The Super Tour of Misia: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is a concert tour by Japanese singer Misia, held to celebrate her 20th anniversary as a recording artist. The tour, comprising four arena dates, began on April 7, 2018 at the Osaka-jō Hall in Osaka, and concluded three weeks later on April 28, 2018, at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama.

Background

On September 26, 2017, Misia announced four arena shows scheduled for 2018, to commemorate her 20th anniversary as a musical act. A website with details concerning the concert tour was opened on October 10, 2017. On November 1, 2017, the premium "luxury" seats available to Club MSA members were announced as sold out. The first pressing of the DVD and Blu-ray of the Misia Summer Soul Jazz 2017 tour included a pre-sale access code which allowed fans to purchase tickets in advance of the public on-sale scheduled to start on February 10, 2018. On March 9, 2018, Misia announced a partnership with au to offer limited tickets and merchandise to au smartpass subscribers. On March 12, 2018, it was announced that tickets for the two Osaka-jō Hall shows as well as the April 28, 2018 Yokohama Arena concert had sold out.

The Super Tour of Misia: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

On March 8, 2018, an embargo on tour details was lifted and the first round of tour members were announced; Yoshie of Be Bop Crew, who last toured with Misia nine years ago on The Tour of Misia Discotheque Asia, will join as choreographer and dancer. The entire cast of dancers and band members were announced on April 6, 2018.

The Super Tour of Misia: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

On April 1, 2018, it was announced that The Super Tour of Misia finale will be broadcast on Wowow on July 7, 2018, in conjunction with a documentary chronicling Misia's most recent passage in Nairobi, Kenya, titled Nonfiction W, and a BBC Earth program, narrated by Misia, on white rhinoceros conservation, titled BBC Earth 2018 Dangerous Life: The Last White Rhino, as part of a three-show bundle.

The Super Tour of Misia: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Set list

This set list is representative of the concert on April 28, 2018. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

"Into the Light" "Kimi no Soba ni Iru yo" "Hi no Ataru Basho" "Kuruzo Thrilling" (, "It's Coming, Thrilling") "Mekubase no Blues" (, "The Winking Blues") "Lady Funky" "Orphans no Namida" "Aitakute Ima" "Snow Song" "Tobikata o Wasureta Chiisana Tori" (, "The Little Bird That Forgot How to Fly") "Everything" "Believe" "Shiawase o Forever" "The Glory Day" "Super Rainbow" "Hope & Dreams" "Maware Maware" Encore "Anata ni Smile :)" "Luv Parade" "Tsutsumikomu Yō ni..." Double Encore "Kiss Shite Dakishimete" (, "Kiss and Hold Me")

Notes: On the two shows in Osaka, "Shiawase o Forever" was omitted from the set list. On the April 7 and April 27 shows, "Kiss Shite Dakishimete" was omitted from the set list.

Shows

Personnel

Band

Misia – lead vocals

DJ Emma – DJ

Tohru Shigemi - keyboards

Takeshi Ohbayashi - keyboards

Takuya Kuroda - trumpet

Shuhei Yamaguchi - guitar

Rashaan Carter - bass

Tomo Kanno - drums

Keita Ogawa - percussions

Craig Hill - sax

Akihiro Nishiguchi - sax

Geila Zilkha - backing vocals

Tiger - backing vocals

Hanah Spring - backing vocals

Orchestra

Gen Ittetsu – first violin

Cameroun Maki – first violin

Daisuke Kadowaki – first violin

Yoko Fujinawa – first violin

Takuya Mori – second violin

Yuko Kajitani – second violin

Kaoru Kuroki – second violin

Yuki Nakajima – second violin

Shoko Miki – viola

Cristina Fujita – viola

Toshiyuki Muranaka – cello

Kirin Uchida – cello

Dancers

Yoshie - dancer, choreographer

Yuko Yano - dancer

Mizuki - dancer

Mika Nishimura - dancer

Calin - dancer

Haruna Yamanaka - dancer

Tomohiko Tsujimoto - choreographer

Show-Ya - dancer

Hina - dancer

Sae Kodama - dancer

Naomi Shimotsukasa - dancer

Kurumi - dancer

Haruka - dancer

Maya - dancer

Mao Jintoku - dancer

Kasumi Sakurai - dancer

Rion - dancer

Kou Yamamoto - dancer

Maika Fujii - dancer

Saaya Takaoka - dancer

Kenken - dancer

References

External links

2018 concert tours

Misia concert tours

Concert tours of Japan