Just got back from the live. I was in the arena standing area during the noon show and on the 2nd floor balcony during the night show. Some thought on the live.
-Lining up for goods was hell. You have to line up for 2 hours for the goods. The staffs have to plan better for this. There were fans who didn't get to buy goods because of the long waiting time. And one more thing, why can't they at least show the design of the goods at the official site. You're lining up to buy something that you haven't seen yet. Surely they can do at least that.
-Tokyo Dome City Hall feels smaller than Nakano Sun Plaza but the stage is wide and they have 3 balcony floors. Almost no bad view all over they hall in my opinion and you really feel closer to the stage. But the sound isn't that great, the band sounded too loud and I had trouble hearing the girls singing during some part. There was lasers, rising stage and flying with wires this time too.
-Good setlist. I loved Alphabet wa Kore Nanda and Go East Go West with the live bend. They added strings instrument( violin, cello etc.) to the live band and some songs sounded awesome.
-Morimoto sang Boowy's No New York with Yurippe and Maipuru on guitar, Rurika on drums and Serina on bass.
-They announced handshakes event on 24/25th December. You have to pre-order the new single for it.
-The new single doesn't sound bad. I kinda liked the chorus but the song feels broken into parts. Other parts of the song doesn't really go well with the chorus. Need to hear more for it to grew on me.
-Loved Maipuru solo of Like a Shooting Star for the encore. She really is an amazing singer.
-No graduation announced yet and I'm not going to judge the 5th generation candidates yet. I hope they give the girls chance to show their singing and dancing talent. Or else they already popular girls who are already with agencies are going to win the votes easily.
-I saw Amimi's sister Anene and Matsui Sakiko on the balcony during the afternoon show and sat quite near YGA during the night show.
-As expected Rurika win the Nescafe Movie contest. And they gave free Nescafe with Idoling package during the end of the show.