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Found this on twitter. It's a newspaper review of the 11/1 Tokyo live!Don't know which paper this is though.Yomiuri's evening paper.
Reviewer states that he can enjoy the music even as someone who doesn't watch anime, mentions that people of different ages and gender enjoy their music, glow/light sticks are banned (people associate them with anison, negatively)
http://repotama.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1101_0759.jpgI really hope we get some high res pictures of those dresses soon. They're absolutely gorgeous. This sounds like it was a really good live from all the positive feedback that's been going around too.
The reporter felt obliged to mention that despite being an anime song artist, kalafina bans the glow sticks, which is a staple of anime lives, and generally associated with otaku culture. The general opinion of waving those lights are not positive. There are some who don't even like it when kalafina fans use their hands in place of those sticks. I think the general public might find it intimidating to attend lives where you are expected to learn when to do certain poses. So this was written to assure them that they don't have to.I thought that YK was of the opinion that cyalumes were wasteful and potentially dangerous and didn't allow them at concerts for those reasons?
(Since 2013, multi-colour penlights have largely replaced cyalumes except for the ultra-orange variety).
The reporter felt obliged to mention that despite being an anime song artist, kalafina bans the glow sticks, which is a staple of anime lives, and generally associated with otaku culture. The general opinion of waving those lights are not positive. There are some who don't even like it when kalafina fans use their hands in place of those sticks. I think the general public might find it intimidating to attend lives where you are expected to learn when to do certain poses. So this was written to assure them that they don't have to.
That Yomiuri article is now available online at their site, if anyone is interested.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/music/mnews/20141106-OYT8T50094.html?from=tw