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Minori Chihara 1st Live Tour 2008 ~Contact~

Departed in July 14th, 2008
via music, 茅原実里

Poster and DVD

Weeks late for a review, huh? But who cares anyway.

The live DVD was a pretty enjoyable ride, I’d rank this as good as Kuribayashi Minami’s, minus the good long Making Of.. wait, Minorin doesn’t even have one. >_> Anyway, she sang impressively, although most of her songs sound the same to me.

Few notes before tracklist and snapshots.

- Minorin got a custom jewel case with rounded edges (like Mizuki Nana’s Starcamp EP) but I hate hate hate thinpak. It’s OK for anime, saved me hell lotsa space, but not for my precious live DVD collection.
- Booklet is so-so, I already got most pics from hm3. Head over townberry for scans.

- She only changed costume once. At first this was a real downside for me, but like Kuribayashi Minami’s live, after I ~~stopped being an oyaji~~ got over it, it wasn’t that bad. Nice gowns.
- Two songs were performed twice, given she can only sing her Lantis songs.

- This is Minorin’s first big(ger)-scale personal live to mark the debut album, ignoring non-Lantis work (heroine). She didn’t look nervous, but she didn’t move a lot (except the trademark para para hands) until the second half of the concert.

01. Contact

02. 詩人の旅 (Shijin no Tabi)

03. MC
04. Peace of mind～人魚のささやき (Peace of Mind ~ Ningyo no Sasayaki)

05. ふたりのリフレクション (Futari no Reflection)

06. Cynthia

07. MC
08. Fragment～Shooting star of the origin～

09. sleeping terror

10. MC～メンバー紹介～ (MC ~Member Introduction~)

11. 純白サンクチュアリィ～Acoustic Ver.～ (Junpaku Sanctuary)
When I first read the tracklist, I had doubts. How the hell they gonna make a powerful techno-pop song into an acoustic piece? Anyhow it turned out nice.

12. MC
13. Dears～ゆるやかな奇跡～ (Dears ~Yuruyakana Kiseki~)

14. mezzo forte

15. interlude

16. 夏を忘れたら (Natsu wo Wasuretara)

17. MC
18. Last Arden

19. 君がくれたあの日 (Kimi ga Kureta Ano Hi)

20. too late? not late…

21. 純白サンクチュアリィ (Junpaku Sanctuary)

22. MC

23. truth gift

24. 詩人の旅 (Shijin no Tabi)

25. MC
26. Melty tale storage
Preview of her “upcoming” single Melty tale storage. Weird, I didn’t really like this song when I heard it months ago, but her performance here was convincing.

27. MC
I was quite amazed she didn’t cry when the audience were calling her name frantically.. compared to, say, Momoi, who would have filled up a bucket of tears already. ^^; I don’t know why but it seems she tried her best not to cry. But she finally cried after thanking her parents, who came to the concert! Wow.

Mom and Dad