Waterfall & Wings Version 1

[Edited on 1 June: Ahaha, was getting influenced by an apparently not-very-accurate setlist i got from somewhere and got the sequence of some songs wrong! Realised that when talking to Loracyn.. Alamak.. no wonder it got weirder as i write cos i felt something was missing... XDD. Anyway, took out the wrong parts and putting them into Report #2... Hee...)

I bet this is going to be a looooong report cos knowing me, i tend to side-track a lot. Plus, watching all 4 shows sure confused things... but i shall attempt. Wasuretakunai kara sa.

We arrived at Yokohama Arena just 30min before the 1st show is due to start... cos believe it or not, we actually woke up late. Me and Syl slept at like 430am (the sky was already bright!) trying to finish our uchiwa (simple as it might look, but it took us sooo long to cut out the words with our erm.. limited tools). Loracyn slept much much earlier but whacks, the girl refused to get up when the alarm rang. So it was a everyone-tot-that-someone-will-wake-up-but-no-one-did scenario. LOL~ I dunno, this is SUPPOSED to be a holiday but it was soo tiring! We were going so many places everyday, that by the time we returned to our hotel, it was always major bodyache. Then we were always sleeping past 2am.. gahaha. So anyway, we all woke up later than planned, plus the fact that we were staying at about 1hr away from Yokohama doesn't really help. But we did made it in the end, and met Ray and Bee on the first day. Ray was REALLY easy to spot, with that uber red Serenade coat and Takki hairstyle. Actually, there were MANY pple sporting Takki hairstyle. hahah... But she was with this guy who was also wearing a Serenade coat so there you go, how medama can that get? XDDD Wanted to get some concert goods but holy cow, the queue was SOOOOOOOOOOO LONG!!! The staff was gg ard with a loudspeaker saying you wun be in time for the concert if u join the queue now, so for the first concert, i was actually WITHOUT a Takki uchiwa. Is that a sin? But not so bad since i already have a penlight from last time and my self-made uchiwa. There are only so many things i can carry in the concert with 2 hands. LOL~

De, IKU ZO!!!

moe~ Moe~~ MOE~~~

About 5 minutes before each concert was due to start, the Takitsuba will auto-start by itself. LOL~ And T&T are very punctual indeed. They never once delayed the opening. いい子だね。

Takki! *clapclap* Tsubasa! *clapclap* Takki! *clapclap* Tsubasa! *clapclap*~~~

Lights dimmed. EVERYONE stood up and jrs in white hoods appeared on the stage and pranced around with some lite-sabre lookalikes. Then suddenly the opening of Serenade starts to play...

★☆Serenade☆★
T&T finally elevated onto the main stage from beneath a trapdoor, clad in their gloriously red Serenade coats. They look like royalty~ They didn't do the dance at the very very beginning of Serenade but just stood their with their legs opened in a very wide "V"..... uwaa.. KA-KKO-IIIII~~~

The CROWD WENT MAD HERE i tell you... The atmosphere at the arena during the opening was sooooo darn HIGH!!! Everyone was just screaming and yelling for them... Beri FUN!!!

タッキー！！！お久しぶり！！=333
シンガポールから応援しに来てるよぉ～

And Takki , OMG, one year i haven't seen him and he looked even MORE GORGEOUS. The hair was totally KANPEKI!! Shiny, glowing, and falling over his oh-so-pretty face. *dies* It was slightly flatter on the second day and mamamia~ It made him look sooooo yasashiiiii....

And oh, the fireworks was SUPERB. VERY VERY PRECISE. At the very beginning of Serenade, there's this part where they will tap the top of their feet on the ground before doing the circle motion with their hands. So it was like,

ta-ta-ta-ta *BOOM!!!*

They let off this UBER-LOUD fireworks which literally shoke the arena and got everyone WILD. Perfect timing every time! Very impressive!! Thou I think Takki must be very tensed up everytime just before the fireworks go off, cos we all know he's afraid of loud sounds... LOL~ kawaii! *pinch*

They did the entire song on the main stage if I didn't rem wrongly. And on the second day's first show, Takki didn't managed to catch his stick during the throwing part. It fell behind him. He picked it up quickly and bowed to the audience.. didn't catch the look on his face but the crowd was just laughing away. LOL~ Oh, Takki, you dun tink we will be mad at you, would we?? XDD As a result, during the second show that day, everyone was worried if Takki will catch his stick, cos it was the all-last. I think many in the crowd were repeaters like us.. Hahaha~ So anyway, HE DID!!! And there was some applause. Hahah~

I finally get to do the Serenade dance with them!!! Ureshii~ Thou I didn't buy the stick... Gomen ne, Takki... LOL~ But i gotta save for Nov!! However, there were still many many pple who bought the sticks yo. Even the Tsuba fans in front of me. I tink lotsa pple bought the sticks BECAUSE Takki was the one who designed it. So I think it was "good" they revealed that?? Haa~ I still choose to believe Takki is not entirely to blame for that fugly stick... He has lousy drawing we all know.. so maybe he can't put his ideas out on paper properly. And this concert was done in such a rush.. i bet they didn't have time to do a prototype first... XDDD

★☆Love Spiral☆★
Yappari, this is such a fun song to sing at concerts!! T&T finally left the main stage and each took a side. Takki to the right and Tsuba to the left. They began to hype up the audience. (Just that, we are ALREADY hyped up... muahahaha) I think it was somewhere between this song and the next, they got onto the cranes at each side of the arena. Ah oh myyy... cos we were sitting at the upper rows of the arena on Takki's side on the second day, he came really close to us on that crane!! We were waving our uchiwa and penlights like crazy!! Hahaha... i wonder if he saw our uchiwa...

★☆Sora no Screen☆★
One concerty song morphed into the next. We were jumping up and down at Takki's call like crazy fangirls... Hahaha~ I can't rem but were they still wearing their Serenade costumes?? I think Takki and Tsuba switched sides during this song. Actually I can't rem much of what happened during these 2 songs other than plenty of jumping and screaming cos i was too hyped up!! The 2 of them went round the extended walkways before going back to the main stage to change and before you know it...

★☆Kamen☆★
Those gold Serenade pants must have been pull-away pants cos I only saw them slipping on the black blazer before the lights came on again... Uwaaa.. the song that gets me so high everytime!! Yappari, hearing this song LIVE and blasting at MAXIMUM VOLUME is soooo much MORE MOE!!! My heart was thumping to the Kamen beat. Hohoho~
Their creaseproof satin suits were !!! And the dance was executed perfectly! I LOVE the way they spun their way onto the round platform on the main stage as it started rotating and elevating.. gaaah, it's really hard to explain, you gotta see it urself! They played the PV on some of the screens and I had to keep whacking myself not to stare at those!!! MUST LOOK AT THE REAL THING!!! Muahahha... Next up!

★☆We Are The T&T☆★
I wonder which genius wrote this song... or can I call him a genius? Cos the whole song is only made up of 2 lines and name-calling! LOL~ What an easy job... But this is the song where we get all the juicy stuff!!! As well as news of their marriage! Fufufu~ The lyrics to the song is basically something like this...

Mune ni ai ga aru no sa We are the T&T (There's love in our hearts, We are the T&T)
Mune ni ai ga aru no sa We are the T&T
*Tsuba talks about Takki*
Takki! (screams his name about 8 times)
*Takki talks about Tsuba*
Tsubasa! (screams his name about 8 times)
Mune ni ai ga aru no sa We are the T&T
Mune ni ai ga aru no sa We are the T&T
*Tsuba talks about the fans*
You-tachi! (screams about 8 times)
Mune ni ai ga aru no sa We are the T&T
Mune ni ai ga aru no sa Kimi to T&T (There's love in our hearts, You and T&T)
Takki! Tsubasa! You-tachi! (repeats i dunno how many times)

Tsuba says this will be the Takitsuba Family Song. The lyrics are very simple (at least not the neta parts), but it really makes me feel soo much closer to them. Takki had said before many times he wants to close the distance between them and the fans. i think this song really did it... the way they incorporate us into the song, it really makes you feel like part of the family.

And this is the song where all the neta spills. Hahaha~ Tsuba always puts on his MIB sunglasses and pretends to be very serious when he speaks about Takki.

You can see Takki grinning behind his baka aikata. ^^ By now, i think everyone already knows what Takki and Tsuba said about their marriage. We were screaming like mad from Takki's announcement that they will "kekkon shimasu" to Tsubasa's announcement that they have "kekkon shimashita". LOL~ And after Tsuba announced that on the first show on 22nd, Takki blew like multiple flying kisses to him!!! Haaahahah~~ OMG, im sooo glad to be the watching this... There were many other funny neta too. Like Tsuba teasing Takki about the Serenade stick, and Takki teasing him back about his チャック全開. Apparently this whole zipper issue thing became so prominent that it was even mentioned in the news... LMAO~~~

So they intro juicy stuff about each other then Tsuba would represent the unit and intro the fans, which is us. There was one particular show where i think he saw a fan in the centre seats holding an uchiwa of him when he was really young and he said something like...

おいっ！あのうちわが古いぞ。
１３才の時じゃないですか。
俺もう大人になったよ。
新しいのが買ってくれよ！

Oei, that uchiwa is old!
Isn't that when i was 13?
I've already become an adult yo.
Please buy a new one yo!

It was HILARIOUS. I was laughing my ass off. I bet that fan must be elated! Hahaha, lucky girl. Anyway, Tsuba will say something about the fans/audience every show and always end with 愛してるぞ!

Yes, yes, yes! WE LOVE BOTH OF YOU TOO!!! =333

★☆MC Talk 1☆★
After the riot from the previous song, T&T would always kick off this MC Talk with a cheering competition. Takki would be on the left and Tsuba would be on the right and they would do all sorts of baka stunts to get pple on their sides to yell their names. Like pretending to strip, folding up their pants to reveal their legs, wearing their Kamen jackets inside out , stomping on the stage like little brats (that's Takki. LOL~)... This cheering thing got longer and longer with each show until by the last show, i was quite breatheless. *whacks T&T*

Takki would usually be the one to stop the competition by saying they should stop torturing the audience. Haa~ Yes pls, i already lost my voice by the second day yo... Anyway, they talked about many things during this part and among those that i could actually catch and remember...

- Tsuba talked about his upcoming NHK drama, thou the broadcast date is not confirmed yet.
- Takki talked about Yoshitsune. Filming has progressed to Epi 30+ already. There was once he asked the audience what epi was showing on TV now and pple were throwing answers like "18!" "20!" "19!". Takki stomped his foot (again) and was complaining "zenzen mitenai jyan!!?"... Hahaha~ Takki, chanto mitemasu yo!!! One of them then said something like "I didn't know NHK shows dramas in random order..." LMAOOO~~~ Yappari aho.

I was so tempted to yell to him "平泉へ帰れ!" everytime he talks about Yoshitsune. Gaaaah, i just DUNNO how i am gg to handle Takki's first screen death. Ala, digressed again.

- They announced their solo concerts during this part on the 1st show on 22nd. They said how once again, Johnny himself has katteni decided on it just the night before. And they made us thank him. LOL~ But i was TRULY SHOCKED at Takki's announcement. I mean, Tsuba's solo is no shock to me at all... i just KNEW he will do it again this year when he mentioned it the previous day. But Takki!!!!

Tsubasa: It has been decided yo. I will do Tsuba solo con in August.

Audience: Ehhh???? (followed by major cheering... then Tsuba talked a bit more about how this time it will be a proper tour and all...then!!)

Takki: Jitsu wa, I will also be doing a solo concert... in November.

Audience: EHHHHHHHHH??!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? (MAJOR SHOCK!!! Eyeballs popped and bounced around Yoko Arena...)

Takki then said he was as shocked when he heard it from Johnny too. He's like "oh dear, i have no idea what to do at all!"... And he kept asking us if we want to hear his solo concert and we were all like raising our hands yelling "HAAAI!!!!" but at the back of ur heads... 汗. I immed tot of my deflated bank account. OMG, is T&T/Takki pilgrimage going to become a bi-annual event from now on????? x____x GROW, MONEY TREE, GROW!

I dunno how im gg to find the money to finance this trip... gaaah.. but i will be there. I HAVE TO BE!!! It is his first solo!!!! Gaaah, this sakusen needs LOTSA planning.... and saving. GIRLS!! Start your pollen/grass diet if you haven't!!! We'll swim there if we have to!!!

[Edited on 1 June: Jr Corner and Starry Sky has been moved to their rightful places... LOL~ Please find them in Report #2.]

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After the MC Talk, T&T went backstage to change as Jrs pranced around with lite-sabres. They reappeared on each side of the main stage and had their own dance segment (with once again perfectly executed fireworks-on-command effects) before coming together on the main stage to perform the next song.

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★☆Pride☆★
T&T wore silvery white suits to perform this jacket-swishing number. Takki dashed off backstage when the singing part ended, leaving Tsuba to do the finishing dance alone. And i must say he cut quite a svelte figure in that final pose... So tsuba-rashii to stand like that. Fufufu~

Lights dimmed.

★☆Yoshitsune Corner☆★
I THIS PART!!! Contrary to popular belief that it will be weird, it was actually VERY NICE!!! i look forward to it EVERYTIME! They started off by showing scenes from Yoshitsune, beginning with the Ichinotani scene where Takki goes "Katagata... ... ... .... MAIRU!". The Yoshitsune theme would then play in the background as they showed other scenes in mute and finally, the screen would show an empty Gojo Bridge and oh my lordy~~~ Takki would finally emerge on the top deck of the main stage wearing that green Shanaou costume with the red veil over his head. He then flew off and landed oh-so-gracefully on the main stage. This stunt ALWAYS get the audience going "wooooaaahhh~" And oh, my FAVOURITE PART!!!! The part where someone would lift the veil off him and you can finally see his face...

UWAAAAHHH!!!! He looks SOOOOOO GOOD HERE!!!!!!

I mean, he ALWAYS looked good but he was PARTICULARLY STUNNING here!!! Sorry i had to look at the screen to see his expression here but MAMAMIAA!!!!! The way his golden hair frames his face as he "plays" his flute... and he has *that* INTENSE look on his face!! Those arched brows, the icy stare... MOE!!!!! Utterly GORGEOUS!!! *melts* Since when did Yoshitsune become a sex symbol??? LOL~ Those pics you see on auctions and even the shop pictures on this Yoshitsune corner does it no justice at all!!!! Why didn't they have a pic of his face closed up during the unveiling??!??!?!?!??!?!? GAAAHHH!!!!

After the unveiling, Takki would spar with some of the "enemies" before chibi Benkei appeared. You really cannot help but giggle a bit here seeing how small Benkei was. LOL~ But hey, this chibi Benkei got more and more FLEXIBLE and SUGOI with each show... At first, he just ran around as he sparred with Takki. But by the second day, he was already doing backflips and cartwheels as Takki flew over the audience!! I wonder if anyone down below got blessed by his 秀汁... XDDD

Anyway, there was quite a bit of flying and you can see that Takki had trained for it from the way he took off and landed! It was always very graceful~~ Finally, jrs would roll in these big white screens and block Takki from all 4 sides as he changed for his next song. All this time, chibi Benkei would just run round in circles outside... LOL~~ Takki would finally emerged wearing this black jacket (long-sleeved on the left and sleeveless on the right, reminds me of You & I's costume last year) and his armband is now GOLD. Woohoo~~~ He sparred with chibi Benkei one last time and of course, he won. Benkei would then leave the stage as Takki prepares for his next song... Circle!!!!

And this was ONE HELLA HAWT NUMBER!!!!!!! The growling, his husky voice.... *diessss* OH MY GAWD, my FIRST TIME hearing him sing Circle live and he did it sooooo INCREDIBLY HOT!!!! This song DEFINITELY gets a place in my list of "Spontaneous Combusti-able Songs".

I shall save Circle to start off Part 2 of my concert report cos there is no way i can think about this sexy number at this time of the night and still be able to write coherently... ahhahah~ Is anyone banging their head on the wall now? XDDD

Oh my, look how LOOOOOOOONG my report is already!!! And i'm only like one-third thru!! Yabai desu ne...

Dewa, Part 2 gambarimasu kara, tanoshimi ni shite ne!!!