NEWS winter PARTY DIAMOND in Sendai!!!!






　




　


So I thought the concert was pretty awesome... it was my first Johnny's con, and there wasn't anything I could've asked for *except maybe Ryo or Tegoshi to be on the cart on our side, and not Koyama (although he was the only one that took his shirt off during the con)*. I was happy to see that Shige not only dyed his hair back to brown, but he also had a very nice haircut! (unfortunately, the pamphlet has bleached hair pix... with a weird middle part...).  Yamapi had his perm still, but it was cut shorter... and it seemed like the left side was shorter than the right... but they were all sweaty, so you never know. 

Aaaaanyways, it started with a video intro with them all running all over (Tokyo, I'm guessing) and then they each show up in front of the camera one by one, getting dressed in their party clothes, and their names flash in front of them, kind of an introduction to the members. Massu was sooo cute cuz he was eating pie and a popsicle. hahahahaha. (Later on, in the MC we find out that Tackey is the one who filmed and directed it.) Then, they present the ring and say, "OMEDETOU!" and the video fades out

Then... the boys come rising up onto the stage in a diamond-shaped box, and start singing Happy Birthday. Ryo is soooo cute!!!! *as are the rest, but I'm partial* and then, they followed it by Weeeek.

☆After that, it was kind of a blur. But I am pretty sure it went something like this:
♥GanGanGanbatte - super fun song, i like it on the CD and they were very high energy!!!
♥SUMMER TIME -ok, so I thought this was weird, because it's not summer, but i guess cuz it was single, they sang it still

Then they greeted everyone and introduced themselves... Ryo was kinda silly, he wanted everyone to scream loudly for him (louder than for pi) and then at the end, after we screamed like six or seven times, he appologized and ran off of the stage.

♥Why -they did it with the whole "club" scene. Massu started playing pool, then Shige joined him and started singing. Then Pi and Koyama were by the bar and they did their parts, then Ryo and Tegoshi came last in the "lounge" area
♥Bambina - this was Tegoshi's choice... explained in the MC section.  it was a good song for them to do, and they were all uber sexxy in it
♥Say Hello - which involved chairs and canes... very BSB "As Long As You Love Me"-ish. but cute in that old-jazz hands/ spirit fingers kind of way. they wore silver suits and were in the center stage, which was rotating around.
♥Party Time- i actually dont remember this song too much. *kicks self* but i remember thinking this would have been a good way to start or end the show since it was a Party.
♥and Shige's solo... was new!!! He was wearing this jumpsuit kind of thing(very elvis), and had a star shaped tamboreen. it was awesome!!  but i have no idea what the name of it was!
♥Tegoshi sang "Ai no Matador" for his solo (although I wish he did "Ai nante"again) in the middle of the arena and was wearing a red animal print shirt, his singing was AMAZING!!!!! and his dancing was pretty nice as well.
♥Massu sang "MaSuperman" for his solo, which came with a comic style video intro before he sang, that was pretty fun. He was singing about food, and the chorus said something about having a Nasu (eggplant) in his left hand and Shoyu (soy sauce) in his right. it was cute. he's too loveable.
♥I・ZA・NA・I・ZU・KI (they used the rising platforms, and Tegoshi was on our side!!!!)
♥Kibou Yell- seriously, if you stop to look at the crowd for a second while they are doing their dance during the chorus, it's amazing how the entire arena moves exactly in the same way as the boys do.  i mean, A MA ZING!
♥Hoshi o Mezashite (there were paper hearts that floated down from the center stage area, and it was pretty... but only there, so us poor people that were in the stands, got no hearts)
♥Easy Come, Easy Go (they used the bag that they were selling to hold all their signed balls)

MC

♥Yamapi and Koyama *now known as KoYamapi* ended up singing a duet... it was called Ginza Rapsody...
♥TegoMasu sang "Aiaigasa", which was right before the medley of Mafuyu and Snow Express, so they were already dressed in their white snow jacket outfits. so hot!
♥Mafuyu no Nagareboshi (this was done after TegoMasu, and they were all wearing their white snow jacket outfits... poor guys must've been sooo hot!)
♥SNOW EXPRESS- everyone went crazy!!!
♥Cherish (this is so much fun to dance!!!  Espeicially when Ryo is dancing like a crazy man and then he sees you and starts frantically waving!!!!  Good thing I was with two other gaijin and was holding a hot pink giltter uchiwa!)
♥Forever (I can't wait for the CD so I can have this song on repeat on my ipod!!! Pi's rap is sooo sexxxy and in English!!!!!!  *except for his last line, "rib it forever"*)
♥Teppen (also another one that is great to dance to!!!!)
♥Ryo's solo was "Ordinary," off of the new album, and he wrote it! Even the lyrics on the screen were in his handwriting. It is a very cute song, I forget exactly what they lyrics were, but it was cute.
♥Change the World
♥Beach Angel
♥Fly Again


New songs that were sung:
♥Forever (this is most likely going to be my favorite song on the new CD, minus the fact that Yamapi's sexy rap is ruined *but funny* by his EngRish lyris posted on the big screens of "Rib it 'forever'", which we are guessing should be "live it 'forever'".)
♥Ordinary (Ryo wrote this song, so I am guessing it will be his solo on the CD.  it's really sweet, he's talking about sending his love to you only... and all this mushy stuff.  On top of that, he is sooo cute playing his red guitar and singing.)
♥SNOW EXPRESS (all the fans went crazy when they transitioned from Mafuyu no Nagareboshi to this song. It was sooo cute! I'm glad they'll be releasing it on COLOR)
♥Fly Again (I'm pretty sure this was the last song of the concert.... it was pretty nice. But I was still in a white haze from Pi at that point)

the only weird thing was that for the oncore, they sang Weeeek (again), after they sang News NIPPON.

☆The MC... covered sooo many things!!!
♥First, Shige's pants zipper was waaay oversized, and he acted like it was the first time he had realized it.  Then was playing with it... in a very inapropriate way *but i loved every minute of it*.
♥connected to that was Massu's overalls... he was only wearing one strap and had his left hand inside his pants during their conversation. XD The others were wondering what he was doing in there. hahahaha.
♥Tegoshi was kind of in a daze, and Koyama kept giving him a hard time and appologizing to us because this kind of person got into the Entertainment business.
♥They talked about Tackey doing the filming and editing to their opening and ending sequences.
♥ Yamapi is the one who decided to make the uchiwa plastic red
♥The only thing Tegoshi wanted to contribute to the concert was to sing "Bambina."  He said that he Yamapi was the only one on his side, also wanting to sing it.  And everyone else got mad at him and told him they weren't against or for it, they didn't care.  Then Yamapi backed Tegoshi up by saying that when they were discussing the set list, and Tegoshi went to the bathroom, the others erased the song from the set list.  So Tego was mad when he came back and finally noticed it was gone a bit later. 
♥Shige talked about his hair in the pamphlet and how after he did the photoshoot, he decided that he wanted to change his hair back to normal. Ryo and Koyama were giving him crap about it.  And he showed the underneath, which was shaved, so it just had the appearance that it was full (think Pi's usual hairstyles, but shorter)
♥They also talked about Koyama staring in a butai next year, in the spring...
♥KoYamapi left the conversation early to get ready for their duet
♥They also teased Massu about his solo and asked him why he was eating in the opening video. And he said it was cuz everyone was being so cool, and when he tried it he said that he didn't look as cool, so he wanted to eat instead. Then he got an Onigiri from Ryo, but because they were wearing all white and black, it wouldn't stand out as much as the ramune popsicle and the cake.

After exiting, there were two floral arrangements, one from Johnny's Entertainment, and the other was from Greeeen.





Where we were sitting, we got a lot of Koyama... who is not my favorite, but it was balanced out with Pi coming right in front of us on the cart, and Massu and Ryo seeing us foreigners and freaking out waving at us like crazy people. They were all really on key and Tegoshi was sooo awesome! Shige may have seen us in the beginning, but it's hard to tell because he didnt stop in front of our section for very long. All of them loved seeing kids... maybe next time I will bring one of my students along with me so I can get some member love. hahahaha.

About the goods. I wanted to buy the ring at first. But when I got there, it was not as cool as I thought it was going to be. They were really pimping the ring during the concert. In fact, all of the boys were wearing it, and it was a present for the fans in the video.... but I just wasnt feeling it. It looked kinda tackey, only cool part was that it came in a cute red pouch and said news on the back part (inside of ur hand).

I ended up buying the tote bag, the muffler towel, and the pamphlet. The pamphlet is sooo pretty, and the candids they have in the insert are suuuuper cute (although there are a few wasted pages of random background). It's hard cover and there are stars on it (just like the muffler towel), and the writing on the cover is in a white glitter screen print. The tote bag is written in gold glitter, and there is a little NEWS tag (which you can see on the top left hadn corner).





Oh! and here's one side of my Uchiwa... in the blue lights *ooo!!! so pretty*





Ok, well, that's all for my report... I have got to get to bed! TOMA's Butai Tomorrow!!!!