NYCC

By now, I am pretty sure all of you are very...tired of these reports! But, for my sake, I have to make one as well!

Note: This following report will be from MY perspective, a fangirl who did NOT have an uchiwa, who did NOT scream or sing outloud (mouthed the words to A.Ra.Shi...cuz it's a reflex now! XD) It may also be very opinionated. This is MY experience of the NYCC. This report will contain NO spoilers to the movie. Read at your own risk!
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Moving on...

I'll tell you guys about the entire weekend. Thursday we got there and spent the day with a friend, went to chinatown and stuff.

Friday, we got up, went to the con center and got our passes and we were looking for the line to enter. When I say We, it's me and my sister, Chai. wandered and finally came to a window and looked down and there was a line....that was the line to enter. So we make our way down and we saw a huge group near the front of arashi fangirls...very loud group I must say. We got a bit...off-put by the loudness, so we decided to go to the end of the line and sit down in quiet and just chat! And then about an hour later, a vox friend, Pililiaki and i went to look for her, and found her and was very thankful that she was one of the quiet fans as well! So we just chatted and talked until we were let in, and as soon as we were let into the convention, we went to look for the booth, and there was already a crowd there. They said there was a line and so us three, we stood where the line seemed to have been. within 5 minutes, I was being crushed! Seriously, I was bent in three ways because three people were digging into me. I wanted out...but there was no way I could move! And then, they announced that Sho was going to be in the glass room instead and the crowd loosened up a little, and I ran out of there! Me and my sister went to the place where they said Sho was going to show up, and there were already like 5 people there, and right in front of us was a girl, Joyce, she had like 2 uchiwas with her and couldnt hold both, so she asked me to hold one, and I was excited. Because I had never seen a real uchiwa in my life, and it was sooo pretty. And so I held it! hehe, thanks to her for letting me hold her uchiwa. But, even tho i had one...I did not put it over my head, actually it didn't go over my face! I just figured it would be rude to the people who were standing behind me! Anyways, as I was waiting, the people started singing, at first, I ignored it....and then they sang A.Ra.Shi, and I started mouthing the words too, because when A.Ra.Shi is playing, you sing along! I did not have the courage to sing outloud, or scream outloud, and I'm ok with that! And then, finally Sho came out and all I could do was just look at him and grin silly! All I did was grin at him! He started waving at the crowd so I waved and then when I thought he stopped waving, he looked straight at me and waved back!!!!!! I was sooo happy! =D All the people started singing ARaShi again and again, I started mouthing the words along with them. At the end of the song, everyone did the hand movements and sho did them as well!! OTL I didn't sing outloud! But it's ok! ^____^ After allll that, we headed downstairs and I saw elyse(lj) and she was already in line to the director's panel! I was soooo excited to see Miike-san as well, so I got in line and we got in, fairly good seats, and I was just in awe because I got to see Director Miike in real life as well! He is funny! XD and then, after the panel, they showed the animated pv for BELIEVE! not the whole song, but most of it, and it was absolutely ADORABLE! and right after that, there was this little rap, a rap we have never heard before. We as in me and chai and 3 other fans. And it was in sho's voice! and then just like that, it was over, the rap. So we don't know what that was. That was the end of the panel. (side note, the translator for all this looked like the girl from goong and coffee prince! XD) After me and chai headed back to our hotel because we wanted to wash our faces because it was soo freaking hot in the convention center we just needed to! So we went back and freshened up and around 6 we headed to the theater. Already there was a HUGE line! We thanked the gods that me and her had tickets already. We went to the checklist person and she checked us off and gave us a yellow ticket (which i still have! XD) and I saw that Joyce was in line and I started talking to her, to spend time and right next to her was ohmeeyuh(lj) and we chatted along, and then around 6:40-ish me and sis got in line. Again, we had no uchiwas, and we were'nt screaming. The cameras came to film us in line, me and sis just waved at the camera! OTL and then at around maybe 7:30-ish a white hummer limo drived by, and the window was see through and inside sat SAKURAI SHO. Although, when I saw him, I was reminded of a zoo animal! OTL . There was this one girl who kinda like jumped out at the mino with an uchiwa...my thought when she did that "what the hell!?..do you wanna get killed?!..geez! >.<" We looked at him get off the limo and go inside and as soon as he was in, they started letting the people with yellow tickets in. Me and sis got in and we sat down. Our seats were in the last row of the middle section. Where I sat, as in from my seat onwards, the row was elevated up a little, so I had no obstructions to my view whatsoever! The organizers came onstage and told us that there will be a Q&A panel at the end of the movie after tha credits. That was a pleasant surprise for em and sis! We sat there, the guys asked for applause, we applauded when we were supposed to. Then, Miike-san and Sho came out and Sho gave his greeting in english, which was firm! and Miike-san gave his greeting in japanese and the translator translated it! Then the lights were turned off for the movie, and Sho came out again and went past, to go up to his seat, when I realized, He was sitting right behind me. When I say that, I mean, I was in the last row and then some room to walk and the a bit elevated (balcony type seats) and the first row he was sitting down. We saw the movie and I must say IT WAS HILARIOUS! If it was released here, it would definitely be rated R! XD Believe was used for the end credits, and he and miike-san stayed until the last credit was rolled, which I thought was very polite! After that, the organizer guy said that they needed some time to fix they're hair! XD and then they came out again and started the panel. He tried to answer the questions in english, and he did for some, but then for one, he asked us if it was ok if he spoke japanese instead. Very polite! Some of the questions were very well thought of! I was impressed, but then there were some...like the concert question. Personally, as she was asking I was thinking to myself "WHAT THE HELL!?..NO! Don't ask that! this is not an arashi event! it's a yatterman event!" But you know..I cant control people! XD anyways, Throughout the entire thing, all I could do was juts smile at him, and at one point when he was looking in my general direction, I mouthed the words "Thank You" to him while fixing my scarf(my aiba one that nianna made for me) and I don't know if he saw that, but as soon as I said thank you, he looked at me and smiled! I wanted to thank him for all the friends I got because of Arashi and All the other stuff too! He is part of a group that made me happy! But It would be nice if he really did catch my thank you and saw the aiba scarf! He did mention that he would tell the other members about this! =D During the panel, I had a yatterman related question I wanted to ask (for the stunts sho did have to do, how did he prepare for them? for example the backflips) But....I got stagefright and froze and didnt raise my hand! OTL And then, it was over. They all got up to leave and right befor ehe left, he picked up the microphone again and said "thank you very much" and then left! We got out of there and went back to out hotel. That was friday!

Saturday we went back to the convention to check out all the other booths we missed, and to get a couple of autographs from authors that my sister loves! and then evening, we went back, put on AAA concert dvd in the laptop, and just relaxed!

Today, Sunday, woke up at 4 caught the plane to come home and then i had to work at 2! =_=.....

(i had pictures, but that would just be redundant because you've seen all the pictures i had...they all look the same! XD)

The entire weekend went very smoothly, considering!
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Can I go back to fangirling Aiba now??

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