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Cuca hasnt sold any handshake slots yet. I guess she doesnt have a big backup from her old fans.
Can you give more insight on what exactly you mean? For how long has it been up for purchase, how do other girls sell, etc.
Again big thanks to Hentaishinshi for writing this article.<Individual Handshakes events>
Aaah…individual handshake events. Laughter, tears, oshihen a go-go.
The biggest difference between national and individual is that, as the name kind of suggests, ALL members (KKS included) participate in individual handshake events.
And while SKE/NMB/HKT events only feature members from their respective groups, AKB individual handshake events feature ALL members from ALL Japanese 48 groups. (who shouted “sales doping?”)
These tickets are sold with the so-called “theater edition” of the single, which costs 1000 JPY (as opposed to the regular version’s 1600 JPY) , and contains only the single’s CD. (it’s called theater version because IIRC the first individual handshakings were held in the AKB theater, and the theater version was acquired there too, well like the JKT are doing now)
Nowadays to acquire a theater version you’ll have to access one of these sites:
https://akb48.chara-ani.com (AKB48 singles theater version)
http://shop.mu-mo.net (SKE singles theater version)
http://ch.chara-ani.com (NMB, HKT, Nogizaka etc theater version)
All of them have exclusive rights to the theater version’s sale.
Usually 2/3 months before the particular single goes on sale, the “booking period” (divided in a series of “phases”) starts on the website. You log in, read through the ToS, then a screen appears with a list of the members and their handshaking blocks/periods.
The structure of the individual handshakings is this: the event itself is divided in blocks o, or periods, of 1 hour and a half starting from 9:00 or 10:00; 1st period goes from 9:00 to 10:30, 2nd from 11:00 to 12:30, then there’s the “lunch period” (usually populated by KKS and less popular members), then the 3rd period, etc.
The more popular a member is (read: the more tickets she sells), the more blocks she has. Senbatsu class girls are available all day, while KKS/not-so-popular girls have only 1 or 2 blocks.
Anyway, when the selection screen I mentioned above appears, you get to choose the day (these events are usually held 3/4 times), the member, the block and the number of tickets you want. You can only pick up to 3 tickets in the 1st phase, around 10 in the second, then 50/unlimited in the rest. Members like
Oshima Yuko, Matsui Rena andYamamoto Sayaka usually sell out all their tickets in the 1st phase.Phases usually last one day or two. The day after one ends, you will receive an e-mail informing you if you were lucky enough to get all the tickets you chose or not. Needless to say, with popular members it’s likely not to get even one ticket…it’s all based on luck.
Results following each booking period are often posted in the respective single threads in the 48G section of the forum. It's not unusual for members to not sell out any rounds, especially not in these early bidding periods.
