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Tokyo Dome seats 55,000. BabyMetal sold the venue out 2 nights in a row and BOH's bass is a 6 string...

Tokyo Dome was an epic show. They did every song from their 1st 2 albums and is out on DVD, worth getting. The song is about playing hide and seek with an ogre. Somehow it is the cutest and heaviest song ever..

Great reaction - and yes it is a game like tag or hide & seek, but played with an Oni (a sort of Japanese ogre). The red shoes may reference a Hans Christian Andersen story about a girl who put on red dancing shoes and couldn't stop dancing until her feet were cut off, but that is the most unlikely association. It is far more likely to relate to an old Japanese tale of a girl either kidnapped by a foreigner or a girl suffering with TB entrusted to an American missionary by her mother who believed the missionary had taken her back to America and imagined her growing up far away overseas, but the girl had actually died before they set sale and the mother wasn't told. Alternatively wearing red shows may just make you easier to find. So if an Oni (the growling vocals on the backing track) asks "Are you ready?" the best possible response has to be "Maadad da yo" (No, not yet) while doing a running away from an Oni dance. This has to be the best metal song about playing hide & seek. Tokyo Dome - 55,000 capacity. They played two nights both sold out with a completely different set list on each night - all the songs from the first two albums except 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (although that was played over the speakers as people were on their way out). What you didn't see of the stage - as well as the huge round stage (which revolved - the inside circle where the Kami band stood also revolved) and the 3 coffin shaped walkways (each of which also had a moving platform that went to the end and back) - above the huge 360 degree screens was another smaller stage with steps down to three more smaller stages. That upper stage was something like 5 or 6 storeys high and some songs were performed way up there - or they started or finished up there and finished or started down on the main stage. There was a lift from the centre of the stage that took the girls up.

To play at the Tokyo Dome is the pinnacle for any Japanese artist. As many comments below indicated, BM played two nights as a SOLO act, each night a sold out performance >55,000! The first guitarist solo was the great Mikio (RIP). You should know by now that the KAMI band members are at the top of the echelon of World Class musicians. I don't know if the "BM DEATH" at the Tokyo Dome is available on KZfaq, but to watch Su-Metal control a crowd of 55,000 in jumping up and down in unison and chanting "death...death...death..." is an unforgetable scene.

The guitarist playing the first solo is Mikio Fujioka :)

Kami Band The Hill of Wisteria (Tribute to mikio fujioka) The person playing the guitar in the OP fell and died while looking at the stars. He was a wonderful guitarist representing Japan. There is a performance in memory of him in the video, so please watch it.

2 nights of shows with a different set list for each night, no repeats. the crowd for each night was 55,000. Cost me a bit of coin, but I bought the Bluray of this concert(s) and do not regret it. Seeing both nights entirely is a wonder to behold.

"I wish I could play guitar like this" yeah me too. Nobody plays guitar like Mikio :)

People think we're delusional fans and shrug it off when we tell them there's more to BABYMETAL than you would think at first, or even second or third glance. I get it we've all seen these super passionate fans who are way overrating their bands and what not so I know the feeling. But the catch with BABYMETAL is that it's actually true. And that from a band with such a gimmick would have all of this is even more shocking - we know. Now that you've dipped your toes (and I insist on DIPPED - aint seen nothing yet but perhaps now you'll believe this rhetoric) into their real live shows : HD quality sound, video and production... Now you're finally getting why we're all so ecstatic about them. They are in all senses of the word, phenomenal. Great reaction :) - keep em coming ! And this format is perfect. I just open the uncensored version on my second screen. Also I dig the little research about the meaning of their songs. Sometimes they're more on the fun-side but they can also have deep meanings and they almost always have interesting easter eggs or half-hidden references to lots of different things.

The Tokyo Dome is a huge indoor Baseball Stadium, the stage is amazing, the part you didn't see is above the screens there is another stage with 3 small satellite stages that is almost at the height of the upper tiers of the stands, the catwalks off the main stage had moving platforms and are in the shape of coffins, at the end there are trap doors where all three girls were raised on crucifixes at the start of the concert. Boh the Bass player apart from being a great metal bassist also plays Jazz Fusion which is why he uses the six string and also why he can do all the amazing tapping etc. If you are interested check out Kari Band which also features Mikio and a drummer Yuya Maeta who has also played with Babymetal a few times. The red shoes being dangerous, we think refers to a story about a girl with red shoes who was taken by a western couple never to be seen again, I think the true story was the girl had a disease and was being taken overseas to get treatment but unknown to her family she tragically died before even leaving Japan.

I was at the Tokyo Dome concert both nights!! They played two completely different sets covering their entire catalog.. Best concert I’ve ever been to - totally epic. Travelled from Australia so I could see it. I’d do it again in a blink!

55,000 in attendance each night - two nights in a row. Great reaction. Arigatou! 🦊🤘 #notacult

⚡ 💀 💕 / 🏃‍♀️👹 If much of their charm is in the blending of the cute and the brutal, this song is a great example. While 'Megitsune' is still my favorite, this has one of the cutest choreographies. Of course they had to adapt it a bit for that huge stage. They performed this song quite a bit in 2017, but not since. The last time I saw this one was in Chula Vista, California when they were on tour opening for Korn. BTW, BOH plays a six-stringed bass. His custom models are designed for him by Atelier Z.

Definitely one of my BABYMETAL favs - the energy, the choreography, the instrumentals, the choreography, everything just is perfectly "Kawaii Metal". :-)

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I am sure all Babymetal fans are used to reaction videos with the overlay by now and have seen the original video a million times by now, so don’t worry too much about it. I agree with many other comments, CMIYC is one of their heaviest songs and shows beautifully how well heavy metal and cuteness/kawaii go together if done right (which only Babymetal can do lol). Tokyo Dome was sold out two nights in a row with 55k tickets sold, so yeah, biggest shows they’ve ever done and super crazy crowds. Su is such a queen and her English has improved so much without losing the charm of her unquie accent. Great reaction and amazing last part of the reaction! Keep em coming!

Nice reaction! It seems your always amazed each time! They are amazing performers, the whole production is insane! That stage is crazy, the three out reaching walkways in the shape of coffins, the revolving stage and there are platforms on top of the 360 screen above that they also performed on during the show! Epic show!! 🦊 🦊 🦊

Babymetal is still unique as you can see. :-) And yeah, it couldn't be a regular game of tag, it had to had some kind of scary or dark edge to it in some way for it to be a Babymetal song. Babymetal at Tokyo Dome (2016) was at the most important venue in Japan. Like Wembley Stadium in the UK. Babymetal had already performed at Budokan before that (2014), the most important arena show in Japan (think of it: Wembley Arena, where Babymetal had already performed, start of the 2016 tour. Actually the girls were most nervous for that !). Similar to Madison Square Garden or something like that. When they started the tour in April that year they didn't feel ready at all for Tokyo Dome, but after US, Europe, lots of festivals, award shows, etc. they really were ready for Tokyo Dome. They actually felt when they were there: "hmm, Tokyo Dome isn't really that insane as we imagined it would be." (Tokyo Dome is 55 000, but they had been in front of bigger crowds at festivals)

They are playing "hide and seek" with the devil LMAO

CMIYC is the song that got me hooked (admittedly it was the first song that I listened too 🤣)... And the Tokyo Dome shows blew my mind when I first watched them a few months ago. Thank you for the reaction. 🦊🤘🔥🖤

It's a great song that combines heavy sound and cuteness.

Bruh, you must watch BABYMETAL - Death live at Tokyo Dome, that's the intro song for Tokyo Dome Black Night, and that's insane. Sound good too.

Queen Su and Moa both speak really good english. You should check out some of their newer interviews.

As far as I am aware, there are two theories regarding the reference to the red shoes. The first, and in my mind the most likely, is in reference to an old Japanese story told to young children. In the story, a foreigner comes to Japan and befriends a young orphan girl. He eventually leaves Japan to return to his home country. Before he does, he gives her a brand new pair of red shoes and asks if she wants to come back home with him. She goes with him, and never returns to Japan and no one ever hears from her again. The second is that it is a reference to the story The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen. In this story, a young girl wears a pair of bright red shoes to church. Everyone thinks that she is vain to wear something so colorful to church. She meets someone at church (I think it is a soldier, I don't recall for sure) who admires her shoes and tells the shoes that they should never stop dancing. The girl starts dancing and can't stop. She eventually asks someone to cut her feet off so she can stop dancing, and the shoes keep dancing with her feet still in them.

The Tokyo Dome is an enormous stadium venue. The shows were fantastic and are well worth owning on DVD/BluRay, but I think the scale of the show was a bit too big and the girls get a bit lost at times in the enormity of the stage set up. Still I own the concerts on DVD just for "Tales of the Destinies" and the bridge into "The One". "Catch Me If You Can" is based on a traditional Spring festival where ogres called Oni are chased out of the house and in some regions of Japan people dress as the Oni and are given food to get them to leave the house and they warn the children to be good or they will take them away. There is also a game of tag where the tagger is called the oni. Another reference is made to a child being stolen away as one line says "not to wear red shoes" and this refers to a Japanese nursery rhyme where a young girl is taken away by a foreigner. FYI Su's English is even better now and she has hardly any Japanese intonation and speaks with a distinctively American accent. I'm sure this is part of Amuse's plan for Babymetal world domination...I bet Su is studying Chinese and Spanish too.

Tokyo Dome is one of the biggest venues in Japan; they had 55,000 at the show. The screens have a second multi layered.stage on top of them. Catch Me If You Can is about childhood, they bring in different bits and pieces of different games and stories and things out of childhood. Akaoni (red ogre) and Aooni(blue ogre) come from a childs story, thr red ogre who cried. "Are there any naughty kids" comes from a childhood ritual, where an Oni (ogre) comes into the house (Dad dressed up) and asks for naughty kids, and they kids throw acorns at him to scare him off. Just some bits and pieces of childhood culture put together in a song. The red shoes could also refer to the Hans Christian Anderson story The Red Shoes, where a girl put them on and couldn't stop dancing. Who knows, they rarely explain anything,

Absolutely amazing and great performance. Good react again man. By the way, the Kami Band is absolutely insane!! See you in the next 🤟🏻 🦊 🔥 🔥 🔥

I may be late but seems like nobody talk about this.........so this is not hitori kakurenbo (one-person hide-and-seek, basically a ritual to call a spirit to stay in a doll), i believe this is a normal kakurenbo (hide-and-seek). In japanese, the "tagger" is called "oni", the same word for "ogre". And then there's some legend I don't know well about Red ogre and Blue ogre but it is mentioned because of the word tagger/ogre in the game. About red shoes, someone else already commented on it :D

Great reaction. This is one of the best version of 'Catch Me If You Can' but the BEST ONE is at Metrock 2015 with multiples mosh pits is insane.

Boh = Bass master.

Ah yes my favorite song about hide and seek. Most evil subject you can write for a metal song😁. Regarding red shoes, it has something to do with Japanese urban legend about little girl who's wearing red shoes kidnapped by foreigner and taken to faraway land.

Amazing it took so long to get here, this is one of my favs.

Great reaction, thanks! Sometimes I forget how brutal "CMIYC" is... nahhhh totally kidding. This was my very first BABYMETAL song and got me hooked since then. So "CMIYC" will always be very special to me. Also a very cute choreo including the infamous "Moa slide" lol. Until next time!

As what I know, Tokyo Dome is like a 'dream come true' for every japanese music acts, artists, and groups. It's a special place.. and they sold out 2 days with 55.000 each night.

GJ on the reaction. Just another epic performance. Kami band with the cool intro. Babymetals "what's up" is about the most Kawaii thing in English I've ever heard. Thanks to some vids on youtube I've gotten to see both Su and Moa say that. It's just adorable. I don't know if when they say it in Japanese if it comes across the same way or if there is a way to say What's Up in Japanese. I am just guessing but I always just figured every language has a slang way of saying hi. But when Babymetal says it, Somehow it just automatically becomes Kawaii.

I won't wear any red shoes!

ah yes .... Su's English is much better over the years and thankfully her cute pronunciation still there. Tokyo Dome is supposed to be a seated crowd on the floor area but that two night nobody sitting from the start to the end of the show.

It's a hide and seek game with a demon btw. That's pretty metal 🤣🤣🤣

My mate called me a perv, last night. Lusting after young Japanese girls. There is nothing sexual about Babymetal. Just pure talent. They have become my adopted daughters. Just shows how ignorant some people can be!

Nice & thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。You already got necessary information about this performance including two potential theories associated with dangerousness of red shoes. I am still considering which one was in songwriter's mind. Kidnapping by foreigner or entrusting to gentle American missionary? Hmmm. I am inclining to the first one.

I heard you comment on Su's English accent, and how it changes. Funny thing is, I recently read a translated interview in which she actually has two modes for speaking English: Regular, proper English and what she called "Japanese English", or perhaps that might be called a rather racist mockery of a Japanese person trying to speak the language (Engrish) if attempted by a Westerner. I believe she said she sometimes has to consider which kind to use for a given situation lol.

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Red shoes stand out

Great reaction!

Great reaction, to a great song at a great venue!

This is maybe the one song I don't prefer from the Tokyo Dome if only because the choreo is so much cuter when they aren't so spread apart. They eventually come together, but the girls don't get to have their little hug, and Moa doesn't get to slide through Su's legs, and I miss that. :p Tokyo Dome performances are off the charts in general, tho. Everyone brought their absolute best for these shows, and when you're a part of the BabyMetal machine, that's a reeeeally high bar.

I've been Tokyo Dome over ten times bc of baseball games and live shows...I can tell y'all I never seen such a big crowd.. fully packed the place like that..

Yeah that stage was mental, the biggest show they did at this time! And all the audience had neckbraces with a white light that they lit up as part of the choreography during some songs! Most notable during the intro of "Tales of the Destinies" and during "The One"!

You missed the elevator in the middle of stage taking you to a platform at top and 3 smaller one coming off that 🤘🦊🤘😁

One of my favorite songs. Playing hide and seek with ogres that are trying to kill them.

Playing hide and seek in babymetal style... Cute and heavy at the same time... Hahha.. I not ready for this.. It so Good.. Nice reaction.. More babymetal please...

Great way to start off my work day! Great reaction!

CMIYC at Tokyo Dome. Yes, Babymetal production team put in a lot of effort to create an atmosphere suitable for older and younger generation and for everyone to enjoy. Played in front of 55000 fans over two nights each night. A song only Babymetal can create playing hide and seek with an ogre or demon and sung to a choreographed dance routine by three adorable Japanese teens in frilly outfits. So heavy yet so catchy. As for The Kami Band, this is probably the finest musicians lineup Japan has to offer. 1. Mikio Fujioka (R.I.P). (Orange Custom Snapper 7). 2. Takayoshi Ohmura. (Sparkling Pink Custom Snapper 7). 3. Daisuke 'Boh' Bohte. (Bass). 4. Hideki Aoyama. (Drums). Kitsune Up 🦊🦊🦊🤘🇯🇵🇸🇬.

red shoes are easy too find lol

55000 pairs of hands clapping: mr tagger follow my clapping the tagger: wtf

Number of attendance is around 55k people, and this was a 2 night shows, so total 110k people (from Wikipedia "Live at Tokyo Dome").

Playing hide & seek with a flesh eating demon, now that's metal!!!!

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the most brutal song about playing hide and seek

A pair of red shoes, namely a vivid colour, are dangerous because it's easy to discover you for a tagger(it). Some children can't pay attention to hide their own feet in hide-and-seek. Well, "dangerous" in this case may not be a proper word in English though.

Tokyo Dome is, as far as I know, the biggest "indoor" venue in Japan (it has a retractable roof for Baseball, etc). It's capacity is around 55k, depending on the stage/occasion. If you played in Budokan, you made it in Japan, if you played Tokyo Dome, you know you're a real big deal. And while Babymetal can't really compete with all the popular Idol groups like AKB48 or NGK46 and so on nor with Anime OSTs when it comes to selling music, they are one of the most popular non-J-Pop acts. As you already researched, the song is about playing hide-and-seek. In this case it's probably about the kind you looked up, but the term "oni" (which is a kind of Demon or Ogre) is the general term for the person who needs to search the people who hide in a normal game of hide-and-seek. The stuff with the red shoes is probably out of an old nursery rhyme about a Japanese girl who always wore red shoes. She was sick and got taken in by an English family who wanted to take her overseas to get treated, because her Japanese family didn't have the means nor money for it. But it never came to that because she died before they could leave Japan. The mother of the girl never knew her daughter died and thought her whole life that she became blue eyed woman and was living a happy life overseas with the English family. Allegedly it's based on a true story. The rhyme is called "Akai Kutsu" (which means red shoes). There are even statues of the little girl in Shizuoka (where she was from) and a few in Hokkaido, amongst other prefectures.

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If you ever want a deep dive into the meaning behind a Babymetal song, I recommend Prof Andrew Hartley's reviews. He goes into so much detail and you learn a lot. Granted, his videos are sometimes a bit long (well, it's a full blown lecture) but very informative. Nice reaction, I can tell you really enjoy Babymetal now.

It's so funny that Su speaks English to an entirely Japanese crowd. It's prestigious. You are such a big group that you have to speak the international language. But Su is struggling to speak a language that almost nobody there understands. It's 'Decoration English'. There are some funny KZfaq videos about it. How about some nice 'Pizza Sand' ? I watched a video with this jpop group having an english pronunciation contest. (including Su's sister Himeka) One girl obviously spent time in America and had perfect english pronunciation. But she'd say a word perfectly and the hosts of the tv show would all look around confused 'is that right?'

Because the red ogre can easyly found you😂i think😂

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If u wanna se Kami Band i god mode, watch "Tales of Destinies"

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These "logo'ed" videos are just unwatchable. Might as well not doing the reviews... But I guess money talks.