hello! i just became a fan of mesemoa a month ago and your blog has helped me loads with getting familiar with them hehe :) can i ask, do you know anything about how their events work? cause im gonna be in tokyo during their 2nd album release event on 31 jan and im hoping to go, but idk how early i should go to be able to manage to get the CD with the handshake ticket (?) and how does the free live thing work? im sorry im new to this and i hope im not disturbing! i love your blog! thanks!
Hello! Thank you for your ask!I had to find out about the live from a Japanese irumii, so here’s a brief translation of what she said:
“Free live on January 31st means Ikebukuro Sunshine. At Sunshine, you can queue starting 9 o’clock in the morning, and there’ always a severe race. But the race is for the tickets which allow you to watch from priority area. If you just need a handshake ticket, you can get there a bit later. But handshake tickets will be gone before noon too. You must be there at least before 10 o’clock.”
“If you want to get a priority area ticket, you probably have to go there much earlier, at least before 8 o’clock. There are a lot of entrances in that building. So a lot of fans are waiting in front of EACH door. Then they RUN to the venue as soon as the door is open.”
“If they haven’t changed the rule, you can get one handshake ticket for one CD you buy. Although some events have no limit of the numbers of CDs, you can buy, recent trends are up to 2. It depends on how much time they can spare for the handshake events.”
“After you get your tickets, you will have some time before the show begins. If you don’t have a priority area ticket, you should come back to the venue at least 2 hours before the show starts because other fans would start getting better places to watch (for examples in front of handrails) around that time.”
“The screen there is pretty big, so you can easily watch the show from far away. But the problem is, the hall covers the space from the basement up to the 4th floor, so the sound isn’t very good on higher floors. If you expect the sound as good as live streaming or MeseMoa. Life videos, I’d recommend to watch from the floor where the stage is. But on that floor, you can’t come too early or too late, so it’s harder to get a place there.“
“For handshake events, I’m afraid it’s super-fast and you can’t talk with the member. (I heard that their handshake at overseas events was twice slower than usual.) It’s fast like… as soon as you touch one member’s hand, you have to move to the next one. So if you want to tell them something, please write a letter and give it to their staff. Also, even though you get several tickets for handshake, you can use only one ticket at a time.”
All this information was gathered from other fans and their reports and it’s in no way official or completely correct. I hope this helped.