[Koda Kumi] The 196th Thread - My music is designed from my DNA

[Party_King]

Is there an actual/complete/final Setlist for her CDL?
Can't find any Informations about it...

[KarenPang]

Happy new year to 1 & all

Kuu posted photos of herself with Max Matsuura who went to see her DNA concert at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall back in Nov , on the same day when Kuu celebrated her birthday





Kuu's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BsFQiTNg2G1/

2 shot photo Max posted on his Instagram



https://www.instagram.com/p/BqH6DHvhGfO/

[minkAYuko]

Max... if you still have "IT" do your thing with Kumi, she deserves it, we deserve it and the WORLD deserves it!. Onegai!

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by Party_King

Is there an actual/complete/final Setlist for her CDL?
Can't find any Informations about it...

Spoiler:

Main setlist:
01. Dangerous
02. Pin Drop
03. IS THIS TRAP? ~ECSTASY ~ TABOO medley
04. HAIRCUT
05. HOT HOT
06. 会えなくなるくらいなら
07. 愛のうた
08. 恋のつぼみ ~ I'll be there ~ Someday medley
09. CHANCES ALL
10. NEVER ENOUGH
11. OUTTA MY HEAD
12. WATCH OUT!! ~DNA~
13. ScREaM
14. HUSH
15. Guess Who Is Back
16. Ultraviolet
17. PARTY
18. LIT
ENCORE
19. With your smile
20. め組のひと
21. Work That
22. WIND
Countdown
23. キューティーハニー
24. D.D.D. feat. SOULHEAD
25. LOADED feat. Sean Paul
Special MC
26. walk
DOUBLE ENCORE
27. UNIVERSE
28. POP DIVA

Total Length: 03:08:35

From her FC and edited with section descriptions by me.
I know LiDaYu and WKKW is working on sharing the CDL with everyone.
Gonna watch the full thing later.

Kuu shared in her FC New Year's message, that she can't talk about her plans for this year yet, but that she thinks that she can still surprise us.
She does mention making good songs for everyone as a goal.
She wans to go the path to her 20th Anniversary in her own pace.

[CeReSu]

I can't wait to see it!!!!

[Corvina]

Ok, I want that 会えなくなるくらいなら remix the two female dancers are dancing to right now!
There are some others I noticed as well, guess all of them are going to be on DH's 9.
I really like the interludes and the whole first dancer part very much!
HAIRCUT and HOT HOT are among my favourites as well!

It's a bit unfortunate with the broadcast tho - the first part has the music too loud and Kuu's voice too quite and at the end of the ballad part it's the other way round, in OUTTA MY HEAD very noticeable. Sadly, cause the performance would have been really nice otherwise. But you just can't hear the music clearly.
In the whole last part from WATCH OUT!! till LIT you can see for the first time that Kuu is going to her physical limit. So many high energy songs one after another won't let even her pass without sweat after all. Nevertheless she's moving, jumping and dancing around a lot. Vocals are suffering because of that, at least today, but for the ballads she sounds great (PARTY in Kyoto e.g. had better vocals and a great long note at the end).
Altogether I'd say this is a tour more than any other before meant to be seen live and won't look as good on DVD.
But I do look forward to see a properly edited version with good camera angles.

[kaled kalil]

I've rip the full concert, but I would like to re-encode it do put on a DVD size image (853x480) rather than keeping it as 720p. It wasn't good image quality to begin with, and it's 14GBs right now because it's raw image rip.

I'll try to upload it tomorrow.

[Corvina]

WKKW shared the HAIRCUT performance, in a LQ rip though:
http://welcometokodakumiworld.com/actu/News.php

Some pictures from the broadcast, Kuu's Instagram and her FC:











Kuu also made an Instagram post dedicated to her fans and I thought about doing a translation:

To my fans,

happy new year to everyone!
Thank you so much for giving me so much love in 2018, too!
There were so many feelings.
On stage as well as in the back. *laugh*
And with those feelings I was always listening backstage to everyone's voices after the show finished.
Thank you so much for every single moment!
Let's continue like that in 2019 as well!

Kuu was talking about Misono, Nosuke and family in general in the last part of the MC btw., which is also why she slightly cried at the end.
I've read some more about Nosuke's cancer and apparently one of his tumors is 15 cm (!) large. Great thing is, that the TV reports I've seen reporting about his case and Misono and Kuu supporting him, also tried to educate about this kind of cancer.

[Gustavopc]

Couldnt watch HAIRCUT on mobile but will try to later! I really wanna see that one!

And I love the support she's giving to misono and her husband, she really is a great person as much as a great artist

[KarenPang]

Autographed DNA tour & countdown ribbon streamers together with DNA countdown fake note bill



Also just as I thought , people are selling the DNA gachagacha online for easily over 7 times the face value price

[kaled kalil]

File is available at JPS!

I might try to upload on google drive later. I have to use platforms like JPS (torrent based) because my internet connection is quite bad and might fail during a regular upload. Sorry about that.

[Gustavopc]

Got to watch HAIRCUT, I looooooved the performance even if what I saw wasn't full! Those wig tricks were so amazing!
Also saw a bit of HOT HOT, reminded me of KO-SO-KO-SO on the JAPONESQUE Tour She was looking SO great and sexy, she was really into that song. I'd have fainted if I were one of the fans on the stage lol

Plus, I dreamt they announced the covers for DH9 Kuu had white hair in a ponytail (very Ariana Grande - Focus feelings), some robot/metallic pieces glued to her face and the backgroung was like a television static screen. The cover for FC edition was going to have a metallic effect on it and discs would be totally transparent (I don't even know if that's possible at all? hahahaha).

[Corvina]

I love how the female fan is screaming several times out of suprise and excitement and you can hear it through Kuu's mic! Much better than the girls starting to cry.

WKKW uploaded the full show now, too:
http://welcometokodakumiworld.com/actu/News.php

Also thanks kaled.
Enjoy, guys!

[kaled kalil]

^ it's my file that is there haha. Now I don't have to upload

[Diva_br]

Originally Posted by kaled kalil

File is available at JPS!

I might try to upload on google drive later. I have to use platforms like JPS (torrent based) because my internet connection is quite bad and might fail during a regular upload. Sorry about that.

I said it there but, again, thank you so much
Can I reupload it with credits? It's okay if you don't wanna

[kaled kalil]

Sure, no problem! ��

[Diva_br]

^Thank you

I saw it last night and I should say it: in the beginning I felt that Kuu looked so tired. I have that impression and I know, it's normal. She's been touring a long time. But as the show continued, Kuu looked more happy and with more energy and I don't know... she got an incredible charisma... I dunno how to put it in words, but I really loved her show.

[melissalove]

Her best live in years omg, I lovvvved it. That transition from is this trap to ecstasy was fire. Hot hot was just that hot and the visuals were amazing.

[Corvina]

I'm waiting for the DVD announcement!

This year's New Year's card for the FC:


Still think it's interesting they apparently couldn't find or make a wig that fitted Kuu's own pale lilac/pink hair from 2015 while re-shooting her former tour styles.

They've also released a setlist album for DNA tour digitally again on December 31.
Only on Japanese sites though it seems, cause it's not on Spotify.
She currently has 3 albums ranking on recochoku and one on iTunes.

This fan made some great chibis from DNA tour:

[kaled kalil]

The chibis are so cute!

I watched the concert once again and now I can write my opinions:

Good parts:
- I was impressed by the vocals! Since I was watching those previews from each date when they were out, I was expecting more fails than wins, but it was very good even for such a rough cut like this. NEVER ENOUGH is a highlight, it's such a hard song but she did it so well. Good job. ♥

- It's clear that she was tired, since it was the last show of the tour, but the energy was still there. She was very into it.

- The first costume is one of her best overall. I like how it's such a hot pink, a color that she doesn't wear that often. The ballad dress is beautiful as well.

- Good setlist, the old songs were performed as short versions, as they should.

- She was having so much fun during the MC, and even if you don't understand it was very entertaining. I died with the scene of the dancer touching her boob.

- So refreshing seeing a walk performance without crying! It really touched my heart since I was watching live. When walk comes, you know the show is over, and it's one of my favorites of her.

- No Poppin' love cocktail. YAS QWEEN

Bad parts:

- The under use of the stage happens again, just like with BSC Tour. They could do so much with it...

- Ballad section was pretty... boring? She was pretty much stuck in one space with little to no use of the stage (and when it happened it was good).

- OUTTA MY HEAD was a mess. Vocals were as good as she could, but the performance felt very out of place and the aerial stunt looked so rough. I do think the problem is with the art direction of the concert than her fault. My mind might change with a proper edit.

- I didn't like ScreaM's performance at all. I'm never a fan of performances that are that interactive with the screen in this way with fake walk and all, it feels like bad chroma key. haha

Overall it's a very good tour! I can't wait for a proper release.