[Article] Wagakki Band First Yaeryu Assembly 2016

Hi everyone! I'm one of contributors of Extalia, nickname Puriko (given by one of my best friend in Japan).

source: Wagakki Band members' twitter

I got some requests from some members of Wagakki Band International Fanclub on facebook to report the Yaeryu Assembly last week, so I'll write some here. Since there maybe some of prohibited event to share, I'll make this report carefully and not to tell you all the details, please forgive me.

So, it was started when I won a lottery for 1 ticket last month. I was so happy and excited to attend the event. It was special event held by Wagakki Band for Yaeryu members only. But since there were limited space on the venue, they made it as a lottery.

I did reach Osaka at the Oct 15th morning after quite long journey from Tokyo. I got the 1st event to attend so I went to the venue at about 2pm.
On the way there, I saw some of other fans wearing Wagakki Band T-shirts and bringing other goodies too. I was so excited to meet all of them as we have same group to love.

When I got there, the management sold goodies special for Yaeryu and I did join the line to buy some of them! I got T-shirt (the black one, they had 2 designs anyway) and Yaeryu printed books vol 1 and 2.
Well, for foreigners who doesn't understand Japanese, the event was quite confusing since they didn't put any of announcement clearly even in Japanese. Fortunately, I went there with my Japanese friend so I didn't have any problem.

It was about to begin...
I got number 11 so I could enter the venue early. They called our number one by one. Actually, my Japanese friend was far away from me, so I should go by myself, and this girl staff helped me a lot since she could speak English a bit (I owe her).

Inside the venue, I got the first line at Macchi and Beni side, it was so close to them! (actually I even could touch them). Oh, also I got 3 new friends from Taiwan (Good to see you guys!), seems they such a hardcore fans too~

My position was this close to the stage

The event was begin by a staff giving some opening speech before all the Wagakki members entering the stage. It was a loud cheers when Wagakki Band started their first song and the 2nd song~
They brought some songs such as Mamoritai Hito, Hoshizukiyo, Yoshiwara Lament, Kishikaisei and Akatsuki no Ito.

THE BEST PART OF THE EVENT: WAGAKKI BAND SUPER Z! SPECIAL STAGE OF NEW FORMATION OF WAGAKKI BAND!
This time, they had a new formation!
Vocal : Kurona
Guitar + backing vocal : Wasabi
Sakuhachi : Machiya
Koto : Dai
Shamisen : Kiyoshi
Wadaiko : Asa
Bass : Yuuko
Drum : Beni

This group played TSUIOKU!
OMG! I cannot explain how amazing this band was! I laughed a lot!

[photos below taken from twitter of Wagakki Band members]

As we know, as a vocalist, Kurona-san was amazing! But the one made my laugh was he put 'URYAA~!!" too much to the songs! OMG.. that was so funny!
Next, Wasabi, he's position as drummer is 100% correct! He played the guitar as Macchi, was so amazing, but then Macchi should do the backing vocal right? Indeed Wasabi did it too! You should watch it yourself to understand why he made me laugh so hard!
Machi in Sakuhachi began with an amazing player like Dai, but then, he seemed frustrated haha..
Dai on Koto was almost perfect! He also controlled the melody for everyone since the others were like losing control of themselves ww
Kiyoshi at the beginning seems so confident, but then he got frustrated and went to Wasabi side to play his guitar with the Samishen's pick!!!
Asa on Wadaiko was so crazy from the start! When the part of Wadaiko came to put more instruments aside, he did sound all of the instruments crazily~
The one made my impress was Yuko on bass guitar! She always said that she wanted to play bass and she did! She played the bass really well! and had an amazing collaboration with Beni!
Beni was so cool!!! She did it very well! She seems so nervous though...
>>THIS PART WAS TOTALLY AMAZING!

1st special event:
They chose a member to answer silly and funny questions from other members and fans.
One of the question to Dai-san: If Wagakki Band were a family, put the role of the member~
There was Papa, Mama, etc, but a family also have a PET! Who was it? ww try to guess!
Other questions? Sorry, I could not reveal it here :D

2nd special event:
Members should guess A or B about some questions!
Members who chose the wrong answers more than 3 times would be punished.
And this time, Asa-san got the punishment! ww

Then we took a photo together!

Sorry I can't put the original file here since this is a special commemorative photo for Yaeryu only.
If you are a Yaeryu, check the photos here: http://global-fc.net/wgb/sp/tour/yaeryusokai1/

The event was SO SO SO FUN! I DID HIGH FIVE WITH BENI AND WASABI!
The one was disappointing me was they had no any encore...

Overall, I enjoyed the event so much! Sugokatta na~ Tanoshikatta desu~!!! Otsukaresama deshita!

Ah, I also met some of Wagakki Band's cosplayers and asked them to take photo with me! They were so surprise knowing that me, coming from overseas to see Wagakki Band's concert.

One of amazing facts I found there was I met a lot of fans with wide range of age. I saw a little girl coming with her mom but I also saw some of elder people wearing Wagakki Band's t-shirts and ready with all the supporting stuffs!

After the event, I enjoyed my Takoyaki and Okonomiyaki at Hankyu~