The date and venue for keyakizaka46's Last live has been announced

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I'm a bit surprised they're holding the concert in front of a live audience given the increase in covid cases in Tokyo, but I suppose management feels like the event is important enough to take a bigger risk.

 

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I'm a bit surprised they're holding the concert in front of a live audience given the increase in covid cases in Tokyo, but I suppose management feels like the event is important enough to take a bigger risk.

i mean artists have been slowly getting back to performing for about a month or two now and the venue is quite big i googled it its divided to two parts one fits 13,291 and the second fits 3,202 its look like they will only use the first one and instead of using inviting 6 thousand they are gonna invite 5 seed and flower are there is no curse word that proberly describers how much of a shitty company they are but they know how to act in a crisis like this i trust them with nothing but after i saw how they took care of the girls in the online live im convinced that itll be ok because they finally started using their brain cells after 5 years. Not saying goodbye to keyaki along with fans is just heartbreaking

 

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i mean artists have been slowly getting back to performing for about a month or two now and the venue is quite big i googled it its divided to two parts one fits 13,291 and the second fits 3,202 its look like they will only use the first one and instead of using inviting 6 thousand they are gonna invite 5 seed and flower are there is no curse word that proberly describers how much of a shitty company they are but they know how to act in a crisis like this i trust them with nothing but after i saw how they took care of the girls in the online live im convinced that itll be ok because they finally started using their brain cells after 5 years. Not saying goodbye to keyaki along with fans is just heartbreaking

Yeah I know H!P and some Johnny's have had socially-distanced live concerts but I would've expected them to get cancelled due to the recent rise in infections. It wouldn't surprise me if Tokyo imposed another state of emergency, so it's a bit risky to announce concerts with a live audience even if there's some social distancing guidelines. Even with a large venue, if 5k people show up there's likely going to be queuing at the entrances/bathrooms etc. So Keyaki might go with a smaller number of in-person viewers.

At least October is still some time away so it's possible that the situation has improved enough that it's fine to hold the concert with an audience. And if it hasn't, then they can just lower the amount of people who get to attend and reimburse those who're not able.

Covid really hits idols and fans hard. Not just Keyaki's concert (which is significant, but they'll be back under a different name soon) but also graduations who are either postponed or won't be held in front of fans (Miichan, Maiyan, Akarin, Jurina etc), special events (NMB's 10th anniversary), disbandments etc. It's really unfortunate.