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Saturday was a Good Day!

See what I did there?

I just got back from Tokyo, where I went to the afternoon V6 concert on Saturday.  I figured I'd share a little bit with y'all. :)

I woke up Saturday morning, and flipped on the TV to check the weather, and Inocchi's wedding/engagement was all over the news.  On the train to Harajuku, same deal with everyone's news papers.  It was really something.



I arrived about an hour before the doors opened (so, two hours before the concert was to start), and figured I'd do my concert goods/souvenir shopping before the show.  There were photo sets and clear files and bath towels and so on for sale.  I ended up buying the jumbo Ken uchiwa/fan, the Original Penlight, the Pamphlet/program/booklet, and the cloth shopping bag to carry it all in (none of it would fit in the other bag I brought, and it was in a locker at Meijijingumae Stn. anyway).



I don't have a scanner, unfortunately, and even if I did, I kind of wouldn't want to break/bend/wreck my pamphlet, otherwise I'd totally scan it for you all.  What I did do is take a few shots with my camera in a very roughshod dirty way.  The pictures are awesome. Lots of interview-type stuff, too, if you're into reading Japanese.


After that was done, the doors had just opened, so I figured I'd get in before the rush, and relax a bit.

This display was just inside the Harajuku entrance to Yoyogi Stadium.


Here's a view from my seat, blurry and stuff.  Couldn't take real cameras in, of course, but in the pre-show period, a couple of cell phone pics were alright.  My seat was in the nosebleediest of the nosebleed section. -_-  That's the main stage waay down there.  There was a smaller stage at the opposite end of the hall, with a walkway down the middle (and rope-drawn carts on either side).  Also, you can see the catwalk just at the front of the seats here, where the members would walk up so that the nosebleed-section people wouldn't feel quite so bad.  The pre-show background music was Maroon5, which was pretty WTF right there......

The show opened with Voyager, and for the next two hours, it was just pure awesome.  Whenever they'd stop to talk, the banter was always about Inohara's marriage.  They did the album songs, tossed in some older stuff like Thunderbird and Darling (Ken and Masa were on the catwalk at the front of my section for most of that bit, which was pretty win).  They did uhhhh that song from that drama... about the Napolitan spaghetti... that Go did...?  Anyway, since the other two from the drama weren't around, the other members played rock-papers-scissors to decide who was gonna do what roll. Ken ended up as the little kid with glasses, which was hilarious.

After the encore, they came out one last time as the MC guy was trying to explain the proper exit procedures (he quickly hid again once they re-appeared), just for a quick round of bows and thank yous and bye-byes (though those were mostly from Ken).  Just as they exited, Ken blew a kiss to everyone, and there was much screaming and fanning.

After the concert, because that's how I roll, I had decided I'd make the entire day sort of V6-themed. As such, I decided to go for supper at unmarble, a cafe in Aoyama that VVV6 visited in the Sept 13 episode I think (here's a link to the video).  Had that omurice, ended up sitting in the back, where they sat when they were there for the show.  A few of the wait staff were sitting back there doing some paper work while I was there, and they were talking about Inocchi's fiance, and how they made such a cute couple, and wow look at the size of that ring, and awww, isn't he such a nice guy, oh when he was here for the show, I just wanted to hug him, etc.

After dinner, headed back to my hotel, listened to the new album on my iPod.  All in all, Saturday was a Good Day. :)