Nana Mizuki held her first audience-attended live concert in 2 years and 4 months! NANA MIZUKI LIVE RUNNER 2020 → 2022" Report!

Voice actress Nana Mizuki held her one-man live "NANA MIZUKI LIVE RUNNER 2020 → 2022" at Saitama Super Arena on January 3 (Mon.) and 4 (Tue.), 2022.

The tour "NANA MIZUKI LIVE RUNNER 2020," which was scheduled to be held in 2020 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the singer's debut, was canceled due to the Corona disaster, and the official report of the first attended live concert in 2 years and 4 months, which was reconstructed as revenge for the cancellation, has just arrived.

The official report is as follows.
The official report is as follows.

The title of the tour, "LIVE RUNNER," was inspired by the idea of "running toward the future" while looking back on the 20th anniversary of Mizuki's debut as a singer. In the opening movie, Mizuki becomes a runner and runs from Ginza Yamaha Hall, where she held her first live concert in 2000, to ZOZO Marine Stadium, where she will perform her 200th solo concert in 2019, tracing the path of her career. As they stepped into the next venue, Mizuki appeared on stage with the intro of "Synchrogazer". Dressed in a yellow-colored sportswear-like outfit, she sang in a loud voice, followed by "DAYBREAKERS" and "ETERNAL BLAZE," a series of fiery songs that took the audience by storm from the opening of the show.

Happy New Year everyone! And most of all, I missed you! and then they showed their love with air hugs and kisses. The main part of the live started again with the call of "LIVE RUNNER!
The band moved from one end of the stage to the other for the next song "METANOIA," and sang intensely while looking around the entire venue.
After the backing band Cherry Boys' corner, Mizuki changed her costume to a retro-pop polka-dot one-piece, and the audience joined in the clap part of "Knock U down," the lead song from her 2019 album "CANNONBALL RUNNING," and the sound of the song was echoed by the audience as one. The audience was also mesmerized by their cute dance moves during "Lovely Fruit" and "Light Births Shadow".

I hope you will listen to these cute songs since I was allowed to wear such a cute outfit! She then performed "Hana, Hoshi, Sora -reunion-", a self-covered version of the character song for Mizuki's character Tamao Tamamura, which was created for the 2000 TV anime series "SHAMAN KING". After singing "innocent starter", she left the stage.

In the short movie, a digest of Mizuki's live performances over the past 20 years since her debut was shown with her debut song "Mochi" as background music. The video continues with footage of Mizuki's still innocent live performance in the second year of her debut, the moment she announced her first Tokyo Dome concert, the piano performance of "Mochi" at the FC event on the 20th anniversary of her debut, and the rehearsal of "LIVE RUNNER". The video ended with the words "keep on RUNNING" and the first song was "Phase 21". The timing of the release of this song was 2021, the year of the Corona Disaster, the year in which the life and environment had changed and was approaching the next phase, and the year of his 21st year since his debut as a singer. The song "Wo-oh" is a song that is performed in between the songs. The phrase "Wo-oh" between the songs was a part that Mizuki would have liked to sing together with the fans, but since she could not sing it this time, she sang it alone with her powerful voice.

After the introduction of the back-up dancers, team YO-DA, the audience went straight into the dance part. Wearing an asymmetrical military costume accented with a rose in the center line and wearing a headset microphone, Mizuki and the dancers performed "Inside of mind" and "Love Fight!

After singing "TRANSMIGRATION" with a dignified and cool expression on their faces, the audience went to the second "short movie" corner. A high-speed picture-story show by the video production unit "AC Club" entitled "Seiyu Idol Nana" was shown on the screen. The story comically depicts Mizuki's life from her childhood when she aspired to be an enka singer to her debut as a voice actress and artist." Seiyu Idol Nana" held a live concert to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her debut and left the stage for a costume change and announced, "I'm going to burn up redder after this!" The venue was lit up red with penlights as if linked to the video, leading to the new song "Red Breeze," which was digitally released just last month. The stage was ablaze with flames of various colors, and at the climax of the song, a 10-meter high firework was shot up, bringing the audience's excitement to a climax. The climax of the song, "Carpe Diem," was a song-rock song with an impressive melody that kept the momentum going.
We've got more powder and we're going to keep on rolling! and declared their enthusiasm for the last half of the live. After the full power shouts of "Get up! Shout!" echoed throughout the venue, the band made the last spurt with "SCARLET KNIGHT" and "Orchestral Fantasia".

I'm so happy! I'm so happy! I feel like I want to sing forever and ever! I want to put the joy of meeting you all and the love I feel for you into the next song," she said, and closed the show with "ALL FOR LOVE" in her warm, enveloping and gentle voice.
Mizuki appeared on a sneaker-shaped trolley about 277 cm long in response to the fans who waved their blue penlights with all their might so that "Nana call," meaning "encore," could be heard from the audience. With a big smile on her face, Mizuki sang "No Rain, No Rainbow" and "POWER GATE" while waving her hands to the audience, happy to see them again after a long absence. She sang "No Rain, No Rainbow" and "Power Gate" with a big smile on her face.

Mizuki then made a happy announcement!　She will be releasing a new album this spring. She will also sing the theme song for the TV anime "Tomodachi Game," which will start airing in April. The song has already been recorded and will be titled "Double Shuffle. It was also announced that they would be holding a summer live tour starting July 16 this year, including a performance in Ibaraki Prefecture, the only one of the 47 prefectures that they have not yet visited live.

The third encore song, "UPSETTER," was performed to fans as a mini-live from the rehearsal studio when the 2020 concert was canceled. She sang this life-size cheering song, for which she wrote the lyrics, with great energy, and then ran across the entire stage with "VIRGIN CODE," delivering her energetic voice.

Mizuki returned to the stage again to the endless clapping of her hands. You don't want to leave yet, do you? The audience asked, "Can I sing just a little bit more? The applause was the loudest of the day. The band members were called in to perform the last song, "Deep Love. As he said, "I would like to sing this song with gratitude and deep love," he sang it with full of emotion and closed the show to the applause.

As if to make up for the two years of not seeing each other, Nana Mizuki gave a performance full of spirit, wanting everyone to be happy and expressing her gratitude. She will continue to drive forward and show her fans a new view during her summer tour.

NANA MIZUKI LIVE RUNNER 2020 → 2022" SET LIST
Tuesday, January 4, 2022 @ Saitama Super Arena

Synchrogazer
DAYBREAKERS
ETERNAL BLAZE
<MC> 4.glitch
glitch
METANOIA
<Cherry Boys Corner
Knock U down
Lovely Fruit
Light Births Shadow
＜Light Births Shadow
Hana, hoshi, sora -reunion
10.innocent starter
<SHORT MOVIE> 11.
Phase 21
<team YO-DA introduction
Inside of mind
Love Fight!
<MC> 14.
14.TRANSMIGRATION
<SHORT MOVIE> 15.
Red Breeze
Carpe Diem
＜Carpe diem
Get up! Shout!
SCARLET KNIGHT
Orchestral Fantasia
Orchestral Fantasia ＜MC＞ 20.
ALL FOR LOVE

ENCORE
No Rain, No Rainbow
22.POWER GATE
＜MC＞ 23.
UPSETTER
UPSETTER ＜MC＞ 24.
VIRGIN CODE

W ENCORE
25. deep love

Photo: Ichi Kamiizaka, Makiko Takada