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They introduced the members and joked around, and I tunedВ out for a few seconds and forgot to listen, as I realized I was understanding what they said and laughing along with everyone else.В I realizedВ how surreal it was, coming from knowing no Japanese and wanting so badly to understand everything in high school. The band came down from the stage at one point and played on a much smaller stage that was set up in the back of the room. ItвЂ™s written in another language, I think French, which IвЂ™m sure most of us donвЂ™t understand, so I thought they must be trying to be secretive and make us think about what the story meansвЂ¦ It had illustrations or comics on several pages, depicting things that went on during the вЂњopening sceneвЂќ for the concert. This is the CD and insert that I bought the week before the concert. I canвЂ™t explain exactly how the story went, because I couldnвЂ™t catch it all in Japanese, but it was pretty amazing to watchвЂ“especially when they find the city. It was like watching a cutscene from Final Fantasy, and thatвЂ™s all it took for me to fall completely in love with the concert before the band had even come out (haha). They showed the story as an animation on huge screens during the first song, before the band had even come on stage, whileВ playing вЂњWillвЂќВ in the background.

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The blimp from the Bump of Chicken truck was part of the storyline for the concert!В The concert was themed after a couple of explorers (or maybe just one) seeking вЂњWill Polis,вЂќ which I think was a hidden city full of people of light (I think thatвЂ™s what the вЂњwillsвЂќ are referring toвЂ“like souls, kind of). When the band started to play a song,В we all looked down as our wristbands lit up, and it was a pretty amazing moment,В withВ the room was glowing with everyoneвЂ™s different colored wristbands.В (TheyвЂ™re also a good substitute for cell phones, since youвЂ™re not allowed to have them out during the concertВ so that you donвЂ™t take videos.) My wristband after the concert, before we were out of range and the lights went out. At first, it just looks like a regular wristband, but they all light up, and theyвЂ™reВ switched on and off by a computer in back somewhere. When we came in, after security looked at our bags, we were each handed a different colored wristband. I talked a lot about the towels and the shirt, but more than the towel or the shirt, I loved the wristbands! However,В I really should get some points for all the times IвЂ™ve listened to Cosmonaut. I felt so much less committed than the other fans, like my friend, who knew the song вЂњDannyвЂќ that theyвЂ™d played in small venues before they got big, and which they played at the concert. With their new album, вЂњRAY,вЂќ I knew some songs that theyвЂ™d releasedВ videos for, like Niji wo Matsu HitoВ (People who wait for the rainbow), and Firefly, but I was so behind that I bought the album only a week before the concert, and just listened to it every day so IвЂ™d know any new song they played.

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