Minami Kuribayashi 1st Tour 2007 Fantastic Arrow

I know I’m 3 months behind this, but yeah, just got this yesterday.. so I decided to ditch my assignment and do a short review of this instead~

Speaking of Kurinoco, I really can’t wait for her usual compilation album, since I’ve been holding off to buy her singles (except Love Jump because it’s so good), and she had released so many after fantastic arrow album (7th one out next month! She sure works hard).

PS. Hocchan’s DVD was shipped yesterday. That’s early. Yay for CDJapan!

On to the real deal..

My first impression of this DVD was.. what a sad-looking packaging. ^^; No booklet, only a piece of paper with tracklist, credits, and a hand-written message from Kurinoco. Well, it’s Lantis for you. I should’ve known by looking at those crappy Jam Project’s DVDs.. definitely no match to King Record’s expertise in decorating packaging for otaku.

I’m really impressed with the video quality, but they could do better with the audio. The singing voice is a bit too soft/quiet compared to the instruments. And I’m sure it wasn’t Kurinoco’s fault. She sings really well throughout the 2-hour concert, although this is her first big-scale live. Well, she did look nervous at times, but it was acceptable.

If I must complain, I still couldn’t believe she only had 2 costumes for a 20+ songs concert. Or at least they could put a warning about it so I didn’t have to put my hope up high each time a song ends. >_> But really, knowing it’s our hawt Kurinoco… boo.

01 Overture

02 fantastic arrow

03 Shining☆Days
04 翼はPleasure Line (Tsubasa wa Pleasure Line)
05 ココロノカケゴト (Kokoro no kakegoto)

06 ある冬の日の午後 (Aru fuyu no hi no gogo)
07 硝子の小瓶 (Garasu no kobin)

There were a LOT of low-angle shots, was that intentional?

08 ふたりきりのプラネタリウム (Futarikiri no Planetarium)

09 boyfriend
10 おなじ月をみてる (Onaji tsuki o miteru)

11 遠い夏の日 (Tooi natsu no hi)
12 innocence

13 桜の花が咲くまえに (Sakura no hana ga saku mae ni) – piano
14 桜の光の中で (Sakura no hikari no naka de) – piano

Pretty impressive

15 人魚姫 (Ningyo hime)
16 Interlude ~affection

Finally she changed costume! xD

17 Yell!
18 マブラヴ (MuvLuv)
19 アプローチ (Approach)

20 Crystal Energy
21 Final MC

Aww…~

22 絆 (Kizuna)
23 Rumbling hearts

Yay, one of my favorites.

24 Encore MC

Band member (clockwise from top-left):

Ichikawa Yoshihisa (drum), Sasaki Mari (keyboard & chorus), Takita Isamu (bass), Iizuka Masaaki (guitar, e-zuka from GRANRODEO‘s)

Dancers (left to right): Aoi, Haruna, Minako, Yabuko

25 Precious Memories

Encore

I should say at some points it lacked the ‘energy’ of a live concert, but it wasn’t a big deal, this is still an enjoyable concert I’d love to rewatch again.

There’s a bonus picture slide-show too. Overall this is one of the best (and the longest) Making Of I’ve ever seen, it was really interesting to get to know Kurinoco and all staffs; how they worked hard to make this concert. Great job! ^_^

01 Making of Live Tour リハーサル (Rehearsal)

Practice, practice~

Practicing for the cute dance sequence in track 5

02 Making of Live Tour in Nagoya

Now I know this guy is her manager. I first saw him talking closely to Kurinoco in Animelo 2006′s Making Of and seriously wondering who he was (yes, up until I saw him in this disc and he called himself ‘suteki na manager-san’). Now I’m a little bit glad. …uhm, did I sound like a crazy stalker? >_> Oh well, he seems like a funny and interesting guy.

fantastic..? arrow!!

That’s a huge beer glass

03 Making of Live Tour in Osaka

She messed up a song and had to redo it from the beginning. LOL. But it was great how the fans was cheering on her.. ^_^

04 Making of Live Tour in Tokyo

Hand-made fantastic arrow special for Tokyo

Because I have a soft spot for meganekko~

“Sugo~i” instead of “test”?

05 Ending

Credits..

Special thanks..

06 “fantastic arrow” Music Clip

Neat

Catalog No.: LABM-7020 (Live Disc), LABM-7021 (Special Disc)
Release Date: 2008.02.27
DVD Region: 2
Price: 6000yen for 2-disc set
Length: 126 min (Live Disc), 81 min (Special Disc)
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