concert roulette #043
So I received EVERYTHING and we all know (or at least I believe) that the 5x10 performance of Everything is one of the loveliest things ever, but here's the thing: I can't cap their singing (SO PRETTY) and in Scene's performance of Everything all five of them are sleeveless (... SO PRETTY). Thus. :D
I failed to find this performance streaming but you can download it from AST here (locked) or from saobang2211 here (unlocked). (Also, after reading this post over I realized I am super repetitive in it. OH WELL.)
Sleeveless plus SHINY PANTS.
It's so weird to be able to see the aisles down below and staff members and I don't know, the things I don't usually see. Wee Arashi on this giant stage, surrounded on all sides by fans!
Nino grinning and finger-waggling and shiny pants and Nino, oh my! Last time I sparkled the song right after Nino's solo, thus we lost him for half the song, and this time it's the song right before Nino's solo, thus we lose him for half the song. Next: Nino's solo?? That would be funny. :D (And probably my end.)
SERIOUSLY, EVERYONE HAS BARE ARMS AND IT'S CRAZY-MAKING, THAT'S ALL I AM SAYING.
dzzt dzzt (how did he even get those tan-lines, too) dzzt
dzzzzzzzzzzzt (if it is not clear that is the sound of my brain SHORTING OUT, OKAY)
HELLO FOND-EYED SHO, THOSE PANTS ARE VERY FLATTERING TO YOUR ASSETS, LOVE, VAL.
OH JUN, with every concert that passes you get more and more fun to sparkle!
AIBA. SLEEVE. LESS. AS IN, WITHOUT SLEEVES.
ALSO HIS FACE/HAIR/EVERYTHING.
ALSO BIRTHMARK.
I want to draw little hearts around so many of these fans' faces. <3<3
Ohno fishing someone. <3
The other thing that had me leaning toward Scene rather than 5x10 is in this one they're walking around (IN THEIR SHINY PANTS) and waving and such, and the sun is still up and all the conditions are coming together to have Arashi just overwhelmingly pretty, yep.
Augh, that one stupid lock of his stupid hair that is driving me crazy with how charming it is, shut up. ♥♥
Since we don't get much Nino in this song, I kept a whole bunch of caps of this moment where he's just oh so pretty, augh:
He's all windswept and glowing and Nino and fjlsa;dkfjlksa.
Plus I love their sparkly gloves, oh yes.
And that's the last we see of the neen, goodbye! Until next time! ♥
arms and arms and arms and arms
YES, CLOSER TO THE ARMS. ALSO HE'S FISHING SOMEONE AGAIN, I LOVE HIM.
No Ohno fan service is complete without him pointing so that someone knows that YES, it is YOU he is loving on. <3
Arms. And I really like these pants on Ohno, I am just saying.
ARM IN PROFILE?? IS OVERWHELMING.
The sculpture of the matsupuff, I love it.
OH JUN.
And the thing about Jun in concert is, just when you think he's gone as far as he can with something, he goes JUST A BIT FURTHER:
AND I LOVE IT.
So fabulous. <3
Sometimes with fades I am like BUT THIS DISRUPTS MY CAPPING and other times I am like THIS MAKES CAPPING EVEN MORE FUN.
With this instance being the latter, of course. <3 (I MEAN, LOOK AT AIBA'S FACE.)
All that's really happening is Aiba's about to sing BUT I STILL REALLY LOVE THIS CAP, OKAY, IT IS SO VERY AIBA. <3<3
... Yeah, there is nothing to say about these, NNGH.
OH HEY, LET'S WATCH AIBA'S JOYFUL SMILING FACE FADE INTO A SUNSET SINCE THEY ARE BOTH BEAUTIFUL MIRACLES OF NATURE:
SOME OF THOSE CLOUDS AREN'T CLOUDS, THEY ARE AIBA-EYES SCRUNCHED IN HAPPINESS, FYI.
LOOK, SEE? ISN'T THAT THE HAPPIEST LITTLE EYE-CLOUD IMAGINABLE?
Sunset, you're still pretty, but Aiba's absence means you lose some of your sparkle. ALL SUNSETS SHOULD HAVE AIBA'S FACE IN THEM Y/Y.
I should say this somewhere: I really love this song. It's one of the songs that give me such a feeling of peace and contentment. <3
YAMADA TAROU PAIR, which is what I think of when Nino makes that face. :D
SPEAKING OF PEACEFUL AND SOOTHING THINGS.
It's like he soothes me and gets me all riled up at once. :D I mean, his PEACEFUL FACE and then his SEXY ARMS. (Sometimes writing these sparkles makes me think that I have TRULY GONE OFF THE DEEP END.)
Whatever, the deep end is nice, it has rainbows and dorks. <3
JUN AND HIS PLUMAGE. <3
FEELINGS!
Jun, you are so very pretty.
SHO ALSO HAS ARMS. (New goal for this post: don't use the phrase meat guns.)
HOW DO AIBA'S PANTS STAY ON.
AND IF HIS TORSO IS THAT LONG AND HIS LEGS ARE THAT LONG, HOW IS HE NOT EIGHT FEET TALL.
ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST GLORIOUS MYSTERIES, AIBA MASAKI.
FACE. HIPS.
Is he staring through his constructed heart at the fan he's sending it to, or staring at his fingers to make sure he's making the correct shape.
With Ohno it's like, I don't know what he's thinking but none of the options are LESS THAN COMPLETELY AMAZING.
fjkaslf;ljsk SO PRETTY, SHO.
I liked these outfits in motion but after capping this I am just ridiculously fond of them. :D
SHOOOOOOOOOOOO. SHO AND HIS FACE AND HIS ARMS AND HIS EVERYTHING. <3<3<3
Additionally: AIBAAAAAAAA. (... Do you think that as time goes by and Top and I hopefully keep sparkling, eventually the only commentary we'll have left is member names in capslock with extra vowels?? I'd say it's a bleak future but I'm not sure it'd be that much different. :D)
All right, let's have a list: arm. Everything to do with that arm. Face, eye crinkles, sweat, hair clinging lovingly to his forehead, green earpiece, neck, iridescent shirt of love. !! AIBA, TO SUM UP.
AIBA AND HIS LONG ARMS AND SPARKLY GLOVE AND WAVING.
Oh, is it that time? Let's do this. (I kept far too many caps of this.)
So in motion this is just normally amazing but in caps it is like how many contortions can their faces go through AND how much can they make me laugh and love them: AN EXPERIMENT.
Clearly they couldn't sing together without Ohno's around around Jun's waist and Jun's arm on Ohno's shoulder. CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.
Also this is my favorite part of the song because it is AMAZING and I love hearing it every time.
Oh here we go, Jun has turned to Leader.
Ohno senses something different in his peripheral vision.
I love that at first his face looks kind of ... not WARY, but as close to it as Ohno would come with croco-Jun.
BUT THEN BUT THEN HIS HEAD DOES THIS LITTLE TILT AND HIS CHEEK COMES TOWARD JUN AND IT'S JUST LIKE, THE MOST SUBTLE, FLIRTY LITTLE THING. FJLKASDJFKDLSA;;FKJLDA. I KNOW IT'S LIKE A MILLISECOND LONG BUT IT'S AMAZING.
YOU GUYS ARE HEROES. <3<3<3
NEVER CHANGE.
SINCE WHAT AGE DID SHO BECOME SO PRETTY.
Jun checks if it's raining... mostly with his mouth?? I love that other than his mouth gaping open it could be the same as in Hatenai Sora but instead it is several degrees less cool. :D
SPARKLE SPARKLE
AIBA AND HIS FACE
Tell us how it is, Matsujun!
ARMS. WHY ARE THEY NOT SLEEVELESS ALWAYS.
Even from this far away Aiba's bouncing is SO APPARENT and also SO OBVIOUSLY AIBA. <3<3<3
He is just so LONG. What is the difference between 'long' and 'tall' when it comes to bodies, I DON'T KNOW BUT AIBA DOES IT, HE IS SPECIFICALLY LONG.
Aiba needs a shampoo commercial. (... I will pause for a moment and imagine it.)
Oh, YOU. ♥♥ (Also, I can't believe I've waited this long to say it, but Jun has arms too, oh yes. [The depth of my dazzling commentary: "Jun has arms."] PLUS PRETTY HANDS.)
I love Ohno's expression after waving at someone and seeing their reaction. Happy and slightly bemused and HAPPY (but also slightly bemused. Like, 'why is it so exciting to this person that I wave my hand at them but YAY.')
NECK.
Someday I will feel like I understand Sakurai Sho (OR PROBABLY NOT) but for now I just bask in his awesomeness and leave his inscrutability at times for more wily fans to decipher.
Plus his fond eyes tell me all of the important things. <3<3
MORE FISHING, MORE ARMS, MORE FACES, MORE HAPPINESS.
Jun is so in his element during concerts. <3
Jun is also SUPER CUTE.
Oh, oh, this is where Aiba is waving to fans as he prepares to leave the stage for Nino's solo, and it's like... he's so intent on waving to everyone that he keeps switching arms to do it, like one arm can only transmit so much love before it needs to be tagged out for another. AND REPEAT.
This one isn't an arm switch, it's more that he turned a bit and his arms went kaboom with hotness PLUS BIRTHMARK, SO. Cap: kept.
It seems like whenever Jun says 'you and me' he always points at the crowd and himself and j;lkfdalf;jkdsa so cute, Jun. <3<3
SO CUTE, JUN. <3<3<3<3
SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, NEVER CHANGE.
(Next sparkle I vow to keep it to or under 100 caps, ooof.)
Song.
YAY, two year anniversary of my Arashi love! Two years ago today I clicked accidentally on an Arashi video and have been falling in love ever since. <3<3<3<3<3
Now for Top's assignment...
*phwoooooooooooooooosh~*
Kimi Wa Sukoshimo Warukunai! Well, that decides what concert Top is sparkling! After three in a row from Scene it'll be nice to go back to Iza, Now. <3<3
I failed to find this performance streaming but you can download it from AST here (locked) or from saobang2211 here (unlocked). (Also, after reading this post over I realized I am super repetitive in it. OH WELL.)
Sleeveless plus SHINY PANTS.
It's so weird to be able to see the aisles down below and staff members and I don't know, the things I don't usually see. Wee Arashi on this giant stage, surrounded on all sides by fans!
Nino grinning and finger-waggling and shiny pants and Nino, oh my! Last time I sparkled the song right after Nino's solo, thus we lost him for half the song, and this time it's the song right before Nino's solo, thus we lose him for half the song. Next: Nino's solo?? That would be funny. :D (And probably my end.)
SERIOUSLY, EVERYONE HAS BARE ARMS AND IT'S CRAZY-MAKING, THAT'S ALL I AM SAYING.
dzzt dzzt (how did he even get those tan-lines, too) dzzt
dzzzzzzzzzzzt (if it is not clear that is the sound of my brain SHORTING OUT, OKAY)
HELLO FOND-EYED SHO, THOSE PANTS ARE VERY FLATTERING TO YOUR ASSETS, LOVE, VAL.
OH JUN, with every concert that passes you get more and more fun to sparkle!
AIBA. SLEEVE. LESS. AS IN, WITHOUT SLEEVES.
ALSO HIS FACE/HAIR/EVERYTHING.
ALSO BIRTHMARK.
I want to draw little hearts around so many of these fans' faces. <3<3
Ohno fishing someone. <3
The other thing that had me leaning toward Scene rather than 5x10 is in this one they're walking around (IN THEIR SHINY PANTS) and waving and such, and the sun is still up and all the conditions are coming together to have Arashi just overwhelmingly pretty, yep.
Augh, that one stupid lock of his stupid hair that is driving me crazy with how charming it is, shut up. ♥♥
Since we don't get much Nino in this song, I kept a whole bunch of caps of this moment where he's just oh so pretty, augh:
He's all windswept and glowing and Nino and fjlsa;dkfjlksa.
Plus I love their sparkly gloves, oh yes.
And that's the last we see of the neen, goodbye! Until next time! ♥
arms and arms and arms and arms
YES, CLOSER TO THE ARMS. ALSO HE'S FISHING SOMEONE AGAIN, I LOVE HIM.
No Ohno fan service is complete without him pointing so that someone knows that YES, it is YOU he is loving on. <3
Arms. And I really like these pants on Ohno, I am just saying.
ARM IN PROFILE?? IS OVERWHELMING.
The sculpture of the matsupuff, I love it.
OH JUN.
And the thing about Jun in concert is, just when you think he's gone as far as he can with something, he goes JUST A BIT FURTHER:
AND I LOVE IT.
So fabulous. <3
Sometimes with fades I am like BUT THIS DISRUPTS MY CAPPING and other times I am like THIS MAKES CAPPING EVEN MORE FUN.
With this instance being the latter, of course. <3 (I MEAN, LOOK AT AIBA'S FACE.)
All that's really happening is Aiba's about to sing BUT I STILL REALLY LOVE THIS CAP, OKAY, IT IS SO VERY AIBA. <3<3
... Yeah, there is nothing to say about these, NNGH.
OH HEY, LET'S WATCH AIBA'S JOYFUL SMILING FACE FADE INTO A SUNSET SINCE THEY ARE BOTH BEAUTIFUL MIRACLES OF NATURE:
SOME OF THOSE CLOUDS AREN'T CLOUDS, THEY ARE AIBA-EYES SCRUNCHED IN HAPPINESS, FYI.
LOOK, SEE? ISN'T THAT THE HAPPIEST LITTLE EYE-CLOUD IMAGINABLE?
Sunset, you're still pretty, but Aiba's absence means you lose some of your sparkle. ALL SUNSETS SHOULD HAVE AIBA'S FACE IN THEM Y/Y.
I should say this somewhere: I really love this song. It's one of the songs that give me such a feeling of peace and contentment. <3
YAMADA TAROU PAIR, which is what I think of when Nino makes that face. :D
SPEAKING OF PEACEFUL AND SOOTHING THINGS.
It's like he soothes me and gets me all riled up at once. :D I mean, his PEACEFUL FACE and then his SEXY ARMS. (Sometimes writing these sparkles makes me think that I have TRULY GONE OFF THE DEEP END.)
Whatever, the deep end is nice, it has rainbows and dorks. <3
JUN AND HIS PLUMAGE. <3
FEELINGS!
Jun, you are so very pretty.
SHO ALSO HAS ARMS. (New goal for this post: don't use the phrase meat guns.)
HOW DO AIBA'S PANTS STAY ON.
AND IF HIS TORSO IS THAT LONG AND HIS LEGS ARE THAT LONG, HOW IS HE NOT EIGHT FEET TALL.
ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST GLORIOUS MYSTERIES, AIBA MASAKI.
FACE. HIPS.
Is he staring through his constructed heart at the fan he's sending it to, or staring at his fingers to make sure he's making the correct shape.
With Ohno it's like, I don't know what he's thinking but none of the options are LESS THAN COMPLETELY AMAZING.
fjkaslf;ljsk SO PRETTY, SHO.
I liked these outfits in motion but after capping this I am just ridiculously fond of them. :D
SHOOOOOOOOOOOO. SHO AND HIS FACE AND HIS ARMS AND HIS EVERYTHING. <3<3<3
Additionally: AIBAAAAAAAA. (... Do you think that as time goes by and Top and I hopefully keep sparkling, eventually the only commentary we'll have left is member names in capslock with extra vowels?? I'd say it's a bleak future but I'm not sure it'd be that much different. :D)
All right, let's have a list: arm. Everything to do with that arm. Face, eye crinkles, sweat, hair clinging lovingly to his forehead, green earpiece, neck, iridescent shirt of love. !! AIBA, TO SUM UP.
AIBA AND HIS LONG ARMS AND SPARKLY GLOVE AND WAVING.
Oh, is it that time? Let's do this. (I kept far too many caps of this.)
So in motion this is just normally amazing but in caps it is like how many contortions can their faces go through AND how much can they make me laugh and love them: AN EXPERIMENT.
Clearly they couldn't sing together without Ohno's around around Jun's waist and Jun's arm on Ohno's shoulder. CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.
Also this is my favorite part of the song because it is AMAZING and I love hearing it every time.
Oh here we go, Jun has turned to Leader.
Ohno senses something different in his peripheral vision.
I love that at first his face looks kind of ... not WARY, but as close to it as Ohno would come with croco-Jun.
BUT THEN BUT THEN HIS HEAD DOES THIS LITTLE TILT AND HIS CHEEK COMES TOWARD JUN AND IT'S JUST LIKE, THE MOST SUBTLE, FLIRTY LITTLE THING. FJLKASDJFKDLSA;;FKJLDA. I KNOW IT'S LIKE A MILLISECOND LONG BUT IT'S AMAZING.
YOU GUYS ARE HEROES. <3<3<3
NEVER CHANGE.
SINCE WHAT AGE DID SHO BECOME SO PRETTY.
Jun checks if it's raining... mostly with his mouth?? I love that other than his mouth gaping open it could be the same as in Hatenai Sora but instead it is several degrees less cool. :D
SPARKLE SPARKLE
AIBA AND HIS FACE
Tell us how it is, Matsujun!
ARMS. WHY ARE THEY NOT SLEEVELESS ALWAYS.
Even from this far away Aiba's bouncing is SO APPARENT and also SO OBVIOUSLY AIBA. <3<3<3
He is just so LONG. What is the difference between 'long' and 'tall' when it comes to bodies, I DON'T KNOW BUT AIBA DOES IT, HE IS SPECIFICALLY LONG.
Aiba needs a shampoo commercial. (... I will pause for a moment and imagine it.)
Oh, YOU. ♥♥ (Also, I can't believe I've waited this long to say it, but Jun has arms too, oh yes. [The depth of my dazzling commentary: "Jun has arms."] PLUS PRETTY HANDS.)
I love Ohno's expression after waving at someone and seeing their reaction. Happy and slightly bemused and HAPPY (but also slightly bemused. Like, 'why is it so exciting to this person that I wave my hand at them but YAY.')
NECK.
Someday I will feel like I understand Sakurai Sho (OR PROBABLY NOT) but for now I just bask in his awesomeness and leave his inscrutability at times for more wily fans to decipher.
Plus his fond eyes tell me all of the important things. <3<3
MORE FISHING, MORE ARMS, MORE FACES, MORE HAPPINESS.
Jun is so in his element during concerts. <3
Jun is also SUPER CUTE.
Oh, oh, this is where Aiba is waving to fans as he prepares to leave the stage for Nino's solo, and it's like... he's so intent on waving to everyone that he keeps switching arms to do it, like one arm can only transmit so much love before it needs to be tagged out for another. AND REPEAT.
This one isn't an arm switch, it's more that he turned a bit and his arms went kaboom with hotness PLUS BIRTHMARK, SO. Cap: kept.
It seems like whenever Jun says 'you and me' he always points at the crowd and himself and j;lkfdalf;jkdsa so cute, Jun. <3<3
SO CUTE, JUN. <3<3<3<3
SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, NEVER CHANGE.
(Next sparkle I vow to keep it to or under 100 caps, ooof.)
Song.
YAY, two year anniversary of my Arashi love! Two years ago today I clicked accidentally on an Arashi video and have been falling in love ever since. <3<3<3<3<3
Now for Top's assignment...
*phwoooooooooooooooosh~*
Kimi Wa Sukoshimo Warukunai! Well, that decides what concert Top is sparkling! After three in a row from Scene it'll be nice to go back to Iza, Now. <3<3