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Kyoto Day 2!

I didn't go to Day 1, but being about a meter from the front rail made up for it! 😄

I was right in front of Kaoru, and I had pretty much a clear view of his whole outfit, I only really saw the other members when the came over to shimote.

It was an absolute dream seeing Kaoru play his guitar from close distance, especially his guitar solos. Uroko solo...omg 🫠

And having him come right up close to watch us headbanging 🫠 (I have never been this close to him at a live, Im new to this, haha)

He didn't seem to be growing his mustache back yet, but he still looked amazing. I loved the way he was tucking his little strands of hair behind his ears while playing 🥹

Kyo came over during Celebrate and hung off the equipment over the crowd, and he shoved his mic right in front of where I was! Again, I have never been this close to Kyo. Of course all of us in that area screamed.

There are no barriers in KBS so the crushing in the crowd was intense. Everyone was getting knocked about so much!! And the sweating, omg!😂 Although shimote was very synchronized as always.

I'm sure there have been other reports too, but this live ended kind of unusually. There was an avalanche of people falling to catch Kyo's towel, due to the intense crushing. Kyo stood and tried to engage for a few mins with the people who had fallen, but Kaoru just left the stage abruptly without throwing anything! 😭 I was pretty shocked, but after having thought about it, Im pretty sure he must have left the stage in order to avoid rilling up the crowd any more, just in case anyone was injured. He later posted an Insta story asking if everyone was ok 🥹 This is just him all over 🥹 Toshiya did grab a few of Kaoru's pics with a cheeky smile and threw them instead though, haha.

Im imagining Kaoru having a group meeting with the other members afterwards to discuss what happened 🤭

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I didn't attend day 1 in Osaka, so this was my first live since Kyoto last month.

This one started great though, I met up with a friend in a fancy sake bar for pre-show drinks nearby the venue, she hadn't been to see Dir for 12 years! So I was really excited for her to see them again, and also very much enjoyed gossiping over sake for two hours before the show!

We arrived at the venue (not drunk, I swear!) with about 10mins to spare before the live was due to start, so I quickly got my Osaka stamp, and parted ways with my friend, as she was 3rd floor, and I was 1st floor/ground floor.

Mid crowd, very shimote, so I was very happy with my seat this time. Great view of the whole stage, but also very close to Kaoru (especially when he came down the wings of the stage, which he did often, he was only a few meters away 😍). He came down into the wings numerous times to play guitar solos. My particular fave was him playing the solo in raison detre on his pink ganesa, right down at the end of the shimote wing.

During Sustain, Kyo followed Kaoru down the wing, stood next to him, and rested his arm on Kaoru's shoulder for a few seconds.

Speaking of Kaoru (as if I wasn't anyway😆), he was wearing his brown tunic type dress with black cape, but he took his cape off for the encore.

I noticed Toshiya was wearing his tudor-esque dress and mini shorts, because I remember seeing him with his bass between his legs coverng his shorts, with his skirt pushed all the way behind. I could just see his bare thighs coming out from his bass, and it totally looked like he had no shorts on 😆🤭

Kyo was in his usually set up, but with his hair pieces shaped into ears, which was strangely cute, haha.

The lighting in this show was gorgeous, again. Especially during Kaoru's guitar solos with spotlight on him. I also loved seeing the shadow of Kaoru's side profile cast really big on the wall whenever he was in the wing section, with the shadow of Kyo dancing behind him.

Kaoru was engaging with the audience a lot as usual. I caught him looking over in my direction a few times. While he was throwing pics at the end, he tried to throw one up to the second floor, and then actually stood for a min and directed the people on the 2nd floor as to where it had landed.

After he had finished throwing all the pics, he spread his towel out on the floor, and emptied his water bottle all over it. Then he tied it in a knot and threw it. This was so great to watch 😌

Before he left the stage, Kaoru picked up his guitar once more, pointed it out to the audience, and fired shots into shimote with it a few times (with a cheeky smile). I looooved this so much!😍