I just finished watching the KAT-TUN 2005 Concert - Kaizokuban.
First of all, I must say that the production values for this concert were amazing. It put H!P concerts to shame for sure. And this is a concert for a then undebuted group. Just wow.
Now, where H!P concerts have their song list layed out and just go down the tracklisting, dancing the choreography in pretty outfits, KAT-TUN chose to perform more of their songs in shorter parts, sledged together as large medleys. It was a nice change, for sure. I didn't have to listen to the boring songs for too long.
The concert also had been set up to give each member a full solo to sing (while the duets were limited to the medley). Everyone got to show off their talents in here.
The entire concert was tied from fun to back with the song GOLD (with a balled version bringing up the first part of the rear half). It just felt well done.
Other comments:
-La Ciel is a great song. Want a recorded version.
-Immediately after Koki's solo, they did a sort of introduction rap (think of Joshi Kashimari, but rapped). During this part, Junno got to do some nice dance moves, and then proceed to backflip off of the platform he was on. WOW! Impressed!
-The Junno solo song was kind of lacking (although his voice was great), but the dance was definately cool. He's talented in this category for sure.
-The latin medley was great. Especially when they covered CONGA. Eek!
-I LIKE IT (also on the album) was one of the performances I enjoyed more in the concert. Took note of it, and will listen to the album track more.
-Before Jin finally got into his solo song, he got to dance around and stuff for quite awhile beforehand. But there were production values galore here. Despite not caring for the song, this part made it worth it.
-After Original Blue, the concert "ends" but as usual there is the ENCORE. At this point, they come out in t-shirts and throw stuff to the crowd (signed balls and stuff). Near the beginning of this (while singing Tsuki no Michi) we get some cute Junno moments, as he tries to give his sexy look to the camera.
That's my brother!
Overall, I really enjoyed the concert! For those who are looking to download, the file up at JPopSuki is rather large, and its all separated and stuff. Fine for burning a DVD to play in your player or whatever, but not that great when you're used to downloading avi files of H!P concerts. I'm going to convert the concert into an avi and encode it to bring down the size and stuff. Put it up on the JPH!P Tracker or something.. because you guys need to check this out!