The show starts with one of the clowns (Daisuke, the clown on the cover page of the tour's pamphlet) comes onto stage while the lights still on (as in the lights directed to the audience) with a big trunk (old luggage) and brings it down the middle of the catwalk and opens it. Then some light blue chairs pop out, and suddenly the other 2 clowns pop out and scare him. So they start doing clown things, fighting, falling around, doing pirouettes, so the audience claps, and responds to their circus-like act. They also bring a big ball out from the main stage side, but I didn't get a chance to touch it because the staff put it away pretty quick, even on my last day when I was sitting in the arena.
Then THE introduction starts while they still on stage (They look scared, and they already popped everything they took out of the trunk back in it and closed it, so they are now trying to bring it back to the main stage, where the curtains still down/closed)
01 - THE introduction
at 0:42 of this song, the clowns fall in the middle of the stage and then run away, then the curtains start going up very slowly, we can see smoke coming out, and shiny suits from all the dancers who look really intimidating and start moving towards the middle stage through the catwalk like robots (makes me think a bit of C3PO or Robocot). We were all obviously screaming and freaking out, the tension was building like crazy, everybody was very excited and the feeling was awesome!
The dancers arrive to the middle stage and place themselves around it facing the audience, while the middle round screen (a round screen on top of the round stage almost the size of it) goes down, and it has some kind of blue water or smoke images going on.
02 - Microphone
Then some kind of organ music starts, and there's a minute of silence while that music is playing, gives a feeling of holiness. It goes up while Microphone's first organs start to sound, everybody screaming while we can see ayu's silhouette in the dark, and we finally get to see her when she starts singing. At this moment, I was already crying my eyes out on the first date, since I couldn't believe what was happening. We all started with our uchiwas and light sticks while she rocks Microphone. She was obviously sitting on the chair at first, and then stands up. She looked seriously so beautiful, that made me cry too, she just looked too stunning.
03 - Last angel
For Last angel the lights go out, but we can still see her in the dark, then we can see at the main screens a feather falling down, this was also new for the people that attended the other dates of the tour, so nobody knew what it was until the song started.
The dancers already took their golden robot masks out, so we can see their faces (I think they took them out by the end or middle of Microphone, not too sure).
While ayu is singing Last angel, they start moving towards the main stage, and some of the performers come onto stage with fluorescent strings, like trying to fight ayu, but the dancers protect her or something like that, it took me a while to understand what was happening, the excitement didn't let me focus. Ayu also removed the bottom part of her Microphone dress for Last angel, so she can run or move around easily I believe.
04 - About You
"Wow wow wow yeeee yeah, wooo yeah yeah" with peco and princess, just like the presentation at CDL 09-10, very similar as we could all expect. 2 dancer clowns fall from the air too, during this song
At the end of this song, she goes down the stage and Aki (dancer/performer) appears to do the tissue dance but this time with some kind of thick net, so she looks like she is trapped inside of it. Her clothes also made me think of what shuya and gomi were wearing for the presentation of About You at AT05.
05 - rainy day
We first of all have that ballad section intro video, with shuya, midori, maro and ayu. Its very touching, at the end we see shuya with blue poison dripping down his mouth and face, midori bleeding from her dress, maro and ayu crying. There is also like black drops falling onto the image, like it was a picture, it made me think of that black liquid in MOON's pv.
For rainy day, we can hear the rain, and see little rain drops falling down the screens all over (main screens, side stage screens, middle stage round screen, and also from little light strips that are hanging down at the main stage, it looks very beautiful.
So the dancers (maro, midori and shuya) appear all from different parts of the stage, we all scream as we see them. Then ayu appears at the main stage and starts to sing, all the other dancers appear to be street people with umbrellas, dancing around her. The 3 dancers and ayu finish at the middle stage.
06 - BALLAD
This has to be the more touching part of it all, It starts with the 3 dancers and ayu up on the middle stage, with smoke on the bottom of it that makes it look like they were on clouds, or more like in a dream. Rose petals falling down too.
During the song, they move around when the stage goes down, and by 3:30 of the song is when midori kills herself in the middle stage and starts bleeding out, while shuya looks like he can't believe was happening, and ayu with maro look at her from the catwalk shocked like they can't do anything about it. Then Shuya holds midori, and drinks the blue poison.
Maro holds ayu, while she falls down crying, she is really crying during this part of the song, and all the way to the end of it. That's why her voice sounds really weak and touching. I cried every time I saw this part of the concert. It was seriously very sad.
The dancers don't go up to "heaven" like they did in the normal version of the tour.
07 - MOON
During the intro of this song, we can see lights that move down the arena, and it looks really beautiful, like the moon is really shining on top of us. Then ayu appears up on the middle stage with a new pink dress. She moves around singing, a little bit like You were... at CDL 09-10 or CAROLS at AT05. Very beautiful and touching. I love this part too and her vocals were very good.
08 - count down
Before the song, Subaru appears playing the big drum in the middle of the main stage, and then chisa and zin play the drums too, up on the air at the sides of subaru. Then they say something like "Sou ne!" and all the other dancers appear playing drums, a bit like a carnival, with the screens that make it look like a casino. A bit of a weird mixture, but very interesting and entertaining. I really believed evolution was coming after this, but count down started with ayu popping up at the middle of the main stage with that gorgeous red dress, with no shoes.
She starts singing away, while the dancers start doing their thing, it looks like they have some kind of story going on, but I didn't really understand what was happening with them. I mainly focused on ayu, who put a lot of feelings into this song. For the chorus, I could just see an ocean of uchiwas moving pointing towards ayu, like we were giving her our energy. There is also fire coming out at the main stage during the chorus.
09 - Memorial address
This performance was just like a flash-back to the performance in AT 03-04. Before she started singing, and we could all only listen to the piano intro, I always screamed
"ayuuu gambaree!!!", because everyone was very silent. I could see a few fans whipping their tears by then, which made me cry like a baby, specially on the 02/10 one.
Ayu's vocals were flawless for this song... it was amazing and very very sad.
10 - Virgin Road
Then the female dancers appear on the stage, holding flowers and looking like brides, I thought that maybe M was coming after. It really had a feeling like we were in church and someone was getting married. It was beautiful, simple, and the screens had church window's or mosaics going on, very pretty.
Then some fans started screaming from the side, and ayu pops out the side stage dressing like a gorgeous bride. At the first date, there was a man behind her still putting in the long bride tail lol It was a bit funny, but everything was good after that.
The female dancers were holding the tail up, like for M at A museum, this time she started walking down the side stage and forward right to the other side. By the first chorus, she was on the middle stage, which elevated and then went down again for her to keep moving forward.
On my last day attending the concert (06/10), I was sitting at the arena, and when ayu came out from the side stage for this song, she was 3 or 4 meters away from me. We all freaked out and tried her to look at us... I cried like crazy, she was just too beautiful. She was also wearing no shoes here.
By 3:07 of the song, she was already walking all the way to the other side of the side stage, and the fans freaked all out again. On the other 2 dates I went to, this time I was close to her, and uhh made me cry too lol.
Then they take her tail out, which goes away down at the middle stage. She runs to the middle catwalk with the dancers in front of her, and towards to stage. I think there were also rose petals falling down on the catwalk this time. At the middle screen there was a church with the silhouette of a groom.
11 - Don't look back
Dancers appear on stage, doing magic tricks with the screens, like they were genies. I think it was maro and 2-yan, Gomi also appears leading the group, and they place around where ayu is going to pop up on the main stage.
She appears and starts singing, does some dance moves like the dancers, I found it very sexy and middle eastern-like, she looked gorgeous and very sexy lol I love this performance and INSPIRE after it fits perfectly.
Funny because on the first day, it took a while for her to come onto stage, and the dancers had to start dancing without her lol it was a bit awkward and scary, until she finally appeared
12 - INSPIRE
"Here we go!!"
Very similar to every other INSPIRE performance, she did very well with this song. I think that this song together with count down, Memorial address and Because of you fit her current vocals very well, because she nailed them every time.
They move towards the middle stage and end in there with the INSPIRE dance.
13 - Because of you
Ayu is holding that thing with the microphone again, this time they took her purple arabic part of the costume away. She nailed this song, so much better than the performance at CDL 09-10. She really felt this song on the 3 date of the 7 days final.
She got a bit emotional at the end, and we could all feel her feelings and power. This song was also a favorite to many people in the audience, they were very energetic around me during the chorus when I was sitting in the arena lol
Cabaret intro
Peco, princess and Gomi appear performing and singing a cabaret song. Gomi's costume makes me think of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (This movie/musical about Transsexuals Transvestites from Transylvania)
It was very entertaining and sexy lol. Before these concerts, I didn't like peco and princess that much, but now I find them cute haha. They looked hotter than ever for this concerts anyway, is like they are getting younger and younger ^^
14 - Sexy little things
There was a white curtain and we could see the silhouette of 2 bunny girls, they drop it I think, and we can see ayu and kayanocchi, and everyone is all over the place, there is clowns, men with top hats and suits. Very very cute and cool
By the last
"muaaa" that ayu gives after the
"uee", like a kiss, she gives it to yochan, and they show his face and he is like really serious haha everyone goes like
"kawaiiii!!!!" to him ^^
15 - STEP you
For this song ayu is this time sitting on the cocktail cup, and the guy dancers are trying to convince her to pick one of them. At this part she also picks up this casino coins and throws them away like she doesn't want them, very cute. There are also other 2 bunnies, purple and yellow.
The end video screen for this performance goes on, and its like the bunnies are backstage with the male dancers, I think that maro and zin bring kayanocchi to bed and try to make out(?) with her. Ayu is in the other side with subaru and shuya(?) and moves to the other side where kayanocchi is in bed with maro and zin. They start somehow to make out one with another (like they are going to kiss but they don't) kayanocchi with the guys, and then with ayu, etc.
16 - Jump!
Aki and 2-Yan are the lead dancers for this song, they appear like bikies on stage and start making everyone to
"jump!! jump!!" And then the other dancers come on stage too. Peco and princess are the ones that sing
"jump! jump!"
17 - Lady Dynamite
There is a screen wall on the middle of the stage with ayu's silhouette and then the dancers turn it around and ayu appears with the bikie clothes and starts singing. I love this song live so much, the audience was really going crazy with it lol
The screen video its like a half clown half byke dude with green high hills lol He is a bit scary, and I'm not sure if he is one of the dancers.
Then ayu disappears from the main stage and appears on the middle stage during this song.
She also moves around to the sides.
18 - until that Day...
This time the performance of this song is different, not the same dance that we've seen many times before. Its like the bikie version of it lol Her energy for this song its awesome, she moves around and jumps around like crazy, and so the audience goes crazy too.
19 - SURREAL ～evolution～ SURREAL
Ayu starts singing SURREAL and moves to the front of the side stage (the same place where she walked towards for when she sang Virgin Road), where she gets on this platform that goes up the sky～
I was very close to her for this too on my first 2 times attending the concert. She was going around us and we all freaked out lol
SURREAL stays on hold, and evolution starts. Very energetic, to live this song live made me love it just like the first time I listened to it... just amazing.
Then the
"lalalala lalalala!!!" for the other part of SURREAL starts, and they all move towards the main stage to finish the show.
They were all wearing different outfits from different parts of the show. Then we get the usual
"arigatou gozaimashita!!!" from ayu, dance and band members. Lots of shiny glittery paper falling down, crazy lights and the band obviously goes crazy too lol
She jumps at the end many times with the band, and screams
"yeeyeeyeeyeeeh!! doumo arigatouuuu!!!!" And then the curtain falls down.
Encore
We all start screaming
"ayu!! ayu!!" clapping with our uchiwas and/or light sticks, until the encore videos comes on. They make us sing omedetou on the first date, because of her birthday. And then before the countdown for her to appear, they make us scream
"ayu! ayu! ayu! ayu!" like crazy, many times and very fast lol
Ayu comes on stage! Asking how we all are, and if we are having fun!! Then she mentions how energetic the audience is ^_^ I was probably still jumping and screaming when she said that XD
She talks a little and calls zin with subaru on stage.
We learn the new dance for Sweet Season, but we obviously weren't meant to know it was that song. Zin gives away the surprise by saying
"kira kira" and ayu gets a bit angry and makes fun of him haha (This was on the first date), At the other dates we still learn the dance but most of us knew it already
She was quite surprised how we learned it so fast!
02/10
-We sang happy birthday to her and screamed omedetou
-Ayu sang crossroad a Capella with peco and princess
05/10
-We congratulated her for breaking seiko matsuda's record, even that they didnt mention her, only ayu and how it all started with Free & Easy
-Ayu sang the softbank song a capella thanks to the audience, with subaru playing that funny instrument that ayu was holding on the commercial
-Ayu this time sang blossom a capella
06/10
Ayu sang crossroad a capella this time again, and also the softbank song
20 - Humming 7/4
For this song they throw balls to the audience, I really wanted one on the last day I went because I was very close from them! Shuya looked at me haha I freaked out
21 - Boys & Girls
We had the lyrics on the screen for this song, funny cause they always do it, and I'm sure they all know the lyrics for this song very well!! I think she went on the platform again for this song.
22 - Sweet Season
Ayu started to get emotional, together with all the dancers, and we obviously did the dance together with them.
She starts saying by from this song.
Then it looks like its over, the lights go out, and we see her in the middle of the stage with the dancers around her.
23 - SEVEN DAYS WAR
"revolution" We all hear, and we know its coming this song. The dance that the dancers do for it looks very touching, and makes me cry. For the chorus, ayu and the dancers raise their fists, and mechanically, we all do as well, even that no one told us to do so. I can't stop crying, I can see how ayu is battling throughout this "SEVEN DAYS WAR", and she seems fairly happy and content with it. Very emotional end, we don't want it to end, and the goodbyes are never enough.
She thanks to the staff members, band members, dancers (she presents them one by one as usual), and herself, we all clap and scream her name.
The dancers leave, and we have her only on stage, only one light shinning on her. She sings the end of SEVEN DAYS WAR a capella.
And then the curtains start closing, with the lights on again, and shiny stuff falling down lol not balloons this time. and she leaves the mic on the floor and screams
"arigatou gozaimashita!!" while the curtains close and bows until its totally closed. We don't get to hear her with all the music, but I like this end anyway.
IN CONCLUSION
Ayu gave her all every single day I saw her, no matter if she did a little mistake with her voice, or if there were any mistakes during the concert. She was always herself, she cried when she got emotional, and had fun when she had to. She rocked those rock songs and danced when she had to. But even that we saw different faces of ayu throughout the concert, she was always herself.
I cried on my last day in Japan, at the airport, listening to SEVEN DAYS WAR, because I knew my SEVEN DAYS WAR was over. I knew I wasn't going to see her again for a while, but I was happy regardless, because I got to see who she really was, and gosh I will miss her like crazy.
I'm looking forward seeing her again live, whenever that time comes, I will embrace it. And I sincerely hope we all get that chance to see her, because its the only way we can get to understand who she really is. Because there is not Ayumi Hamasaki but the one that its on stage.
PS. SORRY I kinda added new info in the conclusion xD But oh well