Comments | hontowa: Arashi Anniversary Tour 5x10: Fukuoka 9/18

hontowa

Arashi Anniversary Tour 5x10: Fukuoka 9/18

Sep 20, 2009 21:28

I'll post some more personal things about the trip later for friends. For now, I wanted to get a con report written up before I forget anything. I tend to be long winded so I tried to split it into parts in case people want to skip ahead.

( Getting there and Buying Goods )

Comments 33

jessui September 20 2009, 14:20:30 UTC

Nice report, sounds like you had an awesome time!! :D But damn, how long was the concert?! XD (sorry if you mentioned it and I missed it) Very cool, though! The MC about them all drinking on Ohno's room was cute :> That's good that you had a good experience with the seller - I used to worry about the names on the tickets too, but yeah, I've never seen/heard of them checking recently.

hontowa September 21 2009, 07:34:12 UTC

Someone mentioned getting stopped at a Tegomasu concert recently, but she just told them her friend had gone in ahead of her and they let her go xD

The concert started at 6 and I got back to the hotel around 11:30 or 12 after a half hour bus ride back to Hakata (maybe add another 20 minutes waiting for a free bus), stopping for dinner, and making a combini run so...I'd guess it was about 3 hours? A lot of the songs were shortened versions, but I guess it was still on the long side :)

aeslis September 20 2009, 14:39:41 UTC

Oh, how exciting. :D It's awesome that you remembered all the MC talk, I never can--it's so hard for me to keep up with what they're saying when it's live and echoing through microphones.

It sounds like a BLAST, though.

hontowa September 21 2009, 07:35:31 UTC

I have NO idea how I remembered that much, I usually have terrible memory. As soon as I got back to the hotel though I wrote down everything I could remember, so I think that helped a lot xD

ohmeeyuh September 20 2009, 14:43:34 UTC

Not gonna lie, I was crossing my fingers the day of hoping you got in. I'm so glad it wasn't even a problem! :D And such a nice seller, too~

Your con reports make me happehhhh. Sounds like the entire concert went extremely well, and I'm seriously hoping that whichever concert comes out on DVD is as awesome as this. I'm also pretty surprised about the goods line--the pictures I see usually seem like there are a million people, so luckily you were able to get around pretty fast (it seemed), considering you hit every line.

I love reading stuff like this first thing in the morning! ^^ I hope the rest of your trip goes just as well. <3

hontowa September 21 2009, 07:39:21 UTC

Thank you for the finger crossing <3 Every little bit helps :D The seller was really sweet, she even called me after the show ended to ask me if I enjoyed it.

I have a feeling the DVD will be from Kokuritsu, though I'm really hoping for it to be a Dome location. I really like how the rearranged the set list, I think it flowed really well. Maybe there will be some kind of digest included (though not digest only please x_x) so we can see the highlights from each venue.

augustfai September 20 2009, 18:41:25 UTC

Aahhh! Such a great report, it sounds like it was a really awesome experience. Everything is so detailed, too. Thanks a lot for writing this up! :D

maishoku September 20 2009, 19:50:42 UTC

Wow, your report is really, really detailed! Thank you so much for it! I really enjoyed reading it. All the more I want the DVD to be out soon. (laughs) Every concert reports I read sounded really awesome that I want everything to be put on the DVD, hahaha.

And aww, your friend! Getting a slight contact with him must be really pleasing. :]