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[m(Vo_oV)m]

The Graduation Concert of TAKAHASHI AI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLx4X1SjIAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5KcYma9vSs

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The Gathering:

I though I'd make a post on the potential gathering of fans going to the Graduation Concert.

unn ~ . . .
Any thoughts on what to do???

nanika ~ . . .
Maybe we should do something for Ai-chan .

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When & Where: confirmed

Special Event:
Event: AI BELIEVE ~ Graduation Special ~ Concert for Takahashi Ai
Place: Tokyo @ Nippon Budokan
Date: September 30th, 2011 @ door 5PM & curtain 6PM

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Who's Going:
m(Vo_oV)m : Sept. 25th - Oct. 2nd @ Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Jimbouchou-shi [Sakura Hotel Jimbocho]
KaitoDoraemon: Sept. 25th - Oct 2nd @ Tokyo, Asakusa [Sakura Hotel]
Schizophat + 6: Sept. 27th - Oct. 11th @ ---, ---
Kurosagi: Sept. 24th - Oct 3rd @ Tokyo, Minami-senju; Palace JAPAN hotel.
peachgirldb: Sept. 1st - Nov. 1st @ Tokyo, Shinagawa-ku
mydnightzx: Sept 28th - Oct 6th @ Tokyo, ---
zeroyon: Sept 24th - Oct 2nd @ Fukui (9/24-9/25), Tohoku (9/26-9/28), Tokyo (9/29-9/30), ---
rodrommel: Sept 27th - Oct 5th @ Tokyo, Shinjuku [Best Western Hotel]
rattrap316: Sept 27th - Oct 3rd @ Tokyo, Shinagawa [Prince Hotel]
SuzukiSuzume: Sept 28th - Oct 3rd @ --- , ---
Chibs: Sept 21th - Oct 3rd @ Tokyo, Asukusa [Chisunn Inn]
iidesuka-aibon: --- @ ---, ---
Johan Jung: --- @ ---, ---

Probably Going:
~asianqueen~:
川*’ー’）AlwaysAi*: --- @ ---, ---

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List of those getting cellphones:
m(Vo_oV)m
mydnightzx


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Possible Plans:
Submitting Letters/Collage in her box.
Graduation T-shirts.
Graduation Banners.
Sing "Yume Kara Samete"
Sing "Jishin Motte Yume Motte Tobitatsu Kara"

09/30 Before Party: TBA
09/30 After Party: 【東京】9/30(金) Lovely Night Vol.0【ラブ】 23：00～

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Fan Events:

Who's Going: Japan Do! Event (BK ): Sept 27th
Kurosagi
m(Vo_oV)m

Who's Going: Karaoke: Sept 27th, before the event.
m(Vo_oV)m
peachgirldb
KaitoDoraemon
Kurosagi
rattrap316

Who's Going: TokyoDisney/TokyoDome: Sept 28th
m(Vo_oV)m
rattrap316
rodrommel
Kurosagi
rattrap316

Who's Going: 09/29 Concert: Sept 29th
m(Vo_oV)m
peachgirldb
KaitoDoraemon
Kurosagi
Schizophat
Johan Jung

Who's Going: 09/30 Concert: Sept 30th
m(Vo_oV)m
peachgirldb
rodrommel
mydnightzx
Kurosagi
Schizophat
iidesuka-aibon
rattrap316
Johan Jung (maybe)

Who's Going: 09/30 Concert Post Party @ Lovely Night Vol.0【ラブ】 : Sept 30th: 11pm -5am
m(Vo_oV)m
rodrommel
mydnightzx
Kurosagi
Schizophat (maybe)
iidesuka-aibon

Who's Going: 『HELLO FOR YOU!!03　～this all love～』 Party: Oct 1st: 2pm-8pm
m(Vo_oV)m
rodrommel
Kurosagi


Last Update: 09/22 - PLEASE SIGN UP ! !


...t-shirt:
[temporary concept t-shirt]
[back of t-shirt]
[temporary concept banner]

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Concert Tickets:
Buy from: all via third-party
- vender (ticket.co.jp)
- private (auction.yahoo.co.jp)
- others: (http://pia.jp/v/momusu11cks/, www.i-tm4u.biz/, smiletrade.info)
person-to-person (usually they have a fanny-pack)
- @event (local reseller: not sure how, no experience)
Types:
- regular or fan club.

Cost: ~ $100 - $5000.

Tickets are available now and two weeks before the concert.
The difference is that FC tickets now are lottery ones, and the seat won't be known until they are mailed to buyer 2 weeks before the concert.
Then, the tickets sold 2 weeks before are known seats, but just the row number and not the actually seat number so that the sellers stay anonymous.

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Accommodations:
Sakura Hotel/Hostels: http://www.sakura-hotel.co.jp/
- for stays <1 month.
Bamboo House: http://www.bamboo-house.com/
- for stays >1 month.
Hotels near Nippon Bukoudan Hall [日本武道館].
- search 'nearby' for "hotel"
Address: Japan, 東京都千代田区北の丸公園２−３
Phone: +81 3-3216-5100

Cost: ~ $360 - $1000 / week.

Travel: Daily.
Train; it depends on your personal needs whether to buy a a Japan-Rail-Pass for several days, or buy as you go.
Personally, I prefer getting a Passmo/Suica Card and charge it up with like 5,000 when you buy it. The card itself is 500yen and you get it out-of the machine (from the ones that have that option).
I find the Passmo/Suica Cards most convenient and cheap.


Travel: from Airport.
The most convenient and cheapest I believe is taking the Keisei Limited Express mainline (blueline).
What you can do is, once your ready to leave the airport;
- head down stairs to the railline floor.
- buy a Passmo Card and charge it, right before passing the Keisei Line outer gate.
- then use the Passmo Card for the Keisei Line, no line waiting.
-- make sure you tap the card at both the Keisei outer gate and inner gate.
--- there will be overhead announces reminding you of this.

[KaitoDoraemon]

I'm in!!!!!!

[Erin.]

Waaa, I'll be there in spirit!

But, even though I can't go, I have a suggestion: they sometimes/usually have drop-boxes where fans can give things to their favourite members, right? Would it be possible, if we who are unable to go, wrote letters to Aichan, if you people who are going could print out the letters and put them in Aichan's box? (KD, I was planning on asking you this anyways ). Like, we could upload the letters to here or email them or something, and you guys could print them?
The only problem is, ink and paper cost money, and I wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone.


Aaaand, why is Suki na Senpai making me cry?! Yume Kara Samete always makes me tear up, but why Suki na Senpai?
Aaaaaaaiiiiiiichaaaaan!!!

(sorry for the rambling)

[m(Vo_oV)m]

^
*me too Erin, me too*

Printing other H!O members letter to Ai-chan sounds like an awesome idea.
Cost my be okay, especially if it's just text.
If there are pictures then maybe, but it should be okay.

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@KaitoDoraemon
Hey! we're planning on going and leaving at almost the same time. In fact, I was thinking of leaving on the 25th too.
Oh!!! I got my scheduled changed today.
So now I am on vacation that week. YATTA ~ ! !

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Here are my top two favorite OPVs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbDyeT52R8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjaCklEWSi0

[KaitoDoraemon]

^

Thats just great^^ So where are you gonna stay in tokyo? I've already reserved my stay in Sakura Hotel Asakusa. I wanna know where you are staying plus others as well so that maybe we could hang out a bit with all MM fans!

Btw, ive been thinking of making a custom T-shirt for Ai chan. And somewhere on that Tshirt is "sotsugyou omedetou!!! 高橋愛！"　of course, the shirt should be yellow in color and maybe we cud all have a short gathering right before each concert and do sth great! maybe sing a few lines for yume kara samete, cosmos, Never Forget etc.

Maybe we should have a banner as well! and just tie it at budoukan and leave it there hoping ai chan would see it!

I think we should have our own cheer for Ai chan as well

[~asianqueen~]

I'm going too!!!! But my travel dates are TBA~

[Schizophat]

I'm going to...
together with my friends... a total of 6 people..

travel date 27th Sept - 11 Oct

lets meet up

[rattrap316]

sounds great.... when's the last day to RSVP?

cause (like many) travel date is still pending....

thanks in advance!

[KaitoDoraemon]

Well i dunno what mvoovm has got in mind, but i think this gathering of ours will be quite loose.. as in you can rsvp anytime and i think we can even still contact each other once we're there in tokyo.

Once we gather, i think we should really think of sth big to do. Big enough to get in the headlines?? LMAO sounds nice doesnt it?

Well, lets wait until more people come to this thread, and we'll decide after that.

[AAちゃん]

Lets see..if everyone here is going to the 30 sept concert..maybe it's easier for all to meet before the concert..

[KaitoDoraemon]

Looks like our main event could be the 30th september one (although I wud pretty much prefer we start from the 29th ) and maybe AlwaysAi here wud like to start at Fukui coz apparently shes goin

We should gather around just outside budoukan and do sth yeah? and maybe after everything finishes we should do it again, and later go out for midnight clubs and drinks LOLOLOLand of course, cam-whoring

[Himalia™]

Quite a few going i hope everyone has secured tickets for the graduation concert. Some have now appeared on yahoo Japan auctions. Price vary alot plus they are being sold blind so you don't know the seat location that your buying.

[~asianqueen~]

^I haven't secured my tickets yet, which is why my travel dates are TBA LOLZ
I was planning on buying the regular sale at the end of august, but what's this japan auction thing you mentioned?

[AAちゃん]

^i might also end up getting from regular sales on aug. But i wonder will they send to my country..
If not, risk, lets hand in hand jus appear at the concert hall on 30 sept and see whether they are selling any tix anot..
and japan auction, a bidding place..like ebay..you have to bid for the tix..and it will definitely get very expensive..i once saw a graduation tix selling at a wow wow wow price..

[Himalia™]

General sales are ok but the tickets are not fantastic from those. You can hope to purchase them on the day when you arrive from a tout but that is very high risk for three reasons, one they do keep an eye out for them and if they are spotted they will be removed so possibly that won't be an option plus they can be very expensive and no way of being sure of what they will have until you see them.



I personally always get tickets before i even arrive in Japan and then have the option of trading them or upgrading as such for others. There are a couple of shops that deal like this which are both good especially the one in Ueno.

As for tickets be sent internationally they don't do this. However you can arrange for a third party to deal with that aspect for you.


You can purchase the tickets on yahoo auctions now but the tickets are being sold blind so you are buying a ticket with an unknown seat number. The reason they are unknown is because they do not get sent out until around 10 days before the concert. More tickets become available then from resellers but as you can imagine the good - excellent ones have crazy prices. A common scam with these tickets is that a reseller (for example) could have 6 tickets and then put lets say 2 of them up for sale before they arrive. Someone purchases them and then the reseller sends that person the worse 2 tcikets he has and resells the best ones when they arrive. Ok you could be super lucky and the reseller has only excellent tickets and do ok anyway. I have noticed the high amount of poor tickets (relatively speaking) that are won this way that said i have seen a few very good ones as well. The ratio is not good though and clearly against the rules of probability.

[KaitoDoraemon]

@Himalia

Can you provide us some links to those auctions? Although I have no idea how it works, but we may be able to work sth out just in case things don't go as planned~

btw, I found out that this Yahoo auction japan has an English version as well.. can tickets be purchased through that as well?

[Himalia™]

You can get those tickets on the yahoo.jp auction site. Just be aware of what i said before hand since there is no way of telling if they might pull that trick or not.

[KaitoDoraemon]

alright thanks tanx for the tip as well~

[m(Vo_oV)m]

^
The T-shirts and Banner ideas sound great!

I had a similar plan last year when I thought the remaining Gokkies would graduation together:

I have had these t-shirts for some time now. It's a play on "I NY".
I've changed 'I' to 'Ai' & 'NY' to 'Risa'.
I could also get them in yellow or green color shirts or colored text.
We could wear them in support.

But the plans changed.
On the bright side, Gaki-san will still be with us.
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The getting on the news:
Now that's 'Ambitious'

[KaitoDoraemon]

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omg thats just brilliant!! or maybe, we cud change it to

I Ai chan or sth?? But i still do think if its yellow, then it has more of a supportive message with it

I haven't thought of how the banner stuff can be done so, lol... lets just keep that in view for the time being

hahah! yeah i know its ridiculous... But i think if we cud gather enough people, maybe we cud get to sth near that? MAYBE

I'm also thinking that, if we could gather, then, singing a few songs as tribute to Ai chan outside of Budoukan might be able to attract some attention wont it (heres the fun part!)

But yeah, i have no idea if we cud get caught by the police or sth.. hahah.. Yeah im crazy~