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AX2009 Day 4: Goodbye Morning Musume!
Posted by turbos86,
27 July 2009
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Anime Expo 2009
Day 4: July 5th, 2009 Morning Musume leaves LA
Based on information we have gathered from staffs, we determined Morning Musume were to be leaving LA on the 1:20PM JAL flight, back to Japan. I took the liberty of posting this information on H!O, JPHiP, and JPM, in hopes that many will show up to say thanks and goodbye to Morning Musume.
sferris bought some big boards and we made some huge signs for waving at the girls:
I actually wrote "OtsugaReina" instead of "OtsukaReina", and did not realized this mistake until after reading 2ch, where they were laughing about it. On the other side, I wrote "KO HA, BYE!"
Mr.J wrote "Fukui ----Kita----!" (Fukui, here it comes! Fukui being Ai-chan's hometown) on one side, and "JunJun LinLin have a safe trip" on the other.
sferris wrote "GanbaReina" on one side, and "E no tsugi ha?" (What's after Eh? It's a joke that Sayu made during the Platinum 9 Disco concert tour) on the other.
With our signs all written out, we headed to the LA airport's Tom Bradley International Terminal. We arrived there just after 9AM. Once inside, we frantically searched for the JAL check-in counter. It was on the left side of the airport, row A. The sign there said the counter won't be open until 10am and we knew the girls still haven't show up yet. So we decided to head upstairs to the food count, so we can get a clear view of the whole place, just incase. As we walked toward the food count, we noticed a group of Japanese wotas, and they noticed us too, because we were holding 3 huge white boards.
Soon after, reinforcements arrived. Invisibleguy and his friend joined us. The food court begin to fill up with fans. Some were downstairs running all over the lobby trying to see which way MM would be coming in from. 10minutes or so after 10am, we noticed a group of girls coming in from the main entrance. I held up my sign from the food count and they noticed us. We all ran downstairs and started taking pictures. None of the fans went too close to them, because we all thought it's not cool to invade too far into their privacy. By this time, there were at least 50 fans (from H!O, JPH!P, JPM, Japanese Wotas, and more) waiting just beside the security gate, and looking at the JAL line up.
Eri, Sayu and JunJun kept looking at us, but they were all trying to check in and didn't wave at us.
Meanwhile, I ran up and down and took about 200 pictures of them lining up. I don't know why, but everyone said I was freaking out. The security and staff at the airport were so nice, they didn't say anything about us crowding around and making noise calling out member names. Instead, they asked us who we were waiting for and they thought it was cool we were doing this for the girls.
Morning Musume @ LAX 20090705 - Eri and JunJun
Morning Musume @ LAX 20090705 Getting ready for security check
Eventually, MM finished checking in and proceeded to the security gate. All of us went nuts. I called out for Reina, she kinda waved at me. Then I flipped my sign to the "KOHA BYE" and yelled "KOHA BYE!" to her. She turned around, saw my sign, then smiled and waved at me. They then proceeded to go thru the gates.
So just as we thought this was all over, they all gathered around on the side and then came back out again. This time, they were really going in, and all the fans called out their names. They waved to us and we all rushed forward as much as we could without going over the line. They were stuck at the line, and we kept calling to them. I yelled out "L O V E, LOVELY ERIRIN", which made this Japanese wota beside me to burst out laughing. Then for some unknown reason, I started to sing the "LA LA LA~LA" part of Aozora ga Itsumade mo Tsuzuku You na Mirai de Are! and waved my hand to the beat. A few others joined in and we did that for a few seconds, which was funny as hell. Then a girl called out "Momusu saikou!", which that was hilarious too.
Morning Musume @ LAX 20090705 LinLin goes into the security check
Once all of them went through and disappeared into the gate, most of the fans began to leave. Some apparently stayed behind and ran into Tsunku, and even got a picture with him
All in all, it was a nice send off and an awesome way to end this experience. Thanks to everyone who showed up at the airport.
Here are some stuff I got from the few days at AX
Badge and tickets
Grab bag, dead glow sticks, P9D poster, MM in LA T-shirt.
Mikan special photo set, autographed on day 3 in JapanFiles' session.
CDs, photo sets, visual books
People I want to thank
I want to say thanks to sferris for hooking me up with a place to stay and driving everyone around the whole week. Mr.G for his house and Mr.J for providing so much entertaining comments. Invisibleguy and his friend for being so cool and keeping me calm in the airport.
I had a great time and can't wait to do it all over again! (Whenever that will be.)
Based on information we have gathered from staffs, we determined Morning Musume were to be leaving LA on the 1:20PM JAL flight, back to Japan. I took the liberty of posting this information on H!O, JPHiP, and JPM, in hopes that many will show up to say thanks and goodbye to Morning Musume.
sferris bought some big boards and we made some huge signs for waving at the girls:
I actually wrote "OtsugaReina" instead of "OtsukaReina", and did not realized this mistake until after reading 2ch, where they were laughing about it. On the other side, I wrote "KO HA, BYE!"
Mr.J wrote "Fukui ----Kita----!" (Fukui, here it comes! Fukui being Ai-chan's hometown) on one side, and "JunJun LinLin have a safe trip" on the other.
sferris wrote "GanbaReina" on one side, and "E no tsugi ha?" (What's after Eh? It's a joke that Sayu made during the Platinum 9 Disco concert tour) on the other.
With our signs all written out, we headed to the LA airport's Tom Bradley International Terminal. We arrived there just after 9AM. Once inside, we frantically searched for the JAL check-in counter. It was on the left side of the airport, row A. The sign there said the counter won't be open until 10am and we knew the girls still haven't show up yet. So we decided to head upstairs to the food count, so we can get a clear view of the whole place, just incase. As we walked toward the food count, we noticed a group of Japanese wotas, and they noticed us too, because we were holding 3 huge white boards.
Soon after, reinforcements arrived. Invisibleguy and his friend joined us. The food court begin to fill up with fans. Some were downstairs running all over the lobby trying to see which way MM would be coming in from. 10minutes or so after 10am, we noticed a group of girls coming in from the main entrance. I held up my sign from the food count and they noticed us. We all ran downstairs and started taking pictures. None of the fans went too close to them, because we all thought it's not cool to invade too far into their privacy. By this time, there were at least 50 fans (from H!O, JPH!P, JPM, Japanese Wotas, and more) waiting just beside the security gate, and looking at the JAL line up.
Eri, Sayu and JunJun kept looking at us, but they were all trying to check in and didn't wave at us.
Meanwhile, I ran up and down and took about 200 pictures of them lining up. I don't know why, but everyone said I was freaking out. The security and staff at the airport were so nice, they didn't say anything about us crowding around and making noise calling out member names. Instead, they asked us who we were waiting for and they thought it was cool we were doing this for the girls.
Morning Musume @ LAX 20090705 - Eri and JunJun
Morning Musume @ LAX 20090705 Getting ready for security check
Eventually, MM finished checking in and proceeded to the security gate. All of us went nuts. I called out for Reina, she kinda waved at me. Then I flipped my sign to the "KOHA BYE" and yelled "KOHA BYE!" to her. She turned around, saw my sign, then smiled and waved at me. They then proceeded to go thru the gates.
So just as we thought this was all over, they all gathered around on the side and then came back out again. This time, they were really going in, and all the fans called out their names. They waved to us and we all rushed forward as much as we could without going over the line. They were stuck at the line, and we kept calling to them. I yelled out "L O V E, LOVELY ERIRIN", which made this Japanese wota beside me to burst out laughing. Then for some unknown reason, I started to sing the "LA LA LA~LA" part of Aozora ga Itsumade mo Tsuzuku You na Mirai de Are! and waved my hand to the beat. A few others joined in and we did that for a few seconds, which was funny as hell. Then a girl called out "Momusu saikou!", which that was hilarious too.
Morning Musume @ LAX 20090705 LinLin goes into the security check
Once all of them went through and disappeared into the gate, most of the fans began to leave. Some apparently stayed behind and ran into Tsunku, and even got a picture with him
All in all, it was a nice send off and an awesome way to end this experience. Thanks to everyone who showed up at the airport.
Here are some stuff I got from the few days at AX
Badge and tickets
Grab bag, dead glow sticks, P9D poster, MM in LA T-shirt.
Mikan special photo set, autographed on day 3 in JapanFiles' session.
CDs, photo sets, visual books
People I want to thank
I want to say thanks to sferris for hooking me up with a place to stay and driving everyone around the whole week. Mr.G for his house and Mr.J for providing so much entertaining comments. Invisibleguy and his friend for being so cool and keeping me calm in the airport.
I had a great time and can't wait to do it all over again! (Whenever that will be.)
