Daisuki event at Yamagiwa Yokohama

Event	Daisuki CD promotion event
Location	Yamagiwa Y&I Yokohama (Kannai)
Date	2000.08.30
Time	17:00 - 19:20
Cost	1575 yen (cost of CD)
Guests	Takahira Jun (高比良純) Asano Masumi (浅野真澄) Shintani Sayaka (新谷さや香) Tsuchiya Mieko (土屋美恵子) Nagai Nobuko (永井信子)

Event report version 0.8 by Hitoshi Doi, 2000.09.01

Summary

There was an event for the Kira Kira Melody Gakuen CD Daisuki at the Yamagiwa store in Kannai (Yokohama) on 8/30. A table was set up at the front of the store, very close to the entrance, and the five Kira Melo girls sat there, wearing their school uniforms. The girls who participated were (from left to right): Takahira Jun, Asano Masumi, Shintani Sayaka, Tsuchiya Mieko, Nagai Nobuko.

Those who bought the Daisuki CD at the Yamagiwa store got a signed poster (signed by all five of them on the spot), and got to shake hands with each one of the girls.

Details

I got to the store at around 15:00, but there wasn't anybody (Kira Melo fans) there. I bought one CD and got a ticket for the signing session.

After meeting up with Richard at Kannai Station, we went back to Yamagiwa to get a CD for Richard (around 15:30). A couple of my friends had shown up, and were standing in front of the store.

The event started a few minutes late (past 17:00), but there were only about 30 fans there.
[There was also another Daisuki event in Ikebukuro at the same time, so this made the fans split up (pretty evenly).]

The girls came walking through the store in the school uniforms, and after a short self introduction, they sat down at the table for the signing session.

The fans lined up and everyone went up one by one to get the signatures and handshakes.

They allowed people who bought more than one CD to go again, so I bought two CDs and went twice. The line moved along quickly at first, but after a while the pace became very slow as the fans started talking to the girls longer (and the girls started to write longer messages on the posters).

The girls took a 10 minute break at around 18:20. By then most people were on their second CD, and the total number of people at the event was close to 50.

The girls also sang "Daisuki" at 18:50 (an unexpected surprise).

The signing session continued until 19:20 or so, and at the end, the girls said a farewell message. I think several people had gotten three CDs.

[Kira Kira Melody Gakuen events]