FINAL LIVE ~Memoide no Parade~ Report] Saitama Super Arena was filled with great love on the day - the last live with thanks, tears and smiles!

The final live performance of the voice actress unit Wake Up, Girls! was held at Saitama Super Arena, the promised land. Many audience members witnessed the moment and celebrated the departure of Maasuke Yoshioka, Airi Nagano, Mimi Tanaka, Yoshinoh Aoyama, Nanami Yamashita, Kaya Okuno, and Miyu Takagi. Here is a report on such a moving live performance.

(hereinafter referred to as "WUG") is a unit of seven members who were chosen through an audition to determine the lead voice actors when the decision was made to produce the anime "Wake Up, Girls! The audition was announced in 2012, and the seven members were chosen on April 1, 2013. In fact, it was about six years ago. From there, the movie version was released, the TV anime was broadcasted, and in parallel, Wake Up, Girls! I remember that the synchronization of real life and anime was new to me at the time, and I paid attention to it as content.

From there, these girls went through various activities and experiences, continued to struggle, and finally arrived at the promised land, Saitama Super Arena, and disbanded after that live performance.

WAGNER (=WUG's fans) must have come to this venue with various memories and feelings in their hearts. They may have loved the members, loved the anime, loved the live show, and so on. Personally, I also have the feeling that I liked the members who started to show their individuality and shine.

But when I think about why I chose WUG, the reason was the anime, but I also think it was because the songs were so good. Of course, it did not matter who sang the song, but the WUG song sung by WUG was good. And it was MONACA and lyricist Natsumi Tadano who created them. Isn't this chemistry amazing? And.

Because among the four new songs on the last album are songs that sound like AOR. Is there any unit that takes on a challenge to the very end like that? I think ....... It is certain that one of WUG's major axes and weapons was the fact that although they are an idol unit from an anime, their music is full of songs that are likely to remain for the next 10 or 20 years, and in that sense, this "Wake Up, Girls! FINAL LIVE -Memoide no Parade-" was a live performance where the WUG songs could be fully FINAL LIVE ~Memoide no Parade~" was a live where you could enjoy WUG songs to the fullest. Of course, there were tears in my eyes at times.

The opening song was "Tachiagare! from "Tachiagare! The audience was heated up when they appeared in their school uniforms. This is a song they have sung over and over and over again at their live performances, but it is still good to hear over and over again. But it is still good no matter how many times you listen to it! The great thing about this song is that it is composed by Satoru Kanzen, and I believe that there is nothing more universal than this song as a beginning song. The solos by Yoshioka-san and Aoyama-san in the middle of the song are always a delight, and this time both of them were swinging hard from the very beginning.

Then came "Agape for a 16-Year-Old". This song continues to be my personal favorite. and then Ms. Nagano's falling chorus solo after Ms. Okuno shouted, "Thank you all for coming today! The next song, "7 Girls War," was also noteworthy in that it was composed by both Ms. Jinzen and Mr. Hidekazu Tanaka, and I believe that Hidekazu Tanaka's music has come to play a major role in "Wake Up, Girls! I got the impression that they were aware of the strength of songs that are very idol-like and exciting at live performances.

In the first greeting, the members shouted, "We're just going to have fun today! the members shouted in their mouths. Mr. Yoshioka also said, "Please enjoy today, the end and the beginning of WUG, as much as you can! she said.

The next songs were "Yukimoyo Koi no mo yo" and "Kotonoha Aoba", which were a bit more relaxed. The seven singers' voices and the light effects were wonderful.

After the images of the three theater productions were shown, the message "And the story goes on to the next page" was projected on the screen. From this point on, many songs were sung when WUG left the work "Wake Up, Girls! Personally, I think that all of WUG's songs as a unit that has stepped out of the works were very good. The first song was "One In A Billion," the theme song of the TV anime "Isekai Shokudo," which was sung as Wake Up, May'n in collaboration with the artist May'n. The spotlights falling on the stage created a space for May'n. It was impressive that the spotlights falling on the stage made space for May'n. She also said in the outro, "Thank you, Wagner, for supporting us. And May'n, thank you for meeting us (all of us)! Yamashita shouted, "Thank you, May'n-chan, for meeting us!

The song "Bare Faces and Kiss Me" was another club-oriented number with a slightly different taste, but compared to the second live at the Maihama Amphitheater, where I first saw them, they had completely made the song their own and made it look really cool. The following "Love? and love? and it's a tyrant! was also written and arranged by Hidekazu Tanaka, with lyrics by Aki Hata, and is a rather perverse song. Perhaps it is a song that could not be done in the works. Still, the destructive power of the live performance was outstanding even at Saitama Super Arena.

During the character song medley, the members sang as they moved around on a one-seater trolley. 7 members moved around separately, but when they came close to a member, the audience turned their penlights to that member's color, so it was like 7 different colors of personality flowers were blooming in Saitama Super Arena! It was beautiful to watch from above. The song "Wag Zoo Zoo" was sung by all the members of the group, with the stage set up behind them, so that even the Wagners in the back could hear the song.

In terms of tie-up songs from other works, "Sukino Skill" (lyrics by Natsumi Tadano, music by Keiichi Hirokawa [MONACA]) and "Bokura no Frontier" (lyrics by Natsumi Tadano, music by Hidekazu Tanaka [MONACA]), but even without a story as the anime work "Wake Up, Girls! The performance was so complete that one could feel that it had been nurtured by the live performance.

Then the live entered the second half of the show. The first song was "7 Senses", the OP theme of the TV anime "Wake Up, Girls! When did the members' personalities, which seemed a bit quiet at first, start shining through? The new chapter had content that made us think about the individuality of each member, but just when we thought the real thing was ahead, the anime caught up with it and overtook it.

With the OP video of that new chapter in the background, they split into two trolleys and went close to the fans to deliver their singing voice. Then they called and responded to the last part of the song, "Yakusoku no Chi ni Mite / Yakusoku no Ji ni Mite / Yakusoku no Chi ni Mite / Yakusoku no Ji ni Mite". The audience felt that the lyrics of the song were exactly what they were hearing at the moment.

After singing "Gokujo Smile", each member of I-1club, Next Storm and Run Girls, Run! After receiving the messages, WUG appeared on stage again and sang "Shizuku no Kanna (Crown of Shizuku)". The lyrics of this song by Natsumi Tadano are just great!　I think this song is exactly applicable to WUG so far, and also to the girls who are about to leave the nest of WUG. There is a lyric, "I wanted to wipe away the warmth that was left on the chair that someone sat on that day," and it seems that the girls have gone from the side that wanted to wipe away the warmth to the side that wants to leave it. I felt the depth of the lyrics, which are applicable even from a different perspective. I don't know how they were feeling when they sang these lyrics, but I think that Natsumi Tadano's lyrics are a great asset for WUG.

Then they moved on to the big songs "Shoujo Symphony" and "Beyond the Bottom". The performance of "Shoujo Kyokyoku (Symphony for Girls)" was so impressive that I was told once again that Ms. Yoshioka's and Ms. Aoyama's solos were the axis of WUG. I have seen this song many times before, but this song sung in a large venue with only WAGNERs present was still huge in scale. Furthermore, "Beyond the Bottom" was the song that everyone had been waiting for the realization of the last scene of the movie version of "Wake Up, Girls! Beyond the Bottom". At the promised land, "WUG is the best! Mr. Tanaka shouted as he ran down the flower aisle. It was a scene that made me cry even though I knew it was going to happen.

From here on, they performed four new songs from the album "Wake Up, Best! Sea and Shutter Street," "Crystals of Words," "Saturday's Flight," and "Sayonara no Parade. These songs could only have been written by the creators who have worked with WUG. All lyrics are written by Natsumi Tadano, and the compositions are connected with Kunihiko Takahashi, Keiichi Hirokawa, Hidekazu Tanaka, and Satoru Kanzen of MONACA, respectively. Still, it is amazing that they prepare so many challenging and creative songs in the last 4 songs. I guess there is a strong trust that the current WUG will be able to express this much.

The first two songs were sung with great care, one by one, with lyrics by Mr. Tadano. The first two songs, "Umi to Shutter Street" and "Words in Crystals," were sung with great expressive power, and the strong words were sung in a flat manner until the last chorus. Aoyama's quiet singing of "Kowatari no Zesshou" at the end of the song was also a new expression. The last two songs in the back of the set were like a departure. The solo singing of "Saturday's Flight" was a love affair, and the members sometimes sang it with a sense of excitement. Sayonara no Parade" reminded me of the 6 years of their activities. There was a part of the song where the members had to hold back tears, but they all sang through the song well. It was also moving to hear the audience sing a chorus of "Wake Up, Girls!" during the interlude of the song, and I wished they would read the lyrics over and over again. It is so full of love. I also thought it was beautiful that the concert started and ended with a song by Mr. Kanzen.

The main part of the show ended with some kind of lingering feeling. Once again, a big chorus of "Wake Up, Girls! The encore started with "SHIFT. The audience was excited by the retro fashion and the musical-like performance, and then the audience got on the trolley to "Subway Labyrinth". Then they performed "TUNAGO" to express their gratitude to the Tohoku region. The more I listen to this song, the more it touches my heart. The song was a song that touched the audience more and more as they listened to it. "What we have spun for the past six years, combined with the feelings of various people, shone as light in Tohoku... Even though our activities as Wake Up, Girls! Thank you so much for the dreamlike time we had today," Okuno told the audience at the end, and left the stage.

But the final live concert did not end there. Or rather, it could not end. The seven members of Wake Up, Girls! wrote the lyrics to the song "Polaris. Here, the seven members read a letter to everyone in Wagner. Misuke Takagi, who thanked everyone with a smile that made everyone happy, Nanami Yamashita, who humorously thanked the fans and declared that WUG was the core of herself, Mimi Tanaka, who said that the day she cried the most in her life was the day they decided to break up and that she would support the six members on the front line, always looking cool and cool, and Miku Kurokawa, who said that she would never leave WUG, and that she would never leave WUG. Mimi Tanaka said that the day she cried the most in her life was the day they decided to break up! She was always cool and cool, and said that the seven of them are the strongest! And finally, the leader, Yoshinoh Aoyama. Looking back on his days full of setbacks, he said that WUG and Wagner are a family and a home. It was interesting to hear her say to "Yoshino Nanase," the character she played, that she was a "single guesser," and her words, "May WUG live on in everyone's heart forever," must have touched the hearts of many Wagners.

After each of them expressed their gratitude in their own way, "Polaris" was sung in the star-filled sky. The seven members of WUG have been walking together up to now, but from now on, they will walk separately. It will not be an easy road. However, I am sure that the Wagners who joined lalala and voice together at this venue will continue to support the seven members.

The big dream stage is going to encore for the third time. It should end with a smile! and sang once again "Tachiagare! . As Mr. Yoshioka said in the first MC, the end is the beginning, and the calls of "Wake Up, Girls!