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[tsuminiochiiru]

Omiya GRAN ROOM Store

Omiya GRAN ROOM Store

[txmepassxs]

me after realizing that GRANRODEO’s finally on spotify

[theonceandfuturesara]

“welcome to THE WORLD” commercial.

[particularfangirl]

Okay, okay, so. I am somewhere torn between wanting to write a five-page essay about what Granrodeo means to me and simply saying: Hey, congrats!!!

Taking the risk that nobody'll read this:

I only just started listening to Granrodeo this spring. They and their music left a huge mark in my life and I can't express how happy I am they re-fueled my love for J-Rock.

Once everything's settled down a bit, you can bet your ass I'll find myself shouting full volume to YWF on a concert.

To keep it short and sweet:

Happy 15th Anniversary to Granrodeo!!!

[btamamura]

Photo 1 - My newest plushies! They arrived safely today and I was thrilled to open the box! The one with highlights in his hair is Taniyama “KISHOW” Kisho, the mochi plush is Oikawa Shin, the one with a guitar is Iizuka “e-ZUKA” Masaaki.

Photo 2 - GRANRODEO in plush form! These are officially licensed products, they came in a set of two.

Photo 3 - Both of my Shin plushies. I cuddle the larger every night, but he’s not my appointment comfort buddy.

Photo 4 - I updated the Main Shelf, the one with the best position by my bed. So, now we have...

Shinomiya Natsuki (who IS my comfort buddy for when I leave the house for appointments - I cuddled him through my biopsy last week and will cuddle him when I get the results from the doctor), Kurusu Syo, Taniyama Kisho, Satsuki Aoi, Minaduki Rui and Sumeragi Kira in the back row, Osaka Sogo, Yotsuba Tamaki, Mikaze Ai, Mochi Oikawa Shin, Aoi Shouta, Kitakado Tomohisa and Korekuni Ryuji in the front row. The minis are a Mini Pokedoll Kenji/Tracey Sketchit (custom-made by an artist I purchased him from) and mascot figures of Nomura L, Nomura R, Oikawa Shin and Amamiya Kanade.

Natsuki, Syo, Kira and Ai are from Uta no Prince-sama. Aoi and Rui are from Tsukiuta. Sogo and Tamaki are from IDOLiSH7. Tracey is from Pokémon. L and R are from MARGINAL#4. Shin and Kanade are from Dream Festival!. KISHOW’s plush is official GRANRODEO merch. Shoutan’s plush was from the collab with Little Twin Stars.

[aoinakahara]

LYRIC IN ROMAJI - SETSUNA NO AI - GRANRODEO (short version)

it’s not an official lyric, it’s my version of lyric, official lyrics will be bundled in song cd.

ROMAJI

wo o o o o         (6x)

kimi no naka ni sotto hisonde

karamitsuku you ni unetteru

zawameku iwakan no shoutai wa nan dai

moetsukiru ka no etsu ni hitatte

karappo ni natta totte

utsumuku zanzou wa konton toukashiteru

doujini sonnani motomenaide

shigeki to yasuragi no mujun o

zetsumyou ni bimyou kuruoshiindesu

mou aisareru tame no koi nante

ajiwau tame ni chou nayande sa (wo o o o o)

kuzure taika o shiharai tsudzukeru

koukotsu hiraku isshun ni (wo o o o o)

kokoro furueru hodo ni

motto kanji kuruotte

shihai sarete iru no sa

setsuna no ai to shitteitemo

Translation:

Lurking you in softly

Rolling to get stucked

What is the truth behind this unpleasant crowd

Immerse to burn out in pleased

Even it became empty

Look down afterimage became a chaos

Do not ask so much at the same time

Inconsistency of stimulation and peace

It’s perfect delicate crazy

For love to be loved already

Really troubled to taste

Continue to pay ruinning fee

this heart is trembling during the moment ectasy open

I feel became more insane

It is ruled

Even if you know the moment of love

[stuckinthegloriouspast]

I HAD TO TELL SOMEONE.

So.

GRANRODEO is one of my favorite groups of all time. E-ZUKA on guitar is kind of super great but mostly because Taniyama Kishou’s voice is beautiful and hnnnng just thinking about it..!!

I was looking at his wiki page (cause who doesn’t end up browsing his wiki page for no reason??) and I remembered that he voices Panda on “We Bare Bears” (the CN show), and suddenly I had to find a clip of him voicing Panda.

Well, I didn’t just find a clip of him voicing Panda, I found a clip of him singing as Panda... and dear lord.. save me.

HERE IT IS TAKE A LOOK I’M STILL DYING

Every time I hear it (and I for some reason can NOT stop playing this video) all I can manage is a wry smile while pinching the bridge of my nose cause OH MAN this... “song” is really... great.. for.. a reason..

I MEAN, THIS MAN CAN SING. REALLY.

EXAMPLE 1

EXAMPLE 2 (Also FLOW, AMIRITE?)

EXAMPLE 3

AND SO MANY MORE BUT I’M TIRED AND I WANT TO SLEEP WHILE IT’S STILL DARK. Basically I just wanted to say.. what was I trying to say?

Honestly I could go on and on and on forEVER about how much I love his voice and how basically every character he plays (good or evil) is all good. What song featuring Kiiyan isn’t good? THEY’RE ALL GOOD. Also, he’s such a good performer and when did this turn into a Kiiyan appreciation post sos.

Night y’all.

[aja154ever]

GRANRODEO LIVE 2018 e-ZUKA Tokamachi Gaisen Rodeo Gottaku - 05/20/2018

Just a quick very personal write-up about this Sunday’s live because I’ve been sent to paradise again. I need to let my feelings out.

Set List

SEED BLASTER

SUPERNOVA

Pierrot Dancin’

Can Do

move on! イバラミチ

Y.W.F.

マジカルストーリー

Urban Sweet

Snow Pallet

HAPPY LIFE

少年の果て (Acoustic)

Deadly Drive

メモリーズ

NO PLACE LIKE A STAGE

カナリヤ

modern strange cowboy

delight song

Infinite Love (Acoustic)

The Other self

バラライ

Go For It!

And ofc special tag @ikiyou Congratulations on overcoming the culture shock of a GRANRODEO live! How about the muscle pain the day after? 😂😂

So first of all, wow. I really went all the way to Niigata prefecture this time, which took like two and a half hours by bullet train + local train + walking, just to see GRANRODEO live. Is this the start of my “I’ll follow you wherever you go, Kiiyan” love story? (But hey, Niigata is actually e-zuka-san’s home lol)

It was my first time going out of Kanto region, and thus my first time to ride a bullet train. Luckily, ikiyou was able to go with me yayyy though we both were clueless most of the time during the whole trip lol.

When we got off at Tokamachi station, we were like, “Oh.” We were literally sent in the middle of the mountains and the rice fields, “Where the hell are we?” It was nevertheless very refreshing and calming to see Mother Nature for a long time.

Tokamachi is supposedly the nearest station to the concert venue but it was still more than a kilometer away so we had to walk our way there. Because of the tight schedule, unfortunately we didn’t actually have the time to go around the town for sight-seeing or smth. So the walk from the station turned out to be our only chance to see the place. It was kind of shocking as the place looks very rural, far, far from the metropolitan that Tokyo is. There was not a single convenience store in the area (which is really weird because hey we’re in Japan) and for some reason we do not know, almost all the stores were closed. Aside from fellow Rodeo girls/boys heading to the venue, there were almost no people walking on the streets. But anyway, speaking of the streets, oh my gosh. They were playing GRANRODEO music on the town streets’ speakers. 😭😭😭

It was a wonder that a concert venue actually exists in that rural place. When we arrived at the venue, finally we got food yey. They were selling some GRANRODEO-themed food like the curry which recipe is made by e-zuka-san’s mom, crepe, and even bottled water.

So we went inside and apparently the venue was smaller than I expected so our seats which are on the far right in the 7th row turned out to be closer to the stage than I imagined.

I’ve heard most of the songs in previous live concerts, so I’m not gonna talk about each song here.

SEED BLASTER - I am still wondering why they chose this song as the entrance for the two days. I’m not complaining but I was just not expecting it. 😊

Y.W.F - e-zuka-san made us dance the YMCA steps. Takita-san and Shin-kun also joined.

マジカルストーリー - This is magical. Kiiyan was so cute the whole time I don’t even know why

Urban Sweet - Just wanna say that I always like Kiiyan’s vocals for this song

Snow Pallet - OH MY GOSH. My inner self was crying. This is one of my favorite GR songs and finally, I heard it live! And we got to dance the cute steps with them. Gosh. I didn’t really expect this dream to come true this night. Me looking at Kiiyan’s big smile and biceps as I dance along with him while listening to him singing it. “Back-up dancers” in cow kigurumi costumes came out on stage to dance with us.

HAPPY LIFE, delight song - They are indeed happy songs. Also my first time hearing them live and they do sound better live!

少年の果て - Acoustic. Tbh I’m not a fan of this song but hey, it’s acoustic. Kiiyan was definitely shimmering akin to the flicker in my eyes as I looked at the source of the most beautiful sound in the world.

Deadly Drive - Oh my oh my oh my. It’s right there. My life. Bungou Stray dogs and GRANRODEO. I’ve been blessed.

NO PLACE LIKE A STAGE, カナリヤ, modern strange cowboy - Classic favorites for live performances. Always. Also, the main cause of post-live muscle pain 😂

Infinite Love - Acoustic played and sang by e-zuka-san as requested from his birthday last February. I really like this song in acoustic but I doubt if I’d ever have the chance to hear Kiiyan sing this live, so it’s actually remarkable that I heard it instead from e-zuka-san. And wow, it was definitely good! He was shining huhuhu and he even hit the high notes yeyy

Go For It! - IGPX will always be fun. Takita-san called out the Rodeo girls, Shin-kun the Rodeo boys, Kiiyan the swimsuit girls, and e-zuka-san playing around with Tokamachi locals and people not from Tokamachi which occurred for God knows how many times. And finally, IGPX 10 times with everyone!

Other notes:

Is it just me but Kiiyan’s biceps look bigger this time?? Or maybe I just missed them wait what are you saying I was not staring that much okay don’t judge me asdfghjkl but we can talk about it all day Anyway Kiiyan appeared in a hot red coat the first time aaaaahhhhh but ofc he had to take them off after two songs because he’s it’s hot

e-zuka-san talked a lot during the MC parts. I mean, A LOT. I didn’t understand most of them because he was speaking so fast (in Japanese ofc) and at times he even forgot what was he mainly talking about since new topics continued to branch out. One of the main talks was him talking about people he knew who came from Tokamachi who also got successful in music. It got too long he even suggested for Kiiyan to go take a rest backstage for a while lol

In the morning, Kiiyan and e-zuka-san walked around the town. Kiiyan found the place to be really beautiful (as seen in the photos he uploaded on Twitter). The first time he went to Niigata was last winter for Odorodeo, so back then it seemed like everything was pretty much covered in snow. Moreover, yesterday was raining and so it was only today that the weather turned out to be the best. He was like, “Ah so there are also other colors here aside from white.”

Meanwhile, Shin-kun and Takita-san shared that they really liked the food in Tokamachi like the soba, e-zuka-san’s mom’s curry, and the fresh vegetables.

In one of the songs (om I don't remember which), e-zuka-san went around the audience area on the first floor, from left all the way to the back then to the right 😭😭😭

Kiiyan gave us a special bonus when he walked all the way on both sides of the extended stage during Go For It!. On our side, he stopped in front of the farthest right seat on the sixth row so he was almost in front of us. I couldn’t handle it, I slapped ikiyou’s back a bit too strong and maybe I was squealing way too much. 😂 I really hope he saw us because hey it’s easy to spot foreigners in the crowd. Anyway two other blessed girls got to high-five him OMGeeeeeeeeeeeee

While Kiiyan always does the last jump at the end of every live, he made e-zuka-san jump this time. Our ojisan was so cute! He was definitely the star in this live!

Photos/Posts from Official Accounts:

Oh my, I missed writing fan reports here! I did go to other events but I haven’t been feeling of writing them on tumblr. But this event is totally special being my first live outside Kanto, and also as GRANRODEO’s first full live this year. I definitely missed this feeling!! (Oh yeah including the muscle pain the morning after lol) Furthermore, venues with seats really provide a good space for a lot of movement. I am given the freedom to move and groove as much as I want compared to all-standing venues where we all squeeze and smh hurt one another, though that kind of fun is also special in its own way. But the good elevation of seat rows really gave us a good view of the stage the whole time.

Now, what’s next? Kiiyan’s birthday celebration in Yamaguchi? I absolutely want to but I still don’t know if I can afford to go there! Argh, it pains me to think about  it. Actually, it’s kinda sad that GR doesn’t seem to have a national tour this year. Anyway, no matter what, there’s still G13 in December! Time to go to Osaka yeyyy!