I think I can finally die happy? I mean really… all that’s left to see on my bucket list now is SEIKIMA-II. After the tickets selling out in 5 minutes on release day (03/03) I almost gave up. I looked at getting tickets from yahoo actions but yahoo auctions Japan is awful. I found one other auction site and last week I put in a few bids. Luckily I won one and got the ticket a day later.

Lots of these tour trucks/buses next to the goods area.

Sorry for the bad grammar and/or childish writing skills btw. <_< I'm not really going to proofread as I haven't got that kind of time for a fangirlish report.

The tour started off with Nagoya on 4/14 and 4/15. I went to the Sunday live (4/15). The day before I went there just to buy goods. There were no glow sticks at all for sale and no one had any inside. I really wanted to buy the goods that ELLY made but his stuff sold out VERY early. I think his goods sold out first.

The stuff I bought~ The shirt was too big but oh well.

Usually, I’d insist on going to these big events early but since we all had seat numbers it didn’t matter. I hung out with a friend until opening time. Luckily, unlike Saturday, it was relatively nice outside. While shopping with my friend we saw all kinds of people dressed in 24karats or EXILE tour merch.. EVERYWHERE. Ages ranged from around 7 to around 60! There were more women than men but there was still a significant amount of men. I’d say it was 65:35. Out of the thousands of people I didn’t see another foreign fan… at least not one I could look at and tell. Believe me, I was looking LOL. I think that might be because the tickets are a nightmare to get a hold of.. or something like that?

When I was walking towards the dome I saw a crowd of people taking pictures of Atsushi lookalikes! It was hilarious but I didn’t have the energy to join the crowd to take a picture. There were some really sleazy and pretty comical looking guys trying to sell stuff too. I had a bit of time to kill so I went into the big mall next door. It was packed and all I could think about was how nightmarish and impossible getting home would be.

When I was finally entering Nagoya dome the people at the gate just bowed and took my ticket. They didn’t even really look at it or scan it or anything. They just took off the part they needed and asked if I know about the camera rules. I was like ‘yeah, I guess’ and I walked in… My seat was all the way in the back but at least it was on the first level.

Sneaky pic.. that tower was talking and zooming in on people.. it also changed personalities multiple times before the show started ^^;;

It would have been better if only my eyesight wasn’t bad. I regret not buying a pair of cheap binoculars. I was able to see everyone but couldn’t make out their facial details. I could tell who was who though. There was also a giant screen so it was all good.

FAST FOWARD TO THE START. The lights turned off and everyone came out on big float car things. They circled around the dome and it took a long time haha. Sandaime J Soul Brothers were in the front (5 of them) in green. OMG, ELLY LOOKED LIKE A PRINCE!!! It was really easy to spot Gun because of his hair haha. Next was EXILE… the first thing I saw was Nesmith’s hair.. Haha.

I have unbelievably terrible memory but the setlist was pretty much the same as 04/14.

I think anyone who is actually bothering to read this already has seen how EXILE performs. It was pure excellence.

Keiji… had a wonderful moment that involved being shirtless LOL. Naoto also had a similarly wonderful moment. You know how Naoto does his little ‘dances’ LOL <.<

Won't be long was pretty fun! The whole dome did the shimmy thing... flags waving up then waving down ^^; The outfits they wore at first were sooo nice. ATSUSHI’s solo stuff was 5 star level. His dancers.. OMG, at one point he was with one of them and the whole dome was like “NOOOOOOOO my hopes and dreams” *dies*

Nidaime was D: wow… I just can’t.. YOU ALREADY KNOW

Another song that was a ton of fun was Fighters… the crowd did the same movements with their flags throughout everything but at least with fighters we had the whole “Let me hear you say OH!” “OH!” part ^^; The vocals were on point for Fighters. Honestly, Imaichi and Tosaka had moments where their vocals were on par with Neskichi and Atsushi & Takahiro.. Some of the time it still felt like they were a bit nervous.. I don’t know why but to me Tosaka always looks the most nervous.

E-Girls sang One Two Three! They were so good. I wish I could have gone to the handshake event.. GENERATIONS also did some stuff.. Didn’t know they could dance so well. Mendy is so tall, he’s like Naoki but just bigger.

I could go on about every song and how great it is but I don’t want to ramble on. Victory and fireworks were so cool.

Anyway… to summarize.

Hiro – His usual boss self.
ATSUSHI – DAT VOICE.
Takahiro – crowd always goes crazy over him.
Shokichi – He was himself <3
Nesmith - Dat hair XD
Makidai - did his DJ thing ^^
Matsu - At the encore he came out to promote Matsubocchi
USA - Dance earth intermission
Akira - fans really go crazy for him too
Kenchi - didn't see much of him T^T
Tetsuya - same as Kenchi o_o
Keiji - Had one of the best dance moments.

Imaichi - He looked amazing.
Tosaka - He's such a sad puppy sometimes but I think he was stronger vocally than Imaichi.
Naoto - Dancing machine.
Naoki - So noticeable and full of energy! I liked his hair.
ELLY - There are no words for this piece of royalty.
Kenjiro - Honestly didn't see much of him, AT ALL. =(
GUN - HAIR bouncing everywhere!

ELLY and GUN had a face off at the start of fighters.. It was nice to put it simply.

At the end Atsushi & Takahiro sang the new song. It’s a ballad and sounds nice.. At this point I was about to freak out because in a couple minutes about 40,000 people were going to make a mad dash to the trains. I decided to leave half way into the song =( The trains were insanely packed and it seemed like everyone left the whole ‘line up’ mentality behind them. People just pushed in front of others. Anyway, everyone got squashed inside the train and I was lucky enough to find a seat.

I think most know about ACE OF SPADES, Matsu’s oneman event, the new song, and 3jsb’s nation wide tour.. those were all things announced during the encore.

So, that’s about it. It cost me about 3man altogether… ticket, transportation, and goods. That’s a lot. A very tiring and potentially expensive adventure awaits anyone wanting to see EXILE. Good thing it’s genuinely worth it.

Oh my goodness… I forgot how long making a layout can really take. One second I’m fine with 4 pixels… the next second I change it to 5 pixels, then back to 4, then to 3, etc etc As usual my codes are a mess. Once I get settled in I should shave some bacon off this pig man

A reward for today? … It’s too soon.

I don’t know why this picture is here but I bought way too many clothes.. I will most likely regret this later.

This skirt is so cute and really puffy. Wearing it is a battle though…

I was going to just leave this blog update to that but I should mention a bit about moving. I’d take a picture of my place to show you what a state it’s in but that would be too embarrassing. I’m like a pack rat or something. Either that or the total lack of storage makes everything seem worse. I’m thinking of just THROWING stuff into a garbage bag. Just being done with it *sigh*

I still haven’t completely decided on what to do for housing. Now I have about 3 choices.

1. Big apartment complex about an 8 min walk from Nagoya station.. many foreigners there and/but it’s kind of expensive.

2. Perfect location with one room left. The owner is a nice young man with a very young son. It’s in the middle of Nagoya station and my job D: … rent is cheap.

3. Amazing location in naka-ku, 3LDK housing 3 people but 2 are moving out soon. A little out of the way but close to Nagoya station. Rent is not as cheap as option 2 but still pretty dang good. Person there is female.

I can finally shut up about coloring it! It really didn’t change too much..

I didn’t bother with a before shot because the lighting is vastly different from picture to picture. Outside I can definitely see that my hair is indeed a shade lighter (whatever that means). My hair feels great and I’d definitely use Lucido-L hair color again. It received tons of positive reviews on cosme since it doesn’t damage hair a lot and always comes out safe for work lol. I think if I used it again my hair will be close to the color I want without having to use bleach. Really think the third time is the charm with this product.

This photo was brought to you by photoshop. Awww Yeah.

Do you see how much darker the back is? That was basically my original hair color. Unfortunately, since my hair is relaxed, I can’t just color it again without waiting a bit…

I used 1 box and half of the other. These two combined cost about 1000 yen.

I’m off for a few weeks right now D: Said bye to a ton of people… I have to now concentrate on cleaning out my apartment and getting ready to move.