...Yeah. Exactly as the title says. Best day of my life. Ever. EVER. Why? I. GOT. THEIR. AUTOGRAPHS. AND HANDSHAKES!
HANDSHAKES!!!! A;SDLFKJ. I'm still on my high, kind of. After missing the session on Thursday, I feel extremely happy to have made it into this one.
Well, not much to say, really. I got there, and I got in line. That's all I did until AX Staff let us in, really. But I was shaking with excitement, knowing that I would FOR SURE get to see them since my position in the line was pretty high up. I was literally freaking out inside the waiting rooms with Eojjeorago and suaracheerios (of H!O). Somehow, genius struck me while waiting, and I convinced cheerios to do the
GakiKame "A~to" (from HM@) with me while in front of them. I had
Eri's 20 (Hatachi) PB with me for her to sign, too, but they only said 1 item. ;_; Later on, I found out that I COULD get
Eri to sign it, but just not sign whatever else I had the others signing. CURSES. ;___; I wish she could know that I had it with me... (I put it away in my backpack.) Anyway, here's my interaction with all of the members:
Ai-chan: So...LITTLE. She had this hilairous freak out session during the opening ceremony when the Japanese voice actor of Sephiroth walked on stage. (
Ai-chan loves her Final Fantasy...) When he pulled off one of his famous lines, she seriously just flipped! And I kinda got it on camera! I'll upload when I can. (I'm feeling lazy.) It was really cute. And at the Q&A, she waved at me when I called out to her, and she gave me THE sweetest smile. *dreamy look* She's tinier than I imagined her to be! But she's really cute/sweet and her English is doing just fine. ^__^ When I met her, I told her thanks so much for coming to L.A. She said "thank you" back to me. I wanted to say "It's like a dream come true." but I got way too nervous and got tongue tied. She finished with autographing my book and handed it back to me before anything else, so I didn't get to shake her hand. :(
Gaki-san: The real highlight, besides
Eri. At the Q&A panel, one of the questions was "where should the girls go while here in L.A."? So I screamed, for
Gaki-san, DISNEYLAND. (But with the Japanese pronounciation. Di-zu-ni-ra-n-do.) She looked right at me and smiled, then put her hand to her ear and turned her head to me, so I yelled it again. She looked back at me again and gave me this huge smile and a nod. :D The next day, she waved right at me during the last performance of "3.2.1 BREAKIN' OUT!". She saw me frantically waving the green and orange glow sticks in my right hand and bent down to my level to wave back. (I basically had front row seats, so she saw me really well.) And trust me, I KNOW it was me, because when I leaned forward and shook them more, she smiled and laughed! *dies* And it got better. At the autograph session, me and a friend did our own "A~to" in front of
GakiKame (from HM@, remember?).
Risa's face went from confused (since I told my friend to back up a step before doing it. That, and I had to nudge her arm about 3 times before she snapped out of her daze.) to this BEAUTIFUL smile when she realized what we were doing. As soon as she did, she said the "A~to" at the same time as me, doing it with
Eri. She laughed lots and fell back against her chair, putting her arm across her midsection. She looks really thin, but she'll be fine, I'm sure. She then shook my hand firmly. Her hands are tiny~
Eri-chan: The other highlight. At first, I thought I'd started to like
Risa more since she was actually really noticing me. XD That all went to hell on Saturday (autograph day). Anyway, to start... At the Q&A, I got 2nd row seats... I was desperately trying to get her to notice my tshirt, but she never pointed/looked my way specifically, so I was just a bit disappointed. I had fun, though, watching her laugh. I called out to her and she waved in my direction, but I'm not sure if she waved at me specifically. At the concert, I don't know if I got her attention or not. I kept calling out to her, but I'm not sure if she saw me. I wasn't wearing my turtle shirt that day because I didn't want her to see me in it twice. A little gross. XD (I got home late the other night, so...yeah.) BUT!!! Saturday brought back ALL of the love. She's really pretty up close. I did the "A~to" while in front of
Risa, so after it, I moved onto
Eri to get my stuff signed. She was still kind of laughing; cute. Anyway, before she signed, she actually touched my shirt (the giant turtle on it) and said, "Ara, kawaii, kawaii! Cute, cute!" I was in shock, really. So glad she liked it. Then she signed real big on my book. After that, she shook my hand, but with both of her hands. :D (So I shook with both of my hands, too!) Then she looked up to me (god, her eyes are cute) and actually started conversing with me. She said (in Japanese) that she saw me at the Q&A (but I don't remember if she said concert). She put an "ok" sign up to her eye and was like, "Look, look!" to try and get to me to understand, but I already did. I was just too dumbstruck to say anything. XD All I could say was "I love you" and "Arigatou". I left off the "gozaimasu" by complete accident, but she didn't care at all. Her hands fit mine really nicely (a lot of their hands are small) and they're really soft/warm. But she still gives a fairly firm hand shake... just less shaking. She's more of the "I'll hold onto your hand and just barely shake it" type. XD
According to Eojjeorago, who was in the middle of getting his stuff signed by
Gaki-san, she leaned over to
Eri and said that cheerios and I were really cute. Complimented by my favorite duo - could life get ANY better?
Sayu: I think she was jealous of my act for
GakiKame and how I said, "I love you." to
Eri. XD Because I did the Usa-chan Peace for her, and she did it back...but REALLY unenthusiastically. No energy. She signed really small on my book too. o_O I was still dumbstruck by
GakiKame, so I kind of forgot to say Happy Birthday to her. I was screaming Happy Birthday after the concert the other day, though, since we weren't given an encore. I can only hope that she was still there to hear me scream it... :/ Her handshake was a bit limp, too. Or maybe
Sayu just doesn't like me. ^^;
Reina: I didn't snag
Reina's attention at the panel OR concert, but on autograph day, I went "Yappi!" to her, and she did it right back! ^__^ She smiled at me, teeth and all, which is rare for
Reina. She signed my book kinda big, too! Her hands are so tiny... (Btw,
Reina takes forever to sign things. XD I didn't know what to say while she was signing, so there was a bit of an awkward silence.)
Koharu: God, I don't know, she jumped up in the ranks so much. Seeing her in person was amazing. She's still as energetic as ever, and hilarious during the Q&A. First time I got her attention was during the Opening Ceremony... when they all walked out, I flipped out. I could see
Eri,
Sayu, and
Risa, but they didn't hear me when I called out. So instead, I went for the NanaHakkies. I screamed out
Koharu's name, and she turned around to wave at me. ♥ Multiple times, btw. I don't know if she noticed me during the Q&A, though. But the concert...oh god, was there a song where she DIDN'T look at me? I don't know what it is about me that she was always looking at, but half of the time when she was on the same side of the stage as my seat, she'd look right at me. ._. Not that I didn't want the attention of course. I'm just curious as to why she seemed to notice me so much. Anyway, autograph day. I think she must have enjoyed my act for
GakiKame or something. Or maybe she remembered me. XD Anyway, she opened up her pen and said, "Here?" and I said, "Anywhere." She looks up at me with this "huh?" expression (especially in her eyes) that was just adorable. *squeal* I responded with, "Doko ga ii." (Anywhere is fine.) I don't know if I used it right, though. Or if that's even a phrase. xD She got the idea, though, and proceeded to claim the page with her signature. O___O Seriously, it's huge. I thought
Eri's was the biggest sig up until
Koharu... I shook hands with her, too.
Aika:
Aika...was nice. I don't have much to say on her, though, she wasn't particularly memorable. I remember calling out to her at the opening ceremony, and her waving to me, though. She also saw me a couple of times in concert. At the autograph session, she just kind of signed my thing. I actually had to reach out to shake her hand, whereas the others offered me the handshake... Her hands are also small, and just a bit rougher than the others. She's prettier in person than in her photos, though.
Junjun: Screamed out her name at Opening Ceremony, too. She turned around and waved at me~ :D Nothing for Q&A. At the autograph session, I got tongue-tied again and didn't get out what I wanted to saaaaaay. D: I wanted to tell the translator to tell her, "Your speech at the concert about how music has no borders really touched me. I know that as a part of Morning Musume, you can go all the way. Do your best!" but I got too nervous and didn't to it. DX So she just kind of signed my book and passed it along. I didn't get to shake her hand...I think.
Linlin: She also waved to me at Opening Ceremony. She told a hilarious joke (imo) at the Q&A panel. When asked what her favorite animes were, she said, "One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Inuyasha...and Tom and Jerry!" (the last one is an american cartoon that most of us watched as kids.) At the autograph session, she signed my book (small, sadly). I told her that her English is amazing and that she's very, very funny. Then I pulled the "Owa
Linlin!" joke as I took my book back and started out the door. (I wish I had pulled the Bahai~ one as I literally walked out for
GakiKame...)
I pretty much walked around the convention for the rest of the day, dumbstruck by what I had just been through. My brain was just gone as I walked around and around the convention center. xD But yeah. That's Day 3 in a nutshell, for you. Well, not nutshell. Something big enough to contain this whole post. Yeah, that.
Pics:
My awesome Kamei Eri t-shirt that made me very recognizeable. XD Too many people from H!O know me now.
My autographs~ ♥♥♥♥ But look at
Eri's,
Reina's, and
Koharu's. They just totally claimed my book. They're the biggest ones! XD Oh, and
Koharu wiped out her own eye with her sig. xD
