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Yeah, I’m almost done. Here’s the set list first. It’s a long one.

• ～Opening～
• 01　Rinbu-revolution / Okui Masami, Mizuki Nana
• ～MC～
• 02　-w- / Okui Masami
• 03　Sora ni kakeru hashi / Okui Masami
• 04　Romantic summer / Momoi Halko
• 05　WONDER MOMO-i / Momoi Halko
• 06　Junpaku Sanctuary / Chihara Minori
• 07　Kimi ga Kureta Ano Hi / Chihara Minori
• 08　Koi no Dice Oshiete / Cy-Rim rev.
• 09　Seishoujou Ryouiki / Takarano Arika, Mizuki Nana
• ～MC～
• 10　Tenohira / Takahashi Naozumi
• 11　Kimi ni Aete Yokatta / Takahashi Naozumi
• 12　Yell！ / Kuribayashi Minami
• 13　Tsubasa wa Pleasure Line / Kuribayashi Minami
• 14　Musouka / Suara
• 15　Kimigatame / Suara
• 16　Float～Sora no Kanata e～/ Oumi Tomoe
• 17　Rock River e / Oumi Tomoe
• 18　Ushiroyubisasaregumi / Kuribayashi Minami, Momoi Halko
• ～MC～
• 19　Systematic Fantasy / m.o.v.e
• 20　Gamble Rumble / m.o.v.e
• 21　Let’s Go! Onmyouji / Yabeno Hikomaru (Denchu) & Kotohime (MOMOEIKA) with Bouzu Dancers
• 22　Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger / PSYCHIC LOVER
• 23　XTC / PSYCHIC LOVER
• 24　Anata ga ita Mori / Jyukai
• 25　Sakasete wa Ikenai Hana / Jyukai
• 26　Yuukyou Seishunka / ALI PROJECT
• 27　Ankoku Tengoku / ALI PROJECT
• 28　Hizamazuite Ashi o Oname / ALI PROJECT
• 29　Tamashii no Refrain, Zankoku na Tenshi no These / Takahashi Youko
• 30　Bouken Desho Desho? / Hirano Aya
• 31　Break Out / JAM Project
• 32　VICTORY / JAM Project
• 33　SKILL / JAM Project
• 34　Justice to Believe / Mizuki Nana
• 35　SECRET AMBITION / Mizuki Nana
• ～MC～
• 36　Heart-shaped chant / Mizuki Nana
• 37　Generation-A
• ～Encore～
• EN-1　OUTRIDE
• EN-2　Generation-A / All artists and band members

sent: This has got to be the best concert I’ve been to ever.

houkoholic: usually you don’t see us here at seiyuu3 fanboying much, but allow me to do it just this once – this concert is f-ing beyond awesome, and easily the best Animelo thus far.

For me personally, the “zomg that is freaking AWESOME!!!!” highlights were:

• Makkun and Nana-chan kicks off the concert with a “Rinbu – Revolution” duet
• Minorin’s flawless performance of “Kimi ga Kureta Anohi”
• Ali Project and Nana-chan, in full matching black and white goth costume, singing Rozen Maiden Traumend’s “Seishoujo Ryouiki”
• Suara’s beyond CD quality performance of the two Utawarerumo songs
• Jyukai’s also beyond CD quality performance of the Fate/Stay Night ending theme
• Super-special-secret guest – Takahashi Yoko’s EVA medley!
• JAM Project’s “Skill” never fails to get everyone on our feet and yell till we all lose our voice
• Nana-chan sang “Heart-shaped Chant” and floored the entire audience

sent: Well that pretty much covers it. XD

Rather than repeating all that, I’ll only add that m.o.v.e. were surprisingly awesome and kicking with “Gamble Rumble” and I crave to hear any of the Fourth Stage songs live.

Check out the freaking awesome seats we got. That, my friends, is the stage entrance/exit staircase. That’s right we had front row seats next to the entrance/exit and you betcha we were in shouting distance of all the artists entering and exiting the stage. I can tell you we got more than our fair share of waves from Minorin, Nana-chan, Makkun, Kuribayashi Minami and many others.

houkoholic: We got waves from everyone when we called their name as they exit, and that is not a lie. >:) I called out to Fukuyama and Endo from JAM Project as they entered stage and went crazy with calls, they loved our enthusiasm and kept coming back to wave at us even during their performance.

sent: Yayz Nana-chan, Minorin, JAM Project Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ イエイ！！ Freaking awesome.

We had full view on all the backstage antics including m.o.v.e’s motsu getting down with the dancers when Kuribayashi Minami and Momoi Haruko were singing a moe song on stage. XD

Anyway, full report to come later once the set list is in order. We’ll give you guys a song by song breakdown.

Must. buy. DVD.

Official page is now up.

The date is 7th July, again in Budoukan.

Artists list is not finalised yet but the usual suspects like Makkun, JAM Project, Nana-chan, Kuribayashi Minami and Takahashi Naozomi will all be back.  Halko (Momoi Haruko) is going to make her first Animelo appearance this year.

News concerning the the DVD release of Animelo Summer 2006 Outride has been posted on the official webpage.  For such a special concert which involves many artists belonging to many different record labels, one can imagine the nightmare of negotiating the rights to release the DVD of such a potentially hot selling item.  So what do they do – they cut the concert into two halves and have each record company release one half, brilliant!  Now everyone is happy.

So here’s the deal – King Records will release “Outride I”, presumably the first half of the concert, while Victor Entertainment will release “Outride II”, presumably the second half of the concert, each disk will cost 4800yen ex tax, so really the whole set will set you for around 11,000yen.

My only concern is whether they can keep the video production quality consistant across the two different release.  I would think that they have the same team do the full video production, and that the act of releasing them under the different labels is just a means to fairly distribute the returns between the record labels.  Personally I hope the people at King Records will handle the video production, since their last two seiyuu concert release – Yukarin’s Cutie Cutie Concert and Nana-chan’s Livedom – were of high video quality.  It would be injustice to have a bad video production crew to work on such a historic event.  *looks at I’ve Budokan DVD set*

Animelo Summer Live is establishing itself to be the premiere anime event of the summer. With a star-studded line up of artists this has to be one of the largest collaborative efforts the industry puts together to make this event possible. Kudos has to go to 奥井雅美 Okui Masami who, I believe, is the real driving force behind the Animelo Summer event. Last year concert was a success claiming over 7500 in attendance. This year at 日本武道館 Nippon Budokan, reportedly 10,000 anime fans turned up to witness the spectacle and spectacular it was.

Waiting around in line is never really fun so here is a shot for the sake of atmosphere and let’s get to the main event.

The stage setup was impressive. Jammed into the north end of Budokan, an array of guitars, keyboards and no less than 4 drum sets littered the stage in a setup that was designed to maximise the amount of seating available as possible. We were up on the 2nd tier on the South West side with a fairly clear view of the centre stage. But damn, it would have been great to have arena tickets again.

The night kicked off at 17:00 with a dazzling opening light show as the artists entered the stage in spectacular pro-wrestling-style. The concert that followed would be filled with old favourites and new releases in what was to be a huge 39 song set list.

奥井雅美 and 栗林みな実 Kuribayashi Minami, started off in duet with 「Mask」 the 爆れつハンター Sorcerer Hunter ending theme. Kuribayashi Minami then continued on with her set of 「Rumbling Hearts」　（君が望む永遠 Game OP） and 「Crystal Energy」 from 舞-乙HiME. 石田耀子 Ishida Yoko followed with 「幸せの色」 （あぁっ女神さまっ それぞれの翼 OP） and 「紅の静寂」 the 2nd 灼眼のシャナ ending theme.

Girly screaming then erupted around the stadium as 高橋直純 Takahashi Naozumi made his entrance and performed his set of 「電光石火の恋」 from 遙かなる時空の中で３, a new release 「無敵なsmile」 the 無敵看板娘ED and 「OK!」. I have to say despite being obviously biased to the female sector of the vocal arts, TakaNao is undoubtly a good performer.

Up next was the first of only two medleys of the night. Performed by 米倉千尋 Yonekura Chihiro, Ishida Yoko, Kurabayashi Minami and 松本梨香 Matsumoto Rica, it was a nostalgic collection of 嵐の中で輝いて (機動戦士ガンダム第08MS小隊), 乙女のポリシー (美少女戦士セーラムーンＲ）, Shining☆Days (舞-HiME) and ポケモンマスター (ポケモン).

Special guests 平野綾 Hirano Aya, 茅原実里 Chihara Minori and 後藤邑子 Goto Yuko then burst on to stage dancing furiously to ハレ晴レユカイ Hare Hare Yukai. There was much cheering and excitement but I have to say the choreography was a little too energetic.

KENN with The NaB’s then followed with 「Wake Up Your Heart」 （遊戯王デュエルモンスターズGX） and savage genius with 「Forever…」 （エレメンタルジェレイドＯＰ） and 「祈りの詩」 （Simoun ＥＤ）.　嘉陽愛子 Kayo Aiko was next with 「愛してね♥もっと」 （天上天下ＥＤ and one of my favourites） and 「瞳の中の迷宮」 （ヤミと帽子と本の旅人ＯＰ）. Yonekura Chisa then performed 「WILL」 （仙界伝封神演義ＯＰ） and her new offering 「青空とキミへ」.

The second medley headed up by 影山ヒロノブ Kageyama Hironobu with 福山芳樹 Fukuyama Yoshiki, きただにひろし Kitadani Hiroshi and 遠藤正明 Endo Masaaki. 「CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA」 (Dragon Ball Z), 「PLANET DANCE」 (Macross 7), 「We Are!」 （One Piece） and 「勇者王ガオガイガー」 (you guessed it, Gaogaigar) and 「SOLDIER DREAM」 (Saint Seiya).

Kageyama then introduced for the first time live, Okui Masami and Yonekura Chihiro unit, r.o.r/s as they performed 「Candy Lie」. Okui Masami continued with her set, 「SECOND IMPACT」, 「WILD SPICE」 (無敵看板娘OP) and 「zero-G-」 from RAY THE ANIMATION. It was great to see Okui Masami perform. She looked good and sang brilliantly. Definitely a high point of the night.

三枝夕夏 in db, U-ka saegusa in db, followed with 「君と約束した優しいあの場所まで」 (名探偵コナン） and 「Everybody Jump」 (格闘美神　武龍). 愛内里菜 Aiuchi Rina joined her for their duet of 「100もの扉」 （名探偵コナン）. Aiuchi Rina then rounded of her set with 「GLORIOUS」 (Another Century’s Episode 2) and 「MIRACLE」 (メルヘヴン) before ALI PROJECT made their dramatic entrance. ALI PROJECT started off with 「聖少女領域」 (Rozen Maiden Traumend) and finished with their Oricon Top 10 hit 「亡國覚醒カタルシス」 (.hack//Roots) making a similarly spectacular exit.

JAM Project then came blasting on to stage with 「GONG」 (第3次スーパーロボット大戦α) followed by 「牙狼~SAVIOR IN THE DARK」 (牙狼） and 「SKILL」 (第2次スーパーロボット大戦α).

石川智晶 Ishikawa Chiaki then took the stage with 「美しければそれでいい」 （シムーンＯＰ）. And then in another highlight of the night, Chiaki performed, one of my favourites of See-Saw, 「あんなに一緒だったのに」 from 機動戦士Gundam Seed.

Finally, with the longest entrance of the night, the artist no doubt most of the audience tonight had come to see, with the loudest of cheers from the crowd, 水樹奈々 Mizuki Nana arrived. She swung straight into 「Super Generation」 and followed with 「Innocent Starter」 (魔法少女リリカルなのは）. The Basilisk ending 「ヒメムラサキ」 was next and the night would not be complete without 「ETERNAL BLAZE」 (魔法少女リリカルなのはA’s). Nana’s performance was flawless and there’s little doubt why she gets top billing.

As tradition now, the last song of the night is the Animelo theme song. And this year, it is 「OUTRIDE」. All the artists gathered on the stage for finale of the night. Everyone is encouraged to sing as the lyrics are displayed on the big screen. With much cheering and whooping and plenty of emotion in the room (Hirano Aya was moved to tears), the concert ended. Leaving us with the teaser, “See you again on DVD”, it was a good night to be an anime fan.

More images at Mizuki Nana’s blog and Chihara Minori’s blog and of course the official site.

續上年初次舉行而大獲好評, 今年再一次由奧井雅美的帶領下集合了一群歌唱實力高超的動畫歌手和聲優歌手來舉行的第二次Animelo Summer 2006 -Outride- 終於於上星期六在日本武道館留下了歷史性的一頁. 在這一天, 一萬名的觀眾欣賞了這個長達四小時一共演釋了四十首歌的演唱會.

雖然說我個人最在意的當然是奈奈, 但不代表我不喜歡其他的歌手. 有出席去年的Animelo的我知道有JAM Project出場就已經是一個保證, 其次還有栗林みな実和石田燿子, 甚至雖然我對男聲優沒太大興趣但又無可否認是相當出色的聲優歌手高橋直純等的演出者在同一個演唱會中出現, 這個演唱會簡直可以說是超值. 加上今年還有在最後才發表的特別家賓 – 平野綾, 茅原実里, 後藤邑子所組成的S.O.S.團, 未看也知道熱鬧非常 – 而我的期望也沒有落空.

今年最滿意的改變首先要選栗林みな実的選曲. 去年因為選了的歌比較小眾, 很多人聽著都燃燒不起來令氣氛大打折扣. 但今年終於都選了首本名曲”Rumbling Hearts”和舞乙:HiMe的兩首OP這些熱門曲, 實在是很明智的選擇.

其次, 奈奈今年也被看重, 再一次被編排到最後才演出, 而且還是唯一一位表演多達四首歌的出演者. 一共唱了”Super Generation”, “innocent starter”, “ヒメムラサキ”和”Eternal Blaze”的奈奈不負眾望最後把氣氛推上最高潮, 足夠證明奈奈的人氣和實力.

最後, 最具話題性的S.O.S.團當然也是仍合眾fans的期望表演了”ハレ晴レユカイ”和其全程的舞步. 對S.O.S團這個表演環節唯一有不滿的是全程舞步動作過於花巧和大, 有幾個地方和歌不太合得來. 還有可能動作太大的關係, S.O.S.團的表演不是現場唱而是播碟的, 不過看在她們最後才趕緊地被邀請和據她們自己說根本連一起採排的時間都沒有的份上就原諒她們吧. 反正也真的看得很開心. (笑)

最後, 奈奈, 茅原実里和後藤邑子都有在她們的個人blog上談這個演唱會.

水樹奈奈的blog 奈奈的衣裝很美 *o*

茅原実里的blog 有說到她自己和平野綾都哭了 (平野綾哭我有看到) [小聲: 最近覺得茅原実里也很萌 (逃)]

後藤邑子的blog 寫的都是比較輕鬆有趣的感想 (被人懷疑會跳不動 XD)