Kansai Jrs. in Kobe 4/16

So the original date for this show was the day after the huge earthquake we had here in Japan. Even though everything was fine down in Kansai (we only felt a small earthquake and the biggest issue I had was evacuating the school I worked at for a little while) it was postponed. Even though there was no damage down here I'm glad they did it because who would want to go see a really fun concert immediately after such a disaster?

I haven't been to any of the other shows during this tour but my friends have gone to Hiroshima and Kagawa and evidently a lot of people were missing and those shows! For example, there were only 12 members in total at Kagawa! And then finally, for this show, everyone was there EXCEPT Daichi! I really wonder if he's ok. Johnny's hasn't erased his existence from anything so obviously he's still in the company but I worry that he got hurt or something. The Daichi fangirl in front of us started crying when during the first song we all realized that there was no Daichi and her friends had to support her to keep standing up. Poor girl!! Emm was really upset too, of course. Damn you JE!!!! They never even mentioned that he was missing/what happened so of course people freak out and begin to theorize the worst. GAAAAAAAAAH STUIPD JE!! But I'm going to save the rest of this rant for people who want to bitch about the jimusho with me.

The set list wasn't so different from when I saw them back in January but it was so depressing that they had Hama-chan do BOTH Stay Gold and Give Me by himself! He tried to hard but it was still just so sad to watch. Stay Gold happened earlier and they had done it at previous shows on the tour without Daichi as well. But when they announced that the next song was Give Me you could pretty much hear the audience gasp and cringe in horror!

Apart from that the show was great! We had seats down in the arena fairly close to the center stage so it was pretty damn awesome. Especially for me since we apparently were in Shige-land. I think he waved at me 3 times during the show and the final time he also returned a kiss I blew at him<3<3<3<3<3<3 And I know those were all for me because I didn't see any other Shige fans in my area and even if there was they weren't crazy foreigners in gold sequined jackets (bathroom runs before the show confirmed that you could see our flashy clothes from across the damn building).

Couldn't tell if big Big Muro saw me at all but he must have since I had a light up uchiwa for him. :(  Shige needs to stop giving me more love than my tanto because this could get dangerous.  Also, he needs to stop dancing so sexy during that one good Hey! Say! Jump song they cover.  I seriously was having problems.

So, back to my amazing uchiwa though.  Check this out!

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Pretty awesome shit, right? We can't use them at the Shochikuza evidently but we can use them at OJ Hall and other bigger venues without any problem (knock on wood).  The first picture is actually from before I ran the EL wire through and added RHINESTONES.  But it gives a general idea.

Oh and my Shige one looks like something Liza Frank designed so I'll just toss it up here because I love it.


It's totally cute, right?  I want to make Shige a light up one soon-ish.  But I'll have to just do SHIGE in hiragana because otherwise I think it would be both financially and physically impossible to do.

Other notes about the concert: 

1. Kotaki totally got a view down Emm's shirt when he came by on the torokko. Bet he enjoyed that :D Emm said he better damn report how good it was back to Daichi.

2.  No one knocked over the chairs during SOS.

3.  Kami-chan has bad luck with hats.

4.  The girl who was crying about Daichi not being there caught Mukai Koji's signball and I was so happy for her!

5.  We made friends with a Big Muro fangirl who looks like the Takarazuka Otokoyaku version of him.  It was pretty awesome. And she gave us throat drops after the show.

6. I think I creeped out Tatsuta when I yelled his name.  Whoops!  He's going to have to get used to people yelling his name since he's so awesome.  I'm just helping you get acclimated to your job, Little Gangs!

7.  Hama-chan looks good in stuff with English printed on it according to Junta. English just 似合うs him for some reason.

8.  That gold-sequined jacket is too damn hot! I need to get something else attention catching before the OJ Hall shows during golden week!  My jacket needs to be retired for the warmer months.

9. Akito is made out of pure charisma but y'all knew that.

10.  Reiya needs to change his hair back to his awesome side-swept bangs thing he had going on.  Yukito's new hair cut, on the other hand, is adorable.  Arimoto has like, Snape hair and it is not good.

I can't WAIT for Golden Week because I am going to ALL FIVE SHOWS.  OMG it's going to be the best week of my life.  I think my future wedding is not even going to top this.  I just hope Daichi's there.