Kept you waiting, huh? And here it is, my last LIVE HOME report! Sorry that I returned to my usual tardy self for this last one, even though I managed to pump out all the ones before it in a pretty timely manner.... work has just been really hectic for the past month or so and I had no energy to spare. ^^;; Anyways, hope you've been enjoying the journey with me, because what a ride it's been!
(For report on LIVE HOME 2022 Road 01 at Hyogo, go [here]!)
(For report on LIVE HOME 2022 Road 05 at Saitama, go [here]!)
Well, no goods just the stand with all the venues filled in!
01. New Sensation / 02. SUPER GENERATION / 03. Go Live!
Since we've had the pleasure of attending quite a few LIVE HOMEs it felt pretty bittersweet to know that this would be the last time we see Nana walking down to the main stage doing her wave greeting before New Sensation properly began. Also still can't believe we got SUPER GENERATION here instead of POWER GATE tonight! But maybe it was to balance out the fact that we got POWER GATE during the very first LIVE HOME?
MC1
Nana starts with the usual greetings and saying that she's back home, then mentioning that it's been four years since LIVE ISLAND, which was the last time she had come to Nippon Gaishi Hall. She says that of course the last LIVE HOME had to be here since this venue is where she's had the most lives so far, so it really is like her home ground. Nana says that she is so grateful that we’ve been able to make it to the end of the tour safely and adds that it’s thanks to all of us and thanks us.
04. ROMANCERS' NEO / 05. スパイラル
OH! ROMANCERS' NEO tonight too?!?!?! That was a fun surprise! Though now it made me question all my assumptions about the set list for tonight that I made yesterday... xD Nana likes to keep us guessing I suppose.
Cherry Boys -showcase
This time Kado-D gets asked if he prefers King Records or StarCrew, and he picks King Records. And tonight, both keyboardists, Champ and Ryochin, are there and they got into an "argument" during their turns and eventually answered with what was their favorite food - curry rice (cue a picture of Nana Curry on the big screen at the back of the stage xD). This time I didn't catch what Kojiro's options were, but regardless he still answered Mishi-P as usual. Kenny gets asked number one, MyNumber or Pointa and of course it's Kenny number 1! Ryotan finishes off that for him it's definitely S.E. Nana Net (S.E.???? xD).
06. HOLY TALE / 07. NAKED FEELS
I kept waiting on the edge of my seat for whether I would finally get NAKED FEELS again or if Nana would just keep trolling me.... but there it was!!! Aahhhhh.... thank you! (T^T) Hearing it again, and from such a good seat too, really cleansed my soul.
MC2
It is time for the silent Mawatte! -calls as usual, with the Mou ikkai being with all the CheriBos since it’s the final! Nana comments on Ryotan’s reply and points out that her Fan Club is called S.C. NANA NET not S.E. and for getting it wrong she makes him do an extra Mawatte by himself.
Nana then talks about how there were two keyboardists rotating for the tour - Champ and Ryochin (yes, finally I made sure to remember his name ^^;;)- and their schedules were open on exactly different dates except for this last one when they were both available. She then asks them if it’s typical for there to be two keyboardists in one concert and they say no and she asks how it is and they say it’s pretty nice - Ryochin adds that in Spiral for example there’s a piano and an electric piano and typically he’d switch back and forth between the two, but tonight they could split them between the two of them and that made things pretty easy (we all couldn’t help it and laughed out at that, since Nana's songs typically don't make things easy at all xD).
Next it's corner time. She says the one tonight might be the most maniacal out of all the ones she’s done during this corner in LIVE HOME. It’ll be her first character song! From NOëL ofc!
08. Girl's Age
Oh! This really felt and sounded like such a blast from the past that's for sure. xD Not sure if I ever really listened to this one (and probably never heard this original version anyway), so it was pretty fascinating to hear it now - especially since the current Nana made it sound sooooo good. Like some old school musical / show bar sort of song.
After the song, Nana says this song was also reworked for her NOëL CD, but the one she sang tonight was the original version, which was released in a bit of a special kind of format.... Mini CD was it? Nana goes on to say that this corner was full of songs she either sings from time to time or wouldn’t really sing otherwise at all and doesn’t know if/when she’ll sing again.
Then it's time to return to present day...
09. ダブルシャッフル / 10. MARIA&JOKER
Aaahhhh, then we are on to my favorite part of LIVE HOME for the last time. I gotta burn the memory of Nana's fun little spins and her intense "Auh!" from Double Shuffle in my brain. :3
Team Yo-Da -showcase
Nothing new to add for this tonight! Except that I made sure to enjoy all the Persona references to the fullest, or at least tried to anyway!
Outfit #3
11. Reboot! / 12. GUILTY / 13. DNA -Dance 'n' Amuse-
Can't believe I am experiencing this for the final time.... (T^T) Got super overjoyed though that GUILTY made it into the line up tonight, since that means I get my ultimate combo for this section in the BluRay for sure! Not to mention it's always so great to see it up close from great seats. Same with DNA -Dance 'n' Amuse- of course! Just can't get enough of it... ahhh... I hope it'll keep popping up in the dance corner from now on too instead of disappearing into the abyss like some of my favorite dance songs...
MC3
Nana’s like "it's getting hot in here?!" and exclaims that this kind of sweat is the best (the one you get from a summer tour)! She talks about Las Vegas, Persona and stealing our hearts - the usual. She also of course talks about the car. Today it’s big Nanette with Cho-san’s penlight and a smaller Nanette hanging around it’s neck from the small bag that’s part of the goods as the driver, but Nana doesn’t comment on the addition this time. She's so into it that she calls it Nanacar by accident at first, then corrects it Nanallac… then she actually slips up big time and says Cadillac for the first time during the tour… oops. Can't believe this happened during the final night that will be on BluRay.... woops indeed. ^^;; Nana tells us that usually they’d just revamp an existing car or something, but this time it was made from scratch. Though she reckons that making her robot and whatnot was still prob crazier. She said it was so much fun to drive it like it’s a girls trip and says guys weren’t even allowed on the car at all throughout the tour, but Kenny really wanted to try it out so she let him since he has long hair and all and he took a bunch of pics of himself in it.
Nana then asks what Itaruvic would want her to ride in a concert in the future and he says she’s pretty much ridden everything conceivable already, but what he’d like to see is a dragon. Like having it ascend up high and then leaving Nana up there by herself and retreating to whence it came and Nana's like ????? xD
Nana proceeds to tell us a story from last night. The moment she got to the hotel she wanted to take a shower/bath, but the door to the bathroom in her room wouldn’t open. She tried and tried and eventually was like "is anyone in there??" but got no reply.. Nana had to call the staff to check it out and they were like "oh yeah sometimes the lock jams" (it’s one of those doors that has a button on the handle you push to lock it on the inside) and told her that if the door closes in that state it might get stuck like this. They sort it out for her and she takes shower/bath while keeping the door a bit open. Nana felt like she was in a horror movie or something and would have liked to changed rooms with Mishi-P but he was already sleeping. xD When she finally went to sleep she felt like it was really cold. She thought it was just her room, but the others luckily said the same thing. Guess since she is used to sleeping in 34.5C, 24 degrees feels very cold. Nana was worried about catching a cold or something but she was revitalized when she came to the venue - the perfect temperature for her is probably the temperature of a live.
Next it's time for the only ballad song….
14. Stand by you
Thank you Nana for always standing by us, in any way you could during these tough years. <3 Is what I was thinking when listening to this tonight.
Family Sitcom - insert movie
Don't remember much from the one tonight, except that Horiuchi congratulates Nana for conquering all 47 prefectures.
Outfit #4
15. FIRE SCREAM / 16. UNLIMITED BEAT
Bring on the fire screaming!!! This time I was once again prepared for the explosions at the end, phew! We were sitting close enough to the stage that I could even smell them this time. xD
MC4
Nana asks if we got surprised by the sudden explosion effects and then talks about the sitcom. She goes through who all the guests have been so far and that tonight it was Horiuchi. She tells us they go way back on Shaman King and he’s her dear senpai. Nana goes on to how he mentioned the conquering of all the prefectures in the sitcom and speaking of…
It's time for her to talk about her outfit and show off some of the live shirts that are part of it. We do a surprise Mawatte -call lol and Nana is like "ok fine since it’s the final" xD Of course we push it for a mou ikkai again and Nana decides that she wants all of us to Mawatte with her in that case. But since we can’t see her Mawatte if we Mawatte at the same time she says she’ll do it first and then it’s our turn. So that's what we do. xD She says seeing us all turning like that was very cute.
And then....
17. MY ENTERTAINMENT / 18. アパッショナート
Tonight it was finally time for the small project of raising our fists with Nana when she does so after the intro of MY ENTERTAINMENT! And just for reference, this was the project in question:
【拡散希望・セトリバレ注意】
— 聖水＠MY_ENTERTAINMENT👊大成功🎉 (@ssseisui) August 19, 2022
NANA MIZUKI LIVE HOME 2022
僕らの想いを一つに企画
曲のイントロで奈々ちゃんが拳を掲げるのに合わせて一緒に拳を
掲げよう👊
8/21千秋楽会場のみんなでできたら嬉しいです！
企画にご賛同頂ければ幸いです！#水樹奈々#LIVE_HOME #LIVE_HOME2022 #拡散希望︎ pic.twitter.com/Kpmf3Ws2kq
I was wondering how much of a reach this project had, but I was actually pretty impressed how many of us did raise our fists! Hopefully it'll become a thing we do for MY ENTERTAINMENT every time it pops up in the set list from now on.
And I was kind of hoping for Apassionato tonight!! We even got the stage spark shower like what's in there in the music clip and what we had during LIVE FLIGHT - so awesome. :3 Since most of Apassionato was happening on the middle stage, that meant the CheriBos were making their way back onto the stage during the spark shower and some of them were visibly worried about walking through. xD Eventually the ones right above the walkway got turned off so it became safer to get onto the stage lol.
19. ETERNAL BLAZE
And then it's of course, ETERNAL BLAZE time!
MC5
And then it's time for last song! Nana can’t wait for the day she can see our faces again and that she is zenryoku dreaming about it hence....
20. 全力DREAMER
Nothing much to add here, just as fun as always to listen to this.
Encore!
Outfit #5
21. レイジーシンドローム / 22. STAND UP!
Yay, we got STAND UP! here! Surprising, but definitely the preferred one for me! We were situated right at the end of our row which meant Nana was going to pass right by us with her tree house cart, but once again she picked that moment to turn away and look at the other side, so we just got her back. (T^T) sometimes I am convinced she does it on purpose... lol.
MC6
Shaaaaaaaasssu!!! Nana talks about the usual smile-gang stuff and then it’s time for a song she wrote about looking out at our sea of blue penlights at LIVE RUNNER earlier this year.
23. HOME
This song definitely is slooooooowly growing on me thanks to Nana' sentiments about it, so maybe one day I will be bummed that I didn't enjoy it as thoroughly as I should have during LIVE HOME. :3
After the song, Nana says she has some happy news to share… which is that tonight's LIVE HOME will get released on BluRay!! It will release together with LIVE RUNNER! Nana jokes that it will be home runner lol and she ensures us that she will make an appropriate cover for it for sure. xD
Nana then tells us that she actually has more to announce… there'll be a birthday two day live!! It'll be 1/21-22 in Saitama Super Arena, since that’s also her home ground. She tells us that it'll be like Red/Blue, Queen’s Night/King’s Night, Genesis/Frontier and they already have the title and all decided, but we just need to wait a bit more for the reveal of the details.
24. No Limit
And so.... LIVE HOME is coming to a close. While enjoying No Limit, I was feeling so grateful to know that we are back to the usual routine of knowing when to expect the next live again. Really glad we've returned to that much normalcy at least.
When Nana is on stage to say thank you with all the CheriBos and Team Yo-Da, there is also the huge Nanette there with a "congrats for 47 prefectures" shirt as a stand in for Cho-san. xD
Encore II!!
Oh yay, she came back! We're getting a second encore! Ryotan basically ran back and Fire is all ready on the slope part of the stage, making Nana even comment that he got ready so fast. The song is from the album for which she did the photo shoot in Nagoya, so SUPERNAL LIBERTY.
25. Fun Fun★People
Nana tells us to keep having fun fun with them! Man, getting this, GUILTY and Apassionato tonight really made me feel like we did a nostalgia trip to LIVE FLIGHT, which was awesome since that really is still one of the lives I have the fondest memories of. Just a bit of a bummer that we couldn't do the "oh yeahs and oh nos" for her tonight.
And that's all for LIVE HOME folks! Thanks for accompanying me through my reports! Will be keeping myself busy with translations till next January's concert. Stay well and hope to see you all there!
Thanks for all the reports! They were all a nice read. :D
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