The day started with me walking to Takadanobaba since it was really warm and sunny, so it was a pleasant walk indeed. There I met up with Beata and we went to eat curry, oh god I've missed it sooo much! Then we went straight to Akasaka Blitz because the concert started rather early. We discovered there were a whole lot of males at this gig, and quite a good looking bunch too, and we also discovered that apart from some of the taller guys Beata and I completely hovered over everybody else so despite us not having the best seats we still had a perfect view of the band.
And yeah, the concert was pretty awesome, it definitely satisfied my cravings for a gig you could rock out to. I saw these guys all the way back in 2008 when they were one of the opening acts for Versailles. Back then I already liked this band more than Versailles and that liking continued to grow. It's pretty fun when you've had a chance to see a little nobody band grow it self this big, 'cause todays gig was nothing like the gig three years ago. They've grown so much, both individually and as a band as whole. Sono's voice has surely improved, it sounded quite beautiful. And my little favorite member, Yuu, when I saw him back in Sweden he was so shy, he literally hid behind his drums when they were packing down their equipment, but today he OWNED that drum set! And yeah he dropped his drum stick during his solo, haha that was cute, I seriously like him even more now.
The concert was rather long so they played a lot of familiar songs, and one that neither me nor Beata recognizes, it could be a new song, who knows. Anyways I'm really glad this gig didn't get canceled 'cause obviously the band had been a victim for the flu so some concerts had been canceled during the tour. They even played X's Kurenai, stating that because they did that it made them metal, 'cause obviously otherwise you can't be booth VK and metal? That was some fail logic since X was like the starter of VK...
But anyhow, after the concert the most confusing thing happened. We were supposed to leave the hall, but as we were walked through the corridors we ended up in the hall again! And no one seemed to know why. The staged was being taken down so the band doing another encore was out of question. So after about 15min of confusion we find out the band are holding a hand shaking-session, we really hadn't expected that at all! This is the first time I have witnessed a band doing something like this after a concert in Japan. But it was fun meeting the guys and say thanks for a great concert. They seemed happy and under the concert they said they were sorry so many of their friends bands were breaking up lately but that Matenrou opera surely will NOT break up any time soon, that was really nice to hear. But I guess they hadn't seen foreigners for quite a while 'cause man were they looking, and Anzi must be the most serious hand shaker ever, seriously I was gonna move onto Yuu and he still held onto my hand when I started walking haha.
After this fine evening we went to my place to watch a movie, it was uhm special to say at least. But quite entertaining on some level. I love the guy who played the evil manager, he obviously always plays an evil manager haha. Then Beata helped me carry out some of the trash that has been piling up in my room since I moved in. Then that was the end of an quite wonderful day, I think next week will be kinda not so intense, we need to gather up power for the week after when Swedens finest will conquer Kansai!
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