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ANIME EXPO: MORNING MUSUME/ADVENTURES IN L.A. Part 3

Posted by Addicted_Azn, 24 July 2009 · 3243 views

ANIME EXPO: MORNING MUSUME/ADVENTURES IN L.A. Part 3!



Hey there readers! So sorry it's been more than a week since the last post about Day 2 in AX, I was at Otakon! Yes, that's right, a mere 2 weeks later after Morning Musume's fun and exciting trip at Anime Expo, I still went to another Anime Convention. This is because I like anime and I've been to the other Otakons for the past couple years. hehe, so now back and "well-rested", I'll get back to writing the rest of the days! Hopefully I can fill Day 3 and Day 4 in this post!

So the layout is same as the first!
-I've color-coded Morning Musume member's names.
-For H!O members, I've labeled their first name mentioned in the post with a link to their profile, and the rest of times their name is mentioned, I've bolded it.

Whoa, what happened last time? Oh yeah! Concert and Hello!Party! Fun times! This next day on Saturday will start off with going in the "stand-by" line for the next autograph signings. >___<

ANIME EXPO: DAY 3



I woke up that morning a little later than usual, more like close to 7:30AM. I say a little later because I wanted to see how well the line was for Morning Musume's autograph signing that morning. I didn't have a ticket for it because I already used it on Thursday for the first time. >_< So I make my way to the LACC, after HPMusume and Eojjeorago had left early already to get in line for that autograph session. After arriving at the location of the autograph lines were, I see where I should stand in the stand-by line, and let me tell you right now, THAT LINE WAS EXCEPTIONALLY SHORT! It was full of the Japanese Wotas and low numbers of MM fans who either didn't get a ticket or already used their ticket. The ticket line that had a more authority purpose was long. But I missed the other parts of the line that was already gone UPSTAIRS to another waiting room...wow...

Once the ticket line disappeared, the stand-by line moved to the empty gap where the ticket line was. Practically, we all knew we weren't gonna make it but we still waited there anyway. :ph34r: I met some good people in line for about the first half hour waiting until live4zone started to walk around trading the P9 cards with people in line. This was amusing to me so I followed him around walking around the short line, which slowly grew over time. Trading with live4zone was actually funny, seeing the same people over and over again saying NO until new people came to wait in line who also brought with them CARDS from the P9 album! With each new addition to the line, we rushed over to them quickly asking if they had a P9 card to trade and if they wanted to trade their card. Yep yep it was a fun 3-4 hours I think. I got my Aichan card thanks to him by trading my Sayumi for a Reina for a Gaki for a Ai...(I think, live4zone I know ur gonna read this so help me out a lil XD )

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^ Stand-by line ^

While the trading and waiting happened, I met SacredCultivator, DHG, and Mr. Phenomenal in line, since I saw them at the H!Party last night also. We were pretty cool with each other as from time to time, I would return to their place in line whenever trading got bored for a couple minutes. I also met StevenLin and Pinoy7TFC in line. :D What was really funny, was that we got people to go buy more P9 albums to trade cards! There was this little kid who gotten a REINA card that pretty much 4-5 people wanted! Even though live4zone's broker skills were impressive, the young kid's mind was strong. He would not let go of that card. XD

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^ Pic of trying to trade with said kid ^ LOL

Somewhere along the wait, a Wota got question for harassing a young girl, like pushing her out of line or out of their way. She was standing behind me, so the story was that she was just lost and thought the wotas was standing in the stand by line, which the AX staffs just pointed the way to her. She goes to the line and the Wotas just freak out thinking she's cutting in front of them and that caused some kind of crazy confusion language barrier problems that the AX staff had to bring in translators and take them both one by one to another location. Probably to get the stories straight but I didn't know the ending results later. dooozy @o@

We were all anticipating with excitement or at least some curiosity every time an AX staff member would arrive hoping for any good news that we can get autographs too. The best news we heard was that one of the two rooms has cleared and that 2 of the members wanted to get sign autographs FOR EVERYONE WAITING! :) BLESS THOSE TWO! From a P9 picture, the staff member wasn't sure who it was but the ones I saw that she pointed to was Aika and JunJun...or was it Koharu. O well, but yes! Aika for the win! She jumped alot in my rankings all weekend long! haha. But the WHOLE signing for everyone was only possible if it was a unanimous group decision.

Yet, the worst news was that at around 12-1PM, the girls have stopped their signing...NOOOOOO!!!!! After accepting the crappiest news at that time, I wandered around and ended up following SC's group. He, DHG, Mr. Phenomenal, and I took a little walk to the JapanFiles booth just to look around before we decided to go get some lunch. And a SUBWAY we go! Getting my $5 FOOTLONG! Which this ad was totally fake, never expect a foot long to be $5!! They never mention the tax and drinks that ups your pay to at least $7....:)

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^ NO DK! Nooo touchy FOX! ^

After our lunch and very cool talk of introducing each other and me getting to know the guys a bit more, we head back to the con in time to check out the POWER RANGERS Panel. With members from different power ranger eras! Mighty Morphin, Zeo, Space, Turbo, Time Force, Light Speed, and maybe others! Even Rita and Lord Zedd themselves! haha!! At the panel, Mr. Phenomenal epically FAILS because he forgot his P9 poster at SUBWAY! OMFG!!!! XD XD Daammnn dude! With that horrible moment we head back to the Exhibition hall at around 2:30ish to see like a group of MM fans and Wotas just outside the Signing tents. That was a fun sight to see the security try their best to move the Wotas. ;)

I see Pinoy7TFC waiting with people and decided to join them. It was a good 10 minutes of talking about what happened during the signing so far until the crowd starts singing for SAYUMI'S BIRTHDAY! This was awesome because we saw the manager rushing to her side to cover up the curtains on her side, and this is the best part, they actually opened it for a good couple seconds so she can wave to us!!! I wish had my camera out to record them singing and such but I didn't expect the curtain to actually open! DAMMIT! >_< but it was awesome to see Sayumi at least. haha Aichan would have been better. :D XD

The "trying-to-move-everyone-away-because-it-was-some-kind-of-safety-hazard" plan of AX was kinda fail because no one would really move. haha, so live4zone and I go towards the back, expecting us to stay outside to where Momusu would leave out of. Yet the security guard wouldn't allow us so that was a bummer. We go to a spot about 2 or 3 booths away but can still see where MM is. Haha it was funny because there was others doing the same thing but they made it so HOT (obvious) because they didn't hide any MM merchandise they had on them and was like EYE to TENT on a constant watch. No natural act or anything to make it that they weren't just "stalking" Momusu. But of course when Momusu was about to leave, everyone got their camera out (as did I) and try their best to get a good view. I did some kind of ninja act and managed to get a good video of them leaving. I hid behind some tents and followed them out through the door. VIDEO link on the bottom. :3 Funny vid of the XD "ninja" :D moments. haha.

Once Momusu upped and left, I went back to SC's group and....waited. HAHAHA, we pretty much stood around where the booth was for about 10-15 minutes looking at MM's staff or JAPANFILES clean up. Live4zone was trying to get a sharpie that Momusu was using but the lady who was cleaning it up wouldn't give it to him. XD Instead I noticed that the booth was EMPTY! So we all ran in and like sat in our favorite member's chair. :P Damn live4zone took Aichan's chair in the picture. grrr. =.= That was a fun 5 minutes of fun, hehehe we're so crazy man!!

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^ Killer group the 5 of us were =D ^

After the blown fact that Morning Musume probably went back to their hotel and traveled somewhere, we walked around the Exhibition hall for a bit to do some shopping at least and look at the interesting booths AX had. One particular was "The Dirty Tent". That was....fun. lol Moving along, once we finished shopping or was tired of walking, the 5 of us left the hall to lurk around the Expo. We took a sit down on the floor somewhere, and looked back at what we did during the day. That and also me and DHG was looking at "P-P-P-PRETTY GIIIRL" and taking pics of them. We also chanted at some cosplayers too to get pictures of them. >=D

Some given time later, we left our spot (Mr. Phenomenal was feeling ill and left, aww...) and we found an acquaintance of live4zone, Judah (I forgot his H!O name) who had like these old trading cards of old Morning Musume members, back when 5th just joined at least. He was selling those for a buck each and I bought my good stack of Aichan cards before they ran out. XD After that, we all left to get eat dinner! At the door of the con, SC took a video of me doing something to a cosplayer girl. @o@ Dinner was at Denny's and we all pretty much split up after that. It was SacredCultivator and DHG's last day there, Judah had to get a 40 min cab back to wherever 0.0, and live4zone and I went back to the hotel.

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^ Koolest Saturday Gang ever ^ haha

!~!~!BREAKTIME!~!~!

This is the part where you stop reading a bit, rest your eyes, maybe go to the bathroom. I apologize for writing this much, but I mean who wouldn't?! But hey, please take a break for 5 min, maybe go watch a subbed video or a concert performance so then you can get your interest up a bit to continue reading. haha.

........................Done resting? okay! Please read on!!.................................

And how come everytime when it's breaktime, my font shrinks?! CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY?!?! I don't want you readers to start squinting all of a sudden. =\

~DISCLAIMER~

*This next part is all true, but then again, everyone had their own little personal experience with Morning Musume during AX. Whether or not you believe this one, I was with live4zone and he's my witness to everything as I am his. This is the story of the night when Momusu returned to the hotel and how we managed to follow them at least to know which floor they were on and a bunch of other things, like JunJun's room :D If this is some kind of invasion of privacy, I'm sorry you feel that way about my blog post. I'll blank things out if there are enough complaints, but come on, AX is already over and it's not like I have a picture with them to show you or anything. BUT once again, whether or not you believe it or not, is based on your perception, my reputation, and how detailed I've gone in these blogs to NOT have you believe this AWESOME experience. So please, have a good read.*


Since it was still kinda early (about 10PMish), the both of us (live4zone and I) were really bored! So we decided to meet up at the lobby so we can just wait for Momusu to come back. We'd figure it was the last night and we might as well since it was the only thing left to do Momusu-related, right? Sure enough after an hour or so of waiting, at close to 12 midnight, we spotted all 9 members of Morning Musume walk through the front of door! (Along with their managers and whoever) They walked to the RED CIRCLE tower elevator and we sped over there quick-like! Live4zone tried to get a picture from the table at the bar, but it ended blurry and you can spot Koharu in the picture. Not wanting to miss them at all, I walk up to the elevator and spot myself at a wall. I made sure I wasn't like star-strucken, or maybe I should have...but I feared the managers would go like on ALL OUT PROTECT mode. =\

Anyway, while waiting, I scanned the Momusu crowd and made eye contact with Aika! And then I waved at her! AND SHE WAVED BACK! *fanboy mode flip all over!* It was funny, too, because Reina was on the wall looking at Aika and moved her head over to see who she was waving at. I freaked out there and looked away...:) FAIL. >_< I was still in shock that I got a wave from Aika that the "DING" of the elevator almost went right through me. All of Momusu went in the elevator along with a few of their managers. Live4zone literally like TELEPORTED into that elevator! I saw a little space in the front next to Aika and Reina, but I didn't take it. STUPID STUPID STUPID! I even saw a sad/pouty face from Aika as the doors closed. OH MAN!!! >____<

Feeling all bad about the decision, I got in the next elevator. Why? Because there was still 3 "managers" that couldn't make it in that elevator so I got into the elevator with them. They pressed 21 and I said some random number above 21....22. :) I was hoping to catch up with the elevator with Momusu in them but they got up first....bummer. Anyway, Live4zone had the same idea as I did and also got off on the 22nd floor. Totally psyched about knowing floor they were on, I wanted us to go down there. He was skeptical about it though because he was in the same elevator as Momusu, so he was worried if they recognized him and would like...I don't know, flip out. ;)

So I went alone and he went to the 20th floor VIA stairs. I walked around the 21st floor cautiously walking around the middle tower for anyone. I then hid in the gap where the soda and ice machine was at. To make it seem like I wasn't just standing there, I took my shirt and stretched it under the ice machine dispenser. (What a great idea huh?) In doing so, I decided to dispense some ice into the shirt, like a pouch. Just as I made a left back into the hallway, a door opens a lady comes out. It's one of the managers! I kept walking and looked into the room, and in good 2-4 steps time, I SEE JUNJUN!!! I just heard her telling her manager or whoever, "hai hai oyasumi." ~sighs~ Hearing her voice unexpectedly while carrying a pouch of ice in your shirt made CARRYING that ice way better. ^~^ Room number = #2179. GETS >=)

After she closed the door and her manager left, just following right behind me. We both acknowledge each other and she noticed my "ice pouch". That was a fun laugh as I made my way to the stairs to meet up with live4zone on the 20nd floor. We nodded goodbye as she went into another tower and I literally dropped all the ice down the stairs. LOL Freaking out that I found JunJun's door and telling him the news about it, I wanted to go again. >=D Trial #2, we both went in the elevator from the lobby. In the elevator (unknown to our knowledge) was 2 japanese people with folded boxes in with us. It was amusing because the guy had some kind of "F*CK YOU" toy that held up a middle finger. haha. What we didn't know was that they were also like staff to MM! I don't know why they had boxes though. I know this because after getting the ice in my shirt again and walking around hoping to find a Momusu member, they were going to the room that also had the same manager I met from before.

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^ the F*CK YOU toy ^

Trial #2 was a bust, but I knew where JunJun's door was! Not wanting to try again because it was already past 1AM and thinking Momusu would be at least sleeping by now, we both headed back to my room. I planned to write a thank you note to JunJun. Somewhere in the beginning of writing, I get a text from Pinoy7TFC, which then becomes a 2 hour long call of what we wanted to write on the note and the adventure of how I got the note on the door. Live4zone left to his room because he didn't want to come along with me to drop off the note. =(

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^ JunJun's door ^

With Pinoy7TFC on the phone, I went back to the 20th floor and thought I could just slip the note under the door. Easy, right? WRONG Apparently, the doors on the 21st floor had some kind of rubber air-tight material around the door. Just epic blow and there was no way I can get the note to her. =0 Even though I waited at JunJun's door, pondering what to do, I did hear music played through the door. Haha, must have been her practicing or she listens to music to sleep. ^.^ So with waiting making me paranoid as every minute passes, I settled with leaving the note on top of the knob, hoping she'll get it in the morning...or at least her manager will be nice enough to give it to her if she gets it first. ~sighs~

With that final thing done, I said goodbye to Pinoy7TFC on the phone, headed up to my room and passed out from another tiresome but freakin' awesome day at AX...

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Oh man! Seems like I've done it again! >___< I've written a lot more than what I had anticipated! To those who read it all, I applaud and thank you! If you have a blog urself and wouldn't mind another reader, I would gladly return the favor! To everyone, comment on what you think about my 3rd day and about how you think my writing style or whatever is. I like to go into A LOT of details, so excuse me if I go over board. Everyone can skim anyway, right? lol Anyway, THANKS FOR READING! DAY 4 will be up.....at some time. LOL

Here are Day 3 pictures:

Day 3 Pics

Videos I took during Day 3:

Black Ranger Arrives at Anime Expo
Morning Musume leaving last autograph session
P-P-P-PRETTY GIIIRL!!

I also had another vid of me putting the note at JunJun's door, but I wasn't sure if I should put it up or not. >_< What do you readers think?




You went to Otakon too? Did they really have a H!P/MM booth there?
Anyways, your whole experience was awesome! Bonus experience points for seeing MM during their off-time!

I like your writing. Details are always good and especially when it comes to MM? The more the better!
About the video for JunJun's note- you already have the floor, room# and picture, the video will just be all of that put together haha.

And yeah, I think Aika jumped ranks for everyone that saw her lol.
DUDE!!! this blog is epic...O_O i love it..to bad we didnt get to hang out much b/c i wouldve been with you the whole time...XD it was nice seen you tho...^_^v haha i love the part were you were like "there was a little space in the elevator but didnt take it" haha i understand b/c when i got autographs i couldnt say ANYTHING! to them..i was super fan boying then..lol but yea GREAT! blog..^_^v
awesome write up man, sucks about jun juns door.
omigod... all i did at AX was go to the concert. I feel like a total noob. Did you get a tipoff about MM in that hotel or what? SOOOOO LUCKY!!!

Put the video of JunJun's door it would be so cool.

Lol, day 3 was epic.

the trading card orders seems right, and the 2 members were Aika and Linlin.

and we wanted to try the "go outside for a smoke" trick, but sadly no one has any smokes...

and in the elevator, Gaki-san and Junjun remembered me from either handshake or the pannel. they told the managers and all the Momusu members were looking at me (even Ai-chan)...i was like"shiiiiiiiiiiit..."...but then Gaki-san told them i seems ok, doesn't look like a creepy elevator stalker at all...so i'm safe.


Yea that's it! :P and I will post it. :lol:
WOOOHOHOHOHOHO! XD
XD
Hey, just stumbled upon your blog via youtube, gotta say... AWESOME POST!

Love the details! (pretty much shows how much I've missed while there T.T)

Wish I had stayed at Westin Bonaventure... and yeah, it'd be great if you post the vid of JJ's door ^-^

Thanks for the post!
Hey, so you were the one who yelled MY HOUSE during the Q&A?
You should of stood up and wave to dragon lady LOL

Hey, so you were the one who yelled MY HOUSE during the Q&A?
You should of stood up and wave to dragon lady LOL

yeah i realized this too late. haha...XD Gah, that would have been a good longer laugh.

^ Boo =P j/k

Yeah, cute bunny pictures sayu drew. Don't know if he asked her for it, I didn't, since I was mainly focused on Reina.
Yeah Ikea frames! Surprisingly good and fits perfect!

Read your blog too, seems like we both had a lot of fun :)


yes we did! Would have been cooler to have met and at least hung out for an hour or a day with the MOD/SITE MANAGER TURBOS. XD
Let's do that next time XD

Let's do that next time :)

Most DEF! XD XD

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