He doesn't wanna fix a fan name for the fc coz he doesn't wanna alienate newcomers in the audience... wow, I never thought of it that way coz I'm too used to being around the kpop fandoms where even the newest groups have fan names 😮
A fan named Kimiko wrote how she fell asleep while driving, and Ryo was like BWAHAHAHAHA PLEASE REST 🤣 jokes aside, Kimiko-san... please take care, k 😅
Ohhhh he finally talked a bit about the I'm An Osakan MV!
Osaka merch! Why is the merch display creepier than the one they put up for Nocturnal tho? 🤣 anyway, I already ordered the hat, so I want the ice cream t-shirt & mask lol
Whenever Ryo talks as if he'd be leaving us any time in the future, it makes my whole world feel gloomier. I can't imagine if he really disappeared one day... I don't wanna imagine it.
Stay with us, Ryo... don't leave 🥺
Ryo reminding everybody again that he's an ojisan lol
When you thought sasaeng fans don't really exist in Jpn like they do in SK, then you listened to this kind of story and be like NO WAY! #poorRyo they must have made a fuss and disturbed the neighbours too for the management to deal with it in that manner. If it was the first time Ryo had stayed alone, wasn't this the time when he asked Hina what he should eat? Awww, poor baby. I didn't know he had to move again after just ~6 months...
Ryo's non-negotiable conditions when choosing a place to stay
Yeah, shouldn't Ryo be the one to get angry at management for their lack of security since he's paying rent? I also don't understand why he was the one to be scolded and even got kicked out of the apartment. Old people in management are unfathomable... smh
Ryo's such a reliable boss that he can direct the whole production WHILE being the main performer on stage too... I'm always impressed with this amazing multitasking leadership ability he has.
Maybe Ryo meant that now he's no longer a JA idol, so he's not hunted down as much by tabloids... he's living a more peaceful life now. It's not really the question of the house being expensive and he needs us to help him pay rent 🤭 I truly believe Ryo can easily find a way to make a living even tho he's no longer an entertainer. He can be a guy working behind the scenes or something. Nobody (like obsessive fans, for example) can threaten to leave him if they don't like his lifestyle or if he gets married. They can do whatever they like, and so can he.
I also think that Ryo had (still has) a lot of hard times that he still can't tell people about easily. And he was in two popular groups for ~8 years back then, making it doubly stressful. Ryo, thank you for being alive and healthy and still in front of us until now... I LOVE YOU!
Ice Cream... I think this is the first time they gave us #IGLIVE for the whole song. It's amazing when you can listen to what used to be group songs (Tokyoholic & Traffic) and unit songs (Banana Juice & Ice Cream) being performed by only Ryo and not feel like the solo songs lose in entertainment value at all. In fact, for me as a Ryo-biased fan back in JA-era, they're even more precious coz now the whole songs are in Ryo’s voice 💕
Banana Juice... I want the studio version of this song, Ryo. Please put this song in your album whenever you can... onegai 🙏💕
Today's venue is in Fuchu. The neighbouring Fuchunomori Park was also the filming location for the ichiritoru drama 💕 (X post)
Fuchu City turns out to be a place that's connected to Ryo in more than one drama 💕 (X post)
Yokoso minna!
Merch
Merch poll about jackets 😆 (X post)
Ending time is now broadcasted at the venue 😆
First greeting 🥰
This ossan already doesn't remember his tour venues lol (X post)
He looks cool and ikemen and all that... but he's really a dork lol Lord of Chaos 😆
What the mask looked like 🤭
ROFL why is he such an adorable dork? (X post)
Ryo getting flustered after spilling water reminded me of that Chronicle episode when he spilt milk, and the whole set suddenly became chaotic lol (X post)
Penlight survey study lol
Penlight Furifuri Group lol
Because Ryo is cute, his audience also becomes cute 😆 (X post)
Ryo is still conducting his independent research into fan behaviour lol this time it's the psyllium/penlight (X post)
Day of the week survey study lol was he trying to check whether everybody was still alert during his show or what? 😂
Nishikido Syndrome lol I probably already have it by now... can't let a day pass by without looking up stuff related to him, there's no rest on weekends from him either😆
What is Sazae Syndrome? 🤭 (X post)
Nishikido Consultation about issue of shyness 😆
Ryo, not updating your SNS is a habit we all know pretty well now... there's no need to mention it anymore 😂
Dude started philosophising with fan's name... I bet she was happy to hear him mention her name tho 🤭💕 (X post)
He's philosophised about this before a long time ago... complete with paper sakura rain 😆 I even made several threads about it (X post)
Ryo messing around with his sappomen 😆
I bet he remembers the names of all his staff...
Yamakawa-san was pretty sporting 😆 (X post)
lol I like this staff... and also, Ryo is loved 💕 (X post)
Omodoro end pose was a bit shaky lol poor sappomen-san 🤭
Ryo and hospitals... smh (X post)
I know I shouldn't laugh about his broken bones... but this is too funny 🤣 (X post)
A more detailed Ryo-sappomen interaction about their hometown... and how Ryo suggested Jun shaved his head (like himself last year? 😂) they were pretty funny and everybody indulged him with this cultural center nonsense lol (X post)
Hometown survey study continued... (X post)
Ryo talking about fans swinging around the penlight and psyllium 😆
Time sure flies so fast, huh (X post) a fan said he looked off into the distance when he talked about his own "expedition." Maybe he no longer has the luxury of time and energy to chase after his idols like back then in his youth.
Ryo messing around with the party sunglasses during Omodoro lol
This guy is just being sexy and breaking hearts everywhere for no reason 🤭
ROFL his moe gap is too much (X post 1, X post 2)
Ryo wanted our usually-ordinary day to become exciting (coz he was there with us)... I LOVE HIM
He's cute like dis 😂 (X post)
Ryo loves performing... he's been entertaining us since he was a Chibi Nishikido 🥰
Ending greeting
Me collapsing in a fit of laughter reading this repo 🤣
Before encore (X post)
Fanrepo in a blog:
- Halhalman's post
#IGLIVE
It was uploaded in Nomareko-san's IG story tho... maybe the connection wasn't good at the venue 🤔 look at him having fun being dorky lol
2 hours before the goods line was opened and already there were 2,300 people queueing? 😱
There's a signature on the panel today 🥰
Greeting (X post)
He did it! He really did it this time!!! 😍 I WANNA WATCH IT TOO 🙏💕
Ryo x Jun (I wanna give this awesome keyboardist flowers lol)
3月9日 when he was 21 (X post)
He's now 39 and he's gonna appear in a drama on April 🥰 (X post) ...this guy is really somebody I wanna support ALL MY LIFE... or something like that, tbh...
Let's be honest... this song is popular until now not just coz it's viewed as a graduation song but also coz Ryo's fandom keeps it alive by celebrating it every year on this date 🤭💕 (trivia about the song)
I also think Ryo understands our affection for Asou-kun and he wants to respond to us as much as possible... singing the 3月9日 together with the audience is really the best thing he could've ever done, like... what can ever top this for the ichiritoru/Asou-kun fans now? Please do this every time you have a concert date on March 9th from now on, Ryo! 😆 (X post)
Ryo tried to tease his fans but ended up sounding like he's sulking 🤣 (X post)
Jun to the rescue! 🤭 wow, they did the whole song? 😱 that's so luxurious 💕 (X post)
So, today was Shitsumon BOX and not Letter BOX? There were 5 of them...
Q1.
I don’t use Amazon... but this is pretty funny 😂 (X post)
Q2.
Dude really answers all kinds of questions 🤣
Why was he complaining about his pain from swiping?? (is this a double entendre thing , or was he obliviously innocent 🤣?)
Fans in the venue be like... what is this I'm hearing?? (also, Ryo putting tabloids out of business with all the TMIs lol)
Wasn't this a public secret back then? He put his real photos or something on the app, and some fans found out about it iirc, right? (it was a long time ago, and my memory is fuzzy). He really does live as he likes even when he really couldn’t lol
OHHHH this is new info hehe
He's such a smooth operator lol I like him a lot too (X post)
Q3-5.
This advice about #workstruggle cracked me up lol (X post)
Ryo x Jun and the mysterious "firefly's light" performance...
Ryo keeping his sappomen on their toes lol (X post)
The "light of the fireflies" song is related to Omodoro? How so? 🤔 (X post)
Jun said the song was his improv 😆 (X post)
Ryo, who's cute since birth, can't understand why people keep giggling or crying when he says random stuff lol
🍑🤭
Yep, his cuteness is incurable lol
Halp 😆💕
I think everybody was overwhelmed by his cuteness today lol (X post)
The way he always prepares tour dates during the release of his dramas/movies just so he can directly ask his audience this kind of hard-hitting question is extremely brave... and also the cutest thing I've ever encountered in any fandom I've been in. Honestly, #actorRyo is fearless to be doing this not just once but EVERY SINGLE TIME...
He also asked the audience about the futeki_tbs drama 😆 (X post)
How could anybody dare to disappoint him by not raising their hands when he asked if they'd watched it? 🤭 (X post)
The 💩 commentary didn't come up today tho 😂 (X post)
3 oyasumi songs? What are those? I need to look up the setlist again... (X post)
Cute ending greeting 😆💕 (X post)
For somebody who doesn't eat much/isn't a foodie, Ryo somehow always talks about/is associated with food... and I find that pretty funny but also adorable 🤭
It's impossible to not have regrets about our fam & friends tho... but I love how Ryo's always gently pushing us about this through his works and his awkward MCs as if he were our kind neighbourhood ojisan who worries about us a lot 😆 (X post)
Sappomen post
I love how Kuroda-san keeps giving fans pick souvenir... I haven't seen any post from the fan who got it today tho (X post)
This is a funny observation about the pick-throwing event tho lol (X post) but tbh, I don't think Ryo's jealous... he's probably worried some fans would go overboard and get hurt/trampled while trying to get that smol souvenir. Please be careful, everyone... if you get hurt, Ryo would be blamed by media & the public coz it's his tour... 💁♀️
Ryo got a letter from a 7-year-old fan... and it's like the cutest thing ever 😍
It reminds me of that girl who cried when Ryo interviewed her to ask who her fave member was, and she said Nishikido Ryo 💕
Ohhhh, the 7-year-old fan is a boy! 💕
Just how much has been completed for this album anyway? Are we even gonna see it this year? 😆
Ryo's battle with pollens continues... #poorRyo
He was having too much fun teasing the audience about it tho lol (X post)
He even did a poll about tissues 😆 (X post)
Why are we suddenly listening to a lecture about phlegm? 😂
He's relentless about this phlegm topic... yikes 😂
More mic mishap lol
Omunpus comic about Ryo's hay fever & phlegm stories 😆
Ryo's strip tease BGM was this one...
Ice Cream choreography 💕
That uh-ah game? I remember it... who doesn't? 😆💕
Ryo's pretty happy today... I guess it's also coz Cottontail screening was well-received in Jpn 💕 it's his first full-length movie after he left the jimusho and it was well-received internationally too...
What is going on with the 💩 call lol
Ryo worries about his obafans coz he's also an ossan with knee problems 💁♀️
Morbid topic revisited lol I LOVE HIM
Ryo's pretty good at MC now 🤭 his talking style is like an ojisan talking to his villagers lol (cute)
He's pretty excited to be in his 40s this year lol I bet he looks forward to be in his 50s and so on too 😆
...and curious about dying, but not in a mentally depressed way, I guess (Ryo, I understand... I'm curious about it too)
This merch talk is pretty long 😆 I wonder if this is how Ryo was back when he was in NEWS & Eito... always worrying about what kind of merch fans would love to have. Now that he's not under any jimusho, he can freely and directly ask them himself and promotes the merch he & his team created. I bet he's having the time of his life doing it 🤭
Why are fans always asking idols, whom they themselves have forbidden from dating or marrying, for suggestions on date spots? I can never understand this kind of common cruelty among humans... smh
Ryo doesn't mind it tho... he's used to being asked questions like this, I guess 😆 (X post)
More details on his answer to the letter/question about date spots (X spot1, X post2)
Ryo's perpetual battle with pollens...
...suddenly became a scene from a war movie lol
How the tour got its name... cue to Ryo being cutely frustrated coz his reasonings don't seem to reach the audience
He even made pudding (during Chonmage Purin filming) & onigiri (during Cottontail filming) and brought them to the set to share with others... this guy, he's amazingly social 💕
Him disclosing his fave time for viewing movies as an intro to his promo about Cottontail 😆
The way he smoothly segued from the question about date spots to Cottontail promo tho 🤭
Definitely スカジャン for me 😍
Ryo is a tsundere being lol
The backstory of the party sunglasses during encore lol (X post)
This guy is just asking to be memed lol 600yen per eye whuttt
I think Ryo, shy as he is, really loves to play with the crowd. It's probably the main reason why one of the first things he did when he went indie was to hold a tour even tho he was probably so nervous about being hated for leaving the jimusho... and why he holds a minimum of 1 tour every year ever since. He misses his audience as much as, or more than, they miss him 💕
Ryo's morbid topics of MC and conversations, even his choices of acting roles & song lyrics... as a morbid person myself, I really like it lol
The way he prepares his audience for the show's ending lol
Recommended merch item of today: the black shirt with long-sleeves mesh 😆
Awww #poorRyo
Omodoro didn't turn out to be quite what Ryo expected 😆
Continuation of the conversation with Yasu about the group name change...
Continuation about Subaru not coming to his tour coz he doesn't know anybody's phone number and can't contact him to invite... (Me: DUDEEEE WHY YOU STILL LIKE DIS 😂 I CAN'T WITH THIS GUY)
Every time Ryo's being tsundere and teasing people to oblivion and back... that means he's really happy, but he's awkward about it (Me: why you still like dis, Ryo... I love you, but I wanna kick your butt too sometimes lol)
Poor Manager-san probably called him to wake him up 😂 this reminds me of that unholy alliance of "people who wake up at noon" (Janiben episode)
I dunno how to feel about this... but, isn't Ryo brilliant? The thoughts that he shared with us always make me think about my own life too... #NishikidoSensei is 💖
After the TMI about his routines before a show, Ryo was like WHY DID YOU MAKE ME SAY ALL THAT?! 🥺 lol cute
前髪界隈 lol
Omodoro and rewriting of memories... is perhaps the biggest lesson Ryo tries to impart and wants us to digest, but it's not like he himself understands it fully either. Coz even tho humans change, they also stay the same... these two can coexist, paradoxical as it may sound.
This self-holding hands during Omoide Dorobou is never not gonna be cute 😆 (X-post)
Ryo and his ever-present need to test fans regarding their obsession with his hairstyles 😂
Isoyama P, thank you for giving Ryo the opportunities! 🥰
I was in tears every time I watched that part in Episode 5 of the drama... it's like some sort of sad mystery theatre or something
Ryo x Jun 😆
Jack Nicholson story continuation...
Encore continuation
People are not changing their behaviour overnight, and Nishikido-sensei is frustrated with the slow progress 😂
He wants the audience to change the encore noise but people are not budging from their century-old habit in the space of a few shows lol #poorRyo
The rhythm of the don don don thing... (まだわかりませんけど😅)
He redid the encore 😂 (X post)
Fans said the rhythm sounds like Futari no Hana! (X post)
Encore tutorial... thank you! (X post)
Agricultural whuttt? 😂 what kind of youtube videos has he been watching lately lol
Skipping lol
This skipping backstory is really cute lol (X post)
Ice cream has suddenly become a symbol of friendship? 😆
行きなりさかなクン 😂
I found this but I dunno if that's what he meant tho lol
He said it back in Note-era too!
Ending greeting
Ryo trying to do multiple things at one go... as usual 😆 (promote his Osakan t-shirt, promote his tour, promote his movie, being cute) とにかく... prioritizing is IMPORTANT lol
This skipping thing is too cute... tbh, I do it too when I go home from work late sometimes coz it's already dark outside of our office building and nobody is around to see me happily skipping to my car 😆
I have a theory that Ryo deliberately times his tours with other projects to make it easier for EVERYBODY to "meet" him. It's how he deals with the world... with generosity and warmth, but as little words of explanation as possible 🤭
Sources: X post 1, X post 2, X post 3, X post 4, X post 5
Goods line...
I think the Letter Box and the photobooth panel are here to stay (please do it in ALL tours from now on lol)
The ice cream penlight was put on a stand at the merch counter now! 😆
And the pair of sunglasses was put on the hat, which was in turn also put on a hat stand... whuttt lol
SOLD OUT King 🤭
Lucky fan! The Osakan pouch was a nice pull there... 💕
Today's charm & rubberband
Opening greeting (X post)
Ryo's promoting I'm An Osakan t-shirt so hard lolol it was captured during the IG live and laughed so hard coz I understood it immediately even tho my nihongo is almost nonexistent... he was THAT expressive, okayyy 🤣
About xmembers
Ryo elaborated on the story of how he talked to Yasu about Ice Cream 😍
Ryo dashing hopes as soon as he raised them... as usual lol
He was analysing fan behaviour lol nerd... 😆
Yasu contacted Ryo about the group's name change 🥰
Ryo's still waiting for people to offer him their contact numbers 🤣 dude doesn't understand that WE ALL beg for our friends' and fam members' contact numbers, nobody offers us anything (and then we promptly forget they exist except if we're in the same chat group lol)
About acting, particularly on TBS dramas...
Jack Nicholson got an honorary mention... whutttt 😆💕
Letter Box
Ryo being TMI without getting provoked is pretty rare... but it does happen once in a while 😆 I'm seriously liking this letter/question format for tour... I hope Staff-san will always keeps doing it FOREVAR
He even did a poll on bath water lol (X post)
Encore session
The story behind the cute skipping after the ending greeting lol
Sappomen posts
Jun is being as awesomely generous as always 💕
Selfie ftw! 😍 yep, Letter BOX is awesome!!!
The phone used to take photo was an iPhone lol (X post)
Hiro-san, the bassist celebrated his birthday yesterday! (X post)
BONUS
Fans reminiscing about Ice Cream by going to visit the filming site of the music video 😍 (X post)
Ryo's worried about his I'm An Osakan t-shirt not selling well coz he didn't see anybody wearing it 😆 he said it during the ending greeting and it was streamed on IG LIVE 🤭 I wonder why the Osakan t-shirt didn't sell as well as the other specialty t-shirts like the x-ray one... maybe he should have put his name or some leopard print on it lol
Kusakari-san's restaurant in his hometown
Ryo and his neverending MC issues lol
To understand why the staff at Fuji TV are happy to see him again, people need to know that Ryo ALWAYS remembers the name of the staff involved in his dramas... and he calls them by name too. He also usually helped them with whatever tasks he could during filming...
He also filmed A LOT of dramas under Fuji TV
Ryo always holds a tour while filming/there's a release of his dramas/movies in solo-era. I think it's way to touch base and tell fans face-to-face about the happy news 🥰
I still remember reading this fanrepo a long time ago (was it Note-era?) and feeling so angry about all the #RyoErasure and sontaku going on with terrestrial TV stations against ex-JA artists/actors, which made the futeki episode yesterday bittersweet and, because it's a sad episode, a doubly tear-jerking affair for me.
Yakiniku sauce? 😆
This conversation with the male fan was interesting! I wish they'd include all the MCs in the tour dvd/bluray 🙏
Ice Cream interlude
A fan summary
IG LIVE: Ending greeting MC (please use the auto-translate function to get the English sub)
Solo-era banzai! I never thought I'd see this kind of photos (Ryo with people other than his costars and filming crew) officially posted on SNS... I'm so happy 🥰
Ryo's cut
Full clips
Part1
youtube
Part2
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Part3
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The TVer version of the musical is on TikTok: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
A more complete cut of the "Daddy's Suit" musical:
This story is actually pretty sad... I cried a lot watching the snippets after I knew what happened to Junko and her dad in 1995.
Yumi Kawai was chosen to play Junko for various reasons, but also coz Ryo commented this: