a-nation'09 23/8 review + some pictures

[MissElin_]

Hi Guys!

Just got back home from a-nation this day!
I must say! This was a really great day! I had so much fun!
BoA was stunning as always, makin' all those dance steps amazingly.
Koda Kumi actually supriced me and was much better then I ever thought. (Never seen her live before). And I got soooo happy when she played Ningyo Hime. It was awesome!
TRF was great for the audience making us dance and sing along all the time with their catchy songs. Tohoshinki isnt my cup of tea really but I laughted the whole time cuz their fans are MAD! Crazy I tell you! I thought all of them would faint like 50 times. Lol. I actually think that Tohoshinki had most fans in the arena, there where these green dots (green is Toho's theme on their goods this yeah) like EVERYWHERE!
The scene was really colourful and had 5 screens in total. 2 big for the cameras and 3 long but thin screens that was in the upper frame. Those 3 othen hade diffrent themes for diffrent songs.
Also a funny thing that I remember. Sometimes in the pauses they filmed the audience and one time there was this guy who first got so supriced that he was showed on the big screen that he jumped in his seat once. Then he started to twich in his whole body and suddenly he's head fell back and he played dead. It was really funny for a change since the others just did the cheering and peace with their fingers. Also in the pauces the Weider ailien appeared on the stage doing this little silly dance. The there was this secret artist. It was SOOO great! But I'm so sorry, I ALWAYS forget the name of these guys but its three men, dressed as american (kind of) women singing these really catchy songs. They are all over japan right now and TV-shows and such. Anyway, when they was announced everyone SCREAMED of happiness! You all should have seen it. It was great! ^^ Anyway... I shall not bore you anymore...

Let's go to Ayu. She was stunning! She (as what I think) sang all the songs and it sounded really really well! Rule and A Song for XX was simply perfection. And yes Sunset for that matter to!
Befor the real start her intro video was the "Ayu a a a Ayu, Ayu ready" song and with her A movin around with the a-nation bear and the weider ailien. Also two A's was forming Enrique and Yo-chan playing on a stage and their guitarr/base fliped over several times with writings on them and such. Then the notes sad that it was time. It got dark.

First there was a japanese ninja themed start with the male dancers doing these ninja moves that they does in the PV. Then suddenly She appeared! She started of with Rule, doing that acapella thingy that we have seen from the tour clips. The 3 upper screens was showing all diffrent thing depending where in the song you where but there was powerful movement in the cours and falling sakura leaves in the brigde for example. She was on a upper stage and during the song the upper stage went down and she entered the catwalk. She did the "Rule lift" backwards, like flying from the catwalk back to the big stage with her back facing the direction she went to. After Rule they did a pretty good job to make it fit with A Song for XX so the song started really rockish. She sang this song just like last year, but withour the heavy rain.

After this you saw the dansers in blue-white light costumes (kind of the ones they had on the sunset TV performance for the girls) that was doing this light and airy dance. It was soooo beautiful! Then BLUE BIRD started. Ayu had her blur dress and sang the song really well and she just stod there but the energy inte the audience was really amazing!

After BLUE BIRD Ayu spoke some few words, introducing the new song "Sunset" and then it started to play. Like said before, she sang it perfectly! It was so great. Made me really teary-eyed! After the song the light went dark and then they came back on the seccond later she had her white dress. They took the blue one of very quickly! Then she sang TO BE, here she was a bit strained in the voice in the end of the chourses and kind of yelled but it didnt sound to bad actually. Just a bit out of breath. ^^ Otherice it was a pretty beautiful performance. Here did also Shu-ya dance around Ayu and both of them where reaching to each other but they didnt get to like always... In the end of the song Shu-ya found Ayu and stod by her back with his arms lighty around her but then she sank down in the floor, out from his arms. Then he did this sad grin danced some few sad steps and then danced away.

After this it was encore time and Ayu came out from the side in a very cute boat! ^^ She, Shy-ya and one more (I didnt catch but I thought it was Zin) stood in the front of the boat the the other dancers where below the top and a bit back from Ayu's spot. They sang Boys & Girls and she didnt shot but she actually sang thank god heavens. In this section all of the fans (including me) where runing from our spots to the sides so we could se her from close. It was amazing I tell you! ^^ She was so happy!

After B&G you could here the intro for Sunrise and Ayu got this secretly mona-lisa smile on her face and started to tell the audience to take up their towels and then she took up a green Tohoshinki towel by herself and she started to laught. The Ayu part of the audience laughted with her and screamed about how cute she was. The Tohoshinki part of the audience made these girly screams and took up their towels right away! Then she sang Sunrise (really good) and the energy on the audience was amazing! Everyone did the towel dance! It was really the best time of all!!!

After Sunrise it was time for July 1:st. It was just as epic as I had imagined! In the middle she introduced the band as always and then herself and in the last chours confetti was shot all over the arena! So pretty! Then she thankes the audience just like she use to do and just when she said "arigatou gozaimashita" fireworks was shot on the other side of the arena then where the scene is placed. There where ALOT of fireworks. Probably for 5-10 minutes. I thought it just would be lite 5 shots in total or something. Lol.

Yeah also, I ate the ice-creams. They where DELICIOUS really! Jum jum jum! ^^



Goods to the people!


Ice-cream!


Delicious I tell you!


Happy me with goods(t-shirt, towel, fan + key-ring) and ice-cream!


And some cars as always.






(I wouldnt even dare to post other pictures.)

[JackieRos]

waaah thank you for this
it sounds like you had a good time ^_^
the ice scream looks so yummy

[waterballoon]

I LOL'd at TO BE. and the Tohoshinki towel,

Sounds great, thank you!

[ayumisrael]

Great that you had fun and i'm happy ayu was at a great shape =DD.

Bless ayu for using the tohoshinki towel LOL.

[JackieRos]

ooooh i just noticed that the ice screams are name sunrise sunset thats so cool

[!Lawi!]

Thanks, I love reading reviews ! You're soooo lucky, it seems it was a GREAT moment !

[Ayumiko]

lol...did ayu purposely used a tohoshinki towel?

[MissElin_]

^Hehe yes. She did probably notice (like me) that Tohoshinkis fans was the craziest and was probably the towel that most of the audience bought this day. She did this flirt-thingy with her eyes just when she rised the towel and then she laughted. She had alot of fun with this. And so did we! ^^

[Tom Punks]

OMG... I love the ice cream theme, Sunrise and Sunset. That's so cool. They looked so pretty and yummy.

[BabyJane]

To tell the truth I'm jealous...I also wanna see her live on stage No, honestly your review sounds really great. It really must be amazing to see her on stage! Thank you for your review.

[yuki_unmei]

Thanks for the review! ^^
Those icecreams look amazing~!
lol@ Tohoshinki towel, she's too cute

[polka-dot-jewel]

Oh, you're lucky to have gone to a-nation this year!!! It sounds very amazing =D

AYU ICE CREAM?!?! That sounds AMAZING!!! lol

Thanks for the review!

How damn good does that ice cream look?
I'd love to try it >_<

I'm insanely jealous.
Sounds amazing though

[pommy48]

that ice cream look so good!!! and you! haha you look like you're glowing *o*

glad that you had fun <3

lol i love the part with her mona-lisa smile XD

[Lady_Eowyn]

I hate you...

T________T

i wanna go to A-nation and try some delicious ice creams!!!

Spoiler:

thanks 4 the report btw

[truehappiness]

Wow, I love how two random sets of NEXT LEVEL tour goods are being sold, haha.

[chocopockymaster]

I was there too! I agree with you 110% with what you said about Tohoshinki...when the first nanosecond of their intro video started playing and all the rabid fangirls started screaming, I legitimately feared for my life, lol. I'd never heard anything that loud in my life......until Ayu came on, that is. I'm so glad they changed the costumes. TO BE was heartbreakingly beautiful, and Sunrise was so much fun! Overall, the entire concert was fantastic. The energy and the atmosphere was amazing! I had a better seat when I went last year in Osaka, but this year's show blew it out of the water.

[pchan1986]

ahh so lucky i wish i was there T-T but i absolutely adore this car:

thats my fave pic of her. thank you so much for the review and pics. i woudnt mind seeig more pics ^-*

[maze]

thanks for the report!!
and the ice-creams... OMFG

[ihulk2]

Thanks for the review and shots.

Especially the cars.