witchann2 | [KAT-TUN] ´10ks!´ Report from Kyocera Dome (Reply)

Thousands of red lights, cheering from all gathered Hyphens, a huge „ship“ as the stage and auditorium together, Gold, Real Face, Rescue, Precious One, Kimi no Yume Boku no Yume, Greatest Journey, Peaceful Days... It was shiny, impressive, breathtaking, and also touching, funny and sad...

Attending KAT-TUN no ´10ks!´ live in Ósaka made quite a hole in my budget for this year, but created another unforgettable memory related to this incredible j-pop group, which I will treasure forever.

We didn´t have to deal with any ´drug transaction´ this year, as I´ve managed to purchase the tickets in advance, for which belongs my huge ARIGATOU to Amanda, who runs this website (http://www.jegoods.com/) providing the tickets purchase services. So, this time we got off the Ósaka Subway with the tickets in our pockets and had a lot of fun following the crows of fangirls with the necessary ´10ks!´bags right towards Kyocera Dome. XD

We were there only shortly (2 hours) before the concert was supposed to start and there was basically no queue for the goods (no wonder since there were so many stands selling them I couldn´t even see the end of it). I couldn´t resist to buy the bag, all photo sets, the penlight (hell, that „gun“ was an amazing idea, guys!) and of course Kame´s uchiwa. I would buy even more, but there was a visit in Tower Records shop in our travel plans (which resulted not only with the 10th Anniversary Best Of Album, but also with Tragedy Single and Mi Amor from Jin ^_^), so I couldn´t spend SO much. ^^´

Already waiting in front of Gate 1, I still couldn´t believe I will really be there, see their live again. KAT-TUN are SO FAR AWAY all the time, so it was really hard to accept I´ll be sitting/standing there, watching them live, no matter that I had already attended ´come Here´ in 2014. It was still too amazing.

Naturally, we´ve raised quite an attention, being the only ´white´ fangirls in sight. Only later, after the concert I´ve managed to spot a little group of other international Hyphens, not to mention the one who was flying with the same flight from Ósaka to Dubai on Saturday – we could not help recognizing her since she had THAT bag next to her. XD
While waiting for the beginning, we just kept asking each other: „Are we really here?“
Kyocera Dome is HUGE. I know that Tokyo Dome is bigger, but for us it was the damn biggest stadium we´ve ever been in. I was like DEKAII!! all the time.

And once the first tones of Gold were heard, exactly on time of course, I was lost in the swirling of happiness, urge to cry, laughing, yelling, waving, and clapping. No matter that the stage felt somehow too big for those 3 lovely Japanese guys, they still gave their best to use it.

3-nin did their best and they did it damn well. Obviously, it was damn hard to cover up for other 3 missing voices in some songs, but they did an awesome job, despite all three of them forgot to sing their „new“ parts at least once. They put incredible energy in Rescue and their performances of Will Be All Right (they started together without any music) and of Precious One (Ueda playing the piano while mostly Kame sang) were the most touching and lovely ever.
Their ´solo´ parts were fun – Yuichi´s beatbox was without a flaw and his dancing at The D-Motion great (reminding me somebody quite a bit though), Kame harrassing his dentist Nakamaru and then being all „Mabushii!!“ about his own uchiwa, and Uepi riding around the dome on the motorbike... and we all know who did this crazy shit with motorbike on the lives before... Not to mention the Tengu-demons part, they behaved pretty much ´bakaish´. XD
Well, somehow it seemed to me they included as much of the old and quite treasured concerts´ stuff as was only possible. Once again showing us that KAT-TUN were and will be six, no matter what anyone says.

I tried really hard not to cry (muri desu...), but they were just too... overwhelming... Precious One, Kimi no Yume, Boku no Yume, also their farewell speeches... They were never so... serious and hesitating about what to say, especially Kame. It has been hard on them, but I believe Hyphens gave them back as much energy and they gave to us. I was crying and smiling at the same time, when they appeared for the second encore after the restless yelling of the whole dome for ´encore´.

Sitting there after it ended, waiting for our time to leave the dome was... hard to describe. Now, remembering it, I still feel happy for being able to get there, but (especially after the reports of last live in Tokyo Dome) also damn painful. We had been through a lot with them already and we persevered. We have tons of happy and also sad memories and I would really love to continue creating them with KAT-TUN. I don´t wanna let them go yet.

So... I´ll be waiting, keeping the faith. They learnt me to be able to do that and it´s one of many things I´m grateful for to them, to all the ´letters´. As Kame said, not being for all the members, I don´t think I would get where I´m now. I´m sorry only for not being able to ´meet´ all of them. Yet. ^^´

This is what I was able to remember... I know it´s not much, but my brain was actually not working during the concert, I was too busy with my heart, sumimasen.