As we have been saying in our twitter and other articles, we went to YuiKaori’s Live in Pacifico Yokohama last January 2nd and 3rd! Happy New Year to everyone! Since it would be quite long of a report to cover both days, we will just compile the highlights we have posted in our twitter, but expound onto more details! Also, as we have already announced in twitter, YuiKaori’s Tour will be extended, this time, it will be held in Nippon Budoukan on March 12, 2016 titled “YuiKaori LIVE Rainbow Canary!! ~Brightest Stage~”

It is an important announcement! In a blog post by Ogura Yui in 2011, they went to watch Tamura Yukari’s live and dreamed and aimed to perform in Budoukan as well. After 5 years, the dream is finally coming true! It is definitely thanks to everyone’s support and hard work! Congratulations, YuiKaori! Let’s work even harder this year to help the girls reach higher dreams from now on!

For information: Ticket Applications for the Budoukan Live started last January 3rd 8:30PM JST and it will end until January 12, 6:00PM JST.

With that announcement, let’s proceed onto the Live Report from the past weekend!

Set List:
-Opening Movie-
01. Ring Ring Rainbow!!
02. LUCKY DUCKY!!
03. Baisoku∞Love Straight
-MC-
04. CUE the Future　~Theme of Q~ (1/2)
04. Crystal no Chikai (1/3)
05. Intro Situation
06. Rainy Day
-RAINBOW FIGHT – Jenga –
07. Telephone Call (Ishihara Kaori Solo)
-MC-
08. Sunny Ray Beam!! (Ishihara Kaori Solo)
09. Liar Sheep (Ogura Yui Solo)
-MC-
10. Honey♥Come!! (Ogura Yui Solo)
-RAINBOW FIGHT – Sports Battle – (Strike Out / Original Triathlon / Sumo)
11. Calling Calling
12. Billion-Carat
13. NEO SIGNALIFE
-RAINBOW FIGHT – Fashion Coordinate Theme: Going to Hatsumoude (1/2) –
-RAINBOW FIGHT – Fashion Coordinate Theme: Drawing For Fortune (1/3) –
-MC-
14. New World
15. Kimi no YELL (1/2)
15. Tsubasa ni Naru yo! (1/3) *The first time it was ever sang live*
16. Hoshifuru Yoru no Happy Link
17. Canaria

＜ENCORE＞
18. HEARTBEAT ga Tomaranai
19. Wake Up!! ～PUPPY LOVE!! Medley
20. Our Steady Boy

We warned you! IT WILL BE LONG. 

Opening Movie

The opening movie was very cute. The two of them were walking in a field of greens when suddenly a box was dropped from the sky. From there they found cloth that said RAINBOW CANARY as they spelled it on the grass. Before the movie ends they realized that the “!!” were missing so they ran to the end of the words (near Y) and laid down the grass as the “!!” completing RAINBOW CANARY!!

1st MC

1/2 – For the first day of the live, they greeted everyone a happy new year (Akeomeminoru~) This MC opens with Yui-chan accidentally saying “Tokyo Live” instead of “Yokohama Live” she immediately corrects this, then greets everyone a happy new year again. Carrie-san then tells everyone to be careful not to get muscle pains because there is work on Monday.

1/3 – For the second day of the live, it is the same akeomeminoru~ but this time they started it with their “Stay Over” MC. Because the Yokohama Live is two days, they had to stay in Yokohama. Yui-chan explained how usually the staff books them a hotel room one for each, but since they often end up transferring to each other’s houses–room (yes she accidentally said house instead of room), this time the staff gave them a single twin room (too bad it wasn’t a double room -/slapped). Here, Carrie-san mentions how she got curious of Yui-chan washing her face, so she took a video of her removing her make-up. Let’s all wish she upload it somewhere maybe

Cue to the Future and Crystal no Chikai

These two are very old songs that we have never thought we’d ever see live, any of us. We were all glad we went and saw these two songs performed. They were truly remarkable.

Rainy Day

A special mention to Rainy Day. Since the stage was Pacifico Yokohama it was similar to BUNNY FLASH LIVE‘s setup. YuiKaori went up onto the higher stage and behind them the was a raining animation. Then the whole room had dimmed lights as warm spotlights were onto Yui-chan and Carrie-san. As they dance to the mellow song, you could see their shadows following the dances as well, it was a truly remarkable sight. Satsunyan called it the Shadow Dance because, more often you only see part of their shadows, but because of the spotlight effect, you can see their whole body’s shadow as they danced. It was very beautiful.

RAINBOW FIGHT – Jenga

First RAINBOW FIGHT is a battle of “Pride” since it is a battle of pride, there would be no prizes, but there is a punishment game. Yui-chan then gets really angry telling them that then it would be pointless if there wasn’t a prize for the winner. Yui-chan *pat pat*

For the first round, the two played Jenga. The jenga had the colors of the rainbow. Deciding who will go first by rock-paper-scissors, Carrie-san wins and so at first she opted to go for her image color, but since it was near the bottom and she is not confident in jenga, she decided to just forget about it and get anything. Meanwhile, Yui (the ever confident Yui-chan) said she is confident with the Jenga game. Yui-chan kept on trying to distract Carrie-san by going “Wah~” Every time she’s about to pull out a block. Yui-chan prz. The whole game continued on for a while with a few fast forwards here and there, until Yui-chan stops and says “Please excuse me…” after taking a block… and putting it on the top diagonally. !? Ogura-san!? And so, Carrie-san takes the next block and lines it up diagonally as well with an “Excuse me.” Near the end, Carrie-san decided to take a definitely impossible block near the bottom and of course, as we all expected the tower collapses and Yui-chan wins the challenge.

In their latest radio episode (Mi♪Radio 2016/01/03), a mailer asked why Carrie-san decided to take from that side. “As the older one, did you do that to let Yui-chan get the win?” Carrie-san jokingly said that “Yeah I let her win.” But Yui-chan insists that “That’s definitely not it!” So Carrie-san answers that there was one time she played Jenga, took from the same side and it didn’t fall. She thought that it was the same for that time as well. Too bad, Carrie-san.

Telephone Call

As per Carrie-san’s words since their Osaka Live, she said that Telephone Call’s color is definitely green (for the penlight/cyaleum). Her outfit top was a green sleeveless, cut short to reveal the mid-riff (glorious abs). She also wore a greenish/silver skirt with lots of sequins then a pair of gloves. The English lyrics for Telephone Call was really well pronounced, as expected of Carrie-san who has a really good knowledge of English ♡.

Ishihara Kaori Solo MC

1/2 – Carrie-san opens the MC by thanking all of us for using green penlight for Telephone Call. She then says that she said it should be green in Osaka but how come we knew about it. “Who told you about it?!” We were told via Twitter, Ishihara-san. It seems that fans has been calling Telephone and its song color a “Public Telephone” and it made her angry going “Why do you call it that way!?” She also praises us telling us that we all have gotten good at doing the penlight calls and stuff. Then someone says 「回って！」(Turn around!) And then she interestingly looks at the audience. She then remembers that Yui-chan said that “Everyone does like this turning around thing don’t they?” complete with a Yui-chan impression. So she gives us all a service and turns around slowly, showcasing her outfit. She then asks everyone what we did in the New Year’s. She tells us that she went to her Grandmother’s house and met with her young cousins. Last time she met them they were almost the same height as her… but this time around they’re all taller than her! Even though she’s the oldest, she’s eventually the smallest. She also went to COCOS and ate a beef hamburger plate of some sort. Then after that she played Monsuto (Monster Strike) with her older brother. Her brother asked her to help him with the boss, she got the bonus (Izanami) for that boss event, not just one, but two of it! Congratulations, Carrie-san who-always-suck-at-mobile-games!

1/3 – Carrie-san starts her Day 2 MC by saying that she has finally finished her graduation thesis! Yay~ Congratulations, Carrie-san! She says that it would be nice if she could graduate from College without any problems. Then, she remembers her song being called a public telephone and just goes “yeah, yeah sure” completely ignoring it. And then from there, we gave her the 「回って！」calls again. She complies again, but we did something she did not expect! We started a 「もう一回！！」(One more time!) call, completely surprising her. (Satsunyan started the call from her side and she was grateful that everyone followed. Thanks everyone!) Carrie-san was shocked to hear us wanting her to turn again, nonetheless, she said Okay and turned again, the other direction! Thank you for the service, Carrie-san! She then said that there was a map on the stage. She started asking everyone where they came from. She asked for people who came from Okinawa, from Hokkaido and such. Then… of course she asked of there are people who came from overseas, and of course we wildly went “OUUUUU!!!” And at first she wouldn’t believe it, but it’s true Carrie-san! She then says that she did see the flower stand we sent to them. It was a flower stand from overseas fans. Thanks for noticing us, Carrie-san!

Thank you very much to everyone who participated in the Flower Stand! Carrie-san noticed us!

Liar Sheep

Yui-chan came out right after Carrie-san’s Sunny Ray Beam. She was wearing a skirt with five color layers and a white 3/4 sleeved long tank top that has the top side of the sleeves cut off to show some skin. She was also wearing a white hat with silver sequins on the side. She was covered all throughout but somehow her outfit still seemed like she was showing a lot of skin. Bare legs game too strongk.

Ogura Yui Solo MC

1/2 – Yui-chan starts the MC by telling us that she worked hard with Liar Sheep’s choreography and it’s costume. She also tells us about her favorite dance step for Liar Sheep was the intro dance step where she moves her hands circular to the front, tipping her hat. It is very hard to explain so let’s leave it out. Then someone says 「回って！」Yui-chan then laughs saying “I heard Carrie-san’s MC earlier. You made her turn around, didn’t you?” Then chuckled. We also laughed as to thinking that it is very hard to make Carrie-san do such things, and she herself thought this as well. So Yui-chan asked us, “What direction did she turn at? How many times?” We told her she turned once, so she answered, “Okay, I will turn twice then.” The ever so competitive Ogura Yui-chan. She then asks us if we ate senbei, and other traditional Japanese sweets during the New Year. It was interesting since everyone answered yes, while the small number of us foreigners were all “Not yet~” We haven’t eaten it yet Ogura-san(*´д｀*) With that, Yui-chan talks about her recent boom with Youkai Watch Puni Puni. She explains how she has always seen this cat (Jibanyan) and wonders what kind of cat it and only discovered who it was after getting into Puni Puni. She also finishes her MC by saying that she bought the Jibanyan bread from the convenience store and it was really delicious. She also went to the children’s store and saw a Youkai watch Parka she really liked… Everyone asked if she bought it… She said that Komasan was really cute so she checked at the size… It was 100cm… but she thought that she’d be an adult and stopped herself from buying it.

1/3 – On the second day Yui-chan continues with the start of the same MC as the day before, but suddenly people were telling her to turn around. She puts her hand up and says “I got it, I will turn. Wait a minute, okay?” Since she hasn’t finished talking yet, it was funny. In any case, she did turn around, she said it was going to be a special version, so she turned around to the right, to the left then another complete turn. She turned around three times and ended it with a pose! The ever competitive Ogura Yui-san competed with Carrie-san’s two turns and made it with a three! Then she talks about the Seijinshiki (Coming of Age Ceremony), she asks everyone who will attend their seijinshiki and was surprised to find a lot of people who are the same age as her. She explained how she won’t be able to attend her seijinshiki but tells us that she will definitely be going home to wear a kimono. She mentions as well that her mother always picks her kimono. She also tells us that she likes that red kimono she wore and uploaded in her blog and encourages everyone to go check it!

-RAINBOW FIGHT – Sports Battle – (Strike Out / Original Triathlon / Sumo)

This one is a 3-part Sports battle. The first one is Strike Out. Similar to the strike out games in Baseball centers, this also involves throwing a ball towards a wall labeled with 1-9 in a 3 x 3 board. The number you hit will be your score. At first the two of them throw three balls each with all they got but they hit neither LOL. So they took about 2 steps closer to the board and decided to throw from there. Yui-chan goes first this time, she wasn’t able to hit anything, but on her second throw she hit 6! Sadly, her last throw didn’t hit anything. Yui-chan got 6 points! The next one is Carrie-san’s turn. With her first throw she was able to get 1, even though she aimed for 5. She still aimed for 5 and got 2. With two balls thrown, Carrie-san got 3 points! With one last ball remaining, she decided to aim for number 3. She was able to hit it… however! The ball didn’t go through it (it didn’t get knocked down) so she wasn’t able to get the 3 points! She cutely went to the board and asked it “Whyyyyy” Poor Carrie-san. The first of three battles goes to Yui-chan who is now leading with 3 points!

The second one is an original triathlon. It consists of Kangeta, Foot Massage Mat and Small Bicycle cycling. Kangeta is wearing a geta (Japanese traditional choose) while holding a string attached to it, then after that they have to walk over a foot massage pressure mat, then wear shoes and then ride the children’s bicycle to the goal. But with a twist! They’re wearing a helmet with balls inside it and the balls must not spill or it’ll make their points lower. The original triathlon then starts! Carrie-san gets a head start by being able to get into the geta quickly and reaching the end. Yui-chan gets left behind as she tells her “Wait for me~~” but she remains unheard. Carrie-san suffers a foot pressure attack as she walked onto the mat, by the time she finished the foot massage mat, Yui-chan was just around the finish line for the kangeta. Carrie-san was able to put on the shoes swiftly and sit on the bike as Yui-chan’s cute “Ouch~ It hurts~” can be hurt as she suffers the foot massage this time, as she still tells Carrie-san “Wait for me~”. Meanwhile, Carrie-san who was at the last stretched had problems… She was moving backwards with the small bike, instead of forward! However, Carrie-san gets over this small problem and finishes the race as Yui-chan was just starting to ride the bicycle. Yui-chan was half-way into the bicycle when she started looking at the camera and said “Hello Everyone, I’m Ogura Yui.” However, she accidentally drives to the wrong side and almost gets into the foot massage mat. She gets a bit stuck as she moves a little backward again, asking Carrie-san to “Help me~” Carrie-san immediately stands up from her bicycle but then realizes that if a ball falls out of her helmet while she’s helping her it’ll be her penalty, but nonetheless Yui-chan was able to overcome the hurdle and then she goaled~ Carrie-san’s Time was 1:10 with 36 balls, while Yui-chan was 1:56 with 37 balls. With the time difference, Carrie-san was awarded 23 points, being the winner in this round.

The last one is sumo. Everyone in twitter called this “lesbian sumo” “yuri sumo” “flirty sumo” to be honest, there is no better summary, but this. The two changed into jerseys and stood in front of each other like real sumo wrestlers. At first they started to push each other and no one was budging until… they started chasing each other around the ring. They both decided to re-start it as they panted, tired from all the running. Then, the hugging-forever, touch-everywhere, Carrie-san chasing Yui-chan around continued, until Carrie-san was able to push Yui-chan out of the ring. It was amusing how she didn’t let go of her hand until Yui-chan was safely on the ground. She tugged onto her hand to help her with her safe landing. Yui-chan lost the sumo with a question, “Are my bangs okay?” Carrie-san confirms for her that they are okay, and this battle was Carrie-san’s win.

With a final score of Yui: 43 and Kaori: 82, Kaori wins this round!

Calling Calling and Billion-Carat

There was a part of the choreography where Yui and Kaori would have to face each other and move their hand to the side. During Day 1, Carrie-san waves her hand at Yui-chan making her laugh. It was very cute. Meanwhile, Billion-Carat, as expected was a really fun song with all the random English word calls. It was very nice.

-RAINBOW FIGHT – Fashion Coordinate Theme: Going to Hatsumoude (1/2) – and -RAINBOW FIGHT – Fashion Coordinate Theme: Drawing For Fortune (1/3) –

The final Rainbow Fight is a fashion coordinate battle, but it’s not what you think it is! There are purely troll items and clothing for this section, so they have to create a coordinate and make sure they have enough reasoning to convince the fans that it is the better coordinate! They both have mannequins, Yui-chan’s mannequin is named Nijitaro and Carrie-san’s mannequin is named Nijinosuke.

For going to Hatsumoude, Carrie-san’s mannequin theme was “The style of a man from a hawaiian company” while Yui-chan’s was “A Rich Hatsumoude” Carrie-san’s mannequin was wearing hot pants, a Japanese white shirt and a white cardigan. Nijinosuke was also wearing some sunglasses while his hands was doing the aloha pose. While Yui-chan’s was wearing a whole suit, a belt and of course a necktie. Nijitaro’s leg was propped up on boxes as part of his pose.

Going back to the stage, there was a decibel recorder on the stage. The audience (us) will clap with all our might the louder one wins. With a difference of 90.1 and 90.3, Carrie-san wins! As it is a battle for pride, the punishment game is showing their embarrassing photos. In the screen, they showed a 2 -3 year old Yui-chan who was wearing a pink Winnie The Pooh shirt. It was very cute.

For going to draw a fortune theme, Carrie-san’s mannequin was wearing a full monkey outfit (since it was the year of the monkey), with a straw shawl, Nijinosuke’s left hand was bent in front of him with the sign for aloha, while his right hand was up for a peace. It looked like something similar to the Liberty’s pose. Carrie-san pls. It’s theme was “A collaboration with the sea and peace, a better fortune coordinate.” While Yui-chan’s mannequin Nijitaro was wearing all sorts of clothing while carrying two different masks on either hand. Nijitaro was also wearing an afro with a shower hat, a full monkey outfit since it was the year of the monkey, with a gold colored jacket for money fortune.

Yui: Carrie-san, do you know what is this?
Kaori: Huh? No? What?
Yui: *whispers* Afro.
Kaori: Oh, an afro.
Yui: Yes! And this, do you know this? *Yui-chan touches the shower cap on the afro hair*
Kaori: A shower hat? What is this? I don’t understand it.
Yui: Do you know what’s the meaning of this?
Kaori: I don’t–
Yui: That’s right! It’s YuiKaori! The afro and YuiKaori. Afro, afuro, afure, afureru. (アフロ、あふれ、溢れる）It’s overflowing with YuiKaori! It’s called “A Better Fortune YuiKaori”
Kaori: I don’t want to be involved in such a thing!

In case you do not understand, Yui-chan is making a wordplay (pun/dajare) for the word afro and the Japanese word “overflow” 溢れる

Either way, the decision on who wins is the same as the first one. Carrie-san had a score of 91.9 something while Yui-chan was down 88.6 something. Carrie-san wins this round again! This time’s embarrassing photo was of 8 – 9 year old Yui-chan wearing a Kappa outfit. Yui-chan explains that she still remembers it. It was her appearing in a stage play, while everyone was wearing a different outfit, she was the only one who was a Kappa. She told us that she still remembers the dance, so Carrie-san and all of us requested for her to show it to us. It was a very cute dance (*/ω＼*)

As a bonus, when Yui-chan was about to ask everyone to clap for her, she stumbled upon her words and Carrie-san tapped her lower back (around the waist) telling her to do her best.

Yui-chan also complained that out of 4 lives, she has lost three times even though she had been confident with all of her coordinates. Carrie-san then faced her and told her, “Well, that’s how it is.” Carrie-san pls.

New World

For New World, there is a part where the lyrics go “Woh Woh Woh Woh Woh Woh Woh Woh” the two of them asks everyone to sing it with them. They then segregate everyone to sing. The first floor sang, second floor, third floor, girls only, boys only and then everyone again. It was a very amazing song performance where everyone was united to sing with them.

Kimi no YELL and Tsubasa ni Naru Yo!

We have never thought to actually hear Kimi no YELL live… but to actually hear Tsubasa ni Naru Yo! to finally be performed live… it was a very complex feeling. It was a mixture of happiness and a lot of feelings of more happiness. Thank you for performing these songs, YuiKaori!

After this song they then have a short MC telling us all that the next two songs are the final songs. Hoshifuru Yoru no Happy Link and the title track Canaria as the last two songs. Of course, after that they did Encore calls and was given one more chance to see the two of them. <3

Heartbeat ga Tomaranai

During the Day 2 (1/3) live, Carrie-san forgot her lyrics and turned it into “nananana~” instead. After her line, she showed us all a really bright smile. Carrie-san please, it is too bright <3

Wake Up!! ~ PUPPY LOVE Medley

During Day 1 (1/2) Live, Yui-chan forgot her Puppy Love rap and laughed. It was very cute, please put it on DVD.

Our Stead Boy

During Day 1 (1/2) live, Carrie-san went to the wrong direction again, prompting Yui-chan to follow her again as she laughed. On the second verse, Carrie-san goes over to Yui-chan’s side of the stage taps her shoulder and then puts her arm around her waist. This Carrie-san seems to like Yui-chan’s waist a lot.

During Day 2 (1/3), the announcement for Budoukan was made before Our Steady Boy. Yui-chan told everyone “You thought we were disbanding, didn’t you!? We are not, YuiKaori is still continuing!” The two of them were crying as we congratulated them for their Budoukan concert! After Carrie-san had wiped her tears, Yui-chan continued crying as Our Steady Boy started to play. She tried her best to still  sing despite the tears falling. During the first verse, Carrie-san wrapped her arms around Yui-chan’s waist and pulled her over to the side of the stage as they both waved at the audience. Yui-chan seemed to just find this gesture very natural, so she just naturally goes into her arms as they sing. During the second verse, Yui-chan wasn’t able to sing so Carrie-san just looked at her. She was crying so much. Yui-chan(´；ω；｀)

After the final song, the two of them held hands as they went up the stairs to exit. Even though they’re already at the top, Carrie-san didn’t want to let go of Yui-chan’s hand since she’s still crying a bit. However, they told everyone to stay quiet as they prepare for their final thank you (without the mic). However, even though they counted 1, 2, 3, they were trying to say different things and laughed. We laughed as well. Yui-chan was trying to say 「今日の来てくれた皆さんありがとうございました」(To everyone who came today, Thank you very much!)　while Carrie-san was trying to say 「ありがとうございました！」(Thank you very much!) It was cute and funny. They looked at each other and said, Yui, “To everyone who came today!” Both “Thank you very much!”

We also expressed our thanks to YuiKaori after they exited. It was a truly exhilarating live event. We’re both glad we went. It was both our first time in Japan, it was also both our first live event in Japan.

It was a truly fulfilling weekend.

We would also like to thank Mokke-san for always taking notes during concerts and providing a detailed report for us to check over and share info from.

To you who read it up to this point, thank you very much as well! Let’s continue supporting YuiKaori from now on as well!