A list of concerts/lives I have attended 2007-present.

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Finally it is LIVE on the web!!!

My live report and interview with Matenrou Opera on their American debut at AnimeUSA in Arlington, VA!


Read Matenrou Opera report & interview here~

I was unfortunately not able to photograph them, due to management and convention rules, but I did have a great interview with them. They're really cool guys, and once we got into the interview, they were easy going and it was comfortable.

Let me know what you think about it :)

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Anyone who knows me will pretty much tell you that I don't really consider myself a Dir en Grey "fan". I don't know their songs that well (except Uroborus. I know that backwards and forwards) and... I don't know. They aren't in my Top 10 bands list, yet this past Friday was my 7th time seeing them OTL. XD So I guess in a sense.... I do like them. They put on a great show, there is no denying that. That's why I keep seeing them again and again, it's a good show, and because my friends are going. ♥ I go for the performance and to headbang \m/

I was with Kim (Aki) most of the day in Philly and it was great to be at a show with her again! ♥ I love that girl at shows, she's just like me, she doesn't care and will do what it takes to get up front XD I feel like sometimes, the people I go with, I have to "watch out" or take care of them...but not Kim. It's great.

We ended up 2nd row in front of Die....but as the show went on, we were much closer to Kyo XD Ended up directly in front of Shinya ♥ and I was staring at Kyo most of the show... I think he learned some new dance moves, the way he moves his body is amazing.

I have a lot of respect for him. The things he can do with his voice and body is amazing, and the way he expresses himself... it's fantastic. I love it.



Kyo WASN'T WEARING THE TRACK SUIT FOR ONCE!!!!!! I WAS SO HAPPY!!!!!!! He started wearing this nice red leather jacket, shorts with leggings underneath, and boots. The jacket came off, of course. But his outfit was cute. He's such a tiny man.

Die was looking as good as ever. I wish I stayed in front of him to watch him more... and Shinya is just gorgeous, the end. Love him. Didn't see Toshiya or Kaoru much, but Toshiya seemed to be jumping around the stage as usual in his kilt/skirt & leggings~

The crowd was amazing. It was just the right amount of rough for me - I missed that type of crowd. Not too much where I wanted to kill people, not too little. It really was just right. I loved that venue too, it had a nice wide stage. The girl I ended up behind was really tall and moved her entire body when headbanging, which was a bit annoying but we all constantly moved around so it was fine.

I didn't headbang nearly as much as I would have liked, because of being 2nd row...it was easier to just make sure the people in front of me didn't hit me or knock my glasses off, but I did get a few good headbangs in for 2 or 3 songs.

I didn't recognize pretty much any songs, which was fun XD A lot was new, but some were older too...which went right over my head. Ah well. I just enjoy it. I love Hageshisa, always happy to hear that. And I sang along well to The Final! I knew Lotus... and when I listened to the new album on the bus home, I knew which songs they played.

Overall, I think this might have been my favorite Dir en Grey show I've ever been to... o_o The only better one might have been 3 nights in NYC - night #3...but this was a damn good show and I'm so glad I went! Looking forward to NYC tomorrow night - ready to tear up the balcony!! >D I plan to just stay up there and hopefully be front of the baloncy and just headbang like there's no tomorrow \m/

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Ahhh, where to begin. The beginning sounds good, right~? XD

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So, like I said, good show. I had a lot of fun, and got to meet Shadow and J~! ♥ Yay meeting JRRers. 8D And see Aki and Flip again. :)

I'm going to be adding things as I remember them to this post. I'm doing it already as I think of things. |D I think I will do another small post, still, with larger pictures. I need to reupload to photobucket, because photobucket decided to resize these. ;; And, you know, these aren't the best photos. We all know I can take better photos, yes~? Flash washed out a lot of these... and the fog machine that was going didn't help. |D

Good show. Gonna miss BLOOD. Hope to see GPKISM and SiSen again. Definitely seeing Echostream again. :)

AnimeNEXT photos from Friday!
Thankfully I had my Photobucket set so the max size was 640x480. This saves me a lot of work. XD

Friday and Saturday are getting separate posts.
SATURDAY IS HERE.

I'm not posting all my pictures here because I have way too many. I have, however, posted them all on Facebook. :) Feel free to friend me on Facebook too, I always add pictures there first. XD ♥

PART 1 || PART 2 || PART 3 || PART 4

Here we go:


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Oh. I also realized at the con that... I'm very much out of the anime fandom. I don't get half the inside jokes now. And I realized I'm fine with that. It's still great to see everyone cosplaying and I love it but I'm more into Jrock now than I am anime~.

Pictures from the Cobra Starship show I went to on March 8th, the early show that started at 1PM with the later show started at 6PM, I think? I could only get tickets to the earlier one~.

The Cab + We The Kings opened for CS. Metro Station was on the rest of this tour but they weren't at the Crazy Donkey because they had another tour that started, or something...

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I'm not going to post all the images from Comic Con here because it's just much easier to post them on Facebook. If you find that easier too, here:
PART 1
PART 2

Onwards!
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Comic Con was fun. :)

I got a hug from Tatsurou!!! :D ♥

And he didn't wear shoes on stage. wtf. ♥

I have Fuzz stuck in my head.
He played the harmonica!!!

Taste of Chaos was MADE OF SUPER AWESOME AND MANY KINDS OF WINNNNNNNN! :DDD Bewtween me and Christa, we filled up 4 memory cards. |D 2 2GB ones, 1 512 MB, and one uber small one that I used for just photos...and some of Sam's memory card. So there'll be plently of video. And a few good photos. And tons of crappy ones. ^_^

We weren't very close but I LOVE YOU SEATS. <333 During the Jrock sets I was sad we didn't have floor. But during Atreyu + A7X I'M SO GLAD I WASN'T DOWN THERE. That was a mosh pit now. At any given point at least 2-3 people were crowd surfing, and the security guards were trying to pull people down. SO MANY people who had seats just ran down the seating area and were able to jump the 3 foot gap between seat and barrier, and made it to the floor. XD Tempted to do that during the JRock, but we didn't.

I'm glad where we were, we were around Jrock fans so I didn't feel stupid screaming and jumping while everyone else was sitting being...bored.

Best quote of the night though. When D'espairsRay were on, some woman behind us goes to her friend, "Is he wearing leather pants?" Me and Christa just looked at each other and laughed. XD OF COURSE he was wearing leather pants, duh! That's a stupid question to ask! She gets points for knowing it was a guy, but loses those points again because Hizumi was singing, obviously it's a guy.

So, I love D'espairsRay now, kthx. All I could think while they were on was, "God, I'm really seeing them. I'm really hearing them play." It was...amazing. akdjflajdlfka. I couldn't see them all that well but you know what I mean. This is the first time I think we've had actual seats at a concert since... The Fray. XD But Despas!!! ILU! Sixty Nine was EPIC!!! as expected. ♥ Hizumi's English is really, really good too! I understand almost all of what he said! Tsukasa PWNS the drums. Seriously. He owns them. I couldn't really tell Zero and Karyu apart, because we were far away and >_>; but Christa said Zero was on the right. :D

Their set was something like:
DAMNED
MIRROR
Angeldust
SIXty∞NINe
Fuyuu shita risou

I know Sixty Nine for absolute certain, because I love that song, and he said, "This is Sixty Nine!" and Christa liked it too. XD After listening to the Mirror album I bought too, I'm sure they played Damned first as well ...then Mirror somewhere in there. XD So the setlist seems right.

Between sets there was indie bands playing on the side stage. The band between Despas and MUCC was saying something about soccer and David Beckam...then I said something about Miyavi, and Loeki said, "David Beckam is like the Miyavi of soccer." XD Ftw.

Next was MUCC, even though the board of lineups outside said Idiot Pilot was after then. So it was bascially like, "...is that MUCC?" and it was. XD Tatsurou was not wearing shoes. I have been pondering that greatly for the past...while. Why was he not wearing shoes? XD (edit: I'm looking at Meera's pictures... were they all not wearing shoes?! I'm pretty sure it looks like Miya wasn't wearing shoes, and maybe Yukke too?!) He was wearing reallllllly baggy clothes too. But it looked cool when he danced, he sorta looked like a rag doll... in a good way. It was good. I could tell the difference between Yukke and Miya because Yukke = blonde hair. That helped a lot. XD Tatsu's English was pretty good, Hizumi's was better though I think...

Their setlist was basically what I've seen posted:
Homura Uta
Ranchuu
New song
New song
Fuzz
Shadan
Libra

I know the end was Fuzz, some song, then Libra, because I <3 FUzz and Libra.

Fuzz. OMG. OMG. FUZZ. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. TATSUROU, WITH NO SHOES ON, GETTING ALL UP ON THE AMPS AND PLAYING THE HARMONICA, THEN JUST THROWING IT BACK SOMEWHERE AND GETTING RIGHT INTO VOCALS!!! AND YUKKE! HE HAD A DIFFERENT KIND OF BASS, AN ACTUAL ORCHESTRAL ELECTRIC BASS! And IT WAS COOL. I screamed so loud during the "Woah woah" parts of the song, because hey, words I know. |D

Libra was great as well. It has those quite moments then the really intense moments and was amazing to see live. It was beautiful. I really did feel like I wanted to cry during some parts, because I was really seeing them!!! That, and the excitment of, OMG ToC!

After that was The Underneath but at 7:15 was Despas signing, and staying would've been cutting it close, so we left to go get in line. D: I need to listen to The Underneath though, I really want know what they sound like. >_<;; We walked around the Coliseum fully and finally got to the place they'd be. Close to the front of the line. I bought their American released Mirror album and had them sign it. :D ...it was dark though and they signed in black marker, meanwhile they had a silver one. >_>; Whatever. OMG DESPAS THOUGH!!! <333 They're adorable~~~~~~~~~~~~ I had no idea who was who so somebody is going to have to help me when I post pictures. I have no idea who's signature is whose either. ^^; Ah well. ♥ They shook our hands too, and said, "Thank you." I'm happy to say I looked each of them in the eye when we shook hands. ^_^

They weren't doing photos so we couldn't get a picture with them or anything. They're table was cute though, there were drawings all over it, like they or whoever else signed there got bored and just drew stuff with Sharpies on it.

Then we ran to where MUCC would be signing, because they started at 7:30. Close to the front again, behind the same people in line. LET ME JUST SAY, I LOVE MUCC SO MUCH, MORE THAN DESPAS. MUCC. Oh my gosh, I love them! I couldn't tell Miya and Satochi apart, because I fail they look similar in real life and... I fail. Bah. Again, pictures + F-list help = y/y? :D I had them sign the poster you got and my Death Note. :DDD Loeki gave Yukke the picture + letter Sam had for him. He was kinda like, "...for me? Oh, okay. :D Thanks!" Christa had them all sign her poster and...her. In various places. One on each arm, and then on her stomach. XD Tatsurou was last and I saw some people ahead of us hugging him, so when I got to him I asked for a hug too. x333333333 I GOT A HUG FROM TATSUROU. YES! He tried to make conversation too, IT WAS SO CUTEEEE! Most of the others were just like, "Hi. :D *sign* Thank you." But he said, "Hi, how are you?" and actually talked and it was cute! His English isn't bad at all! ...I just wish I'd asked him why he wasn't wearing shoes. That thought didn't occur to me though, it was more like, 'OMG TATSUROU!!! ...hug. do so want hug.' Jrockers really are skinny. >_<;; For a guy he seemed realllllly skinny when I hugged him. And he has soft and purty hair. :DDD *continues fangirling*

We went to see if we could see Despas again but they were gone. As we stood there they passed us though and Christa asked one of them if we could take a picture, (using a hand motion so he'd know we wanted a picture) and he was like, "Um. *points to group walking away*" so that was a no go, but he was nice about it~.

SO! Instead of going back in we headed to the anime/Jrock booth with the cool Asian guy. Not my usually "OMG HOT ASIAN GUY" fangirling, he was aljfdlakdjfl rather good looking and cool too. It gives me more reason to fangirl him. That was the second time we were there, so we just talked to him, and Christa asked to take his picture so he posed with a panda. XD I was looking though the CDs and saw a Reterner en Soi CD and tried to show Christa but she wasn't looking, but he saw and said, "You like them?" I haven't heard much of them, but then we got into that concert in the city in 2 weeks. And he said they're REALLLLLLLLY good and how Kyo from Dir en Grey trained the vocalist and that we should go. So we're gonna go. XD He used to be a tour manager or manager of some sorts for bands. Then he gave us free Despas pins too, cause we were ranting about them and MUCC and liked Despas and...stuff. :D (edit: Meera and Sarah got a picture with the hot Asain guy too! XD ...why didn't we think of that? -_-;;;)

We ran into so many people we knew there. XD I don't know why I was surprised. But Mike didn't like the Japanese bands and said stuff about them and I was like, "But I like themmmmmmm! ;_;" XD

Got back inside, found some random seats and saw Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold then. So we really only saw 4 bands out of like, 7? Oh well. I was happy with the Jrock!

Atreyu were rather good. I was pleased. Maybe I should listen to them? XD I don't have much to say about them because... I don't know them that well.

A7X. Not gonna lie, I wasn't excited for them but they blew me away! I really liked their set. It was good! Really good!! Everyone was obviously excited for them. Everyone was more excited for EVERYONE but the JRock. ^^; A7X was good though. I think I need a few of their songs now. I also realized when the best lighting to take pictures was too during their set. XD; They did an encore. Whoot. There was confetti!

It was amusing to watch the floor, because people would jump the barrier and run before Security got them, then there was the insane crowd surfing. I'm glad I wasn't down there. When it was time to break out the cell phones to sway, half the people actually had lighters too. ...Loeki said she smelled pot too, which I wouldn't have doubted. Me, I was high on Jrock. 8D

I had a good time. :) I got to see and meet both MUCC + D'espairsRay. I'm not complaining~.

edit: I'm attemping to read MUCC's blog and see if they say anything about NY/Nassau Coliseum. Using Babel Fish I think they mentioned the stadion a few times, because "ice hockey arena" keeps coming up and Nassau Coliseum is used for the Islanders to play, so~. I can't wait until muccbrog translates... but it could be a while. ;_; If anyone on my F-list though could help me and just give me a general idea of what's being said in a few entries, I'd love you forever. ♥
Here, pictures of the coliseum tell me this entry is about it. // Something about NY. // Tatsu mentioned Zero so I kinda just wanna know what he said. XD; // Here~ // ...I think that's all. :3 Thank you if anyone could just give me an idea of what's being said. Babel Fish is only so helpful. D:

Long post is long and full of many edits, y/y? :D ♥ Comment spam me back naoplz.