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VIXX LR, who entered in chic black clothing, first gracefully sang “Remember”, which shone with Leo’s smoky vocals and Ravi’s gentle rap. It was the first collaboration live they did in Japan as a unit, so the two were feeling nervous. They couldn’t match the timing for their opening greeting and showed a rare scene by doing it over and over, and when Leo messed up speaking Japanese, he got embarrassed and showed the top of his head causing the audience to scream, “Cute-!” After introducing themselves to fans seeing VIXX LR for the first time, they performed Leo’s new song “A Difficult Thing” that was made public the first time during their solo tour. The also made a comment that will make fans happy saying, “It’s a song that hasn’t been recorded, but we may be able to bring it to you before long.” During the talk corner, Leo and Ravi prepared cards introducing each other in order to let people who weren’t VIXX fans know about them. Leo gave Ravi the nickname “15 Second Shower”, told Ravi to count, said, “I will show you,” and showed a shower scene that ended completely in 15 seconds. Ravi protested, “Recently I take 10 or 15 minutes,” and Leo betrayed him to the fans saying, “But he sometimes has body wash left on his neck.” In response to the comment, “Ravi’s role = Rapper, disturbing Leo,” Ravi made the audience laugh replying, “I do disturb him, but isn’t the forerunner (for that) Hyuk? Even though he’s the maknae, he’s a giant. He’s strong, so he has total control over his hyungs. If you’re interested, please look it up.”

On the other hand, Leo, who was given the nickname “Hamster” by Ravi, completely ignored that nickname. Ravi officially announced, “The one that proposed hamster was N. It’s because he has a nonchalant cuteness.” Furthermore, when he also ignored the statement that “Leo’s role = aegyo”, Ravi vehemently said, “It’s his greatest skill!” Leo said, “If Ravi does it, I’ll do it too,” and (Ravi) showed how to do it, but he cheated with an aegyo-less “buing-buing”. Also, Leo complained about Ravi as a roommate in front of the fans saying, “I can’t sleep because of you. You do stuff like rapping and composing in the room, and you leave lights on, so how am I supposed to sleep?”

They performed not only VIXX LR’s songs, they did solo songs. Leo covered Nakashima Mika’s “桜色舞うころ (Sakurairo Mayou Koro)”, and Ravi performed “GHOST”, which could be called his representative song. They also did a self-cover of VIXX’s dance song “GR8U” with a hip hop version. They jumped off the stage and sang in the audience, greatly exciting the fans. Leo locked eyes with a lucky fan, and the two of them who had a fun time intermingling with the fans had a hi-touch on the stage at the end.  Furthermore, they transformed VIXX’s representative song “ERROR” into an acoustic arrangement with piano as the focus. The two of them sat on chairs with their backs together and passionately sang the dramatic song. The cherry on top was VIXX LR’s debut song “Beautiful Liar”. Leo was at the piano, and Ravi was encircled by dancers holding masks. Their melancholy voices blended together beautifully. These two who are in charge of writing lyrics, composing, and producing in VIXX, succeeded as a unit. As expected of them, in just a short time, they showed a performance that left a deep impression of their musicianship. In addition, VIXX, whose 1st Japanese album Depend on Me is off to a good start, will be holding a solo Japanese concert tour in 4 cities in the country, starting with March 24 in Osaka Orix Theater and ending May 1st at Pacifico Yokohama.