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Ahh ok so first of all on this day I was going with my friend instead of alone and we had general standing tickets. My friend’s bus was two hours late and they arrived at the venue like past the doors opening time so 😭 we got in almost 200 numbers behind but I feel like at that point it wouldn’t have even mattered because everyone was going in randomly and the general area was so full and crowded at the end. We got a pretty shit spot tbh. Kamite side but very much on the SIDE and we were a bit unlucky with what kind of people were in front of and next to us. There were a lot of moments where I simply just couldn’t see anything because even with my 9cm platforms I am short - and there were multiple men taller than me in front of me. The one directly in front was especially pissing me off because he was not doing hand-gestures, moshing, clapping, cheering/singing or moving AT ALL. Why are you here and blocking my view for nothing oh my god… (sorry if I sound insensitive but I am very annoyed!).

This day’s setlist was a little different. I also had more time to focus on the new songs and what I can say is that I at least definitely really like the first one. I’m not sure what to compare it to tho or how to describe it. Not too slow. Ranunculus was switched to keibetsu to hajimari which I don’t mind at all because just like ranunculus, it’s one of my absolute favourites! Also this day I was in a worse headspace and already kind of tweaking out during the beginning so I feel like ranunculus might’ve done some major emotional damage to me. I was really really crying lots and my head was elsewhere but ningen sort of snapped me out of it. It’s lots of fun live because there’s so much singing along and participation.

Ah so as for costumes, Kyo’s base was the the same as before, but I think red (?) haori and no braids or knots in the hair. Die was wearing the all-white getup (although not THE one with the extra wide V cut). Shinya was wearing the white top with the frills on the shoulders. At first I thought Totchi was wearing the last day’s encore outfit but he was actually wearing a priest’s shirt!!!? Crazy work. I couldn’t really see what Kaoru was wearing properly since he was again the furthest and in the shadows 😔

TDFF was much fun again and I think during it I caught a moment when it was bass solo time Toshiya got closer to the edge next to Kaoru, Kaoru let go of his guitar and and exaggeratedly pointed at Toshiya while nodding and looking proud 🥺 Die played facing Shinya for a bit also.

Encore songs were changed quite a bit and honestly I was dissapointed at not getting to hear chainsaw again but at least they kept the most important song… I feel sorry for my friend for not getting chainsaw tho!! Anyways, encore felt like it went by too fast. I wasn’t ready to let go at all.

Before the last highlights I’ll talk about the screen visuals a bit, since I forgot to last time. I’m not going to comment on the matter further now, but there was a lot of AI use. Literally the whole tour intro was like some AI frogs idk what was up with that…. But there was also a lot of cgi and filmed footage etc. What I specifically noticed is that there was unusually lots of satanic, baphomet and pentagram imagery - like on multiple songs. And imagery clearly depicting hell and hellfire. I personally enjoyed that quite a lot. Also, I do not want to misspeak on accident since I feel like there’s people here who know about the matter a lot more than me, but I am pretty pretty sure that the visuals during fukai were refrencing the attacks on Gaza and Palestine situation. There was a bunch of war footage and at one point a visual of map where places and their names appeared but as the biggest and clearest one in the middle appeared Palestine. I thought this would be important to mention.

For enco changes, Kaoru changed into a KMFDM tshirt (his arms yay 😍 not sure if he changed pants tho). Shinya changed into the same as the day before, Die went unchanged, Toshiya changed into that one cheetah print blouse. Kyo had changed red haori into white and he actually fully took it off during hageshisa!!

I was so shocked… I was already going feral during hageshisa because of how much I love it and wanted to put 150% of my energy into it because it was my last chance by what I currently know and it’s what Kyo would’ve wanted. I was LITERALLY screaming and crying hah. I don’t know how jp fans do those fancalls because my voice kept breaking or just sounding pathetic while calling for Kyo.

At the end…I still kept crying lmfao, didnt catch anything but I was so close again! With Die’s towel! The person almost right behind my friend got it 🥲 Oh right and by this point Toshiya’s shirt was fully open and when he left the stage it was on him pretty much only by the other arm…so…yeah won’t comment further…

So, I had VIP for this day so I was moderately close to the stage and had a moderate view. I was at kamite and could’ve chosen a very good forward facing Die-view, but I made the choice that I did want to see Kyo more so to look at Die I kinda had to glance around this taller guy and not be able to see anyone else in the meanwhile. I did get good glances and also had a good view of Shinya but I was mainly focused on Kyo.

Kyo was wearing probably the same outfit as lunafes? But different hair (black thin braids with a little tied loop). Similar makeup too, some of it was UV makeup! Die was wearing black-red longsleeve with I think wide black pants + cross choker. Shinya was I’m pretty sure wearing the white top thingy with the silver chain/jewlery things hanging on the front. Kaoru was wearing black and red set I think same from lunafes, it had bootcut pants. Toshiya also same as lunafes but he took off his jacket and then his tie and unbuttoned about halfway down.

Die was definitely the most active from the beginning and was coming to the edge a lot and hyping up the dai-torikos gathered around him. He was sometimes also doing that kind of ominous blue-contact stare thing and stared right in my eyes (?? or maybe somewhere else?) like that for multiple seconds while just standing still. It was bizarre I just stared back as hard as I could and smiled… I also caught a famous blep :p in action.

This time Shinya’s hair actually looked like it didn’t quite stay as it had been styled 🤔 (I mean almost but I can spot hair stuff very easily, small nitpicky things).

I couldn’t see Kao or Totchi very well until encore or until during TDFF Kao came to the kamite side - he was expressive, pointing his guitar at us and was playing next to Die for a while, smiling at eachother. So sweet…he also played a little facing Shinya.

Kyo…well…I’m very mentally unwell and I could say many things. He was dancing quite a bit and did that creepy-cute tooth smile a couple times. It was so so so cute!!! His voice was clear and he was singing a fair amount of the clean vocals too. Maybe not as much as I would ideally prefer during ranunculus but I know from experience that technique switching is hard and annoying! Oh…right…ranunculus…I was CRYIINNGG crying cying during it. I wonder if I was the only one. It’s a very meaningful song to me. Also at some point, pretty towards the end I am quite sure he looked me in the eyes for a few seconds because the the way between us was clear. I’ll never know 100% because of his contacts but. Let me have this moment ok…

During encore I could see Toshiya a bit better but still not much… He was mostly keeping to his designated spot. For encore he had changed into a black blouse and pearl necklace. Die changed into his black plain tanktop, Shinya into the a knot only shirt with sleeves cut off, Kyo and Kao unchanged.

Btw the setlist was really amazing. I didn’t care that much for some of the first songs and I couldn’t focus on the new songs properly this first time but the rest was too good. Many faves and two songs that have been my ultimate wishes to hear live (ranunculus and hageshisa). Oh BOY was hageshisa great. Also ningen was SO MUCH FUNN as a participant, so was chainsaw ❤️❤️.

In the end, I didn’t catch anything but Shinya’s stick actually hit me in the head 🤣 but it fell on the ground and a few people got down to fight over it…pretty sure he was trying to throw it to the girl right behind me who was screaming SHINYAAA SHINYAA SHINYAAA at any moment made possible. I am happy to let her have it! I got splashed with Die’s water, yay! He also threw his towel veeery far, baseball-style. Kaoru somehow squeezed the water from his bottle also very very far. Yes I am pissed off that I didnt get anything since I was so close but…what can you do…