Spring Party notes

Earlier this spring, I went to a sphere concert. I wrote some notes about it but it never materialized into a real "live report." Eventually the motivation went away so I'll just dump the snippets and close the book on that.

• The jump timing for a lot of songs don't make any sense. Basically don't expect to go with the flow on calls. Need to know them beforehand
• Ayahi is really popular with girls. I saw some female sphere fans in full Ayahi jumpsuits that were pretty neat
• Aki gives off big sister vibes even though she's smaller than me. Also she doesn't really tower over others as much as I thought
• Didn't hear anyone use Tomacchan nickname. Fans called her Harukasu instead. I guess the name from the photobook?
• Tomatsu's color being orange means she gets the benefit of a ton of people pulling out UO
• Minako did the most in terms of crowd leadership (calls, waving signals, clapping, etc). Also the whole stage turned purple.
• Really long intro where 4 members read a sappy script about spring time.
• During bowing session, other sphere girls would turn their heads to look at you directly, but Haruka did shifty eyes instead lol
• Sphere fans pretty organized. Guy next to me had a big case of glowsticks divided into 4 compartments for each member.
• After costume change, Aki in her green miniskirt + green boots gliding around the stage on supports totally looked like feminine Peter Pan
• There's an interesting mechanic where a secondary stage would actually split into 4 parts while the girls were on it. Each stage would move through the concert halls down one of the aisles and recombine in the middle and back of the stage. Very clever to give everyone a chance to see them up close considering the randomized seats. Sadly it was underused - they only went down the aisle this 3 times, which means every section lost out on 1 member
• The concert title was "Spring Party is Here" and so seating blocks were arranged as YTRAPS with Y all the way at the front row and S in the last row. Backwards it spells S. Party. Unfortunately, I got screwed with "S" but it's good experience to know for future Sphere concerts if they randomize the seats. You can sort of guess the arrangements based on the title and pick a letter in the middle to be safe. Or gamble on the end letters. On the up side, I was in the aisle so the members came right by me when they went around the hall.

Posted by Paranda at June 27, 2011 12:02 PM

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