Ahhh...one of my dreams came true. Yesterday, in the pouring rain, I went to see Princess Princess at the Osaka Kosei Nenkin Kaikan Hall. The show started at 6:00 (doors opened at 5:30) but I wasn't really sure where the venue was, so I went there quite early.

I found it easily and waited outside for a about an hour until they opened the doors. I was on the third floor, row E, seat 63...so I was pretty far away from the stage. Fan club members got all the good seats...and got to buy their merch in advance. (Some people came already decked out in t-shirts and carrying fans.) Membership has it's privileges.

So the show started on time and they played for about 2 hours and 15 minutes, with one encore. The show had a prisoner motif (everyone wore striped prisoner outfits, with some variations (Tomoko wore pink and black stripes, Kaori wore white and black striped pants and a black sports bra and black vest, etc.) The beginning of the show was done behind bars, but the bars were lifted and they ran down to right in front of the fans. Nice.

Here's the set list:

• Oh! Monkey Woman
• Wonder Castle
• Your Vibration
• 7 Years After
• Koi wa Ochitara
• Jumai
• Birthday Song
• Come Back
• Tinkerbell
• Hachi Getsu no dekikoto
• I Love You
• Fly Baby Fly
• Glass Heaven
• Sabitsuki Blues
• Intro Song
• Guitar Man
• Rock Me
• Go Away Boy

• Bye Bye to Love
• 19 Growing Up

• hearing Kaori-chan pant live in 'Your Vibration'
  
• Kaori-chan's short red wig (you'd think it'd be wierd, but it looked very sexy)
  
• Kyo-chan's Animaniacs t-shirt (Dot Warner saying 'I'm the cute one')
  
• Tomo-chan singing her song (did I read that one right?) a cappella with the other girls backing her up
  
• I Love You a cappella. They faded the mikes out at the end so you could just hear their voices unamped and natural. REALLY nice.
  
• The Intro Song. I don't know what it's really called, but when it was time for the inevitable band intro (like we didn't know who they were!), they did it in the form of a song and then everyone would solo for a little bit. Very cool. Don't think I've seen any band do that in that sort of way.
  
• Kaori's black sports bra and her blue minidress she changed into for the encore. Tomoko's black encore minidress.
  
• The first encore song, which I THINK was called 'Bye bye to Love'. I've never heard this song before and I don't know if it's on the upcoming album or not (they didn't say) but it might have been one of the best songs I've ever heard from Princess Princess. I was really amazed by it. Damn, I hope they record that!
  
• Singing 19 Growing Up with thousands of other people.