with jewelry. Unfortunatley Sephiroth was nowhere to be found, instead they had a very impressive rainfall and materia in the middle of the room!
As for the restaurant, since it's so small you have to write your name on a list and wait for a table (unless you're lucky and there's acctually a table available). They have food, like meat and pasta, but the themed food is sweets! There's parfait with a tiny chocolate sword or Yuffie's shuriken! Cocktails called potion or named after aeons, like the awesome looking, blue "Shiva".
I decided to try a cappucino and pancakes! When ordering they acctually ask if you want Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest themed food, so here's what my order looked like!
One of my friends acctually got a tiny chocobo on her pancakes aswell! I wont lie and say it was the best coffee and pancakes I've ever had, but it was fine and most importantly, I went there because I love Final Fantasy and just seeing a chocobo in my coffee made it worth the price!
Of course I made some shopping, this is what I got with me;
Cactuar glas and a clearfile
I really liked the old store, especially because that Sephiroth statue was one of the most awesomest things I've ever seen, but on the other hand I think it was a great idea to have a café/restaurant, I love how there's so many themed cafés in Tokyo! It's totally worth to visit, and to stand in line for almost 1 hour to get a table!Link: http://www.jp.square-enix.com/artnia/en/
Next up will be livereports from BUCK-TICK's FISHTanker's ONLY live tomorrow and their Tour2014 metaform nights final gig on sunday! (yes...I'm going 2 days in a row...)
måndag 8 december 2014
Moi Dix Mois - Dis Inferno XII ~Last year party~ at Shibuya WWW
Last night was the last concert for Moi Dix Mois this year, Dis Infernal XII.
It felt a bit special for me this time because the live was held at Shibuya WWW, and that's where I saw them the first time in 2011.
I sort of forgot time...and my localtrain was going so slow it took me forever to get to Meidaimae (where I transfer to a train going to Shibuya), and on my way I tried figuering out why it felt like I left something at home, I later realised it was my earplugs! So on top of being late, I was too scared going deaf I ran into a pharmacy trying to find earplugs (no success). When I arrived at the venue it was about my turn to go in eventhough I had a sort of bad number (161).
Seeing the stage made me feel even more "nostaligic" (if you can be that for an event which happened 3 years ago:P), because the setting was almost the same, with the big cross in the ceiling, the gate by Mana and Hayato and the Moi Dix Mois logo in the back.
As always I feel a bit annoyed at the fans who keep space infront of them in which 2 people could stand, but fortunatley my friend agreed so when the lights were turned off and the band was about to enter, we pushed like there was no tomorrow.
As the members entered I was really excited to see Ryux, especially the rest of his outfit, but from where I was standing and with tall people in high heels, I was happy if I could see Mana's upperbody (I did see all the members heads though :P)
Nothing new when it comes to the outfits of the other members, just the same as for the release of Reprise. To be honest I was highly disapointed in what we could see of Ryux outfit in Mana's blogentry, and I was even more dispointed at the rest XD I'm sorry but I can't see how his clothes fit the rest of the members... His hair reminded me highly about Rikku in Final Fantasy X-2, with the headband and long braids. I didn't get a good look at his bottompart, but it looked very simple, and the model of his top looked like a t-shirt (just in another kind of fabric and details), so I hope they release something so they get some new outfits XD
As the times before, I think Moi Dix Mois music is awesome live. They might not add anything special to the songs, but they're just so great when played live! I was really happy over the great setlist aswell, I never thought I'd hear Vizard live! I prefer the songs like Night Breed, Neo Pessimiste etc, over the slower ones like Solitude, especially live, since Mana's so..."shy" I think he performs best during these songs. The reason I wrote "shy", is because eventhough I'm pretty sure he really is shy, I have to say he comes across as unengaged sometimes during lives. Like when Seth is talking and you can see Mana just looking down the floor or doing stuff with his guitar, and then all of a sudden he's back to sign language and whispering. The more I've seen him live the more I feel like I'd so pick him if I got to chose 1 bandman to talk to XD I really want to know whats behind all that. It's not that easy to read his face, sometimes I'm not even sure if he really enjoys it to be honest. I hope he does though, and I think he does, he probably would've quit by now otherwise.
During the first MC Mana wanted us to call Mana-chan and Mana-kun, then he told Seth it made him remember schooltimes.
During this night Mana came pretty close to us in the audience, and I saw how many people reached for his guitar, which I felt was kind of weird since he was playing and it was obviously distracting, at least since some grabbed for it. I tried my best to get one of his guitarpicks, but I failed... Once I even felt it on my chest, but it fell on the floor and eventhough I sat down trying to find it, it was too dark and I felt a lot of platformshoes...and I didn't feel like loosing my hand trying to find the guitarpick, and on top of that I wasn't the only one who dived down, when I wanted to get up again it was almost impossible since I then had the ass from the girl infront of me covering my way up since she bended down looking for the pick:P
I'm glad Hayato now always gets to take part of the MC! He joined in during Immortal Madness. When I saw them in 2011 he did not talk during the whole evening, but since he did during the live in October I'm guessing its something which has changed with the years (?).
Also, his hair was a bit different, he was now shaved on the sides (not completly but the hair was reallyreally short). Maybe he have had it like this for longer...I don't know since photos are rarely posted of him :P
Mana went and got a Jack Daniel's, and I was pretty sure he'd drink from it, but NO, he made poor Seth do it instead....twice! after the second sip you could see Seth wasnt that amused by it XD
For the encore the band got back on stage with partly new outfits. Mana in his Mötley Crue t-shirt, Hayato also had some old bandshirt, don't know which but it was black with some greenstuff (XD), Sugiya had a black leather jacket and Seth came back in pants and a huge fur. Not because of perverted fangirlness, but I was a bit glad that Seth was halfnaked because I wanted to see his tattoos. I don't know how old he is, but I'm guessing around the same age as Mana, have to give him creds for looking very youthful. In general Seth looked very nice, I felt as if he didn't have that much make up, slightly red eyeshadow, and he looked very beautiful.
They played a cover (I'm guessing something by Mötley Crue?) and unfortunatley Seth's vocals wasn't the best, probably because it was an english lyrics, it wasn't that his voice sounded bad, but like many japanese singers the words start to melt togheter after a while. Like most already know, Mana was playing drums for this and Hayato did the guitar. After the song Mana threw out his drumsticks to the audience and I acctually grabbed one by the edge, but people went crazy and I realised I wouldn't have a chance...
The second and the last song for the encore was Deus ex Machina! I really like this so I'm glad that's one of the songs they seem to play every time. This evening balloons were thrown out. Mana stood kind of close to us in the audience and people for some reason threw te balloons back at him so for a while he stoped playing and just kept throwing them back. Not sure with his stoneface but I think he looked kind of amused (XD)
Then when the song ended, he all of a sudden turned his back against us, removed his guitar and just leaned back, and here's the weird part, I stood kind of close but all of a sudden people sort of pushed some of us away. and I have no idea if it was people from the middle just attacking to get a touch of Mana, or if people backed XD (normally you're supposed to take the person who stagedives, not go away XD), so some staff came and helped Mana up again. Then Mana went to the other side of the stage and touched peoples hands, and again, since people saw him coming back they got a bit violent, for a while it looked like people really grabbed his hands and arms and didn't seem to want to let go. I took my chance too, but gently. Then it was about to wrap things up, Mana was sitting in a corner throwing back balloons again, and Hayato grabbed a balloon and hit it with his drumsticks, and I was lucky enough to catch it! Finally the bandmembers all grabbed eachothers hands and then they jumped, said goodbye and left the stage.
I had a lot fun, and I do feel a bit sad that this was my last Moi Dix Mois live at least for now. I would've loved to go to Mana's birthday live....but I'll cherish the memories I have from these two lives I've been able to attend!
The setlist is stolen from Twitter, I did not remember the order! So thanks to the japanese fan who posted this!
Setlist
The Pact of Silence
In Paradisum
The Seventh Veil
Diabolos et Angeli
Night Breed
Twilight Flower
Methaphysical
The Sect
MC
Beast Side
Vizard
Pendelum
Solitude
Neo Pessimiste
MC
Immortal Madness
Dead Scape
Ange ~D Side Holy Wings~
Je l'aime
Encore
Deus ex Machina
It felt a bit special for me this time because the live was held at Shibuya WWW, and that's where I saw them the first time in 2011.
I sort of forgot time...and my localtrain was going so slow it took me forever to get to Meidaimae (where I transfer to a train going to Shibuya), and on my way I tried figuering out why it felt like I left something at home, I later realised it was my earplugs! So on top of being late, I was too scared going deaf I ran into a pharmacy trying to find earplugs (no success). When I arrived at the venue it was about my turn to go in eventhough I had a sort of bad number (161).
Seeing the stage made me feel even more "nostaligic" (if you can be that for an event which happened 3 years ago:P), because the setting was almost the same, with the big cross in the ceiling, the gate by Mana and Hayato and the Moi Dix Mois logo in the back.
As always I feel a bit annoyed at the fans who keep space infront of them in which 2 people could stand, but fortunatley my friend agreed so when the lights were turned off and the band was about to enter, we pushed like there was no tomorrow.
As the members entered I was really excited to see Ryux, especially the rest of his outfit, but from where I was standing and with tall people in high heels, I was happy if I could see Mana's upperbody (I did see all the members heads though :P)
Nothing new when it comes to the outfits of the other members, just the same as for the release of Reprise. To be honest I was highly disapointed in what we could see of Ryux outfit in Mana's blogentry, and I was even more dispointed at the rest XD I'm sorry but I can't see how his clothes fit the rest of the members... His hair reminded me highly about Rikku in Final Fantasy X-2, with the headband and long braids. I didn't get a good look at his bottompart, but it looked very simple, and the model of his top looked like a t-shirt (just in another kind of fabric and details), so I hope they release something so they get some new outfits XD
As the times before, I think Moi Dix Mois music is awesome live. They might not add anything special to the songs, but they're just so great when played live! I was really happy over the great setlist aswell, I never thought I'd hear Vizard live! I prefer the songs like Night Breed, Neo Pessimiste etc, over the slower ones like Solitude, especially live, since Mana's so..."shy" I think he performs best during these songs. The reason I wrote "shy", is because eventhough I'm pretty sure he really is shy, I have to say he comes across as unengaged sometimes during lives. Like when Seth is talking and you can see Mana just looking down the floor or doing stuff with his guitar, and then all of a sudden he's back to sign language and whispering. The more I've seen him live the more I feel like I'd so pick him if I got to chose 1 bandman to talk to XD I really want to know whats behind all that. It's not that easy to read his face, sometimes I'm not even sure if he really enjoys it to be honest. I hope he does though, and I think he does, he probably would've quit by now otherwise.
During the first MC Mana wanted us to call Mana-chan and Mana-kun, then he told Seth it made him remember schooltimes.
During this night Mana came pretty close to us in the audience, and I saw how many people reached for his guitar, which I felt was kind of weird since he was playing and it was obviously distracting, at least since some grabbed for it. I tried my best to get one of his guitarpicks, but I failed... Once I even felt it on my chest, but it fell on the floor and eventhough I sat down trying to find it, it was too dark and I felt a lot of platformshoes...and I didn't feel like loosing my hand trying to find the guitarpick, and on top of that I wasn't the only one who dived down, when I wanted to get up again it was almost impossible since I then had the ass from the girl infront of me covering my way up since she bended down looking for the pick:P
I'm glad Hayato now always gets to take part of the MC! He joined in during Immortal Madness. When I saw them in 2011 he did not talk during the whole evening, but since he did during the live in October I'm guessing its something which has changed with the years (?).
Also, his hair was a bit different, he was now shaved on the sides (not completly but the hair was reallyreally short). Maybe he have had it like this for longer...I don't know since photos are rarely posted of him :P
Mana went and got a Jack Daniel's, and I was pretty sure he'd drink from it, but NO, he made poor Seth do it instead....twice! after the second sip you could see Seth wasnt that amused by it XD
For the encore the band got back on stage with partly new outfits. Mana in his Mötley Crue t-shirt, Hayato also had some old bandshirt, don't know which but it was black with some greenstuff (XD), Sugiya had a black leather jacket and Seth came back in pants and a huge fur. Not because of perverted fangirlness, but I was a bit glad that Seth was halfnaked because I wanted to see his tattoos. I don't know how old he is, but I'm guessing around the same age as Mana, have to give him creds for looking very youthful. In general Seth looked very nice, I felt as if he didn't have that much make up, slightly red eyeshadow, and he looked very beautiful.
They played a cover (I'm guessing something by Mötley Crue?) and unfortunatley Seth's vocals wasn't the best, probably because it was an english lyrics, it wasn't that his voice sounded bad, but like many japanese singers the words start to melt togheter after a while. Like most already know, Mana was playing drums for this and Hayato did the guitar. After the song Mana threw out his drumsticks to the audience and I acctually grabbed one by the edge, but people went crazy and I realised I wouldn't have a chance...
The second and the last song for the encore was Deus ex Machina! I really like this so I'm glad that's one of the songs they seem to play every time. This evening balloons were thrown out. Mana stood kind of close to us in the audience and people for some reason threw te balloons back at him so for a while he stoped playing and just kept throwing them back. Not sure with his stoneface but I think he looked kind of amused (XD)
Then when the song ended, he all of a sudden turned his back against us, removed his guitar and just leaned back, and here's the weird part, I stood kind of close but all of a sudden people sort of pushed some of us away. and I have no idea if it was people from the middle just attacking to get a touch of Mana, or if people backed XD (normally you're supposed to take the person who stagedives, not go away XD), so some staff came and helped Mana up again. Then Mana went to the other side of the stage and touched peoples hands, and again, since people saw him coming back they got a bit violent, for a while it looked like people really grabbed his hands and arms and didn't seem to want to let go. I took my chance too, but gently. Then it was about to wrap things up, Mana was sitting in a corner throwing back balloons again, and Hayato grabbed a balloon and hit it with his drumsticks, and I was lucky enough to catch it! Finally the bandmembers all grabbed eachothers hands and then they jumped, said goodbye and left the stage.
I had a lot fun, and I do feel a bit sad that this was my last Moi Dix Mois live at least for now. I would've loved to go to Mana's birthday live....but I'll cherish the memories I have from these two lives I've been able to attend!
The setlist is stolen from Twitter, I did not remember the order! So thanks to the japanese fan who posted this!
Setlist
The Pact of Silence
In Paradisum
The Seventh Veil
Diabolos et Angeli
Night Breed
Twilight Flower
Methaphysical
The Sect
MC
Beast Side
Vizard
Pendelum
Solitude
Neo Pessimiste
MC
Immortal Madness
Dead Scape
Ange ~D Side Holy Wings~
Je l'aime
Encore
Deus ex Machina
fredag 5 december 2014
Yokohama
Eventhough I've been to Tokyo 2 times before, and I've planned it several times, I've never been to Yokohama.
Yokohama counts as Japan's 2nd biggest city (eventhough it's in the Tokyo area), to be honest I've never really understood that...
Anyway, one of my teachers live there and she randomly handed out Yokohama maps one day saying we should all visit it someday. I planned to go a month ago but other things got in the way, but this weekend I finally dragged my ass to Yokohama!
It was a bit of a bother to get there, I first took my local train to Meidaimae, there change to the train to Shibuya, got off at Shibuya and on the Tokyu Toyoko line. In total it took me 1½ to get there (including the time I had to wait for another train to Yokohama since I accidently went on the local train, realised, went off but then missed the express:P).
Anyway, Yokohama is a big area, so seeing it all seems impossible in 1 day, so I kept to the left part of town. Starting off with going to Closet Child! *yay*
I'm always hoping to find some rare stuff, like demo tapes etc, and I never do... (Everyone assumes just because it's Japan the tapes are everywhere, or really old and rare cd's etc, they're not. Best way to find that is on aucton or to find some other ex-fan who has it and is willing to sell it).
But I did search every corner of the store and came out with some stuff from their sales.
The main attraction for this evening was sort of to see the illumination at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, so we took the train to Bashamichi Station, and then walked up to Minato Mirai, Shinko Area. I have to say I wasn't that impressed by Yokohama at the station, looked like most other places in Tokyo, but this little "island" was completly amazing! It reminded me a lot about Odaiba, which I love, so I got really excited.
Yokohama Cosmoworld is placed on the edge of Shinko Area and the Ferris wheel, Cosmo Clock21, can be seen all over since it's so big! (about 100m) I've been up the ferris wheel on Odaiba so I had to get up this one too *_* I love seeing Tokyo from high up, it looks so pretty with all the lights and tall buildings. We got the red cart, so we named it The Közi-wagon (yeah, when fandom's taken over completly and I see Közi in everything red) XD
It was completly worth the 800yen, it was so cool to see Yokohama from above.
This amusementpark had some attractions and any games, I don't really know what this was but I have to share pictures because it looked so funny.
Yokohama counts as Japan's 2nd biggest city (eventhough it's in the Tokyo area), to be honest I've never really understood that...
Anyway, one of my teachers live there and she randomly handed out Yokohama maps one day saying we should all visit it someday. I planned to go a month ago but other things got in the way, but this weekend I finally dragged my ass to Yokohama!
It was a bit of a bother to get there, I first took my local train to Meidaimae, there change to the train to Shibuya, got off at Shibuya and on the Tokyu Toyoko line. In total it took me 1½ to get there (including the time I had to wait for another train to Yokohama since I accidently went on the local train, realised, went off but then missed the express:P).
Anyway, Yokohama is a big area, so seeing it all seems impossible in 1 day, so I kept to the left part of town. Starting off with going to Closet Child! *yay*
I'm always hoping to find some rare stuff, like demo tapes etc, and I never do... (Everyone assumes just because it's Japan the tapes are everywhere, or really old and rare cd's etc, they're not. Best way to find that is on aucton or to find some other ex-fan who has it and is willing to sell it).
But I did search every corner of the store and came out with some stuff from their sales.
The main attraction for this evening was sort of to see the illumination at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, so we took the train to Bashamichi Station, and then walked up to Minato Mirai, Shinko Area. I have to say I wasn't that impressed by Yokohama at the station, looked like most other places in Tokyo, but this little "island" was completly amazing! It reminded me a lot about Odaiba, which I love, so I got really excited.
Yokohama Cosmoworld is placed on the edge of Shinko Area and the Ferris wheel, Cosmo Clock21, can be seen all over since it's so big! (about 100m) I've been up the ferris wheel on Odaiba so I had to get up this one too *_* I love seeing Tokyo from high up, it looks so pretty with all the lights and tall buildings. We got the red cart, so we named it The Közi-wagon (yeah, when fandom's taken over completly and I see Közi in everything red) XD
It was completly worth the 800yen, it was so cool to see Yokohama from above.
This amusementpark had some attractions and any games, I don't really know what this was but I have to share pictures because it looked so funny.
It seems to be some sort of game inside, but the wall (left picture) made me so think about Mana's webpage! The guy standing at te front looked highly amused by the fact that we got so excited...I'm guessing most who show up here are boys in the age between 12-16?...
Anyway, to the mainthing, the illumination.
I didn't really know what it would be, but it was acctually a christmas market! I was very suprised because at a first glimpse it really looked like the European markets you can find in Berlin etc. But the further you went the more japanese:ness would be found.
Like the christmastree, with bells under which people went up to and rang (just like a temple), and the food. People ate frenchfried and pizza... they also had cocktails....made from Bacardi XD
Then when I finally thought the christmas spirit acctually felt kind of nice and cozy, we found a very mal placé santa....with a very short skirt and lowcut blouse on the end of one of the houses XD
Overall it felt nice to see a bit of christmas, all the lights looked so pretty, and we had a good laugh at the japanese christmas ^^
Finally, I found this guy standing there.... Remember him from a Ma Chérie?... Közi...??? (XD)