ASIA TOUR 2008 ~10th Anniversary~ setlists and pictures [IV]

Wow... the marionette perf looks so cool XD

[truehappiness]

Some additional stuff to add to the previous report...

Setlist (note, I'm not familiar with anything on Guilty, so that made it a little tough at times)
01) VIDEO : Ayu's space pirate ship lands
02) Talkin 2 Myself
03) A Song For xx
04) VIDEO : Dancers intro to a modified Step You instrumental [arg, she didn't sing step you]
05) Depend on You
06) Fly High
07) VIDEO : Ayu escapes from prison to what sounded to me like Is This Love
08) ?
09) ?
10) My Name is Woman
11) VIDEO : Ayu places dolls of the male dancers onto a toy carousel
12) Marionette
13) VIDEO : Conclusion to previous video where the roles reverse and Ayu is a doll
14) VIDEO : Soloing dude run up a golden staircase only for the staircase to fall apart and him to fall down. And then dance on stage. I don't know, this section made me laugh a bit.
15) HANABI (completely ruined by the stupid "plotline" if you can call it that)
16) End Roll
17) Tasking (?)
18) Surreal~evolution~Surreal
19) VIDEO : Pt. 2 of the opening video
20) Mirrorcle World
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21) VIDEO : The Ayu "A" imitates famous comedians, messages to HK fans, etc
22) MC I
23) Dearest
24) Voyage
25) MC II
26) Zin teaches a dance
27) Independent
28) Boys & Girls
29) My All


Notes to add on:
This was my first Ayu concert, so...keep that in mind.

1) I'm not sure why the guards were making them sit down because EVERYONE was standing in my section. People were a little dead, and I was the only one with a glowstick, so that was kind of awkward.

2) Song for xx was easily the best song of the night, mostly because she was focusing on singing rather than acting like she was for the rest of it. I really wish they would drop all the plotlines and just have her singing, because it didn't get really really good until the encore.

3) Depend on You sounded HORRIBLE because she was basically parodying the way she used to sing, and had this really horrible nasal voice that sounded annoying more than anything...and DoY is one of my favorite songs, too...

4) My name is woman was hot.

5) I was yelling at the top of my lungs when the first music box notes for Hanabi started, but it was killed by the "plot" for that section where her boyfriend dies trying to run up a staircase to hug her and she just starts crying. Oh wait, no, he doesn't die because he just starts DANCING. And while I wanted her to focus on controlling the notes, all she was doing was looking at him longingly and "crying". Ugh.

6) End Roll. Awesome. I mean, she really couldn't hit the notes at all, but it was awesome to hear a song from LOVEppears.

7) Best set of the night goes to the Ayu ship that she comes flying in on at the end. Holy crap. It was amazing, and I can't believe they only used it for one song.

8) keikeiaznqueen talks about how the stadium was all together on the cheering for Ayu pre-encore...um...it was more like the audience tried ayu chanting about 5 times and each time it lasted for about 30 seconds and then died. It was really pathetic because no one was getting into it.

9) Language barrier made things TOUGH. The pre-encore video had the "A" imitating Ikko, Kojima Yoshi, and I can't remember who the third was was, it was like "Ok, all together!" and then it would flash their catchphrases, but no one got it so I was yelling all alone. And then I stopped.

10) MC was hilarious because Ayu kept messing up. The first MC went like this:

Ayu : *talktalktalktalktalktalktalk* Ok, and now I'm going to turn it over to our teamleader YOCCHAN!!! EVERYONE TOGETHER! 1....2....3....YOCCHAN!!!
Yocchan : ...erm...aha...hi everyone! Ayu...why don't you sing something? Something that will grab the audience by the heart *grabbing motion that also looks like a reversal motion*
Ayu : ...me? Sing something?
Yocchan : Yeah. You. Sing something. That will grab the audience by the heart. *reverse motion*
Ayu : ...what?

*They walk over to each other have a little conference. Ayu bursts out laughing and falls down*

Ayu : *recovers* Ahaha...ummmm.....my bad. I'm supposed to be singing right now. OK! The next song is DEAREST!


And then the second MC comes around...


Ayu : Um...so....ok, I know we did this already but bear with me. Now I'm going to turn it over to our team leader Yocchan! Again! Ok! Everyone, 1.....2......3.......YOCCHAN!!!

Yocchan : ...-_-

11) When Zin was teaching, him and Ayu kept getting into arguments about stuff, and it seemed really tense from the way they were talking. By this point I think they'd figured out that no one in the stadium understood Japanese, so they were saying all this stuff in Japanese that was like "Wow...I really don't think people are getting it" and stuff like that. It was pretty funny and awkward at the same time. And she was like "Erm...yeah! So...please remember that. If you can."

12) Ayu forgot the words halfway through independent and had to ask for help.

13) Boys & Girls was awkward cause no one was singing along cause no one could read the lyrics on the screen.

14) When the song for Zin's dance came up, Ayu burst out laughing.

15) When Ayu was introducing her dancers and band, everyone was cheering and then when she bowed deeply and said "Ayu deshita" NO ONE CHEERED. I think it's cause she said it quickly, so to non Japanese speaker it just sounded like random talking.

16) Her voice was absolutely off pitch for a lot of it and my ears were ringing by the end, but it was a great show and all aural pain was alleviated by the fact that she's an amazing performer and it was a lot of fun.

Report from a user at JPM named ricekid. It was his first Ayu concert, so I dunno if he knew what he was going to get..

[ultracat]

I went back from her 2nd concert in HK~!! Her voice was much better than yesterday!!

Things different from 20/9 show:
1. In the MC part, Ayu sang the acappella of "Who..." !!
2. When ZIN was teaching the steps of MY ALL, Ayu also teach and said a lot of mandarin~
3. Before the encore, the dancing A-logo shows a sentence of "今日去澳門呀" (Today go to Macau), it is not sure whether she went to Macau today or go to Macau after the concert (tomorrow?)
4. Independent was not performed today, it propably because of the acappella performance and the late start of the show (nearly 15minutes later than yesterday...started at around 8:35pm)

[truehappiness]

Ah, that's nice~

Thanks for the update! I'm gonna add your info to the first post!

[Chibi_Venus]

*scratches head*

I just don't know what to make of that guy's review.

[ayu_ayu301]

I went to the Ayu concert at 09/21 and it was AMAZING !!!
MUCH MUCH MUCH better than 07 concert IMO

her singing and vibrato has improved a lot and it was just jaw-dropping altogether

[thejadedangel]

Lol I watched today. It was simply amazing since I watched her super close (I was the pink glowstick in the center near the front)
WA!!
ayu !! sugoi!

[Melrose]

Originally Posted by ultracat

I went back from her 2nd concert in HK~!! Her voice was much better than yesterday!!

Things different from 20/9 show:
1. In the MC part, Ayu sang the acappella of "Who..." !!
2. When ZIN was teaching the steps of MY ALL, Ayu also teach and said a lot of mandarin~
3. Before the encore, the dancing A-logo shows a sentence of "今日去澳門呀" (Today go to Macau), it is not sure whether she went to Macau today or go to Macau after the concert (tomorrow?)
4. Independent was not performed today, it propably because of the acappella performance and the late start of the show (nearly 15minutes later than yesterday...started at around 8:35pm)

Wow, I'd feel SO cheated if I payed a huge amount of money to have good seats, and she doesn't do indepentent or leaves out an other song.

5) I was yelling at the top of my lungs when the first music box notes for Hanabi started, but it was killed by the "plot" for that section where her boyfriend dies trying to run up a staircase to hug her and she just starts crying. Oh wait, no, he doesn't die because he just starts DANCING. And while I wanted her to focus on controlling the notes, all she was doing was looking at him longingly and "crying". Ugh.

I agree with that. I hate dancing and plotlines for the ballads and most songs for that matter. They're almost ALWAYS recycled. Like, DROP them and then once in a while come up with something original. -__- I hope Shuya doesn't dance DURING HANABI. That would suck SO MUCH, but from the news clip I don't think he does.

[truehappiness]

Wow, I'd feel SO cheated if I payed a huge amount of money to have good seats, and she doesn't do indepentent or leaves out an other song.

Obviously, you don't know that circumstances can change things. They got Who.. instead of independent. IMO Who... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> independent ANY DAY.

And btw, there was once where an MC was cancelled due to an earthquake in Fukuoka during the concert.

[Melrose]

Ooooh circumstances. Let's leave out the entire encore next time because of "circumstances".

Who... is acapella and really short. Independent is much more fun at a concert imo.

I'd forgive them if they left it out because the audience wasn't into it though lol.

2) Song for xx was easily the best song of the night, mostly because she was focusing on singing rather than acting like she was for the rest of it. I really wish they would drop all the plotlines and just have her singing, because it didn't get really really good until the encore.

Yea, I agree. Singing >>>>> show. I'd rather have her sing until that Day... live and without the choreography than lip synched and with all the show.

[truehappiness]

They also started later than usual, if you didn't catch that. There might've been a strict timeframe in which Ayu had to finish the concert by, so independent had to be scrapped, or was decidedly scrapped before the concert began.

The interlude vids seem so cool!

[Melrose]

Lol wut?

Regardless of the reason (why did you start about that anyway?) I'd feel very cheated if they left a song out of the set list. Period.

[truehappiness]

Well, certain situations cause certain effects.

AT03-04 was riddled with randomness, and some songs were taken out of the setlist during certain shows and some were left in [RAINBOW, random songs in the middle of the setlist.. etc] I have no idea why, but it happens.

I don't see why it'd be a problem, since most concert goers try to stay blissfully unaware of the setlist until they see the concert for the first time in Japan. Setlists in Japan are often labelled with "NETABARE" aka SPOILER TAGS so that people don't figure it out too quickly.

[Melrose]

Wait wut

A problem to who?

[truehappiness]

Wow, I'd feel SO cheated if I payed a huge amount of money to have good seats, and she doesn't do indepentent or leaves out an other song.

Yeah?

[Melrose]

Wut?

[miskiq]

more pics:

Spoiler:

http://www.dahe.cn/xwzx/yl/ylyy/t20080922_1389663.htm
http://music.ent.tom.com/2008-09-22/000B/07297725.html

[pommy48]

so slim looking!

[majrakun]

Whoa, are those new pictures?? Or just larger resolutions of the same pictures we've seen?

EDIT: Oh hey, she's not wearing the white shirt under the DoY outfit!