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Before the Concert...
On average fans queue up for about an hour to buy concert goods...
Many of the fans a little taken aback by the concert good design LOL
Some start a rumor saying the caterpillar design (apparently Aiba's idea) is drawn by Sakurai Gahaku (Artist Sakurai)LOL!!!
About an hour after the first report on concert goods appear on internet, a few start saying ..."well, after staring at the concert goods for the past hour, they started to grow on me a bit...when you look at the caterpillar closely...it is rather cute..." and yes...I think so, too...
Pretty average photos for the Fan/Uchiwa ... but I still would kill for Riida Uchiwa... not a great photo but still so cute...
Pretty hot day in Osaka...
Excitement builds up!!!!!!!!





Opening: member comes out one by one and do a little dance each, then gather together and dance...
1. Move your body
2. Happiness
3. Life goes on
4. Step and Go

Members Greetings

• Included Ninomiya's staple "Irasshaimase----!"

5. LOVE PARADE
6. Love so sweet

• Aiba: "Gift Box" costume with ribbon at back
• Sakurai: The queen from Alice in wonderland look costume with wide collar
• Ninomiya: Crysanthemum Doll (not sure what it is) like costume
• Ohno: Princess like costume (??????????)
• Matumoto ...???

...seems like Fantasy/Disneyland sort of theme taken a bit too seriously???

7. Everybody前進
8. CARNIVAL NIGHT part2
Big lorries/trolleys in Fantasy theme appear with members riding them...

• Matumoto on a white horse (like the carousel horse)
• Ninomiya in a flower basket a bit like Thumbelina sitting in the middle of a flower...
• Aiba on a gift box looking thing
• Ohno on Green Creamy Soda (Soda Float) with bubbles coming out from the back
• Sakurai on a heart shaped bug of some kind (maybe a lady beetle)

9. Ohno Solo:Take me faraway

• Golden vest buttoned up in front (maybe a singlet underneath - could not be seen) and black pants
• On stage is a chair
• Showed recorded tape of Ohno dancing on the background screen
• Pretty calm and relaxed kind of dance with a bit of hip swiveling - to begin with, on his own
• MAD (back dancers) appear midway through the dance routine/solo
• Towards the end, Ohno stand on a chair and sing
• The ending is a still pose on the chair...

10.Sakurai Solo: Hip Hop Boogie

• A hat (not a cap), quilted down vest (whiteish ...but pink on the back and the front was yellow and blue...omg)

11. Flash back
each member dances with a female back dancer - slow dance

12. Aiba Solo: Hello Goodbye 

• a hoodie, casual style, pink checked top and bottom, shorts
• plays blues harp

13. We can make it!
14. EYES WITH DELIGHT
15. きっと大丈夫

MC/Talk

Sakurai Drink Funny
Sakurai drinks out of a bottle and sucks the bottle in (like Time DVD)
Ninomiya said: 「ちゃんとﾍﾟｯﾄﾎﾞﾄﾙ直して！」Fix up the bottle, please!

Aiba got spotted at the airport
They arrived in Osaka the day before the concert.
At the airport, they encountered a group of school kids(junior high school students)  on school trip of some kind.
They suspect they were on their way home, and not on their way to the travel destination.

They spotted Aiba and a student yelled out "Aiba!"(as in without "san" or "chan" but just Aiba)

Aiba was curious what his fans call him...

Arashi asked the audience  「ﾌｧﾝの子はﾌﾟﾗｲﾍﾞｰﾄではaiba さんのこと何て呼んでるの？」what do you call Aiba san in private? (private as in not at the concert etc.)

Most said "Aiba chan" and some "Aiba kun" and some just "Aiba"

Matumoto did a mimic of a schoolgirl encounter with Aiba (apprently Matumoto was having so much fan ding this) :
walking schoolgirl - realise its Aiba! - waves hand madly - says "it's Aiba!" to a friend next to her

Ninomiya Card Trick (like the one from himitsu )
apprently, Nino did a quick card trick ...a pretty simple one

Aiba and Ohno at Disneyland
Aiba and Ohno went to Disneyland together on invitation only 25th Anniversary or something special day.
They were not alone but with their manager as well (probably was not private thing but Johnny's jimusho related)
They only went on three rides - Splash Mountain, Space Mountain and Haunted Mansion

Aiba & Ohno: 「２人でDisneyland行ったんだよね～」we went to disneyland together
Sakurai: 「なんかちょっと気持ち悪い」It is a bit sick...
Sakurai or Nino (not sure) 「それは本当に２人なの？ 」was it really just the two of you  ????
Aiba: 「２人っちゃぁ…２人？」well...just the two of us...??
Aiba:「ﾏﾈｰｼﾞｬｰもいたと言えば…いたかな」I guess there was a manager...

Aiba: 「俺おみやげにTｼｬﾂ買ったじゃん、まあ、皆着てくんなかったけど」I bought all of you Tshirt each but no one has bothered to wear them...

At the gift shop, Aiba was slapped on his shoulders by an older lady saying 「ああ～久しぶり～！」 "wow, long time no seen!" (of course not someone Aiba knew just a fan)

According to Ohno, Aiba was thrown about by the impact of the slapping on his shoulder...「aiba ちゃん軽く吹っ飛んでたよね」

Ohno Drama

Apparently, Matumoto kept patting Ohno's hair for a loooooooong time...
Sakurai: 「リーダーは松潤にとって何なの？」What is leader (ohno) to you?
Matumoto 「リーダーの黒髪超久しぶりだから」Well, it's been a long time since I saw Leader (ohno)'s black hair...

Members asked Ohno why he dyed his fair black (expecting a reply of for the TV drama)
but Ohno replied 「気まぐれです」I just felt like it...
Fans started booing...
Members said something like: せっかく振ったのに！ちゃんとﾊﾟｽ受けて！もう一回やるよ Hey, we've taken the trouble to give you the opportunity to talk about your TV drama...please take the opportunity! Try again!
Second take - why did you dye your hair black?
Ohno: Because I will be doing Maou drama...
Fans clap ...members start praising saying things like first time appearing in TV drama series and the main character!
Ohno was apparently pretty embarrassed...
Members asked Ohno something along the line of "are you feeling worried, excited or embarrassed the most?" in reply Ohno said 「全部です」ALL OF THEM
Sakurai: 「この人ね～ﾘｻｰﾁしてくるんですよ。ﾘﾊ中に2人で休憩してたら Shoく～ん。3ヶ月って長い？って聞いてくんの」
This person (meaning Ohno) try and do some research...during the rehearsal, we were both resting together...and Ohno went Sho ku-n...and asked me  is 3 month long?...(the TV drama is meant to go for 3 months)
Matumoto「なんでそんな後ろ向きなんだよ」 why are you so pessimistic? (to Ohno)
Ohno「だって分かんないんだよ」 But I dunno (how long 3 months would feel doing TV drama)

Other Ohno related bits and pieces:
Ohno: When you found out that I was to do a TV drama series, you guys laughed, didn't you!!!!!
Ninomiya: Maybe the drama will finish after 2 episodes because you cannot get up early enough for the filming...
are you really going to be OK? early morning "roke" /filming

Ohno: I am a lawyer
Members: can you ? really defend people? really??

Sakurai volleyball

Sakurai 「僕の話させて下さい！」let me talk about my (volleyball reporting) story!
Ninomiya 「傘ちゃん、ちゃんと練習してるの？」Are you practicing hard (as a joke)
Sakurai 「だから（試合には）出ねーよ！」I do not play volleyball!! (just report the matches)
Other members keep teasing and joking around 「ちゃんと練習してるかどうか、ｻｰﾌﾞしてみてよ」「ほら、早く」Show us your move, go on...
Other members pretend to be waiting for Sakurai to serve a ball from the other side of the court
Sakurai pretends to bounce a ball then does a pretend jump serve

大宮SK/OhMiya SK!!!!!!!!!!

before the song started OhMiya said in the dark:｢ﾔｯﾃﾓ ﾔﾗﾅｸﾃﾓ ｵｺﾗﾚﾙｶﾗ ﾔﾙｺﾄﾆｼﾀﾖｰ｣ whether we do it or not, we are gonna get scalded anyway...so we are gonna do it

OhMiya fans cheered...!!!

They did a song about 御輿/portable shrine thing Japanese use for festivals ...
Nearly final love/kissed again...
Did some surreal dance moves...
song finished suddenly and the fans were a bit taken back...saying ｴｰｯ!!!???/what????????

OhMiya disappear from the stage and MC continued...

Afterward Ninomiya said "the audience was not satisfied so the blue one said (yuji?/nino)  to the red one(taka/oh-chan) let's go and do a quick joke but the red one said really, better not...so they did not..."

Ninomiya :｢怒られるのは俺たちじゃなくてあの2人だからね｣ it is not us but those two (OhMiya SK) who get into trouble...(as in not Nino himself...)

Other members just ignored OhMiya...

MC still continued...

Matsumoto's Movie

Aiba: 「もうみたんですか？」have you already seen it? (Matsumoto's movie)
Sakurai「見ました」 yes I have
Aiba「ぼくは、あえてまだみてません。みにいったんですか？」 I have not gone to watch it yet ...on purpose...did you go and watch it (at the theatre)?
Matsumoto 「試写室だよね？」 it was preview room, wasn't it?
Aiba「なに？」What?????
Matsumoto 「いや、Zeroで話してくれるって言うから。」 Well...Sakurai said he would talk about it on News Zero...
Sakurai 「そうそう」 That's right
Matsumoto 「じゃあお前ShimuraZOOで話してくれんのかよ！」 Well...are you gonna talk about my movie on Shimura Zoo???
Aiba「いやはなせません！はなせません！」 well, no...no, I couldn't ...

MC ends...

16. One Love (New song - Hanadan Movie song)
17. My Answer
18. WISH
19. a day in our Life

20. Ninomiya Solo:Gimmick Game
Black with red flower print costume
During the solo, whenever the word 「首筋」Kubisuji/neckline came up in the song, he would touch his own neckline with fingertips seductively and fans screamed
At the end of the song, he licked his fingers and touched his neckline - fans screamed really hard...

21: Matsumoto Solo: Naked
Shiny white suit, no shirt
Dreamy kind of dance with lots of white drapes
During the solo, Matsumoto goes behind the white drapes back dancers are dancing with and when he re-appeared, he was TOPLESS ...well, half naked Jun singing "Naked"...

22. GREEN (New song with Eco theme - rumored to have some link to 24hr charity TV)
Riida appears on stage with the Eco shopping bag and talks a bit about it
During the interlude, each member says a word each (supposedly in relation to Eco concept...)
Aiba ｢希望｣ Hope
Ohno ｢勇気｣ Courage
Sakurai ｢決意｣ decision/determination
Matsumoto｢ｱｸｼｮﾝ｣ Action
Ninomiya ｢未来｣ Future

23. ONCE AGAIN (Ohno choreographed this one? )

Introducing Jr./MAD

24. Lucky Man
25. ハダシの未来 Hadashi no Mirai
26. Oh Yeah！
27. 言葉より大切なもの Kotobayori Taisetunamono

Members Farewell Greetings

28. YOUR SONG

アンコール /Encore
before the encore started, Eco Themed Animation with the Caterpillar was shown...

• Member colored "balls" on screen - those balls start growing legs and transform into caterpillars...
• On screen, it shows a pile of rubbish...
• Caterpillars crawl and as they do, blue sky appear and start covering the screen (wiping out the rubbish)
• Caterpillar body parts (balls) start shining (each caterpillar with each member color) and sparkling and Encore starts...
• Very high up in the dome under the ceiling, there are cocoons (lol) and Arashi members are "born" from the cocoons...
• Arashi members hang by wires hanging from the cocoons - a bit like trapeze...moving from the front main stage all the way to the back stage...
• Some of the members do flips while dangling in the air...(apparently Sho could not move with fear!)

Encore 1. Do my best
Encore 2. ファイトソング Fight Song
Encore 3. サクラ咲ケ Sakura sake

• They sing Do my best & Fight Song in the air...not sure about Sakura Sake.

ダブルアンコ /Double Encore

Double Encore 1. 感謝カンゲキ雨嵐 Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi

• Members in Concert Tshirt

Other mini spoilers

• All up, the concert went for about 3 hours
• No sign boards, No sign balls etc.
• They did NOT sing ARASHI!!!!!!!!! Noooooooooooooo!!!!!
• Riida wearing a black arm band on left arm
• female back dancers as well as MAD/Jrs throughout the concert (many fans not happy about the female dancers apparently...oh well)