Omg can't believe it's tomorrow, don't know what timw to get there even yet haha

I think I'm gonna get there between 330 & 4.

I also can't wait to watch the concert tomorrow...

Piece_of_Seven i think i saw you today at the show must go on exhibition.

You should have said hello! :D

I wonder if Anything for you live is as amazing as Walk was. I really loved Walk live, it almost made me cry along with ayu, it was really beautiful.

Anything for you was beautiful live, it was also the first time I heard that song in general^^
mehhhhh I want the DVD NOW! XD

And is Movin' on without you's performance is more interesting than the CDL one where ayu just sits and sings? (even though she did it good lol).

If anyone wants to add me on LINE and possibly meet up before the shows, feel free! Username is b_utifulfighter or use my qr code!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13...psmfxdcs0c.png

You should charge your phone xD

doing that now. omg whats this about stage side seats??

https://y-tickets.jp/order/subscript...maa151-33yygth

http://eplus.jp/sys/main.jsp?prm=U=1...:P4=009:P6=001

It was the special event where they had the iron-on designs, if you bought 5000 yen worth of goods you got one of the designs for free, and they would iron it on for you at the venue. I didn't even have anything to transfer the design on so I just didn't bother.

Anything for you is really good live!! But not as emotional as Walk on the CDL. She performed it on the main stage without the carousel. sobs

I'm standing in the TA Line now. Wasn't expecting so many people. It doesn't open until 2pm. So this is for ALL TA members tickets, not just Japanese I hope, right? Lol

Man...it's crazy. I am like so super excited for all of you guys who are there. XD I hope you all have (had?) a blast!

OH MY FUCKING GOD I GOT A2 SEATS OMFG

OMG that's right in front right Ö____Ö Gongratz!!!!

Walking towards Yoyogi, if people want to say hi it's okay, I'm the blondest guy there probably :'D

This FC line for the bracelet....just sick

I got in line at 130 for the bracelet. It's a dark blue.

Line opened at 2 and I was finished by like 220.

I prefer that ayu do the combo Anything for You on the main stage and go to the catwalk and do Walk

The encore song was greatful days.
MC seemed extra long. And I was surprised that I understood about 60% of it.

Oh, and NHK FUCKING INTERVIEWED US ABOUT AYU FOR THE NEWS. They stopped us after the concert. So crazy! Let me know if yall see me on the news!

^OMG that's awesome!
Let's hope you'll pop up on NHK

@pieces_of_seven OMG! That's awesome!! I'm so happy for you, you're a lucky one :yes

Well Anything for you is a song of encouragement (even though it's awesomely beautiful) and Walk is about her having to go with her head up smiling while she feels awful inside, that's probably the difference.

Pieces_of_SEVEN it's really cool to hear!!
Wanna share some great live moments?

And how is Movin' on without you in the tour? better than CDL's performance?

Movin' on without you is so much better than CDL version, which to me was also good, but this was much better, Ayu clearly remembers the lyrics now so she could jump and dance to it!

The whole thing was so awesome, my first time seeing her live, not starstruck though haha, but she's really amazing to look at live, what a powerhouse for that little of a woman haha!

Did she sound well? =) I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it so much!
Thanks for the Movin' on without you info!

She got mixed with the wires on GAME, so there was a small timing "issue" with the song, idk if there was some mic problem, it sounded really rasby and loud at some point, but didn't really care lol.

Such a powerful show, lasted more than 3 hours, felt like 45min to be honest, time went fast! Hmm what else...Step by Step is a really nice and uplifting song, sounded nice live! Much better than the recording we had at some point

She sounded really great to me, Ayu was awesome, my only problem was japanese people, so still and not moving that much lol, well I thought that I paid a lot of money for this so I will jump and scream and do whatever I want :D

The show tonight was simply amazing! Ayu sounded great the whole night. Actually GAME sounded pretty good. She was crying a bit in the end of Secret and you could hear her singing through the tears in the beginning of Last Minute. I really enjoyed it. Immature performance was really cool! I wouldn't say it got rock-ish sound though, just rearranged but very nicely. Set list was really great though I hoped for something else than Greatful Days to be honest :p

Yeah only "disappointment" for me too was Greatful Days :'D I was so ready for Born to Be... or July 1st. Well, maybe tomorrow something different, but Greatful days was still very much fun live, although I never listen to it

Superb vocals tonight. Greatful days for the encore.

Asfxx, mu and Last minute were just awesome. Loved Pride and Microphone too. Her rockiest concert to date. Immature was kimd of underwhelming.

After hear Step By Step on the concert, i'm praying that ayu do a GOOD SUMMER PV

Looking for a trend it will be the same song tomorrow most probably. I'm not going tomorrow anyhow, one show was enough, even though I enjoyed it a lot. I would go though to a show in a different city but I'm leaving Japan on Monday.
I sort of hoped for independent to be honest :p
The set list is so perfect though that I hope she won't remove songs for The FINAL.

Yeah, you can see she really has fun on stage, especially at the encore.

wow..so many members attended her yesterday concert?

exactly. and dramatic people always talking about empty seats. I DIDNT SEE MANY AT ALL. :P

Yoyogi is pretty much always guaranteed to be full for Ayu concerts though, lol

Agree.. Yesterday i didn't see lots of empty seat...

They were talking about different venues. Yoyogi's attendance is the most guaranteed one, especially when fans initially balloted for tickets thinking that these two shows are the final ones.

Show starts in 3 minutes.

I GOT B5 TODAY. HOW AM I STILL ALIVE. SO LUCKY AND GREATFUL

Why should she sing July 1st in June, especially when there are concerts in July afterwards?

Edit:
And seriously? Pink again!?
http://oi61.tinypic.com/33niafl.jpg

Okay so before I say anything about today or yesterday's concert I need to start with...

KODA KUMI was there tonight in the VIPしか入れないarea (pun intended) with her kid! And a nanny maybe. They left after the main show. Her kid had to go out during (miss)understood (probably due to ayu's shouting lol). But ffs I was staring at her so much I couldn't help it. She sat there all night and didn't participate in the concert but meh. I was gonna wave at her, I wonder if she remembers me from last year's concert when I got to be lucky boy but anyway I digress. Kuu was last weekend, this weekend was all about ayu!

Anyway so tonight I had arena A3 seats- first time so close and first time buying tickets myself. Thanks TA! Last night was C3 so not bad but not as close as tonight. It was so nice to finally see ayu up close with my own eyes finally.

The show is almost too long, I was so exhausted both nights, so props to ayu for maintaining form and her voice. Vocally she was as good as last year's CDL and as good as I've seen her. Probably my favourite show of hers alongside HOTEL Love songs arena tour.

Visually it's more complete than CDL but some interlude videos would have been nice. It's probably a great concert for first time ayu goers to see because of the amount of songs and energy, but having seen the Cirque de Minuit CDL as well it wasn't as 'amazing' for me, but still a really great show. What are the chances though, both times I did the CDL and then consecutive ARENA TOUR and they were the same (HOTEL Love songs + Cirque de Minuit).

I loved the rare songs she sang- especially (miss)understood, Secret, and HAPPY ENDING. immature was not that great a performance and the elephant is pretty useless.

Gomi was also there in the audience tonight but on the front row, he hid himself in Boys & Girls when he was shown on the screen.

WARNING was probably my favourite performance of the night, followed by Secret or until that Day.... forgiveness wasn't as great without the countdown in it, I think she should have left that song out of the setlist.

She acknowledged in the MC tonight that tonight was the last show with the current setlist, will be interesting to see what she does for the "final". They're really desperate to sell tickets, they had posters and signs everywhere for the concerts in Yokohama and were giving out leaflets, as well as had booths set up so you could buy tickets to it. Never seen that before at one of her shows. Kind of bummed they added the concerts again knowing how good my seat was tonight, but what can you do! Next year maybe. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with "the final" - though I'll have to wait a while to see it, I'm off the grid in Alaska when it airs :(

I also got a bunch of pics with cosplayers and stuff I'll post later.

That's awesome to know that kuu went to see ayu, she really likes her if she goes from time to time, she probably really enjoys ayu's shows.

I'm glad to hear you had a lot of fun! I wish I had the money :P students...

That's cute that Kumi was there! :)

ayu x kuu power
nice to hear kuu went to her final show

It's not the final.

I meant from the final of the first leg but forgot to continue.

Ayu should visit the tours of her female labelmates too.

I can write more of my thoughts later. Only have my phone until I get back to Florida. Cant believe it's over. Met a couple of cool new friends too!

The current setlist is fantastic. Will be hard to make it better.

Why am I not hearing any news from Yoyogi yet? I thought Yoyogi is her 'home' venue, but apparently the tour's final stop is in Yokohama, not Yoyogi...

AT07 finished in Fukuoka, AT08 at Taipei, PoM at Saitama

photos and message from LINE

http://i.imgur.com/lBQKOCt.jpg
“真夜中のサーカス”本公演ラストとなる代々木２日間に遊びにきてくださった皆さん、突然の真夜 中のサーカ ス第2章となったステージを最高のラストピースとなり、最後まで共にステージを創り上げてくだ さったこと、 本当に感謝しかありません。

ありがとうございました！

さすがの我らが聖地・代々木。オープニングから圧倒的なボルテージで、私はもちろん、一座全員 、幕が下りる 最後の瞬間までとにかく前だけを見て全力で走り抜くことが出来ました。
アクシデントはきっとこのためにあったんだ！と思えるくらい、1ミリの悔いもないステージだっ たと今こうし て思えているのは、時間のないなかたくさんの変更を余儀なく言い渡されてもとにかく努力と気力 で私を信じて ついてきてくれたパフォーマーチームの勇気、ハイレベルな踊りでテンション高くステージ全体を 支えてくれる 頼もしいダンサーズの面々、そして日本が誇るプロフェッショナルミュージシャン集団であるバン ドメンバー、 更にはもう10数年共に歩き続けてくれている有り難き多くのスタッフ ー。

そして何より、この私達の真夜中のサーカスを全国各地で見届けてくださった皆さんのお陰です！ ！！

先週木曜日から代官山で同時開催されていた写真展にも、4日間で5000人を超える方々にお越 し頂いたそう で本当に嬉しいです！

本公演としてはここで1度、一区切りとなりますが、私達は神戸、横浜での追加公演となる “真夜中のサーカス The FINAL” へ向けて今日からまた新たな準備に突入します。本公演に来て下さった方たちにも必ずや、「また 来て良かった ！」と思って頂けるステージを約束しますので、楽しみにしていてください！

ayu
http://i.imgur.com/yzQKwz7l.jpg

But AT07 didn't stop at Yoyogi, apparently...

Wasn´t 2007 the year Yoyogi couldn´t be used because of some renovation (because of asbestos)?

Yes, it was being renovated.

Will post my thoughts about the yoyogi shows as soon as I get back home to a keyboard! Had such a great time.

waiting fir your review

Like seriously TONS of members here watched her Yoyogi show..

Didn't know about that. Now I've learned something why Ayu couldn't use Yoyogi for 2007. Thanks for the heads-up.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone that takes their time to write reviews of the concerts and share them here, they're always really interesting to read!

Nice avatar njanjayrp! Can't wait to read all the reviews

promo image from official site
http://i.imgur.com/xI6MsXYl.png

I'm excited for the final but there aren't many songs I want to see cut. Maybe forgiveness if it doesn't work as well without the countdown, Rule and Lady Dynamite maybe. Not fussed by MY ALL but I imagine it is one of those songs that are great to hear when you are there. I'd love to see NO FUTURE added though and I strangely miss evolution and SURREAL >.< but as two songs, not the medley!

Anybody got this pic in higher resolution without the text pls?
Thx!

photo from LINE

http://i.imgur.com/JDHir5v.jpg

I got a mail from TA that there's a 5 something thingy if you get tickets for the FINAL like something related to a new song (which is one of the things)?

Thx a lot!

Ayumisrael : they meant to say the 5 highlight of the concert
1. New addition of songs
2.TA bracelet pink colour
3. Childcare area
4. New tour goodies
5. Something about yokohama... is it saying that it will be recorded?

ah ok! Thank you for clarfying.
Then it means that they will only add songs and not replace?

Wouldn't put my bets on it though, I'm sure they will have to replace some because of the length.

ayumisrael they just repeat news

Are we already nearing the end of the tour already? o_o God time flies by fast... And then the album... and then she she starts preparing for CDL. It's crazy lol

CDL and new album :d

Thanks, JEWELian took the picture :) I have so many things to say about the show, but until I get back home I'll just say that the energy was even more amazing than the last two times I've seen her. I was amazed at how much her vocal skills have improved and the way she could handle forgiveness like it's 2003!

I really wish that she put more songs of A One on the tour, cut some like Forgiviness, Progress, Microphone
I need to see No Future live

She's going to expand into Asia this year again. So I think the mini album will be promoted along with the tour and of cos a-nation!

^^No, no and no. Those songs are staples.

So I can't live, so I can't live
Ikiteru akashi sae
So I can't live, so I can't live
Motomerarenai uta
Let's put an end... The Final!!!

oh... wrong forum sorry

no news yet about a-nation extension to Asia this year?

No future is 99 % not happening unless she lowers the key, it would be very difficult for her to handle live.

That's so true, I feel that's why she'll never sing kanariya live, she just can't.

Nice to see a DIR EN GREY fan here though!
I really wonder if this FINAL will have major changes

Haha xD At first I was like "wait, Ayu is singing Diru's THE FINAL for the tour final?!?!?!?". lol

I have hoped that this tour will span more in East Asian countries eg. Taiwan, China, Hongkong, and Singapore. But who knows, the first half of the year is just ending. I have a feeling that there's this big thing coming <3

I am looking forward reading to all of your reviews since so many of you guys from the forum were able to see her.
It brings tears of joy to my eyes.

Riki will have surgery on friday this week. Probably he will not appear at the final performances. His twitter @rikifujimaki if you want to send him warm message

I wanted her to have Asia Tour again too, but it seems only A-nation is going there. I don't expect any Asian dates after the desicion to have final in Yokohama.

Riki is the guy who perform GAME right? I wonder what happened with GAME performance...

The one who usually does the aerial performance is Katsuyuki I think?

My name's WOMEN was one of my favorites. So damn hot. Also GAME. ayu did some really impressive aerial moves.

^So the coreo for GAME performance changed?

Rikki is the frog guy.

There was a frog guy in Yoyogi he was crying when Ayu was introducing the dancers. Not sure about his name though.

I think it was the same as the CDL one, I didn't notice anything had changed.

[TeamAyu Members Limited] "ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2015 A(logo) Cirque de Minuit -Midnight circus- The FINAL" Venue Promotion!!


TeamAyu members visiting to concert venues will receive "TeamAyu x Cirque de Minuit Original Good-luck Bracelet" on a first come, first served basis!!!
Here are the colors of the day!

Saturday in Kobe [Peach Beige] Sunday in Kobe [Salmon Pink]
Saturday in Yokohama [Saxe blue] Sunday in Yokohama [Gold]

Participate "TeamAyu LOTTERY" game!
If you find LUCKY "A(logo)" Card in your Good-luck Bracelet bag, winners will get luxurious prizes!!

Bring your ticket on a day of the concert and get "[The FINAL] Limited TA Pink Good-luck Bracelet"!

Let's get "[The FINAL] Limited TA Pink Good-luck Bracelet"!

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[How to participate]
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1. "TeamAyu x Cirque de Minuit Original Good-luck Bracelet"

Access the following URL to log in.
Display "the digital membership ID with QR code" of TeamAyu and show it to the staff at the fan club booth on the event day.


[The digital membership ID with QR code]
http://global-fc.net/teamayu/


You need to enter your ID number and password in order to display your digital membership ID.
We will not provide your personal information to you at the venue, so please prepare your ID in advance.

▼Important Notice
*One "TeamAyu x Cirque de Minuit Original Good-luck Bracelet" is available per membership ID per day.
*Members having multiple IDs can only receive one bracelet at once. Please stand in the queue again to receive multiple bracelets.
*You can try the lottery without concert tickets.

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2. "[The FINAL] Limited TA Pink Good-luck Bracelet"

Access the following URL to log in.
Display "the digital membership ID with QR code" of TeamAyu and show it to the staff with your concert ticket at the fan club booth on the event day.

[The digital membership ID with QR code]
http://global-fc.net/teamayu/

^ I wonder what the "luxurious prizes" are!

Probably recycled old products for lucky bags. :P

^ oh, that's not as exciting as I thought they would be, but as long as they free I wouldn't mind getting some of them... :D :P

The prizes before were a giant signed Ayu poster or a tour of backstage before/after the concert, I think.

Backstage + sign poster is prize for lotterie when you buy a CD/DVD at the venue.
Prize for Good-Luck bracelet lucky Card is some kind of LP-sized folder(?) with A One Cover

Oo, I think I combined the two.

http://i.imgur.com/P0Yuym8.jpg

Seems like it is backstage + LP sized panel for the LUCKY! sticker.

Winner + ticket!