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9/23-4 Osaka Con notes.
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Sep 25, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Rough notes.
editing/adding...
Arashi tension MUCH higher on Day 2 vs Day 1. Nino waving much harder on Day 2. Ohchan smilling more on Day 2. Sho hyper on Day 2.On Arashi hairstyle
- Sho new hair style. His hair is much shorter. It's very fresh. He looks younger. Bangs are parted in the middle.
- Jun took off his extensions.
- Aiba still has his perm. His hair was very messy. He tied half of it into a bun for the first encore on Day 1.
Fight Song
- Only one person went up in the air. But really really high. The rest of them sang on the ground.
- Day 1: Shochan lost. Poor Sho! His hands got numb afterwards because he held on too tightly.
- Day
2: Ohchan lost. Nino took Ohno's pants off! The others helped pull it
down as Ohno got pulled up. He was bouncing up and down with his jeans
down on his ankles. He's wearing black short tights and a black
supporter on his left knee (T_T...I hope his knee isn't hurting too
much.. with all that hard core dancing, I wasn't suprised to see the
surporter) Anyway, it was embarassing seeing Ohno bounce up and down in
this manner! Nino helped put Ohchan's jeans back on after he was done.
Could not stop laughing for this whole song. Ohchan seemed like he was
having lots of fun, although he looked like he was sitting on an
imaginary toilet.
- They sang the song properly this time! only one in the air, determined by jyanken.
- Everybody zenshin - pants are shiny blue.
- No
pink suit, instead white semi shiny suit. Ohno, Sho, Jun have red
tie/ribbons. Aiba and Nino have white flower made out of feathers on
their chest.
- New costumes for all solos
- Day 1: aiba-chan orange shirt
- Day 2: aiba-chan bright green shirt
- Ohno, shiny suit.
- Jun, new outfit. All shiny. Day 1: shiny hat. Day 2: bright pink hat.
- Sho, shiny suit, same scarf.
- Nino, same outfit for solo.
- A.ra.shi - extremely shiny outfits. Too bright that they are hard to stare at for a long time.
- No previous A.ra.shi/Sakura sake costume
- New white outfit for Oh Yeah!
Oshikko Ouji
- Aiba was stranded in Nagoya when flying from Kumamoto to Haneda because of the Typhoon. He thought he had arrived in Haneda (was sleeping the entire time on the plane), and was suprised to find out that he had arrived at Nagoya. The plane could not fly any further because of the Typhoon. Aiba was worried because he had music station live the following day. Ohno had heard that Aiba might not be able to make it to the performance. Aiba called 55 hotels to find a place to stay in Nagoya but they were all fully booked (I'm sure his manager did this), but finally found one that was prepared for 'emergency' situations. He said because he was calling for such a long time, he desperately needed to go to the bathroom and so once he went into the hotel, he asked one of the guardmans where the bathroom was. He replied to Aiba "Shoumen 正面" (right opposite), but Aiba heard 小便 (you need to pee?) and replied yes Shouben, Shouben in a loud voice, but then realized the guardman was saying Shoumen and got really embarassed because there were quite some people around him at that time. Nino teased Aiba a lot with this new nickname of Oshikko Ouji. But Aiba really really doesn't like it and was fighting hard against him. He was like "Please stop it!!! No!!!" Apparently, Aiba really doesn't like the nickname Fumio either.
- Aiba has been pretty busy recently with butai practice. Sounded like he was the busiest one.
- Nino fell when he was dancing with Sho and Aiba. They had a moving stage sandwich this time which I thought was awesome. One stage started to go up and they were moving in the opposite direction. Jun Ohno on the bottom, and Nino Sho Aiba on the top. They also did it for Sakura Sake where Arashi was on top and M.A.D was on the bottom.
- They went to eat yakiniku.
- Jun stayed at the concert hall to watch the video of the whole concert. (For points of improvement for the next day)
- Aiba Ohno Nino Sho started eating without Jun. They finished beer, and were proceeding to hard liquour (Sho-chu etc)
- Once they found out Jun was coming soon, they asked the table to be cleared so that it would look like they were waiting for him and hadn't eated anything or drank anything yet when they were all already drunk.
- Nino asked Ohno whether he went back to his room afterwards and drank again.
- He bent down to touch fans' uchiwas.
- constantly doing peaces.
- did air guitar movements to fans.
- touched some babies.
- Ohchan's new hobby is fishing. He said "FISHING" "FISHING" in English. Nobody caught him at first. Nino: "Oh.. you mean tsuri"
- Ohchan goes fishing at midnight. He will someday get liscence and buy a boat, and take arashi members fishing with him.
- The other day after work, Jun and Ohno were in the same car. Ohno got off at Shibuya to have dinner and go fishing.
- Sho and Nino disappear as Sho sings Nino's CM song. "Hahaha, I overlap with Nino so you couldn't see him at all right!!" Yes.. very true. My nino fan friend natsu wanted to see nino but sho was hiding nino very well.
- Nino always wraps his mic with his towel.
- Jun always last one to get changed.
- Ohno sang V6 "Over" That makes me want to listen to that song.
- Ohno
had to spend 1 man yen to get hold of an old old V6 CD that he really
wanted to listen to. Jun had it but just wouldn't bring it, so Ohno
went out to buy it by himself (probably online. Ohchan goes online a
lot. He reads fan's blogs)
- Sho forgot to make us sit down on Day 1.
- Aiba-chan lead the wave.
- Because the top floor is slower, we did it with a slight starting time difference.
- Arena wave looked awesome.
- Ohchan thought the wave on the stands would go faster than the 2nd floor stands. Baka Aiba talks about pi 3.14....
- Sho and Nino did Otaku dance for both days! really cute!
- Could
tell the venue was flooded with new fans. Because depending on when you
raise your hands = indicates whose fan you are....(in 3)
- All
in a line at the center stage on individual torokkos. Order from
right side of main stage: Nino, Sho, Jun on the moving stage all by
himself (not moving), Aiba, Ohno.
- Both days with glasses.
- Went off tone quite a bit this time. (especially on Day2)
- Suggestion from Sho that Nino could change his costume to a skeleton version because other ppl got new costumes except him. His piano is currently skeleton too. But Nino replied saying that if he became skeleton, he'd be invisible etc.
- Of course everybody screams when he takes his glasses off. But I couldn't stop laughing... Nino trying to act very very cool.
- He made us sing the la la la la la la for both days.
- He made the piano a little easier to play.
- His sweat was pouring like rain and I was wondering whether the piano keyboard had become slippery to play the piece.
- He
went to hug a fan. One specific fan. A chubby Aiba fan who had a large
pink flower on her head, bleached yellow hair and a bright green dress.
He hugged many other fans too. He got 'absorbed' into fans. Jun also
went into the crowd 'i'll let you touch me' nino sho ohno don't do any
of that. Jun also climbed up by the Oyako seats (parent + kid seats)
and stood up on the pole. Staff were all trying to protect Jun from
being knocked off by fans. All of them hopped off the side stages and
ran by the stand seats. Jun tried to enter the wrong door and staff
lead him the right way. Sho also climbed up by the Oyako seats on Day
2. Aiba hugged random fans on Day 2.
- "Still" for Day1. Sho-kun was late for the rap and the tape started before he started singing. Kuchipaku deshita.
- "Sketch"
for Day2 They spent so much on this talk + song that Jun, moved his
chair back and connected his earphone/transmitter to talk with staff
secretly while the others continued to talk. They skipped "Life" and
moved on to "Hero" So they asked us to all stand up after ura-arashi.
- Sho wrote the rap based on the 5 years of Arashi. Nino wrote the lyrics based on what he wanted to see in the future after 5 years as Arashi. It was a song only included in the LEs of 5x5. Thus rare. Not many fans have it.
- song made by arashi.
- Aiba-chan talked about
the time he found out he had a hole in his lungs. He talked with his
parents and Jimusho about it. He seriously thought he would have to
quit Arashi. It reminded me of 24 hr tv when he read his letter and all
or nothing. Sho-kun was very warm to Aiba-chan 'well said'.
- They kissed? lols
- Well they got really close. Light went out at the right moment when nino pulled Ohchans face over to his, so it still remains as a mystery. Their noses were touching at that point. XD Happened on both days.
- Ohno got really embarassed after singing a part of one of his favorite V6 songs. He decided to squat next to Nino during the MC. Their shoulders were touching and they looked really small and cute. Ohchan thought people would laugh more, but people were more impressed with his beautiful voice that he recieved an applause instead! He was sitting with Nino until they moved towards the main stage. Ohno said he suddenly wanted to listen to V6 songs because they are a very big part of his junior days memories. Same goes with other arashi members. Sho and Ohno played the trumpet for one of the performances in the back and Sho knocked out his teeth or something.
- When first forming Arashi, Nino was scared of Sho.
- Ohno
lying on the sofa listening to V6 songs in the gakuya. The CD player is
right next to him, so he hops over hi sofa acrobatically and turns it
off/changes song with just one finger. He says he does it so quietly
that the sound of the button being pressed is louder than him getting
off the sofa. His sofa is located opposite of Aiba's so Aiba sees it
happen. Ohno showed us how he does it. It looked like he was proposing
to a girl.
- Nino always touching Ohno's butt for "Cry for you"
- No masks, veils for Day 2. Aiba on right side of mainstage. Nino on left.
- The fire is very very hot..
- 3 on Day 1. They were hesitant about the third encore. But fans would not go home.
- 4 on Day 2. They came out faster on Day 2 because of ZERO.
- Sho: talks about being open about arashi in a small box, large box ( nuance similiar to that of niigata speech ). Let's make it larger. Day 2 speech had more meaning.
- Nino: speech was very unorganized as usual. He reflected back on "Sketch" and sang a verse because he couldn't remember the lyrics.
- Ohchan: talks about "Space" with fans again.
- Aiba: Your faces are more beautiful than the penlights. LOLs
- followed by Nino saying the same thing
- followed by Jun saying the same thing + show me your beautiful faces, show me your beautiful bodies
- Audience: Ehhhhhhhh???? Jun blushed.
