In the arena there was the pink JAPONESQUE logo on the screens and from time to time kois were swimming over it.
The technique staff also played some funny games like usual with the audience. Picking someone from the audience and giving them orders like "kiss" or "pose like Kuu". Once they showed a guy from the back, saying something like "you seem cool" and then he turned around to wave in the camera and the staff wrote "oh, not so much". So funny!
I was on the screen once as well, but I didn't have anything to do, just sit there, smilling and waving. I'm a foreigner and blonde, what should I say.
(and btw it seemed we were the only foreigner at the whole arena)
Pretty on time the lights turned off. The show started!
Intro JAPONESQUE
A pretty traditional scenery in the same bright colours like the pamphlet on the screens. A golden dragon flying from left to right, up and above, singing some background parts. At the end a red bridge appeared in the middle of the stage.
So Nice
Kuu in the purple kimono (as an Oiran) before the big screen, sitting surrounded by her dancers, smoking a traditonal pipe, don't know how they're called. With Blistahs rap they walk down the bridge to the catwalk, dancers throwing petals. Similar to Best ~ss~ opening.
D.D.D.
Version with traditional japanese instruments, nice!
Kuu's doing mostly handmovements, cause with those high getas there's not much dancing she could have done, lol.
Jounetsu
Kuu alone on stage, singing and walking over the stage (now without bridge).
Great vocals!
Screens are showing japanese scenery the whole section.
Ai wo tomenaide
Kuu standing in the middle, now sorrounded by dancers, and singing.
At the end she takes of the kimono and walks up the stairs to the big screen in a sexy red dress/ negligee.
Sayonara no Mukaugawa
Two of her dancers wrapping two silk tissues around her body and she's lifted up in front of the big screen, showing Edo by night.
The long tissues are waving in the wind. Beautiful!
KO-SO-KO-SO
Starts as a Mr. Blistah rap solo version! Monkey boy, monkey girl - amazing!
With that her dancers look for 4 people from the audience.
Sadly they just took one girl right from the block next to us, haha.
All 4 were tied standing to some red japanese walls, which were moveable.
Kuu wears a short blue lace dress with straight brown hair here.
She's singing to all of them one by one, then one is chosen, driven to the middle and Kuu jumps on her with her legs around her body!!
Moving slightly bit up and down with her as well - you know what I mean, poor girl! :p
Disappearing together.
1. Interlude movie
Starts with a little story telling: Kuu as an Oiran in Edo machi bla bla bla... Then cut, and you see her dancers holding controllers and playing that popular game that looked like Game of Life to me. They start to play that game together.
Didn't get that much, my Japanese is still much, much too limited, but she made kind of fun of herself.
Yeah, comedy again - as we didn't get enough of it since 2009 in every concert tour. -_-
V.I.P.
Basically the same like V.I.P. performances before.
Kuu wears that white dress with coloured gems on her bust the whole section.
Pink Spider
Kuu before the big screen, doing dance moves which are multiplied on the screen.
Pretty hard to describe, but sooo cool!
After that she's moving to the sides, chased by a golden cage.
The golden cage appears on the stage hanging down and Kuu is suddenly trapped in it.
It gets covered with a black blanket and lifted up. You can see her inside on the side screens. And then bang -
cage is empty and Kuu jumps out with firwork on the catwalk!
Gorgeous performance!
Escalate
First PV on the screens, Kuu and her dancers doing the same dance on stage.
The golden dragon appears again, flying through the city burning it.
Slow
Destroyed city on the screens, Kuu singing sorrounded by her dancers.
Omarion on the screen at his part.
Dance part 1
First male dancers , then femal dancers.
Black Cherry - JUICY remix - Hot stuff remix - TABOO
Black Cherry was just dancing, but she sang the JUICY remix!
Hot Stuff was just dancing again and TABOO singing.
Dance Part 2
Individual parts for all dancers and Kuu.
Kuu was on fire!
Seriously I seldom saw such powerful and wide moves from her!
At the end everybody dancing together.
The whole dance section has great instrumentals with sick beats!
2. Interlude movie
Playing that game.
UG as a giant transvestite and Kuu being at another part of the game.
Alone
Whole ballad part with that light blue layered dress (the one MissElin and Lee^chan don't like, haha).
Walking and singing, waving to the fans and lots of smiling.
From this point on the rest of the concert is with a live band! Yes!
Koishikute
Same as above, not much to say.
darling (acoustic version)
Kuu sittin on a chair in between the live band.
I love this version as much as the original song!
Ai no Uta (short version)
Just the first chorus and the last extended highlight part.
singing, walking and waving at the fans again.
Brave
Same here.
I actually can't remember the screens for the ballad section except IN THE AIR.
Well, there wasn't much going on anyway.
Koyoi no tsuki no you ni
Also the same here.
Kuu was so happy all the time and it was funny to watch the audience going crazy everytime she walked to certain blocks and waving.
:
IN THE AIR
Clouds on the screen on a blue sky.
Kuu waving and smiling like mad at the audience, lol.
3. Interlude movie
Monster UG in an evil mode.
Starting to eat the game platform.
Boom Boom Boys
Kuu in that golden (?) blouse with shorts and loooong straight ponytail.
My favourite outfit!
The Oh-Oh-Oh and Boom Boom Boys parts are requested to be sung by the audience.
Sooo much fun!
Bling Bling Bling (rock version)
Same as a-nation. Energetic dance.
And at the end a drum set appears on the catwalk.
Kuu drum solo!!!
And...
No man's land
...it flows right into No man's land.
Kuu keeps being at the drums, playing them here and there and especially at the end again.
You don't know how cool that is!
Outside Fishbowl - FREAKY - Selfish - Love Me Back (new version)
In between when the songs are changing, her love band members have individual parts with their names being displayed on the screen.
With Love Me Back she has some kind of jazzy Night Club arrangement with a chair dance.
Be My Baby
Me and my friends don't agree about if it were the normal or a rockier version of the song.
Actually it could just sound different because of the live band.
In between Kuu did a laser light dance at the end of the catwalk, green and purple lasers.
hard to describe again, you have to watch for yourself.
But it looked amazing!
Poppin' love cocktail
Towel dancing!
So much fun!
Encore
Audience singing anytime.
But we hadn't a long wait.
Lady Go! - Cutie Honey - Lovely
Kuu on the truck, riding trough the arena, wearing black/white leggins, the big black tour shirt shoulderless and a neon coloured scraf around her hair. Her hair is crimped.
Kuu was just about 1-2 meters away. Oh my god! She's so small, but so passionate!
Clapping hands with her dancers, UG even twice, cause he was astonished and obviously happy to see some foreigners, so great.
Shake Hip!
Dance like in the PV.
On the screen there were photos of the fans in the Kumi doll boxes from the PV which where somehwere outside the venue.
All for you
Finally, finallly, a good version of this song (with live band)!
Can't wait to have a rip to replace the crappy recording on the album.
walk ~to the future~
Her staple concert ender.
At the end Kuu made some acrobatics on a red holahoop.
Bubbles on the screens.
To be continued.
As I said I'm still so hyped about the concert and Kuu!
First time I saw her live and she was so powerful!
I really hope she will be like that for the DVD recording.
Overall rock section was the best.
Ballad section the weakest, cause it was just so bland compared to the great upbeat rest. Her voice was great though.
I'm also disappointed about the comedy interludes - again comedy, I'm a bit sick of it, though it is part of Kuu.
I'm standing saying she would be a comedian if she haven't become a singer.
Would love a more serious theme for her tours again. Last one was Kingdom.
Personally I don't miss the cute section, although I'd have loved to see Love Technique.
Other than that I'm in heaven!
So much upbeat, dancing and effects! Plus that powerful, happy Kuu!
Would love to see it a second time live...