[CON] Yellow Gold Tour 3011 @ Nippon Budokan, 11/02/2011 18:30
Jin's hair: fluffy. Jin's body: skinny. Ready to:...oh, wait, he's not doing that routine anymore. But he couldn't have said "Weather: sunny" and gotten away with it. Not today.
The weather in Tokyo today was, for want of a better expression, pouring with snow, which meant everywhere was soaked and slushy, we were all wet, and the Nippon Budokan was pretty much just a sea of really colourful umbrellas. Not much in the way of colourful outfits this time - I did see a number of fedoras, and several purple bobble hats (even a Bilby cap) - mostly I passed the time in the queue by bag-spotting. You & Jin Tokyo bag was heavily represented, of course, and a girl near me had a Dream Boys 2008 bag. Clearly it takes all sort at a Jin con. The girl in front of me in line, her favourite was actually Ryo - maybe she was hoping he'd show up?
Anyway, they let us inside at 17:30 and we all had fun trying to find the right door for our block. The Budokan breaks them up by compass points, but half the queues leading out the doors were actually for the toilets and not the doors themselves. Inevitable when most of the audience is female. There was actually a guy next to me (with his girlfriend) and he did all the hand dances fairly enthusiastically, but looked askance at my taking notes while singing and dancing through the whole thing. There wasn't all that much dancing, full stop, but a girl a couple of rows ahead of me gave up on propriety part-way through and just went for it, infecting her neighbours too. I wish Japanese audiences would dance more.
Today I sat in the 2nd floor South-East block, row F, which really isn't bad - I had a very nice view of the whole stage (as opposed to the poor people all the way around the side - I feel so sorry for them). It was, however, nowhere near as close as I've been before, which means I was dependent on the screens if I wanted to see anything close up, and mostly they only showed Jin. It didn't help that all the girls either were blonde or were wearing blonde wigs, so Lizzy was the only one I could identify from a distance.
There was a main stage at the back with a circular portion on a crane, then a long walkway ending in a rounder stage. Clear spheres dangled from the ceiling, along with a few opaque ones coloured by the multitude of lasers. While we waited for the show to start, they interrupted the Lady Gaga/Black-Eyed Peas/Whatever else seems to have been following Jin's shows around since this time last year to show an advert for Eternal! If that's the PV, I have to say it doesn't look that interesting - just him singing in a white hoodie. It didn't last long but it was nice to see, anyway.
Then while the lights were still on, they showed a succession of videos. First up, LA June 2010 with an instrumental version of My Mp3 playing, everyone clapping along. On occasions where the video wasn't silent, they added Japanese subtitles. The crowd seemed to like watching Jin getting cutely embarrassed. His name ran across the larger globes in lights. We heard instrumental INP, Bass Go Boom with words, saw the footage with the auditions, Jin and choreography, crowd outside in LA, a quick vid after the show with Jin, Joey (and I think Dom? Can't read my scribbles!) leaving and people yelling out declarations of love - subtitled. Apparently they were going to dream about partying? Then there was San Francisco, the Test Drive recording, Oowah on MTV Iggy, NYC.
When the lights finally went out we got to see the crazy intro video, with its English subs. It wasn't as hard to make out as the fanrecordings suggest - I don't know if it's just the recording, or if he's re-done it. We got the WB logo and the names of the places on the tour so far, and then it all got kind of hectic as Bass Go Boom accompanied the puppet video, and there were flashes of fire, and white and silver robots.
Jin popped up on the stage in one of those transparent spheres. I wonder if he likes snowglobes? He sang the Yellow Gold remix, which I think everyone's heard by now, in the usual white jacket and shades. Hair was fluffed to within an inch of its life. He robot-walked to the drumkit once he was let out; the girls held billowing white sheets that made me think of 1582.
Christmas Morning never changes, really, except that after the puppeteering and glow-in-the-dark drumstick conducting the circular platform he was on rose and started working its way around the arena. Lots of red light, but fireworks signalled the end of that and then everything was gold.
I got to hear Magnitude live for the first time, with Jin still hovering in the air and clutching his drink (was it Starbucks again? I couldn't tell.), and am not sure what to make of the lyrics. I sometimes get the impression he might be onto an interesting concept, he's just picking words that don't automatically seem to relate so it doesn't always work out. While he and the drumkit flew around the arena, the dancers played with glowing hoops and rods on the stage. Cue more explosions and some glow-in-the-dark juggling.
Next up, Bass Go Boom, with Lizzy as the girl who's giving Jin "the eye". It's very strange to see the show without Dom and Joey, who've been there since the beginning, and I miss Aubree terribly. The world needs more adorable redhaired wannabe superheroes who are all cute and squishy.
Lizzy did Aubree's part in INP, and Juice did Dom's. Nobody makes faces quite like Aubree, though.
The transparent spheres went up and down during Oowah, which was missing the intro vid (I guess Jin didn't want to have to explain the situation to Japanese audiences?). The dancers paired off (they had one girl too many - Paul, Juice, Lizzy, Kazumi, and I think three other girls?) to dance, then all joined together. I looked at the flowwers being projected on the ceiling and would swear I saw identical ones at the Kis-My-Ft2 concert I attended a couple of hours earlier. Jin did a cute little kick when he trilled "peripheral", or whatever it is.
Jin finally took the shades off for Body Talk, then had to remove the jacket too since he was sweating terribly. You can imagine what kind of a scream that got. Lovely starry space background on the screens. Since Dom wasn't there, we didn't get his "adult romantic dance" stuff with Lizzy...but when she turned up on one pedestal and another of the girls on the opposite one, I thought for a second Jin was going to sing the background music for a pseudo-lesbian love scene. It wasn't to be, however, and eventually he had three girls slowly dancing behind him - by themselves.
The next bit was rather creepy. Owing to the outfits they were wearing, the dancers appeared to have been replaced by fluorescent, legless ghosts. (Not "legless" in that sense, even though Jin sings about alcohol a lot...) The arches in the stage took on a stained-glass window quality. In the centre, Kazumi did that very uncomfortable-looking thing she does where she does the splits and wiggles herself forwards, looking for all the world like some kind of serpent. On the screen the clock counted down to 2011.
Perhaps it should've counted a little further back, because next up was Care. Jin had changed into the blue jacket, white T-shirt, pink pants and fedora, and sat down, taking sips from his water bottle. (What, finished your overpriced coffee?) Sadly he didn't play guitar for Care but he did for Murasaki, where, despite all the purple light shining on him, he was mostly hidden under his hat. I wonder if we'll have to wait for the last show before he'll bare his head for the entire thing? (simourva, you might be onto something with the nun comparison.)
Jin plays something else on the guitar afterwards, short and pretty, while the clock flashes forward again to 3011. He throws the guitar through the trapdoor. (You're not Pete Townshend, boy. Treat your instruments with more respect!) Paul Not sure who? sat next to him and the two of them did a dance routine I'm guessing would normally have been Jin and Joey?
The girls brought out some circular cage components and locked up the guys (including Juice) behind bars. Sorry, every time I see Jin behind bars I think "KAIZOKUBAN!!!" Jin just stayed sitting where he was while Juice and Paul protested their innocence and demanded to be let out. But that's okay, because we know the secret of breaking out of prison - dance a lot. Jin slumped down, then got up and tried to bend the bars. No dice. It took all three guys dancing to do it. Hmm, three guys dancing in a cage...why am I suddenly thinking of Queer as Folk?
Anyway, the cage circle got closed around Jin for A Page, which he sang with his hood up. The audience didn't join in - or if they did, not in sufficient numbers that Jin felt comfortable playing around with the song the way he did in the US. He rose up from the centre of the cage on a pedestal, and I do recall getting a flash of tongue after "I'm out". (I have to watch Jin's mouth when he's singing because it's the only way I can figure out how the timing works for some of these songs! Paparats is particularly bad for it.)
The cage was replaced by a giant white coffin, into which the girls shut Jin. And out comes Lost My Way!Kame, complete with fangs! (Just kidding.) One of the girls was twirling flaming torches around and the coffin burst into flames!
Which of course led naturally to Lovejuice. Being burned alive in a coffin really gets you in the mood for picking up women in clubs, doesn't it? I know when I get myself cremated, I'll be out looking for someone who is "classy like none of these hoes". None of this ever changes, so the only thing I can say is, yay for the return of the Six Senses jacket. (With the pink pants, fedora, and black T-shirt.)
Jin went back in his sphere with Lizzy and another girl while the boys paired off with other girls (sorry, I can't identify all these blonde heads at a distance, so they'll just have to be "girls"!) and tried to outdo each other. There's hat juggling, there's breakdancing, there's all sorts of good stuff until the press show up with the usual "incriminating" photos of Jin.
Which of course meant it was time for my favourite moment of any show, by any artist, ever. You know why I keep going to Jin's shows? It's so I can see Paparats over and over again. If they ever released a DVD I'd save a fortune in airfare. This was a powered up version, with actual fire to go with the stuff on the screen. Must've been hot, which is presumably why Jin stripped off the jacket to reveal he was wearing the tour T-shirt. Paparats should always be sung in a black T-shirt, in my opinion. Jin was a blazing hot mess on the stage and that's just how I like it.
I know this will be important for ayuzak - Josh showed up for 'Hey Girl', wearing shades (which he never removed) and blinding yellow shoes that immediately made me think of Heero Yuy (not that I would ever trust Josh to pilot a Gundam). The guys were all wearing the tour T-shirt, actually. (Of course not on the screen, where they were showing the Jin + Ryo in the studio video.) Josh air-guitared with Paul's body. Jin's male friends sure are all touchy-feely with each other, aren't they?
It was a wacky performance. Josh attempted a few dance steps and gave up, which was probably just as well. Jin kind of shrieked the "LA LA"s, then burst into giggles which got in the way of him resuming them properly. Yellow Gold streamers burst out everywhere!
Jin vanished to change while the dancers did their thing. Paul introduced Juice, who continually wows me with his ability to dance far better upside down than I can do right way up. Paul took his own turn, then Juggler (wasn't she introduced as 'SK Juggler' last February?), then Lizzy (who got a lot of cheers), and the rest were just..."Dancers". And then Kazumi, doing her splits thing again. Ouch. Juice tried to get the audience to show some enthusiasm but didn't have much luck, so he showed us each of the musicians in their cages, hidden somewhere I couldn't see (Keyboards, Guitar, Bass, and Juice's favourite - the Drums). He tried to get us to make some noise - slight success, there - and brought Jin back again, with his name up in lights all over.
He returned in jeans, a white T-shirt, fedora (of course) and a sparkly black jacket that made me think of the cardigan Kame wore for Plastic Tears in Shounen Club. He danced with various members of the crew and got started on Pin Dom, which had appropriate pink lighting and some fake hiccups to go with the hilarious lyrics. The circular platform bounced up and down in time to the music while Jin was on it, then he came down to head across the walk with the guys.
Wonder, of course, had the PV, but Crystal Kay only appeared on the screens that were off to the side and somewhat behind the main screen, so the one dead centre was an almost entirely Jin-centric version.
The Fifth Season is probably one of the songs I'd add to my list of "reasons to keep going to these shows", with the bass low and painful and tugging at your heartstrings, and Jin working the grand hand gestures on "overflowing". He throws a lot into this one and it pays off. But I do wish he wouldn't keep chewing gum through the shows. Isn't it weird to sing with something in your mouth?
Yellow Gold got more audience participation and the guys in gold-ish outfits, if not as "Mr Universe" style as the ones they wore in the US.
My Mp3 never changes, except that now Kazumi is back again at the head of the line on the floor, legs on either side of her.
And the audience finally woke up for Tipsy Love, doing the "Ye-oh" quite readily. Jin coughed into the mike after the first couple of them, smiled, changed the tune a bit, we copied, he smiled some more, coughed some more... They showed flashes of the audience on the screen - hopefully not me, since I'd have been waving a notebook. Josh made a triumphant return, dressed in black, white and gold - with a tie - and looking like an airline pilot. Still with the shades. He tried to do the dance steps with the other guys; had slightly more success this time. Everyone got thanked in Japanese and then we had the introductions. Jin pronounced Lizzy's name with a Japanese accent, Juice tried to throw his hat to the audience (but failed, got it thrown back, and then went and tried again), and there were hugs of varying degrees of manliness all round. I think Josh may have attempted a tickle? Unfortunately he was on the wrong side of me to tell, but Jin squirmed away, so maybe?
Juice got us all to chant "Jin!" which we did, and Jin started singing the "hey-ay etc." bits to cover up his embarrassment. The audience didn't want to stop, so he kept us going, eventually stopping us with his thanks.
For Eternal Jin was up on the platform again, going around the arena, looking very emotional. Not sure if he wiped away sweat or tears at the end, but there was definitely something. He plugged the single, retreated into his bubble, said his usual "Ciao" and sank into the floor.
And that was it for Tokyo, Day 1!
The weather in Tokyo today was, for want of a better expression, pouring with snow, which meant everywhere was soaked and slushy, we were all wet, and the Nippon Budokan was pretty much just a sea of really colourful umbrellas. Not much in the way of colourful outfits this time - I did see a number of fedoras, and several purple bobble hats (even a Bilby cap) - mostly I passed the time in the queue by bag-spotting. You & Jin Tokyo bag was heavily represented, of course, and a girl near me had a Dream Boys 2008 bag. Clearly it takes all sort at a Jin con. The girl in front of me in line, her favourite was actually Ryo - maybe she was hoping he'd show up?
Anyway, they let us inside at 17:30 and we all had fun trying to find the right door for our block. The Budokan breaks them up by compass points, but half the queues leading out the doors were actually for the toilets and not the doors themselves. Inevitable when most of the audience is female. There was actually a guy next to me (with his girlfriend) and he did all the hand dances fairly enthusiastically, but looked askance at my taking notes while singing and dancing through the whole thing. There wasn't all that much dancing, full stop, but a girl a couple of rows ahead of me gave up on propriety part-way through and just went for it, infecting her neighbours too. I wish Japanese audiences would dance more.
Today I sat in the 2nd floor South-East block, row F, which really isn't bad - I had a very nice view of the whole stage (as opposed to the poor people all the way around the side - I feel so sorry for them). It was, however, nowhere near as close as I've been before, which means I was dependent on the screens if I wanted to see anything close up, and mostly they only showed Jin. It didn't help that all the girls either were blonde or were wearing blonde wigs, so Lizzy was the only one I could identify from a distance.
There was a main stage at the back with a circular portion on a crane, then a long walkway ending in a rounder stage. Clear spheres dangled from the ceiling, along with a few opaque ones coloured by the multitude of lasers. While we waited for the show to start, they interrupted the Lady Gaga/Black-Eyed Peas/Whatever else seems to have been following Jin's shows around since this time last year to show an advert for Eternal! If that's the PV, I have to say it doesn't look that interesting - just him singing in a white hoodie. It didn't last long but it was nice to see, anyway.
Then while the lights were still on, they showed a succession of videos. First up, LA June 2010 with an instrumental version of My Mp3 playing, everyone clapping along. On occasions where the video wasn't silent, they added Japanese subtitles. The crowd seemed to like watching Jin getting cutely embarrassed. His name ran across the larger globes in lights. We heard instrumental INP, Bass Go Boom with words, saw the footage with the auditions, Jin and choreography, crowd outside in LA, a quick vid after the show with Jin, Joey (and I think Dom? Can't read my scribbles!) leaving and people yelling out declarations of love - subtitled. Apparently they were going to dream about partying? Then there was San Francisco, the Test Drive recording, Oowah on MTV Iggy, NYC.
When the lights finally went out we got to see the crazy intro video, with its English subs. It wasn't as hard to make out as the fanrecordings suggest - I don't know if it's just the recording, or if he's re-done it. We got the WB logo and the names of the places on the tour so far, and then it all got kind of hectic as Bass Go Boom accompanied the puppet video, and there were flashes of fire, and white and silver robots.
Jin popped up on the stage in one of those transparent spheres. I wonder if he likes snowglobes? He sang the Yellow Gold remix, which I think everyone's heard by now, in the usual white jacket and shades. Hair was fluffed to within an inch of its life. He robot-walked to the drumkit once he was let out; the girls held billowing white sheets that made me think of 1582.
Christmas Morning never changes, really, except that after the puppeteering and glow-in-the-dark drumstick conducting the circular platform he was on rose and started working its way around the arena. Lots of red light, but fireworks signalled the end of that and then everything was gold.
I got to hear Magnitude live for the first time, with Jin still hovering in the air and clutching his drink (was it Starbucks again? I couldn't tell.), and am not sure what to make of the lyrics. I sometimes get the impression he might be onto an interesting concept, he's just picking words that don't automatically seem to relate so it doesn't always work out. While he and the drumkit flew around the arena, the dancers played with glowing hoops and rods on the stage. Cue more explosions and some glow-in-the-dark juggling.
Next up, Bass Go Boom, with Lizzy as the girl who's giving Jin "the eye". It's very strange to see the show without Dom and Joey, who've been there since the beginning, and I miss Aubree terribly. The world needs more adorable redhaired wannabe superheroes who are all cute and squishy.
Lizzy did Aubree's part in INP, and Juice did Dom's. Nobody makes faces quite like Aubree, though.
The transparent spheres went up and down during Oowah, which was missing the intro vid (I guess Jin didn't want to have to explain the situation to Japanese audiences?). The dancers paired off (they had one girl too many - Paul, Juice, Lizzy, Kazumi, and I think three other girls?) to dance, then all joined together. I looked at the flowwers being projected on the ceiling and would swear I saw identical ones at the Kis-My-Ft2 concert I attended a couple of hours earlier. Jin did a cute little kick when he trilled "peripheral", or whatever it is.
Jin finally took the shades off for Body Talk, then had to remove the jacket too since he was sweating terribly. You can imagine what kind of a scream that got. Lovely starry space background on the screens. Since Dom wasn't there, we didn't get his "adult romantic dance" stuff with Lizzy...but when she turned up on one pedestal and another of the girls on the opposite one, I thought for a second Jin was going to sing the background music for a pseudo-lesbian love scene. It wasn't to be, however, and eventually he had three girls slowly dancing behind him - by themselves.
The next bit was rather creepy. Owing to the outfits they were wearing, the dancers appeared to have been replaced by fluorescent, legless ghosts. (Not "legless" in that sense, even though Jin sings about alcohol a lot...) The arches in the stage took on a stained-glass window quality. In the centre, Kazumi did that very uncomfortable-looking thing she does where she does the splits and wiggles herself forwards, looking for all the world like some kind of serpent. On the screen the clock counted down to 2011.
Perhaps it should've counted a little further back, because next up was Care. Jin had changed into the blue jacket, white T-shirt, pink pants and fedora, and sat down, taking sips from his water bottle. (What, finished your overpriced coffee?) Sadly he didn't play guitar for Care but he did for Murasaki, where, despite all the purple light shining on him, he was mostly hidden under his hat. I wonder if we'll have to wait for the last show before he'll bare his head for the entire thing? (simourva, you might be onto something with the nun comparison.)
Jin plays something else on the guitar afterwards, short and pretty, while the clock flashes forward again to 3011. He throws the guitar through the trapdoor. (You're not Pete Townshend, boy. Treat your instruments with more respect!) Paul Not sure who? sat next to him and the two of them did a dance routine I'm guessing would normally have been Jin and Joey?
The girls brought out some circular cage components and locked up the guys (including Juice) behind bars. Sorry, every time I see Jin behind bars I think "KAIZOKUBAN!!!" Jin just stayed sitting where he was while Juice and Paul protested their innocence and demanded to be let out. But that's okay, because we know the secret of breaking out of prison - dance a lot. Jin slumped down, then got up and tried to bend the bars. No dice. It took all three guys dancing to do it. Hmm, three guys dancing in a cage...why am I suddenly thinking of Queer as Folk?
Anyway, the cage circle got closed around Jin for A Page, which he sang with his hood up. The audience didn't join in - or if they did, not in sufficient numbers that Jin felt comfortable playing around with the song the way he did in the US. He rose up from the centre of the cage on a pedestal, and I do recall getting a flash of tongue after "I'm out". (I have to watch Jin's mouth when he's singing because it's the only way I can figure out how the timing works for some of these songs! Paparats is particularly bad for it.)
The cage was replaced by a giant white coffin, into which the girls shut Jin. And out comes Lost My Way!Kame, complete with fangs! (Just kidding.) One of the girls was twirling flaming torches around and the coffin burst into flames!
Which of course led naturally to Lovejuice. Being burned alive in a coffin really gets you in the mood for picking up women in clubs, doesn't it? I know when I get myself cremated, I'll be out looking for someone who is "classy like none of these hoes". None of this ever changes, so the only thing I can say is, yay for the return of the Six Senses jacket. (With the pink pants, fedora, and black T-shirt.)
Jin went back in his sphere with Lizzy and another girl while the boys paired off with other girls (sorry, I can't identify all these blonde heads at a distance, so they'll just have to be "girls"!) and tried to outdo each other. There's hat juggling, there's breakdancing, there's all sorts of good stuff until the press show up with the usual "incriminating" photos of Jin.
Which of course meant it was time for my favourite moment of any show, by any artist, ever. You know why I keep going to Jin's shows? It's so I can see Paparats over and over again. If they ever released a DVD I'd save a fortune in airfare. This was a powered up version, with actual fire to go with the stuff on the screen. Must've been hot, which is presumably why Jin stripped off the jacket to reveal he was wearing the tour T-shirt. Paparats should always be sung in a black T-shirt, in my opinion. Jin was a blazing hot mess on the stage and that's just how I like it.
I know this will be important for ayuzak - Josh showed up for 'Hey Girl', wearing shades (which he never removed) and blinding yellow shoes that immediately made me think of Heero Yuy (not that I would ever trust Josh to pilot a Gundam). The guys were all wearing the tour T-shirt, actually. (Of course not on the screen, where they were showing the Jin + Ryo in the studio video.) Josh air-guitared with Paul's body. Jin's male friends sure are all touchy-feely with each other, aren't they?
It was a wacky performance. Josh attempted a few dance steps and gave up, which was probably just as well. Jin kind of shrieked the "LA LA"s, then burst into giggles which got in the way of him resuming them properly. Yellow Gold streamers burst out everywhere!
Jin vanished to change while the dancers did their thing. Paul introduced Juice, who continually wows me with his ability to dance far better upside down than I can do right way up. Paul took his own turn, then Juggler (wasn't she introduced as 'SK Juggler' last February?), then Lizzy (who got a lot of cheers), and the rest were just..."Dancers". And then Kazumi, doing her splits thing again. Ouch. Juice tried to get the audience to show some enthusiasm but didn't have much luck, so he showed us each of the musicians in their cages, hidden somewhere I couldn't see (Keyboards, Guitar, Bass, and Juice's favourite - the Drums). He tried to get us to make some noise - slight success, there - and brought Jin back again, with his name up in lights all over.
He returned in jeans, a white T-shirt, fedora (of course) and a sparkly black jacket that made me think of the cardigan Kame wore for Plastic Tears in Shounen Club. He danced with various members of the crew and got started on Pin Dom, which had appropriate pink lighting and some fake hiccups to go with the hilarious lyrics. The circular platform bounced up and down in time to the music while Jin was on it, then he came down to head across the walk with the guys.
Wonder, of course, had the PV, but Crystal Kay only appeared on the screens that were off to the side and somewhat behind the main screen, so the one dead centre was an almost entirely Jin-centric version.
The Fifth Season is probably one of the songs I'd add to my list of "reasons to keep going to these shows", with the bass low and painful and tugging at your heartstrings, and Jin working the grand hand gestures on "overflowing". He throws a lot into this one and it pays off. But I do wish he wouldn't keep chewing gum through the shows. Isn't it weird to sing with something in your mouth?
Yellow Gold got more audience participation and the guys in gold-ish outfits, if not as "Mr Universe" style as the ones they wore in the US.
My Mp3 never changes, except that now Kazumi is back again at the head of the line on the floor, legs on either side of her.
And the audience finally woke up for Tipsy Love, doing the "Ye-oh" quite readily. Jin coughed into the mike after the first couple of them, smiled, changed the tune a bit, we copied, he smiled some more, coughed some more... They showed flashes of the audience on the screen - hopefully not me, since I'd have been waving a notebook. Josh made a triumphant return, dressed in black, white and gold - with a tie - and looking like an airline pilot. Still with the shades. He tried to do the dance steps with the other guys; had slightly more success this time. Everyone got thanked in Japanese and then we had the introductions. Jin pronounced Lizzy's name with a Japanese accent, Juice tried to throw his hat to the audience (but failed, got it thrown back, and then went and tried again), and there were hugs of varying degrees of manliness all round. I think Josh may have attempted a tickle? Unfortunately he was on the wrong side of me to tell, but Jin squirmed away, so maybe?
Juice got us all to chant "Jin!" which we did, and Jin started singing the "hey-ay etc." bits to cover up his embarrassment. The audience didn't want to stop, so he kept us going, eventually stopping us with his thanks.
For Eternal Jin was up on the platform again, going around the arena, looking very emotional. Not sure if he wiped away sweat or tears at the end, but there was definitely something. He plugged the single, retreated into his bubble, said his usual "Ciao" and sank into the floor.
And that was it for Tokyo, Day 1!