VAMPS in Osaka! Report Part 1 - 10/03
Here's part one of many, covering the exploits of our HOLY HYSUS and his HEAVENLY HAREM in my town.

It only covers 10/3 for now, the other days are being made EXTRA AWESOME so please wait.


Guds - complicates shit pattern. Apparently only some of the goods are available at any given live, so you gotta ask and be told "No we don't have that today" or "No, that's in the other line". Mostly the shop staff are quite exasperated from having to repeat it, but IT IS NOT THE FANS FAULT THAT YOUR SYSTEM IS FAIL.
Anyway. Got condoms and stockings. Mwahaha.

It was Banana day! So there were many many tetsu cosplayers at the live. Bird wore Vivienne shirt of expensiveness. Thank Hyuu! Exchanged knowing grins with other obvious bananafans.
Saw many many cosplays and interesting clothes of all varieties.
Also, couple of hyde cosplayers. Girl was better. But seriously, what a set up. You go to the live as a couple and come back with the same sexy image in mind. Its GREAT. YOU GO PEOPLE.


There seems to be a pattern to standing in line : Fangirls = dun talk to bird. Fanboys = DO TALK!
See I was standing near the front of the B line, since they are semi-arranged by number, and all these girls were like "WTF I DUN WANNA WAIT" and either ignoring everyone with their phones or chatting to each other, but then there was this one guy who seemed shy, but anyway he came right up to me and talked. SEE THAT ISNT SO HARD IS IT? So I killed the wait time with a random Japanese boy while the fangirls around me had like... keitais. This story had no point.

Once the live let in, I ran for a good place. With B tix, it's not too violent, can see pretty well over short people anyway so no need to fight for the front. There was this one cute little girl who asked me if I spoke English and if she was allowed to go forward with only having a B ticket, and I assured her no one is going to check 8D
So she ran ahead.

As 6:66 approached, I started to cringe, fearing another intense situation like Paris or Summer Sonic where SURVIVAL ends up more important than the actual music. (DO NOT WANT).
Turns out I had nothing to worry about and there was barely any pressure. Yay for those barriers all over the place, they really work.
Really, I could see perfectly well over the head of the tiny Japanese girl that was right in front of me... Until hyde actually came out and she started jumping like a meter in the air 8o

The opening, as you may have seen described elsewhere, is a Shadow Play sort of thing where you see the silhouettes of the KAZ and co, plus a chandelier overhead.. Then a suspiciously bat-like head pops out, UPSIDE DOWN, swings a guitar down, then jumps in a completely impossible way. IS THAT REALLY HYSUS!?!?!! (no)

There are many many many images of Jesus flashing by as the silhouette of the TRUE HYSUS appears, -somehow- syncing with the image of Jesus in what I am sure is totally not a coincidence 8D

Then the Curtain falls and the SQUEE goes and everyone is dancing and jumping for several hours.

The weirdest part I believe is during I CAN FEEL, when some words start scrolling up the back wall.. and it goes... "Soup".... Yeah SOUP baby. I saw it several times and I DUN GET IT. SOUP WTH.

During the MCs, hysus was VERY VERY mumbly and I had a hard time following, but I do remember that he asked about local Osaka news, such as the big fire that happened in a porn video shop in Namba recently. He also made a lame joke about the new PM:

HYDE : So they decided the new PM right?
Crowd : YES!!
HYDE : Without even an election. Man whats the point of having a democracy? Oh well, what is the guy's name?
Crowd : ASO!!
HYDE : Ah, sou?

Badum-tshhh. Lame. :p

During another MC, the fans were calling for Ponyo. I cringed.

See, Ponyo is the new Miyazaki movie, and the theme song gets played everywhere, and I think it is annoying, and the main chara is freaky rather than cute, and so I REALLY HATE PONYO. But apparently HYDE sung that theme song the previous day so the fans wanted it again. NUU.
HYDE decided... to make.. Ju-ken sing it. Which he did in DEATH METAL GROWLS.
Talk about trauma @.@
hysus himself only sang one line, but it was still too much for my anti-ponyo system.

The setlist wasn't particularly different, except that one song that they didn't do on other nights did come up :
Glamorous sky! 8o

That was squeeful, since it is quite rare to hear a HYSUS version of this song (as opposed to Mika Nakashima).

Obviously there were a lot of FAITH songs and for some reason only one of the two existing VAMPS songs. I appreciated HIDEWAY a lot too 8D

The very last song was the ever-trippy LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS. It will be better later lives though.

Once it was all over, I somehow found myself bumping into some random girls I had met way back at THEATER of KISS. Cool that they remember my birdness :3

Then I had to face the most intense pushing... AT THE DRINK COUNTER! WTF. There is no in/out system so people have to push their way to the counter and push their way back from it and it is total hell and sucks.

After the live I went for takoyaki and drinks with everyone I knew who had been there, which was a small but decent amount. Yay.


THE REST WILL HAVE HAS MOAR AWESOMESAUCE.

READ IT ON DIN SAMA'S AWESOME JOURNAL! WE WROTE IT TOGEZZAR!

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