Event 
       Kira Melo First & Second Class live 
Location 
       Club CODE (Shinjuku) 
Date 
       2000.06.24 
Time 
       13:30 - 16:00 
Guest 
       63 girls [listed below] 
Cost 
       3500 yen, 4000 yen, 4500 yen 

  * Event report version 0.5 by Hitoshi Doi, 2000.06.25 
    
The first (and maybe last) combined First and Second Class Kira Kira
Melody Gakuen event took place on June 24 at the Club CODE in
Shinjuku. 20 first class girls and 43 second class girls appeared. 

The emcees (and producers) were Tanabe Miri, Kimura Ikue, and Sakurai
Sara. But this was a "song and dance only" event. This was the first
Kira Kira Melody without skits and talk. 

They also announced that there will be a Kira Melo CD going on sale
8/30, of Daisuki, coupled with Pride. It will be a CD extra, with
video clips of the girls singing Daisuki. This video was taken after
the event ended. 

The event flowed as follows. 

  * [video] rehearsal scenes 
  * [parapara] Mickey Mouse Club Song (First and Second Class) 
  * Kira Melo theme song (First and Second Class) 
  * N'est ce pas (Heart Chu) 
  * Soba ni Itai (Dear Me) 
  * [medley] ? (Second Class) 
  * Stay With Me (Sawai Natsumi) 
  * [dance] ? (Miri, Ikue, Sara) 
  * Say U (Muteki Palette) 
  * [medley] Happy Summer Wedding (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Da Yo Ne (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Sailor Fuku wo Nugasanaide (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Yumedake Miteru (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Oh Yeah (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Ai no Shirushi (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Music Fighter (Matsumoto Chiyomi) 
  * [medley] Wa ni Natte Odorou (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Ja Matane (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Aoi Sports Car no Otoko (First and Second Class) 
  * [medley] Happy Summer Wedding (Tsuchiya Mieko) 
  * Kira Kira (Heart Chu) 
  * Stormy Dune (Dear Me) 
  * Pride (First and Second Class) 
  * Tururu Daishouri (Heart Chu) 
  * Odoru Houkago (Second Class) 
  * Daisuki (First and Second Class) 
  * [parapara] Mickey Mouse Club Song (First and Second Class) 
  * [video] Chiyomi leading "encore" calls 
  * [encore parapara] ? 
  * [encore] Daisuki (First and Second Class) 
  * [video filming] Daisuki (First and Second Class) 
  * [video filming] Daisuki (First Class) 

The event began with a short video being projected onto the wall. The
video showed many clips of the girls during rehearsals. 

After the video, all of the girls came onto the stage. The upper part
of the stage was the normal stage. The lower part of the stage was
built up with some boards, as the normal stage wasn't big enough to
hold all of the girls. Even with the lower part of the stage, it
couldn't hold all 63 girls. So some of the girls were standing on the
floor. 

The first "song" wasn't a song. It was a parapara dance! All the girls
did a parapara dance to the Mickey Mouse Club Song. 

Then they all sang the Kira Kira Melody Gakuen Theme Song. 

All the girls left the stage, and after a short while, Heart Chu came
back to sing N'est ce pas. 

Then Dear Me came onto the stage to sing Soba ni Itai. This Dear Me
was the five person version (Mayo, Miri, Tomoe, Fuuko, Ikue). They
probably used the five person version because Emiko wasn't there, even
though Sara was. 

The next song was a series of songs by the Second Class students. All
of the Second Class students came onto the stage (upper part and lower
part), and everyone took turns singing. The songs were as follows:
Freedom, Don't Wanna Cry, Overnight Sensation, I'm Proud, Departure,
You're My Sunshine, ?, ?, Feel Like Dance. 

After the Second Class medley, Sawai Natsumi came onto the stage with
Minano Fuuko and Hinano Mayo. Natsumi sang Stay With Me, and Fuuko and
Mayo were the dancers. 

Then Sara, Miri, and Ikue came out and danced to some song. They had
mikes and sang (yelled) too, but the music track wasn't the karaoke
track. 

The next group was Muteki Palette. There were 7 members, as Takayama
Kanako and Shindou Yoko were absent. The "cute" group had Serai
Shizuko, Kuwakado Sora, and Mito Yoko. The "big" group had Matsumoto
Chiyomi, Ohtsuka Mae, Takase Noriko, and Sakurai Sara. 

Then they had a medley of idol songs by both the first and second
class students. Most of the groups had two first class students and
two second class students as the main singers (on the main stage), and
several second class students as backup singers/dancers (on the lower
stage). The groups quickly rotated on and off the stage. 

After the medley, Tanabe Miri, Kimura Ikue, and Sakurai Sara came out
wearing similar T-shirts, which had komesoudou written on it in kanji.
They said they formed the group Komesoudou. 

Then Heart Chu came out (with some Star Wars BGM), and sang Kira Kira.
After Heart Chu was Dear Me (five person version), and they sang
Stormy Dune. 

Then Heart Chu came back onto the stage to announce their solo live,
which takes place next week (7/2). They said that they would sing two
new songs. One of them is a song that Mieko and Sayaka wrote, and the
other is a song which would be the Heart Chu theme song. They also
said that the Heart Chu T-shirt is on sale now, and they wanted
everyone to wear it to their live next week. 

The next song was the new Kira Kira Melody Gakuen group song. All the
students (both First Class and Second Class) came back onto the stage
to sing Pride. The main singers were Hinano Mayo, Tsuchiya Mieko, and
Nagai Nobuko, in a triangular formation at the center. Mayo had the
first solo part, Mieko had the second one, and Nobuko had the third
one. Some of the other First Class students had mikes too. (I don't
remember if any of the Second Class students had mikes.) 

After this song, everyone left the stage, except for Heart Chu. The
next song was Tururu Daishouri. 

Then all of the Second Class students came back onto the stage to sing
Odoru Houkago. 

Before the final song, they announced that there will be a CD of
Daisuki (coupling with Pride) going on sale 8/30, for 1500 yen. It
will be a "CD extra" containing a promotion video of Daisuki! 

Then they all sang Daisuki, and both the First Class and Second Class
students did the same dance. At the Tokyo Game Show, the Second Class
had done a different, simpler dance, and the Second Class students had
never sung Daisuki at their events so far. Maybe they will sing
Daisuki at the Second Class events from now on. 

The last parapara dance was the Mickey Mouse Club song again, and all
the girls left the stage after doing the parapara. 

Then there was a call for an encore. After a while, a video started
playing (projected onto the wall). It was a video of Matsumoto Chiyomi
leading a call for an encore. (^_^;) Some of the other girls (Nagai
Nobuko and others) had pompoms, bells, etc. 

After a while, all of the girls came back onto the stage. But this
time they were all wearing white T-shirts, with their student number
printed on the front. They were wearing long training pants, and gym
shoes. They did some parapara (or dance) to some English song, and
then went onto sing Daisuki. After Daisuki, there was some more
parapara, and then all the girls left the stage. 

There was another call for an encore. But this time the lights went
on, and some guys came in front of the stage with a tall ladder. Then
one of the staff came out and said that they were going to film the
promotion video for Daisuki! 

The girls (both First Class and Second Class) came out to sing Daisuki
again, this time wearing their school uniforms. There were many
cameramen, and the staff told the girls to look at the cameras
(instead of the crowd) when singing. They sang Daisuki twice. The
first time, it was everyone, and the second time, it was just the
First Class students. 

For this "video version" of Daisuki, they changed the singer of one of
the solo sections. The usual order is Nobuko, Mieko, Mae, Tomoe, Sara,
Sora, Miri, Mayo, Natsumi. But this time Chiyomi replaced Tomoe. (When
Tokunaga Ai is in the group, this part is Ai's part.) 

--
 
The 63 girls who appeared at this event were: 

Akami Yukie, Minano Fuuko, Ohgoshi Tomoe, Ohtsuka Mae, Ogura Maiko,
Hinano Mayo, Kimura Ikue, Kuwakado Sora, Sawai Natsumi, Sakurai Sara,
Shintani Sayaka, Serai Shizuko, Takase Noriko, Takahira Jun, Tanabe
Miri, Tsuchiya Mieko, Nagai Nobuko, Matsumoto Chiyomi, Misaki Mami,
Mito Yoko 
(20 from the first class) 

Akimoto Noe, Akutsu Shiori, Ikee Tomoko, Itou Asuka, Inoue Eri, Eri,
Endou Satoko, Ouka Yumi, Ousawa Rena, Ohhashi Risa, Ogata Satoko,
Odaki Hisae, Ono Akiko, Kamiya Ruri, Kawasaki Rika, Kanzaki Mayumi,
Kimoto Sanana, Kurita Hiroko, Sagami Natsuki, Shiomi Kaoru, Shinohara
Emiko, Sukizawa Kanako, Sugiyama Yuka, Sunaga Emi, Senoo Kumi, Taga
Yukiko, Takahashi Amika, Nagai Kasumi, Hayashi Akari, Himeno Kaoru,
Hirose Momoko, Hiron, Makiguchi Yoko, Mikami Aiko, Misuzu, Mizuta
Yuka, Miyawaki Azusa, Murata Eri, Morita Chiaki, Yamada Kayoko, Yamada
Satoko, Yoshikawa Yuuya, Washo Kozue 
(43 from the second class) 

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Hitoshi Doi                                               Toshi Nibunnoichi
half a UFO catcher doll, half a cel          801 tactical training squadron
http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/                                    doi@win.ne.jp