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7 Baby cruising Love

The first song from Perfume that I’ve been exposed to; as usual, their dance is awesome. The girls looked visibly tired from this point onwards, with hardly any rest in between. I don’t really consider audience calls and interactions as a rest period.

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8 Take me Take me

I preferred GAME LIVE TOUR’s version; it showed Kashiyuka’s toned bums really well. Other than that, I generally like Budoukan’s, except for that fact that their moves aren’t as sharp as the earlier few songs already.

And the girls headed off for a costume change…..

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9 GAME

…To reappear in white outfits, the exact opposite of their GAME costumes’ colors. I prefer GAME’s outfits a lot more, but this costume looks pretty good too; I’d say its like it was made to be danced to Perfume or Polyrhythm. The lasers and other special effects win over me, but I prefer the props from GAME LIVE TOUR still. (Those glittery plastic cards hanging from ‘trees’)

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10 シークレットシークレット

Pino’s song for their product CM, so to speak. I like the camera angles in general most of the time, but without Kashiyuka shifting her bum like a model does for a cat walk in one of the dance sequences that she did at GAME LIVE TOUR, but she didn’t do that for Budoukan. Sad.

In other news just moments before this post, natalie revealed that pino has Perfume to perform another CM song for them, titled “Night Flight”. The CM will broadcast tomorrow, 29th April on Japanese TV channels.

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11 パーフェクトスター・パーフェクトスタイル

Niconico spread the use of this song like wildfire when it was used to create “MAD” videos using IM@S sprites and videos. This is by far the most Jpop-ish song they have in their belt since 2006.

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Continue on to part 4! (Currently in progress)

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4 plastic smile

Plastic Smile is yet another song from previously that never got a chance to be performed, especially during their GAME LIVE TOUR. At least this time, it was performed at a more than just decent live house. In any case, although Plastic Smile wasn’t one of favourite songs from their GAME album, I found that I was better at appreciating the song after watching their performance of it at Budoukan.

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5 love the world

One of my favourite songs from my ‘love the world’ single, or even amongst the songs that they released in 2008. I could see that they are beginning to get weary from dancing around too much from not only the previous songs, but from their previous day’s performance, too. Their perspiration starts to get obvious from this song onwards until their costume change. But it was still nothing short of perfect, and the full dance could be viewed, a problem that most of their full versions of this song performance were marred by bad camera angles. +1 to this particular performance.

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6 マカロニ

Revolving stage setting; what’s there not to like? Despite the revolving stage, the girls maintained their level of performance with another of my favourite songs of 2008. The lights gave them a very soft/warm glow, but with perspiration trickling down from their necks and sweat making their hair to stick to their faces, it wasn’t portrayed like how they intended fully. But nevertheless, the revolving stage effect got props from me, giving ‘macaroni’ a new dimension to its dance routine.

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MC2

Here’s a brief translation of the conversation they had with the audience.

A = a-chan
K = Kashiyuka
N = Nocchi

(Audience continues to cheer excessively)
A: Can you give me a moment (to have a chance to speak)?
A: I see many with those T-shirts (PTA fanclub-only shirts)
K: Most of them were wearing orange T-shirts, aren’t they?
A: Many…. in any case, I found one wearing a-chan’s costume from Chocolate Disco
K: Where??
N: No way!
A: Yeah…
K: I Saw it!
N: Wherewherewhere?
K: Ahh~! Cuteee!
A:Yup… and nearby is one wearing orange shirt too *Waaaai* (waves at the couple)
N: Could the person next to you be your boyfriend? (looks at the girl’s expression)

N: You gotta be kidding… eeeh…..
K: It’s fine, no really. (We) disregard that, since it is for your happiness after all.
N: That’s sweet.
A: Go ahead and express more (your love).
N: Haha! Unnn (nods and emulates the audience)
A: You have chosen to to where you wish to be by your own will, everyone.
N: It’s true!
K: People nearby, please raise your hands! (refers to couples)
A: (When you do find one of) Your type, it’s your own choice to be angry or not (during the span of relationship squabbles).
N: Ahahahaha!
A: Seriously. Your own will.
N: When I look around (the audience), the amount of couples around are sure great~~
A: Really? No way!
N: Er, they may look like couples perhaps, ah yes, look over there (points). Look closely at those 2 over there.
K: Ah! Yeah they do. Are the two of you couples? (Guy nods)
A+N: AAAHHH EHHHHH.
A: The girl was looking and nodding like this for a moment there (refer to picture below)

A: Damn cute!!!
K: Yeah I agree!!
A: 萌え。萌ーえ。
K: Singles are fine too. Not an issue there.
A: Singles can go like “Singles Banzai” or something.

K: Banzai.
N: BANZAI!
A: BANZAI!
N: Hold on, aren’t there way too many out there (in the audience)?
K: The guys were raising their hands with gusto.
N: It’s now their turn.
A: Put a mark on it. (Some pun)
N: Mark?

A: It’s really near, looking from here (speaking about the distance with the audience)
K: I can clearly see faces.
N: Even those people on the second floor at the back, they still feel kind of close.
A: It’s because we are right smack in the centre, festival-like thingy.
N: Whoa I can see (everyone from here)!!
A: Awesomeeeeee~
K: Awesome~
A: The orange T-shirts are sure large in numbers.
N: It’s from the PTA fanclub Limited T-shirts, the people who ordered it.
A: Yes.
A: The people nearest towards the stage are considered the ‘PTA kind’ in a manner of speaking.
N: Lucky you! For those who are wearing the orange shirts.
A: But pink’s cute too. And there’s one wearing a floral print pink one piece. Really cute.
N: Looks like it came out from some love drama serial.
A: *Laughs*
N: Flirtyyy.
A: Something like a pink top with a white layer underneath, that sort of skirt.
A: With some frilly boots to go along etc etc (can’t really make out what she says). But it’s cute.
A: Also also, from what I spotted from yesterday(’s concert), I found several V-necks.
K: Some over there too. *points*
N: I find guys who wear V-necks (collared shirts with their collars raised) cool.

A: (makes some one-line pun)
A: Yeah, V-necks are nice.
K: Please raise your hands.
A: Thank you.
K: Don’t be that shy about it.
A: Really self-conscious.
N: Oh yes, about time for the next song.

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Continue on to part 3!

Thus here I am, doing a review of this fabulous DVD. I skimmed through it once, and I noticed immediately that a substantial amount of camera angles in the television broadcast version were replaced with better ones. That alone raised the experience a notch.

Another thing I noticed was the audience interaction. It was way more than what was shown on TV.

Onwards to the review!

Contents of Disc 1:
1 コンピューターシティ
2 edge
3 エレクトロ・ワールド
MC1
4 plastic smile
5 love the world
6 マカロニ
MC2
7 Baby cruising Love
8 Take me Take me
9 GAME
10 シークレットシークレット
11 パーフェクトスター・パーフェクトスタイル
MC3
12 セラミックガール
13 ジェニーはご機嫌ななめ
MC4 – Audience call
14 チョコレイト・ディスコ
15 ポリリズム
16 Puppy love

-ENCORE-
MC5 (encore segment)
17 Dream Fighter
18 Perfume
19 wonder2

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Budoukan easily accommodated 20,000 people within its interior, and looking at it with all the lights on and comparing the crowd with all the lights dimmed during the concert itself was really awe-inspiring as the feeling and mood was totally transformed.

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1 コンピューターシティ

The concert kicked start with a screen countdown and some optical illusion play with props, and Computer City was the first song to be performed. Dressed in glittery pink overcoat, it was original, but it doesn’t have the same impact as what they did for their GAME LIVE TOUR DVD. But what comes after that was…

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2 edge

…Truly astounding and seamless. The girls cut short of a portion of Computer City and meld themselves to the next song that is edge. Even them taking off their overcoats to reveal another costume underneath was really cool. The dance that followed was even better. With about 6 different dance steps that they did at different sequences at the same time, and eventually melding into the same one at the end, the effect was really beautiful. The large screen behind gave the song and even ‘edgier’ feel with the mechanical-like ‘interface’.

It was the first time for ‘edge’ to be performed LIVE, so Budoukan attendees get to be the first to watch it.

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3 エレクトロ・ワールド

They went straight into Electro World right after that, performing the single version. The album version had a longer introduction. The Electro World performance was given a face lift with Budoukan’s equipment, lighting effects and lasers.

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MC1

You can see that the girls are really grateful for having the opportunity to be able to perform in Budoukan, as a proof they have finally made it big after toiling since Grade 6. They bowed and thanked the audience 3 times! The recording for the Budoukan DVD was during their second day performing in Budoukan. Some one-liner jokes were made by nocchi, and their first major audience call : a-chan’s response to them was rather amusing. Kashiyuka looked visibly tired, as she rested the most amongst the 3 of them.

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Continue on to part 2!

Below are the abovementioned clips extracted out from the BudoukaaaaN DVD! Somehow there’s a HD option too; probably upscaled from the DVD itself. Click the pictures for links of the video in youtube. Butterfly doesn’t have a dance performance, though. It however, has a nice PV for one of their costume changes.

Plastic Smile

edge

Butterfly

Perfume has hit a second #1 place for single ‘One room Disco’ in weekly oricon charts, with the first time for their single ‘love the world’. Perfume has constantly been in the top 3 charts for their singles and album since the start of 2008.

The above picture is the DVD cover art for their BUDOUKAAAAAAAAAAN LIVE DVD. It will be retailing in Japanese CD stores for 5000yen on the 22nd April, 2009, and various online CD shops like amazon.jp or CDJapan.

Perfume’s official site has just updated an hour ago, with the CD Jacket of the upcoming single, “One-room Disco”. The above is the cover promotional picture.

Another news that came along is the release date of their “BUDOUKaaaaaaaaaaN!!!!!” DVD.

It is slated to release on April 22nd, and retailing for 5,250 yen (tax inclusive). No official title of the DVD is released, or any mention of a Blu-Ray version. I assumed there could be one, since their broadcast of their ‘Live’ was in HD format.

More details at the release/news page. Or you can read the Japanese details of it below:

Perfume ライブDVDリリース決定!!

2008/11/6･7に日本武道館で行われたワンマンライブ｢BUDOUKaaaaaaaaaaN!!!!!｣の模様を収録､そして､ライブまでのメンバーの軌跡や､ライブの舞台裏等の未発表映像を満載した豪華DVD2枚組を予定しています｡

EDIT:
Someone from PerfumeCity forums did a rough translation out of it.

DVD will feature their performance of ” BUDOUKaaaaaaaaaaN!!!!! ”
at Nippon Budoukan on November 6th and 7th, 2008.
It is going to be a double disc with documentary, behind the scenes and unreleased footage.