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Well, the senshuuraku live viewing of the Final Match Rikkai 2 just ended...and holy shit did it hurt a lot more than I thought it would ;_; I thought it'd be fine, it was just the second to last Myu, even if it was the last official one that would follow any sort of story line. I was so, so wrong ;_; THEY MADE THIS STUPID THING FEEL LIKE BURIMYU SENSHUURAKU GDI.

The theater I went to was, once again, Shinjuku Wald 9, though this time all of the screens weren't reserved for TeniMyu like last time, boo :P I was quite close in row G, but kind of off to the side. Still had a more than adequate view, though, and really--there are no bad seats since the whole thing is filmed from HQ cameras and streamed live to the theater. You get a better view than most of those actually present (provided you don't mind not being able to focus on who YOU want to focus on XD;)

The first sign that this show was anything out of the ordinary was the simultaneous shout when all of Seigaku ran on stage as the opening theme started: "Senshuuraku da! Arigatou!" ("It's senshuuraku! Thank you!!")

Probably one of the most memorable things of the whole show was the EARTHQUAKE that happened during the opening song XD;; According to Yahoo!Japan, it registered as a 3 in Tokyo, which doesn't cause any damage but definitely can be felt. Considering that we were 13 floors up, it was really freaky, because long after the actual shaking had stopped, the building still swayed, giving you the unearthly sensation of rocking from side to side for a good five to seven minutes after the shaking stopped @___@ Oh Japan...

Since it was senshuuraku (the final performance, if you didn't gather the meaning of the term :D), a lot of fun little adlibs worked their way into the show. One of the best: one scene has Nanjiroh riding a train to get to the finals to watch Seigaku's match. While riding there, a "lady" walks up and down the aisle selling bentous. At every show, Nanjiroh leans out of his little cart to flag her down, but is never successful. At senshuuraku, though, he finally managed to nab one, and promptly spent the rest of his scene trying to get it open and failing :D Oh Ueshima :P

In another example of senshuuraku fun, after intermission, Horio always has some short chat with one of the rivals, and today it was Fuji Yuuta, who was hurrying to be the first Rival to make it to Seigaku's courts (after helping Echizen get back his memories). However, he trips, and is quickly passed by all the others, who greet him in swift succession as "Otouto-kun" ("Little brother-kun") XDDDD Yuuta's heartbroken by the name, but at the end, Atobe calls on all the others to call him "Yuuta", and success :D Aww~~~~~

At the very end of the show, Echizen can be seen walking off (to head to America), but Tezuka stops him before he steps off, and then is joined by all the other cast members, who raise their rackets to him and shout, "Shoubu da!" ("It's a match!" <--said when challenging someone to a game of tennis), and then they all sing This is the Prince of Tennis. However, today, before Tezuka came on, Nanjiroh actually came on and had a "talk" with his son, asking him if he was glad he joined Seigaku, and if he'd had fun ;_; It was really touching ;____;

Ryuuki appeared to have a cold or be coming down with one, as throughout the show he would often have coughing fits, though this didn't affect his singing. I felt really bad, since the entire show was focused on Echizen, but was really impressed he held it together, and hey--at least now he can rest! :3

Being senshuuraku, there were of course a TON of tears. Tsuji, Shouta, and Toshi in particular were crybabies for the last 20 minutes of the show XD; Tsuji could be seen sniffling during the graduation ceremony and trying to mask it during the final Oishi and Eiji scene, and Toshi wrapped Ryuuki into a huge hug (very unscripted) sending them both into fits during the 5th cast ballad.

After the graduation scene, you always see how life at Seigaku is moving on, which involves Momo coming out and talking to the audience aka the new ichinensei XD He always does some cute little ad-libbing here when he comes on, and tonight...TONIGHT HE CAME ON SINGING Ore wa Momo-chan, complete with, "Po-po-powa! Hoho ga hoteru ze, pinku ni somaru~~~ Momomowa momoiro wa shouri no iiiiiro~ Sou ore wa Momo-chan! Momo-chaaaaan!" I CANNOT WAIT TO HEAR HIM AND EIJI DUETTING THE SHIT OUT OF THAT SONG DAMMIT.

During the final bows, Shouta and Taito have been taking to doing simultaneous handsprings, since Shouta goes offstage as Taito comes on. It's always a pleasure to watch them bounce their little acrobatic butts around stage, but tonight was especially fun XD Shouta comes on, and then Taito after him, and then Tsuji after him--today, as Shouta and Taito were running off after their handsprings, Tsuji made like he was going to do one too, took his position, went down...and then rolled safely forward XDDDD KEEP TRYING, HONEY! At least he attempted it today? :D

After bows, the whole cast lined up on stage, and Ueshima-sensei gave the final stage greetings, thanking Konomi himself (who was in the audience) and the audience for an amazing 7 years. I actually hadn't expected them to treat this like the last because there's still DL7th in May, but I suppose because this was the end of the real musicals, the end of the storyline, it definitely merited some closure, and Ueshima-sensei spent some time talking about that.

For the final Seigaku ballad, the guys were really bawling, and that was about when I lost it, because they were just trying to hard to put on brave faces. But when Toshi walked over to Ryuuki, stood behind him, and wrapped his arms around him and just hugged for dear life, that was when it really got to me that they were only going to have a few more shows together and then...all over forever until they get invited back for DL16 or something

And if that hadn't started me, what came next sure as hell would have: During the opening strains of On My Way, on the big screen behind the stage were streamed images from every TeniMyu so far, from 1st cast's very first musical through St. Rudolph, Hyoutei, Rikkai, Higa, all the matches got acknowledged and it was like this is it, this is the culmination of TeniMyu ;_;

Seigaku and Rikkai come running on from opposite sides during FGKS, too, in the order of their matches, and do fun little things with their opponents (so Tezuka and Sanada run on, then Inui and Yanagi, then Kaidoh and Kirihara, etc.), and when Oishi came running on here, he JUMPED onto Jackals back and rode him piggyback off stage XD Then right after them, Eiji and Bunta ran on and did mirrored cartwheels because they are awesome XDDDDD Also awesome: Tezuka and Niou being the best camewhores ever during FGKS as well~~~~

Usually, the show is over after FGKS, but...well, it was senshuuraku. So they had every single player come back out, two by two, and give their final thoughts as pairs. This...was really really amazing to watch, because the guys had been given free reign, apparently, to be as in-character or out-of-character as they wanted; in short, they all slipped in and out of referring to each other by character name and by real name ;_; Most of the guys simply spoke about how happy they were to have met their character and gotten to be in TeniMyu, and then thanked everyone, but some who were good friends got really emotional when speaking ;_; Pairs were as follows:

Yuuta & Akutsu (Kenn and Juri)
Tanishi & Shinji (Matsuzaka and Futoda)
Shiraishi & Kintarou (Harukawa and Kido)
Atobe & Hiyoshi (Kubobe and Hosogai) - this was absolutely adorable, because they tried to stay in-character, and then at the end Kubota called him Kei, and Hosogai had the cutest confused expression :3
Kirihara & Yanagi (Genki and Yamaoki) - this made me almost cry because Yanagi was crying and saying how Genki-kun had helped him so much and sdfiuhsdifs ;___; I don't even care that much about the characters but god did it make me want to give them both big hugs ;_;
Marui & Jackal (Mio and Toda)
Niou & Yagyuu (Nakagauchi and Baba Tohru) - the thing I loved best about this was...how Nakagauchi made everyone stop for a minute and give a huge round of applause to 5th cast Seigaku (WHO WERE NOT EVEN ON STAGE, not to mention Sanada and Yukimura still hadn't come out and done THEIR bit yet wtf) for bringing them all this far and being just amazing sldfiushdfls Then they really cutely snagged each other's catch phrases to bid farewell :x
Sanada & Yukimura (Kanesaki and Masuda)
Ichinen Trio
Momoshiro & Kaidoh (Toshi and Akki) - god, Toshi almost couldn't do this. He literally had to take a moment to compose himself, and then made it really fast because otherwise he was going to start crying again ;_;
Inui & Kawamura (Ebo and Ikkou)
Golden Pair (Tsuji and Shouta) - OKAY OKAY SORRY GONNA HAVE TO BE A LITTLE SPAZZY AND OH MY GOD THIS MADE ME BAWL BECAUSE DATING OR NOT THESE TWO ARE JUST SO FUCKING CLOSE IT HURTS. Shouta was...really really having a hard time keeping himself together XD; They had very obviously planned on staying IC, and had made up a cute little exchange to pimp their event next weekend (they're having a talk event together next Saturday, just the two of them):

Eiji: "Oishi!"
Oishi: "Eiji!"
Eiji: "...When will I be able to see you again...?"
Oishi: *thinks* "....how about 6 days from now? :D"

That's how it was supposed to go, but Shouta had the hardest time getting his part out and it was just way too cute and sad XD;;; And then Tsuji, oh Tsuji--he had to go and say the following while staring dreamily at Shouta:

Tsuji: (on verge of tears) "If Kikumaru Eiji had not been Takasaki Shouta...I could not have made it through these past two years."
Shouta: (ABSOLUTELY AWESTRUCK...........LONG AWKWARD PAUSE) "...oh it's my turn now! I FEEL THE SAME WAY ;~~~~~~;"

Then they both were big sobby girls and ran off XDDDDD

Fuji & Tezuka (Taito and Baba) - I gotta say, it was actually hilarious the complete lack of TezuFuji chemistry they had at this point compared with the love and friendship and support T2 had just spilled all over the stage :P I usually thought Taito and Baba did a good job of playing up TezuFuji to a decent extent on stage, but here they were really professional and just did the basic "I'm glad I got to be in TeniMyu, thank you Baba-kun/Taito *bows*" XD;

And last but not least:

Nanjiroh & Ryoma (Ueshima and Ryuuki) - final thanks and greetings, and Ueshima going, "SEE YOU ALL IN YOKOHAMA IN MAY!!" :P

And that was it...! The last official storyline TeniMyu is over for the "first season," whatever that means ;_; We just have Dream Live 7th left, which is going to have a hell of a time topping this ;____;

In the meantime...OTSUKARE EVERYONE!!!

Date: 2010-03-14 01:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] solaas.livejournal.com
Waaaaah! Need. DVD. Like. Burning. OMG!

Super awwwww to Atobe giving Yuuta some support. Aww awww awwwwwwwwwww! :D

I'm glad I wasn't there to see this. I would have dissolved completely. ;;

Date: 2010-03-14 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirami.livejournal.com
Awwwr~ Thank you so much for writing this TT__TT (I'm actually totally too stupid to remember everything... whaa.)
I watched it in a Cinema in Shinjuku too xD I was in.. uhm.. Cinemaroom 4, I think... Entrance on the 9th Floor and then some stairs above..
(af#kög*ls DAMN where is my Cinematicket >_< I haven't lost it, have I...? T-T)

I was crying so much... T_T but it was so great...
everything you wrote is just so right <3

Thank you very much for posting ♥ ♥

@Earthquake: Whaa~ so it wasn't just me.. I somehow felt totally dizzy and thought, what the heck is going on.. |D" Yesterday Evening/Night was a quiet strong one too, I think...

Date: 2010-03-14 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fencer-x.livejournal.com
I was in Theater 9 (12th or 13th floor?) -- so same place :D And yes! I went to karaoke with a friend last night and totally felt the earthquake in Shibuya XD

I think tonight's was stronger, though, and it was easier to feel the swaying so high up @___@

Date: 2010-03-14 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demonyukimura.livejournal.com
Thank you for this impression.
Is there already a release date for the DVD of this show?
Probably not, but who knows :D

Date: 2010-03-14 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fencer-x.livejournal.com
May 20 :) Funnily enough, the same day as opening night of the Yokohama DL7th shows XD

Date: 2010-03-14 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demonyukimura.livejournal.com
I see... :D
Are there arlready pre-order possibilities?
I found the Soundtrack at yesasia but not the DVD....

Date: 2010-03-14 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notphil.livejournal.com
I was in the theatre in Sendai, and the earthquake registered a 4 there o_o I actually wasn't sure if it had registered in Tokyo at all, since the boys didn't seem to react to it at all.

OH GOD TSUJI AND SHOUTA. The graduation scene always makes me cry anyway, but seeing Tsuji actually crying while in character got me so hard ;____;

And I loved how everyone got to give their own speeches at the end, that was great. So excited to see them all again in DL7~

Date: 2010-03-14 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fencer-x.livejournal.com
(haha oh god your icon XDDD)

I was impressed! Maybe it wasn't so bad if you were on the ground floor or underground, though? We were way up high, and even then it wasn't that strong in Tokyo, so perhaps they DIDN'T feel it? There was definitely that ripple of murmuring going around our theater though when it hit, haha.

I pretty much lost it at the graduation scene when Tsuji broke ;_; After that it was just a river of flailing to keep back tears because gdi Seigaku were all just a bunch of weepy folks~ (though Yanagi was giving them a good run for their money going on and on about how "omg I couldn't have done this without Genki-kun ;^;")

Date: 2010-03-14 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notphil.livejournal.com
Yeah, we were on the third floor of a huge AEON mall, and some people actually screamed because of the earthquake, it was kind of scary. At first I thought it was the Tokai earthquake they keep saying is due to hit XD

SO MUCH CRYING. I thought it was so sweet when Toshi hugged Ryuuki during the ballad ;_; I swear Seigaku Ballads are designed specifically to make the boys cry while they're singing them. Oh man, and Yamaoki Yuki trying to thank Genki and only getting two words out before losing it! Yamaoki cries a lot though XDDD

And I really loved the way they changed the adlibs for Senshuuraku too. Everyone in our theatre cheered when Nanjiro finally got to buy that bento XDDD

Date: 2010-03-14 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fencer-x.livejournal.com
(and hahaha oh god I loved Ebo making Ikko drink the Inui Juice and being all, "DRINK IT ALL. ALL OF IT.")

Toshi hugging Ryuuki: that definitely really really hurt ;-: in a good way, though. They were all just barely holding it together during that whole song, and then Toshi doing that, GUH. They really do need to give a bit more thought when they write these songs :P Eventually their boys just aren't going to be able to sing them because they're too busy getting all blubbery XD;

Haha yes! Nanjiroh finally getting his bentou (and then not being able to open it 8D;;;) was one of the best things -- and a bunch of people got all excited at the extra scene added at the end between him and Ryoma before This is the Prince of Tennis too~

And the final goukon date cracked me up XD Nanjiroh/Ichinen Trio...OT4?

Date: 2010-03-14 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notphil.livejournal.com
LOL But at least Ikko got a hug after he finished it! Also I think Ebo was fighting back tears during his solo in the BANZAI song.

I was really happy that the ballad was even in the show at all; when I first saw it a couple of months ago, they hadn't put it in yet, so I'd been thinking they'd just do it for DL7. I saw it for the first time on Thursday when I went to see the show live again (Tenimyu is very good for the economy, making people buy shinkansen tickets all the time). I'm so glad 5th Seigaku has their own ballad finally, and a really sweet one at that.

HAHA the goukon! I liked how Nanjiro was just like, "Uh, okay? Call me when you've got it all set up?"

The scene with Kaidoh-buchou and the ichinen trio was cute too! And I loved Sanada and Atobe playing janken in the audience during FGKS XDDD

Date: 2010-03-14 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fencer-x.livejournal.com
Oh god okay I was wondering if it was him getting choked up or WHAT at Banzai XD

And I didn't realize the ballad hadn't been in all the shows, weird! I only wanted to fork out for the Tokyo shows, so since I missed the first set, I had to wait for Gaisen to see it this run, so I only just saw it on opening night for the Tokyo Return shows. Crazy!

Date: 2010-03-14 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] viherkyn.livejournal.com
It hurts just to read about it, how will I be able to watch it when it comes out on DVD?

First of all, thank you for writing this, I won't remember to say thanks when I start babbling out of my thoughts.

Poor Yamaoki, there's just something so child-like about him when he cries and Christ, I hope he got lots of hugs afterwards. And Toshi, of course he would hug Ryuuki, they're Momo and Ryoma. And Toshi singing Ore wa Momo-chan, fucking hell. Toshi and MoriEiji together, that is going to be EPIC.

And Tsuji and Shouta, you two silly buggers.

I don't even know what the hell to say, it's just so bloody heartbreaking. It's sad, it's really, really sad. I can't believe Tenimyu is almost over, there's one Dream Live left and then it's done. And even if there is a second season, it won't be the same and... god, 5th cast better bring down the house in DL7th.

And they sang Prince of Tennis, the one song I really, really, really wanted to hear from them (or any cast for that matter). My god, the DL7th is going to be so awesome.

Date: 2010-03-14 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sayac3p0.livejournal.com
It's really the end now TT____TT

How was the Yukimura-Ryoma match? What else they have in the 2 hours long myu besides S1 match?

Thank you for writing the report.

Date: 2010-03-14 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geebaby757.livejournal.com
I just about started crying just reading this report. I can't believe that it's over! Well, the actual "first season" plotline at least. Guh. The Tenimyu montage, the crying, the boys just being adkfjokjfikds!

Why do I get the feeling that I'm going to be crying for at least a week when DL7th finishes?

Date: 2010-03-14 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yomimashou.livejournal.com
YUUTA XDDD I can't wait to see KENN in this when the DVD comes out :DDD

Also. I CANNOT WAIT TO HEAR HIM AND EIJI DUETTING THE SHIT OUT OF THAT SONG DAMMIT. iawtc so much XD

Date: 2010-03-15 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amyused.livejournal.com
I've got to say, I really can't wait to hear 5th cast's ballad. :X It's always rather touching to hear each cast's slow song and especially if everyone was crying... As horrible as that sounds, I really want to see everyone effected by the fact that it's senshuuraku. Half misery-wants-company because I'll definitely be crying and half appreciating that this play effects all of these guys so much, too.

Gaaah, I'm so lame, I'm tearing up reading this... ;_; On My Way's past Tenimyu montage sounds so... so culminating. ;_; <3

"If Kikumaru Eiji had not been Takasaki Shouta...I could not have made it through these past two years."
OH my god... TT__TT <3 <3 <3 I love these two and just .... gahhh!!! <3 <3 That's so amazingly sweet and sounds so unplanned, if Shouta acted so surprised at it.

Damn... I want it to be May already for both the DVD of this show and DL7. TT^TT

Date: 2010-03-15 04:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fencer-x.livejournal.com
I really hope (and think) that this will get on the DVD -- it was such a big deal, I can't imagine them not including it ;_;

It really did feel like Tsuji had thought through what he was going to say, but...that Shouta didn't know he was going to say that, or that he was going to say anything at all. I'm thinking they didn't plan anything beyond their little banter as Oishi and Eiji, and then when Tsuji went into this heartfelt speech about how much Shouta being there meant to him, Shouta was just...so adorably dumbstruck, it literally took him a few seconds to realize Tsuji was waiting for him to say something in return, and he was just so flustered that all he could respond with was, "あ、俺も一緒!! ;~~~~~;"

Date: 2010-03-15 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amyused.livejournal.com
Seems like they've been using mainly senshuuraku on the DVDs so I have high hopes that I'll get to see this. Not like they don't have it taped after all. ^^; And I'm sure they'd include the speeches at least as an extra on the DVD, if not in the actual show.

Goddamnit... They're just so... so amazingly awesome and it's so wonderful that they became such great friends. ;___; I don't think that there could have been a better combination for either of them. Tsuji is Shouta's Oishi and Shouta is definitely Tsuji's Eiji. They're both just so... gah... ;_____;

Date: 2010-03-15 06:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apathy-irath.livejournal.com
Thanks for writing this up. It sounded like a very emotional end to the run (and now there's only DL7 left. orz). I hope that they show the screen with the images from all the Myus on the DVD- it sounds like it was done really well (and the individual speeches, too).

I still don't know what they mean by the 'first season', but if there's a second season, I'm not sure whether it'll be quite the same? ;

Thanks, again.

Date: 2010-03-15 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] makichan5.livejournal.com
Thank you very much for this report >_<
So many good moments!!! We love Tenimyu ♥
I would be interesting to see the earthquake in the backstage lol

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