Well, firstly I like to comment on pics (though nobody even realize there’s actual text under “that pic with legs”), and maybe not everyone wants to save everything. But above all, the real reason is that I scanned them one by one. So you leechers should load and right-click-and-save one by one too, no such thing as “having it easy”. Mwahahaha.

Anyhow, booklet scans! The thing itself has 58 pages, mostly occupied by the songs’ lyrics. Obviously I only scan whatever that has Nana on it. Scan quality is pretty decent with unavoidable noise since the book is small and the printing quality isn’t that good.

DVD and BD have identical booklet, just (obviously) different size, DVD is slightly bigger. They cut off a bit from top and bottom for BD, about 7 mm each… and these are BD scans coz I have 2 of them. xD

Cover

Both serve as front covers (I like “Nana is here” lol, I assume it was the stage position?):
- Seibu Dome from left to right.
- Nippon Budoukan from right to left.

Live Diamond (Left-to-Right)

(L) MAYBEEE~~♪ Sigh I prefer the version without sleeve/skirt lol.
(R) Chinmoku? The top part of this dress doesn’t look so hideous.

YEEEEE~~~S FLY AWAY! xD makes a pretty good wallpaper~ ♥

(L) Inosuta I guess.
(R) Lemme tell you something, the DVD booklet shows 7 mm more legs..

ETERNAL BLAZE! Too lazy to clean the middle part xD

(L) Maria & Joker LEGS WHERE.
(R) Etsuraku angle fail. The slit is on the other side…

(L) Bring it on! One of my favourite pose.
(R) wo~wo~oh, POWER GATE! ♥

Halfway there!

16 various shots on and off stage from both live.
Hmm, can you guess when/where the shots were taken? xD

Live Fever (Right-to-Left)

(R) Good they didn’t put a DISCOTHEQUE shot, I hate the hat.
(L) lol can’t tell which jumping song.

White spotlight gave it away that this is Shin Ai. Cut the right page coz it only had Kenny (guitar) lol.

(R) Doesn’t really capture the awsm jazzy dance but one of the clearest shot.
(L) It’s in the bag.

(R) She looks emo so Orchestral? xD
(L) ..banzai? Powageto jump? Last jump? Anyhow Nana looks really happy in this pic. Love the expression.

After encore throwing the mirrorballs.

…God I scared myself for (mostly) knowing when exactly the shots were taken.

..that, if I ever figure out how to capture a BD screenshot (I think I’ll settle with the DVD). Or if I have enough self-control to remember that I’m supposed to do a review instead of drooling.

Nothing is better to start a review than showing off the actual stuff! I had fun arranging the funky special boxes, tho scanning is always painful for lazy people.

Bluray Special Box

Looking very exclusive. Love the idea of having the venue top-view printed on the CD. Two Seibu Dome and one Budoukan = pure gold!

DVD Special Box

Amazing package, though they could put more effort on the CD design instead of just red (Fever) and green (Diamond).

First-press bonus: Promotional Poster

This is what everyone gets, an up-scaled version of the cover with extra huge-ass writings. The paper quality is not bad, tho printing sucks as always. :-/ Most likely I’ll just keep both posters to smack mosquitos.

Tototototokuten~ ♪

Big thanks to someone who helped me to get these~ ♪
- From Toranoana: Shitajiki (pencil board) and Tapestry
- From Gamers: Bromide and Table Calendar
I also bought an extra BD from Tsutaya (with its epic poster calendar), but I will only get it after New Year.

Tapestry

*shitajiki to compare size.
Toranoana is famous for giving out weird creative stuff, and this is my first Nana tapestry. I will treasure it~! ( ;A; )

Shitajiki & Bromide

Simply stunning – words fail me. Both make the best scans too!
Can’t imagine anyone using the lovely red shitajiki as a writing surface lol. I’ll prob stick it somewhere as decoration.

Table Calendar~ ♥

Dunno if it’s Engrish or what, but by “table calendar”, they meant CD-sized papers. Above pics are the reversible cover. The rest of the calendars only have big “Live Diamond x Fever” writing behind it.

As usual, 1 pic for every 2 months.. Balanced slots for Fever and Diamond pics. The images aren’t new, those are official live photos that were on various reports, but I think the choices are well-thought.

Jan-Feb & Mar-Apr

- Red kimono (Diamond) is the obvious choice for January / New Year
- Beautiful dress (Fever) that marked Shin’ai first live for winter-spring.

May-Jun & Jul-Aug

- Nun (Fever) is always good for all occasion, really.
- Energetic blue summer-wear (Diamond) for the hot mid-year.

Sep-Oct & Nov-Dec

- Awesome Mio-cosplaying goth-loli rocker chick (Fever) for my birthday month! *runs*
- The bloated gown (Diamond) that looks like a wrongly-coloured Christmas tree belongs to December.

Aaaaanndd… ♥

Summing up the loot, and sneak peak for the next post: booklet scans!

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Now I see how this costume (from White Album concert) fits the song!

It’s different compared to the usual Agematsu/Nana collaboration, not just to Shin Ai. It feels really dramaticized and emotional, befitting the “unreal / fantasy” theme of the song. I really got into it after a few repeats.

As anyone would have said, it’s totally not Shin Ai. For once, it sounds to me more progressive rock than ballad, especially with the guitar solo. I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, but Nana really excels in conveying her feelings to a song. I feel emo already But yeah, I think Mugen represents the painful side of love, compared to the hopeful Shin Ai.

I also can’t imagine waving white lights to this song. I’m thinking more like medium-tempo wave of red lights, or maybe even UO.

Can’t wait for the PV and hearing this live in the FC Event! xD

Another track of the new single has been announced, titled Dear Dream.

It’s gonna be the new ending theme for the retarded TBS show “Card Gakuen”, the one that has Gimmick Game as its opening theme.

The song is composed and written by Shihori, the cute 1980-born who brought us the epic Chinmoku no Kajitsu, my personal fave track in Ultimate Diamond.

Etsuraku Camelia @ Live Diamond~ <3

Also a good news: annoucement of NANA MIZUKI LIVE DIAMOND×FEVER! It will be released on December 23, 2009.

The awsm package will include obviously her longest concert ever clocking at 4.5 hours LIVE DIAMOND @ Seibu Dome, and the final day of LIVE FEVER tour @ Budokan (fff–not the day when she cried for the birthday present / Shin Ai topping Oricon). We also get both days’ Making Of.

First press, as usual, will come housed in special packaging.

POWER GATE @ Live Fever~ <3

Here comes the price.

Bluray (3 discs): 9,900 yen
DVD (5 discs): 9,900 yen

The number of discs is surprising, I must say. But with King Records Quality and at least 8 hours of Nana and probably few flashes of my face *runs*, I think the price is fair. Tho I can’t help but cough blood, thinking about the doubles I might be getting..

..but anyway, I just hope the Christmas rush won’t delay my package again. I surely don’t want people to think I always look depressed on Christmas like last year (well, waiting for Fighter BD made me anxious).

LIVE DIAMOND was surely a blast!

Arrived in Seibu Dome couple of mins before 2 pm.. and gawd there were looooots of people there. I forgot to take pix of the crowd tho, lol, cos was busy trying to meet with sum awsm bloggers cos all wotaku Asians look the same lol. I’m always happy to meet a cool bunch of Nana fans! And I hope issa-sa didn’t miss the train back home lol.

There were too many people that buying water in a convenience store was impossible. And apparently Australian and American can’t tell that Aquarius is not water lol, tho the colour was a bit dodgy.

Anyway. I entered the Dome few mins before 4, as predicted the live was a tad off the schedule, 2 hours weren’t enough to get about 25-30k people seated.. OK to be honest I sneaked a shot.

And that sweet little orange arrow is pointing to where I sat! Mwahahah.

Lol anyway real live report.

Opening
It started with an opening video of a baseball match between Nana and a gaijin. Nana was the pitcher and of course she beat the shit outta the gaijin.. tho she srsly threw the ball like she was playing bowling. Nana needs to watch Cross Game.

01. Miracle☆Flight
…was unexpected. I really thought it would get opened by MARIA & JOKER, but oh well the song really made the fans go high. The loli dancers from Live Fighter are back too! But my eyes were fixated at Nana, cos she wore this cute blue mini-dress and has the smile of an angel. Ok I’m still deluded.

02. Aoi Iro
Unexpected! part 2. But I’ve always wanted to hear the “maybe” directly from her. <3 And oh I started to realise that the speakers for stand/balcony seats are lagging by 1 second, cos the cheers were a bit late. I hope it wasn’t really a problem for fans up there.

-MC1-
She welcomed us to DIAMOND~~ and announced awsm news: a new single for White Album and Tales of Symphonia the movie! AAAAAANNNDDDDD DVD and Blu-ray for LIVE FEVER and LIVE DIAMOND! It’s something like Museum x Universe then. It’s a definite must buy! BANZAI~~! BANZAI~~!

03. Anone ~mamimume mogacho~
Nana took off the blue skirt, leaving a very nice legs shorts on. Did I tell you I love summer? Anyway it was nice being one of the monkeys in Seibu Dome. I don’t particularly like the song but the wotagei call was simply the best! xD

04. The place of happiness
More good old songs! I’m starting to really really dig this live cos I thought I’d just experience FEVER again in a bigger hall.. apparently not.

05. Aoki Hikari no Hate -ULTIMATE MODE-
Finally a song from the new album! Good choice to start~

06. Nostalgia
Woooh couldn’t believe I can hear this song live. ;_;

Band Intro
..there is no Cherry Boys for Live Diamond.. we get Ongaku Senshi Cherrybo Seven! Video of seven sentai guys each represented by a rainbow colour lol. Ryu-tan looked awfully funny in that Cherrybo Purple tight costume. Kenny looked good in blue, but Tomu-kun was LOL PINK. That must be the most hilarious Cherry Boys skit I’ve ever seen.

07. Chinmoku no Kajitsu
Nana reappeared on stage again with a huuuuge blue dress. Liek huge. Not in the good way. But I’m still in hippy mode now so who cares. Hm, I believe this epic song deserves an ultra orange so I did, tho blue lights still dominated the dome.

08. Zankou no Gaia
..was srsly better than the one in Animelo last year, prob cos the whole hall was full of Nanaists? xD

-MC2-
Epic costume, no matter good or bad, is the right time for “mawatte” calls. Just like Fever, all fans must turn around first, or she won’t do it… tho she definitely enjoyed the moment and did another turn lol, what a tsundere!

09. STAND
One very old song that she last sung live 6 years ago in Live Attraction, a really nice surprise tho.

10. Shounen
OK hearing it live wasn’t so bad, but I still dislike the song. Wait, I hate the performance too, cos she was on the other side of the stage so I couldn’t see !@#!#

11. Futari no Memory
Totally made up for Shounen.

Video
Nana was walking her lovely chihuahua Kei-tan, strolling around.. stopped by a baseball field and watched it while her hair was swept by the breeze…. the scene was really a beautiful I drooled.

12. PERFECT SMILE
Aww flower costume! Not one giant-sunflower skirt of Live Fighter, but lots-of-flowers skirt. Sweet song~ She strolled down from the stand seats, and finally back to my stage mwahaha.

-MC3-
..ee, I see Itaruvic got an acoustic guitar, a small setup with a chair.. *gasp* Acoustic Corner is back! She said she will start with a very meaningful song for her.. a song from Nanoha..

13. innocent starter (acoustic)
and I shed manly tears. The acoustic version made the song sounded even more gentle, soothing, and.. *sobs* I WANT THE BLURAY NAO.

14. NAKED FEELS (acoustic)
..lol I started to feel the Live Universe vibes.

-MC4-
A special guest was introduced.. one person that we all have been praying for, harper Agematsu Mika! Looking adorable as always, she also promoted her latest album that includes a cover for Super Generation. I wonder if that sneaky ad is actually working cos oops it might be on my shopping list now. Anyway everyone knew why she was there..

15. Shin Ai (acoustic)
I kept saying I want this since few months back.. and oh gawd do I have a yuri bond power with Nana or whut. Can’t describe by words sry. xD And oh, I put the ultra white to use.

Dancers Intro
Twice the amount of Team Yoda. Who cares if they can’t dance, Mika is sew cute.

16. Gimmick Game
Futuristic costume with a mic headset! Diet song starts! I think I lost few kilos!

17. still in the groove
One of my favourite Nana dance song~

18. Take a shot
I wonder if actually they were planning to put Inside of Mind but gyah it’s a Sonoda. I like this a lot but gyah no Dancing in the Velvet Moon then..

-MC5-
Mentioned what a diet song Gimmick Game was.. and can’t remember lol, cos I got a nice view of the.. ahem.

19. BRAVE PHOENIX
If FEVER had all Nanoha openings, DIAMOND had a lot of Nanoha inserts, which are actually better so go go Nano-IN~ I was impressed with the stage setup.. real fire during the high part of the song, and water fountain for calm verses..

Video/Skit
One guy is being attacked by a bunch of men in black, yawn I didn’t sign up for this action shit. The guys actually appeared on stage and start fight-dancing or sth. But wait, someone comes to rescue him!

Nana kicked their sorry asses awsmly, reminds me of Hayate no Nana (lol I’m supposed to recap that DVD but oh well). Umm, the dress colour and fabric are a bit off, but I love the design, it’s something like Justice to Believe’s dress, but smaller hence better. The next song is totally predictable by now lol.

20. MARIA&JOKER
Really, really, really good live. We were discussing bout how to wota-call this song since it has weird tunes and not really call-able.. but woh the wotas managed.

21. Justice to Believe
Just because of the dress? xD Damn I didn’t buy ultra red sticks.

-MC6-
I srsly thought she would announce that the next song is the last one or sth.. cos I counted there were more than 20 songs performed.. but no, she just wanted us to jump higher with all we got..

22. ETERNAL BLAZE
..so of course we did. That was my 5th time wotage-ing to this song live, and bout my 4081249th time listening to it, and it still rocked my world.

Skit
Some guys playing drums/taiko. I sat down and drank my 3rd bottle of Aquarius to recover my low HP. Quickly changed the Fenix lights batteries cos it started to dim out.

23. Etsuraku Camellia
Exposed shoulder viewed from the best angle: the back (cos she was in the middle stage). Yes she wore the kimono thing, without the ugly black thing, so that was perfect.

24. Bring it on!
Rocking x2. No wonder my Fenix lights ran out of battery.

25. Trickster
Another favourite! She went really high, and the stage set-up was crazy.

-MC7-
She finally talked about her deceased father.. she didn’t in FEVER, so she must be more mentally-prepared now.. but she still cried. Lots of people shouting “gambatte” for her, which just made her cry even more I think.. and soon after we all cried too cos the next song will be the last song. D:

26. Yume no Tsuzuki
Predicted. And still lovely, tho not as strong as Sing Forever. This song may not be the best ballad she has, but the live version was really emotional.. so I kinda like it now.

-ENCORE-
Tell you what, I ran to the toilet and broke my sandals. I’m retarded woohoo.

27. POWER GATE
She popped out from the right side in a stand trolley thing and went around the Dome, before coming back to the front stage to rock!

-MC8-
The next song will be a new towel song taken from the album!

28. Brand New Tops
..which is not a really good towel song, I prefer Be Ready! or PROTECTION a lot more. Heh at least the fans can call to the Oo-oo-oo-oo~ but gawd the next song just killed my brain.

29. DISCOTHEQUE
I really thought this song was impossible to get in cos of the Sonoda jerk. Thank you so much Goddess Nana for this miracle. Nothing much to say, except.. chulu-chulu-chulu pa-ya-pa!

The concert really ended, no more songs… only instrumental version of Brand New Tops, which isn’t as awsm as FEVER’s DISCOTHEQUE that got everyone to sing along. Anyway time for freebies! A baseball dome so the bonus must be a signed ball! 77 of them! She had this bazooka thing to shoot the balls so it’s way fairer for them. I missed my chance by 2 seats in front.. and then again 3 seats behind.. but wat really upset me was FAHK I WAS ONLI FEW STEPS AWAY FROM THE WRISTBAND. !@#!#$! Nana sweat missed orz.

Overall thoughts..
29 songs. Twenty. Fahking. Nine. Songs. With 2 songs more than Live Museum, this is really the longest concert Nana ever had, clocking at 4 hours 30 minutes! I want those hours back in my life. ;__;

I’m really satisfied with the song choices too, tho damn Astrogation and Dancing in the velvet moon got written out, and I really really want to see Mr. Bunny! live.. Maybe next time, I’m 777% sure there will be a 30th birthday concert or something next January to welcome her to the 17-sai world~ <3

After the live..
The staff organised which blocks can go out of the Dome first.. starting from the stand seats down to the Arena blocks.. probably to prevent people killing each other to get in the train, but anyway waiting was never a problem when instrumental version of Miracle Flight was playing in the background. I was amongst the few still-on-crack-mode fans who waved lights for that lol.

Just to give you a glimpse on how awsm the stage setup was! And that sitting up here must suck lol.

Also met up with a blog reader / cool kid (yes you’re a kid!) Etherlite, and went for a nice ramen dinner in Ikebukuro with the same old Nanaota bunch too.. and look we found a nice ad in Ikebukuro station!

This is the same bonus poster we got for buying in the CD section. Still looks cool tho! And see what they did there with the tiny “7″ logo on top of the poster.

Some pix of Anikan R special Nana edition that was given free for all concert-goers. There were related others too but I’m not interested lol.

Nana live history and album collection. Sigh the first few lives didn’t get to DVD.

Anyway I gotta go to buy new sandals and go to that curry restaurant Nana mentioned before. No I’m not a stalker so I won’t go NANA SAT HERE BEFORE *sniff sniff* D:

But before that, a little present to these dudes/ladies, I believe this is yours? =D

Mizuki Nana ni.. KAKATTE KOI~~~!!

Yes that was how Seibu Dome looked like yesterday at 11 pm, in the rain, photo taken from right outside Seibukyuujoumae station.

We were waiting for the Live Diamond goods booth to open 8.30 in the morning. And I’m proud to say I was one of, um, two girls, out of 150ish fans who camped out! Please tell me I’m awsm.

So yeah, the first pix explained how bad last night’s weather was. There is no cafe or whatever, so everyone just sit outside the station. A lot of Nana songs were played pretty loudly tho, so it wasn’t that bad. And I had company too, 3 awsm Singaporean fans and a Japanese fan they met on the train. Talking 10 hours straight about Nana was not boring at all! XD

About 4 am I guess.. still raining, no Nana-staff yet, and the Seibu officers were totally clueless on how they should handle this bunch of losers.. so we were left hanging for about 1 hour, wishing a staff will save us by organising a queue before the first train arrives at 5.40 am which would have made our efforts worthless.. to make matter worse, some tired/hungry/crazy Nanaota was upset and picking a fight with the poor officers. But at early 5am, the staff finally arrived and set a queue. xD Still outside the booth area tho.

Just look how front I stood. I was the first fangirl and the first gaijin in line! Sweet.

They let us queue inside about 6 am.. plenty of time so I left my things to spy on the booths~ first glimpse of the limited goods!

Welcome to Nana Stadium. Sounds cool, but “Time 77:77″ doesn’t make sense no matter how you think about it!

And of course the Nana Trucks. I simply love them.

Red Nana Truck.

White Nana Truck.

Close-ups.

And this is how the queue was at 9 am lol, but who cares, I’ve got all my things~ xD

Live Diamond Goods

Yes, that should be all of them.

Postcards are especially nice, but nothing, NOTHING BEATS THE POSTERS. lol but I’m too lazy to open them just for photos. Will follow-up with framed ones later~

The first page already made me…. uh, ok I need a moment. ;A;

Limited Goods

LOL shocking pink, it did scare some guys off, but I have absolutely no problem~ <3

The pins that are actually decent, but I’m paranoid I’d lose or damage them if I wear them so yeah these are rubbish orz.

Put 500 yen a day in the can and you can probably afford a Nana concert by the end of the year!

Nanaca?!

Nanaca is a “Memorial Card” that we get randomly for each item that we buy. Just to fool the retarded fans. Obviously there are seven possible cards..

The moment I saw this, I really really want the baseball blue. And lol blatant Nike ad. The upper cheerleader-Nana is a bit special, it SPARKLES and apparently quite rare compared to the others.

..but of course I still can haz complete set. <3

..but that’s actually cos I bought this many orz.

..anyway it’s fun to play with!

Are you ready?

Heh I hope I made at least some of you jealous with what I have.. but nothing will beat tomorrow! As you can see I’m pretty well-equipped (thanks Paranda for the heads up bout these awsm lights!) and well, hopefully mentally-prepared….

Let’s begin LIVE!