UPDATE: Pablo / Macross Fanboy’s VIDEOS posted removed by Bandai Dengeki Online Official report link added.

Budokan:

Some photos from Dengeki.com:

May’n:

Megumi with other V.A.s and Kanno Nyan Nyan CM:

Megumi, Kanno, May’n:

Photo from May’n’s Blog:

Some photos from Masatsugu Shinozaki’s blog that include Kanno:

Rehearsals:

Audience at the entrance:

Performance:

Set list from photo from Shinozaki-san’s blog (sorry some text are blurred, and some kanji I don’t recognize):

0 - ???
1 - Frontier 2059, Prologue F, Diamond Crevase Acapella
2 - What ’bout my Star ???
3 - Medley ???
4 - Ninjin
5 - Anata no Oto
6 - My boyfriend is a Pilot
+Talk
7 - Neko Nikki
8 - Seikan Hikou
9 - Don’t be Late
10 - Fanclub’s Night
11 - Northern Cross
12 - Aimo Ranka Acapella
13 - Aimo Sheryl Acapella
14 - Aimo Duet???
15 - Infinity LiveMix ver.
16 - Reminiscence Trumpet
17 - Ao no Ether
18 - Diamond Crevasse Sheryl Special Ver.
19 - Yousei ???
20 - Ai Oboeteimasuka? Original
21 - Fold 2 <—– what is this?! -mai
22 - Shinkuu Haisui??? <—– again, what is this?! -mai
23 - Medley ???
Encore:
23 - Private Army
24 - Triangler
25 - Lion
26 - Don’t be Late
27 - Seikan Hikou
+Talk 2
28 - Anata no Oto
29 - SMS Chant
30 - High School Life
31 - Piano with May’n and Megumi <– no details?
32 - VTR with piano

Photos from sanspo.com:

From midoryuki:
Read from her Live Journal Blog. Maaya was there, and Kanno performed with an orchestra!

From Pablo/Macross Fanboy:
Read from Macross World. He got the tickets at more than 3 times the price! *__* View his videos in Youtube here.

Yokohama:

From “Bobby Margo”:

From presepe.jp and Mainichi.jp:

I hope I picked up the set list right from presepe.jp:

Duet:
Triangler
Nyan Nyan Service Medley
Lion

Megumi:
Seikan Hikou
My Boyfriend is a Pilot
Ninjin
Neko Nikki
Aimo O.C.
Ai Oboeteimasuka~bless the little queen

May’n:
Welcome to My Fanclub’s Night
Northern Cross
Don’t be Late
Aimo Acapella
Infinity

Encore:
Seikan Hikou Duet
Kanno Piano Solo
SMS Song - audience
Diamond Crevasse x Blue Ether

From jabro.jp:

photos from jabro.jp

Outside the Hall
Displays and Goodies
More Displays and Goodies
Tuna Buns

Knightwing, from Macross World:

The age range of audient at the concert seems to be consisted mainly with over 25 years old ( seems to be old fan of Macross), I cannot find any young children at all and strangly a lot of women come to this concert.

Also before concert start as usual, there was Macross karaoke for fan to sing and of course this year so many guys tried to sing Ranka and Sheryl song which you don`t have to guess what the outcome should be. Sometime it was so funny or horrible, but full mark for their courage and madness of their dedication to Macross

photos by Tochiro

Tochiro, from Macross World

I’ve been to a few anime events in Japan and a lot of concerts and let me say that this was by far the best anime concert I’ve ever been to, bar none.
I don’t remember all the details, but I’ll go through some of the highlights.
Firstly, the whole concert was Nakajima and May’n. No Maaya akamoto or Kawamori unfortunately. Kanno was on piano the whole time but did not get introduced until the first encore. There was a band, but those three carried the entire show for almost 2.5 hours.
Interestingly, the girls stayed in character the whole main concert, even referring to themselves as Ranka and Sherryl. During the encores however, they used their real names and introduced the band, etc. Kanno got her first introduction at this time (2 hrs in) too, although everyon obviously knew who she was.

The concert kicked off with a duet version of Triangular, followed by the ep. 25 medley – a strange choice for a 2nd song but I wasnt complaining.
The stage had a transparent sheet over part of it – either singer could stand behind it and be seen by the audience, but images could also be projected on it too. There was also a tiny section of the stage that could be raised hydrolically 1.5-2 meters into the air. The amazing thing was how these different elements were combined. At one point, Ranka went up behind the screen singing ‘My boyfriend’s a pilot’ when these huge CG valkyrie flew in ‘around’ her thanks to the projection screen. The Gerwalks hand was exactly where the lift was, so when it raised it seemed that the Gerwalk was ‘lifting’ her in its hand as she was singing! Then, 2 other battroids danced on either side of her as she sang. Of course, then Ranka got scared – and what do ou do when scared and stuck waiting for a giant robot to put you down? You sing Ninjin loves you yeah, of course!
Utterly amazing.

The screen was also used to project series footage or even juxtapose footage of one of the girls over the other, which was a really nice effect.

Kanno was handling a piano and a keyboard and giving infrequent dirsctions to the band all at once. Yet often she couldnt even stay sitting down she was so energetic. At one point she got up behind Nakajima and May’n and started dancing along, much to the approval of the crowd!

Other highlights were Kanno coming out into the center of the hall (off the stage) and doing a piano solo. Theres something about over 5000 people singing along to the SMS anthem that is just terribly surreal.

The final encore was a duet of Seikan Hiko, along with a an animated clip telling the audience when to wave their arms, clap, or kira! It was originally from the Macross F. Website: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=ppZWEOdsApk&…feature=related

Pretty much every vocal track from the series was covered, with the more popular ones being played 2 or even 3 times (ie, a full version, medley version and final megamix version). My only real disappointment was that there was no Sherryl only version of What ’bout my star. But there were plenty of duets to make up for it.

Oh, there was a home documentary clip at one point showing Nakajima and May’n rehersing and practicing together – even Kawamori and Kanno made an appearence in it. Very cute.

While its far from common, Im hoping that a DVD/BR or album of the concert is released or that some footage of it is included as an extra in in the DVDs. It was so good that it would be crazy not to release it.

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