Now it's time for the Asia tour! JAM Project tour "TOKYO DIVE", report from the final show with additional live performance!
The final performance of the nationwide tour "JAM Project JAPAN TOUR 2017-2018 TOKYO DIVE" by the ani-song super-unit JAM Project was held at the Nippon Budokan on Saturday, February 17, 2018.
JAM Project is an anime song unit consisting of five members, Hironobu Kageyama, Masaaki Endo, Hiroshi Kitadani, Masami Okui, and Yoshiki Fukuyama, all of whom are active on the front lines as solo anime song singers. The unit is a super-unit of the anime song world. On Saturday, February 17, the final performance of "JAM Project JAPAN TOUR 2017-2018 TOKYO DIVE," a nationwide tour by JAM Project, a super unit of talented singers representing Japan, was held at the Nippon Budokan.
This performance was a nationwide tour with the original album "TOKYO DIVE" released in October 2017. Starting with a performance at the Kawasaki City Sports and Culture Center in Kanagawa Prefecture on November 2 (Thursday) of the same year, 11 concerts were held in Japan.
This article reports on the final performance, which was the conclusion of the tour and a stepping stone to the Asia tour, which will take the group to several cities in Asia.
The fans who gathered at the venue were a group of people, regardless of age, sex, nationality, or gender, who were all fascinated by the single, large mass of passion that is JAM Project. The venue was already filled with excitement even before the show began, but when the song "Spinning Out of Control," which serves as the introduction to the album, was played, the heat was turned up even higher, and the venue was instantly covered in red psyllium lights.
Following the band members, the five members appeared on stage in dazzling suits with LEDs, the trademark of this tour. The five members appeared on stage in their trademark LED suits with dazzling lights. The production was as colorful and vivid as JAM Project itself, which shows many different faces.
However, such performances are only a part of the show; the core of JAM Project's live performances is the powerful singing of the five members, and the enthusiastic shouts of the fans in response are one of the staples of JAM Project's live performances. In the first MC of the day, Endo expressed his enthusiasm for the first Budokan performance in a long time and encouraged the audience to "come at us from everywhere! Endo encouraged the audience with his words, which were followed by a thunderous shout. The next moment, when I felt that the curtain had finally opened on the hot stage, Kageyama-san said, "We will win the gold medal here too! which was followed by loud cheers and laughter, which is a usual scene.
The tension kept rising even though they had only finished three songs, as they performed the theme song "The Fang of Apocalypse" for the movie "GARO KAMINOKIBA," the theme song for the special effects movie "HE-LOW," "Victory in the Future - Toki-Toki," and the theme song for the OVA Super Super Mario Bros. -The song was followed by "Labyrinth Prisoner", the theme song of "OVA Super Robot Taisen ORIGINAL GENERATION", which further accelerated the pace of the performance.
At this point, the members moved on to the "Memorial Corner," as they called it, where they performed songs that were a bit nostalgic, either as solos or duets.
First, Ms. Okui performed "Divine Love," the theme song of "Saint Beast: Kouin Epic Tenshi Tan" written by Ms. Kitadani, then Ms. Endo and Ms. Kitadani performed "Shippu ni Nare," the opening theme song of OVA "X-Driver," and finally Ms. Kageyama and Ms. Fukuyama performed "Hoshizora no Requiem" together playing acoustic guitar. Finally, Kageyama-san and Fukuyama-san performed "Hoshizora no Requiem" on acoustic guitars. The entire group returned to the stage to sing "Alexandria" and "Believe in my existence," once again demonstrating the breadth of JAM Project's musicality from a variety of perspectives.
In the customary acoustic corner, each member appeared with acoustic guitar, djembe, egg shakers, etc., and mesmerized the audience with "I KILL - Ikiru," a new song from the album. However, the mood changed to a more upbeat one when Okui switched from shaker to tambourine for "Growing up," which was followed by "KAN-PAI" and "I'm Growing Up," which was also performed by Okui. The audience united in a call and response to "KAN-PAI," "I Can!
Kageyama-san said that he wrote the song "Schwatch! ~and "Everything," two songs that Kageyama wrote while thinking about the anxiety and frustration he felt when he first came to Tokyo, and which brought back many memories of his own time in Tokyo. The flow of the song, from the solo parts of each member to the chorus sung by all the members, was exactly in the royal taste of JAM Project, and the audience, who should have heard this song for the first time, found themselves in a state of excitement.
The audience, who were surely hearing this song for the first time, were already excited to hear it for the first time. The Brave", the opening theme song for the TV drama "Yushihiko the Younger and the Seven Guided by Heroes" on Drama24, and "Tokyo Scandal", the theme song for "Shining Storm ~Shining Storm~", and "Shining Storm~". Then, "Shining Storm ~Rekka no Yoku~" and "Koukou no Resistance" were performed nonstop, just as they had declared. ~The last song was the theme song from the TV anime "One-Pan Man", "THE HERO!!! - Light Your Angry Fists on Fire", the intro of which echoed through the venue. The stage and the audience all pumped up the excitement with fire frames, jet smoke, lasers, and more, and as the stage and audience all pumped their fists in the air and sang the song, Fukuyama's shout echoed through the venue, and everyone pumped their fists, jumped, and shouted passionately, bringing the stage to its peak of excitement! The stage was filled with excitement.
Motto! The band members reappeared and answered the passionate encores with the beautiful harmony of "HERO".
The members of the group came out again and answered the enthusiastic encore with the beautiful harmony of "HERO". The members thanked the fans once again, saying that it was not a matter of course to be on stage, but something special, and that they were able to sing like this because of the support of the people who helped them. At the end of the speech, Kageyama announced that in addition to the already announced performances in Taipei and Seoul, they would be performing in Guangzhou on May 11.
The live performance, which had been exciting and exciting, was coming to an end. The last song of the show was a medley of representative songs from the "Super Robot Taisen" series, for which JAM Project has sung the theme songs for 18 years. It is no exaggeration to say that without this game, there would be no JAM Project. As the excitement in the venue seemed to reach a critical point, the final song of the day, and of the long tour, was "SKILL. The passionate voices of the five members seemed to raise the excitement of the audience even higher, and the calls of "MOTTO! Motto!" echoed in turn, and it was a moment that was the very essence of the thrill of a JAM Project live performance.
The hot night ended with everyone singing three cheers in unison, as if the concert would never end.
With this hot momentum, JAM Project is about to embark on an Asia tour, and we can't take our eyes off of their activities in the future.
< SETLISTforFebruary17
OP: Spinning Out of Control
TOKYO DIVE
02.EMG
BAD CITY~We'll be alright!
Kaminokiba~The Fang of Apocalypse
Victory's Future -Toki
Labyrinth Prisoner
Divine Love
Be the Gale
09.Hoshizora no Requiem
10.Alexandria
Believe in my existence
I KILL
Growing up
Schwatch! ~I want to protect you
Everything
Steel Warriors
Gou-arm Punch
THE EXCEEDER
The Brave
Tokyo Scandal
21.Shining Storm
Crest of "Z's
23.THE HERO !!! ~Angry Fist on Fire
HERO
Rocks~VICTORY~GONG~SKILL
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