^Yeah, Hikki most likely would do better on stage nowadays had she toured more... But still, counting her touring, TV lives, internet performances, etc, she is not unexperienced either. Not hating on though, I'm a fan and watched pretty much every live performance of hers that I could get my hands on.

I don't think Kalen looked dead in the eyes during her TV performances though... Still, she looks mostly stiff and clearly has no idea of what to do during the instrumentals, but I don't think it's too bad for someone with so little performance experience.

Ayu has said that with her knee and hearing the best thing to do would be to stop performing on stage, but the reason she doesn't is because she herself isn't prepared to do that. I think her charisma comes from her own joy in performing. It's the greatest joy in her life, and it shows.

Ticketing info came out!

https://i.imgur.com/FW4omdd.png
https://a-nation.net/

Outside of Japan, other than SG/TW, fans will be able to buy tickets here https://www.vlive.tv/product/ds00u00u00000236?lang=ja
4800yen lets you watch the 3 ticketed stages. 1080p streaming! Buying the V-Live coins, it's about 46.47 USD (2400 + 100 coins) for a ticket!

Japanese fans have to watch via mu-mo Live, and SG/TW has their own service!

Ayu's way of dealing with this problem is annoying: she starts screaming "Yeah!!!" and "Whoo!!!" countless times, ruining the song:D

VLive is good for streaming, the quality of the stream is usually high even on a slower connection (at least in my experience).

It's great that the opportunity is there for us gaijin, but I just paid for KARD's concert and the WM Entertainment concert so I have no money for it this time LOL

I'm guessing the setup will be like the recent Korean Dream Concert where they hosted it on an indoor stage and had the acts perform like a standard TV Show. Hopefully with the bigger acts they might have bigger space and pyrotechnics/special effects?

Are the names in order of appearance? It looks odd to me to see ayu so early, plus Kalen being placed right before Kumi when I was expecting avex to pair her up with ayu lol

^Alphabetically ;) But by surname first, like Ayumi Hamasaki, Kalen Anzai, Koda Kumi (for some reason Kuu is the other way around) Kohmi Hirose etc.

Ohhh I see :laugh Wouldn't have thought of that lmao Thanks!

Ayu should have been in the middle, but she stylize her name as "ayumi hamasaki" lol

Or letting the dancers take the stage

yaaaasssssss

Areeeeennnnaaaaaaa!

Yeah, she has done enough performances where it shouldn't matter that she does less than some other people. She has great songs, she just isn't charismatic. Charismatic performers are hard to find, especially in Japan.

I got hypnotized by that hideous dress lol

Is anyone here planning on purchasing?

Not sure yet, nearly 50 bucks is a lot, plus I am visiting friends this weekened.

I think a few are, but is kind of a question of "is it worth it if I only want to see Ayu?" but it is an official outlet to stream after all.

^If Ayu is only doing 2 songs it's not really worth the price.. but I will see how I feel closer to the date. Other than Koda Kumi I barely know any of the other performers there... ^_^;;

If it's like usual a-nations, Ayu probably will do a large amount of songs. Most of the acts typically will do 2-3 and Ayu will probably get closer to 10. They're also slotting them into a 6 hour slot per stage, so among who is there, we'll probably see a good amount of songs on average but more for the people toward the end.