My coming to Japan this year was originally trigger for me hitting fanclub tickets for Gackt’s Last Visual Live in Saitama Super Arena [さいたまスーパーアリーナ], obviously in Saitama [さいたま]. I had never thought that I would be able to see one, much less this close, so for me it was quite intense. There was queuing, and goods, and ramen and fanclub tickets.
As far as concerts and GACKT’s lives go, this was a dream come true – to be able to attend one of his great productions live was one of my fan-dreams and it did not disappoint. It was not easy to receive the fanclub tickets because why would anything be well-organised? The overseas fanclub members did not have their tickets sent to them, we had to pick them up on site, and the staff had no idea of that. After a while though, someone from the fanclub staff figured things out and put up a sign, so I was able to get my admittance tickets.
The concert itself was… well, I’ve mentioned GACKT’s delirium of grandeur before, and this event qualified, with the additional emotional charge that it is supposed to be the last time he does anything like it. There was a nostalgic mix of older and newer songs, and all in all it was super-emotional.
Setlist:
1. Arrow
2. 花も散ゆ
3. RETURNER 〜闇の終焉〜
4. RIDE OR DIE
5. 暁月夜 −DAY BREAKERS−
(short film, feat. Moon Saga, Gackt’s theatre project)
6. 泡沫の夢
7. 斬 〜ZAN〜
8. 傀儡が如く
9. 揺籃歌 – LULLING –
(short Moon Saga film)
10. ONE MORE KISS
11. MIRROR
(emcee)
12. U+K
(break)
13. 舞哈BABY!! -WooHa!
14. 恋のFRIDAY!!!
(short video featuring other characters Gackt has played aside from Moon Saga’s Yoshitsune)
15. キミだけのボクでいるから
16. P.S. I LOVE U
17. 登園の誓い
(Moon Saga’s short film)
18. 雪月花 −The end of silence-