My Kansai Love

It was actually a cool set up because they had screens (like in a basketball game) that went all the way around the stage (u can see the black box thing floating) and then screens on the carts (which were decorated with puzzle pieces) as well as around the dome. It just sucked because the support beams for the main stage got in the way of being able to see across the whole stage (which meant I lost out on a lot of Ryo viewing *cries*).

Before the show officially started, a VTR came on with all the boys (minus Hina) coming out.  They were wearing gorilla costumes (but u could see their faces) and holding uchiwa.  They did the whole do not use ur phone, talk, take pictures, switch chairs, get all lovey-dovey with one another, and the whole uchiwa manner.  It was cute.  And Ryo-chan was acting so crazy at the end of it that his uchiwa fell apart. haha.  Then Hina comes out wearing some leopard skin boxers and is like "WTF are u guys doing!?"   And then they all were standing together doing their "Lets work together and have lots of fun tonight everyone!" thing, and it flashed on the screen that he didnt need a costume to look like a gorilla.  hahahaha.  Poor Hina.  And then he grunted (like a gorilla) a bunch of noises and the translations came up for his message to everyone.  Then at the end he goes, "Do I seriously look like a gorilla!?"

Here's the Set list for the night


1.無責任ヒーロー
2.イッツマイソウル
3.関風ファイティング
MC intros
4.ミセテクレ
5.Heavenly Psyco
6.一秒ＫＩＳＳ
7.Glorious（渋谷すばる／錦戸亮／大倉忠義）
8.Kicyu（横山裕／安田章大）
9.YOU CAN SEE（村上信五／丸山隆平）
10.パズル
11.渇いた花
∞レンジャー（隣の芝生は何色に見える？の巻）
劇中歌
　曲名不明
　細マッチョ、ごりマッチョのCMの曲　
12. どんなに離れてたって傍にいるから
13.ギガマジメ我ファイト
ＭＣ
14. 中山優馬くんの歌（曲名不明） the theme song for his drama starting this summer, not sure what it was called. And yes, this is the THIRD time I've seen this kid.
15.VETERAN/Kansai Jrs. did a song 
16.アカイシンキロウ
16.ブリュレ
17.My Last Train
18.大阪レイニーブルース
19.好きやねん大阪
20.ワッハッハー
21.ズッコケ男道
22.Do you agree？
23.ゴリゴリ
22.情熱Party
23.ローリング・コースター

Encore
1.無限大
2.咲いて生きよ

2nd Encore
3.大阪ロマネスク

The show started out with fireworks exploding and the color banners dropping to the floor.  All of them were standing in these basket things (think of window cleaners and house painters), Maru and Tacchon were on my side, that dropped down from behind their colored banners.  They were in these cute pink outfits *Uchi-kun!* singing Musekinin Hero. I really liked the metallic-ish blue/turqois suits they were wearing *Ryo-chan was sooo hot in it!*... actually, I liked all of their costumes.  It was a pretty laid back costume lineup.  Minus Yasu's in Kicyu, he wore a crazy lime green outfit complete with top hat!  Towards the end of the show, they came out in regular outfits.  Yoko was wearing a denim jumpsuit with a bright yellow baseball hat, Hina was wearing silver and a silver phedora, Ryo-chan was wearing a black shirt with a yellow one under it and jeans, Tacchon was wearing a white V-neck, and i forget what everyone else was wearing ( there are so many of them!). I do remember that at the end Maru was wearing the tour t-shirt, but no one else did.

For the Unit songs, Subaru was on the platform on my side *grr*.  They actually sang it well.  I could understand the words! haha.  Kicyu was sooo adorable.  It kind of makes me wish that they were in the video cuz the routine is so cute.  Yoko rode on the cart across my section and said "Hello!".  He was so cute in his pink shirt.  At the end of the song, he ripped his shirt open when him and Yasu were together, and Yasu screamed like a girl. haha.  It was funny.  For YOU CAN SEE Maru was on my side of the stage.  They were wearing the same jackets as they do in  the PV, but I think it was red or orange paired with it.

The MC
I know people have posted about it before, but just for my own memory and benefit I'm posting a bit about it. 

So the ∞Ranger skit section started with a VTR of what all of the guys had been up to.  Green was sitting at a table with a bunch of different chinese dishes on it. He would eat, then sleep, and eat, and sleep.  His pose picture was his mouth full with his eyes close, all smiles.  Orange and Blue's were the shortest.  Orange was lifting weights in the mirror, then he flexed his muscles for the camera *HAWT!*  Blue was sitting in front of a vanity, and he looks into the mirror and puts lipstick on and does a chu pose.  Nasu was on the second floor of a building's stairwell throwing money out at people because he was working or something like that.  He posted with his fan of money. haha.  Red was doing sumo, so he did the whole pre-fight leg lifting touching the ground ritual in his red butt tie underwear thingy.  He was sooo tiny!  Yellow bungee jumped (same VTR from HeyHeyHey?  or was it Msta?) and his picture was just a still of him at the bottom of the jump (so boring!).  Then Black was... planning something. haha.  The video showed them all standing in their regular clothes with the matrix-y background, and then each of them changed to ranger mode.  They used the screen behind the outfield for all seven, and then when the got "zapped" the guy's face flashed on the center stage screens.  Only a black helmet... on a red suit!  The two red rangers were argueing and everyone else was going crazy all over the arena.  The new Red even saing the "∞Ranger!!!" Part of the song! haha.  Black confessed that he is jealous of Red, and wants to be the singer.  He started singing the first line to Kawaita Hana and at the "okure" part, he went crazy on trying to imitate Red's vibrado! hahahaha. I think he did it like five times, Red was getting angry....  And Black just was yelling that he didnt want to be one of the others.  basically saying that Red is the sun, and the rest of them are the planets that revolve around him.  And the other rangers were telling him that that wasnt true.
Then black said that he wasnt the only one that felt that way... " ne, ORANGE!"  They all look at Orange, and he kinda gets this shy face, and starts stripping his Orange suit away to reveal..... YELLOW!!!!
Orange says that its tiring being Orange, so he wants to be kakkoii yellow now.  And Green is giggling (pretty much throughout the whole skit... he actually has to excuse himself at one part) and Orange asks Green, "Don't you have something to share, too?" 
Green strips off his suit to reveal Blue!  He complains about being too tall and he wants to be small like blue, so people can call him kawaii. hahahahahahaha.  So New Red, Blue, and Yellow are on one side, and Red, Blue and Yellow are on the other side, while Nasu is in the middle trying to calm everyone down.  It turns into a battle.  Red, Blue and Yellow run to the center stage and are complaining the whole time, while the new red new yellow and new blue go off.  Nasu is torn, stuck at the stage.  And then he complains that no one wants to be him.

Then, while Red, Yellow, and Blue are talking, an arrow gets shot at them... the arrow is carrying a message from New Red, Yellow, and Blue calling them out for a battle.  The start doing a dance battle, kinda West Side Story-ish, and at one point in the song they start yelling out things in English (Hello!  How are you! I am fine, and you? I am twenty five.)  That part was funny, and totally caught me off guard.  So yea, in the center are the new and old yellows, and all of a sudden Yellow takes a knife out.  He is smiling looking at it *Eeeek Sousuke!* all evil and sexy, then he licks the knife.  Seriously the hottest thing EVER!!!!!  Then he goes to stab New Yellow, but Nasu jumps in the way and gets stabbed.  He falls to the ground and Blue runs over telling him to hold on.  Nasu dies.  Then someone realizes that there are puzzle pieces all over the floor.  They all grab a piece and Blue goes "Nasu, you're in the way." and pushes him off of his lap to get one.  Then they run over to the outfield stage and there is a stand with a rainbow puzzle piece on the side.  Theres a camera in the table, and each of them hovers over it and puts a piece in its place.  Its a picture of the ∞Rangers (like the poster they are selling) and everyone is smiling (the poster is a bit more goofy).  Nasu has the biggest smile.  They look at the picture and get all sad because they used to be so happy together.  Then they start talking crap about Nasu and his cheesy bad smile and teeth.  haha.  After a while of that, one of them notices that Yellow's piece is missing from the puzzle.  At that point, Nasu sits up and says, "That's cuz Yellow saved me." and holds up the last piece of the puzzle.  And I think he complained about being teased while they thought he was dead.  Then they all decide that their original colors are best, a puff of smoke comes in front of New Red, Blue, and Yellow and they all "Magically" (but not, because the smoke didnt go up as high as it was supposed to, so they were all frantically ripping their suits off and smiling at us embarressed) turned back to their old colors.  And the concert continues, with Nasu starting off "Donna ni hanarete tatte soba ni iru kara"

Yasu's hair is back to curly and BLONDE, Ryo got a trim (as he wrote in his jweb), Yoko's hair looks shorter than it does on the Quiz Show, and Tacchon thankfully got a trim as well.  It was cute because during the MC it was revealed that Yasu changed his hair because Yoko was saying which hair style best fit each of the members, and Yasu got a huge applause when Yoko said he looked best blonde.  So he said he took Yoko's advice and went back!  They also talked about their recent events and news.  Yoko talked about how kakkoii he is in the Quiz Show... and also about an episode he had with Maru and Subaru with an old lady... Yasu also announced that he was an uncle, his sister had a son yesterday afternoon.  Ryo talked about his drama with Tackey, and they were all mispronouncing the drama title.  He said that it was like good versus evil, him being the good one. 

The disappointments of the concert... was definitely the fact that the mics kept going out.  I think Hina and  *EDIT: apparently Hinas kinda went out during the MC/dare song* Yoko were the only safe ones last night!  It was really cute because when Maru's went out, Ryo ran over there to share his (headset) with Maru.  Then Maru lucky bastard got a kiss on the forehead from Ryo!  Tacchons mic went out when he was standing near me, and he was NOT HAPPY about it at all.  He didnt have a mic when he got on stage, and then when his solo part came up, he was still soundless.  He was pretty upset everytime they switched cameras away from him.   Song wise, they were all pretty good, Ryo had some trouble (he applogized for his voice cracking and he didnt sing his part at the right timing), and I think Tacchon didnt sound too good on a few, but it was overall greater than what I had expected because they were all singing live.  No lip synching! *yay!*

Hmm... I guess I'll give my mana'o (means "opinion" in Hawaiian, *yay for learning new things!*) on each of the members...

There were two things I noticed about Subaru.  He is really short, and he has a really strong voice.  Im not really a fan of vibrado, but he knows how to work what he's got.  There was only one time where he was waaaay off with the music.  He was so proud of his drawing on his sign board that he kept walking around the dome and showing it to everyone.


Ryo-chan, my love, was cute as always, but I didnt really get a lot of him on my side.  I did luck out during the ∞Ranger skit... and he came across on the cart once... He was sooo cute!  During the band section, he was really rocking out with his guitar.  I thought he was pretty quite, but he's kinda like that in NEWS too...

Maru... is suuuuuper intense!  He acutally has a very nice singing voice when he isnt making his weird voices, faces, and being silly.  Like for the Unit song... HOT HOT HOOOOOOOOTT!  I got a lot of Maru love on my side (could it be because I was on the orange banner side?), so I saw a lot of Maru-chan!

Tacchon... he was super hot too!  Didn't realize how bad his complexion was (MatsuJun status) but hes so tall and such a good dancer, that I had a hard time not being like a mosquito to those neon light traps.  When he danced on our stage, his hair was spraying water in a perfect ring, and he was making such cute "gomen ne" faces at all of us because of the mic problem.  He opened up the band portion of the concert with a very hot drum solo... I hope he gets good enough to play and sing at the same time (I feel like he struggled a bit of that).

Yasu was soooo cute!  I have to admit that when he came up on the VTR putting lipstick on.... I thought, this is not hot... its kinda gay... and all teh girls were screaming "kawaii!"  there are just some things that this Hawaii girl will not be able to conform to.  But he was cute.  When the band set first started, he rode on the cart in front of my section playing the guitar to the side stage near me.  That boy can play!  It was pretty hot!  Now I see the charm in Yasu.

Hina was super cute... I love him!  He has bad skin too (shows theyre human, right?) but he was singing pretty well today.  I have heard that he isnt the best, so I think he did better than my expectations were set.

Yoko was silly.  I guess he knows he cant sing that well, so he was making very exaggerated sounds at times, and he even teased Subaru in the MC.  He has a lot of energy, and during Kicyu he came through our section, and was so cool!  Saying Hello! 

Good were awesome!!!!!  I got all of mine (pamphlet, ryo file, and eco bag) from  agtoro  for my bday, thanks honey cakes! ;) haha.
The guys look great in the pamphlet.  We were thinking that the cover was going to be some cool thing because it is layered, but it ended up just being different colors for each layer.  
Ryo's file is super hot!  One of my students is giving me the uchiwa (shes buying it when she goes to the Nagano concert).
And the Eco Bag is cool.  The bag for the bag turns into a pouch that sits inside of the eco bag (did i use the word bag enough?).  Silver with white ∞s and ranger color　∞ｓ.
The scrunchie sold out outside of the arena, but within the arena, at least at our gate, still had them.  They are silver with orange rhinestones.  The penlight is waaaay cute, but I didnt get one (i still dont know why i didnt).  Its got the outer part of the　関 kanji for Kanjani∞,　門, with the ∞ in the center of that.  The penlight is glittery, orange-yellow, and the light is yellow?  It was waaay more sparkly and bright than last year's tour's penlight.  I caught one of the streamers that were flying around, it's super cute!  It says 2∞9 PUZZLE and has two ∞s made of rainbow puzzle pieces... (ill upload a picture of it later).

I really want to see them again someday.....