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Remember what I said for Chihara Minori’s previous concert? Minorin’s previous birthday live was a great concert, as everything was perfect. i melody, however, was merely an okay one.

It wasn’t Minorin’s fault - she was magnificent that night. The choice of music was a nice mix-up of her personal offerings, old and new, as well as some anime tunes to add variety. Special mention to her covering “卒業” (Sotsugyou/Graduation) by Ozaki Yutaka, a hit song from the 80’s, which demonstrated a side of her vocals that we’ve never heard from her in any of her current works before. Her acoustic section was also fantastic, as she play tunes on her new guitar, named Rain, and performed yet another song she had composed and written herself during her roadside performance days, as well as getting everyone to sing along with a short new song she composed just for this live. The live band that they assembled for Minorin were also great musicans. Even the sound engineers did a splendid job of ensuring that the volumes for each instrument is tuned at the right levels.

So what went wrong? A bit on the management side, a bit on the venue, and as much as it pains me to say it, mostly from the crowd.

While the venue was rated for 400 people, it was simply an absurd idea to actually try to fit 400 people in there, especially since they took out some space which they reserved for the VIPs (friends and relatives). Everyone in the arena were rubbing shoulders and trying to not step on each other’s toes. Add in a small bunch of crazy fans that are now showing way too much enthusiasm without concern of others as well as the lack of space - jumping up and down to the beats and waving 5 different colours of glowsticks depending on the song - it was a real mood breaker. There were two instances where brawls nearly started next to me as crazy fans jumped into the people in front of him which led to some pushing and shoving, and I had to withheld MY own urge to punch one guy in the face as he jumped into me several times without apologising. Good thing is this is Japan, because I can’t see how anyone will be able to get away with this kind of behaviour anywhere else. The crazy Minorin fans also picked up a bad habit from the Tamura Yukari fans - yelling “Minorin! Minorin!” at the top of their lungs during the chorus of several songs, drowning out the vocals. And finally, when the crowd left the floor was covered with rubbish - used glowsticks and promo flyers were littered everywhere. I pray this doesn’t give Minorin a bad reputation - because Yukarin once received a warning due to the misbehaviour of her fans at a certain venue which nearly got her blacklisted from major concert hall venues in Tokyo - though in Yukarin’s case the fans quickly step back in line when words of that got out and now everything is okay again.

With how much love and care Minorin shows to her supporters, I hope that the fans can also learn to be a bit more considerate to others themselves. Let’s hope things will improve come the concert tour next year.

みのりんのファン達、みのりんを困せないように、マナーを守って、一緒にコンサートを楽しみましょ。

This entry was posted by houkoholic on Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 at 06:36 and is filed under イベント, 茅原実里. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.