Miku! Miku! Miku!
by Arzach on 5/24/24Auditorium Theatre - ChicagoRating: 5 out of 5My daughter has been a Miku fan for years and has always wanted to see her live, but she has never come to Minneapolis where we live! She always comes to Chicago on her tours, so this year for my daughter's birthday I took her to Chi for the concert. Chicago is always fun, and this concert was the capstone. The experience couldn't have been more perfect. One of my daughter's "mutuals"asked her to find a particular content creator at the show who was handing out stickers. We were dubious, but she was standing right there when we walked in! We got the stickers. The show itself was very entertaining. The fans are committed to the end, and about 50% were cosplaying. So many Miku's! The energy was super-positive, and highly female. My daughter had showed me the light stick movements, so we were right there with 99% of the crowd. How embarrassing to forget your light stick! YMMV, but the nonsense about only $40 "official"light sticks being allowed was indeed nonsense. Like Chicago concert security would give a single fox about that anyway! The show itself was seamless. We were pretty far back, and the performers including Miku looked about like any performer from that distance. I'm broadly familiar with Miku's catalog, and she ripped through a representative sample. Her follow Vocaloids showcased as well. Finally, the live band was uniformly impressive, great players all. I particularly like the guitarist Vixen's Diary, both for playing and stage performance. Overall this was a wonderful concert experience, which I'm sure my daughter will remember the rest of her life.