Choujiku Super Live Merry Christmas Without You
UPDATE (December 23, 2010): Read Gubaba’s concert report and photos here. Please look at the comments of this post for other notable snippets about the concert that I might stumble on.
UPDATE (December 17, 2010): The concert pamphlet will include a dialogue between Kanno and Kawamori.
As previously reported, Kanno will be producing the live event on December, and its title has been revealed to be “Choujiku [Super-dimensional] Super Live Merry Christmas Without You”.
Details:
December 22, 2010: Japan Budokan
December 24, 2010: Kobe Port Island Hall (World Memory Hall)Confirmed performers:
Yoko Kanno
Megumi Nakajima
May’n
…and others!
More details to be posted when they arrive 
Sources: COMA, Macross F Official Blog
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September 9th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Dammit, I neither have the funds nor the backing to go. I so wanna goooooo T_T
September 9th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
As expected, the slated performers are:
カンノヨーコ (Yoko Kanno)
中島 愛 (Megumi Nakajima)
May’n
・・・and more.
Tickets are 6800 yen. There will be three few ticket reservation lotteries conducted before the public release, and one of these will be limited to Macross F fanclub members.
September 10th, 2010 at 12:32 am
It will be “without me” too
Until the next musically interesting and more serious Kanno event…
September 10th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Am actually hoping to do both the Tokyo and Kobe gigs.
Fingers crossed that my Mac F Fanclub membership was worth it!
September 10th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Well I guess you’d be meeting Gubaba if he gets in too
September 17th, 2010 at 10:14 am
[...] other news, there’s a new Macross F concert coming up, and they’re all during the end of my trip! Sadly, I’m sort of in the wrong parts of [...]
September 24th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
gasp!! i could make it to this! now, i’ll just have to figure out how i can score a ticket. how does a non-japanese resident get tickets to these events?
October 5th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
I’d also like to know how to get tickets for this!!
October 29th, 2010 at 10:03 am
got my ticket for the Budokan one!
November 13th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-whDt08ic
O_o
December 21st, 2010 at 3:04 am
Gahh, I wonder what that video was as it’s deleted now
December 21st, 2010 at 7:12 am
Don’t worry about it, it’s just Leon talking about the concert.
December 21st, 2010 at 9:44 am
yey! the concert is tomorrow! can’t wait for it!
December 21st, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Reports, reports please!
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:51 am
I’ll leave the reporting to Gubaba
December 23rd, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Gubaba uploaded his report on MW.
December 23rd, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Report here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=33784&view=findpost&p=887353
December 23rd, 2010 at 11:22 pm
^Many thanks for those!
These are from Masatsugu Shinozaki’s blog:
Location photos:
http://masachan4994.blog116.fc2.com/blog-entry-1149.html
And him having dinner with Kanno, Aya Endo and Nakamura. Censored though XD
http://masachan4994.blog116.fc2.com/blog-entry-1150.html
December 23rd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Someone snuck in a LQ camera and recorded the new PV of the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD7lIkvBoh4&feature=player_embedded
December 24th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Someone pointed out a mock observation of the happenings and script in that PV, and the person says that the song “Sayonara no Tsubasa”, which sounds like a song by Ranka, is played at the end. I think the song starts at about 00:50.
original:
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=3403957#post3403957
my take:
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=3404783#post3404783
December 24th, 2010 at 12:14 am
Thank you for all the links.
Well, if Sayonara no Tsubasa is a Ranka song, that means she has four unreleased for now (Houkago Overflow, that one for the magical girl outfit, Koi no Dogfight and SnT). I’m reading comments about Houkago being quite a sad song despite the upbeat feeling. I really like the whole magical girl thing they’re doing with her.
The trailer looks like an interesting departure from the series. Also, that new poster with Sheryl is great (and I love the outfit).
December 24th, 2010 at 5:18 am
Loving that new Sheryl poster…
December 24th, 2010 at 7:33 am
Yeah it really is something. It’s well drawn, sexy, and intriguing. I want to see why many elements of the poster are like that.
December 24th, 2010 at 7:55 am
I actually think that Sayonara no Tsubasa is a duet but I can be wrong.
Can you see the Tori no hito on that flag?
December 24th, 2010 at 8:34 am
That was one of the things that caught my eye, then her clothing, her expression, rocks on her feet, then oh there’s a valk! So many things on that poster!
December 24th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Thanks for all the reports fellas.
December 25th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Here’s a blog post with a photo of the Takarazuka Children’s Choir with the seiyuus and Kanno on May’n's blog:
http://ameblo.jp/mayn-blog/entry-10746922495.html
And here’s Megumi’s entry:
http://stblog.stardust-web.net/nakajimamegumi/comment/?entry_id=19930&_s=e1e135a70c5a81a1c2f9236ad60cc58b
December 25th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
And an article with A REALLY NICE PHOTO OF KANNO!!!!! <3
http://www.jpcul.jp/articles/view/146.html
December 25th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Megumi new songs in nicovideo
, the quality is not the best but sound great.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13126059
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13125882
The new song has the rhythm of a gentle Irish song, very beautiful the voice of Megumi…
December 25th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
I went to the Tokyo concert and watch the trailer 4 times before the concert start, from what I heard from the trailer, Sayonara no Tsubasa is 99.99% duet, it came with Sheryl and Ranka on wedding dress. The new part of movie trailer is Alto is heavily injured from vajura attack and VF-25 is damaged beyond repair and problely got YF-29 as replacement (picture in fighter mode is already on internet). Ranka met Alto when final war start (something similar to SDFM TV version when Lynn Minmey met Hikaru when final war start, does this means Ranka was not chosen? too early to be speculated). Sheryl and Ranka then sang together on the same stage with Sayonara no Tsubasa on wedding dress. Last scene is wedding chapel with 1 girl in wedding dress, not sure whether it is Alto dream or real situation.
Well have to save the money to go to Japan again this late February or Early March next year.
December 26th, 2010 at 6:52 am
Expect a comprehensice report with lotsa pics. Its taking a while because I did both concerts, then Fukuyama last night, and Akino Arai tonight. Need time to get my thoughts together and cross check songs.
December 26th, 2010 at 8:53 am
Oh, I’ll definitely look forward to it!
December 26th, 2010 at 9:09 am
@Love007 – Now THAT is Megumi singing. I expected as much on a live recording, she sounds much better than what we hear on record. Her voice sounds fuller!
I love Kanno’s arrangement on Kuma Kuma, it shows every bit of her versatility. Some people might not like this song because it’s too cute or something, but the arrangement once more is superb. Between this and Houkago, I love this one better.
December 26th, 2010 at 10:06 am
@mai – I also like that the producers would allow Megumi sing with all their capacity and not just with the more youthful tones… but apparently that may never going to happen in the Macross franchise.
I like his voice as Ranka, but live has always been even better <3
And I agree, the arrangements of Niji no Kuma Kuma are excellent and the lyrics of this is perfect for the style of the song :3
December 26th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Hey… if you find the bootleg to Songbird, please post here cause I’d love to hear it. I heard she nailed it.
Don’t worry about her being kept cute in the Macross franchise, it’s almost over now, so she can move on if she wants to, or as the demand arises
December 26th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Songbird
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0H22EOSO
December 26th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Wow, thanks for that! The bass is a bit too loud, but you could clearly hear the difference between Megumi live and her Ranka singing which is kept as the background backing track.
December 26th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Aya Endo’s blog post:
http://blog.excite.co.jp/endo-aya/15224807/
January 7th, 2011 at 6:02 am
Has that Songbird been uploaded to youtube or Nico? MU has been deleted