So I am back...without my luggage for now...still back nevertheless. Japan was awesome! So about the concert:
L'arc en Ciel had their 20th Anni. concert at Nissen Stadium which is pretty close to Yokohama arena so there were many people trying to get to Yokohama at the same time. Now the trains were packed with fans wearing all sorts of tour goods. While I was trying to get to the arena I've noticed there were many people who just bought a couple of items and then headed back (they are most likely attending another tour date?). When we finally reached the arena grounds we've noticed the line for the goods was terribly long, but still decided to wait cuz we had another hour before the doors open.
There were so many people cosplaying Ayu and some of the dancers, most notably SHU-YA and there was a guy with exactly the same hairstyle and everyone was like OMG SHU-YA! xD People actually took more than 2hrs to get to their seats so the concert was around 20 mins late (it actually started the moment they closed the gates).
I didn't mind the videos, I don't think they were actually that long and some were fun...while some were a snooze fest, but there was almost always something going on on the stage as well, so I wasn't bored for a moment + those are a great chance to sit down and rest up a bit!
Happening here was a great opener, I was really hyped and the people around me were singing Every morning, every night so I sang along as well. Ayu's vocals pleasantly surprised me. She was consistent during the whole night and I was surprised she could actually hit some notes the way we haven't heard her do in a long time. Even my friend's boyfriend who is Japanese but doesn't listen to/like Ayu said he sounds way better than the last time he's heard her.
Now the ballads were nice to hear and even though I prefer listening to them, the upbeat songs like Shake it! and Sparkle were so much fun live. Everyone seems to have digged Ayu's koneko-chan costume for Shake it/STEP you xD I was kinda disappointed she didn't sing the whole STEP you, but the short version without the second verse
NaNaNa was also pretty fun and I liked her vocals with less vocoders, Timmy sounded a bit dead though. Now the next LOVE performance was somewhat boring, but her vocals were really solid and when Eyes, Smoke, Magic started everyone was clapping during the whole song and Ayu has really done a great job with this one vocally.
Return Road had one of the more interesting performances for me as you could actually follow what's going on xD but she kinda messed up the choruses a bit.
Party queen - definitely one of the best performances of the night. The lasers and all the lights looked awesome and the part where she started singing "I am a lonely queen" was just epic. After that the whole arena started screaming "Ayuuu!".
Ladies night was actually not so much fun live >_> but SURREAL~evolution definitely made up for that. Love song was just too amazing <3 and her vocals during Last angel were probably the best so far!
I was kinda glad the MC wasn't long because my Japanese knowledge is limited, so this way I got most of what she was saying. During the encore she also asked everyone if they think the concert was ok.
I had so much fun during those 2 hrs. I barely noticed Timmy, Shu-ya and the back vocals. In other words all the things that tend to annoy me on DVDs just don't seem to be that important when you're actually there.