H!P/related Concerts and Stage Plays

[Sohee]

Knew it was coming. So awesome. And SO happy for them. <3
MM does Budoukan.
Berryz will (hopefully) do a (successful) Budoukan.
Cute did TWO days in Budoukan.

..maybe it's time to put Hello! Project concert at bigger venues, too. Saitama Super Arena or Yoyogi or something. You know. lol

[lynnkung]

Sayu said its the first time Morning Musume will perform at Budokan without a graduation

I thought First Live in Budokan ~Dancing Love Site 2000 was without graduation but it's Ishii Sayaka's graduation?

[off topic] Whose graduation isn't in recorded on DVD? Ayappe's?

[LiamMusume]

Yep, her graduation isn't on DVD (I wish it was though she is one of my favourite members) Sayaka's graduation only plays through the credits at the end of the DVD I believe, so I am not sure if you would count it as a graduation DVD either

[Bano]

I love Budoukan concerts!! The venue isn't so big that you can't see what's going on, but it's still big. Maybe I will try to go to Japan for this.

[Daisuki Daiiyo]

Yep, her graduation isn't on DVD (I wish it was though she is one of my favourite members) Sayaka's graduation only plays through the credits at the end of the DVD I believe, so I am not sure if you would count it as a graduation DVD either

Nah its a graduation, not in the sense that we've come to know, but Sayaka gets a longer than usual speech and everybody cries. It's just that they don't do their one-by-one goodbyes lol, but the audience + members knows it, and Sayaka gets a ton of screen time.

And Ayappe's isn't on dvd because she never had a grad concert, just a special on Utaban because the time lapse between her announcement and grad date was so short (she had a shotgun wedding lol)

[wotakubrandon]

^Her marriage and baby were like a year later though right?

[Starra]

Yeah she didn't graduate because of the marriage/pregnancy IIRC.

[Daisuki Daiiyo]

Ah, the more you know lol. I'd always thought she'd already made plans to marry, hence the graduation lol

[ntrd]

Sayu said its the first time Morning Musume will perform at Budokan without a graduation

The Odore! Morning Curry tour finale was a Boudokan concert without a graduation though.
Lol 2006 was so awful even Sayu chooses to ignore it

[Sohee]

She didn't spell it out, but it was obvious in the way she talked that she was talking about recent years, that they haven't been in Budoukan without graduations.