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BERRYZ SAIKOU - Day 3 Thanks for everything!

Posted by turbos86, 02 May 2011 · 1172 views

Day 3 @ April 24th~

We ended up not going to bed until 3AM the night before, because we were out recording wotagei videos after the ofukai:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuIvQxkBWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv2e2o5sENc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDOZ7KTMOU0

Somehow I still managed to wake up at 8AM after everything that happened in Day 2.

First Berryz event of the day was the Sunday Autograph session at 2PM. Misa, sanrio, and myself were leaving at the end of the day, so we packed up everything, moved our luggage to sferris and kyyuna's room (they were to stay an extra night), and checked out of the hotel. We kept on ourselves items we wanted to get signed and proceeded into the convention center.

My outfit for Day3:
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A genuine Lawson employee uniform with a Miyabi name tag, I also wore the AC POPOPOPO~N t-shirt underneath.

Yes, you could say, I was cosplaying as Miya XD
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It was just past noon as we entered. There wasn't much we wanted to do before the signing, so we headed straight for the Autographs hall 4B. Outside the hall, we met up with one Wota from the ofukai the night before. We chatted and showed off goods we were wanting to get signed. More wotas showed up as time passed by. One wota wanted to ask Berryz to sign their names in Kanji. They were all like "WTF, I thought you are wearing a Happi when I noticed you from far away, since Lawson's uniform is the same color scheme." The lot of us discussed if Berryz would show up at the Ending Ceremony. It was logical they would, because they appeared at the Opening Ceremony, and announced they were collecting money for charity. For them to show up at the Ending Ceremony to sum up how much money was collected, only make sense. We decided to attend the Closing Ceremony before leaving Seattle. I checked my bag and I only had my small point and shoot camera with me. Remembering that the Closing Ceremony did not have a no video/photograph policy in place, I dashed back to the hotel to grab my bigger camera. I ran into Kosuke and other wotas in the hotel lobby, they all lololololol at my Lawson uniform XD By the time I got back to the convention center, my group was gone. Assuming the autograph line up had begun, I walked inside 4B and they were at the start of the Sunday ticket line. We continued to chat. The wotas agreed that the concert setlist was really surprising. Ai wa Katsu, and All for One & One for All were two of the biggest surprises. It was the first time Berryz Koubou sang these two songs on their own.

As the time got close to 2PM, Berryz staff began to show up and everybody in line got up, knowing Berryz were about to enter the hall. The "curtains" blocking the back doors were semi-transparent, and everyone was able to see Berryz coming in. We all started yelling names, as the seven girls made they way around the curtains to sit down behind the signing table. They were wearing their shiny Heroine PV outfits, without the horrible wigs. I let out a few loud "MIYA" calls, and she waved at me :whistle: sferris got up and went outside to wait for us, because he gave his ticket to Misa.

Time to get down to business. I had my Momoko signed Maji Bomber poster with me (Bought it off Yahoo! Auction Japan), and I stood there, doing simulations in my head of what I wanted to say to each member, and what I was going to do for them. I repeated these steps to myself two, three times, in order to not have nothing to say like I did with some of them the night before.

Our line began to move. I was about 10th in line, with all my friends ahead of me. The line moved at a steady pace. It wasn't long until I came to my senses and noticed kyyuna was already half way done. sanrio was in front of me. As he walked up to Momoko (the girls sat out of order), I turned around and told the Wota behind me, "I'm so nervous!", "Me too, I know what you mean" he replied. Turned back around to the front, I was next.

First up, Momoko. I lay the poster out in front of her, lean in, pointed to her autograph on it and said, "Good morning hime, I already have your autograph on this, can I ask you to do me a favor?" She lean in and said "Yes." This is when I realized how tiny Momoko is, her face is so small and cute, OMG. I then asked her if she could write my name on the poster. She smiled and gave me the OKAY signal. I pull down my badge and pointed to my name. She began by writing my Surname!!!! Oh no! Momochii, English names are Surname in the back! I spoke up and told her it's reverse, just as she finished writing my surname. "Ah, reverse, okok" she looked at me. Luckily, she left space around my surname and had room to write my first name in. She finished it off with a heart. I thanked her and she passed my poster down to Yurina who was next. At the last moment, I tried to mention Otome Chiku Simulation to Momo, but the staff pushed me away. Momo tried to replied, but could only give me a nod.

"Konban Natchuri" I told Kumaicho (This is the greeting Miyabi, Yurina, Risako, uses on their weekly Radio show, Tsukai Berryz Oukoku) but no reaction =/ hummm. Yurina signed my poster and passed it down to Risako. A little disappointed, I thanked Yurina and then side stepped toward Rii-chan. The wota behind me was taking his time with Momoko, so a gap had formed between him and I. "KONBAN NATCHURI" I told Rii-chan. Yurina jumped up in her chair a little, looked at me and said, "AH! YOU KNOW" I guess she didn't hear me the first time when I said it to her orz. I stood facing both Risako and Yurina and told them I listen to their show every week. They both thanked me for doing so, with Yurina being the more excited one. Rii-chan then signed my poster, and I thanked her for it. sanrio was trying to get Miyabi to write his name out, so I was stuck standing in front of Rii-chan. I ran out of things to tell her, and was preparing myself to see Miya, who was next. We had a few seconds of awkward silent, oops =P It was ok, Rii-chan is pretty.

Risako then passed my poster to Miya. She began to sign on it. I went for my bag and pulled out this:
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It's an 8" plush doll of Miya, modeled after her outfit in Buono's JUICE HE@RT PV and RE:Buono! Visual Book, made by ~*Sarah.
As Miya finished her autograph and looked up at me, I handed the doll over on the palm of my hands and said, "Please accept this if you don't mind". Miya freaked!!! Chinami, who was next in line, noticed and called out, "OMG, IT'S MINI MIYA". "Is this hand made?" Miya asked me. "My friend from New York hand made it" I replied. Miya fondled the doll in her hands as she examined it in details. She looked back at me, "THANK YOU!" I was really glad she loved the doll. Knowing how she likes to do handmade crafts herself, I figured she'd appreciate a handmade gift. Sadly, I had no talent for such things. Thanks ~*Sarah for all your help!

Miya put away the doll and passed my poster to Chii who was waiting. Immediately she started to sign. I pulled down the zipper of my Lawson uniform (Oh yeah, Miya was so into the doll, she didn't notice I was cosplaying as her XD) to reveal the POPOPOPO~N t-shirt "Chinami" asking for her attention. Chii was not done with her autograph. Maasa, who was next said, "Chinami, look." Chii looked up at me. I pulled open my Lawson uniform, "POPOPOPO~NNNNNNN" She burst out laughing ^^; "POPOPOPO~N" she said back to me. Captain and Maasa laughed as well. I bowed to Chii and closed the zipper of my uniform back up. Successful troll is successful!

Moved over to Maasa next. She quickly signed on my poster. Her autograph is simple enough for her to be fast. "Henshuuchou!" I called out (Henshuuchou means chief editor in Japanese. I was referring to the Maasa Magazine editor MC in their current concert tour, where the other six Berryz members will pose as reporters and bring in news scoop about themselves or other members to show Maasa chief editor.) "I've found a scoop!" pretending I was in the MC corner with her. "Ohhhh, let's see it" she told me. Captain was free, so she watched what I was trying do with bewilder eyes. I reached for my sketch book in my bag, with it already flipped to the page I wanted to show Maasa. "The title is", putting the book in front of me. "Uchuu no Maasa KITA!!! (Here it comes, Maasa of the Universe)". This was a last minute idea I had before going inside. Maasa taught everyone at the concert how to say Uchuu no Maasa.

Feeling satisfied, I moved over to Captain. I thanked her for everything and bowed like mad at her and told her I'll see her later. She said see you later back to me and waved happily.

I took a few steps back, sanrio was standing there facing the girls. We faced Berryz, bowed a few times and thanked them again. As we walked away, I felt like I was drunk from what has just happened. We showed off our signed items to people still waiting in line and compared autographs with a few wotas. The wota who wanted Berryz to sign their names in Kanji failed, they did normal signs for him, but agreed to write his name. We met up with others in our group and headed over to the HSU booth to wait for the prize drawing. A good number of people already surrounded the booth when we got to it. HSU was almost completely sold out of everything. We stood around near the charity donation box, wondering which Berryz member would come to do the prize draw and which way she'd enter the booth. The wotas standing beside us predicted that either Captain or Momoko would come, them being the oldest two, and she'd enter from our side of the booth, seeing how it's the "back". As more fans piled in, Kosuke and his friends showed up. Remember sanrio joked with him on Day 1 that he should get his glasses signed......

Click me for OMG

He even let me try them on, it was impossible to see with the autograph in the way. He needs new glasses ^^;

It was getting close to 3:15PM when the prize draw was supposed to be held. HSU's staff took this time to explain that no photography was allowed and how the prize draw would work. Suddenly, people at the other end of the booth began to yell. "SAKICHANNNNNNNN" Captain, still in her Heroine outfit, accompanied by many staffs made her way through the back of the booth, just as we figured. Here's a video someone standing next to us took of the raffle drawing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSTjFxssOlo

None of us won, but it was really cute to watch Saki-chan read out the numbers. Some people have said that they can just stand there all day watching her do that =P

After Captain left, we went with three wotas Misa met during the Guest Reception, to see the closing Ceremony. One was nice enough to give me a Miyabi photo from Berry Kou Fest, but I told him I don't have anything on me to give him back. He told me to not worry about it. They were interested in how we found out about Berryz and Hello! Project. I told them I started out with Morning Musume and expanded to the rest. Luck would have it, as we got to the doors of the main hall, it opened and we flow with the crowd inside and found seats on the 8th row on the left side. I gave my camera to sferris and asked him to film when Berryz goes on stage. Assembled my glow sticks, sat there and waited. Various groups of people performed martial arts, umbrella spinning and musical instruments. The CEO? of Sakura-con then announced that it's time for the surprise appearance we were all waiting for. Every Berryz fans in the house pulled out their glow sticks and stood up. Here's how it went down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdh6nKS38tk

Berryz left the stage and it was all over for everyone. We sadly dragged out of the convention center, bid farewell to our new wota friends.

This incredible weekend will always be in our hearts. It was a privilege to be so close to such amazing people, idols, fans, and even the staffs.

Two sets of Autographs I managed to get:

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The Sakura-Con limited set signed in red during the back stage meet.

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Maji Bomber poster signed on Sunday. Name censored.

I can't wait to do this all over again, which ever H!P acts comes over.
Thanks for reading my overly detailed reports. Hope you all ENJOY it.




Thanks for detail report again...
I like Mini Miya Doll \(^o^)/
It's soooooooo cute!

btw, I'll pass Kosuke's photo to him :P
I'm amazed at your level of preparation the whole weekend. Being a fan of Berryz for only four months (Buono for about a year and a half), I couldn't come close. Regardless, you will not steal my Miya from me. :D

Anyway, I ENJOYed reading this; brings back memories of my own awesome weekend. (Not that they had gone away much; they never will)
awesome report!!!
Ah, your lucky, you got two autographs. I'm jealous now. XD

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