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Old 11th September 2017, 11:21 AM
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I am wondering if anyone in the Japanese (NOT Global) fan club went to a show yet, and how their seats were? My seats were pretty good for the global fan club, but wondering what kind of seats Japanese fan club members are getting so I can maybe change my address for the third round of tickets.
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Old 11th September 2017, 11:49 AM
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How beautiful you are just finished. Best vocals ever I've heard so far and I've seen Ayu many times over the last ten years...... The acoustics of the hall probably help? But damn hard to fault her in the first three songs!!!
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How beautiful you are just finished. Best vocals ever I've heard so far and I've seen Ayu many times over the last ten years...... The acoustics of the hall probably help? But damn hard to fault her in the first three songs!!!
This makes me so happy. I'm glad you had a fantastic time and that the performance was great!
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Old 11th September 2017, 01:54 PM
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I am wondering if anyone in the Japanese (NOT Global) fan club went to a show yet, and how their seats were? My seats were pretty good for the global fan club, but wondering what kind of seats Japanese fan club members are getting so I can maybe change my address for the third round of tickets.
Friend of me who is in Japanese TA got very bad seats. She was up on the stands and could hardly see Ayu.
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Old 11th September 2017, 06:49 PM
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I am wondering if anyone in the Japanese (NOT Global) fan club went to a show yet, and how their seats were? My seats were pretty good for the global fan club, but wondering what kind of seats Japanese fan club members are getting so I can maybe change my address for the third round of tickets.
Well if 90% of the seats are split between TA (global and domestic) and say 10% of the seats for general sale, if you survey enough people from TA you'll get as many people who got good seats as those with bad seats. I think the chances are equal between global and domestic TA, or maybe global members get some slight positive discrimination but I think changing address to domestic TA is more risky. Ultimately it shouldn't matter in my opinion. I bet almost everyone in the first three rows was from japanese TA, simply because many more japanese TA members were present for a given show than global members?
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Old 11th September 2017, 10:48 PM
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First show for Fukuoka was great! Setlist was the same as first two Yokohama shows. Show started around 7.15pm and wrapped up a tiny bit after 9pm. Ticket collection for global TA members closed at 5pm... Two hours before the show... A bit early :/

Anyhow, I was seated in tenth row, very close to the stage, unlike the arenas where there is a considerable gap between the front row and the stage, there was almost no gap at Fukuoka Sun Palace Hall.

Alterna was amazing performance, started off with Ayu surrounded by her dancers in a pose while the opening lines of Alterna played through the speakers, Ayu doesn't sing these parts. (The only HEEEY hey hey hey HEEEY parts she sings is at the end of the song) All of Ayus dancers are wearing creepy white masks. The rearrange to sit in a line on the long dinner table and take off their masks midway through the song. Flashes of the Alterna MV are playing on the screens by the way. During Alterna Ayu takes on the role of puppet master as part of the choreography.

Her vocals were just so good, projected so well, no shouting, no off key, I haven't heard her sing this well ever and the first time I. Saw Ayu was 2007 CDL.

Microphone was also a great performance vocally, bits of the MV are also playing on the screens. Choreography for this song was pretty good as usual. Before the final chorus, Ayu runs off stage as the screens part, and as the final chorus starts, she shoots up on the elevated stage to sing the final chorus.

GAME starts, and she actually sings the intro to the song, don't recall her ever doing that. Ayu gets lowered backstage again after this verse, and Timmy appears. Timmy is dressed outrageously the entire show, he has a few costume changes, all different corsets but same boots and stockings. Timmy is background vocals on some songs, and also acts as an MC, for the show... GAME, is a game between heaven and hell with the words heaven and hell intertwined in the screens behind Ayu as she sings. They also use the love heart props for this song.

Dearest and how beautiful you are were great. I love Dearest and finally got to hear Ayu sing it full live!!! Her voice was almost perfect up until the second chorus of Dearest where she strained a tiny bit, but the rest of it was really good, as was how beautiful you are.

After the ballad segment, the dancers choose 4 girls and 1 guy to go up on stage, they go backstage to be briefed I assume, the silver streamers come across the stage and then 1Love starts, good vocals again and fun choreography that's new.
During Shake It, Ayu twerks...... And slaps her butt... And twerks some more... It was interesting haha. Midway through the song, the boy chosen from the audience appears on elevated stage sitting on a chair. Ayu takes her earpiece off and asks for his name and then she introduces him to the crowd and is then walked down on to the stage via the stairs. He gets danced on by Ayus female dancers and then by Ayu herself! He was a very good sport and got into the singing and dancing. During the ONE TWO THREE FOUR bits of the song, Ayu gave him the mic to sing those bits.

Step you comes on, my fave song! This is one of the songs you can tell if she is lipsyncing or not as she has lip synced this song in the past, and given she was delivering consistent vocals tonight I have reason to suspect... But I really think tonight was 100% live!! Midway through the song, the 4girls are escorted out by a female dancers each and are taught on stage a simple choreography to do during the Step you chorus. During the outro Ayu goes up them all and gives them a hug and naturally the freak out, it was very cute.

Kiss o kill and Free & Easy used more Christian symbolism, and mock crucifixions obviously fit with the theme of Sacrifice. Her vocals were once again so controlled and on point, I was just in awe,even my partner who had been watching some live Ayu YouTube videos was preparing for the worst tonight but was pleasantly surprised. During these two songs, videos of churches are played in the background, and Ayu gets up on the cross (lowered down from above) at the start of Free&Easy. She only has one hand on the cross as she has to hold the mic, I reckon a hands-free mic would have worked really well for this performance.

Fly high and Mirrorcle world were fun songs to end the show with, nothing out of the ordinary here.

The time between end of main set and start of encore was fairly quick, like probably five minutes? Sometimes at her arena shows it's 10 minutes or slightly longer... Probably allows for more ppl to go to bathroom I suppose.

WORDS was great live, sounded great again, the lyrics were playing on the screens.

During the MC, I don't understand Japanese, but I could make out she was thanking all the people who came out to the airport that morning to see her, ZIN came out and did a rap for 4 lines which the crowd responded to, went over my head haha. Ayu then drew the winner of the signed Ayu love heart, and then kicked into the final three songs!

I'm going again tonight, can't wait! My highlights were definitely Alterna, microphone, Dearest and Free & Easy. Least enjoyable were Shake It and HBYA for me. Hope tonights show is just as good and I don't walk away with the conclusion she lip syncs the show
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Old 11th September 2017, 11:37 PM
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Thanks for the report HilaryDuffFanboy!
So excited I'm attending the 2nd chapter on 11/21, my very first Ayu live ever, and with many of my favorite songs (and definitely the third chapter in Nara as well)

I'm dying to see alterna and Mirrorcle World live omg!!
Not interested by Shake It but hey, the rest is so good for once!
Hope her vocals stay good until the end of the tour...
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I don't know why but the thought of ayu spanking herself and lap dancing bothers me a bit. I know it shouldn't but it does.
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Old 12th September 2017, 02:30 AM
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Thank you for the review, HilaryDuffFanboy! I was waiting for a detailed one and you nailed it! <3 Will this chapter be broadcasted as well, right?!
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Old 12th September 2017, 02:35 AM
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I don't know why but the thought of ayu spanking herself and lap dancing bothers me a bit. I know it shouldn't but it does.
Kumi gave her private lessons LOLOL
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Old 12th September 2017, 06:41 AM
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Old 12th September 2017, 06:49 AM
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I don't know why but the thought of ayu spanking herself and lap dancing bothers me a bit. I know it shouldn't but it does.
Honestly, I have the 'headcanon' that Ayu is a wild as hell person in bed and such after what we have heard/seen after her marriages so this is not surprising at all.
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Old 12th September 2017, 07:14 AM
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Old 12th September 2017, 07:14 AM
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I am so happy to hear good reviews. Chapter 2 seems to be a much better chapter. Definitely a morale booster for the fans.
It makes me wish more and more that they record the 1st day instead of the last day.
As for the butt shaking, I don't know.
I think Ayu just likes to let loose and have fun and isn't too shy about it.
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Old 12th September 2017, 09:34 AM
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Based on the reviews, it seems like she got trained her voice and she had lots of improvement.
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New pic from Ayu´s IG

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The miracles that a few singing lessons can achieve!

She should have done that sooner.
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Old 12th September 2017, 11:07 AM
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Fifth row tonight! Katy Perry's Witness pre-show again.
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Old 12th September 2017, 09:35 PM
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Ticket collection for global TA members closed at 5pm... Two hours before the show... A bit early :/
Wow, that seems really harsh! I do hope everyone got their tickets!

Thanks for the review. Was Free & Easy the full version? The last few times I've seen it performed it's always been shortened.
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Old 12th September 2017, 09:59 PM
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I don't know why but the thought of ayu spanking herself and lap dancing bothers me a bit. I know it shouldn't but it does.
She twerked, ass slapped, lap danced etc. during the shake it performance at the last TA tour as well.
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