Great accounts, arigatou minna!
Ines, With your line to Mizuki about her smile weren't you tempted to say, "egao no kimi ga tayousa"? 
Watching the concert video, I'm in disbelief at seeing Miki perform in a wheelchair! ( It's cute but...Japanese attitude towards work is 
). I lol-ed at Eripon's solicitation of "ichiban suki" from the crowd 
I'm enjoying them all trying to appeal to the large chunk of new fans, there's a fresh feeling in the air. That's cool to hear that there are so many anime/Japanese-culture-fans that are uninitiated into Momusu - e~xcellent.
! My mom was also at the concert with me and didn't win the raffle so in broken japanese I explained that my mom was standing right right by that autograph booth and loved her too. I pointed my mom out and Zukki waved to her. It really made my mom's trip! Zukki is so pretty in person. Like others have said photos don't do her justice. We both said our goodbyes and I moved to the next girl. With Haruna I mentioned that the New Pokemon games had just been announced and we both said that we were going to get them. I told Ayumi her dancing was cool and she said thank you. For Maachan she's always been one of my least favorite members but lately i've really grown to like her. Even so,I didn't know what to say to her other than hello and thanks for coming to America. She giggled and thanked me for coming to see them. I told Haruka that I was happy she and Zukki got be centers in Oh My Wish! and got more solo lines. At first she just shook her head in agreement then it like like something clicked and she understood what I was saying and she was really happy and agreed. I told sakura that her voice was beautiful (in japanese) and she said thank you but she seemed really modest about it. I tried to tell Haachin that her figure skating was cool but she didn't seem to understand so I did her figure skating pose and she mimicked it and said thank you. Miki started speaking to me in English but I don't really remember what we said to each other. I do remember that it was funny to me though because we were both speaking in a really formal way and I usually don't talk like that but I just followed her lead lol! Next I was really surprised because Maria greeted me in english my saying "hello how are you?". I responded that I was really good and asked her the same. She said she was excited to be in America. I told her that I liked Sayumi and she said in english "me too!" I was really impressed my Maria. Not just her english but how engaged she was in our conversation. She really looked into my eyes and listened to what I was saying as oppsed to Miki who despite speaking english fluently seem to more talk at me rather than with me. (I still like Miki though but It feels like sometimes she concentrates too hard on getting her english right that she doesn't actually listen when you talk to her beacuse she thinking of how to say the next thing in english). Last was Akane. I was so shocked that I had an english convo with Maria that i kinda drew a blank with Akane but she smiles and waved goodbye to me and i did the same. Them I looked up and Aika was there waving at me with camera so I waved at Aika and that was it. I was very happy with the whole thing. For me just seeing the girls one more time before Zukki graduates would have been good enough but to actually meet them was a dream come true. After this weekend I feel a lot more at peace about Zukki's graduation. At first I wasn't sure if I'd stay in the fandom after Zukki left but after meeting them I'll definitely continue to support MM! 
