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Budokan!!
Translated by Hatsumichan
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Konbanma. (A play on konbanwa “Good Evening”)
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It’s YUI!!
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Everyone, are you doing well?
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A lot of words are messed up in this diary, but don’t mind them!
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The Tokyo performance has ended, and feeling that the final part of the tour is coming near, I’m a sad YUI.
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Budokan 2 days!!
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It really was a very fun time!
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To everyone who came, and to everyone who cheered for me, thank you very much!!
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For Budokan, I thought to challenge it with full enthusiasm, so even during preparations, I was in high tension mode!
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I took awesome pictures of our stylist, Datecchi, the makeup artist, Youji-san, and his assistant Azu-san.
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It’s everyone with their matching parkas!
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And this is the picture where they answered my call of “Do something!” that I threw out randomly! lol
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Being surrounded by such kind staff members, the excitement for the live was also very good.
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On the first day (the 18th), the live started with the announcement by Captain Lou.
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It was a space where you could enjoy the atmosphere of cruising.
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This being the third time at Budokan, I’m very happy that I can hold concerts at such a historical and famous place.
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And since it is the final stage of the tour, the emotional attachment to it is also very strong.
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I was also very touched by all the warmth from the audience!
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This day, I was indebted to Oriental Radio’s Fujimori-san!
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A live “kawaui~ne~!” (“cuute~!” in a kinda baby voice – Fujimori’s signature phrase) echoed throughout Budokan?
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A lot of random moments that happened throughout the tour kept coming out, which surprised me.
(YUI uses the word “episode,” but it’s basically an occurrence that happened in a short period of time that left an impression. I will be using the word “moment”)
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While Youji-san was humming “Separation”,
He accidentally mixed up the “Separation” part of the lyrics with “September.”
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It was a wonderful moment. lol
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In addition to that, snowball fights and sumo wrestling were very popular during the tour.
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Our snowball fights were pretty serious, almost as much as real sports. lol
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As for sumo wrestling, tour staff member, Watarucchi, and manager, Isshi, competed against each other, and after slipping and falling, Isshi got a huge bump on his head.
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Everyone, when you’re sumo wrestling, please be sure to be careful not to injure yourself okay!
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Besides that, there was a moment when Kuro-chan thought that there was a pile of snow, but when he tried jumping into it, it was really a guard rail.
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And then also, being on a rice-less diet, but then giving into temptation and eating a gyutan (beef tongue) bento.
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There were a lot of moments~!
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And then, on this day, our manager, Fuku-chan, who is famous for his “Onyuu,” his wife gave birth without any complications, and so we all celebrated that together?
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Congratulations!!
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To everyone who was at the venue, to everyone who cheered for me, to Captain Lou, and to OriRaji’s Fujimori-san, thank you very much!!
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On the second day (19th), the atmosphere of the audience was again, different, and it had the air of a “final” performance.
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While I was doing the concert, there was this sentimental feeling of, “It’s gonna end~”
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But everyone’s encouraging voices were very warm, and as I was being helped by the venue’s atmosphere, I was able to sing enjoyably until the very end?
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On this day, I was indebted to Hannya’s Kawashima-san and Kaneda-san! (comedians)
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Again, a lot of talk about things that happened during the tour came out.
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There was this case where, while I was introducing the band members, I said “She’s a younger sister-like presence to me… He’s an older brother-like presence to me,” and before I knew it it became a popular phrase.
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During the tour, it was used in many different places.
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The one that hit me the most was, when we were in Hokkaido, Datecchi looked at the snow and said “It’s a freezing-like presence” and I thought it was really funny.
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It’s not a noun anymore! But it’s not a verb either!
(????- kootteru is the verb “to freeze,” using ? – teki would normally make it an adverb, and then adding??? – sonzai would make it a noun, but basically all in all, it doesn’t make sense because he’s basically saying that something is “frozen” ???? (verb), with the *noun* phrase ???”tekisonzai” added at the end LOL – I hope you understood that xD)
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and the more I thought about it, the more the inside of my head became all tangled up, and that feeling was nice!
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Also, when we were going to take a group picture, in order to gather everyone together, the call was “We’re taking a group photo-like presence~”
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“No, it’s not a group photo-like presence, it IS a GROUP PHOTO isn’t it?!!” or so some of you may want to retort huh?
(retort = “tsukkomi” – I don’t want to explain it again so if you want to know what it is in more detail, I explain it in one of the diaries somewhere…. lol)
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Everyone, if you try to use it at least once I would like that-like presence?
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Other than that, there was also the incident where Youji-san accidentally ate my Yuppi Noodles that I was saving to eat after the concert. lol
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Youji-san was running around outside the dressing room while yelling “Yuppi~ Noo~dles~!!”
This was also a wonderful moment. lol
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The two members of Hannya were very heartwarming, as the quickness of their retorts and the close feeling between the two of them came across really well.
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They frequently said “Early to bed and early to rise,” and “YUI-chan-san” for me.
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Hannya-san, thank you very much!!
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The Tokyo performances have ended, and now the only place left is the Okinawa performance!
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This time’s tour had the feelings of “I want to try going to places that I haven’t been to before” in it, and since I could go to so many new places, I was very happy.
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And then, doing a live in Okinawa will also be a first, so I’m looking forward to it!!
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By all means, please treat me favorably.
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Well then, well then. Looking forward to Okinawa Adieu~.
YUI
P.S.
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My dream two-shot with Lou-san!!
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I will never forget “Yabu kara SUTIKKU” and “Chicken Skin”!! lol
(These two phrases are both known as parts of “Lou’s language.” “Yabu kara SUTIKKU” is a play on the Japanese idiom “Yabu kara bou” (From a bush, comes a stick) which basically means that without any stimulation, someone suddenly starts doing something. “Bou” means “stick,” so Lou-san just changed the word to English.
“Chicken Skin” literally translated into Japanese is “Torihada” – which actually means “goosebumps” or to “have your hair stand on end,” so that’s the play on words there.)
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And then, during the concert, I looked over towards our roadie (road manager – in charge of transport and effects), Attsuttsu, and he had become a horse, which surprised me!
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NICE!!
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dewa dewa, let’s be Happy-chan’s tomorrow too~?
