The girls of ME:I have announced their first nationwide arena tour, titled “THIS IS ME:I.” The group recently turned one year old, and this announcement is a great way to celebrate. Apparently, the tour won’t start until July, which isn’t that far off.
The tour will visit six cities in Japan, kicking off in Nagano on July 26 and ending in Hiroshima on August 31 (at least based on the information provided so far). Here are the dates and arenas.
Nagano – Big Hat
- July 26 (Saturday): Doors 5:00 p.m. / Start 6:00 p.m.
- July 27 (Sunday): Doors 3:00 p.m. / Start 4:00 p.m.
Hokkaido – Makomanai Sekisui Heim Ice Arena
- August 2 (Saturday): Doors 17:00 / Start 18:00
- August 3 (Sunday): Doors 2:00 p.m. / Start 3:00 p.m.
Aichi – Port Messe Nagoya, Exhibition Hall 1
- August 10 (Sunday): Doors 15:00 / Start 16:00
- August 11 (Mon): Doors 3:00 p.m. / Start 4:00 p.m.
Kanagawa – K-Arena Yokohama
- August 16 (Sat): Doors 4:30 p.m. / Start 6:00 p.m.
- August 17 (Sun): Doors 2:30 p.m. / Start 4:00 p.m.
Hyogo – GLION ARENA KOBE
- August 21 (Thu): Doors 5:30 p.m. / Start 6:30 p.m.
- August 23 (Sat): Doors 3:00 p.m. / Start 4:00 p.m.
Hiroshima – Hiroshima Green Arena
- August 30th (Saturday): Doors 5:00 PM / Start 6:00 PM
- August 31st (Sunday): Doors 2:00 PM / Start 3:00 PM
That means they’ll be visiting the hometowns of Momona, Keiko, Tsuzumi, and Cocoro. Tokyo isn’t on the list; I don’t know if there will be more announcements later.
They’ve opened a special website for this tour, with all the information in Japanese, English, and other languages (it’s not in Spanish).
Especially on this other page are the details:
- Japanese https://cf.me-i.jp/special_site/this_is_mei_2025/detail/54
- English: https://cf.me-i.jp/special_site/this_is_mei_2025/detail/54?lang=en
They also made the announcement on Twitter via this poster.
And they also posted this short video on their YouTube channel, not only with the information, but also with a super futuristic map with all the locations marked with pixelated cat paw prints… because in the future everything will be pixelated, for some reason… or maybe our bionic eyesight will be so good that there won’t be a screen resolution possible without us noticing the pixels.
【ME:I 初の全国アリーナツアー決定!!】𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐌𝐄:𝐈 𝟏𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑 “𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐄:𝐈”
The first concern I’ve heard from fans is that the two girls on hiatus, Tsuzumi and Cocoro, are likely to be on hiatus. Don’t go on this tour. In fact, the little negative feedback I’ve heard from fans about the group has been mostly for the same reason, and some take advantage of this to remind them on their social media at every opportunity.
ME:I – MUSE, first-day sales
On another related note. ME:I’s third single, MUSE, was finally released yesterday. It took first place on the Oricon daily charts, and remains in first place today, with 155,571 copies sold on April 15th and 21,005 copies on the 16th. I don’t know why it appears from the 15th, if on the same page it’s marked as having been released on the 16th, but that’s the way it is. So, as of yesterday, it had sold over 176,000 copies.
ME:I Announces their 1st Arena Live Tour “THIS IS ME:I”