Hello! Project 15th Anniversary Worldwide events thread

[DSQueenie]

America isn't as vocal in the fandom as EU, which is why I think they think we don't exist.

Really? I know way more North American, South American and Asian (not including Japan) fan than I know European ones.

I mean according to that poll there are 9 Europeans and 40 Americans on this forum alone. I think maybe the girls maybe just like travelling to Paris and there Japan Expo is the biggest in the world I'm told.

[Sohee]

Connections, success and price is probably something that matters a lot.
The girls' opinions on what country to go to hardly matters.

[Starra]

Also I might be talking out of my ass here, but isn't US airport security and stuff super tight? Maybe UF* doesn't want to deal with all that.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I've only heard stories about the TSA (I believe) being assholes, and haven't actually experienced anything. I just think that maybe getting into Europe might be easier for them than getting into the US.

Again, I might be over exaggerating. But it might be a little tiny reason?

[Celedam]

Also I might be talking out of my ass here, but isn't US airport security and stuff super tight?

Ridiculously so. Partly an overreaction to 9/11 and the attempts that followed it (the Shoe Bomber, the Underwear Bomber), and partly a bureaucratic power grab.

[Sohee]

Has it gotten up since the last time Berryz were in the US? Wasn't that last year?
Or even before that, since MM was here in 2009?

[Celedam]

Things are slightly better than last year, but still worse than 2009.

I'm not saying that IS why the management seems to be focusing on France and Southeast Asia, but their past experiences with the TSA could certainly be a factor. I won't fly anymore, and even the trains look iffy since the TSA set up shop at Chicago Union Station. (It's the hub I must go through to go anywhere else. Michigan is sorta out of the way, being a peninsula.)

[Celedam]

UF has subtitled the announcement…

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[esm]

There is a huge difference between flying in Asia and flying in the U.S., from my experience. In (or from) Asia, you're always served food, like proper meals, and there's also snacks in between, plus they'd walk around and ask if you want tea or something to drink. I think I got 3 or 4 meals once from Thailand to Japan, and then from Japan to Hawaii. Then from Hawaii to Minnesota I had to pay for it if I wanted a sandwich. In the U.S. the flight attendants are more like security guards, and flying doesn't feel as much like a luxury as it is in Asia. In Asia, a flight attendant is actually something some girls dream of becoming.

With H!P not coming here, it might have to do with how Europe is already romanticized in Japan anyway so it seems more glamorous to go to, and other parts of Asia are cheaper to get to. I don't know if any area in the U.S. has a larger concentration of fans than other places they go to, since it's such a huge country and it's not easy for the rest of the country to just fly to, say, LA.

[Pavlova]

it's easier for fans to travel within europe too, intra european flights are cheaper.

[zam_ho]

Or maybe its just Europe's turn to get H!P. Before that it was all US wasn't it.