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I saw Dangan NO LIMIT, LEZARD, and Jack Caper tonight at the Riostar Records tour final at Takadanobaba AREA! I just posted about it in the Dangan thread if you're interested! It was a lot of fun!!

Tonight Dangan played with Lezard and Jack Caper in the Riostar Records tour final ive at Takadanobaba AREA! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! Each band had their own set, but in between they mixed members with each other to form session bands. Each session band played two songs. The session bands were: ●ナスのナスがまま [Vo. Hiro (Jack Caper)・Gt. Leo(弾丸 NO LIMIT)・Ba. TACC (LEZARD)・Dr. Suguru (Jack Caper)] ●ヴィジュモン [Vo. Miyuu (弾丸 NO LIMIT)・Gt. Riku(Jack Caper)・Ba. Chika (弾丸 NO LIMIT)・Dr. natsume (LEZARD)] ●はむひなUすけ [Vo. Kousuke (LEZARD)・Gt. Hinata (Jack Caper) Ba. U (Jack Caper)・Dr. Yusuke (弾丸 NO LIMIT)] Leo's session band was up first. Before they even started though like, the curtains opened, and Leo accidentally knocked down his mic stand hahaha They started with Dangan's Sono uso honto!! It was weird hearing a different vocalist sing it, but it was still fun! They also played the Lezard song where you flip people off (it was actually really fun lol) Leo looked really ridiculous cos he was borrowing Jack Caper costumes I think. He was definitely wearing the vocalist's weird feather vest thing haha but his guitar playing is so good so I kind of didn't care <333 During the MC, Hiro briefly introduced all of the bandmen and when he said "Leo on guitar" Leo played a really cool riff, but Hiro was like wtf did you do that to show us your skill or to cover up in case no one called your name?? So he made Leo no play anything and introduced him again and everyone yelled Leo's name so Hiro was like wtf you have so many fans you don't have to cover it up!!! And then Suguru was like "wait what about me! They didn't call my name that loud!" And Hiro was like "okay we'll try again for you. ON DRUMS, SUGURU!" and no one cheered. hahaha <333 Hiro also asked everyone what they ate for lunch. They all joked around like "I ate a really high class/expensive meal!" or describe the meal in a really fancy way, but then it was like at somewhere dumb like Matsuya or from 7-11 or something haha. Oh and Leo said that he hates eggplant (eggplant is in the session band's name) lol It's like, the food he hates most in the world apparently Jack Caper played next. So Hiro and Suguru came back out. THEIR FURI. WTF. I cannot. I was so lost and like couldn't hear the beats very well? Like usually I pick up furi really easily, but it was confusing af haha. Musically it kinda just sounded like noise to me, but I think I might've just been distracted trying to do their furi. haha. They have one song that has something to do with India or something and we had to jump around in an almost bollywood way? Like it felt kinda racist haha but w/e I really liked their energy though! I wouldn't mind seeing them again ^^ Next was Miyuu and Chika's session band! They were super w/e about everything like no plans haha At one point Natsume even said something along the lines that Miyuu didn't plan anything out haha They walked out on stage with their arms around each other's shoulders to some kid music or something? It was really weird sounding, but definitely went with their theme of having "chill w/e fun" I guess. haha. They played a song called Butterfly? or something. I think it's a well-known song in Japan, but I'm not sure. And then they played a pokemon song haha like just everything about that session was ridiculous haha. Miyuu kept stating how lax their whole group was. It was nice to see them all getting along! Like I think all three bands really bonded throughout this tour <333 Miyuu was saying how naturally he started with the other two members of their session (^^) During their songs he was like "you wanna sing?" to Riku, but Riku backed away so Miyuu went and bothered Chika and made him sing randomly haha. Chika was so embarrassed but I guess he can't say no to Miyuu so he sang haha <333 Lezard played next. I haven't seen them in forever and it was a bit strange without a vocalist, but Kousuke and TACC did a good job! They kind of traded off a lot and even Natsume sang a few lines in one of the songs. I don't really know Lezard music so I can't really say much, but it was really fun! Other than the crazy Kousuke-fan that was next to me and my friend. We ended up moving to the row behind us cos she was going so crazy haha Lezard also said they're currently searching for a new vocalist. I hope they can find someone who suits them!! Yusuke's session was the last session band to play and omg. Yusuke in casual clothes. so. fucking. hot. I literally cannot. I pretty much died when he walked out on stage and so did his fans. hahah one girl was near tears, frantically calling his name. Like I'm pretty sure EVERYONE noticed her hahaha <3 Yusuke seemed to enjoy the attention though. I think they played two Johnnys songs? During the MC Kousuke was asking all the members which Johnny guy they'd want to be. Yusuke chose Kimutaku lol, but U and Hinata didn't know any Johnnys guys so they asked Kousuke to choose for them. Idk shit about Johnny's either so I don't remember who he chose, but apparently he chose good ones? lol. I think Kousuke said he'd want to be Aiba? They were being all dumb too pretending they were a Johnny's group at Tokyo Dome or some huge venue like "Is everyone enjoying themselves? How about you up on the 2nd floor? and the 3rd floor? and the 4th floor?" Like they were so convincing though I actually looked behind me like an idiot thinking there was a 2nd floor even though I knew there wasn't haha The second song they played was some song that apparently everyone knew but me. There was a lot of "SHE HA HA" or something in the chorus? idk it was pretty fun though. More like I had fun watching Yusuke cos I finally had a good view of him for once haha. He looks like he's having so much fun playing drums!!! Oh and like Kousuke was blowing kisses at everyone the whole time and all the girls just about wet their pants. haha When they finished and Yusuke came out from behind the drums he was blowing kisses too and everyone was dying haha. They seriously loved the attention <333 AND THEN FINALLY DANGAN!!! <33333333333 okay so like. I literally cannot. I'm basically super in love with Leo, Yusuke, and Miyuu after tonight (sorry Chika). I mean I was already in love with Miyuu, but wtf. Like. Leo is so hot wtf? How did I not notice him before?? And like, I didn't realize there were so many metal riffs in Dangan songs wtf. If you've never seen Dangan live you definitely should. They sound good recorded, but they are SO MUCH BETTER LIVE (okay I know I say that about all the bands I like, BUT IT'S SO TRUE) <3 And like, Leo actually seems pretty shy, but when he's playing guitar he's definitely not. He's totally in the zone. <333333333 And Miyuu is such a good front man!!! He's really good at looking around at the whole audience, but still singling you out once in a while so you feel special <3 He definitely pointed at me and sang a line to me <3333333 I love love love ii wake moratorium and Envy! Okay, who are we kidding. I love all of their songs. I couldn't stop smiling the whole time. And like the band all looked like they were enjoying themselves too <3 AND LEO AND MIYUU GIVE SO MUCH EYE CONTACT WTF <3 I was shamelessly throwing hearts to both of them (and occasionally Yusuke, but he was hard to see through the stage smoke) and saku-ing them the whole time <33333 I'M SO IN LOVE WITH THIS BAND! I hope they get more fans!!!! Oh! and Miyuu said that he SUPER likes singing Graffiti. I think it's the lyrics <3 And he was like "if anyone else sings it but me, it's not the same" or like "it won't be a song" or something like that. Like I think he just loves that song a lot haha <3 For the encore, Leo started talking and Miyuu was like "oh! you spoke! That surprised me!!" cos apparently the encore cheer was kind of weak so they considered just not doing the encore. I guess Leo asked the staff guy if they should just not, but the staff guy told Leo to come out and tell us instead. And Miyuu was like "tell them then?" so Leo just super matter of factly stated "the encore cheer was weak and we considered calling it quits" and Miyuu was like oh that's all? haha Leo made it sound like he had a lot to say, but that was really all it was haha For the encore they brought out all the bands. Because our encore cheer was so weak, Miyuu made us yell really loud for them to come out, though. Miyuu said "Rio" and we all had to yell "STAR" and then the rest of the bandmen came back out on stage. Hiro was missing though so they were like "where is he???" and he came from the back through the crowd and climbed up on stage haha but his face was all covered in makeup? marker? idk he looked really gross and all the bangya were like wtf??? lolol At some point he must've rubbed himself on Leo cos Leo had some of the blue/grey/green color on his cheek haha TACC and Kousuke are so dumb! They did like a dumb comedy routine that I can't really translate, but basically they were just being idiots and doing some dumb kind of dance thing haha. <333 First encore song was Sono uso hontou! YAYYYY <3333 LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SONG <3 It's even more fun when you have all the bandmen on stage doing the furi with you haha <333 second song was a Jack Caper song. It was their first time playing it live apparently. It was pretty fun! the switching between furi was a bit strange, but definitely easier than the songs they played during their set? Okay and I can't remember if it was the same song or for the Lezard song, but in one of the songs they had each bandman yell something they wanted the bangya to do. Like how they normally yell "ATAMA" right before a headbanging part? But instead they yelled some random shit haha Miyuu said to do (and also demonstrated) the dumb dance thing that TACC kept doing earlier haha Leo was like "no no no no" when they tried to get him to say something, but finally he said windmill headbang. <3 Chika was even worse. HE'S SO AWKWARD. He was like... "do something that feels like Chika?" and then he kinda stood their awkwardly then finally did a salute thing so we all kinda awkwardly saluted? haha all the bandmen were laughing at him haha Natsume's was ridiculous. I have no idea what he said, but he basically stood on the vocalist box and just like danced super sexily for his turn hahaha <3333 super hip action. I think all his gya died. lol and at some point someone called for a gyakudai and we did like 10+ gyakudai's I think. And like all the bandmen were pulling us and grabbing us/holding our hands/arms <333 One of the vocalists was like "If there's someone you wanna touch go touch him!!!" LOL can I just say LEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEOLEO <3333333333 like honestly I made so much eye contact with Leo this whole live? <3 Did I already saw how much I love him??? lol and like during gyakudai, one of the times I was kinda further back, but he grabbed my wrist? and then hand? and then squeezed it??? <3333333333333333 And he grabbed my arm/hand a few other times? AND SO DID YUSUKE? and I cannot???? <333333333 Okay idk where the fuck Miyuu was during this. I think he stayed on shimote but LEOOOOO <333333 YUSUKEEEEEE <333333333 At one point Yusuke even squatted down with his arms out wide as if to say "I know you want me. Come and get me" and all the girls rushed at him and he looked so happy hahaha Oh and during the gyakudai Hiro kept handing out random stuff from the stage. Like I think he gave a girl a roll of duct tape? haha and he was taking apart one of those folding fans and sticking them in Leo's hair and during gyakudai he was handing out the wooden stick parts of the fan and then eventually even the cloth bit. He's so weird wtf haha <3 At the very end they wanted us to do some kind of pose. They had us choose between three different poses that I'm not really sure how to describe haha but Miyuu demonstrated all three and have us choose by clapping. like 6 ppl clapped for the first one and the 2nd and 3rd one had more claps but like not enthusiastic and the bandmen were like omg it's like you hate all of them hahaha so they asked one of the staff and he chose the 3rd one, which was us just saku-ing haha So the bandmen all yelled "RIO" and we yelled "STAR" and saku'd haha. And then we took a few photos <333 SOOOOO, in conclusion. You should all go see Dangan live <3333333333333 Just go support all the Riostar bands <3 They're all so fun! and here's some picspam from tonight! okay sorry/not sorry that was wayyyy longer than I was intending haha

FINALLY SOME NEW TRA GOODS!!! They will start selling these at buppan from the 1/25 live!!

Hal is better!! <3

Omi will be hosting the Line chat this week! It'll be on Saturday, January 21st from 21:00 (JST) Don't miss out! Omi's actually pretty fun to talk to! lol Last time he told us about how when he was younger he grabbed a carton at a convenience store to drink. It was green so he thought it was melon soda, but it was actually soy milk so it surprised him really bad. But now it's like his favorite drink lolol <3

I saw Moana recently. It was really good!! And wtf the Rock sings in it so why not? lolol It was kind of refreshing to see a Disney movie without a typical princess plot (it actually poked fun at the princess thing) and I think it did a pretty good job representing traditional Hawaiian culture (unlike Lilo and Stitch, which was just kinda stereotyping the locals in Hawaii). It's definitely worth watching!!

<333333333333333333 and yay! Tra!!! <33333333 I've heard of Man With a Mission! I think someone recommended them to me a while ago, but I just never got around to listening to them. I'll definitely give them a try!

Ruimaru caught the flu so he won't be able to perform tomorrow at 3STAR IMAIKE (Nagoya). The four remaining members will perform without him. I hope he's okay!! ><

The Tra members used to post blogs on a weekly basis with each member taking a turn every Thursday. Starting from this year, they've decided to just update the blog whenever they felt like it! Omi said he'll probably be posting a lot cos he just has a lot to say I guess. Here's their blog if you're interested! http://lineblog.me/tratratra/ Even if you can't read Japanese, they usually post some pictures. <3 One of these days I'll get around to translating all of them haha

Time to start listening to them!!!! lolol

Pamy explaining/demonstrating how to make their vivacraft things!! <333 In case you didn't know, you can buy these paper cutouts of the members in different poses: each set is ￥1,000. If you buy all four sets (not including the anime version) you get a signed artist photo!! https://kerberos.theshop.jp/items/3480333 Everything is available on their webshop!! http://vivarush.jp/webshop/ Even if you're not interested in buying these, just watch the video. Because. PAMY <333 OTSUPAMI! OHAPAMI! OPAMIPAMI~~!!

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I've literally downloaded the video and have been watching it on loop all night <3333

"Just believe in yourself and I'll cast a magic on you" hahaha <33

I bought 4 Purple Stone CDs and Anfiel's new single (Lamplight=melody), and somehow came out with a bunch of free shit o_o Thank you Zeal Link! <33333

Maybe they were more thinking along the lines that they would be able to share their world tour experience with the Japanese fans who couldn't go abroad to see them? To me, the art seems more like it's showing how a Japanese band can take the world by storm *shrugs*

Set list for tonight's live: Warning: much spazzing ahead Live Schedule: 1/25 (Wed) @ Shinjuku RENY 2/4 (Sat) @ Sendai space Zero 2/11 (Sat) @ Nagoya MUSIC FARM 2/18 (Sat) @ Osaka RUIDO 2/22 (Wed) @ Takadanobaba Area

They released a PV spot tonight!!

http://zeallink.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=10325 :DDDD

I went to three different stores and no one had Anfiel's new single... but thanks to going to all those stores, I came back with this haul <3333 lolol

Personally this song has a bit too much synth/effects for my taste, but overall I love it! Possibly just my Juri bias but whatever. <3 And I love the “whooa whooa” parts! Like, he sounds so good in them? haha Plus those parts are fun live! <33 Yeah the guitar is a bit much and a little distracting for me too. Maybe he just got a bit carried away lol but if @chemicalpictures is right and it’s just a demo, then it can only get better from here! Wow. You’re going to base your entire opinion on the band from one song?? What’s “special” anyway? I’m pretty sure no band is really all that special or unique compared to any other band. Whatever bands you like are probably nothing special either. We all just like what we like regardless of it being special. But whatever. “And that’s the only listen they’ll get from me.” As if your listen is all that important. It's fine if you're not really into the song, but really. Get over yourself.