Arashi 5x10 Anniversary Concert 08/30/2009 Fan Report

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What is this picture of you might ask?

....a picture that I illegally took with my phone. From my seat.

Holy. Fuck.

Of course, it was taken before it rained a typhoon on us, but that's another story. Okay, UMMMMM first of all, this never happens to me. I seriously... SERIOUSLY got lucky (thanks of course to Michelle~!! such a sweetie <33). But now that I've had a taste... I must go back for more. This was seriously one of the best experiences in my life, even while in a typhoon. wtf, only Arashi. Wow. You can't see it in this picture, but the main stage was just to the left of us, so we weren't dead on, but we could see it from the front enough.

So we got there, and found our seats and proceeded to look at each other like, "WTF THIS IS AMAZING. OUR SEATS HOLY CRAP." and then praying that it doesn't rain. (It didn't work.) Anyway, we sit there getting really hyped up, and watching the VTR as it played different commercials for random Arashi things every so often... Arashi no Shukudai-kun ads, HnA ads, My Girl, and Nino's SP as well...

Then, as it hit 5:30, when it was supposed to start, everyone stood and started chanting for Arashi. Well, they started about 10 minutes late, but that's okay. The VTR started playing and showing each of their faces with their names and some awesome graphics. (By the way, as most of you have probably already seen on other con reports, the graphics and videos on the VTRs were really awesome this year) Then...

感謝カンゲキ雨嵐

We hear the music and see them on the screens and everyone screams. But, no one can see where they are in real life. Finally, I see them. On the TOP of the scaffolding of the main screen. And then they start flying over the audience. Everyone is going crazy at this point, and they were wearing these really nice white cloak/jackets with gold/silver sparkles. Seriously the only thing I could think was, "Holy crap, they are so sparkly". In a really good way. And I turned to Michelle and even said, "Holy crap, they're so sparkly!" lol... anyway, we all cheered the song cheer (Arashi: "Smile again~ Arigatou!" Audience: "ARASHI!" Arashi: "Smile again~ Nakinagara~" Audience: "ARASHI!" etc)

Anyway, they fly all the way from the center stage to the side with the torch, dance around and finish up the song, and then go straight into..

Step and Go

Wooo! They started coming down from the top of the stage and then got on the moving platforms. Aiba, Nino, and Sho were on the platform that was coming my way. They got to a part (probably about 30 feet from us, and the platform stopped. I was like, "NOOOOOo D:". But I could see Aiba fairly well.

Aiba is the most genki, adorable human being on the face of the planet. He is like a little hyper bunny. Like, I knew he was genki before, but seeing him in person was just like... I don't even know how to explain it. My brain was broken the whole time so all I could do was "D:"

Anyway, as they were stopped, there were places around the stadium where they shot water up. (Yes, we need more water, Arashi XD) And they did their intros.

Ohno did his "HIIiiIII~"

Ohno: "HIIII~"
Audience: "HIIIII~♥"
Ohno: "HIIiiII"
Audience: "HIIIII~♥"

Nino did his "Irasshaimase"

Nino: "IRASSHAIMASEEEE"
Audience: "WOOOOAHJKDHA"
Nino: "IRASSHAIMASEEE~~"
Audience: "HAUIWHJKGDa"
Nino: "ARE YOU GUYS READY??"
Audience: "AHJKGD!! YES"
Nino: "ARE YOU GUYS WET??"
Audience: "AHJKgdhs YES D:"
Nino: "WE'LL MAKE SURE TO MAKE YOU GUYS EVEN WETTER"
Audience: "WOOWOOAGDg--wait a second..."

Jun said something about not losing to the rain, and Aiba did his genki intro as usual ("うわ～たのしい！最高！！"). I don't remember Sho's LOL.. sorry Sho.

Once that finished, the stage started moving along and I got really excited. I don't think I'll ever get the image of Aiba, the first one I saw, out of my brain. He was jumping around with his hand in the air, grinning and smiling. This is probably the closest to a celebrity I've ever been. I mean, I never really get chances to meet celebrities or be anywhere near them even.

I saw them. In real life. At normal people size. What the fuuuuuck. My brain still hasn't processed it.

I think Aiba looked at me and waved, or he waved in my general direction at least. Nino was waving and looked above our section, and Sho was facing the other way. Nino was smiling, giving peace signs, and waving, but you could tell in his head he was like, "This sucks I'm being rained on" LOL. ahhhh Neener.

Anyway, after that high faded off...

Lucky Man
We can make it!

I sang along to pretty much all of the songs, but aside from little fun tidbits, it's hard for me to remember what they did during the songs. My brain was just on like full holy-crap overload, and I was being rained on (granted I had a raincoat on, but..)

They had migrated to the main stage, and then each one made their way to each end of the stages in the arena. Jun was on our side, and he apparently likes to see if he can hurt himself every way possible by squatting down in a runner's starting pose and sprinting down, then sliding on the rain. hajkgd so fun looking D:

Also singing along to the "Yeaaaaaaah yeah yeah!" parts in We can make it! with the audience is sooo fun omg.

They then returned to the main stage for...

風の向こうへ

Danced around in the middle, everyone clapped together and sang along with this one. By this time, the rain started getting heavier, and all the members were completely soaked, with their hair plastered to their head lol

They returned to the center circle stage, and..

Crazy Moon

The stage was completely wet, and as I said, so were the members, so water was flying everywhere. I think everyone in our section were really worried they were gonna slip and hurt themselves more than seeing them dance around like that LOL. The ladies behind us kept going "Omg they are gonna dance like that? They'll hurt themselves!" lolll As the song ended, they shot off some extremely loud fireworks that scared everyone but also got everyone pumped.

They then exited the stage, and some juniors with drums came on stage. After a while of the drum playing, there was revealed... Aiba, with a rope that carried him from the main stage, over the audience to the center stage.

PIKA☆NCHI (Aiba Solo)

He did an extremely dark rendition of PIKANCHI, which as everyone else says doesn't seem to suit him haha. He was dancing around so genki even though it was kind of creepy sounding. After that song, he exited the stage, and..

HORIZON
DANGAN LINER
アレルギー
ココロチラリ

WOW OLDDDDD haha. If I remember right, they came around on the moving stages again, this time Ohno and Jun were on our side. We screamed and waved a lot, but they didn't notice us that time around. Across the other side, I could see Nino and Sho doing some really weird dance on their floats, flailing their arms around and being silly.

They then moved into..

CARNIVAL NIGHT part2

I was so psyched about this song, because for some reason I always wanted to chant along with the audience "C!A!R-N-I! V-A-L! NIGHT!", and jump at the "YEAH!" parts. Okay it was so fun. Holy crap.

言葉より大切なもの (Nino Solo)

Nino appeared on the main stage with a guitar slung over his shoulder, and sang a very nice rendition of the song. He seemed to be really happy while playing this song.

Everything

Everything was great. They had an awesome VTR video for it, that went along with the song. They all stood on the main stage and sang from there. It was great. During the part in the chorus where they sing, "赤から青に変わるシグナル", there was a red light, that then changed to blue and had some great visual effects and such.

Every time one of them would sing a lyric that had the word "雨 (rain)" some people in the audience would laugh or cheer because we were all getting drenched. By the way, a lot of Arashi songs have the word 雨 in it lol.

瞳の中のGalaxy

This was also sung on the main stage with them all standing in a line, and more awesome visuals on the screen. They had an eye with tons of stars in it, and.. yeah it was just pretty. :) I'm pretty sure it was at this time (my brain is telling me during the "ペッパミントの涙" lyrics) Ohno and Nino were standing next to each other, and the camera man zoomed in on them together on the VTR. Nino turned to look at Ohno.. with that look, you know, and Ohno smiled at him.

Nino slowly put his arm around Ohno, while the fans started screaming. He moved in slowly for the kiss ala Time, but this time stopped just before, and they exchanged looks, grinned at each other, and separated.

アオゾラペダル

omg I don't remember what happened during this song at all T_T

台風ジェネレーション

This was adorable. Nino changed his intro, where he usually says, "あ、さようならじゃないよ。また会えるからね" -- "Ah.. this isn't good bye. We'll meet again" to (from what I remember) "Ah.. this isn't good bye. We're always going to be here and by your side".

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH. ;_;

I can't really translate it better, because he didn't say just "We're always going to be by your side" or "We're always going to be here", he said both. But it sounds much more natural and pretty in Japanese. Oh well.

Anyway, after that death-fest.. and once the song ended, they all exited the stage again. Then suddenly I hear the piano sounds to the intro of..

曇りのち、快晴 (Ohno Solo)

And out comes Ohno in his Uta no Onii-san outfit. Omg. It was awesome.

A Day In Our Life

More fun dancing and running around on stage. I think this was the song (or Oh Yeah! I don't remember) where Jun almost face planted from running on the slippery stage. He started running down towards us, and then he makes the most hilarious "oh shit" face, and flails his arms around. He stops, catches his breath, and then looks at the audience like, "HOLY SHIT LOL THAT WAS CLOSE". XDD But he put his hand up to his mouth ala extremely-gay-and-fabulous-Jun-style. You probably know what I'm talking about lol

Oh Yeah!

Seriously, still one of my favorite songs ever. And, of course they have us "JUMP! JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!". So energetic and happy ugh. Waving our hands around during the chorus and belting out the song. Ugh. Just fun.

ハダシの未来

They got on 5 of the raising platforms and were raised up suuuper high while they sang this song. I didn't really know the dance when I got there, but now I do lol. It was fun.

Beautiful Days

They then returned to the middle stage and sang Beautiful Days as the podium rotated. Nino was in the center, and during the song, he started sticking his microphone under his armpit and rubbing it furiously trying to dry it ahahhaa. When it got to his solo part of the song, right when he was supposed to go "悲しいほどきれいだね～" just as he started singing it, his microphone died from getting too wet I guess lol.

The audience screamed and laughed as he made the angry "roaaarrrr stupid microphone!" move while looking like he was going to smash it on the ground xD. Jun ran up to Nino and shared his mic with him, ala AAA 2008 when he shared with Ohno. They had their cheeks pressed together, and then Nino turned and gave Jun a peck on the cheek and the crowd went craaaazy. They both just giggled at each other.

Ment

After that song ended, they went into the ment, but they seriously could only talk about the rain, because well.. who wouldn't if you're being typhooned on. Sho said something about how this is normally the part where everyone sits down, but our chairs were completely soaked and he wasn't sure if sitting or standing was better. XD Well, everyone decided to stand.

Jun then mentioned that he'd like to have wipers at this point, and did a little wiper action with his hand. Everyone laughed, and then Sho did the wiper thing again. Jun also commented that he couldn't see anything because he was wearing contacts XD

Sho also said something like, "I guess this is when I should make a comment about Arashi calling up a storm, because.. it's us. But yeah seriously I can't joke about this". They then migrated to the main stage, but weren't really sure what to do since the mics were getting screwed up, so the juniors threw a bunch of towels at them. They tried wrapping the mics in the towels, but that didn't work and no one could hear anything. Then Nino came up with the great idea of putting the towel over his nose with the mic under it. XD It looked pretty silly. Honestly, I'm not sure why they didn't give them umbrellas at that time. The towels they got would get soaked, and then they would throw more towels at them. Jun finally decided that they were useless and stopped accepting them, until they finally brought out some plastic baggies and wrapped the mics in those.

Success! Mostly. Jun's mic would make crackly noises because of the plastic every so often, and sometimes his voice would get mumbly, but eventually they figured it out. Jun mentioned that he felt like he was in drama rain and Sho said that he did feel a little like F4, and now he knows what it feels like to be Domyouji in the rain lmao.

After that Aiba and Nino did their little promotions for their upcoming dramas and SPs.

Aiba: "I'm doing my first lead in a drama.."
Nino: "First, and last!"
Aiba: "Noooo T_T We don't know that.. yet."

Nino also talked about his SP, and they asked when it was and he said, "September 24th.. it starts at... hmm, I have no idea. Well just turn your TV on later in the evening and it will be on eventually"

Lol. They also tried to get Ohno to talk about fishing.. but he didn't say much. He was just in awe of the rain of course, and he talked like he had cotton balls in his mouth (as per usual), so it was hard for me to understand him xD

They then moved on to the main part of the ment... Jun's birthday!! Out rolls a cake! With a plastic dome on it so it didn't get destroyed XD So then we all sang Happy Birthday to him, which was fun ^^ Jun then mentioned that the cake was really pretty and that he wanted to show everyone, so he wanted to open it a little. They pulled up some of the wrapping from the dome and the cameraman zoomed in. It was really pretty.. it had "Happy Birthday Jun!" on it, with lots of fruits and yummy looking things D: They finally said, "Okay, let's close it up again", and started putting the plastic back on. As they finished closing it, Jun then suddenly stuck his hand in the cake and shoved a handful of it into his mouth.

"Maji umai!!"

XDD Oh Jun. Aiba then pulled out the birthday present that the other members had bought for him and Sho was about to hand it to him when Jun said..

Jun: "Holy on a second, I need to wash my hands.."
Arashi: "???"
The ladies behind me: "Wait, where??"

Jun then proceeds to run down the stage and wash his hands in a puddle on the stage LOL. Sho commented on how ECO-FRIENDLY Jun was for doing that haha.

Then they gave him his present, which was in a bag. Jun asked if it was okay to get wet and Nino said, "Yeah, totally." So Jun started opening the bag and Nino piped in again, "But it's your present, not ours.. so it's your problem if you get it wet." lol.. Nino you brat. XD

Aiba then mentioned that he has to wear it during the encore, and Nino said that they all thought that it was very "Jun", so that's why they bought it. He proceeded to look inside the bag, and then look up at the camera with a WHAT THE FUCK face. His face was seriously amazing.

Jun: "You couldn't have bought this anywhere. They don't sell things like this!!"
Nino: "Yes, you can."

He pulls it out, and it's a golden jacket with millions of giant coin sized sequins covering it. It was in plastic, and on the plastic it said "Adidas". I guess you can buy things like that in Japan. XD For some reason he decided to put it on, or one of the members told him to try it on, so he started taking off his jacket, which was STUCK TO HIM because it was drenched. After he got it off, he began the difficult task of putting on the new jacket with wet arms and undershirt. It was really difficult for him. XD But finally he got it on. He then walked up to the camera, and gave it a slightly cake-y kiss.

Aiba also chimed in happily that Jun became a disco ball. So Aiba XD

Jun then decided that it wasn't supposed to get wet, so he pulled it off and they went off stage again. Cue the next song!!

とまどいながら (Sho Solo)

Sho came out and did a rendition of this song in a very green and sparkly jump suit. He was fairly far away from where I was sitting, I couldn't make out a lot and I don't remember much of this performance for some reason T_T;;

WISH (Jun Solo)

Jun came out from the main stage on a raising platform in a very 1960's style outfit with hat. He did a slightly.. swing-style rendition of this song. It was really cute T_T

Attack It!

I was really excited to see this song live. I just love it so much for some reason. There was a crazy laser show, and I was really excited to hear the Sakurap for that song live. It was awesome. I was wondering if any of them would stumble on their words, because some of the lines are REALLY fast, which I know Ohno has a lot of trouble with (Mr. Cotton-Ball-Mouth), but they all did a really awesome song, getting us pumped, jumping, and going crazy.

Everyone would scream along with the song. At the "HA! HA!" parts, and the "JUMP JUMP" etc parts. It was so fun.

Truth

They met in the center stage and did the dance as well. This song was really awesome live, and they did the pyrotechnics, which you could feel the heat of the fire from super far away. It was really nice in the rain haha. But they would shoot off fire from the stage in time to the music etc.

明日の記憶

They met again on the main stage and stood in a row while singing this. For this song, they had on the screen pictures from this tour of each member, and then as they sang, their pictures would fade and show baby pictures/grade school pictures. Seriously, so adorable. The only thing I could think of while this was happening was how each member probably went to their parents, and sat around picking out baby photos to use for it.

SERIOUSLY ADORABLE

The pictures then began to get more recent, eventually reaching their debut time, slowly scrolling up, and then finally zoomed out to reveal they were arranged in the shape of the kanji for "Arashi". BAWWWWW ;_;

I started getting really teary at this point.. thinking about how much each of them have accomplished and how far they've all come.. and how far I've come. After the song finished, they went into the VTR...

VTR

This was amazing. The band played a really sweet version of Ashita no Kioku, as background music while it showed a scrap book, and opened, showing each year and what the boys accomplished. They first showed some videos of their debut, Sho talking about how he's excited to debut, how Aiba was nervous, etc..", and then Sho's voice came on over the music.

"I remember our first concert. I wonder if there's anyone in the audience now who came to that one 10 years ago?"

They then moved to Kisarazu Cats Eye, Gokusen, Kimi wa Pet, Stand Up!

I don't remember what Nino said.. T_T

They then moved to 24hr Television, and showed clips of Aiba reading his letter, and the members all crying. Aiba was the one to do the voice over for this one.

"24 Hour Television.. I wrote my letter to Arashi..." some more was said, but I really don't remember, it was really touching though. -_-

Then, moved on to Hana Yori Dango. Jun's turn.

"I think a lot of fans were introduced to Arashi through Hana Yori Dango."

Then they showed clips of Shimura Doubutsuen, and Aiba being attacked by a tiger. Everyone in the audience laughed as he continued to say "Itai! Itaiiiyo!!", News ZERO, FREESTYLE, etc..

The pages then started to flip backwards, faster and faster, and then finally reaching the end...

A.Ra.Shi

The beginning of A.Ra.Shi starts up.. up come the members from the middle stage.

In their plastic outfits.

Yes, those plastic outfits. The ones they wore on their first performance on Music Station. The ones they apologized 2 months ago on Music Station for wearing.

It. Was. Amazing.

At the end, they were running off stage when Jun turned around and yelled, "I finally understand that these outfits are super convenient in rain!"

SUNRISE日本
君のために僕がいる
時代

I don't remember most of these LOL.. except for singing along and watching them dance. They also did the vegetable dance. For some reason I can only imagine Arashi coming together as a group and deciding to do these things.

ナイスな心意気
PIKA☆NCHI
とまどいながら

My memory is already fading of these. All I know is that I had so much fun singing and dancing to these songs.

言葉より大切なもの

For this one, the members had gotten on little carts and were being pulled around the stadium. I was really excited, and Ohno came by us first. I started waving and jumping up and down.. and then almost fell into the people in front of me. Oh lordy. XD

Hero

I don't remember, all I remember is singing along to it x_x

サクラ咲け

Again, don't remember a lot, but doing the dances and calls for the song was so fun ugh.

きっと大丈夫

*cries at her lack of memory*

Love So Sweet
Happiness

They got back on the moving stages for this, and Sho, Nino, and Aiba came by us again. Sho was doing some sort of really funny dance while moving his hips around and looking silly in front of us, and Nino was standing slightly behind him giving him a "wtf are you doing" look. XD

Believe

They sang and danced to this on the center stage. Sakurap is so cool T_T

Thank You's

There were no actual tears this time. As far as I know. Who knows, maybe the rain covered it up.. XD But Jun and Nino seemed fairly choked up, honestly. Especially Jun. I think Jun cried a little.

They all stood on the small round stage facing the main stage, and each one would turn around and give a little speech.

Sho was first. I don't really remember exact specifics, but he thanked everyone. He thanked the people from the top to the bottom rows. He talked about how he was amazed that even in the rain everyone was still there. He mentioned that he was really happy we could all have fun together even in the rain. And he also shouted a thank you to the people standing outside and listening.

Ohno was next, and hardly said anything. I wonder why? Maybe he didn't want to start bawling again? He basically said he was thankful for everyone and said that he never would have ever imagined he'd be standing where he was 10 years ago.

After Ohno came Aiba, who talked about how when he was at the debut press conference, he answered the same thing to all the questions. "I want to raise a storm throughout the world!". He said he didn't really understand what it meant back then, but now he feels that he knows. (When he said "I want to raise a storm throughout the world!", he did a silly pose and said it silly XD)

Nino came up, and immediately made fun of Aiba. "I WANNA RAISE A STORM THROUGHOUT THE WOOOOORLD". Nino, you brat. XD Aiba turned around and made a "You brat! But I still love you" face XDD But he then became very serious, looking like he was trying not to cry. He mentioned that at the beginning he wanted to quit, but if the other members had been any other people than who they were, he would not be where he is now...

Jun's turn. He already looked like he was either already crying, or on the edge. He said thank you to all of us, and mentioned that he was really happy that all of us stayed in our seats, determined to have fun with them. He then started talking about how he values the other members a lot during concerts, and that moments where all his emotions will hit him at once. "I am having one of those moments now".. and he bites his lip, looking as he was about to cry from happiness..

The audience cheered, and he started grinning, "Thanks! This was the best birthday ever".

Aw Jun. XD

He then introduced the next song, which he said was their feelings they wanted to convey to us.

5x10

I cried really hard during this song. They had more pictures of them together, doing things, and being Arashi, scrolling upwards on the screen, but this time they were all strung together with tree branches and leaves. Unfortunately I don't remember a whole lot because I was crying. But I think they shot off fireworks for this. And I guess we didn't get the millions of balloons shot into the sky because of the rain *wahh*

I still got chills when the audience sang along loudly to the "Honki de naite, honki de waratte, honki de nayande, honki de ikite", and then at the end where they sing "Arigatou", the lights dimmed, music dulled, and then they broke out into "ARIGATOUUUUU~". This was when the balloons were supposed to come out, but... I still got chills. -_-

They then disappeared into the stage, thus ending the concert...

except not, because everyone knows Arashi always does at least 1 encore. XD

So the call began..

PIKA★★NCHI DOUBLE
明日に向かって
できるだけ
One Love

They all ran out in their usual *blinged out con t-shirt* (the ones that I like better than the ones they sell at the cons lol). Except for Jun of course, who wore his birthday present. They got on the floats once again, and Nino, Aiba, and Sho came by us once again. Aiba looked in my general direction and waved, but I think it was to the people in front of me.

Once they got to the other side, they switched sides and Jun and Ohno came by us. As they came right in front of us, Jun unzipped his sparkly present, and took it off, which he was not wearing a shirt underneath it.

My head: "THERE HE GOES AGAIN" LOL. Oh, my brain.

At the end of the songs, they lined up, and did the *hold hands*, while Jun yelled "What's our name?? Se---no!"

Audience: "ARASHIIIIIIIIIIIII~~ ♥"

After that, all I could say was, "行かないで" T_T

They then exited while waving and everyone cheering. Sho and Ohno did their silly exit where they look at each other, and slide to opposite ends of the stage. Ahhhhh so cute. XD

And the call started up again..

ファイトソング

I was so happy to hear this song. As soon as I heard it, I screamed "YAY!!" lol. When the time for Nino to start singing came on, he just started introducing the members. As he would say their name, they gave him their mic, and then would do a slip-n-slide down the stage.

First... MATSUMOTO JUUUUN. Jun then took off his shirt (like the slut he is), and ran down the center stage, falling and doing an awesome, super long slide.

Next.. SAKURAI SHOOOO. He failed. Hard. XDD Again.

Third, OHNO SATOOSHIII. Very good, he went super far.

Fourth, AIBA MASAKIII.. who did a face plant and slid pretty far.

Nino, once again didn't slide. This time his excuse was that he had all the microphones. By this time, the song was 1/2 way over, and so he ran to try to get the mics back to them, but they gave up. XD

五里霧中
A.Ra.Shi

They took the elevator/platform thing to the top of the stadium for this one again, and then returned for A.Ra.Shi. Jun said, "LAST SONG!" and everyone said "NOOOOO". XD

As they came down, they did one more run on the moving platforms. Jun and Ohno came back our way again.

At this point, I am thanking my brain for waking up. As they got close to us, I finally realized.. "I can shout their name"!... WHY did I not think of this earlier??

As they came around, I just screamed "OHNOOOOOO! OHNOOOOOOOOOOO~~~"

He looked at me and Michelle and smiled.

He looked at me and Michelle and smiled.

OMFG.

Uhjakhgdjklahgda......

They finally made it back to the main stage, and exited once again. Nino said "Go home (safely)!" to us and we all laughed. XD we started the call once again. You could see the staff trying to calm us down and get us to shut up. That obviously didn't work....

Season

They came back for the final encore. I was really happy with 3 encores.. but they probably felt bad that we were in the rain the whole time. XD

Anyway, they came out and Jun started telling us that he was really worried that we were gonna catch a cold.

Audience: "NOOOOOO"
Jun: "I'm serious, I don't want you sick!"
Audience: "NOOOOOO"
Jun: *Domyouji face* "YOU IDIOTS! DON'T YOKNA-"

XDD he stumbled over his words, and finally said, "Oh forget it!!"

Audience: "DOOOO ITTTT"
Jun: *Domyouji face* "YOU IDIOTS! Don't you know I'm only yelling at you because I'm WORRIED about you??"
Audience: "AHJWKwhagkhwua~~~♥♥"

Jun finally said, "Okay, fine. ONE more song, and then you have to go home, okay?"
Audience: "NUUUUUU ;o;"

But, they sang Season. It was pretty. T_T

As they left, they one by one became our mothers.

Nino: "Go home (safely)!" (again XD)

Aiba: "Don't catch a cold, ok??"

Sho: "Keep warm!"

Jun: "Aishiteru yo"

Audience: "*DIEEE*"

The other four started giggling at Jun's confession to us, while the camera then zoomed in on Sho and Ohno giggling and grinning to each other as they exited the stage. <3

The lights came up, and it ended.

In conclusion: I was soaked to the bone, my fingers were prunes, a lot of my things got destroyed by the rain, and my shoes and socks were squishing water out of them.

IT. WAS. AMAZING.

Ugh.

By the way, if they do make a DVD of this concert (THEY BETTER), it would be really hilarious if they used this one. Because well.. you know.. Arashi.. conjuring up an arashi.. during their concert..?? XD But they were all soaked, so I doubt it. But who knows. It would be awesome if they did haha.

Anyway, I also have some bad news, but I'm going to have to write about it later, because I need to go to sleep.. like nowwwww.

But I wanted to post this up because I've spent like 5 hours writing it up and trying to scour my brain for memories of this.

In even more conclusion:

Arashi is even more amazing, and I'm not quite sure how they did it but they made me fall even more in love with them, while I was in a typhoon.

Also if any of you have questions about the con or how they look in real life etc, go ahead and ask and I'll try to the best of my ability to answer.

*death*

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[arashi99.livejournal.com]

uweeee~ your picture shows that "arashi" is coming xD COOL!
i am soooooooo envy with your con report! you had a great fun with arashi, ne? good for you :')
i wonder will i cry if i watch 5x10 if the dvd released? *i wonder.....*
thanks for your report, appreciate it much :D

[kohanu.livejournal.com]

Reading this made me happy. IM SO JEALOUS!!! D:

I bet they had a LOT of fun in the water xD

I'm so glad that you got good seats and had a blast :D

[amaskuponthesky.livejournal.com]

Omgee! You are really lucky!
Your seat is awesome!!

[fseventh.livejournal.com]

I never tired reading fan account about this concert, so thank you so much for this. It must be one of rare experiences to feel "arashi" in "Arashi" XD.

I want to ask how are they in real life? Is it true that Aiba is tallest among them? *get bricks for stupid question* and how's Jun? Is he really good in pump up audience's spirit in concert? How was his solo? Did he sing live?

Sorry for this Jun-centric non-sense questions because Jun's fangirl here XD

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

sorry for such a late reply x_x;;

Yes, Aiba did seem the tallest of all of them! At least, he seemed tallest/lankiest? XD Jun is really good at pumping up the audience.. well, they all are, but he seems to do it the most. He also was really excited and happy despite all the rain, you know? XDD His solo was definitely awesome.. one of the best! Unfortunately, I really have no idea if he sang live.. but I'm pretty sure they all did.

I only heard them go off key like two times.. one was with Jun, and the other was Nino.

[otani-no-suki.livejournal.com]

you should know i was grinning and laughing to myself the whole time i read this~ xD
the dvd can't come any sooner~ ;o;

thank you for the amazing report! :D

[sidewalk-rebel.livejournal.com]

XDD But he put his hand up to his mouth ala extremely-gay-and-fabulous-Jun-style. You probably know what I'm talking about lol
I died xDDDDDDD I know exactly what you mean !!

I loved your con report, I think you had a lot of descriptions ♥! I DIED!!!
KYA!

[matchalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the report!!
LOL somehow i get how you feel..
because i enjoyed reading the report so much.. there were too many things i wanna quote that i forget XDD

But wow.. Oh-chan smiled at you!!
and seemed like a fun concert!
So here goes my question.. hehe who look best in person?? hehehe.. and how i wish i could hear Sakurap live T.T

They better make a DVD too! of all three days if possible.. since every day everyone seemed to be having so much fun.. hellow it's Arashi!!! hehehe..
but somehow i wanna see the third day the most.. maybe because Arashi really called for 'arashi'..

anyway.. have a good rest after 'scouring your brain'
hope the bad news aren't so bad? xx

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

Well, honestly because that image of Aiba being the first one I saw completely ingrained in my brain, I'm almost inclined to say Aiba... but Sho's pictures DEFINITELY don't do him justice. Honestly, they all don't, but I would have to say Sho?

Bahh it's hard to pick.. they all honestly looked better in person D: (if that's possible haha

[ippiki-tama.livejournal.com]

thank you for this concert report!! especially in 30 aug, when jun's birthday!
i love how you write this! sooo funny !!

[nixgint.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing!
it really made me laugh and smile at my laptop while reading =X
and Arashi is sooooo damn cute xD
Nino <3333
Arashi <3333
Thanks Loads!!!!!!
dun fall sick yo! =P

[asuran-rocks.livejournal.com]

typhoon generation *______*
omggg

[junenojun.livejournal.com]

I dont know what I should do to say thank to you. Even I read alot of reports but I love to see the way different fan see the concert. Awesome :) I
Thank you very much

[rainawallis.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing your PoV! Wow... you really were very lucky to get those seats! Omedetou! :D

[freedz88.livejournal.com]

Urayamashii!!!!! ^^

[c-alen.livejournal.com]

thank you for your report.... <3

[alta13.livejournal.com]

I soooo want this one on the DVD ;__;
Thanks for the report, it was greeeat <3

[melonpunch.livejournal.com]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! How did you get tickets?!

Uh-oh... I'm nervous about this bad news business!!

[missmomoko.livejournal.com]

Oh egg chan!!!!!!!!!!! This is wonderful. I'm so glad you managed to get tickets. I will have to live vicariously through you!

[bunnyxchan.livejournal.com]

This was so much fun to read!!! Thank you so much.
It sounds so amazing and I'm just grateful for all the sweethearts like you who take the time to share a concert report.
I'd like to say I feel like I was there but I'd be missing 5 crucial boy factors and need to tip a bathtub of water of me. Maybe ill try it later.
Seriously thanks so much and I hope your bad news isn't too bad ?!
Ps. Nino saying "we're going to make you wetter" ??!!! :s

[nccgal89.livejournal.com]

thanks for sharing...


somehow i cried also when i tot abt their journey frm 1999 to 2009...and yea i bet evryone was going KYA~~~ when Jun said Aishiteru yo~....omo now i realli want to see their concert....

PLEASE DO A AAA!!!!!

[brandybelle.livejournal.com]

AHHH another report!!! i just wanted to say thank u first, i know im moving backwards. ill be back cuz i know ill have alot of questions! :) thank u sooo much!!!

♥♥♥♥♥

[theproudpenguin.livejournal.com]

Nino: "WE'LL MAKE SURE TO MAKE YOU GUYS EVEN WETTER"
Audience: "WOOWOOAGDg--wait a second..."

HAHAHAHA. ♥ Oh god, that part made me laugh so much.

Oh bb, that sounded to be the best day of your life. ;_; I can't wait for a DVD. because there will be a dvd, it's their damn tenth year. ;__; ♥ *huggles*

[fitrin.livejournal.com]

WHOOAAAAAA~~ fantastic. *_____________*
i bet the last day is the best con ever.

so,did Sakurap really sound good?? AAWWWWW
i'd probably did the same with that 5x10 remix song xspecially the ".......suru HA HA" part LOL

GOOD FOR YOU! manage to shout out to Ohno before the last of it....
.....still,he's too shy to wave back?? OK, forgive him for smiling back in return ^____________^

rest well egg~ you need deserve that, along side with this 5hours well-written report this...
hope your memory can recaps better soon and i'm ready to collect MOWR.

[crazytammu.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing your report. Sounds like it was a lot of fun even in the rain. XD

[summerlease.livejournal.com]

this was such an awesome report! thanks for writing it up, it sounded like you had LOADS of fun. :)) and LOL at Nino's greeting right at the beginning. oh Nino... ♥ i want this on DVD so badly... :(

[unlostwanderer.livejournal.com]

I <3 You. Thanks for sharing!

[cerraazizi.livejournal.com]

Thank you SO much for sharing this report! Just reading this report makes me feel like as if I was there, really! It was so much fun to read. And now I'm having trouble going back to sleep. Hahah anyways, again, thank you so much for sharing!

[lulumyu.livejournal.com]

This was seriously one of the best reports I've read! I laughed so much at your comments!
Thank you very much for writing this for us poor souls who couldn't be there ♥
I don't think this will be the concert they'll choose for the DVD, but I seriously hope they'll put some of it at least in the special contents or something like that... cause it really sounded like an incredible, baka, arashi-like concert (with the true arashi coming to say hi XD XD XD)!