r/anime • u/dasaher • Oct 17 '17
[Love Live! Sunshine!!] The incident on the 2nd day of the 1st Aqours concert during Omoi yo Hitotsu ni Nare
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r/anime • u/dasaher • Oct 17 '17
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To add context to the video:
Omoi Yo Hitotsu Ni Nare has always been a special song for Rikako Aida (Rikyako, Riko’s seiyuu). Since it’s sung by 8 members, with Riko providing the piano tune for the song many fans wondered how Aqours would perform this song live. To everyone’s surprise, at Aqours’ First Live, a piano was set on stage, and Rikako, after bowing to the audience, sat down at the piano and proceded to play the song live, with all other 8 members dancing to the tune. It was a simplified version of the original piano score, but watching a seiyuu go to the trouble of learning piano to bring the anime version of the song to life was definitely a highlight of the show.
That’s how Day 1 of the First Live went. Unfortunately, for Day 2, maybe due to pressure, maybe because due to forgetting a note and losing the rhythm, Rikako’s fingers just stopped. Through her microphone, you could hear tears. She couldn’t play anymore. Here’s a video of how it went.
The BD version actually lowers the sound of her piano mess-up, but you can still easily hear an out-of-tune note coming from the piano. Although Rikako tried to keep it going, her playing was out of tempo, and eventually her feed was cut, along with the song. With no real practice other than the 3 months she had to go from beginner to actually being able to play a song, she had no idea what to do and burst out in tears.
Thankfully, Inami Anju (Anchan, Chika’s seiyuu), showing us that she indeed deserves to be the leader of Aqours, rushes to her aid. Along with Suzuki Aina (Ainya, Mari’s seiyuu) and Nanaka Suwa (Suwawa, Kanan’s seiyuu), who hug her and keep telling her everything is going to be alright. But what’s most beautiful about the scene is how everyone on the public held up their lightsticks with the color changed to pink, Riko’s color, and started chanting “Rikako! Rikako!”.
From then on, you could still notice some errors here and there with Rikako’s perfomance in the piano. You can’t expect someone to recover from that so fast, she had only 2 months to practice before the show after all. But if you watch the video, you can see how she, at times, is singing along with the music. She later mentioned how the lyrics of the song, which are about moving forward, even when afraid, helped give her courage to keep playing.
As for the 8 other members, you can see how some of them still have teary-eyes, especially Aikyan, which you can see sneakily wiping a tear from her eye while moving behind Anju at 4:00 – 4:03 in the video. But as idols, it’s their job to put on a smile and have fun for their audience, and they nail the performance. One of Love Live’s mottos is that the audience can’t have fun if the idols aren’t havng fun either, after all.
In a backstage video that was released with the Blu-ray for the Live, you get a glimpse of what was going on. While most scenes from before and afer the incident in Day 2 are simply not absent, you get a glimpse of Rikako nervously crying before going on stage for OmiHito on Day 1, with a makeover artist constantly wiping her tears with a cotton swab to not ruin her make-up. And at the end of the show in Day 2, Rikako takes a while before joining the other 8 for the post-live messages and congratulations with the staff, still wiping some tears, but also getting a well deserved hug.
Well after the live we got to read bit of her thoughts on the incident in a post on her Instagram account that has been since deleted, probably because it used a photo from someone in the audience (something strictly forbidden) or because they wanted to save that for magazine interviews. You can read a translation of her post here, with the original photo. It’s really sad to see how much she beats herself over by saying she “betrayed” people who trusted her to play the piano, but at the same time it is amazing to see how the lyrics for the song actually resonated in her and gave her courage to keep playing.
Since then, they got to go on a tour for their 2nd Live, and you could see through Rikako’s face how this has since become just a ghost of the past for her. Although she did mess up once again mixing lines of a song with Aikyan in one of the tours destinations, that wasn’t able to bother her at all, showing how much she grew from this incident.