ARENA TOUR 2009 A ~NEXT LEVEL~ setlist and pictures [V]

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by polka-dot-jewel

Thanks for the link!!

Pic #10 is from NEXT LEVEL, and I don't remember that feather boa being on top of the chair, so I think that's a new addition to the past few shows.

Aww, seeing these pics and seeing that this is the final show makes me happy and a bit giddy. She had a great tour, and I know (after seeing the show twice in June, and hearing the recent reports) that this is definitely one of her best tours.

Maybe not her best tour of all times, but surely a pretty solid one I really want the DVD xDD

[Ayu_Ready]

ho yeah I want to see the dvd >.<

[waterballoon]

Thanks Genie, the photos are pretty HQ! She's so cute in EnergizE haha

[ayumisrael]

Thanks for the pics from today's show!

Some outfits looks greater in those photos.

http://www.barks.jp/feature/?id=1000054402&p=8

LOL at shuya's face. XDDD

[maze]

Originally Posted by LacusClyne

pictures from tonight's show.

http://www.barks.jp/feature/?id=1000054402&p=0

thank you ^^
I uploaded all of them in their real size ;D





I always love official pictures
DVD DVD DVD DVD DVD.... pleaseeee!

[AyuGAME]

yay..time to make a set

[waterballoon]

I feel like doing something from the EngergizE pic... and OMG SHU-YA LOOKS FUNKY in the Sparkle one... whoa ho

[Dan.C]

Ok, I got back too from the concert and I must say that the 2nd time is way better than the 1st. One may deem that I've become experimented

Even though this time my ticket was not as good as the first time (for the 21st October performance I got an arena A section ticket, for the 22nd October one an arena C section ticket) the atmosphere was more interesting. Indeed, ayu looked tiny this time and I could only see the details of her face only when she came to the peninsula stage (I don't know what it is called). Of course, we all had the possibility to watch the big screens on the back of the stage but to be sincere, if I wanted to see ayu on a LCD I could have stayed at home.

The crowd around me was more energetic than yesterday, as they screamed, yelled, danced and hummed all show long. I was flanked by a huge number of "screaming" fans, 99% of them being girls... the most popular screams were "Aaaaayuuuu saaaamaaaa" , "Suteki" (lovely, great) and "Dai suki" (love very much). Also Maro got a lot of attention from the girls next to me, one of them nearly bursting her lungs while shouting "Kawaii" in my ears as Maro was on the stage.

Most definitely the best part of today's performance was during rollin' when she forgot the lyrics, right at the beginning, when she does the electro voice. It was very funny as she kept talking at that moment saying something like "I don't know what comes here...". If the last performance in Yoyogi is the one that is on the DVD, I wonder how will they edit it out.

With respect to the setlist, I maintain my opinion that In the corner has nothing to do with the NEXT LEVEL Arena Tour. Other songs that in my opinion were out of the scenery are Sunset (yeah) and Hope or Pain (she could have chosen another sentimental song, like Powder Snow or Moments or etc etc, she has tons of them). Another thing I kind of disliked was the slow-semi-acoustic version of GREEN. I totally love the instrumentals and the rhythm of the original of this song but they decided to make it as an half-ballad half-something else as it was included in the section with HOPE or PAIN and Days. Also I realized why Days has so many lives and GREEN not even one - the Japanese people love very very very much Days.

The public's response was great at evolution (the "wooh -yeaah" part), rollin', UNITE! (the left hand - right hand part), Sparkle (the now classical "no, no, no" part), Boys&Girls (karaokeeeee) and Sunrise (towels in the air time).

The MC was different this time, as they played charades in teams, as MissEllin mentioned. At one moment, the word that had to be guessed by Shu Ya was "Tokyo Tower" and Ayu started to put her hands over her head and tried to look something like a tower. In reality she looked more like a pyramid. In the end Shu Ya didn't guess, and they opted to "pass" this definition. Later on, during the finals while competing against the Enrique&Yo Chan team, every time when Ayu was trying to act out the word, Shu Ya immediately said "Tokyo Tower", as an irony to what happened before.

There was nothing said about the new single during the MC.

Oh yeah, this time Ayu threw more balls (8) and the closest I got to one of them was like 12 meters as Ayu threw them mostly in the A and B sections of the arena.

For the ones who were at the concert today, please confirm that MY ALL was not sung as the ending song and replaced with something else, i don't recall too good.

One important detail that I didn't observe last night and I did now was the fact that at the exit there were many bouquets of flowers, huge ones, in baskets, of all kind of flowers: roses, daisies, tulips (?) etc etc (I don't recognize too many types of flowers....). On the baskets with flowers were ribbons with dedications to Ayu from various persons/institutions : Hitomi, Misono, Fuji TV, Space Shower TV... The total number of baskets of flowers was somewhere near 20-25. As normal, no photo was allowed as I would have liked to take one.

Those being said my Ayu-determined-trip has almost ended and I am preparing now to go back home. I have two more days in Tokyo and for Saturday I don't know what to choose: Tokyo Disneyland (for the child within me) or Tokyo Motor Show, in Chiba (for the dreamy grown up). Either place I will go, I am still hoping on a random meeting with Ayu

[aura~]

jajajaj LOOOL at Shuya's face in the NEXT LEVEL one xDDDDDD

love this pics ^^ ayu looks GREAT and so some of the outfits I disliked before... BUt I still don't like the big white dress -_______-

[Evolution7/4]

Originally Posted by Dan.C

One important detail that I didn't observe last night and I did now was the fact that at the exit there were many bouquets of flowers, huge ones, in baskets, of all kind of flowers: roses, daisies, tulips (?) etc etc (I don't recognize too many types of flowers....). On the baskets with flowers were ribbons with dedications to Ayu from various persons/institutions : Hitomi, Misono, Fuji TV, Space Shower TV... The total number of baskets of flowers was somewhere near 20-25. As normal, no photo was allowed as I would have liked to take one.

hitomi?! Yay!!
I love electronic music, thats why I loved Next Level so much. I have no doubt that this tour is gonna be amazing to watch on DVD.

[miroro]

did ayu say something about the "overseas concerts" during the MC?

[ayumisrael]

misono sent ayu flowers for the end of the tour (probably she went to see it?)? That's so cute. ^^
Thank you for the review!

[polka-dot-jewel]

There's always flowers set out by various artists, TV shows, companies, etc at Ayu's concert (at least, at the Tokyo ones).

MY ALL was NOT sung as the final song?? The Who... instrumental is always played after she walks off the stage, is that what you're referring to?

[Ayumiko]

Misono's old DAT profile page said she's a fan of ayu...plus she's from avex too so that's why she sent flowers?

[JackieRos]

lol at the first pic but her body is banging

[MissElin_]

Nono sha sang MY ALL as the last song of course.

Then I was thinking that maybe they would bring the 21/10 show to the DVD cuz I remember that it was a roof camera for that show but they had put it down for the show on 22/10... But then Stacey noticed that there where more floor cameras on the last one. So maybe they will cut the two days together in some way... I dunno acutally.

No Ayu didnt say anything about new concerts. Before MY ALL started they only had simple yellow/white lights on the stage and Ayu had a little speach where she talked about how fun the time had been with this tour and this was the last show and she really want to thank everyone. It was really pretty. She was crying some in that part too.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

Oh man...just got back from the concert. I have to say, I think overall last year's tour was better, but then again NEXT LEVEL is my least favorite album, so that's not a big surprise.

At the beginning of the show, I was mildly disappointed...she was clearly lipsynching Energize and a few other songs, I think I've kind of reached my limit with the oh-no-I'm-tormented-over-Shuya thing, the fake emotion was too over the top to handle sometimes, and then she was acting kind of...crazy (especially during rollin')...and I thought "What the hell? She's completely jumped the shark. She's lost her freaking mind." Looking back on it I know it was just her having a lot of fun, but not gonna lie-- there was a period of time where I was standing there dumbfounded, wondering what was going through her head.

Thank you for your review. I remember you really liking her tour last year so its nice to see when someone can actually recognize the flaws of something instead of just totally gushing. Hopefully this means that the people who believe she lip synchs won't be so attacked in the future when it has been made so clear in many reports of this tour.

I was planning on seeing the same concert date as you, but unfortunately I had to push my travel date back a week. (now I'll be seeing Morning Musume's tour instead again)

[nanakopy87]

so,she sang MY ALL as a closing song???
did ZIN teach the dancing moves for MY ALL?

[AyuGAME]

thank you for the review Dan.C

[Suteisi]

Originally Posted by nanakopy87

so,she sang MY ALL as a closing song???
did ZIN teach the dancing moves for MY ALL?

No, they did not teach the dance. They didn't for either shows this week.

But every one danced it anyway! Haha!

I really liked rollin' honestly, I think it's rare to see her dancing and acting weird or crazy on stage, it feels like she's always sticky tightly to the routine, etc.