Ai Furihata said “thank you”.
So today I went to the CYaRon Live and Fan Meeting in Osaka. 2/17/2019, evening show. Same as the live viewing.
For people attending the actual show, if you show your ticket you get to write messages on their battle flag and whichever ones happen to grab their attention are acknowledged during the show.
I didn’t really know what to write on AZALEA’s flag when I saw them in Nagoya, and was also the first show so I didn’t really know about it. So I thought for months and MONTHS about what to write for CYaRon. This is what I wrote:
It says “I’m happy! I am an American female fan who loves Ruby!!! from Luna”
I’m not the best artist but I tried to darken it in and make it pop out as much as possible. I also wrote it to the upper right, which is right where someone usually grips the flag.
I did briefly think about things I might say if they actually read it, but not very hard as I didn’t believe it would actually happen and didn’t want to get my hopes up.
So the show starts, they get to the flag part, and I notice Aiai is holding the section of the flag I wrote on. And I was like oh? Wait.. Oh????
And then she started to read something that started familiar and I was like OH. NO. OH NO WAY OH and everything I might have planned to say just flew out the window and all I could do was jump up and down waving my dark pink concert lights. (So much so I actually think I kinda pulled a muscle in my shoulder…)
I was pretty far from the stage so I don’t know if they could see me that well nor recognize me from the Nagoya theater greeting show I was also at. But they all waved to me and I waved back as I was just like shaking and starting to cry and ow my shoulder and I was desperatly thinking of something to say.
Finally Aiai said “Thank you!”
And I said “You’re welcome!”
I tried but I don’t know if I was loud enough to be heard on the live viewing or not. I’d really like to know. If you happen to hear about this somewhere in an event report or actually saw it in the live viewing THAT WAS LITERALLY ME.
I don’t even know what to do with myself now. Just like.
My ultimate goal in this fandom was to see all 9 members of Aqours live together. And I still want that… but…
Being directly recognized by an Aqours member. Living knowing that CYaRon knows I exist. This was better. Even if I keep losing all the lotteries to Next Sparkling… I won’t feel so bad about it anymore… This was it.