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Although we haven’t quite gotten to days two and three of Tokyo, I thought it would be best to update about the live while it’s still fresh in our minds.

Honestly, I’m disgustingly horrible at live reports, so this won’t be much of one.

So, today (well, August 15th), Kat and I headed to HOLIDAY NAGOYA to see Beauty and Beast vol. 6 which was a twoman with Lycaon and Juliette, but also featuring MEZE and my favourite band, R指定.

MEZE was first, and their set was super short. They only played three songs. I had seen them a few weeks ago, and they’re okay. Their costumes are interesting to look at.

Next up, as anticipated, was R指定. Naturally, I was extremely excited because it’s R指定 and I love them. And I adore Mamo, who, might I add, is AWESOME. My adoration of him tripled after seeing them live; hard to believe, I know. Although my attention was focused mostly on Mamo throughout their set, the rest of the boys were great as well. Kaede and Nanahoshi sang along to everything, which was super cute. Ultra Z looks like a huggable teddy bear, and Hirotaka just seems so happy beating away on his drums. I really like their newest look… I wasn’t so sure after seeing photos on the OHP, but with the toned down makeup fit for a live, they looked really great.

I can’t remember all the songs they did, but I know they for sure played 「メンタル≠ヘルプ」 (Mental≠Help) which was just recently released. They also did 「盲目少女」 (Moumoku Shoujo). I was so excited to see them, and they didn’t disappoint. Mamo’s really great live too.At the end, I bought a photoset and a mirror. As expected, I chose the photoset where Mamo looked best, haha.

After R指定, Juliette was up! I have to admit that I’ve never really paid them much attention, but they were so much fun! I haven’t seen Ukiru in Juliette before, only in Teddy, but he’s just so energetic and … well, fun. For lack of a better word. Their music isn’t exactly my style, but I had such a good time watching them that I’d definitely go again.

Last but not least was Lycaon; the other band I went there to see. I was also super excited about them because I really like Rito, as he used to be Ichigo in Jaguar… and god knows how many times we saw them live. They were also completely awesome live. It also helped that the majority of the girls there were there to see them, so everyone really put their all into it.

Now, because it was Lycaon and Juliette’s twoman, both bands wore yukatas. They also had special cheki with the yukata wearing.

Yuuki from Lycaon was really cute, because he had his hair piled on his head. The other members referred to it as an ‘odango’ (dumpling). They also said he looked like a ghost, because his yukata was all white. He said that he was a bit embarrassed to be at the live like that. Rito looked… well, pretty. He’s a strange one because he’s not girly at all, and despite his girly yukata (which was purple with flowers), he’s still really masculine in some way. I don’t know how to explain it. Satoshi’s hair was weird, but his yukata looked nice; maybe his hair was too poofy in the back? Or something? Mio had black makeup in a line across his eyes, which he said was combat-like. The other members ended up agreeing that he looked like a post office box (you know, the mail drops). His makeup was also described as Marilyn Manson, and “american” at one point. Last but not least was Eve, who looked totally adorable. He had on a pearl (fake) necklace with his black and pink yukata.

After Lycaon’s set was done, the shacho came out and got Juliette back on stage. They did a bit of talking, and Lycaon joined them. It’s Oban and summer, so he also brought out a watermelon for them to do the whole blindfold, spin around, and try to smash it thing. After some intense rock, paper, sciossors, Rito was first up to try to hit it.

It took forever to blindfold him, partially because of his hair, and after twenty spins, they put a metal rod in his hands and set him loose! At one point, they had him completely turned around and coming back to hit Mio… but luckily, they didn’t go through with it, and he managed to smack the watermelon on his first try. Satoshi came second in rock, paper, scissors, but they decided that it was more fair for a member of Juliette to have a turn. They were going to do another round of rock, paper, scissors to decide, but all the girls started screaming for Masaumi, so the shacho went with that.

Poor Masaumi. Before he put the blindfold on, he had to move his glasses and set them on the top of his head. They blindfolded him, then for some reason the shacho handed him the metal rod they were using the smash the watermelon. Then, he told him to let go of the rod, and he did, sending it crashing down to the ground. Why? I am not sure. He apparently got a lot more dizzy than Rito, and was stumbling a bit. He first headed towards the drum set, but after many screams of ‘MIGI’ he avoided them. Then he was heading for Rito’s guitar… and had totally passed the watermelon. After much direction, he reached an approrpiate watermelon hitting location… and missed. Twice. And hurt his hand. Luckily, the third time was the charm.

When they took the blindfold off, and when he went to put his sunglasses back on, he realized they were stuck in his hair, which probably wasn’t even that funny, but he had both the shacho and Yumeru trying to pry them from his head.

After the whole watermelon thing was done, both bands stayed on stage for a song, which went on forever and was really fun, because everyone was jumping around, into each other, head banging and so on and so forth. Shouya was jumping into the audience, and Mio was spitting his water all over everyone. Kat and I got pretty wet thanks to him. It was delightful.

At the very end it was finally time to celebrate Ukiru’s birthday!! They brought out a cake, decorated with a few candles for him. As the shacho tried to light it, Yumeru totally blew out all the candles with his fan (by accident), causing the shacho to have to start again. We all sang happy birthday to Ukiru and he blew out his candles… shortly after, he also got the cake in his face. He was a great sport about it though, and they wouldn’t let him hold the mic until he was properly cleaned up. The poor boy couldn’t open his eyes for a while, due to all the icing though.

For the finale, each member said a few words of thanks and was asked (by the shacho) how the live was. Then we all joined hands, and jumped. Like you do.

So all in all, the live was really fun. The bands were great, and I was SO happy to FINALLY see R指定 (read: Mamo) live. I also never realized how much I liked Lycaon until tonight. I mean, I’ve been a fan since they started especially because of Rito, but after tonight I like them so much more.

One other random note, is the girl who had the bucket. Wtf.
She just brought a bucket to the live. They didn’t do anything with it.
It was just a bucket. Sitting on the floor.
At one point it was on her head, but not for the actual concert. e_e

We still don’t know the story behind the bucket, and it was a bit weird.