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Wakana Anime Classic 2020 Live Report

■ Online Live Stream Date & Time：2020/12//22 (page opens at 18:00 / live starts at 18:30～) Ticket fee:￥2,500 Tweet

The live is scheduled to start in about 30 minutes. Do not forget to tune in. Better go to the page early in case there is too much traffic. This is a fairly new streaming site and Wakana’s concert will be their very first big live stream so I am preparing myself to be met with some initial difficulties. Of course I hope there won’t be any but one never knows. As always I will do some live commenting so please look forward to that.

Wakana looks like a queen wearing a gorgeous white gown. Beautiful flower arrangements all over the stage and fancy 3D/AR art. Streaming quality sucks tho T_T I knew this would happen. Space Craft really managed to pick the worst site for this *sighs* Live2U’s servers were already struggling when people registered but apparently they didn’t feel it was necessary to do anything about it. Thank God we are getting this archived. They better provide a flawless video for the archived version. I feel really bad because they obviously put a lot of money into the production but when the streaming site sucks, it sucks. Btw, lowering your quality provides a fair bit of stability.

1. Toki ni wa Mukashi no Hanashi wo: A bit shaky initially but after the first few lines her vocals sounded solid. 2. Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara: Honestly better than the studio version. MC: 3. Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa: No thoughts yet but it was definitely nice. 4. Rain: Wakana’s live performance actually made me like this song 5. When She Loved Me: I don’t know it but WOW! I cried! So beautiful 6. Mononoke Hime: YESSSSSSSSS! THANK YOU LORD FOR BLESSING ME WITH THIS! MC: 7. Kimi wo Nosete: Ahhhhh! So good!! Can I use the opportunity to say that I really love 1966 QUARTET. Their playing is so good. They SLAY! 20 Minute Intermission (to air the hall) She is back wearing the same dress she wore for her session with Satoshi Takebe 8. Kizuato: I KNEW she would be singing Kalafina but why Kizuato XD Not among my favourite Kala-songs tbh. I was secretly hoping for “Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete Iku” but Kizuato is probably a better fit for 1966 QUARTET’s accompaniment. Anyways, I am not mad. She sounded good. 9. Mirai: I certainly did NOT expect this :P Quite shaky at parts but some of those high notes sounded absolutely beautiful. Overall not my favourite Kala-self-cover. I think she should stick to slow ballads. 1966 QUARTET are once again showing their talent!! MC: 10: Utautai No Ballad : I thought I didn’t like this song but Wakana changed my mind 11: Get Wild: I cannot express how much I love this song. Wakana’s performance and the arrangement! PERFECTION! MC: 12: Ai ni Dekiru Koto wa Mada Aru Kai: Wakana’s version of this is so good! I don’t particularly like the original version but Wakana gives me chills the way she sings it. MC: Already the last song is coming up. 13. Yume no Yukue: One of my faves from the CD and the live version is even better! Encore: I am not sure the live stream will include the encore. According to the description, we won’t get to watch it T_T As expected, no encore in the stream. I wonder what she is gonna sing for the encore. Apparently she wore a yellow dress. Maybe the one from the photobook? It WAS the one from the pamphlet!!! I see some tweets mentioning “Country Road” from Whisper of the Heart... And she sang “magic moment”! 1966 QUARTET also played a little encore, “Radio GAGA”.

Overall thoughts: Shitty stream notwithstanding, this live was REALLY good and definitely worth my money (although it was tad shorter than I expected). I don’t want to complain too much because it is already a privilege to get to watch those lives. Hearing Wakana perform all these songs was a revelation. For the most part she sounded AMAZING and she sang some of my favourite songs from the album. And OMG, Mononoke Hime.

PS: Seems like the archived video is also lagging due to too much traffic. Will have to watch it once everyone in Japan is asleep. The video quality is definitely better in the archived version but it seems that certain sections were completely cut due to the site’s awful service during the actual live T_T. How can a streaming site like that claim to offer good service when they suck so much?? That’s pretty much fraud. I am sure they must have noticed the complaints from everyone so hopefully they will do something to improve their service. They have finally acknowledged the horrible quality of the archived video and are claiming to work on it. This is why the video is currently not available. They better fix this ASAP.

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