[Koda Kumi] The 205th Thread - angeL & monsteR

[KarenPang]

KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2020-2021 MY NAME IS... COUNTDOWN EDITION will still go ahead as planned on year end , for now

playroom mobile fanclub members can ballot for tickets from 9pm Japan time onwards later on

The countdown live will start about 10pm Japan time

https://rhythmzone.net/koda/news/detail.php?id=1087895

[kaled kalil]

Sora's Senpai Club Ep 01 is out!



It's a great interview!

[KarenPang]

I 2nd that

I think there will be 3 more parts of the Sora's Senpai Club interview they did with Kuu since she's featured for the entire month of Dec on their show

1st part of the interview Sora's Senpai Club did with Kuu is great , you have light hearted moments , serious moments , the works

Although overall my favourite answer from Kuu is what she spent on with her 1st pay cheque , totally relatable xD



https://twitter.com/imsora_desu/stat...77232601858048

[Diva_br]

Originally Posted by KarenPang

I'm a forum member but I'm unable to download due to this

Oh! Well. Thank you so much for trying

The interview with Sora Senpai is so great! She's so cute!

[_XXKK_]

was the setlist of the yoyogi concert the same as the others?

[minkAYuko]

Loved the album, my fvorite is the monsteR side, can't get enough of Killer monsta! I really loved the work they put in this album. The video for RUN is amazing, to the point but very well produced.

anyway, I never knew how much covers of "Guess who is back" there are in youtube, in spanish, English, it's a very popular song from the anime, tho I don't think she gains a lot of fans from there, otaku fans, only obsesses over one song from each artist. haha.

[Darkifrit]

Really nice interview.
It’s great to be able to understand an interview at the first release!

I remember, they announced few months ago the diffusion of a documentary for Kuu’s 20 years anniversary. Do we have any update about it ?

[minkAYuko]

^ True True.

I'm watching the interview as well, I like the part where she says "Then I realized there were no singers with a sexy concept, so I started building a sexy image for koda kumi".

Gosh I love her!!! Smart woman!

Also: I love that she mentions the being bullied by avex (MAX) th*t bastard....

[Darkifrit]

I was surprised about the fact she mentioned it! (Even if for fans nothing new).
I even wondered if she would talk about the 2008 scandal. For sure she wanted to drop everything at that time.

As a person she is so lovely, I love how she reacted to compliments hahaha



I noticed something, she usually thank/promote directly on insta when people speak/do something about her. She never reacted to Miliyah’s TAKE BACK cover. It’s surprising!

[KarenPang]

Photos taken during the weekend at the tour final

Spoiler:

https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000193415

[Corvina]

Lots of newspaper and online article about the finals.
Mezamashi TV, Sukkiri, Abema etc. also showed news and footage on TV about it, you can find people posting them on Twitter.
Official photos from the last two days:

Spoiler:

(just missing one used on the newspaper from the Lucky Star performance, can't find it online)



Pics thanks to twitter user @ume0655

As a surprise yesterday all her old dancers joined her on stage.
Shun, Shinnosuke, Jungle, Shintarow, RionRion, s.o.
Kuu said she wants to dance till she's 50 years old!
And right now she's feeling as fit as being 20.

She played before 5000 people each for all 4 Tokyo dates (so 20k out of 26k full capacity for the 2 original planned dates).
Altogether 44,000 people went to see the tour, despite Covid and all the measures they took against. A good number all in all!

EDIT:

Shun shared the stage plan for the dancer surprise in his stories!



25 previous dancers altogether, names are all there.

[jiarongisme]

LOVE that Dance In The Rain shot.

[Gustavopc]

omg I hope they include the ex-dancers part in the DVD release, I wanna see this sooooo bad!

I wonder if for the CDL Kumi will add angeL + monsteR songs to the setlist? I don't feel like she'll tour soon after this and I'm afraid those songs won't get a chance to be properly performed...

Sora Senpai was really cute, I love how she talked about her childhood and first steps in her career. Can't wait for the following episodes!!

And despite all odds, she had an amazing 20th anniversary. I am so happy her efforts paid off... I mean, it's not common for you to reach 20 years in the industry being active, even less to hold an arena tour to celebrate it, and even less in 2020 lol She's truly a legend!

Now I hope she gets some rest for 2021 after her CDL, since she already released a new "album" and touring might not happen again till after the Olympics.

[kaled kalil]

It's a pity Midori wasn't there, I know she dances with Ayu now but it would be cool to see her there.

@Gustavopc It was during WIND's performance. She was quite shocked to see everyone. haha

Even if I'm not 100% happy with everything from this year, much more related to concepts and stuff, we can't say that she didn't work hard this year at all and did as much as she could. While most had a very lowkey effort to do stuff, which is understandable, not even miss rona stopped her. A queen for sure!

[Ayu_Love]

I loved that Sora Senpai interview, I can't wait for the other parts. It's so nice to finally see a Kuu interview with English subtitles!

Does anyone know on average how much it costs to ship an FC edition through Tenso, for people who've done it before? I assume it based on weight, just wondered if anyone had any rough idea on the cost. Thank you!

EDIT: That was such a lovely TAKE BACK stage mix, I think she would be really touched if she saw that!

[Gustavopc]

^ When I bought AND, which is vinyl-sized and comes with 4 discs an a photobook I paid 4060 yen for shipping fee plus 1020 for their handling fee. I guess L+R would be around this too.

[chocopockymaster]

Depends on which country you're having it shipped to as well...right now for those of us in the US we can either choose from surface mail (noooo thank you) or DHL, and I paid around 5,000 yen to have the FC version of re(CORD) shipped to the states that way.

[ILoveGeniuses]

^I only ordered the cd only editions and all regular shipping options to Canada have been suspended from Japan so I had to use FedEx or DHL myself. Just both side track parcels through the US first and everything coming from the US gets charged customs.

[Rainbow141]

Originally Posted by Corvina

As a surprise yesterday all her old dancers joined her on stage.
Shun, Shinnosuke, Jungle, Shintarow, RionRion, s.o.
Kuu said she wants to dance till she's 50 years old!
And right now she's feeling as fit as being 20.

She played before 5000 people each for all 4 Tokyo dates (so 20k out of 26k full capacity for the 2 original planned dates).
Altogether 44,000 people went to see the tour, despite Covid and all the measures they took against. A good number all in all!

25 previous dancers altogether, names are all there.

I miss her old dancers so much lately! Shinta and Shin haven't aged a day. And Kaichou! But why put UG on the end?! And no OH GIRLS! reunion? Ah. This was good enough. It was good to see some of her first and best dancers again.

Really hope they include something about this, either this clip or them preparing the surprise, on the video release <3

Yeah, you know... the tour was pretty stripped down compared to normal, but it's 2020 and she still toured. She still made music. She's amazing. I'll never forget all the stuff she did for us all in quarantine like the HOW TO DANCE videos.


(Also...Those FC ship prices aren't so bad! I'm still waiting on YesAsia's painfully slow ship of my reg. L+R, but I might just go for the FC anyway while I have a chance.)

[KarenPang]

angeL & monsteR 1st week position + sales

2 CDs + DVD - #12 l 6,975

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7137971076

Only the Top 100 been updated for now

So the separate minis might show up at the bottom Top 100 tomorrow or not :s