It truly is the end of an era.... but not in a conventional way that you were expecting.
Some of you may have noticed that one of Namie's longtime dancers Hiromi was not in the final tour and the reason is she is pregnant and got married.
Yusuke, Hossy, and Risa were there for the wedding and in her post she confirmed that she is already pregnant. In recent posts she shows off her bump. Like Namie, like dancer?
Although no guarantee, it could possibly mean retirement to her dancing career as well. Its all coming to an end.
As for my 2nd ticket, I ended up wasting it. While they made the interface look like it was transferrable, you could only transfer to the person who registered for the lottery. As a last ditch effort, I tried asking the staff at Tokyo Dome, but they said nothing could be done. Then they said something that stuck with me for a month. In Japanese they said "rules are the rules". I get it, Japan is a very subservient country, its one of their greatest strengths that make them very disciplined, well-mannered people (did you see the Japanese people cleaning up after themselves in the World Cup?) but it can also be quite a weakness. I went to the show thinking I would be the reason this stadium would have one empty seat, but it turned out there were a bunch of empty seats. Is it really more important to follow the rules than to make sure as many people as possible get to see the final concert of one of the greatest acts of Jpop?
Anyway I'm done ranting, I did enough of that while sulking this past month (her retirement finally sank in during the closing minutes of the concert when she addressed us that this is the final time shes taking the stage).
Seems a few people are getting the chance to fly the Amuro Jet. May I ask how you booked a flight? It seems you can only search for flights on the current day and next day.
I am going back in September for a music festival and to hopefully visit all four Final Space museums, would be nice to fly the Amuro Jet while I am at it.