What I remember from THSK's con
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annneonetSo this post will be public for now... we'll see if it stays that way as this is not the most fangirl-y account. The guys sing well, but that's a given at this point.
We went at around 9 to line up for goods and the line was already long. It was rather annoying and irritating and Marisa wasn't happy about the TD pamphlet after she bought it. >.>; But at least she liked the poster she bought!
Anyway, the fans were very normal looking compared to KAT-TUN's concert (and I'm sure any other JE one)... no cosplayers, a couple gothic lolita but very very few, a lot more older people... and I think this con was disorganized or SOMETHING because there was a friggin mob to get into the dome at 5~5:30pm. =____= (and the sales of the goods did not start right at 10am either) Either that or the fans just decided to mob the place... Idk because KT's con didn't have a mob on the 15th and we arrived around 1h-30min before it began too. There were a feeeew people in the subway with a sign asking for tickets today.
We got into the dome and went to our seats... Marisa was sad that the THSK fans didn't stand up to let us through to our seats while the KT fans did on the 15th for her lol.
Sooo the only thing that connected them to their theme was their beginning intro thingy. Nothing else as far as I can tell connected the con to "The Secret Code"... I mean, they had weird/random clips... but not quite fitting?
Ok, now let me complain about how SMALL everything was. Even when we got to our seats we were kinda like x.x;; because their stage was so small. I saw pics of their arena tour setup so I think they just lugged the extended stage to the dome. ._.; They also had this small rectangle backstageit was small so I wasn't even sure if it was one in the beginning LOL. The screens were annoyingly small too. They were all blurry on the side screens from the back and I was wondering why they didn't have lyrics or anything, but when they showed lyrics for a few songs I realized that it wouldn't matter in the end because it was impossible to read from back where we were. .____. So I guess their side screens were maybe 2/3 the size from BtR? They had a couple useless small screens randomly placed... There was a middle screen but there were lights behind it so sometimes the lights would shine while the images were up and yeah... but most of the time the middle one just showed random bg images.
See, we ended up comparing everything from the very beginning so we were like "lol I wish we went to this one first".
Let me see if I remember anything from the songs. copy and pasting the set list that came up lol...
1.Secret Game
Intro song right. Yeah, they came up and Idek. They just performed on the main stage.
2.Share The World
I forgot the name of the song so I had to ask Marisa while they were singing. LOL
3.どうして君を好きになってしまったんだろう？
I was glad to hear this song~ Obviously not much to comment on because they stood there.
4.Take Your Hands
Idek what this song sounds like.
5.Stand Up!
I don't remember this one either.
6.9095
Their awkward mic stand dancing song... which they did on the main stage too. That's all I remember.
I think it was here where there was some random movie clip of them having these energy balls/swords and w/e... I was just like "wth is this cheesy thing"
7.FORCE
I actually like this song kinda. The background was kinda weird... some devil-monster looking thing and creepy red hands and stuff.
8.Purple Line
I like Purple Line too and so did the crowd apparently because they screamed when they heard the song start. The lights turned purple for a bit but then yeah.
9.呪文-MIROTIC
I like this one too although it's awkward listening to it in Japanese...
10.Heart,Mind and Soul
I like their older songs, really. They stood there and sang.
They talked a bit in the middle here. About something. Tbh their talks in general weren't all that interesting and the only jokes Su said were the lame ones he's been saying on TV. (and people complain about KAT-TUN's MC corner LOL)
11.忘れないで
Stood there and sang. I like the song though.
Some random backstage type stuff and I think everyone was confused to what it was and we all sat down lol. Then the words solo came up and every screamed and stood back up. They showed all of the guys practicing for their solo so we kinda had an idea of what each of them would be doing (Su - dance perf, Ho - dance perf, JaeChun - duet, Min - singing)
12. Xiahtic (Su）
Another thing, the cameraman is friggin perverted or something. It keeps focusing on the guys' lower part so quite a few of their performances seemed slutty. ._. So this is the song where the only thing Marisa remembers is the girl's legs LOL. The tune is nice though... can't say anything about the lyrics since Idek what the heck he was singing. When Su touched the girl/danced with her in slutty ways the crowd was screaming like crazy and I thought my ears would break.
13.COLORS (Chun+Jae）
After Su's solo the words "この日のために作りました (We made it for this day)" came up and everyone went crazy. So yeah, the duet song was created by the two guys and it was really pretty. But another stood there and sang perf.
14.Checkmate （Ho）
Another dance with girls but his screams weren't as crazy as Su's. Although the kissing thing at the end made everyone scream.
15.Wild Soul （Min）
No offense to Min, but this is the song that made me realize a while back that his voice alone is kinda @-@ on its own. Or at least for songs like this... it's too sharp and with his sharp voice I thought my ears were going to die. He was holding a lazor at some point and he shined it around randomly which made people scream.
So this is where that girlfriend breaking up scene was I think... it was random and I was wondering why the guys met up and walked together at the end. O-o
16.Begin
So, a nice song and Chun played the piano.
17.Nobody Knows
I don't remember a thing.
18.TAXI
Oh, this must be the long song that I thought would never end.
19.Forever Love
I like Forever Love, they stood there and sang so I just kinda half zoned out and swayed with the song. Kinda long though...
20."O"-正・反・合
I like O... I like their SMP songs and so do the Japanese fans I think because they screamed at the beginning of every one. Especially this one I think. Still awkward in Japanese.
21.Choosey Lover
The guys walked right out of Kanjani8's wardrobe. The background cube stuff was rainbow too. Oh btw, the background seemed kinda cheap. Or at least the side ones... well, and the middle ones tbh. The side ones for like 70%+ (because I can't remember if it ever changed) were just scrolling colored cubes. Yeah.
22.Sky
Can't remember much. But the song's pretty nice now that their accents aren't too horrid
23.Somebody To Love
The fans seemed to like this song too.
24.Summer Dream
They did some cute things at the end or something. Like I said, it's near impossible to clearly see the screen.
25.Survivor
Marisa and I were both like "Survivor -.-" and sat down. LOL
There was some odd random clips of old songs shown and the fans sang along to the short clips and it stopped at The Way U Are
26.The Way U Are
I like the song. Oh right, there was a chant in the beginning kinda like the Korean song and they chanted the members' names too in the beginning after their solo lines like the Korean ver.
27. We Are!
This song can go DIAF. All I remember is that the guys got on the trolly and the fans wouldn't stop screaming. I thought my ears were going to break and they were just like KYAAAAA *reaches out/waves/spazz* Oh, I think they were chucking something at the audience but Idk what. It seemed to be mostly at the fans who were sitting close by to them.
28.Break up the Shell
They performed it on the puny backstage.
29.Stand By U
They stood and sang on the backstage.
30.Kiss The Baby Sky
This song can go DIAF too. It was ok in the beginning until it got to ~Sky and then I started getting a headache. MY HEAD HURT. SO MUCH. I couldn't even distinguish the guys' voice and you could barely even hear them because it was all falsetto. I was so glad when the guys asked the fans to sing it instead but then they joined in again and the headache came back. Anyway, the guys rode on the trolly stuff to go back to the stage and people spazzed again.
31.Bolero
They stood and sang. I like the song.
It ended and people kiiiinda cheered for an encore. Like, it was difficult to figure out what they were cheering because 1/3 of the people were just cheering who knows what, 1/3 were saying Tohoshinki, 1/3 were saying encore so it just sounded like fa;wlsefjai. lol But I think the guys were expecting it because the lights never came on.
32.Love in the Ice
I was like YAY. What can I say, I like this song. They stood and sang.
Then they had some ending credits and it was fitting... since it just felt like we watched a movie or something, not a concert.
Oh, the crowd was like "EEEH WUT" when the announcer said that they'd be letting out the premium seats first. LOL
Random things + stuff that I can't remember where it went:
- At some point Marisa started eating her bread (she actually sat down more than I did) and she gave some to me. The red reaaally made us hungry.
- At some song that Idk the silver streamer things fell down
- There were some of those sparkler/firecracker type things going on but they didn't add to the stage. They only gave me a heart attack every time it went off. =___= It makes this like "BOOM" noise and I was like "A;KSDF x.X" each time.
- Another stage problem, their white lights were BLINDING. There were a couple times where I couldn't look at the stage because the white lights hurt my eyes. At some point the white spotlights that shined on the guys reflected from the stage and blinded my eyes too.
- Marisa's random comment the moment the con started and the place turned red "You know, the red reminds me of communism o.o" LOL
- The guys talked at some point... said the whole Tokyo Dome blahblahblah thing. No long heartwarming speech or anything though.
- JaeHo's voices sound really squeaky in the dome at times. LOL Reminded me of how squeaky Kame/Junno's voice got. Especially during Purple Line
- It was kinda funny how into it the older ladies were... but the two girls in front of us seemedvery rather bored since they sat down more than 1/2 the time. According to Marisa, the people behind us were just sitting down too.
- The sticklight really irrtated my hand after a little while because the batteries/light is way at the bottom where you hold it.
- They had some dancer intro type thing somewhere.
I don't blame the guys, I mean, I like the ballds (and some perfs) and they're very talented, but Avex could have done SOMETHING to make things more interesting? I can only stand and watch the guys sing for so long... I ended up just staring into the crowd randomly half zoning-out through most of their ballads and some perfs because there really wasn't much to see. The red made me hungry. :< Marisa and I had to go buy ice cream + food after the concert because of all the red. Well, at least the food cheered her up a bit. >.<
It might be because Marisa and I are both rather visual people... she wants to go into graphic design, I've taken art for quite a while... so it isn't just the guys' performances we needed. The first day of BtR, as much as I love KAT-TUN, it was the stunning stage visuals and effects that really wow'ed me (the 2nd day it was the guys I spazzed at lol). When THSK's backgrounds looked like macbook screensavers according to Marisa, and some of them looked like something you would see on windows media player... it just wasn't very satisfying. I wasn't even asking for anything like BtR because I was aware of the budget (and company) differences, but I wasn't expecting this little either.
Especially because we were in the back + I don't like bothering with the binoculars (I gave them to Marisa) and I just watched the concert as a whole... yeah. If you remember, my fan report on the Btr con (6/14 one), I mainly commented about the con as a whole, not the guys. It just felt like there could be a lot more. The stage itself was very boring and unsatisfactoryand small as heck. Marisa wants to hunt down the designer. LOL Well, I'm sure that Avex is happy with all the money they earned while putting in minimal anything. The Tokyo Dome con pamphlet is stapled together. pfft
But I have to say that the experience after the con was a first. LOL We ranted and ranted and felt hungry like never before. We have deemed this con as "the con that makes you hungry"~! There wasn't much after-concert excitement unlike before, but we ended up ranting and staying up late (for BtR I just came home, wrote the mini-report, then fell asleep). So at least that let us catch CDTV for once. =3= Then we ranted some more before going to sleep.
I think that this con would've been pretty nice in an arena, but it doesn't feel fit for a dome, at all. Might as well add a couple more arena stages next time instead of a dome since now they've performed in TD and all.
Another thing was Imho, the con was rather choppy. The songlist just didn't flow very well. >.>; But maybe non-Johnny's concerts are supposed to be choppy so Idk.
Btw, this can't be just because I've become a ridiculously huge KAT-TUN fan during my stay in Japan, because Marisa's a ridiculously huge DBSK/Su fan. =3= I think she spazzed more at seeing them on TV after the concert than in the concert itself now that I think about it. LOL
/edit/ I forgot, two people (?) from Zoom-In were there... they were reflected during Ktbs quite a few times and they had uchiwa that said Zoom In lol... I thoooought I saw another one with "shite" after it but I'm not sure since the screen was small. =.=
We went at around 9 to line up for goods and the line was already long. It was rather annoying and irritating and Marisa wasn't happy about the TD pamphlet after she bought it. >.>; But at least she liked the poster she bought!
Anyway, the fans were very normal looking compared to KAT-TUN's concert (and I'm sure any other JE one)... no cosplayers, a couple gothic lolita but very very few, a lot more older people... and I think this con was disorganized or SOMETHING because there was a friggin mob to get into the dome at 5~5:30pm. =____= (and the sales of the goods did not start right at 10am either) Either that or the fans just decided to mob the place... Idk because KT's con didn't have a mob on the 15th and we arrived around 1h-30min before it began too. There were a feeeew people in the subway with a sign asking for tickets today.
We got into the dome and went to our seats... Marisa was sad that the THSK fans didn't stand up to let us through to our seats while the KT fans did on the 15th for her lol.
Sooo the only thing that connected them to their theme was their beginning intro thingy. Nothing else as far as I can tell connected the con to "The Secret Code"... I mean, they had weird/random clips... but not quite fitting?
Ok, now let me complain about how SMALL everything was. Even when we got to our seats we were kinda like x.x;; because their stage was so small. I saw pics of their arena tour setup so I think they just lugged the extended stage to the dome. ._.; They also had this small rectangle backstage
See, we ended up comparing everything from the very beginning so we were like "lol I wish we went to this one first".
Let me see if I remember anything from the songs. copy and pasting the set list that came up lol...
1.Secret Game
Intro song right. Yeah, they came up and Idek. They just performed on the main stage.
2.Share The World
I forgot the name of the song so I had to ask Marisa while they were singing. LOL
3.どうして君を好きになってしまったんだろう？
I was glad to hear this song~ Obviously not much to comment on because they stood there.
4.Take Your Hands
Idek what this song sounds like.
5.Stand Up!
I don't remember this one either.
6.9095
Their awkward mic stand dancing song... which they did on the main stage too. That's all I remember.
I think it was here where there was some random movie clip of them having these energy balls/swords and w/e... I was just like "wth is this cheesy thing"
7.FORCE
I actually like this song kinda. The background was kinda weird... some devil-monster looking thing and creepy red hands and stuff.
8.Purple Line
I like Purple Line too and so did the crowd apparently because they screamed when they heard the song start. The lights turned purple for a bit but then yeah.
9.呪文-MIROTIC
I like this one too although it's awkward listening to it in Japanese...
10.Heart,Mind and Soul
I like their older songs, really. They stood there and sang.
They talked a bit in the middle here. About something. Tbh their talks in general weren't all that interesting and the only jokes Su said were the lame ones he's been saying on TV. (and people complain about KAT-TUN's MC corner LOL)
11.忘れないで
Stood there and sang. I like the song though.
Some random backstage type stuff and I think everyone was confused to what it was and we all sat down lol. Then the words solo came up and every screamed and stood back up. They showed all of the guys practicing for their solo so we kinda had an idea of what each of them would be doing (Su - dance perf, Ho - dance perf, JaeChun - duet, Min - singing)
12. Xiahtic (Su）
Another thing, the cameraman is friggin perverted or something. It keeps focusing on the guys' lower part so quite a few of their performances seemed slutty. ._. So this is the song where the only thing Marisa remembers is the girl's legs LOL. The tune is nice though... can't say anything about the lyrics since Idek what the heck he was singing. When Su touched the girl/danced with her in slutty ways the crowd was screaming like crazy and I thought my ears would break.
13.COLORS (Chun+Jae）
After Su's solo the words "この日のために作りました (We made it for this day)" came up and everyone went crazy. So yeah, the duet song was created by the two guys and it was really pretty. But another stood there and sang perf.
14.Checkmate （Ho）
Another dance with girls but his screams weren't as crazy as Su's. Although the kissing thing at the end made everyone scream.
15.Wild Soul （Min）
No offense to Min, but this is the song that made me realize a while back that his voice alone is kinda @-@ on its own. Or at least for songs like this... it's too sharp and with his sharp voice I thought my ears were going to die. He was holding a lazor at some point and he shined it around randomly which made people scream.
So this is where that girlfriend breaking up scene was I think... it was random and I was wondering why the guys met up and walked together at the end. O-o
16.Begin
So, a nice song and Chun played the piano.
17.Nobody Knows
I don't remember a thing.
18.TAXI
Oh, this must be the long song that I thought would never end.
19.Forever Love
I like Forever Love, they stood there and sang so I just kinda half zoned out and swayed with the song. Kinda long though...
20."O"-正・反・合
I like O... I like their SMP songs and so do the Japanese fans I think because they screamed at the beginning of every one. Especially this one I think. Still awkward in Japanese.
21.Choosey Lover
The guys walked right out of Kanjani8's wardrobe. The background cube stuff was rainbow too. Oh btw, the background seemed kinda cheap. Or at least the side ones... well, and the middle ones tbh. The side ones for like 70%+ (because I can't remember if it ever changed) were just scrolling colored cubes. Yeah.
22.Sky
Can't remember much. But the song's pretty nice now that their accents aren't too horrid
23.Somebody To Love
The fans seemed to like this song too.
24.Summer Dream
They did some cute things at the end or something. Like I said, it's near impossible to clearly see the screen.
25.Survivor
Marisa and I were both like "Survivor -.-" and sat down. LOL
There was some odd random clips of old songs shown and the fans sang along to the short clips and it stopped at The Way U Are
26.The Way U Are
I like the song. Oh right, there was a chant in the beginning kinda like the Korean song and they chanted the members' names too in the beginning after their solo lines like the Korean ver.
27. We Are!
This song can go DIAF. All I remember is that the guys got on the trolly and the fans wouldn't stop screaming. I thought my ears were going to break and they were just like KYAAAAA *reaches out/waves/spazz* Oh, I think they were chucking something at the audience but Idk what. It seemed to be mostly at the fans who were sitting close by to them.
28.Break up the Shell
They performed it on the puny backstage.
29.Stand By U
They stood and sang on the backstage.
30.Kiss The Baby Sky
This song can go DIAF too. It was ok in the beginning until it got to ~Sky and then I started getting a headache. MY HEAD HURT. SO MUCH. I couldn't even distinguish the guys' voice and you could barely even hear them because it was all falsetto. I was so glad when the guys asked the fans to sing it instead but then they joined in again and the headache came back. Anyway, the guys rode on the trolly stuff to go back to the stage and people spazzed again.
31.Bolero
They stood and sang. I like the song.
It ended and people kiiiinda cheered for an encore. Like, it was difficult to figure out what they were cheering because 1/3 of the people were just cheering who knows what, 1/3 were saying Tohoshinki, 1/3 were saying encore so it just sounded like fa;wlsefjai. lol But I think the guys were expecting it because the lights never came on.
32.Love in the Ice
I was like YAY. What can I say, I like this song. They stood and sang.
Then they had some ending credits and it was fitting... since it just felt like we watched a movie or something, not a concert.
Oh, the crowd was like "EEEH WUT" when the announcer said that they'd be letting out the premium seats first. LOL
Random things + stuff that I can't remember where it went:
- At some point Marisa started eating her bread (she actually sat down more than I did) and she gave some to me. The red reaaally made us hungry.
- At some song that Idk the silver streamer things fell down
- There were some of those sparkler/firecracker type things going on but they didn't add to the stage. They only gave me a heart attack every time it went off. =___= It makes this like "BOOM" noise and I was like "A;KSDF x.X" each time.
- Another stage problem, their white lights were BLINDING. There were a couple times where I couldn't look at the stage because the white lights hurt my eyes. At some point the white spotlights that shined on the guys reflected from the stage and blinded my eyes too.
- Marisa's random comment the moment the con started and the place turned red "You know, the red reminds me of communism o.o" LOL
- The guys talked at some point... said the whole Tokyo Dome blahblahblah thing. No long heartwarming speech or anything though.
- JaeHo's voices sound really squeaky in the dome at times. LOL Reminded me of how squeaky Kame/Junno's voice got. Especially during Purple Line
- It was kinda funny how into it the older ladies were... but the two girls in front of us seemed
- The sticklight really irrtated my hand after a little while because the batteries/light is way at the bottom where you hold it.
- They had some dancer intro type thing somewhere.
I don't blame the guys, I mean, I like the ballds (and some perfs) and they're very talented, but Avex could have done SOMETHING to make things more interesting? I can only stand and watch the guys sing for so long... I ended up just staring into the crowd randomly half zoning-out through most of their ballads and some perfs because there really wasn't much to see. The red made me hungry. :< Marisa and I had to go buy ice cream + food after the concert because of all the red. Well, at least the food cheered her up a bit. >.<
It might be because Marisa and I are both rather visual people... she wants to go into graphic design, I've taken art for quite a while... so it isn't just the guys' performances we needed. The first day of BtR, as much as I love KAT-TUN, it was the stunning stage visuals and effects that really wow'ed me (the 2nd day it was the guys I spazzed at lol). When THSK's backgrounds looked like macbook screensavers according to Marisa, and some of them looked like something you would see on windows media player... it just wasn't very satisfying. I wasn't even asking for anything like BtR because I was aware of the budget (and company) differences, but I wasn't expecting this little either.
Especially because we were in the back + I don't like bothering with the binoculars (I gave them to Marisa) and I just watched the concert as a whole... yeah. If you remember, my fan report on the Btr con (6/14 one), I mainly commented about the con as a whole, not the guys. It just felt like there could be a lot more. The stage itself was very boring and unsatisfactory
But I have to say that the experience after the con was a first. LOL We ranted and ranted and felt hungry like never before. We have deemed this con as "the con that makes you hungry"~! There wasn't much after-concert excitement unlike before, but we ended up ranting and staying up late (for BtR I just came home, wrote the mini-report, then fell asleep). So at least that let us catch CDTV for once. =3= Then we ranted some more before going to sleep.
I think that this con would've been pretty nice in an arena, but it doesn't feel fit for a dome, at all. Might as well add a couple more arena stages next time instead of a dome since now they've performed in TD and all.
Another thing was Imho, the con was rather choppy. The songlist just didn't flow very well. >.>; But maybe non-Johnny's concerts are supposed to be choppy so Idk.
Btw, this can't be just because I've become a ridiculously huge KAT-TUN fan during my stay in Japan, because Marisa's a ridiculously huge DBSK/Su fan. =3= I think she spazzed more at seeing them on TV after the concert than in the concert itself now that I think about it. LOL
/edit/ I forgot, two people (?) from Zoom-In were there... they were reflected during Ktbs quite a few times and they had uchiwa that said Zoom In lol... I thoooought I saw another one with "shite" after it but I'm not sure since the screen was small. =.=
