Saturday, March 7, 2020

Ryuichiro Sakata to graduate from 10JinActor


On April 1st will be the release of 10JinActors new mini album "Kimi ni Okuru Bye Bye" and it will be the last cd with 10 members, since Sakata will be leaving the group shortly after. He has a farwell live on both the 1st and 2nd of April and after that won't be a part of the group anymore. I am not sure if he will still continue with either SakataKento or DOGUN or what his plans after leaving are. I do like him a lot so I am very sad seeing him leave but I hope he will finde what makes him happy. I kinde wish he would keep doing music, even as a solo artist, he is great performing live and his voice is great too. However even if he get's out of the entertainment scene completely I wish him all the best for his future and many good years for him to come. 

[Fan Report] Family Fes 2020 ~Shimizu Shota Birthday Live~


Yes another report. While I was in Japan I went to severel lives again and maybe this time will actuelly write about more then just two. We will see. So right now I wanna share my expirience of this live with you. 
Seeing Shimizu Shota live has been a dream of mine since years already but somehow I never managed to travel to Japan at the right time, didn't get a ticket or it just wasn't possible for whatever reason. However this year I finally got a ticket to a concert of his and I was super happy about it.
As you can see this was a Family Fes, means he is not the only one to perform but there was also Mirei Touyama, Thelma Aoyama and Miliyah Kato performing at this concert.
I was super lucky with my ticket 'cause I got a pretty good number and since this was a suprisingly small venue I had an awesome standing place and could see everything and everyone on stage super well. 


Before the actual concert started was the performance of the opening act called "Oshiro Miyu". I didn't knew her before but she has a stuning and powerful voice and she was a little weird too but in a very cute and funny way. She sang three songs and then the main concert started.
The first one to perform was Mirei Touyama. I do like her music and her song "Negai ~Ano Koro no Kimi He~" is one of my favorite songs of all time. That's also the song she started of with and guys I wasn't prepared for what happend with me. I can't deny that I sometimes cry at concerts when the voices are very beautiful and the songs emotional, then maybe one one or two tears fall down my cheeks but when she started sining this song with her unbeliveble beautiful and strong voice the tears just kept falling. Never in my live did I cry so much at a concert. I guess it was a mix of the song that is super emotional already and her voice that sounds 1000 times better live and maybe also the fact that I was finally at a concert of Shimizu Shota. I don't remember which other songs she sang but she did well with every single one. Oh wait I do remember she sang "Dear My Boo" as the last song. It's a song originaly of Shimizu Shota that she transformed into her own version. 
The next artist was Aoyama Thelma. On a side not it's so cute how the fans pronounce her name "Teruma". They screamed it so much when she came on stage, it was so freakin adorable. Also I never really paid much attention to her but guess what she got a new fan now. First of her songs were so much fun to listen to and the whole performance of her was amazing. Secondly and mainly the reason she got me as a fan now is that this little woman is such a cute, funny and lovely person. She interacted a lot with the fans and did many jokes, some that even I understood (even thought my japanese is so poor). She also performed severel songs, some of them were "Onigiri", "Boom Shakalaka'" and "Sekai no Chuushin".
Next one was Miliyah Kato. I used to really love her music until like 2008/9 but then her style slowly started to change and I got unintrested. Taste is different so I know a lot of people love her music nowadays and I am happy seeing she has many fans that support her. Even thought I didn't now the songs she sang, besides one old song, I still enjoyed her performance. Oh and I know she sang her latest song "Sayonara" because they did show some advertising before the live started and one was for her latest single. I do like this song quite a bit, it has a special feeling to it.
After She left the stage it was finally time for Shimizu Shota and guys I couldn't stop smiling. I just love him. His voice is so beautiful and he had a nice presence on stage. And you know what I could sing along to all of his songs, I am usually really bad with this. XD He played a LOT of songs and I loved all his performances. Sometimes he had dancers with him on stage and sometimes he performed on his own. At one point he allowed us to take a photo of him but first we had to look down and when we told us to look up that's what we saw.


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Yes he hid under the keyboard. XD That was too cute, he had so much fun playing a prank on us. XD
That was so freakin cute. After his performance he went backstage and the fans started to shout for an encore. The encore was pretty awesome. He performed one song with each of the other artists and at least they all sang "Home" together, which, in case you guys don't know, is the debut song of Shimizu Shota. I absolutly loved this performance. 
This whole concert was so good and even thought I had high expactations I enjoyed it even more then I thought I would be. I hope to one day have another chance to see him live again and maybe some of the other artists too. By the way something else I really liked about this concert as well, was the fans. There were much more "older" people on this concert. Well I oftern go to "idol" concerts and these are mostly crowded with high school girls. However you could feel the difference. There were many couples and in general much more man. Also I heard how some fans talked with each other being like "Where do you come from?" "I came from Kyoto." "Wow!" and stuff like that. Maybe I got to listen to the cute fans only but honestly that was so adorable.
This whole concert was an amazing expiriance and hope I was able to transfer some of my excitement and if you didn't knew some of these artists, hopefully you will check them out now.
Thank you for reading!!

[Fan Report] Boys And Men Kenkyusei "Habataki no SHOW" 11/2/2020 + Boyman Shop and Cafe


I was in Japan from February 9th to Fabruary 24th of this year and my main reason for traveling to Japan this year was the live of Boys And Men Kenkyusei (short BMK). Some of you might know I am very much in love with this group and when they announced to have a live at the Century Hall in Nagoya, one of the bigger venues, I just had to try attending this event. As you can see I managed to get a ticket for the event. 



I bought the lightstick, towel and t-shirt at the concert as well as the best of album which I didn't bought until then. With all my purchases I was able to get two photo tickets for my favorite member Nakahara Sota. But let's start of with the concert. I had a rather bad ticket, meaning I was pretty much in the back, thought at least I was on the 1st floor and despite being so much in the back I saw everything very well and could enjoy this show to the fullest. 
I never went to concert of them before, the only time I actually saw them live was at a Boymen World event but they mostly did talking at this event and only sang I think like two songs. However I do own most of their live dvds and always enjoy them a lot so my expectation was pretty high.
What should I say they were awesome live. Their dancing was great as well as the singing and I loved all the entertainment parts.
They played a lot of their songs and I definitly can't remember the order or all the songs anymore but I know they played "Bokutachi no ONE", "Batchan" and "Ai wo Ganbatte". And when Matsuri 9 joined them (they were guest at this live) they performed "Dodonko Don't Worry" together, which I loved. Matsuri9 also perfomed like 3 songs on their own and then BMK claimed the stage again. Pretty much all their songs are so energetic and therfor super fun listen to live. I tried to imitate the choreography with the light stick most fans did but I absolutly failed. XD It was fun anyway.
 I do hope this will be released on dvd as well. The big highlight came at the end when they announced to have their major debut. Guys I honestly cried and while writing this I am nearly crying again. I am SO happy for them to finally also have a major debut. All five of them deserve this so much and I am freaking excited for them to announce their group name as well as the exact date and of course the titel of their first single. So far we only know that they will have the major debut in summer. That's all that has been announced. As for the name Kometani joked that they will be called "Matsuri 10". XD
After they announced all the members went through the people and gave high fives and I saw that Boys And Men were sitting a few seats behind me. XD I didn't realize it the whole concert and I was happy to see that they support their juniors.
After the amazing concert and all the emotions regarding the announcment of the major debut we had to wait for the photo session. I had to wait pretty long because of my seat being so much in the back but at least I was able to take to pictures with my beloved Sota. Here is one.


He is such a cute person!! I will support him forever! Also I managed to tell him congrats on the major debut in japanese and he asked me if I had fun which I answerd with a big yes because that's the truth, I absolutly loved that live. The whole atmosphere, the fun and energetic songs and the five lovely people. I hope to see them live as a new group when I am in Japan next time.

On the next day I also went to the Boymen Shop and Cafe. I love the cafe especially since you can watch live performances that are mostly not released on dvd. Here are a few pictures. I took in the store and cafe. By the way the fans in the cafe were really cute. Some fans layed out costers of Matsuoka and since I had Kometani twice I asked the girl to change with me and she was super happy and gave me even both of her Matsuoka ones for one of the Kometani coasters.





If you ever happen to be in Nagoya and like either Boys And Men, BMK, Matsuri9 and/or Otome Button, then I absolutly recommend you visiting the store and cafe.
Sorry for this being such a short report but I hope some of you liked it anyway.