I live in Tokyo so I actually went to this. Seems people don't really get what went down.
The first event was on stage in Yamashita Kouen. The event was a few speeches and the song "Ai wa Katsu" by the whole group on stage. Park Yeong-Ha's mom even made a few statements. The whole thing was about 30 minutes.
Then after that they split into teams and took a station, either gathering donations or selling shirts. I didn't go to the shirt booth (because I didn't know about it) but I went to the 3 donation stations....Yamashita Kouen (first, obviously), Motomachi Shopping Street, and Chinatown. The celebs basically stand behind a table, say thank you, and people get to shake hands, take pictures, etc, and put money in the box for the Red Cross. The first group I saw had Tsuji, Kaori, and Rika. I just said their names and smiled. I went off to Motomachi, which wasn't crowded yet, so I could get a sentence out at least...I saw Yaguchi, Rika (again) and Koharu. Told Yaguchi and Rika I've been their fan for a long time, and told Koharu that I watched Kirarin. Then I went to Chinatown, and had my happiest moment which at that point made my legs wobbly. I went up to Mikitty....
at this point I need to revisit our history.
Long time ago, MM came to Hawaii for a tour. I wrote a letter to Mikitty's radio show. It was read. I posted a Youtube video of that triumphant moment.
I went to Japan. Mikitty and Horiuchi Takao released Okitegami and had handshake events. I went to one, and met Mikitty. Told her my name and thanked her for reading my letter. She freaked out. Upon opening the single, I found a ticket for a karaoke contest. I applied and was chosen for the final round...and sang in front of Mikitty and Horiuchi, and took a picture with them.
And now I went up to Mikitty in Chinatown, and I decided to act cool, and just kind of smile like "hey whats up" and she saw me and was like "Hey...You...I watched your youtube!!" and I was like "eh? really? YOU, watched MY youtube? and I was at the karaoke thing" and went all giggly and shaky and fangirl.....ah Mikitty....
Said hi to Yossi and Kaori (again LOL) and went off to Yamashita Kouen....Met Maeda Yuki, Ayaya, and some eggs (unfortunately I don't know them very well)...went to Motomachi again, met Horiuchi Takao........he didn't say anything to me...but that's OK....Mikitty is sexier anyway. And then I went back to Chinatown, where the Tsuji-Yaguchi-Koharu-Tsunku-Makoto, etc group was having their last session but I was not there in time....so I went to wait by their bus, and sure enough they came in a few minutes. Tsunku sat in a window seat, and I was going "YAAAAAY TSUNKU" and giving him thumbs up, and he gave me one back! He took a pic and posted it on twitter in like a few minutes after that, but I'm not in the picture....I was slightly to the right.
Anyway......I had another account on this forum but I kind of haven't been here in a long time so I forgot it.
I took a lot of video....am editing it and will post it soon.
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