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Old 7th December 2019, 10:19 AM
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Here's the report what she talked about in both lives from Kota. on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/kt_fsnst/status/1202968388131115009

https://twitter.com/kt_fsnst/status/1202980611834576896

1st stage

About Love & Songs
- the voice of the baby before show girl was that of her child
- at the rehearsals of one of the performances she had an accident with the lifter opening the rose petals
- there were songs in the top 10 she actually didn't want to sing
- she disliked the center stage
- she didn't want the fans to see the protrusion of her waist from behind
- 360° view+ moving stage+ tech-driven movements = Kuu disliking the center stage
- the compatibility between the lifter of act 3 and her costume with the knee high boots was really bad and therefore difficult to fly

About UNIVERSE
-the floor of the main stage was unusual due to all the use of mire wesh
- the effect of the fountain was weakened at the place Kuu was sitting due to her staff's thoughtfulness
- the lifter under the Lick Me ♥ seat was compsoed of 4 pieces and was directed by moving 2 pieces at the same time
- the initial size of the mirror ball was too small and the acrylic plate on top of it was also bad, which made her angry
- so it couldn't be helped that Kuu bend her body forward/to the sides being on the plate
- when she was spinning her ponytail her stylist shouted about rehearsals and schedule and in the end she only was spinning it for the last two turns for 走れ!

2nd stage

About TRICK
- it was one of the candidates for re(LIVE)
- it all started with the dancers watching past arena tours and telling Kuu what they wanted to dance the most
- expressing the arena in a hall = re(LIVE)
- the early clown design was an okame (a moon-faced clown, a thin or shallow face without much profile)
- but they told her it wouldn't be wide enough so they added cement for the end result (talking about the stage design)
- Kuu wanted to get out of the mouth of the clown and after they did it several times they had the right width
- she also wanted the opening curtain to be sucked into the mouth of the clown
- But her staff said it would be impossible, so it was sucked in under the chin instead (all reasons for the big chin of the clown, I guess)
- the opening costume was already decided one year ago cause they already used it for the KINGDOM ending movie
- the reason why she put the BUT remix after show girl without singing it is that she wanted to do a pole dance show with the show girl concept
-Hurry Up! was first planned with a car instead of a motorcycle
- there was initially no technology to lift a car+the car had to be in a mini size, smaller than expected = idea abandoned, bike used
- Kuu said she wanted to do more tricks for the show
- the reason she made TRICK, the first song, only into a full version live was cause she wanted to create a sound source fitting simultaneously to the intro of the live

About WALK OF MY LIFE
- as revenge for Hurry Up! the Benz was lifted in the air this time
- as cars are usually not lifted into the air, the car body bends slightly forward + no lifeline = steep and scary
- she wondered about, if piano+drums+guitar wouldn't a bit too much at once
- every day when coming home after rehearsal she would still touch the instruments
- big sponsors+15th anniversary live+ her believe she couldn't go on for 15 years = a lot of pressure for successful performances and her being sensitive at rehearsals.
- Which is why she's crying in the making of: She just understood later that the picks she was frustrated about in the making were actually three new ones and she wanted to apologise for shouting at her staff after that.
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