Ahhh you can see me in that photo. That's so weird. Anyway will update this post with my report of the event soon!
EDIT:
During the balance ball bit Maachan accidentally started to say her younger sister's actual name and only realized what she was doing after two syllables. I have to admit her "OH CRAP" moment where she covered her mouth was one of the cutest things I've seen her do which is kind of terrible for me to 'daww' over since she was pretty embarrassed about it. Sayu-Leader of course did some damage control, but it was a very Maachan moment.
They did the countdown game where they could count down up to three numbers and the person who got to say '0' got to have the honor of introducing the next song. The batsu game number is appropriately, '14'. The GREAT DISEMBODIED MALE VOICE FROM ABOVE however would not reveal to the girls what the batsu game would be this time around.
Ikuta was paranoid that she'd get the batsu game this time around, but was super excited when she was '17' instead. Haruka ended up being the '14' much to her chagrin. Ironically Ikuta was at '1' so she had to make a very important decision: Say '1, 0' and win the spotlight, or just say '1' and let Sakura win. Much to everyone's surprise she let Sakura get it, and was a very good senpai lol.
I didn't understand the batsu game 100%. I got that it was Shirimoji, so she had to write things out with her body, but I didn't catch exactly what she was supposed to be making... and I don't think she did a very good job of it either LOL it was just mostly a lot of wiggling. I'm pretty sure Kanon made a quip about Haruka's butt wiggling a lot
but I could have misheard that.
At the end Ikuta mentioned how if someone had just come to see MM'14 today for the very first time they would think that she was such a wonderful and amazing person, (there was I think a bit more banter from Sayu, but it was pretty much this idea that prompted this next bit) causing the audience to go "EHHHHHHH" and you can guess what happened next. I was pretty excited to actually take part in Ikuta's little KY call/response thing.
Afterwards, Haruna also commented that after seeing Ikuta be such a good senpai, it made her feel like a terrible person because the whole time she had been planning on trying to get Maachan to batsu game (Haruna was right before Maachan in the game), and next time she promises to play the game as a nicer person lol.
Sayu asked Maachan what she thought of that confession and Maachan just went "Don Mai!" Which I can never translate correctly, but pretty much forgave Haruna for such evil intents.
As for the handshake part. Haruna accidently came out a little bit before the other girls, because she thought Ikuta was right behind her, she might have also been prompted out by Ikuta, because all I know is that she play attacked Ikuta afterwards and sent the audience laughing as they pushed each other around for a bit while laughing.
The security seems a lot, but there is a reason for that
There is the normal line of staff behind the handshakers who move them along, and then there is now a row behind them that are just in charge of following us with our bags so we don't carry them with us. I felt kinda bad for the bag guys, after they carried a bag along, they had to rush back to get to the next person. Wota shouted out encouragement to them
. Unless they figure out a more efficient way to make sure we get our bags and stuff it'll look pretty crowded up on those stages.
My personal handshake report:
I feel like now that I know what to expect from this kind of event, it's a less emotional thing for me (though it still put me into a state of shock/euphoria lol) I feel like I should mention I wore make-up to an event for the first time today (I usually don't) and I think that may have made a difference because three of the girls gushed about how cute I was. What's bad is I can't remember who two of them was, though I'm pretty sure one of them was Haruna... all I know is that after the first one I went into a strange sort of shock and it became a bit of a blur.
The one I know for sure said it was Haruka, but that's because she had the strongest reaction. She did this double take, stared at me for a while like she was trying to figure me out, and then exclaimed it with this huge smile.
I finished it off with a flourish by successfully getting "Good luck in New York!" out to Sayu before I got nudged along.
Just some random notes:
-It's really moving how quiet the wota are during TokiSora. Like in every other song they've developed some awesome shouting part (so many of them increase the enjoyment of the song as well
I love the parts during the Pass0 intro/outro) but for TokiSora they don't even hold the lights high up, let alone do any cheers.
-Ikuta is REALLY good at pushing herself and talking now. She pretty much conquered this event.
-Riho... just... she's really good now... I can't get over that she hits her Help Me!! part more than perfectly now, I remember how much trouble she had when it first came out.
