I went to the venue today at Saitama Super Arena. It was raining cats and dogs so I didnt take many photos.

I’ll write my report here. Setlist copypasted from elsewhere =P

First let me describe the stage. On the top of the curtain there’s a big clown face. Inside the curtain there’s a big screen that was actually 2 screens combined into one. The stage is 2 layers thing and between it there’s a stair.
Before the live starts, there were camera that randomly shot the audiences and asked them to do something (kiss the person next to them, shout kuu-chan kuu-chan, etc)

「1」INTRODUCTION FOR TRICK
Kuu came down from the ceiling, sitting on a chair like a queen. She wore white clothes. She said “lets go back to your childhood memories and enter the trick world”. When she touched the ground, she started dancing, and there’re some explotions effect. This is probably the full version of Introduction for Trick

「2」TABOO
She rode atop a moving thing and moved around the corridors between audiences.

-special screen-
When the song was over, she went inside and the screen showed this movie showing she changed into sexy clothes.

「3」Driving
She wore this sexy clothes that have tails(?)

「4」show girl＜stopped in the middle and became a medley＞
*It stopped after the 2nd chorus.

BUT
*female dancers doing pole dance
キューティーハニー
*very short
恋のつぼみ
*this one is short too
D.D.D. feat.SOULHEAD
* the female dancers danced together with male dancers one by one.
show girl＜the remaining part＞
*there was this scene when kuu pretend to fell down and the dancers went around her asking if she’s alright.

「5」SHAKE IT
Yes there’s this doggy position again but only between dancers. Kuu was busy singing.
In the middle the song stopped and Kuu-queen asked her dancers to go find ppl to be dragged to the stage. This time there are 2 guys and 2 girls, tied to the chairs, blindfolded, etc. One of the girl couldnt stop crying(?) and Kuu kept teasing her. She sat on her lap til the song ended. Poor girl lol.

-special screen-
There was a clown and mini kuu. This clowned kept abusing Kuu with his magic and somehow Kuu managed to took away the clown’s magic wand/book and did the revenge by turning the clown into a cannon and shoot him to the sky.

「6」Hurry Up!!
The big screen opened and broke into 2, and Kuu came out from inside riding a motorbike (in the air), and kept airborne for almost half of the song.

「7」That Ain’t Cool Feat.Fergie
Fergie is featured on the video. The video is almost the same with the PV.

「8」Your Love
Nothing special.

「9」Moon Crying
There was a big round moon on the video. Kuu sang by sitting at the edge of the stage.

「10」Bling Bling Bling Feat.AK-69
Lol, the screen is so random. There are money bills that have Kuu faces on them.

- another special screen-
Kuu uses a telescope to see the sky and saw the clown from before sitting on the star pleading her to let him down.

「11」stay with me
WOAH the dress. It was that xmas-tree-shaped-dress, and Kuu was elevated really high by the dress. Sometimes there were wings on the screen, which if you saw it from the front, it looks like wings that grows on Kuu.

「12」taisetsu na kimi e <chosen by playroom>
Before the song started she talked about how this next song is chosen by regions blabla. And why this song again? >.< Ppl were shouting and yelling “Saigo no ame PLZZZZZZZZZZ”

「13」Always
Ok, this time she wore a bridal-clothes-like costume. The dancers put it on Kuu on the stage before the song started.

「14」This is not a love song
The screen showed images of Virgin Mary and some other horror images. Near the end, she took off the dress and there’s another black dress inside! At the end of the songs the dancers put a sheet on her and puff she disappeared like that O_o

- special screen again-
Okay, the clown managed to climb down from the star. She tried to steal back the magic book and later went cat-and-mice chasing game with Kuu. And this time the theme is chimney. So the real Kuu fell down from a chimney to the stage and started the next song.

「15」Winter Bell
Cant remember anything from this song.

「16」JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
Lots of balloon falling down.

「17」Venus
Asked ppl to dance together.

「18」Lady Go!
There was explosion and the confetties felt down from the ceiling

「19」Joyful
She asked ppl to sing all out together, waving sticks and towels because “this is the last song” . She threw her towel to the audience.

Encore
A special screen again, where the clown managed to capture Kuu and asked the audiences to go home. When ppl “BOOOOOOO” him, he said “okay okay Ill let your idol go but you all have to shout ENCORE ENCORE”

Here came the coolest trick. The dancers stacked together some boxes on a chair(.. not exactly a chair, but something that is void below, so you can see through it), and Kuu came out from the stacks of box (it opened just like a door)!!!

「20」Medley
So she rode that moving things again and starts throwing autographed balls at the audience. DAMN I ALMOST GOT IT, IT TOUCHED MY HAND BUT IT SLIPPED… and since behind me is a void space, the ppl from the other blocks quickly came and took it away. WHYYYY *CRY*

Sweet Kiss
Ai no uta (driving hits remix)
Someday
sora (remix)
LOVE HOLIC
WON’T BE LONG
Butterfly

The medley ended when she completed moving around the blocks and returned back to stage.  After that the dancers and band introduction.

「21」It’s all love （feat misono）
Suddenly theres a phone ringed. Kuu picked it up and from her sis, playing chess with one of her dancer. Kuu said WTH are you doing there came out the guests are waiting for us. Then she came out.  WE WERE O_O  And then the started sing its all live, this time with a REAL misono.

-MC-
:tired:almost 30 minutes of her non-stop super-fast talking. From accidents (one of her fingernail broke on the 4th song today, she said its the first time on the stage, before this on the BC tour she accidentally hurted her own eyes with her nails while dancing and it lasted for a few weeks) to fortunetelling to her radio programs and some other random topics I wont bother remembering.
Then she said “CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY! know why? micchan (misono) can only came today because she will be busy tomorrow”. Oh and micchan came out while eating banana *lol*
Btw micchan said she will put out another single on June and will make a fanclub.
The audience asked and shouted misono to sing again. So….

「22」t’s all love reprise （feat misono）
wow! I started to like this song. I dunno why but its so cool. And in the middle misono said kumi mistaken her lyric so they repeat again from the first bridge.

- MC-
The thanks for coming today thingie. And told us that even when we have problems, be strong and keep walking your chosen path blahblah.

「23」walk
She ended it with rains on the stage and the curtain lowered down. The light went on again and the announcer said “the show today is over. this show is brought to you by blahblah” and ppl started going out.

image (except the first one) credit to: debitto @ JPM forum

Paprika adalah salah satu anime yang bikin gua penasaran, karna banyak diputer di festival2 film internasional (dan tiap buka CDJapan selalu nongol iklannya). Beberapa hari yang lalu dvd(dan bluray) nya dirilis, langsung gua cari2 torrentnya. Benar saja, begitu dirilis tgl 23/5, bbrp hari kemudian torrentnya udah keluar (raw keluar dulu, e-subbed keluar belakangan, tp sepertinya DVD R2 deluxe edition menyertakan subtitle inggris).

Film yang disutradarai Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress) dan diproduksi MADHOUSE (Death note, dll) ini diangkat dari novel karya Yasutaka Tsutsui. Alkisah di masa depan, ditemukan suatu alat bernama DC Mini yang dapat digunakan mengeksplorasi mimpi seseorang untuk membantu penyembuhan secara psikoterapi. Kepala projek penelitian ini, Dr Chiba Atsuko (Megumi Hayashibara) diam2 memakai DC mini ini untuk membantu orang2 yang mengalami trauma mimpi(?) dengan membuat alternate personanya di dunia mimpi dengan nama Paprika. Nah sebelum proyek DC mini ini selesai, ada bbrp prototype DC mini yang dicuri dan digunakan oleh sekelompok orang-orang tak bertanggung jawab untuk menginvasi mimpi orang lain secara ilegal. Dr Chiba/Paprika bersama Dr Tokita (Furuya Tooru), penemu DC mino kemudian harus menemukan pencuri prototype itu sebelum mereka menguasai dunia lewat mimpi orang2. Mereka dibantu oleh seorang detektif Konakawa (Akio Otsuka) yang somehow menemukan Paprika lewat bar di website http://radioclub.jp Masalah bertambah rumit sewaktu bos mereka malah melarang penggunaan DC Mini karena dianggap telah melangkahi “sacred ground” manusia yg tidak boleh terjamah science.

Terus terang, film ini agak membingungkan (apa krn gua ntnnya setengah tidur ya?) karena agak2 menyampurkan antara dunia mimpi dengan kenyataan dan gaya penceritaannya yg “tidak biasa”. Tp ceritanya sendiri sebenarnya menarik ditambah seiyuu2 veteran yang mengisi tokoh2 utama dlm movie ini (kapan ya terakhir gua dengar tante Megumi selain peran gak pentingnya di Ueki). Musiknya (ditangani oleh Susumu Hirasawa) juga cukup catchy. Overall, movie ini menurutku bagus sih tp mungkin bbrp org tidak akan suka dgn movie ini.

Cast: Megumi Hayashibara, Tohru Furuya, Akio Ohtsuka, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Katsunosuke Hori, Kouichi Yamadera, Kouzou Mito, Mitsuo Iwata, Rikako Aikawa, Tohru Emori

Ratingku: 4/5

Tambahan:
Director Satoshi Kon dan Novelis Yasutaka Tsutsui nongol di movie ini sebagai cameo sebagai bartender di radioclub.jp
Themesong (The girl in Byakkoya) bisa diunduh disini dan ini terjemahan & liriknya.

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