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Old 6th December 2015, 03:04 PM
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Ah... got back from Saitama last day live.

As it had been mentioned by a Chinese fan (translated by Corvina & Karen)

This is my review:

Spoiler:


Opening Movie
>> Documentary of The Artist (just like the usual making of). Mentioned
From Entertainer, Vocalist and Dancer, What makes "Koda Kumi" as an Artist.

The stage is like Las Vegas-ish & Moulin Rouge-ish in my opinion.

Entertainer segment:
1) No Me Without You
>> When the curtains raised, she stood in the middle of the stage, wore a white lacey long-sleeved dress and huge white hat.
Start with beautiful sound of piano, but typical Kuu's ballad.
It sounded better live, than the preview.

2) Show Me Your Holla
>> Just like Karen has translated before. It's retro style and had different arrangement than original.
The dancer ripped off the sleeves at the beginning, and the skirt portion after, revealing white lacey 2 piece of sexy lingerie.. (momma, those abs.. *drool*)
About the end of the song, she wore green short bathrobe.

3) Bambi
>> This song actually fit after Show Me Your Holla, since it also got new arrangement.
She wore the black stripped costume (in the new picture)

4) WON'T BE LONG
>> She rode the cart, circling the arena.
Interactive song and Japanese fans love it.

** There was a trouble after this song and the show was suspended for 20 minutes. It started again from 2nd song**

5) LOADED
>> This song was fun as usual!
She should keep singing this song every tour
I know not many of you like this song, but if you attend the live, you'll definitely change your mind!

6) CUPCAKE
>> This song sounds like Touch Down but more dance-ish, imo.
Club house song. It's better than Touch Down for me.

7) Touch Down
>> Remix version, an okay from me.
She danced using the stick.

8) Crazy 4 U
>> A lot of dancing. Great!

Interlude movie
>> Mentioned that as a vocalist, it has to be ballad to show the real voice.

Vocalist segment:
9) You
>> She wore white dress with long wide skirt, raised few meters. (picture: white-blueish long dress)
The LED hanging on the ceiling above her, projected various images on her dress, like Andromeda, stars, etc. It was really pretty!

10) Moon Crying
>> The long wide skirt was taken off and she wore like wedding dress.
It's like the Taiwan live version one. Great vocal.

11) Brave
>> Just like her previous performance, walking to right and left.

12) Ai no Uta
>> Uhm.. no need to comment, i guess

13) Uta wa Waga Inochi
>> Not really fan of this song, but THIS is the best vocal from the ballad segment IMO. Her deep & strong vocal

Band introduction
>> She got new guitarist, named FIRE...
Yukino and David King were the backing vocal
During the band introduction, she disappeared.

14) You're so beautiful
>> She appeared wearing the red dress.

15) On and On
>> This new song reminds me of 90's~00's slow pop.
It's a laid back song. Chorus is repetitive: On and on, on and on, on and oonnnnnnnnnn.... but addictive. I like it better than No Me Without You for sure.
She sat on the chandelier and raised few meters. There was an additional huge red cloth, just like in the picture.

16) Walk Of My Life
>> Great vocal!

Interlude Movie
>> dance training documentary

Dancer segment:
17) Atomic Energy~XXX~Escalate~Lay Down~Crank the Bass
>> She wore a sexy purple-glitter-ish gymnastic like suit.
During Atomic Energy, the dance looked like Michael/Janet Jackson-ish. XXX was very short. Escal
>> She barely sang during this medley; 90% Hardcore dance!!

18) HOTEL
>> She sang almost full song and did the dance. It was great.

Dancers' part
>> Maiko was there!!
She got few new dancers, whom I barely knew.
Fujinko, Achi, Haruka... I don't remember
>> Kuu's dance part was on the mini stage.

19) TABOO
>> How much I love this song and she sang it almost in full
She rode the electric skateboard. It was cool!
She wore black bra? top and black pants.

20) Hurricane
>> THIS!! Awesome! Keep singing this song, prease!

21) UNIVERSE
>> No comment on this. Fun as usual

22) Megumi no Hito
>> same as above

23) Poppin' Love Cocktail
>> Towel dance

Encore (fan sang Walk)

24) Take Back~Birthday Eve~With Your Smile~Bring It On~In The Air~Someday~Lady Go!

25) Comes Up!
>> She cried while singing this song.

Long MC, announced of new Winter Ballad and her first 47 prefectures live tour starting next Spring. I guess it will be a Hall Tour.

26) Walk
>> Like usual..


Her vocal was really great this time, much more better comparing to her A-Nation premium live in Summer.
However, for the whole performance, if you have seen WoML, you may be disappointed with this tour.
After all of those extravaganza things she did on WoML (flying car, piano, drum, guitar, crazy tissue dance during DitR, etc) this tour lacked the usual "WOW-ness". But overall, it was a great concert.
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Last edited by Lee^ChaN; 6th December 2015 at 03:13 PM.