I woke up and looked outside the window and thought to myself, "Un, today will be a great day! Initial'L yeah!!!!!!!!" Though so broke so I had instant ramen for breakfast lol! I was talking with Riya online and she mentioned she's going to Mejibray's instore at 3 PM. I was supposed to met up someone to buy Mejibray chekis from them that day too and so I asked her to meet up at the instore... and then I was thinking.. I'll just go to the instore place but not join the instore ok?.... OK I FAILED. I was like f*** it, I'm going to attend the instore as well because I do want my mirror signed and I'm going to be right there anyways... So might as well and I'll just swipe my card to buy the singles... And that was exactly what I did...I didn't take any pictures of the instore ticket I got and much things because it was a sudden add on instore but now I don't have much pictures to post about the instore.
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[They did not take a instore photo and I just grabbed photos of their look from their official accounts].
【Mejibray『羽花』Instore @ little HEARTS.新宿店】
日付：2016年11月6日(日)
時間：OPEN 14:45/START 15:00
内容：トーク&握手&私物サイン会
So I arrived at the instore around 30~20 minutes before it starts and I bought my copies on the spot. I assumed by now the talk tickets would be all gone already but somehow I got one too and it's #48... anyways, so happy! When I got in, I was at the back, second standing row. I got an ok view of pretty much all members. There were sitting in this order:
Meto Mia Tzk Koichi
When Koichi first walked out, I was thinking *WTF KOICHI YOUR HAIR IS SO WEIRD....* and then after a while I started thinking *IT'S SO FUCKING WEIRD STILL .... BUT I LOVE IT BECAUSE IT'S SO CUTE LIKE A GIRAFFE HEAD + BIG GLASSES*
At the beginning of the instore they had technical problems with the mic. They've spent a few minutes trying to get Meto's mic to work but failed and so for the meantime while the MC was trying to fix the mic, she swapped hers with Meto. But Koichi got impatient with her not being able to fix it so he hopped in to fix it instead. Haha! That moment, GAWD... I FELT KOICHI IS USEFUL/SMART INSTEAD OF JUST A WALKING FASHION GUY <3 I don't even know if he knows what he's doing but he's got the mic fixed alright!!! And then the background music was too loud/covering their voices, Koichi told the MC to lower the background music but the MC prob didn't hear him/ignored him and so Koichi went ahead and turned down the music volume himself. LMAO, oh Koichi. I suddenly felt Koichi was even more attractive like that <3
I could not understand nor remember about 90% of the things they said at the talk though I only remember one question was if they believe in Santa Claus. Koichi started off with talking some nonsense that was kind of not on main topic and then he replied with yes he believes in Santa. I forgot what the other members' replies were but Meto's should be funny. All Meto's replies were funny haha! He used a phone app to "talk" for him. He would type up the words and uses the voice phone app to play his typed reply.
Mia was so sick today. He wore a mask and literally only had his brows filled in probably. He looked like he was about to faint or crash any time soon....... during some of the questions, he was too weak to even reply.
After the talk, it was time for the signing event.
- Koichi:I swear, it took me FOREVER to decide on a spot to have him sign my mirror... and UGH. Seriously Koichi. I'll never forget alright. So what happened was..... I circled to Koichi that I wanted him to sign the ENTIRE space on my mirror..... But I think I was too nervous and told him in English, "The whole thing" WELL DUH KOICHI COULDN'T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH....probably but I circled it though.... So he could have at least got what I was trying to show him!!!! I told him I love his glasses and he said thanks and started singing the mirror.... he signed the top left........................ halfway done already and I was like, "AHHH.... NOOO.........." and I tried to circle the whole thing....... and I think I panicked a bit... he saw me panicking and was like holding out his hand in the reassuring posture and said something like, "ah! ok, wait wait" and he draw a big ass far awkward potato looking second part of his sign on the right side. It's prob the biggest one I've ever seen but it was to make up for the fucked-up sign. LOL KOICHI... WHY DO I NEVER A SATISFYING SIGN FROM YOU!??? But I still like him lots. But I just need to complain.
- Tsuzuku:I had him sign an old cheki of his... prob from 2013 or 2014... but I have no idea... and he chuckled/laughed and said, "Haha, when was this even from!?" in Japanese and I laughed and was like, "I don't know either." he couldn't hear me and I had to repeat myself and I am not sure if he understood me or not.. uh whatever. LOL. During the handshake.. omg... Tzk's eyes were so gentle looking and his handshake was so gentle <3 I think my heart melted and fell in love with him that moment because of how a gentle man he seems like.
- Mia:I told him to get well soon. Not sure if he understood me nor heard me (;___;)
- Meto:I forgot what I said to him. I think I literally just told him, "Thank you!" because I didn't want to bother with saying anything stupid haha.
After the signing, I decided to get 5 chekis to try to get a Koichi.... I got NO KOICHI. Then I decided to buy two more... AGAIN, NO KOICHI. UGH. Oh well. I gave up, NO MONEY. I ended up just standing outside wanting to trade or buy Koichi off people. I found one to buy and one to trade away Meto for. During the process of that, I was just standing around/in front of Little Hearts holding up my chekis to trade. Suddenly Meto walked out of Little Hearts and went into the anime shop that's right next to it. He walked past all of us to go in the other ship with his eyes looking at the floor... as if we will look out for him and make way for him and he doesn't have to watch his way, lol! Inside of me, I was like, *OMG IT'S METO......AHHHHHH HE WENT INTO THE STORE, I WANT TO PEAK INSIDE BUT I CAN'T CAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS DOING THAT....* And so I didn't and I lost sight of Meto since I was outside the shop and then when Meto walked out... he walked RIGHT in back of me.... Like I noticed his presence and I literally walked up a step so I wouldn't be RIGHT next to him when he passed me. To my surprise thought Meto was taller than I thought he was. He's at least my height but I always thought he was shorter. It's not that I don't like Meto or something and I stepped away from him. Meto is my 2nd fav member and it's just that he's too gorgeous and cute and I was just brain shocked that he was right there.. LIKE RIGHT THERE and I just had to step away from such holy figure!
Shortly after, Koichi walked out of Little Hearts and I had another brain shock. He walked out and turned left to the bathroom. I just stared at his back the whole time. The way he walks... it's like the Koichi style haha <3 I can't explain but I enjoyed that moment every much watching Koichi(from his back) walk. He's so f******** cute!
After the Mejibray instore, Riya(we saw each other at the Mejibray instore) and I met up with Julia and we took purikura together before the live to celebrate the birth of Initial'L!!!
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I've got to say, I was super excited 100% for this live till Screw's last live on 11/1 brought down my mood. I though I could still be 100% happy when I see Yuuki but I was too deep into the sadness of losing Screw forever.
Although I wasn't in the best emotional condition to see Initial'L, I am super grateful to have the chance to see the birth of Initial'L. Super super happy to be able to witness this moment. I missed most of Lycaon's early eras but at least I will be able to follow Initial'L from their beginning. I just still can't believe this all happened and I watched with my own eyes and my body literally at the venue during this special event. And I am glad that my fandom part of my trip ended with this Initial'L live. Perfect band, perfect members, perfect voice.
I feel super grateful to have witnessed Initial'L's birth.
Photo credit: Initial'L Official Website
【Initial'L Debut Live HEARTACHE UNDER MOONLIGHT】
2016年11月6日 Nicofare
■開場18:15 / 開演19:00
■前売 FREE
Setlist:
0. SE
1. THE END
2. Pathos
3. 毒女
4. IMMORTAL
5. 接吻〜くちづけ〜
6. ノスタルジア
7. おくり火
8. 合言葉
9. ラビリンス
10. Stop My Heart
11. Punishment
12. MOON LIGHT DOWN
We arrived very early so there was no one yet.
When it was line up time, woah~~~ the line is so long!
IT'S VERY FAR BUT I SEE INITIAL'L's TRUCK!
We arrived very early so there was no one yet.
When it was line up time, woah~~~ the line is so long!
IT'S VERY FAR BUT I SEE INITIAL'L's TRUCK!
The only way to get a ticket for this live is through lottery. You will get a lottery postcard per all 3 types of Initial'L's debut singles you pre-order at participating stores. You can enter as much times as you want. Only 250 people will win the lottery I was able to entered 2 times, one set for myself and Karyta gave me her chance to enter! Thanks! <3
There were so much ups and downs on my emotions through the process of entering the lottery for this live and waiting literally FOREVER for it to announce the winners to attend this live. They announced the results around 10/24~10/26. I wasn't expecting to win a ticket since only 250 people will get it and I never think I could be one of those lucky ones.
Anyways the story started with me being stupid and made plans to leave Japan on 11/6 without knowing that Lycaon would come back. I should have known!!! After I won the ticket, I had to go through serious annoying attempts of changing my flight ticket. They made me wait forever on the phone and it I costed me around $250 total to change my flight and also $50 extra to stay longer at the airbnb room. I extended my flight date to 11/8 because they told me the don't have anymore economy seats on the flight on 11/7. In the end, everything worked out and was paid and booked. So it's good!
The tickets were issued via email and the email will act as our ticket only. When we enter the venue we have to show them our ID so they can make sure the name on the email is ours. The ticket numbers though were really weird... it starts with 111 and goes on to at least around 390~ or something. I think the reason why they did that was because they suddenly decided to take in more than 250 people so they messed with the numbers so people wouldn't be able to figure that out easily. *laughs*
Almost there!
Wow thanks Yuuki. AT THE EXACT moment when I had to show them my admission ticket and ID, Yuuki made a tweet about the live. LOL. Thanks for choosing the right moment where I was trying to show them my ticket on my phone and trying hard not to go ahead and read the tweet right away, teehee!
Riya messaged me a picture of how the stage looks like while I was still in line outside! It looks so cool! The stage was small but I feel it's big enough. Anything that the members decide on, I'd know there is a reason for it :) I love how the stage looked so neat.
Disclaimer: not my photo
This is it!!!! I'm entering the venue!
Without knowing what I was doing and what will happen and what I will see soon, I tried to stand at a spot where I can see Yuuki clearly. There was a tall girl who is kind of in my way of Yuuki but I had no other choice to stand so I just stayed there but I tried my best to move over a bit. I was hoping to stand a but to the left so I can see Satoshi and Yuuki but I guess it turns out that I cannot see the left side very well and could see the right side well though. How anyways Satoshi and Zero actually swapped sides and I didn't know that so.... I WAS LUCKY. I WAS ABLE TO SEE SATOSHI CLEARLY TOO, but throughout the whole live, I mainly just started at Yuuki.... lol.
Anyways, so we all waited patiently for the live to start. Suddenly the light were gradually turned off and I hear tick tock tick tock tick tock sounds and then some piano sounds. OMG SO NERVOUS! I can see the members come out one by one in the flashing dim lights, drummer, bassist, guitarists....... and then the vocalist. Suddenly I just hear singing and bright lights were shown on only Yuuki. After that, each member were in-cooperated in the song one by one. The beginning of the song started pretty slow and ballad-like. I didn't know how to feel about it. I like it but it felt as if their style is different than from Lycaon era already. And then during the chorus part, that's where the song exploded! I freaken love it!!!!!!!!!!
The members looked exactly like their profile pictures. Exactly. Yuuki had so much Merry Hopping Zoo accessories on him that he looked like a walking display haha! <3 I can tell, the way he was singing, he's 100% healthy now. They've gotten a great break from too much activities and now are rested and have full powerrrr!!!! Yuuki's white pants though.... Maybe it's not the pants but his butt looks so nice and round. LOL SORRY Yuuki, I'm such a pervert haha! Wow, I don't know what's with Satoshi but his make up...there's something about it that made him extra sexy now <3 Zero turned so pretty too! I really like Zero's new image now, so cool! And Hiyuu turned more normal though. But still handsome la!
I never understood why Initial'l had chosen this venue till the live started. The four walls inside the venue..... ARE SCREENS. Throughout the whole live, there were backgrounds for each song they sang. It's so beautiful, every thing about this live I'm like "ahhhhh". I understood why Initial'L chosed this, because this is a special venue. This is the Lycaon style of things, you can never guess what they do but somehow, it all fits and combine together nicely.
One thing I felt... so when people age their voices go deeper. But I feel this whole year not only Yuuk's voice didn't go deeper, it turned more higher pitch... well kinda like his older voice! I have no preference, as long as it's Yuuki's voice. Another sounds good~!
There are some songs that stood out to me but there are some songs that sounds similar to me. Since it's the first time listening to any of these songs, it was hard for me to say I love them or dislike them. But I don't think I would dislike anything that Yuuki sings. I'm sure the songs will grow on me for the ones that doesn't stand out to me and one day I would recognize all of them by ear!
This whole live just doesn't feel real to me still. Everything looked so magical and just so beautiful! Yuuki did looked like he raised a god-level in looks wise. He looks so majestic and godly (ok he was godly before too though aha I have no idea what I'm saying anymore) It's just that I couldn't believe that I was actually there.
The ballad they sang , おくり火 was so beautiful. It's a bit on the softer side and not like any of the ballads they created as Lycaon but it's such a beautiful song. (The first time I listened to it, I'm like eh it's beautiful but too soft. But from the second time listening to it, I fell in deep love for it. They were playing in the background when we were in line to buy the tshirts.)
During one of the MC's ZERO TALKED!!!!!!! I SCREAMED WHEN ZERO TALKED!!!! Zero was saying, "It's been 3 years (since I talked). I had forgotten how I sound like." Ichiro said, "Me too" LOOOL! Silly boys, I'm sure you guys talked when you guys were not on stage/at instore during the time Zero "couldn't talk". I'm so glad that Zero talks now!!! I think I like him more and more!
So there were about 2 MC moments where they display the niconico comments on the wall/screens. I was mind blown when they display the comments on the screens because like wow.... this is so cool. It's something that I've never experienced before at a live.During the first one, Karyta commented, "MUSICA!!!!!" When I was at the live I SAW MY NAME AND I WAS LIKE *THAT MUST BE KARYTA <3* INDEED IT WAS!!!! Seriously so happy that she did that. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
During the second one, Karyta typed, "MUSICA, KARYTA LOVES YOU, MUAH <3" This one did got displayed as well!!! However I did not see it at the live and I didn't know about it till it was after the live and my fiend asked me if I saw it or not. This one is so sweet <333333 Karyta, Thank you once again!
The last song they sang was the main song of the release, Moonlight Down. I didn't remember what I felt during this song but I guess it just sounded good. (But by the end of the day, I was obsessed with all the songs already, haha)
After the members went into, the staff played the music video for Moonlight Down on the left and right side of the wall!!!!!!!!!! They had shoot the PV at the same venue Lycaon disbanded at. It's as if wherever they "died", they will revive from there <3
After the live was over, I walked out to the lobby and got in line for the tshirt. And soon afterwards, I found Julia again! Lol. We parted to get inside since we had different ticket numbers.
INITIAL'L!!!!!!!!!! <3
After the live, Julia and I went to get dinner again! We went to the ramen place at Shinjuku station! I got addicted to the ramen here a bit. The broth is so good and the noodles tasted good. Haha, I always get an extra piece of meat because Julia gives me hers since she doesn't eat meat (>3<) Thank you for taking me to this place.
Then, we took purikura in our Initial'L band shirts!!! Sorry I look like an awkward piece of shit, I should have washed and done my hair, lol! Oh well! Next time! <3 We will all meet again for Initial'l together one day!!! We will, Julia! <3
The merch of the day~!!!!!!! I didn't take a picture with the Tzk and Mia cheki I got as well but yeah I got a total of 5 chekis. And the shirt to the right is the Initial'L tshirt!!!!! I love the colors of it but the design is kind of awkward at first glance, teehee. But I love it anyways. I was debating on to buy this or not but I gave in and bought it BECAUSE IT'S INITIAL'L!
These are the covers of their debut single!!! I love everything of these designs!
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