This time’s LIVE is, just as Shou nii said in the main part
As our goal to『repay』everyone we repeatedly rehearsed etc. Everyone who we can see who came to the venue, and though we couldn’t see, everyone who came to watched the Live Viewing. Everyone’s smiles, while feeling happiness, while thinking, we stood on the stage.
At 5th rehearsals some days before the real thing the 4 of us gathered! Although there were specific things that happened.
This time, during the rehearsal period for about 1 week, the 4 of us Quartet Night was together the whole time. In the anime, there were training camps, a lifestyle where they lived together.
Being able to have a taste of that sense, we wondered can the 4 of us gave it our all as 4 on stage and be able to give a believable performance.
Hearing Tatsu nii, Tomo nii, and Shou nii whining, saying they don’t want the live to end, hearing them say such words, really came directly to my chest.
Of course I was like that too. We were together the whole time after all. It may be a senpai kouhai relationship but, to me, Reiji, Ranmaru, Camus and Ai’s relationship, having spent such a long time together… It feels like I’ve made 3 older brothers.
The feeling of not wanting to separate has sprung from my heart.
Of course I think, I want to Be with everyone at the venue, forever.
We did special training for tens of hours. The moment we felt for 3 hours or so ended just like that. Enphemeral.
But, from now on too, even with that transient part of a bad time, I want to give everyone a taste of that heated time again. I want to take this feeling and break through to 6th.
Honestly, personally, there were regretful parts as well.
For those parts too!
And, once again, this work
And,
Starish. Heavens All of the staff.
My gratefulness to so many of you who love this work. One more time.
Since I’m in such high spirits, I talked about a lot of things that didn’t make much sense while broadcasting, I think there were lots of strange things I said as well, but… I think I need to become more able to sort everything into order in my head so that I can properly speak as soon as I need to.
sorry i cut out the fluff and focused on the main story
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Same night The one who called Akane in the last part of the previous episode turns out to be Masayuki. Akane asks to meet up with Masa tomorrow so they could talk.
Next day, early morning Masa wakes up and sees that Nagisa still hasn’t come home. He was about to leave when he comes across Reijirou who was making bentou for their practice later. He explains the situation to him and heads out. Rei was gonna follow him but he was already out of sight when he went out the door.
Rei opens up his laptop and hacks into the mainframe to locate Masa’s phone using GPS(?).
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Yuusuke reads fan tweets / replies on his phone, most of them expressing their sadness and disappointment due to the scandals coming out. Kakeru snatches the phone away from him, and found tweets from other fans defending Stellar CROWNS and expressing their belief in them.
They found the bentou on the table, with a message from Rei saying that he and Masa will be out looking for Nagisa.
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QUEEN RECORDS building The guard told Masayuki that Nagisa didn’t come to the building, and that no one came last night.
QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area(?) Masa receives a call from Yuusuke, but gets cut off because his phone ran out of battery. He looks at the clock and sees that he has 50 minutes left before the arranged meeting with Akane, so he sets out for the meeting place.
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Dance Studio(?) Yuusuke and Kakeru arrive together, and saw that Kouki and Mizuki (ASTRA RING) were already there. Kamishiro, ASTRA RING’s manager, explained that it was for the documentary that they’ll be shooting for STELLAR CROWNS and ASTRA RING’s joint live. Yuusuke and Kakeru were both surprised, and Kamishiro explained that it was Akane who decided this to recover from the recent scandals.
Kamishiro then asks them where the rest of Stellar CROWNS are.
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QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area Using the GPS(?), Rei arrives at the last location where Masa was before his phone went out. There he sees a set of keys with a strawberry keyholder on the ground.
Moriya arrives in his car at the parking area and sees Rei. Together, they went to the guard to ask him about Nagisa. They found out that all security camera footage from yesterday was deleted, as instructed by Akane.
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Dance Studio Yuusuke explains the situation to ASTRA RING and their manager. Kakeru turns to leave to help with the search for the missing Nagisa. Kamishiro guilt-trips Yuusuke to stay. Yuusuke also convinces Kakeru to stay, telling him that both of them should do what they can do.
Moriya is working on his laptop trying to restore the deleted security footage. Rei offers to help but Moriya declined saying that it’s not something amateurs can do. Moriya fails, and Rei takes over. He proceeds to do the fancy hacking thing while Moriya looked on in awe
(I said I cut out the fluff but I found the ‘hacking’ scenes so extra, I love it)
Kouki picks a fight with Kakeru and Mizuki and Yuusuke stops them. Kakeru tries to leave, but Mizuki stops him to apologize, and then manages to force Kouki to apologize as well. Kakeru tells them to change to their practice clothes so they can start.
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Unknown location Nagisa manages to free his feet so he got up and looked around. He found an envelope on a table and opens it.
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QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area The security footage got recovered successfully. (Moriya is like, “wtf?”) They looked at the footage from the camera in the parking area. They see Akane pushing a trolley with something like a body bag on it. As we walked by, something fell on the ground. They looked at it closer and it turned out to be the keys with the strawberry keyholder. A few moments later, a black van exits the parking area.
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Unknown location Nagisa looks through the file inside the envelope. It turned out to be an investigation report about Kouki and Mizuki. It details Fyrklöver’s activities in chronological fashion, including the time when Yuusuke withdrew from the group and the time when Nagisa became busy with his acting career.
–flashback: 2014– Nagisa is just about to enter the dance studio where Fyrklöver is practicing, when he hears Kouki and Mizuki talking. Kouki wonders what would happen to the two of them, since Yuusuke quit and Nagisa’s acting career is going well. Mizuki tells him that Kouki will do just fine, it’s just that no one has taken notice of his talent yet. Kouki asks him if he’s being sarcastic, or just trying to cheer him up. Mizuki answers that he really believes what he said. The two begin practice, and Nagisa only looks on.
Just then, someone started to violently turn the door knob, trying to get in. Nagisa thinks it’s Akane and hurriedly tries to free his hands and arms.
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Masa is walking towards his and Akane’s arranged meeting place. A black van can be seen following him.
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Dance Studio, dressing area Mizuki reads another article that just broke out, accusing Reijirou of being a part of an international hacking group.
Kouki asks Mizuki why he stopped him earlier when it seemed like it would’ve gone well. He tells him they should just hurry up and do it, when Mizuki kabedons stops him. Mizuki tells him to stop acting on his own, because it may be the end for the two of them.
Meeting Area (underpass) Akane apologizes to Masayuki for dragging them into something once again. He tells them that they’re in danger. Before Masa could ask him for an explanation, a black van speeds straight at them. They both manage to get out of the way in time. But then, unknown men gets out of the van and rushes towards them. Akane gets tasered, and eventually Masayuki gets tasered as well. They were carried back to the van, and it speeds off to somewhere.
☆★Blu-Ray and DVD of the special event “Cheers, Big ears!” held on the 12th and 13th of February will be released on June 24★☆
※For more info about pre-ordering this, refer to this tumblr post ( * ॑꒳ ॑* ) ノ
Also, more pics under the cut! ★ ⸜(* ॑꒳ ॑* )⸝⋆*
Note: The pictures are not mine. Descriptions are based on the event details in the article. Full article linked at the bottom of this post ☆
Team Kakeru x Rin (Sato Ryuji x Ozawa Ren) during the cake decoration contest in the event, in which Akane (Aoi Shouta) chooses the winning pair. Unfortunately, they lost to team Nagisa x Sena (Aramaki Yoshihiko x Wada Masanari) ^^;;
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For the solo songs, the performance order was decided using draw lots, and the dreaded ‘lucky’ draw (first performer) was…
Sawase Rin (Ozawa Ren), performing “Paradox”.
Next performer was his childhood friend (in the drama),
Umehara Reijiro (Wada Masanari), who performed “Why Why Why”. It had some easy-to-follow moves so the audience enjoyed dancing along with him.
Masayuki Sena (Wada Masanari) was next, serenading the audience with the mellow song “Someday”.
Following the soothing peformance was Ikuta Yusuke (Ueda Keisuke) breaking the tranquil mood with the energetic rap opening from the song “From Now On”.
Riding the crowd’s excitement, Nagisa (Aramaki Yoshihiko) went up next with his idol mode switched on, performing “P–F–Up!” with cute dance moves accompanying the upbeat tempo. (Yeah I wish the image showed the “cutesy” moves…)
Next was Kakeru (Sato Ryuji), who excited the crowd in a different way with the rock song “Toxic Liar”.
And for the finale (though he wanted to be second),
Akane (Aoi Shouta) filled the hall with melodious high notes from the song “Tenshi no Kokoro” (Angel’s Heart). While singing the chorus, white feathers fell down from above, completing the theme of the performance.
Of course, the event wouldn’t be complete without them performing the main theme, “REAL⇔FAKE”. But! Unlike in the PV, Akane dances with them~
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Once again, full article linked at the bottom of this post! But honestly even after reading it, watching it with my own two eyes would be infinitely better!! Thankfully, they’re releasing it as Blu-Ray and DVD ;o;
Don’t miss out on “Shouta-sama and Shitsuji Nishiyama’s Otawamure Rich Edition”, which is currently available! This is a 90 minute version of their playtime with the 2 guests. For those that missed it the first time and for those that want to watch as many times as they’d like; it’s available until 12am on the 20th so don’t miss it! #オタワムレ#蒼井翔太#西山宏太郎#鳥越裕貴#玉城裕規http://fod.fujitv.co.jp/s/twosmart/?site=vodlist.php …
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Shouta-sama to Shitsuji Nishiyama no Otawamure (Rough trans. Master Shouta and Butler Nishiyama’s Playtime) Guests: Torigoe Yuki, Tamaki Yuki
