Cerva's Concert Chronicles

Thanks for the report! XANVALA shows are so much fun, I agree they’re like a giant party. I’m glad to see them doing well :face_holding_back_tears: they deserve it.

A double CREEPER second encore sounds awesome.

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There will be more reports but since I didn’t gad time to write the next 3 Reports will be posted together on the weekend. Stay tuned for KAKUMAY, NUL. and Penicillin :relieved_face:

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Sorry for the delay. I had some health issues this week. But don’t worry, I will survive :grin:

Since this will be three live reports I will use summary function to make it easier to navigate if you just wanna read one or two.

First up KAKUMAY

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I ended the last report with “next up (probably) KAKUMAY” because this was a live with free door tickets again and I would have skipped it, if I felt not too well.

But on Saturday (May 10th) I was in between health issues, so I went.

At Ikebukuro Edge Kakumay had their 5th show of their current King & Queen Tour.

Before the concert I met up with a japanese friend in Ikebukuro and we went to the Miffy Cafe. Look at these cute drinks :pleading_face:


Afterwards I bought a new skirt and jacket and put them on for the concert. I think it looks quite good … but this is the only photo I took … not realizing someone left behind me :sweat_smile:

The Edge is a super small club but personally I like it because you are close no matter where you stand.

On the outside there is like no sign of the Edge existance. Luckily Google Maps leads you to the correct spot. :sweat_smile:

Only on the inside you can see this is a visual kei Club.

Free tickets go in last so I stood on the far right side by Azamy, where the entrance was. It was quite full.

And of course we got the new outfits that were revealed shortly before.

Setlist and costumes where posted by them on twitter:

https://x.com/KAKUMAY_JP/status/1921193467809505781

Some of the golden parts of the costumes glow orange under black light ans while I was studing the costumes I didn’t notice that Azamy took some water to spit in the audience and got a wet face :sweat_smile: thannk you, I guess?

On the official outfit photos Azamy’s hair is white but since he had pink hair before, in reality it’s still pink :grin:

The concert was surprisingly short under 1h 30 min. As you can see the setlist was also quite short. Not that I mind since it was free for me. And they played my favorite song of theirs: Unchain

The reason for the show being short was that you could buy 2-shot tickets after the show, which a lot of the fans did.

I just got a muffler towel but since also merch selling depended on your ticket number I had to wait pretty long. Didn’t take a 2-shot, tho.

Over all they did well and the audience was vibing but I think I have fallen out of love a bit with their music. Unchain is still fire!

Next up: NUL.

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Warning: there will be a lot of fan girling in this one. Hizumi is one of my favorite bandomen :face_holding_back_tears:

This time no photo of my entire outfit but of this necklace as it was designed by Hizumi.

I tried to keep track of Hizumi after the end of D’espairsRay in the hopes he would be back some day.
In the time between D’espairsRay split up and Hizumi joining NUL., he was designing diffrent stuff including a cup + saucer set, jewelry, prints and more.

From time to time he sold it in a pop up store and at least once he was the cashier there. I wonder if he struggled financially then. :confused:
Well, I am just telling this because I went there to buy the necklace directly from him :sweat_smile: so I just had to wear it today, right?! (I also have an wrist band but forgot that at home :smiling_face_with_tear:)

This concert was their second one this year. Earlier they had annuced 3 lives to celebrate the releases of 3 new singles, one at each concert.

On May 15th it was time for Awakening, again at Ikebukuro Edge.

This time I had bought a ticket in advance and more time to take some photos of all the posters on the way down to the Edge.



On this Thursday the club wasn’t as full as on Saturday, despite the concert starting relativly late at 7:00 pm but the tickets where also relativly expensive for the size of the club: 6500 Yen.

I got a wrist band before the start to put on for the show :blush: and got a place in the middle a little bit to the left. I was absolutely 100% here for Hizumi so no compromises this time where to stand.

Since NUL. does not have a drummer or bassist they always have changing support members for these parts. Today we got D’s Hiroki on drums and Sukekiyo’s Yuchi on bass! Pretty nice choice, I’d say.

Sadly they did not post a setlist and I am bad at remembering song titles :smiling_face_with_tear:

First thing I notice, when they came on stage, was that Hizumi choose little make up. Just basic natural looking make up and black around the eyes. His hair is a bit over the shoulder length and angelic blond but looks a but thin from the bleaching.

All the make up that Hizumi safed was used on Yuchi seemingly :joy: his outfit was also the most “visual”.

Kishi is an Apple user if you ever wondered.

They started off with two songs and Hizumi was very energetic, bouncing around on the stage. The audince a bit less so. There was furi but it was mostly hand waving and the left side of the audince wasn’t as active as the right side. Kakumay’s had more energy. Shame on you…

Well, after the first songs Hizumi greeted everyone and said that he is happy to be able to do more live this year.
I think before they only had one live per year so 3 is an upgrade.

As far as I can tell they played a good variaty of songs. Not just from Ava. I definitivly noticed songs from Tribrid Archive like Plastic Factory and Cube and from Evila as well, like Evila :sweat_smile:

Hizumi sounded great but they had trouble two times. I think one time Hizumi thought everybody was ready but Kishi wasn’t. They started the song but after like 15 seconds Hizumi said “oh stop, stop” and “oh I thought you were done preparing”.

I am not sure what the other time happen it seemed like Hiroki missed his part.

Which isn’t so surprising. In the MC Hizumi spoke with Hiroki and Yuchi about them having been their support before but it was a while ago. And they where all a bit nervous to perfome the new song.

Then Hizumi took a piece of paper out of his pocket to annouce another 3 concert tour this year. And Kishi reminded him, that there is an event on May 30th were they will play. Someone in the first row said a bit to loud that they probably won’t be able to come and Hizumi heard it and said “Well, I will come”. :laughing: Awww
Three more concerts and a taiban doesn’t Sound like much but looking back a the last years it’s such an improvement and Hizumi absolutely seemed exited. I was so happy for him. :smiling_face_with_tear:

They did a nice encore including Reimei and a second encore were they played the new song again.

And there was an autograph session for everyone who would buy the new single after the show.

I was soooo dehydrated (despite drinking something from my drinking ticket) and the bar had already closed when the merch sell started. But I wanted to meet Hizumi so badly m, haha, of course.

So I got the new single and Reimei and their first Album. Have it digital but wanted a physical copy as well. Since my purchase was 5100 Yen I also got the singed kishiki.

When it was my turn to get the booklet signed I thanked Kishi for the evening and said i understand a little bit japanese to which he replied that he also speaks a little bit english and where I am from. To Hizumi, I said I hope they could come to Europe. (Yeah, yeah… I know my wishful thinking…). But hey he geniuly looked like he’d love to do overseas. He also said it but we all know that everyone would say it to be polite. I just thanked Masato without saying anything more because I get terribly star struck all the time, so saying at least something to Hizumi was a win :sweat_smile:
But maybe it’s better. If I would be able to say what comes to my mind I would probably say something embarassing like “Please, Hizumi don’t leave ever again.”
… Yeah… nobody needs that…

Kishi and Hizumi were sooo gentle. Ah and Hizumi has such a warm smile and gentle eyes :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
He had a big smile on his face the whole evening.

(Little Story time: when D’espairsRay first came to germany I already liked their music but I didn’t went to the concert because they looked so scary :woman_facepalming: yes, I will regret it forever… just mentioning it because of the contrast to the warm smile and eyes)

Overall it seemed a little bit more chaotic than other lives and Hizumi was a bit confused here and there but it was still one of my best lives. Hizumi’s voice is just one of a kind and it was fantastic to hear him so enthusiastic again. Sure, D’espairsRay’s music I love a little bit more but NUL. is great and something that I can put on for hours and will have stuck in my head for days. Still Hemmingen Olastic Factory today.
I was looking forward to seeing Hizumi again and I wasn’t disappointed in the slitghest.

Next up Penicillin!

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First stop of their Kanto circuit Tour is Nishikawaguchi Live House Hearts on May 16th!

Today’s outfit wasn’t that special :sweat_smile:

I did feel very shitty that day. Thankfully Nishikawaguchi is close to me and standing was less painful than sitting and I wasn’t going alone.

This was the only concert, I could talk my boyfriend into by showing him the Romance MV😅

https://youtu.be/18H2Uc9_7I0?si=6vBmYaNjZLvsJM_i

We had Tickets B 2 and 3 but nearly everyone else seemed to have A tickets. The Live House Hearts is at least double the size of the Ikebukuro Edge (250) and it was very full. When we waited for the start I asked my boyfriend what other concerts he has been to. This one was his first :scream:

They started a bit late but it was immidiatly forgiven. Hakuei looked very cool. I’d say he has a quite modern vk-ish look, especially the hair. I don’t know if he is taking good care of himself or it’s the style or the help of a beauty clinic but he looked very young for his age. Tbh I don’t know exactly how old he is but since he has been around since the early 90s he must be older.

Chisato and their support bassist did look much more like their age and I think it was partly because of their “dad rock” style outfits. I don’t mean this in a mean way but they seemed a little bit like normal dudes in their 50’s with vk hairstyle slapped on.

O-Jiro’s style was a bit in between. Not extremly modern but pretty unique.

But all that was forgotten when they started playing. Oh how wonderful to hear their great music live!

Sadly again no setlist :smiling_face_with_tear:

Audience was great and luckily the furi was very arm focused so I could mostly participate despite being in pain. (Don’t worry, I am pretty good at knowing where my limits are. I did not risk fainting or anything.)

After 2 or 3 songs Haukei talked to the audience about being… an old man who still does rock music :sweat_smile:
They had a great mix of their recent and older songs. Of course they also played Romance. Hakuei sounded fantastic and their songs also have a lot of room for Chisato to show off. And Hakuei definitivly gave him room to shine. Well done Chisato!

After the encore break we got a quite long merch commercial on stage and annoucement of more lives dates and event. Which was a bit rough for me x.x

But at least we got a second encore today as well.

I grabbed today’s wrist bands at the merch table and got the Vijuttoke handed at the way out.

Afterwards we went to a small restaurant a few streets away from the live house. I forget to take a photo of the club :smiling_face_with_tear: but here is a cool neon decoration in Nishikawaguchi.

At the restaurant we had Yakitori and Nabe and I talked to two other fans who had been to the concert. They also knew a lot of vk bands and seemed to follow the other projects of the Penicillin members.

An older couple next to us talked to my boyfriend and were surprised that Penicillin gamve a concert here in small Nishikawaguchi. They also seemed to know Romance.

So how did my boyfriend like it? Well, he complained that he only recognized one song, which is his own fault for not listining to more songs :joy:
His first live will probably be his last. Some people are just not that into music or concerts. But at least he gave it a try…

That’s it for now :sweat_smile: Thank you for reading.

Btw no Kansai Rock Summit this year. The Shinkansen is expensive and non of the bands was important enough to me, to make the trip :woman_bowing: but there will be a taiban next…

Next up: MASKED Festival

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Sucks that you got sick too. If you suspect it’s something serious like v[Neu]mo:nia, the international clinics are pretty convenient even if you have to pay out of pocket.

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Oh no, it’s nothing seriouse and not in anyway a respiratory disease. I wouldn’t risk spreading that on concerts. I already went to a clinic and got diagnosed with laboratory tests confirming the diagnosis. It’s nothing I could spread in a concert context. All good. But thanks for worrying :face_blowing_a_kiss:

v[Neu]mo:nia would be a great vk band name, tho.

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Thanks again for the reports and the photos (I also love the Outfit pics :blush:)

Looking forward to the Masked Festival Report, I would love to be there, too.

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Little correction on the next up:

Before MASKED there will be Garakuta’s last live tomorrow :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Isn’t that the band you put on the trade-off mix you gave me? They were good! Can’t believe they are disbanding. I figured you liked them a bunch based off our interactions. Glad you get to see them once before they go!

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Yeah, it’s them! They had a lot of potential. But with the newer bands (they started in 2022) there is always the risk of them being short lived. But the members seem quite young. Hopefully they will turn up in new bands and who knows, if one of their next projects get’s super succesful.

And we will always have the duck song :smiling_face_with_tear:

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This Saturday was a pretty busy day! Tsukiji Fish Market in the morning, lunch at the MASKED visual kei collaboration Café and Garakuta’s last live in the evening.

Tsukiji is such a tourist destination but despite having been to Japan several times and even up to 6 month, I never went.

We went a bit late because my bf overslept but still get to eat 5 diffrent dishes:
Thuna sashimi + sushi, Sea urchin, crab legs, oysters and squid :face_savoring_food:




Afterwards we went straigt to the MASKED Café in Shibuya, which is on 7th floor of Tsutaya building at the famous Shibuya crossing.

The Café looks super nice even without the event.
For the collab the put up costumes, a bunch of pictures from the MASKED photo shootings and on the screen they showed a video about the event on repeat. It’s also on Youtube: https://youtu.be/qGYQTlNehrc?si=CzZSTMHvzjUzOrcI
(Yep, that is GOLDEN BOMBER’s vocalist Shou leading through the program)

Interior:




Band Costumes:





The food looks pretty much like in the commercial pictures. More than McDonalds burgers look like in their pictures. :joy:


They only have these two dishes. A Curry for Kizu x Arlequin, which was mostly eaten by my boyfriend. And the Amai Bouryoku x Royz Sweet miserable pan cakes. They tasted better than the name suggest. I think the blue wobbly stuff was misery… at least that tasted like it.

For drinks I also choose Kizu x Arlequin and Amai Bouryoku x Royz. First one is Lassi with Raspberry and tasted actually super nice. Second is a yoghurt drink with green melon taste and …blue color? :sweat_smile: it tasted good but I liked the other one better.

With every food/drink item came a random picture card and I got Ryoga (Razor) twice, Akuta (Chanty) and Roku (GRAVITY).

After eating I finally had to decide which merch to get.

Since the shirts cost 6000 Yen, I only got one to wear it to the event next day. It was a hard decision between Lime (Kizu), Saki (Amai Bouryoku) and Tatsumi (Xanvala).
I choose Lime because I wouldn’t be able to see Xanvala on the event and Saki’s picture looked slightly boring compared to Lime’s.
I got Tatsumi’s acryl block, tho! His picture looks so cool :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: also got a wristband and 3 random keychain holders and 3 random polaroids.
I was luckier with my polaroid draws than with the keychains :smiling_face_with_tear:
Polaroids I got Aki (Arlequin), Hayato (CODOMO DRAGON) and Ryoga (RAZOR) AGAIN. At this point I took it as a sign to see Razor the next day. Destiny must want me to.

Keychains were Issei (BugLug), Koshijiya Aoi (DEN-NO HIMECA) and Subaru (Royz).

(I will sell some of these but will make an extra post for that later.)

This was today’s outfit btw. Of course again in the barhroom… of the Café

Finally time for the Garakuta Last Live



Waiting in the line, I heared the girls in front of me talk german. I am a bit shy especially with strangers but I gathered the courage to talk to them. We talk for a while and they had a ticket left over for an upcoming Jigsaw concert and convinced me to come. The Jigsaw gig was on my list but there was a free taiban on the same day but to be honest I really wanted to see Jigsaw so again, this must have been destiny telling me what to do. :sweat_smile:

Most people got the more expensive S tickets which include a 5-shot with the band. I took the cheaper one, tho.
The Black Hole is as small as the Edge (both 250 capacity). So it doesn’t really matter if you have a good ticket.

I went to the merch table first and got their Jan-ken-pon single. With this came a photo set with one picture signed by a member. I even could choose my favorite member, which is vocalist Koji! But that wasn’t all. I was asked to draw straw and won a free 2-shot with Koji :face_holding_back_tears:

The concert started and the band wore the out fits from the flyer above.

Koji is a great entertainer. I had seen them last year at Kansai Rock Summit and found them great live. This time they were even better. Koji is very talented and delivers greatly. He also got down from the stage to dance with us and he was pretty good at making me blush as well. :joy:

The MC tho… was hard… everybody seemed just sad and devastated. Koji talked a lot about how much he loved visual kei and how much it helped him.
He had some gem stones under his eye which looked like tears… and in the end he definitivly had to wipe away some real tears.

The live itself was fantastic and it felt like such a waste of talent, to end this band. Maybe I am too emotional but when I see young bands like them all I see is guys full of dreams to be able to make a living from music and it just makes me sad, that this is becoming harder and harder especially in a small scene like visual kei. [Insert here my usual rent about streaming money being distributed unfairly between artists]
I want people to be able to make niche art and AI and whatever should do the work that nobody really wants to do, like cleanen toilets <___<

For the first an last time they did a second encore. They just couldn’t leave us without giving us Ahiru one last time. But it was so hard… it’s such a fun song but everybody was too sad at this point. :smiling_face_with_tear:

Good by Garakuta. It was great while it lastet. No regrets.


(Soure: https://x.com/GRKT_info/status/1926971630082793635)

As I mentioned before I did get a 2-shot with Koji at the end and he made me blush again because he hugged me :flushed_face: pleaseee Koji I can’t handle guys getting so touchy feely…

It was a great day but my feet did suffer a bit… which will have consequences (:sweat_smile:)

NEXT UP: MASKED

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Thanks once again for the wonderful report and the photos :heart_eyes:

Sounds like an eotional, but very fun day! So cool that you won that 2-Shot :four_leaf_clover:

I would love to try (most :sweat_smile:) of the food and drinks, especially the Raspberry Lassi :face_savoring_food:

And you Outfit looks fab :heart_hands:

I also wonder from which band the costume on the first picture is? It looks familiar :thinking: I assume the pink Overall belongs to a super short person :sweat_smile:

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The first costumes are from Amai Bouryoku. The pink one must be from drummer Kei. He always has pink hair and cute outfits and is the shortest member.

Other costumes are from top to bottom:

Royz
CODOMO DRAGON
Gravity
Denno HIMECA

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This MASKED pop-up looks insane! So glad you got to go!

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I am still alive and I am still doung this :see_no_evil_monkey: sorry this comes quite late.

Here comes MASKED visual kei festival

As mentioned before my painful feet had consequences. I had to change my plan a bit, since I surely wouldn’t be able to stand from 12:00 to 21:00 :smiling_face_with_tear:

So I skiped Royz and and arrived just in time for Sugar but not before got some soft pads to put in my shoes. Luckily I remembered that the toilets in Shibuya 109 are nice and big and they were pretty empty at that time. And I was able to take a full body picture of my outfit. The flowers on the Haori (Kimono jacket) sparkle. They are not printed but stiched with metallic thread. And of course the shirt with Lime, I got the day before.


So I arrived and grabbed my wirstband. For the drink ticket I was asked which band I was here for, so they get that counted. I said Amai Bouryoku :face_holding_back_tears:


(Forgot to take a picture on the day but still wearing on my way to Nagoya)

But first it was time for Sugar at duo Music exchange, which was bigger than I exspected: 800 capacity! All bands here got 30 minutes on stage.

Sugar

Since I was just in time, I didn’t get a very good spot so one of the columns blocked my view of the stage a bit.

Nontheless it was a great start. There seemed to be quite a lot of people who were their fans or at least did very enthusiastic furi. I found their setlist pretty well choosen. Lots of diffrent styles and energy from their songs. They wore their newest outfits.
( https://x.com/_sugar_officiaI/status/1926609324421370194 )
I couldn’t see Vo. Nea the whole time because of the column but Ba. Siz looked splendid in that new outfit. Kentaro brought a lot of energy and Yukichi loked like he had the time of his life. They really seem like these young guys who are so exited about doing music. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Sadly I did not find a setlist :frowning:

I stayed for the next Band in the Duo Music exchange. So I could move a bit closer and was able to see what was behind the column.

The Madna

Next band was The Madna. Initially I planned to see Dexcore but they are a band that has big potential for an oversea tour and I would have more time in betThe Madna and Razor. The Madna seemed quite popular here in the forum and their music seemed fun enough.
Sadly they didn’t really do it for me. At least not live. But maybe that’s not their fault. At that point my foot issue still felt painful and the fan before me kept striking my face with her hair to the point where the person next to me and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes about her.

https://x.com/THEMADNA__JP/status/1926610222128193859

I had an hour until Razor and went back to the 109 for a clean bathroom, grabbed food and coffee and ran back :sweat_smile:

RAZOR

Razor had their gig at the biggest of the 3 venues, the Spotify O-East: 1300 Capacity. Here all bands got 40 miniutes stage time.


I got a spot on the left side but not very close to the stage.

I had two reasons to see Razor. First, my favorite Sadie member is Tsurugi, who is also a member of Razor. Second, in the Masked Café I pulled Razor’s vocalist Ryoga three times and took it as a sign to see them.

And what can I tell you, destiny must have really want me to see that show. It was mesmerizing! Ryoga’s stage presence is insane! I forgot Tsurugi was their for most of the show. :sweat_smile:
They all wore some kind of military style outfit and Ryoga came on stage on stilts that were tied to his calves so he had his hands free to swing around the microphone stand.
What a live voice. I think he is one of the few people who sound better live than in the studio.
In the middle of the show he stage dived into the audience and let them carry him on his back for a while. Still singing flawlessly!
If you ever get a chance to see these guys live, do yourself a favor and go. They are fantastic. An absolute highlight. Thank you destiny.

Razor setlist:

  1. ANOTHER
  2. 埋葬
  3. LIQUID VAIN
  4. DISRESPECT
  5. 千年ノ色彩
  6. 嫌、嫌、嫌。
  7. DAMIAN FLY
  8. GRAVITY EMOTION
    https://x.com/Ryoga_britannia/status/1926610343746208110

Amai Bouryoku

I stayed in the O-east for the 20 min waiting time because next up was my most anticipated band: Amai Bouryoku
I was able to move a few rows forward to a point were one stair leads down to the center area of the hall.
I was bit nervous if they would be able to live up to my high exspectations. Especially after Razor left such an impression.
They played sweet pain rock’n’roll from my favorite ep of the same name and the first track from their lates EP Daten (堕天). It’s a pretty epic track and they did not disappoint! After a few songs I was already sad, that it will only last 40 minutes and longed to see a oneman of them.

Setlist:
1.Bōdō (暴動)
2.Sweet・pain・rock’n’roll (スウィート・ペイン・ロックンロール)
3.Daten (堕天)
4.Kamiato (噛み痕)
5.Chūshitai (ちゅーしたい)
6.Minagoroshi (ミナゴロシ)
7.Kate (勝て)

https://x.com/sweetviolencejp/status/1926580310961000460

I was sooo happy to hear Kamiato live :face_holding_back_tears: it’s one of my favorites, that I listen to all the time.

These guys are crazy stupid funny btw. In the middle of the show all but Vo. Saki put on ski masks and Saki acted surprised and they claimed they had to because there was a reason it was called Masked festival. Hilarious, as exspected of them. A oneman must be fire!
Their gig felt way too short.

Kizu

I stayed again and moved closer to the stage again for Kizu! Finally my shirt fitted the band :see_no_evil_monkey:
I like Kizu a lot but I was a bit worried how they’d perform live. I have a short live DVD that was part of the limited edition of an EP and despite it being my favorite Songs live performed, I felt it lacked something compared to other bands.
But I worried for nothing. Lime sounded great! The only thing that I really disliked was that they used AI background footage heavily. It wasn’t that bad for their new song R/E/D, they started with. Here they only used the lyrics video but for the rest of the show they had ugly AI videos :confused:
Why Lime-sama? You are great, you don’t need that. :face_exhaling:

Setlist:
1.R/E/D/
2.ELISE
3.Oni (鬼 )
4.Little girl wa yandeiru (リトルガールは病んでいる)
5.My Bitch
6.Jigoku (地獄)
7.Kizuato (傷痕)

I did consider leaving for a bit after Kizu because my feet were still hurting and I got thirsty but I got greedy because I could move to row 4 after Kizu.

Arlequin

Next would be Arlequin and I had to skip their 2-man with Diaura last year because of an ear infection… an my ticket number was 12 :smiling_face_with_tear:
So I stayed to see them at least now close.
Aki was in a fantastic mood and I like the strange laugh thing he does :joy: But I found it a bit hard to fully enjoy seeing them after knowing about their skandals. At least Aki is not involed but I really wish he and Nao would just form a new band with less shitty guys :pensive_face:

Arlequin were the closing act so Aki talked a bit afterwards. Basically what everybody had said again and again on this day: How much the all love Visual Kei :laughing:

Setlist:
1.血ヲ通ワセロ、ソノ命全テニ。
2.墓穴
3.消えていくオレンジの空へ
4.白紙の手紙
5.世界の終わりと夜明け前
6.ダメ人間
7.Eclipse

I had to leave pretty fast because I have to walk half an hour if I miss my last Bus :sweat_smile: but while leaving I heard something about a Halloween Event and that Masked will return next year :eyes:

Overall it was a great day. The small clubs in Tokyo are great and the intimate concerts have their own charme. But once in a while a bigger venue like the Spotify O-East is so much fun. With so many people there is just another amount of energy. I really want to have both.
The whole Event, the mood of the fans and the bands and everything they organized around this, left me very hopeful for the future of the scene. :face_holding_back_tears: Visual Kei is dead, long live Visual Kei.

NEXT UP: Jigsaw (where taking picture was permitted :wink:)

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It’s really interesting to see how different people chose whom to see and whom not. XD
If I would have been there we wouldn’t have bumped into eathother!
I love how your choice of emojis already says everything. But I enjoyed reading it.

Hopefully Dexcore will come to Europe, but if I understood it right Kagami is afraid of flying…
Btw, I think you were wearing a haori (not completely sure), hakama are pants.

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MASKED sounds awesome!

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Lol, yes of course. I need to stop writing these in the middle of the night :see_no_evil_monkey: Wearing Hakama would have looked also cool, tho (and would be probably also way to warm. I took of the Haori after Razor :sweat_smile:)

Oh :eyes: now I need to know which bands you would have seen

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Hakama are great, I wish I would have a fancy one, but somehow I don’t have the courage to wear one aside sports, so that would be a waste of money. XD

Oh, I would have never missed Royz, grabbing some meal afterwords, tying to get to Kakumay, taking the whole DDJ experience, going to Chaqla. just to get a good spot for Xanvala and finish with Azavana (just being to lazy to switch the live house again).

Since I already saw Kakumay und Xanvala as oneman, I skepped them for bands I hadn’t see at all. Especially since Xanvala have the same time spot as Amai Bouryoku :pleading_face: … I think from the younger bands they really did become my favs.
Maybeeee there while be more Xanvala tho :eyes:

You can never see Xanvala too often. ^_~

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