Gonna attempt to livetweet like usual, but I'm feeling especially tired today so forgive me if the quality is even more subpar than usual (or if I decide to perish partway through)...

Mute this thread or the hashtag #SaintSnow_Day1 if you're avoiding spoilers!

Right as the concert starts, we cut to an overhead shot of the audience as rock music starts - wait lmao this is BEASTIE BOYS wtfff (Right to Party)

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*(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!) fuck it i'm too tired for this shit lol

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We get a sick subunit remix as usual for SS's newest song Dazzling White Town!

We're getting lots of audience shots here - everyone is of course wearing masks and actually sitting as opposed to standing for the moment (I assume there are activity restrictions?)

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The girls are here in their newest single outfits!

First song is of course Dazzling White Town!

...unf, fishnets and Saint Snow is always a good combo

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OKAY WHOA WHOA WHOA WAS THAT EXTREME CLOSEUP OF ASAMIN'S BOOTY REALLY NECESSARY WHEN SHE WAS SHAKIN IT FOR THE DANCE

..........(thank you based cameraman)

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WHAT THE FUCK THEY HAVE LIGHTSABERS

......are they gonna play beat saber on stage lol

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the sun visor that hiichan is wearing reminds me of the face shields that the older asian ladies in my town wear when going to the supermarket lol

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With barely any pause, they jump straight to their next song - CRASH MIND!

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Asamin and Hiichan are standing quite far apart, in observance of social distancing guidelines.

The screen effects for this song are...hm...lots of variety in the types of frames used, but not super impressive IMO.

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Asamin did a mildly restrained call to the audience to hype them up, but the audience can't actually do their usual "hai" chants (again, COVID-19 restrictions) so all they can do is somehow wave their blades even harder

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Again, barely any pause before they jump into DROPOUT!?

Right as the song starts, Hiichan lets out an absolutely feral "LET'S GO YOKOHAMAAAA!!!!!"

They're singing with mic stands for this one! This plus the red lighting reminds me a lot of Kowareyasuki...

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All the fancy frame effects and the flashing strobes and the red lighting is making the stream quality die yet again........RIP

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Oh wow, Hiichan looks like she's sweating bullets here...3 songs in a row is like Aqours-level stamina, I know she's a seasoned Revue girl but still, this is tough...

Fade to black, staff announcement is made saying that the talk part is now starting!

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Wow, during that brief staff lady announcement, the staff found time to place two sets of table + chair + water bottle on the stage!

Asamin greets the Angelmates (the official Saint Snow name for the group's fans) and leads the duo's unit introduction.

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Audience does polite, restrained clapping in response to the girls in lieu of the usual cheers.

Asamin reads a Twitter comment going like "oh what is the live part over already" and says that nope, there's more to come!

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Again, since the audience can't actually yell for the call & response portion...Asamin instructs the audience to clap to the beat of the usual response the audience would do for that particular call

We get a practice session before each of the actual C&Rs!

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Asamin's (literal) highlight of the live portion thus far is how their outfits and teeth shine brightly due to the blacklight used in Dazzling White Town! Hiichan comments that Asamin has been raving about her shiny white teeth ever since their rehearsals LMAO

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They spin around to show off their outfits and use the sfx "gigu" (as in their 1st GIG) instead of the usual spin sfx.

They start their first corner of the talk show by reading letters!

Asamin somehow immediately spots the first letter reader in the audience!

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Another letter mentions that this is the 1st live they're watching, and it's from online (probably an experience a lot of fans are going through)

As they go through these letters, Asamin's eagle eyes pick out any letter senders in the audience lightning fast LOL

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BTW, there is a big plexiglass barrier between the two (probably 2+ meters tall? the top goes well above Hiichan's head and she's no midget)...

Hiichan and Asamin both emphasize how much they've wanted this live and how much fun they want us all to have!

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There's a big Saint Snow logo on the barrier (which they call an acrylic board, okay sure let's go with that), with the SS perpendicular to the barrier (taking advantage of the mirror perspective of the logo I see), which Asamin points out!

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They talk about their first impressions of each other:

Hiichan was in junior high (oh god I forgot how young she was when she auditioned...) and left a very strong impression on Asamin as a cute little twintailed girl LMAO

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Hiichan considers Asamin *the* ideal big sister (introducing herself very formally at first like HELLO NICE TO MEET YOU I AM SATOU HINATA;;;), though she says that she's come to realize that Asamin can be a clumsy dork

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Another letter asks what kind of amusement park rides that SS likes - neither of them are good with haunted house attractions, what a shame~

It seems like they have different tastes when it comes to rides, so they decide that they'd split up in the end

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They have a letter writer from Hokkaido (the actual home area of the Saint Snow characters) and gush about it, even using Hokkaido dialect to greet them!

The brainstorm a name the plush toy featured in the song's PV: Nene, for "nee-sama" (sister) + "neko" (cat)

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They also suggest Kazunyan, and try to hold a poll with the audience using blade colors (blue vs. white) to decide the name - meanwhile people on Twitter also suggested names like Shiitake(?) lol

Seems like Nene ended up winning the popular vote~

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Another letter asks for similarities between them and their characters - Hiichan says that just like Leah, Asamin is her role model & inspiration and is awed that she can stand on the same stage as her

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Last letter asks about the motorcycle in the PV and where'd they'd take it for a ride. They bring up the roads that play music if you drive over the boundary lines (they don't remember the actual name of the place and decide to look it up later...lol same)

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Next corner: quiz session! Winners can get prizes, like signed merch!

First Q is about SS in S1E7...what is the shape of Chika's hairpin in the scene:
1. Star
2. Shell
3. Starfish
4. Clover (this seems like the obvious answer, given her character design...)

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They decide on clover in the end and after some awkward pauses where they keep saying that answer with no staff response, they start playing the clip of SS's first appearance at Kanda Shrine...THE ANSWER WAS A SEASHELL...guess it was part of her Tokyo redesign;;

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Q2: S1E8, SS placed 9th in the competition. What's the name of the group that placed 6th?
1. Pitch Cart
2. MAKARON
3. otenki girls
4. Haruiro Macaron

They're pretty indecisive over this one but ask the audience to believe in them...they decide on 4!

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This time, the staff starts playing the clip pretty fast and cut off Hiichan a little bit as they ask them to reveal the answer;;

They miraculously got it right!!

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Q3: S2E9, what's the character on the yakitori bento?
1. Hakodate
2. Ganso
3. Natural
4. Delicious

They search their letters to find the name of the guy from Hokkaido to ask for his advice; turns out there's a guy in the audience wearing a shirt with the answer!

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MVP yakitori bento shirt guy LMAOOOO the answer was correct, 2 for ganso!

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Q4: S2E12, the name of the group that wrote an ema (shrine wishing plaque) hoping they'd have the best performance:
- Sugar Wing (their pick, because "Satou" = sugar)
- Ninmari DAYS (the actual answer)
- otenki girls
- Sorairo sisters (Twitter's popular answer)

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Q5: In Dazzling White Town's MV, what's the character that is NOT on the coin that Sarah threw:
- hako
- date
- tsuu
- hou

...they start begging the Twitter comments & audience (via kb waving) for help because they have no idea lol

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One of the twitter comments was like "wow this quiz is fun!!!" and the girls are like "yeah...real fun"

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We watch the opening part of the PV again and when we get the closeup of Sarah's ass as she's walking they're like "YEAH THIS IS MY FAVORITE SCENE IN THE PV" LMAOOOOO

They somehow got the answer right as 1 (hako) due to a different way of writing "hako"!

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Q6: What's the correct way to write セイントスノー:
1. セイン＆スノー
2. せいんとすの〜
3. (insert kanji here i'm too lazy to write lol)
4. Saint Snow

They're like "oh noooo~ so difficult~ we don't know~ should we trust twitter and go with #3?"

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Apparently the on-site & online audience lotteries are separate, so those of us watching from home will get an e-mail later if we're one of the lucky winners of the 5 prizes from the quiz corner.

The girls wrap things up and hype us up for the 2nd half!

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Lights cut out, we get the SELF CONTROL!! subunit remix (which I recognize from previous lives! ) playing along with cool stage light effects (to stall for time as the staff presumably clears the stage for the girls to have room to dance lol)

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A short while later, we get the girls performing Lonely Snow Planet! This is a song with a choreo'd dance that involves plenty of hip shakin' as usual from this duo~

Also, wew I am Looking Respectfully at their abs at times since they're wearing crop tops....

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During the instrumental break, each of them gets a dance solo while the other girl shouts their name and hypes up the audience to cheer on their partner!

(By the way, the short remix break means they're of course still wearing the same outfits as before.)

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..........???? The next song is Awaken the Power, what the...

oh my god, Asamin is singing Ruby's part OH MY GOD

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THE PRECIOUS SMILE THAT ASAMIN SHOT AT HIICHAN RIGHT AFTER THEY FINISHED THEIR SOLOS AT THE BEGINNING...MY WORD...THIS IS WAY TOO PURE FOR MY HEART...BEST SISTERS EVER...

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IDK HOW THEY'RE DOING IT BUT THIS 2-PERSON UNIT IS MANAGING AN 11-PERSON SONG + A TONED-DOWN VERSION OF THE AWAKEN THE POWER CHOREO

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@ STAFF PLEASE RELEASE SOLO VERSIONS OF AWAKEN THE POWER FOR SAINT SNOW

IN FACT JUST RELEASE MINI ALBUMS WITH THEIR SOLOS OF EVERYTHING JUST LIKE THE AQOURS GIRLS FOR THEIR BIRTHDAYS

THEIR FALSETTO AND HARMONIES HERE ARE WORKS OF ART OH MY FUCKING GOD

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A long pause here after the end of Awaken the Power, presumably to let the girls catch their breath and get into position for...yup, like I thought, we get the ballad from their new single, After the Rain.

Storm clouds + rain effects on the screen!

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Asamin is standing on the main (lower) part of the stage while Hiichan is standing in front of the big screen (upper) part of the stage.

Restrained cheering as Hiichan starts her solo for the second half of the song - guess COVID-19 can't shut down her fans lol

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....oof, for the first time I've ever heard, Asamin drops the ball on the high note in the song and her voice cracks real hard;;;

She had the good grace to smile and look sort of mildly amused/exasperated - she's got several more chances to nail it after all!

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Fade out, and we get a backstage video of the girls brainstorming the setlist for 1st GIG!

Whiteboard so far:
DROPOUT Believe again
CRASH MIND Lonely Snow Planet
After The Rain
Dazzling White Town SELF CONTROL

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They decide on the name of their training camp: Daz-Meet (short for Dazzling White Town Meetup I assume lol)

Asamin burns Hiichan for using a shitty marker haha

Then we get a short images and clip montage of their training camp - dancing, napping, etc.

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Oh what, this was a legit training camp - they're at a cabin in the woods and they're a nice scene of them at a lake(?!) looking super photogenic...

Apparently they agreed that they wanted to intensely prepare for the gig by getting the staff together like this.

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Ah yes, no training camp is complete without the obligatory fireworks/sparklers scene...reminds me of the first Aqours training camp footage tbh

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@ staff, for the BD compilation of SS 1st Gig...please release, like, a full-length uncut version of the training camp, the flashes of these teaser scenes passing by over their commentary video is killing me...

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They emphasize the "asobi janai" (this isn't a game) and "saikou" (the best) themes for SS established from the start with SELF CONTROL!! and how their performance at 5L was much stronger than the one at Hakodate Unit Carnival (definitely felt that personally)...

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Then we cut to the clip from the anime of Saint Snow's first appearance, where they're singing SELF CONTROL!! acapella at Kanda Shrine.

Man, what a dramatic buildup here...but it is their first, most special, extremely precious song after all...

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(I assume the long training camp montage and the extended anime clip playing is to give them time to possibly change outfits? Maybe? We'll see...)

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Yup, they appear in their SELF CONTROL!! outfits perfectly synced with the end of the anime clip, when Sarah and Leah go off to begin their Tokyo performance!

Audience can't be held back from the hype and we get a scattering of DANCE NOW, DANCE NOW!! calls

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Hiichan's rapping definitely has improved since Hakodate UC - instead of yelling the lyrics 110% of the time like she used to when she was younger, she has more restraint and flow in her rap now!

Okay, the DANCE NOW calls are in full swing at this point now RIP.

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HOLY SHIT, OVER THE NEXT RAINBOW

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Man, Asamin's melodic rapping here...literal music to my ears...

And oooh wow, nice rainbow effect for the screen that appeared in sync with the rainbow choreo move (waving their arm to simulate a rainbow)

Hiichan sings the same parts of the song as before!

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The "someday, definitely, we'll meet again" refrain in the lyrics of Over The Next Rainbow is especially poignant here...

ASAMIN NAILED THE HIGH NOTES AND SOLO HERE, AUDIENCE CHEERED, EVERYTHING IS RIGHT IN THE WORLD AGAIN

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ASAMIN HAD THE BIGGEST GRIN AT THE END OF THE SONG AND I AM 200% SURE IT'S BECAUSE SHE REDEEMED HERSELF AT THE SOLO HERE

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Saint Snow bows out and runs off stage, audience very quickly goes into a modified encore chant via clapping to a rhythm

A quick 2-beat, not sure if it's supposed to be EN-CORE (English pronunciation of the word vs. the 3 syllables used in JP) or SAINT SNOW;;

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The girls come back out pretty quickly, still dressed in their SELF CONTROL!! outfits.

They thank us for the encore call and for the tweets~

Asamin says their last song is one they definitely want to sing with the audience (via waving for the live audience).

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Asamin says it's only right to honor their GIG title, so we bring back Dazzling White Town!

...oh my god there are subtitles for this song.

Well. I suppose all sing-along songs have always had subs, but it's a first seeing it online so it surprised me haha

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Asamin grinning ferally as she flirtatious fluffs her skirt for the booty shake part of the choreo is...unfair...she is totally doing that on purpose, I can see it in her eyes...

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THE LIGHT SABERS NEVER FAIL TO IMPRESS, STILL COOL AS FUCK

ALSO THEY JUST YEETED THEM OFF THE STAGE WHEN THEY WERE DONE LOL (for the staff on standby to pickup I suppose)

Confetti cannons went off at the end, showering the girls in silver!

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ASAMIN AND HIICHAN JUST GAVE EACH OTHER THIS LOOK AT THE END OF THE SONG AND THEN BURST INTO GIGGLES

OMG

I LOVE THEM

PRECIOUS



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Asamin's closing comment first: this 1st GIG was a first experience for all of us - the first live for Saint Snow on their own, and for us as an audience experiencing a Saint Snow concert like this. Asamin hopes that this shines in our hearts forever!

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Hiichan's lowkey choked up for her speech. Says she was super nervous but thanks to the audience she got through it. She even got messaged by Ruby (Furirin) in the morning wishing her the best for the performance!

She yells, "SAINT SNOW IS SO COOL, RIGHT?!"

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They mention watching the Aqours performance last week online, texting each other like IS THIS HOW YOU PLAY THE VIDEO from several hours before the live even started.

They give lots of thanks and then as Asamin asks "did you have fu-" the stream abruptly ends.

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NO REALLY I AM NOT JOKING

THE STREAM LITERALLY CUT OUT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ASAMIN TALKING

STAFF PLS

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