12/24/2004: Psycho le Cemu @ Zepp Tokyo
By Lauren
Zepp Tokyo, for those who haven't been there, is this big concert hall on Odaiba, the island (?) that holds numerous malls, the Fuji TV headquarters, and the second tallest ferris wheel in the world.
seek came out in his Michi no Sora outfit with a balloon tied to his head holding two balloons and stood to one side. Then, YURA-sama and AYA came out hand-in-hand and proceeded to talk about how they were going to get married. Here, I'll just paraphrase, the whole beginning of the live was this long play:
YURA-sama: Wow, so we're finally getting married.
AYA: Yeah. Hey, where's the necklace I gave you in celebration of our engagement? Speaking of which I've never seen you wear it.
YURA-sama: *freaks out* OH uhhh.. the NECKLACE.. Well you see I tried to put it on but it was too heavy. I get back pain.
AYA: Too heavy?
YURA-sama: It's not kingly to wear a big lead necklace. >
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AYA
: But lead is the metal of my country. Even my hat is lead. That annoys me about you. I wonder if we can really get married.
YURA-sama: Of course we can! Thank god that knight DAISHI who saved you from peril last year isn't coming to the wedding, that would be bad news, you'd end up liking him again. >.>;
AYA: Oh, DAISHI? I invited him to the wedding.
YURA-sama: WHAT?
AYA: He's been so kind to me, and I owe a lot to him.
YURA-sama: ?!?! This is terrible!
AYA: Well, you just don't understand!
(YURA-sama and AYA leave)
seek: *moves up to front and gets on the front amp and goes around in circles* Why do people never trust each other? If they just trusted each other, everything would work out fine! People can't see me, but I exist. Just like people can't see trust, but trust exists. People need to learn to trust people without seeing it with their own eyes. *makes cute noises and turns around some more, then leaves* (this is the point where I'm like WTF?)
(switch to scene with DAISHI (knight) and Lida (old man))
DAISHI: I got an invitation from Princess AYA to come to her wedding.
Lida: Holy crap, Princess AYA's getting married? To King YURA? But didn't you used to have the hots for her or something? I bet YURA's all jealous.
DAISHI: I know it can work out between them. I'm going to find a way to bring them together once and for all! *leaves*
Lida: *says old manny stuff and follows DAISHI out*
(switch to scene of AYA alone in his room, except that seek is in the corner)
AYA: People totally suck! I'm going to order some pizza and eat to make myself feel better. *calls pizza place and orders like 5000 things*
*door bell rings*
AYA: That was fast!
*enter DAISHI and Lida*
AYA: DAISHI!
DAISHI: Congratulations on your wedding.
AYA: Thanks. *turns to Lida* Could I get change for the pizza?
Lida: PRINCESS AYA, it's me, your grandfather!!
AYA: WTF you're still alive?
Lida: *falls down* Of course I'm still alive!! I raised you as a child and love you more than anyone you know! Look, I even have the same straight bangs as you! *lifts up his hat to show ridiculous straight bangs*
AYA: Uhh.. okay. :x
DAISHI: I'm going to find a way to make things right between you and Yura. Come to this place at this time. *hands AYA a piece of paper and leaves*
AYA: Hmm.. *leaves*
Lida: *left alone* What is Daishi planning on doing?? Wait, I'm all alone! >.< *runs after DAISHI*
(scene with YURA-sama searching for something)
YURA-sama: Where did I put that necklace?
*enter DAISHI, followed by Lida*
YURA-sama: Shit, DAISHI! @_@
DAISHI: King Yura, you can't give her what she wants so I'm stealing Princess AYA back from you. Meet me for a duel at this place and time. *leaves* (screams from audience because Daishi is so soft-spoken and sexy)
YURA-sama: WTF?? Fine, see you there! I won't lose! *leaves*
Lida: Now he's taking Princess AYA back?? What has Daishi got planned? ....wait, I'm alone again, WTF! >.< *bumps into seek* Who are you?
seek: You can see me?
Lida: Uhh.. yeah?
seek: You must have special sight, most people can't see me.
Lida: Maybe it's because I'm old and senile. Wait, DAISHI! *runs off*
(scene as AYA hides behind a thing with seek (who he can't see) to see what happens between YURA-sama and DAISHI... enter DAISHI and YURA-sama, with sword already out)
YURA-sama: Okay, come and get it! I'm a king and won't stand to lose to you!
DAISHI: (I forget what he says, but anyway it's cool and sexy because DAISHI's theme today was "cool and sexy")
*they begin to duel, and DAISHI hits a fatal blow to YURA-sama in the chest, and YURA-sama falls*
AYA: *comes out from hiding* Nooo! Yura!! DAISHI, what have you done?
YURA-sama: No, I'm all right. *takes out AYA's lead necklace, which saved his life*
AYA: You wore my necklace!
DAISHI: I've shown you the importance of love for one another. Trust and love are things you can't see, but you should feel for yourself. If you can feel them, you would be all right.
Lida: Yay! and some stuff. *everyone leaves, leaving seek*
seek: So as you can see, it's important that people learn to trust in things that they can't see. You people who've come to see us are doing just that. You've come to experience something you can't see with your eyes but can feel with your heart -- music.
The live after this was kinda strange.. I haven't heard their new album except Yume Kazaguruma, so I didn't know much of their new songs. At the beginning, they went through a super fast medley of all the songs I really like -- Gekiai Merrygoround, Prism, Megatron, etc. so basically that meant they weren't going to do them in any real fashion later on, which was kinda a downer. XD
But anyway, it was fun, AYA was super energetic today, head banging and running around and waving at everyone and initiating almost all of the air-punching. It was fun to watch him run around. :D It was the first time I'd seen DAISHI in a while that he didn't say he couldn't sing because of a cold. :O I don't know the names of a lot of the songs, but they did my favorite Indra no ya and stuff. :D Schweet. AYA stopped for an MC halfway through, and was like "MERRY CHRISTMAS!!" and everyone was like "MERRY CHRISTMAS!!" and he repeated it again but with all this extra crap that no one could follow so we were all like "???" Then he was like "Since you all are here on Christmas eve, it must mean none of you have any boyfriends!" and everyone was like ;___________; and he was like "None of you look like you have any boyfriends, huh?" and everyone was like ;_________________________; and he was like "Hey, I see some couples! Watch out, because these sheep around you will turn into wolves!" and stuff, and then I think he was like yay, have fun today or something. XD I thought it was funny, anyway. Let's see... they did a lot of pretty violent songs, and it was fun, but I didn't know most of them so I was like ..........:D;;
One thing that surprised me was.. Like, the last time I saw Psycho at a non-seated venue was in 2002 on their last indies tour. This time around, the fans were so -violent-. O.o;; Like, I started in the third row but girls were coming and like busting my head to get in front of me and stuff, and they do gyakudai (when a song has an "oi!" part in it, you lift your fist up to "oi!" and move forward a little.. gyakudai is when you throw yourself backwards onto the backs of the people going forward -- I hate it x.x). There was a lot of pushing going on. >.< Also, at the end when each of the members made a speech regarding this year and what they expect next year, seek was going on eloquently about how like today was really fun and he wants to try harder for everyone next year, etc, and when he said it was fun this girl in front of me SCREAMED "I'M SO HAPPY" and I couldn't hear what seek was saying.
For the encore, everyone came out in Santa suits. XD It was really adorable. They did umm.. some song I forget and Rememberance. During Rememberance, seek threw his hat out into the crowd -- and everyone was like oerjgijeijg!!!!! but Ren and I did some SUPER GAIJIN POWER ACTION and grabbed onto that thing like the Holy Grail and somehow sensed that the other also had it without looking and grabbed it from the sea of hands together. :D And then we were like YAY!!!! :DDDD and seek was like :D!! and laughing at us because we were shitting our pants and holding onto it together like a newborn baby. :O I've been going to see Psycho for 4 years and it's the first thing I've gotten. :x Actually at any live. x.x;
Anyway, then they went away and the announcement came on saying the show has ended, please leave, but people were still calling for an encore, so they came out and did excalibur. :D And seek pulled off YURA-sama's hat and threw it into the crowd, and jumped into the crowd and grabbed everyone's hands while looking at them like a loving mother. XD He's SO NICE. ;_; No lie. >.<
And that was Psycho tonight. :D It wasn't the best Psycho live I've been to, but looking back on it it was more fun than I had felt at the time. :O And Ren and I took turns wearing seek's hat the whole way home. :D
The end.