Koda Kumi Live Tour 2009 -TRICK-

Kuu's TRICK Tour is fantastic. She brings her A-Game with every single last performance. Even her entrance onto stage is great and so unexpected after how things appear to be behind the curtain before it drops. Won't spoil anything, but it's really cool. She does a number of magic illusions and such in this tour, hence the tour's title. She also opens up just after the introduction with my favorite song from TRICK and one of my top favorites in her entire discography, TABOO. Plus I absolutely love that this is the only concert I can think of where she performs the cute Christmas song, Winter Bell. The only reason I gave this tour 4-Stars instead of 5 is that the TRICK album had her as a clown on the cover (Limited CD/2DVD edition), so of course she uses a clown for the overall theme and in the interlude movies. What bugs me is the clown itself during these interludes. Rather than have it actually speak, she has it make the most annoying squeaking sounds with a subtitle (Japanese only) underneath the squeaking to convey what the clown is supposed to be saying. I often mute the interlude videos so I don't need to listen to the clown's squeaking. As for the rest, the second disk includes some behind-the-scenes footage plus the stops of the tour where each of the special guests were that aren't in the main concert on the first disk. Fergie makes a stop in for her performance with Kuu of That Ain't Cool, a song I personally love, but Kuu FAR outshines her easily. AK-69 isn't on stage for the entire song of Bling Bling Bling but still gives a good performance with KK. Lastly, Misono is cute on stage with Kumi. You can really feel the sisterly love and connection between the two women. Overall, great show and very highly recommended!!