yesterday night was... (2)

last friday before i went home, yamane-san asked me if i could be available on the next night. he said that he will invite me to watch a concert tour of ai otsuka in yokohama arena. since i don't have any appointment at that time (it was yesterday) so i said i can go. it shall be the first time i will watch a concert of a japanese singer live.

so yesterday (the concert day) he picked me up in my house in chofu and drive all the way to yokohama arena.
we got there just in time. we look for our seats indicated in the ticket (by the way, he gave me the ticket for free, i was lucky enough, thank you very much!) the location of the seat indicated in the ticket we have is at straight center of the stage, although we were on the third floor. i said to yamane-san we are very lucky enough to got a seat that is at straight center.

a few minutes passed after we sat, the concert began. it was a tremendous, very presentable start. maybe ai otsuka have chosen the best vignettes.
by the way, it was ai otsuka's love cook tour. although i have all the love cook mp3s in my pc, i have just listened to them just once. (the one that i was listening, and can sing, is 'sakuranbo' which was i think on her debut album).
ai is very talented indeed, singing her 3 songs while she plays the piano, and singing the songs she wrote in different moods. i really liked the way she delivered herself in the concert, with the help of the best lighting effects and of course, the band and the back-orchestra.
looking at the audience, here in japan, they really participated lively in the concert. they follow the beat of the songs whatever mood every song has.
in our case of course, we were just listening and do some clapping in the middle of the concert. but when ai sang the 'sakuranbo', i and yamane-san definitely sang too.

笑顔さく君とつながってたい
もしあの向こうに見えるものがあるなら
愛し合う二人幸せの空
隣通しあなたとあたしさくらんぼ！

i was very lucky enough to enjoy the concert, because i was not ill (unlike when i watched the bon jovi concert, when i caught a flu a day before).

before the concert, we received some pamphlets from a staff, and one of them has the itinerary of the avex group of singers (which includes kumi koda, ayumi hamasaki, ai otsuka as well, boa etc.) and they will be having a long concert in ajinomoto stadium (which is about 3 minutes walk from my house). i told yamane-san that i will be watching it (because overhearing the concert from my house is not just enough).

すごく楽しみにしていま～す。