Waaaaaaaah.

Today... today has been a very busy day, haha.

In school we had presentation in front of the class and some japanese girls visiting for free talk.

It could have gone better for me, I guess. I had it all in my head, but it doesn't really matter. 

In front of people I get nervous and forget it all anyway... argh. I improvised instead, which 

apparently didn't go thaat bad but still, it's frustrating. 

Then we had free talk, which means class get divided into groups and spend an hour talk with

the japanese people visiting. It was fun! ^o^ we just talked about random things. 

Then me and Alex went straight home, only a quick stop at Maruya to buy sushi haha. Too lazy to cook. 

We got ready, then we left home around four. 

In the train, we stood by the doors when suddenly two women on either side of us sneezed at the same time. One was kinda far away but I still heard them both hahaha. I told Alex "Two women just sneezed at the same time ahahaha" and then one second later the man next to us sneezed. HAHA. that was funny. 

We arrived at Takadanobaba and then went to buy water and gum in Family mart.. Always fun to go there right before the live and see all the girls going to the concert all crowded up in there haha. 

15 minutes to five we were in line and to my surprise it was more people that didn't buy tickets yet than people that had tickets... whaat xD weird. At least it looked like it, I could be wrong though haha. 

We got in and sneaked down to the first floor. It wasn't that crowded... yet. 

First up was Alsdead. 

Hmmmmm. 

hmmmm.

hmmm.... 

Well, the music itself was flawless. They have awesome music for sure, although I was really disappointed that they didn't play In bloom. It's an absolutely gorgeous song and it would have been so awesome live. I'm sure.  

Since I haven't seen them live before it's kinda hard to say, but Maki seemed to be off somehow. He kept loosing his voice then and there. Like I said, I haven't seen them before so I don't have anything to compare with, but something seemed weird. 

I'm not really sure on how big their fanbase is either, but not even half of the audience seemed even a bit interested in them either, maybe a third on the first floor were doing the furi properly until the last song when Maki finally encouraged people to actually do something. Yosuke was the happiest ever though haha. He was so cute, bouncing all over the place and everytime I looked him he had the brightest smile on his lips haha. Shin was also all smiley, I was on his side but a few rows back. People were really dead though...

It was probably because half of the audience was there to see either 12012 or Lin. If I would guess the reason. Anyway, only by the end of the last song Maki got most of the first floor moving though, which is one of the reasons why I think maybe something was off with him. o.O It was just kinda strange. I don't know, so feel free to correct me haha. Overall their performance was good. Although I really wanted In Bloom.

Next band up was Para:noir. 

I'm sorry in advance to my relatives for that picture, hahaha. You might wanna cover your eyes on a few lines down here later. XD 

I'm soooo happy I got to see them live, I really am. 

They started off with the code number [13.]

I almost started crying in happiness. 

It's the song that got me into them in the first place, the first song I ever heard by them.  It was such a beautiful moment, somehow. I was mostly happy, but sad at the same time. Most of all I'm so grateful that I got to see them. Hmm, anyway. As soon as Akane started singing I was totally hypnotized by his stomach. I've never seen a vocalist so up close without a shirt before and I was totally mesmerized, it was so fascinating to see how the muscles in his stomach worked as he sand and screamed and moved around. I couldn't look away for the whole song, at the same time as I was silently singing along. 

As I said we stood like, for rows back but the four girls in front of me just stood there like dead fish, so when the next song started and they still didn't move I squeezed in front of them and jumped along with the rest of the crowd. I was in second row then, and still the girl to my right wasn't moving at all. She was kinda annoyed that I came forward I could tell, but what the hell. If you stand in second row, I know you were all the way to the side but, you kinda have to deal with fans moving around. XD I ignored her however and she stepped back a bit just a while later. geez. 

I really wish I was better at remembering songs. <.< Alsdead played for half an hour and so did Para:noir. I was dancing and jumping around like crazy the rest of Para:noir and it was so much fun.

Thank you guys, you are awesome. Although you didn't play Amaryllis grr. 

Next up was Lin.

This is where I got the weirdest feeling. When the curtains were drawn aside... I was so chocked. 

In my head I went HOLY SHIT IT'S RIKU! hahaha

For some weird reason I hadn't thought about him much. I knew they would play and all but... I have no idea why I didn't think about it much. I used to be such a big fan of him back in Phantasmagoria, but then he kinda lost me in Chariots music wise but I've always really liked him as a vocalist. When he and Kisaki started Lin I was really happy, because I didn't like Chariots haha. I though maybe they would start making good music. Buuuuuuut. I followed the band for a few singles, then I got tired of it or something because somehow I stopped. Anyway, so at that moment, when he was just in front of me, I realized it was actually him. Hahahaha. I must have looked really funny, because he was looking straight at me for several seconds.

I moved back to my original spot after Para:noir though, I didn't think I would be that into Lin. However, once again I'm totally surprised by the huge difference of seeing bands live and listening to them on cd. It's so much more fun! Why don't I ever get that into my head? XD Both me and Alex totally enjoyed Lin's whole performance. Riku was awesome, the music was awesome, all the fans were awesome, everything was awesome! I finally got to see Riku's weird dance furi's in real life haha, yay. 

After Lin, there was a band that apparently is the same band as the band called 12012. I have no clue what happened to them though. What. the. hell. WHAT?! whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. 

Okay, well. I'm going to explain... 

I used to be a really big 12012 fan a few years ago. I don't like all their music, but a lot of it. Especially old stuff. I had a long period where I almost only listened to them. From 2006 and even up to 2011, I still like some of their songs very much. Then Yuusuke left. Then hell broke loose. Really... It did. 

This is 12012 now. In this promo picture Wataru actually looks like Miss America compared to what he looks like live. I'm soooo sorry for saying all this, but honestly. What are they doing? Can someone explain?

This is a print screen from their PV, and you can't really see it clearly but his hair is black, long and in a horrible back slick that makes him look like.. something I don't even know. He looks like what I imagine Marilyn Manson and Wolverine's offspring would look like. Touru behind the drums just looked like a black blobb moving around, I couldn't see him much. Hiroaki looked kind of normal, he just had extra eyeliner and white lenses. Tomoyuki looked like he was cosplaying Sadako. It was all. Horrible.

If someone is getting really offended by now, hear me out first. The first and second song I honestly tired to look past their horrible outfits, but I simply couldn't do it. Their first three songs was terrible, they looked terrible. They played one ballad as a fourth song if I don't remember wrong. I actually enjoyed it, leaned against the wall to the side in defeat with my eyes closed. I could hear it was Wataru, but I didn't see him in that person in front of me. It made me really sad. What are they trying to do, other than being Dir en grey? Are they planning on taking over america too? Did they get so mad after Yuusuke left they all went crazy?

Since I didn't want to look at the band I was looking around in the audience instead and from time to time people were moving around or punching the air, but more than half of the girls looked like I felt. Really concerned, haha. Gosh. I saw three girls spread out on the second floor that looked like they would start crying any second on the last song. 

I know quite many people like the turn of events for this band, saying that old 12012 is back. To me, it isn't though. This is not 12012 anywhere to me, it's just... I don't even know. After they were done both me and Alex stared at each other and went "What the hell did we just saw?" 

ANYWAY. Enough ramble about 12012. Off to more awesome things. Like... like, like Lycaon!:D

It's not so long ago we saw them last time. ^^ Tonight was way much more fun though! After 12012 it felt like almost half of the audience left. I was happy they did, because it became a bit more roomy and much more pleasant. xD

Since there was only Lycaon fans left the live itself became more fun. I must say, Lycaon has quickly made me fall in love with them again. I listened to them when they were still really new, but then I lost interest. And everything that has to do with their EROS single kinda makes me gag a bit, haha. On cd, it's horrible in my opinion XD Yuuki doesn't sing properly, the music is just weird and it all sounds so... bleeergh. 

Live though, oh that's a whole other story. They are so much fun! We were all dancing around, jumping and doing the usual, haha. I would tell you in detail what Yuuki was doing to himself and some of the girls in front of me but I think my family would freak out. xD sorry.  

Me and Alex were debating before they started how we should do, because it's Malin's birthday and all we didn't wanna come home too late. Everyone was waiting for us. -w- Therefore we said that we would stay until the encore and then leave. 

Of course that was impossible. 

It was impossible to leave Lycaon! hahaha

I enjoyed every single song and they came back quickly for an encore, after that they played two more songs. The last song they kept repeating a part of the song and the first row of the girls lean onto the stage and the rest run, jump and turn around so you bounce off them again, then run back again, then run up and jump and bounce. After a few times we all run back to original positions, jump for a bit and then repeat the process. This is my favorite part of the lives, seriously XD it's so much fun. 

The second time around I jumped into the pile of girls I somehow ended up right under Yuuki and just as I was about to turn around and leave he kinda... grabbed my head and forced me to stay put. Who knew Yuuki could be so freaking strong with his 160 cm and 45 kg?! XD I complied though, haha, and then a series of happenings occurred really fast. He still had his hand on my head, at the same time he kinda leaned over me and dragged another girl into me, only thing was that she somehow, by accident of course, pushed my head forward. This resulted in that my face suddenly knocked into his let's say hip, but it was more ass. I got a pretty red mark on my under lip where his belt decided it was a good idea to be at the time, hahaha. It's okay though, it wasn't that hard of a bang. I was just really surprised since it all happened so fast. 

Oh yeah, and during on of the rounds Yuuki noticed two guys who and just looked at everything and demanded them to come forward too. When they did he rocked out with them a bit and then emptied his water bottle on them hahah XD that was funny. 

We kept on going for a good while, and I didn't want it to end. I need to see them again soon. 

After they left again it was already over half past nine, so we rushed to the trains and luckily just caught one in Ikebukuro, so we were home not even an hour later. 

Then we all met up downstairs and ate the delicious chocolate cake Livia made for Malin. =D I'll upload a picture of it tomorrow, I'm too tired now. -w-

Off to sleep I am, after this wonderful day. Tomorrow we have the day off, fortunately. Otherwise I might have died. 

Goodnight!