Just finished watching the concert.
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Wow. That's pretty much all I can say really. Sure I have some minor complaints like her messing up in Yubiwa(which made me laugh a bit. Don't kill me just yet. >>) and the Cameraman doing closeups of odd things(i.e her bracelet early on then uh... her butt in the encore. O.o
More importantly than that though is that she really drove home the point that she cares more about the audience than about herself, I've never heard of an artist who didn't hold Live Concerts just because she felt that they should be a more... interpersonal form of communication rather than how they are now. I nearly cried at that.As I have come to expect from Maaya, she's really really insightful and caring about her audience(from her linear notes and her lyrics in general)
She made me smile a fair bit when she was doing Kazemachi (I believe? It was the one right after the first MC) with her waiting for her recorded voice to go xD
Then there was the playing of my old favorites songs(really too many to list but i'll say that Umi no Kiseki nearly made me cry >>)
Then there's that whole atmosphere that SCREAMS "This is who I am" and the pure unfiltered ENERGY screaming from the whole concert in general. Phew... What a rush.
Methinks if I was there in person, I would've been on my knees by the fourth song or so and yelling "Arigatou Maaya" at the end xD
All in all I have to say I had a blast.
The bad? My comps speakers freaking stink. They made a complete mess of some of Maaya's earlier songs. So much so that I had to use Headphones to listen to the rest of it. I'm trying to make it so I can play it on my TV which hopefully has better speakers so I don't go deaf(mind I don't mind if it was listening to Maaya~ <3) or butcher the songs.
I also found her trying to look sexy kinda distracting O.o; Maaya's not really someone I associate sexy with,(she really doesn't need it with a voice like that O.o) Kawaii/cute most definately. Sexy? not so much. Then again, I had my eyes closed for approximately half the concert just to bask in the glory that is her singing voice so i suppose it's just nitpicking.
*shrugs* methinks i'll just go listen to the whole thing again with headphones.
Edit:
Forgot to mention,
I was quite amused by Maaya ending the concert with kazamidori after talking about how her band members all went, it's better to end with Universe xD
Pretty sure I had more stuff to say but eh whatever >>;
Edit 2:
Found the edit button and what I wanted to say, I really feel that Maaya's concert is one which you should both attend and buy the DVD for. Not because you're trying to show off that you love maaya or some other odd thing like that(though you should do it for that too :evil
but I find that Maaya is really emotive and you can't really see some of those emotions unless you get lucky and get good seats, I find that watching the DVD and seeing all the closeups of her was really moving.
Here's to hoping that she releases more DVDs of her live concerts in the future!
Edit 3:
>_> yes yes i'll stop editing this sooner or later.
rereading the post, it really sounds as if I think Maaya is ugly or something, she's not. I just find her adorable moreso than sexy(which in almost every case is good considering sexy generally = porn star lookalike to me D<). The point I was trying to get across is that she doesn't need to look slutty like some other female singers (do i even need to give examples?) because her voice by itself is pretty much heaven to my ears at least.
^^ keep on being cute Maaya~