“LE SSERAFIM walks the LE SSERAFIM path.” Park Sunyeon, a representative from Concert Directing Studio 2, summed up the theme of the “2025 LE SSERAFIM TOUR ‘EASY CRAZY HOT’ ENCORE in TOKYO DOME” (hereafter, the ‘EASY CRAZY HOT’ tour), held over two days starting November 18, with that single line. True to the message, the show opened with what felt like the only kind of opening a performance powerhouse can pull off. After the lights cut to black, a corps of dancers swarms into motion, forming the shape of a crowd that has just begun to burn. By the time it fades out, the audience is already welcoming LE SSERAFIM back to life, rising again from ash.
According to Park Sunyeon, during opening standby on Tokyo Dome day one, the LE SSERAFIM members said things like, “I think I’m going to cry,” and “What if I start crying from the very first song, ‘Ash,’ and then I still have to perform?” Park Sunyeon also mentioned one moment she still remembers clearly: she told them, “It’s okay if you do it while crying. That’s cool too, right?” “Tokyo Dome is a symbolic venue for artists. LE SSERAFIM has performed at Tokyo Dome before while preparing for year-end award shows. But filling the venue with nothing but fans felt completely different.” As Park So Yeon, head of the Performance Directing Team, put it, Tokyo Dome is a dream stage for countless artists. And as A&R team representative Kim Yujeong said, “The Tokyo Dome concerts are the period at the end of a journey that has passed through Korea, Japan, Asia, and the United States.” For LE SSERAFIM, these shows were also a symbolic moment within the ‘EASY CRAZY HOT’ tour that began in April in Incheon and ran for about five months across 18 cities worldwide, including Nagoya, Taipei, Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, Chicago, Mexico City, and more. This concert celebrated the tour’s success as it continues into a Seoul encore concert scheduled for early next year. At the same time, it was LE SSERAFIM’s first Tokyo Dome show, and a stage that compresses into one performance the journey that brought them to a solo Tokyo Dome concert just 3 years and 6 months after debut.
The Tokyo Dome concert is split into three sections: “Make it look EASY,” “Make me super CRAZY,” and “I’m Burning hot (REVIVAL).” The structure not only looks back on the three albums that have traced LE SSERAFIM’s arc from EASY to CRAZY to HOT since last year, but also retraces the history they have lived through. As SAKURA said, “I think this part shows LE SSERAFIM’s potential through a wide range of album tracks.” In “Make it look EASY,” those album tracks, alongside songs from the EASY, CRAZY, and HOT albums, carry the show’s message. For example, “Swan Song” leans into elegance through ballet movement, but an intentional screen delay leaves a lingering afterimage, visualizing the feelings of “a swan pretending to be graceful” even while trembling with fear. In “Impurities,” clean, straight lasers slice the space like a gemstone’s facets, and inside those lines the members sing about the beauty of “tough opacity filled with wounds.” “The Great Mermaid” borrows The Little Mermaid narrative, but under lighting that suggests waves, the members wear white outfits like sea foam and declare, “I’m going to have everything I want, and you still can’t turn me into sea foam.” In “Make it look EASY,” LE SSERAFIM’s album tracks work as narrative devices, revealing what is hidden beneath the confidence they project while making the hard things look easy.
“Take a close look at the stage floor. We didn’t cover it up. We built it out of steel bar grating, so every time the members cross it, smoke curls up through the gaps, and the bridge section is made to look like it’s catching fire. It is all intentional.” Park Sunyeon said the design was meant to make the emotions threaded through the set list feel concrete. Reborn from ash, LE SSERAFIM is still blazing, still in a world where smoke and sparks keep rising, and inside that world, they keep pushing to “Make it look EASY.” Park So Yeon said that when they shaped each performance, they kept the familiar feel of the videos fans already knew, but after a lot of back and forth between the performance directing team and the production team, they aimed for something bigger, the kind of impact you can only feel live. As Kim Yujeong put it, their top priority was making the entire concert read like a single story, so every transition, entrance, and exit feels like part of the music.
The next section, “Make me super CRAZY,” had two jobs at once: keep the concert’s story moving, and turn the room into a place the crowd could truly let loose. “More than anything, we planned every stage so we could have the most fun with FEARNOT, so I hope FEARNOT had nothing but a good time the whole way through,” KAZUHA said, and this was the section that delivered that wish most clearly. It kicked off with the first live performance of their newest song, “SPAGHETTI,” on the tour, and the cheers hit instantly. Then came “Chasing Lightning,” sparked by the thought, “If you used the whole venue and lightning hit, would it feel like getting struck for real?” All night, lasers kept drawing lightning across the space. Next, “CRAZY” cranked things up again with flashy laser lighting and an EDM-style reworked dance break. “For the audience to have fun, the members leading the stage basically couldn’t rest. Even though it was a demanding show, every member was determined to keep the performance quality high,” Park So Yeon said. According to her, to make the most of the team’s strengths, the members powered through a set list with almost no downtime, so that over nearly three hours, there were barely any moments when they could even sit and sing. Riding that energy, FEARNOT kept jumping, cheering, and taking it all in together. In particular, the “Find SAKI” moment in “1-800-hot-n-fun,” now a concert symbol, turns every FEARNOT into the star of the show. At the line “Where the heck is Saki?” the members look for SAKI, swinging the camera around until they spot “SAKI” in the crowd. As Park Sunyeon said, “For the audience, getting that spotlight moment while you’re having fun can feel thrilling, and I think it became an event they could keep as a lifelong memory.” The crowd becomes countless versions of SAKI, enjoying the stage while capturing their most hyped selves. LE SSERAFIM, reborn from ash, floods the venue with cheers in an instant through “SPAGHETTI,” and like “spaghetti stuck in your teeth,” they stick in the audience’s mind and pull everyone into the show as part of it.
The energy that the artists and the fans build together keeps climbing, and it finally crests in a moment where LE SSERAFIM takes flight like a phoenix. If the opening, “Born Fire,” flowed into “HOT” to show LE SSERAFIM as a team born in fire, then the “I’m Burning hot (REVIVAL)” section, true to its title, brings into focus the moments where LE SSERAFIM has poured everything they have into what they love. As Kim Yujeong explained, “If the FEARLESS, Burn the Bridge, UNFORGIVEN, ANTIFRAGILE stretch starts from the debut song and shows the team narrative again, then UNFORGIVEN and ANTIFRAGILE sum up how much LE SSERAFIM has grown performance-wise in one tight sequence.” In other words, this section revives the members’ story in a literal “REVIVAL.” After “Make it look EASY,” where they faced the story of making difficult moments look easy, and “Make me super CRAZY,” where the audience followed their wish to just have a wild, carefree time, “I’m Burning hot (REVIVAL)” lets the audience see the work behind it all, the effort from the members and the staff that made everything feel possible. As HUH YUNJIN said, it is also the way LE SSERAFIM has lived these past 3 years and 6 months. “LE SSERAFIM is a hot team. If you’re with us, you can get hot too.”
That is why “Burn the Bridge” sits at the heart of what this section, and really the whole concert, is trying to say. The performance starts as a solo, expands into all five members moving as one, and then brings in dancers at the end, tracing how companions are made along the way. Park Sunyeon remembered asking to stage the song, and Park So Yeon replying, “I’ll make it look cool.” Looking back, she called it “a stage where the members and the staff poured all their thought and care into it together, and the synergy came through.” In that sense, the ‘EASY CRAZY HOT’ tour is also a story of LE SSERAFIM going from alone to five, then adding dancers beside them, then all the staff behind the scenes, and finally tens of thousands of FEARNOT out front, everyone becoming comrades together and bringing the members back to life in “HOT” form. Just like KIM CHAEWON’s shout in “Fire in the Belly,” “Be my comrade.” Just like HONG EUNCHAE’s line in “Burn the Bridge,” “To come to that faraway land together.”
“I’ve given up a lot, and I’ve met a lot of people, and because of that I’ve also experienced a lot of goodbyes. But if overcoming those days is what leads to this view waiting for me today, then I think even if I were reborn, I would definitely choose the idol path again.” In SAKURA’s ending comment on Tokyo Dome day two, the scene LE SSERAFIM and their fans created felt like pure confirmation that their choices, effort, and the road they walked were never wrong. Many FEARNOT said, “I came to Tokyo Dome because of LE SSERAFIM,” and “LE SSERAFIM brought me to Tokyo Dome,” and KIM CHAEWON echoed it too, saying, “I was able to come to Tokyo Dome thanks to FEARNOT.” And just as KAZUHA wished, “I hoped FEARNOT could be happy the whole time we performed, without a single sad feeling,” LE SSERAFIM kept the bright energy going until the very last second, through the encore and double encore: “Kawaii (Prod. Gen Hoshino)” with My Melody and KUROMI, plus rearranged versions of “Perfect Night” and “No Return (Into the Unknown).” That energy kept going even after the main stage ended and people started getting ready to leave, when the members reappeared on lift carts and sang an EDM version of “CRAZY” for 12 minutes as it sped up more and more. As HUH YUNJIN said, “We tried practicing ‘CRAZY (EDM ver.)’ in the practice room, and for 10 minutes we were just having fun among ourselves, and suddenly it felt like the practice room turned into a concert hall.” The members’ heat as they closed with “CRAZY (EDM ver.)” was enough to turn the whole venue into something like an EDM festival. Park Sunyeon explained, “Rather than ending on a sentimental note in a space as symbolic as Tokyo Dome, we thought, ‘Emotions double when you’re happy,’ so we focused on making it so everyone could enjoy the concert itself until the end.” “LE SSERAFIM is known for performance, but I also think they’re artists who really know how to have fun in their own way. And I think FEARNOT resembles the members a lot, so I wanted the finale to be everyone in the same space as their comrades, just sharing the air and having fun without thinking about anything.” And that is how LE SSERAFIM, reborn from ash, finally reached a moment without a single worry, simply enjoying themselves as they breathed with the audience at Tokyo Dome, three years and six months after debut, together with their countless “my comrades,” just like the message they have kept delivering all along.