#the outfits are referenced from the official merch yes

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King of Prism MUSIC READY SPARKLING live 10/21, 2017

This past weekend I attended both performances of the very first King of Prism live concert. Here was my view from the afternoon show:

Way to the side but in pretty good view of the stage. 

For the evening show, I didn’t get a ticket to the venue. But I did manage to see the live viewing at a nearby theater. So here was my view for that:

So that was an interesting experience, being able to compare the two. At the actual concert of course I could see more of what was going on the stage in general, but I missed a lot of various small details such as facial expressions and costume details which were apparent in the viewing. So it was good to see it in the theater once. 

I gotta admit it couldn’t beat the energy of actually being it the stage though. Before the performance they were showing PVs and stuff and we were all cheering like we were in the theater except WAY bigger and it was just such a trip.

Okay so. 

Where to begin!!!

The beginning I guess.

In the weeks upcoming to this concert I kept wondering just how it would go down. Like specifically how much would they act/perform like real idols? Would they lip synch? Would they dance?

And then. 

I will never forget the moment all seven Edel Rose boys wearing sparkly costumes rose from a platform and began singing live and dancing and I was just. like. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH–

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And guess what the first song was. So you know how in the first movie Yu is like, “Let’s just do the usual Boy Meets Girl.” But of course we never actually hear it with the new Edel Rose boys. WELL I FINALLY DID. “The usual” Boy Meets Girl as performed by the new Edel Rose boys oh man it was so cool to hear it in their voices.

Their costumes. were. AMAZING!!! They weren’t particularly based on their characters’ stage outfits. But instead hey were totally new costumes based on the color and styles of the characters. For example, Taiga’s had a hood at the back, Leo had mismatched socks, Kakeru was in this slick gold suit, and Yukinojo’s was quite elegant/detailed. I couldn’t see them that well from where I was at the concert, but at the live viewing I was just mesmerized at how detailed all of their costumes were

After Boy Meets Girl the solos started. It was during this section I played  game with myself where I gave them all little awards.

All of them had elements of their characters. But I gave the award for the one who matched the aura of his character best to Kakaru’s voice actor. Super cool and yet such a dork. I’ll never forget him breakin’ it down in the middle of Emo Chara Night. 

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Second place to Minato’s voice actor. At one point he was singing while cooking curry and setting a table.

Meanwhile one character I felt a disconnect with was Yu. Yu’s voice actor is… really awesome!! He was just so super cool and badass and I just I… don’t imagine Yu being that way hahah. 

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I also felt a disconnect with Yukinojo’s voice actor. He has the shortest hair out of all of them! Even all dressed up in a kimono for his solo, his aura felt kinda off. Then again, I suppose Yukinojo isn’t all just hair to me, because in the days that followed the concert I have gotten his fan dance to Ageha Cho stuck in my head whenever I hear the song.

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Alternatively Shin’s voice actor has hair longer than I would associate with Shin but it was OK because it suited him and HE WAS JUST SO CUTE IT DIDN’T MATTER I COULDN’T HANDLE okay moving on.

My personal award for best character singing voice is a tie between Alexander and Taiga. Like. HOLY SHIT. They can sing. I was not a big fan of Alexander’s voice before but I am now. I seriously could not even comprehend how good EZ DO DANCE sounded live. The recording somehow does not even do it justice?! Taiga was already my favorite voice of the Edel Rose boys, and he was doing these like semi-improv high notes and I was just like OHHH WOW.

https://mantan-web.jp/article/20171021dog00m200015000c.html

(Also they released huge fireballs when Alexander’s voice actor jumped on stage like wooooah.)

Alternatively, Leo’s voice actor had a pretty difficult time during his solo. But I mean that song is so fast, it must have taken a lot to both keep up the speed and keep his voice as Leo. Plus he kept glancing at the screens with the lyrics. The entire time I was just like GANBARE GANBARE YOU CAN DO IT I LOVE YOU. 

Cutest cinnamon roll in the world award goes to Shin’s voice actor, with Leo as second. 

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So after all the solos, Alexander’s voice actor said something about guys from Schwartz Rose being here before leaving the stage. This was the introduction to a big surprise… JOJI(’s singing voice) came up from the platform and started right into LoveMix. (At the first performance this was a huge surprise. But during the second one I saw people getting yellow out in advance and I was like.. n… no you’re gonna ruin it hahah.) After that was finished, the background dancers suddenly disappeared and became four guys in suits with cards symbols on them. And I was like NO WAY IS THAT and it totally was. The Shuffle (Schwartz Rose idols who are in the movies for like 30 seconds total), the entire group, came up and performed Koi no Straight Flush. 

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Okay this was really cool. But first I was like whaaaat I was not prepared because I don’t even know the cyalume colors of these guys!! Not to mention Joji’s color is yellow… The official cyalume you could buy at the event doesn’t have yellow!! Instead it has white. Louis is also mysteriously on the merch art despite not attending the concert. Methinks at one point Louis was supposed to attend and it got changed to The Shuffle? Ahhh well. 

After that they showed a goofy greeting video from Over the Rainbow’s voice actors, who did not attend the event. Taiga complained about how their excuse for not atending was different between the afternoon and evening sessions. These videos were really rapid fire and hilarious. The one joke I remember is Kouji’s voice actor insisting they were actually naked from the bottom down (like they are naked in the Pride the Hero intro) and then the camera panned out and blurred their bottom halves even though it was obvious they were fully clothed.  

After that the duo songs began. Except for the boys whose partner is in Over the Rainbow (Taiga, Minato, Yu), those songs became a solo version. They introduced it by referencing their partner and how they could do it on their own, then sang the song. Yukinojo/Leo and Shin/Kakeru sang their songs as usual of course. 

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Then finally, all the Edel Rose boys gathered together for the finale where they sang Vivic Heart Session and Dramatic Love. Taiga and Kakeru put their arms around each other when they sang their shared line in Dramatic Love and everyone screamed. 

The encore was Over the Sunshine. It began with Shin solo before all the Edel Rose boys rose from the stage and joined him. Once again, even though it’s a song I have heard a million times, hearing it in the voices of all the Edel Rose boys was so COOL. And then, finally, as they walked towards the middle of the venue, a door opened up, Alexander’s voice actor jumped up to join them, and even got a solo line. 

Yes. Alexander singing Over the Sunshine is not something you have ever heard before and will likely never hear again. Unfortunately this and EZ DO DANCE were the only songs he could join. Damn that boy needs more songs.

Finally, everyone said their goodbyes to the crowd. Kakeru’s voice actor was being all weird and robotic in his, and he tried to repeat it a second time but everyone broke him by yelling “KAZUOOOOO” and then he was like “Dammit I told you it’s Kakeru…. oh man I got to say it” hahaha. When Shin performs he always says “Ichijo Shin here I go!” so Shin’s voice actor was just like “Ichijo Shin… I went.” During the second one he made a similar Pride the Hero reference which absolutely killed me but I don’t know how to explain it. (”みんなに言いたいことがあります…みんな、生まれた！”）The Shuffle members were so grateful to attend and even more grateful that some people learned their colors by the second performance eheh.

So yeah… 

Just when I thought I couldn’t like King of Prism any more than I already did. 

I WAS WRONG AGAIN. 

It’s hard to explain, but really I swear, all King of Prism songs sound different to me now. For example, songs I didn’t care much about before I like now, such as Minato’s Home Sweet Home. And songs I already loved, like Vivic Heart Session, somehow I love EVEN MORE. It’s because now whenever I hear them, I see their actual smiling faces and feel how much these people really and truely love what they do so much. Especially Shin. THAT SMILE. And Minato. You could really tell he loves performing. He was getting so emotional in his speech after the second show about how far the series has come and how we have all helped to make it happen.  

https://mantan-web.jp/article/20171021dog00m200015000c.html

I LOVE THEM!!! I LOVE ALL OF THEM!!

The last thing that happened was they showed a montage of the boys prepping for the concert to an instrumental of Dramatic Love, and basically the entire venue began singing the song without a second thought. (TIL I know most of the lyrics to Dramatic Love?!)

All the love, the rainbow colored cyalumes, it was magic. What can I even say. I love this fandom.