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ANIME EXPO: MORNING MUSUME/ADVENTURES IN L.A. Part 4

Posted by Addicted_Azn, 26 July 2009 · 3055 views

ANIME EXPO: MORNING MUSUME/ADVENTURES IN L.A. Part 4!



Hey there readers! OMG!!! Can you believe more than a WHOLE month has passed by already ever since Morning Musume came to Anime Expo in Los Angeles? XD I know! I can't believe it either! So that's why I like to take this little intro here to be thankful of all the fun things I got to do and all the awesome people I got to meet over that one hell of a weekend!

I'll probably list them all but in the next post because this post is all about SUNDAY! and phew, Sunday was also an awesome day, with one amazing thing happening after the other...but there was a sad part, or maybe 2 during the whole day. -sighs- Anyway, thanks for reading up until now everyone, and please enjoy yourself as you enter MY LAST DAY AT AX! ToT

Also, don't mind the date. I actually made this post the day after I submitted DAY 3. But note, I only did the title for this one. haha XD So I had written out everything else later on and released today, August 21st. Sorries.

~DISCLAIMER~

Yes I added this up again because I (we, with HPMusume) did see them again in the hotel that morning, but more about that later.


*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 HPMusume and he's my witness to everything as I am his. 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.*


So remember the other night? That's right! I found JunJun's door! This is because I actually saw JunJun in that room when her manager opened the door to leave JunJun's room and then JunJun saying good night to her and stuff, all readable on the DAY 3. So anyway, I returned to the room late that night and slept for about 3-4 hours, WAKING UP TO THE FREEZING ROOM at around 6~6:30AM. No lie, I literally woke up with my TEETH CHATTERING! I couldn't believe why I was so cold until I checked the thermostat reading at a damn 65 degrees!! WTF?! >:0 I sent it up to like 76 or higher right away, and tried to shake off my chill as I got ready to go back down to the 21st floor to check if the note was still there.

Gah, sure enough the note is still there. Haha, also Pinoy7TFC sent me a text message real early asking about the note, so I sent him a pic text of it. He was surprised it was still there and we hoped JunJun would still get it sooner or later. I did a patrol of the whole floor hoping one of the members would walk out but of course not that early, right? After 8-10 minutes, I left back up to my room and just waited 20 min before going back down again. :) HPMusume woke up just as before I went down the 2nd time and I told him where I was going. He was intrigued at if they were really there so I waited for him to change we left. Around 8AM, we headed down to the 21st floor. THIS TIME, the note was gone! I was all "whoa! omg omg omg, it's gone! wahhh!!"

Now for you readers, I'm sorry for what I did next, but you can call it whatever you want, okay? I did like this "American thing", if some would call it that, but I just wanted to do it because it was my last day there so please excuse me.

Moving on, with the note gone now, I decided to knock on the door and yelling out a random name, as if I thought that was a friend's room, you know? After knocking twice, the door opened next to me, and for a split second I saw half of LinLin's face...before she closed the door like hella-quick. I was like, "Whoa! That was LinLin!" And on the side with my peripherial vision, I think I saw other members in there as well, but I didn't get a clear look. HPMusume was about a foot behind me, and I freaked out at him at me just seeing LinLin!

Of course, since LinLin kind of opened the door, we knew we had to leave since we can make it seem as if "oh, this is the wrong door, let's go check if our friend is somewhere else." We headed to the yellow tower and just chilled on the side waiting for the elevator. Within in 5 minutes, we saw a japanese person walking with a suitcase and right behind her was Takahashi Aichan!!! She literally walked like less than a feet away from me RIGHT past me! I was literally STAR-STRUCK! I couldn't say anything to her! :D

Following her was what I guessed was another manager strolling 2 bags and I instantly recognized the 2 girls walking behind him. Mitsui Aika and Kusumi Koharu! Aika had a face mask on and I was wondering if she would remember me :), and Koharu was like, tall. 0.0 She's sooo dressed like a 16 year old going 21 going clubbing. If you readers want to know what they wore, Hyakupa subs took pictures of them when they were at the airport, so go check it out (if you already haven't by now) haha ^.^

Going back to being all star strucked, my eyes followed Aika and Koharu as they walked past the two of us and into the hallway. On the way, I even saw Koharu look back down at HPMusume, who was on the floor looking down at the floor and all. >_< I was in ARGGH Mode, and wondered if he should have looked back. hahaha :D

Rawr, readers, Rawr. The elevator FINALLY came :ph34r: and we went straight down to the lobby. We got off with a load of enthusiasm in just seeing 3-4 of all 9 members within the first 20 minutes of both of us leaving our room! WAHOO! At the lobby, we saw panda-guy walking around. You all should know him, he was the dude always in that Panda Suit all of AX, congrats to him wearing that in all that heat. >_< (If you're reading thing panda-guy, so sorry I forgot your name dude! but a comment would be nice so I can add you up here later. Thanks!)

We both talked to him and told him what just happened and was wondering if they would come back down. Thinking we shouldn't let an opportunity like this stop us, we decided to go back up! >=) Panda-guy decided not to come with us because he was worried they would remember him and worried if that would cause a bad impression on the fans to take it as if we were stalking them....which we're you know....NOT.

In thinking they came from the yellow tower, both HPMusume and I took the yellow elevator. What we didn't expect happened next. As soon as we got out of the elevator, on the right side in the yellow hallway leading to the yellow tower, a group of girls was laughing at something when I heard someone talk. I turn my head to that direction and WHAMO! All 9 Morning Musume Members just standing there!!! I literally had like an EXCITEMENT IMPLOSION! I was scared of freakin' out in front of them. I was thinking later on that maybe I should have so I'd get a chance to meet them just as they were leaving, you know? STUPID STUPID STUPID! It's like the time when I should have stood up or something after yelling "MY HOUSE" at the Q&A panel. -sighs-

So instead of going all-out on Momusu, we made a left turn and was completely stunned at what we should do next. We ended up walking back to the elevator and just waiting there... I glanced over a few times at their managers or staffs members, and also can hear the laughter and chit-chat of the Momusu girls. I had hoped that when the elevator came by, that it would be full of people trying to leave, so we can stay longer but alas, we panicked and got into the next elevator so it didn't seem like we were just waiting for them....gahhhhh. >_<

When we landed in the lobby, we met up with Panda-guy again and told him what just happened. Totally excited in catching them leave, we waited in the lobby. It didn't really work because we waited FOREVER! or at least until 11:30am-12:00pm. I later found out that MM was already at the airport around that time. Damn I wish I had taken that Super Shuttle to the Airport after just seeing them at the hotel, but money problems kind of permitted me from doing that. Also note that they must have taken some kind of back door out of the hotel since we didn't catch them. THANKS FOR COMING MORNING MUSUME!!! WAHOO!!!!

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^ Frown because Momusu had left!! ^

--!BREAK TIME!--

Yeah, you know the deal here by now. You're welcome to keep reading or just take a break and watch your favorite H!P PV. The first half of the day is about over and here comes the second half! The last few hours of AX!!! WAHH!!!


TOTALLY bummed at missing Momusu leaving the hotel/airport, HPMusume and I made our way to the convention. We didn't really know where to go, so we headed to the Japanfiles booth where we met up with other H!O members such as Eojjarago, ShikyoxYaiba, 田中BOMB, and many more! It was the next best thing to do since MM won't be doing anything else at AX, with being on the plane and all. And most of the other fans are either headed home or didn't show up. We all knew the Wotas there were here left with Momusu back to Japan. XD

Now the fun part. At the Japanfiles booth, they had the all singles PV playing and we of course watched it. (For whoever was just standing at the booth) Pretty soon we started to dance to them! Songs like Mikan, Go Girl! Koi no Victory, and Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari. It was spectacular! We even replayed some songs just to keep dancing to them! ;) There's some vids of us all dancing to the songs, here are some that 田中BOMB and a few other vids I found.

-Credits to their own respectively-
Go Girl ~恋のヴィクトリー~ feat. Solid Snake + DRAGONLADY at [AX09]
Shabondama @ Japanfiles Booth [AX09]
Morning Musume- Shabondama at the Anime Expo 2009
Morning Musume - Mikan singing and dancing at the Anime Expo 2009
Morning Musume - Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~ at the Anime Expo 2009

Hilarious right? But oh so worth it! We probably caught everyone's attention and maybe got JapanFiles some more sales. XD Dancers included me (of course), ShikyoxYaiba, and HPMusume. We tried getting Eojjarago in a couple times, yeah I saw him dancing too! :D Even SNAKE from Metal Gear Solid danced with us!

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^ H!O MEMBERS! SAIKOU!!! XD ^

Here's some reviews for the songs we danced to:
  • Mikan - was awesome, since we "pretty" much knew the cheers. We were loud and proud of dancing! YOU GOT A CHANCE!!
  • Shabondama - Haha what can I say? I do a good job when doing Rika's lines. :P And the constant headbanging was fun as hell!
  • Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari - I believe this was one of the songs that started the dancing. The moves we pretty simple, a hand there, a shake here, and voila! You got yourself dancing!
  • The Manpower - lol, we didn't really dance to this because "hip-thusting" aka "air humping" seemed fun to do in private but publicly....haha XD
  • SEXY BOY ~Soyokaze ni Yorisotte~ - This song has got to be a must know for every H!P fan out there! Who doesn't know how to do the UE~ UE~?! Other than that part, the rest of the dance was kinda choppy and unknown. XD
  • Go Girl! Koi no Victory - HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! This one was the UBER BEST of them all! Not only did we play this one over and over again, it was extremely catching and fun to dance to! We even had Snake in the vid with us! ShikyoxYaiba and I did a pretty well job here. :D

After the dancing, we all took a break, grabbed something to eat and went back to the booth because JAPANFILES were going to do the drawing for the contest they had. The videos are all on the bottom so check it out. XD The lucky first 3 photo set winners were called, and so were the poster winners. The people at the booth had found out they extra Shouganai Yume Obito and Platinum 9 Posters! So they did this RAPID-FIRE drawing. If you were called AND you were there, YOU WIN! Damn those lucky people, hahaha. Pretty much, after that we danced some more? :)

In fact, we danced so much from since I arrived that it was almost time for the Exhibition hall to close! Oh noes! We had danced practically since 12:30 or 1:00 until 2:45~! I rushed at whatever I can buy for my family and friends in the 15-20 min we had left. I managed to get a few things and rushed back to the booth within 5 min of closing time. ShikyoxYaiba had already left since she had a ride to catch (I didn't get to say good bye! >_<), and HPMusume wasn't really feeling well so he went back to the room. Eojjarago, 田中BOMB, rayned_kei, and myself left the Exhibition hall and sat in the food court just remembering the good times since AX started, watched a couple PVs Eojjarago had on him, and kinda sulked for an hour. Since at 4 PM, AX should have been almost officially closed.

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^ Very impressive Haku and Aerith idea ^

Eojjarago had met up with his friends and left. The rest of us (田中BOMB and rayned_kei) decided to grab some lunch or supper, whenever you would place 4-5pm would be for eating. We had grabbed some SUBWAY and did some introductions and history of how we got into H!P. It was neat learning about how everyone had their own way at coming into Hello! Project. ^.^

We returned to my hotel, where I showed them where Momusu was and all this earlier morning. Even JunLin's room! *squeals* That was pretty much a good time and we chilled by the elevator in the lobby from where they stood the night before. (Read DAY 3) 田中BOMB made a little shrine in the plant nearby, with a sign thanking Momusu for coming to AX. Time was drawing towards 8 pm, basically around 7:45, and I had to say goodbye to the new friends I met. Why? Because my flight is at 11:00pm and the Super Shuttle I had to catch is at 8:10pm.

I headed back up to the room, to fully finish packing. I saw HPMusume really out of it, like man, after I heard that alot of people got sick at AX, I was worried I would get sick too! But that's not the point, I had to say good bye to HPMusume for letting me crash at his room for AX. AWESOME BRO! With that, I headed down and out the hotel to see the little blue van waiting for passengers. I told them who I was and in I go.

The cool part was that there was a H!P fan in the car too. It was too bad I didn't talk with her that much, she pretty much had a terrible experience at AX, with not knowing where to go, not experiencing much on what to do at AX, it was actually her FIRST anime convention! Poor girl. :) The guy sitting next to me was a staff member of AX, but not really working directly related to Momusu, so I didn't get all mad at him for any confusion and frustration with MM at AX. He was a cool guy, had a lot of neat stuff with him and even helped me when I had 3 bags with me in the airport. Rules in the airport is that you can only have 2 carry-on bags, but he helped me out and said one of them was his. PHEW~!

Time had arrived and we split our ways to each our own flight. I waited, boarded my plane, and said goodbye to LA. I'll miss everyone I met! I passed out really well on the plane since I only had about 3 hours of sleep the night before. ;) Funny story on the plane, I had woken up at the GREATEST TIME when a flight attendant was walking down and spotted something on the floor about 3 rows down from me. She walked back in my direction asking everyone if they dropped something like it. As she got closer, I realized that was the PLATINUM 9 POSTER! I instantly replied and took it back. Phew, cut a close one there, I held it in the bag on me the rest of the flight.

After the flight was pretty much cut and go, I covered my third bag (haha), made my way to exiting, and called the parents to get a pick-up. It felt like Anime Expo never happened as I continue with my life back home.

MORNING MUSUME! COME BACK TO AMERICA AGAIN! >___<

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Wow, I felt like each day, the entries just got longer and longer, could you tell? It's like I said before, I love detail. I write in a very much first person perspective. With these in mind, I wanted to capture my experience and made sure you were able to experience the same thing. I really thank you for reading this much, or if you haven't, then thanks for checking whatever else out. Leave a comment or two, you know?

AX was truly an amazing experience meeting lots of new people and seeing Morning Musume!!! It's only been less than 2 years for me as a fan, and wow I got to see them LIVE twice! Once in a real concert in Japan, and now at AX! I like the second time better especially since we got to eye to eye level AND gotten an autograph/handshake! T~T It's just a tear-jerking moment! But I don't want you to read anymore, so I'll put the rest up on the next post! Next post will have thanks to people I met and befriended, the items I bought from AX, and anything else I want to write about.

Again, THANK YOU FOR READING and be sure to come back for the GOODS post! ^o^/

Here are Day 4 pictures:

Day 4 Pics

Videos I took on Day 4:

I had gotten responses on posting up the JunJun Video, on where I leave a note on her door. So here it is!
JunJun's door at AX Hotel
JapanFiles booth photo and poster winners @ AX 2009
JapanFiles Extra posters winners @ AX 2009




OMG CHARLEY!!!...you had the best time i wish i stayed in that hotel...=( i wouldve went nuts too..if i saw all of them..>_< but yea next time they come were going to be roomies...LOL
omg charley, you finally finished this. grats!!

omg charley, you finally finished this. grats!!

haha I know right? :) Enjoy reading!
bravo! bravo! i love this!.. i really enjoyed reading about your adventures in l.a.
i appreciate how you meticulously worked on this blog and
hopefully one day my friends and i can watch morning musume。 live with you guys.

I'm a Ai-chan fan as well. Peace! V(^_^)V

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