OMG hello and are you a Juri oshi?!? I only ask because I absolutely love her ♡ Welcome to the UK thread, hope you can make it to a future meet... which at this rate we're gonna have to hire a field or hall for
Yeah! Juri has got my attention enough to bring me back to S48. Tojima Hana was my kami-oshi when I started this forum back in '07. I kind of lost interest around '09, a few months after Hana graduated. A lot has a changed since then, last thing I remember was around the time KII were debuting!
Wow that is definitely quite a while ago! Welcome to new look 48G and Stage48 then Genuinely love that it's Juri who brought you back. I voted for her in the election, she is one of the strong contenders to be my next oshi What do think/like about AKB as it currently is?
Eh, I thought your name was familiar....former S48 Admin lol!! Never realised you were from England though!
Hello! I’m new here. My name is Delia. 1. Where are you from in the UK? I was born in Brighton but I now live in Worthing. 2. How did you get into AKB? I was interested in AKB48 for a few years but I didn’t really become a fan until Miichan’s scandal. I wanted to understand why it happened and I kind of fell in love with Miichan’s strength. I started to collect the photos first but after finding CDjapan, I can now order the CD’s. Woop! 3. Which members are your favourites? Minegishi Minami is favourite member but I also like Iwata Karen. Is anyone going to Hyper Japan this year?
That is certainly an interesting entry into the fandom but nice that you saw Miichan in that light too I will probably be going to HJ with a friend for both sessions on the Saturday. Undecided whether I will swag it up with AKB attire though
I'm volunteering at Hyper Japan all weekend, so if anyone wants to meet up I can ask to go on a break. I don't have any friends that enjoy AKB48 so it would be nice to meet other fans.
Third fan in Scotland! Hi @SunnyHighland I'm in Edinburgh. @Nagisa, who is also a Mayu oshi, is further up north in Aberdeen. Would be cool to meet up somewhere at some point!
Well I finally ended up reading this thread through from the start (mostly wondering if there was anyone else around this area, turns out there are one or two from west midlands). I'm very jealous that I've missed the meet ups so far, they sound like they were a lot of fun. I guess the next pseudo-meet is at hyper japan? I've never been before, usually because of the MCM expo in may leaves me broke for a while afterwards, but I might end up going this year to see what it's like.
Delia Pink - my friend I'm going with is a non-AKB fan but yeah we could meet up for a short while. Not sure who else is going (@FiftyOneDegrees said they may be above)
Is anyone going to the Manchester MCM Expo? Im going to be cosplaying the Hashire Penguin outfit (if i can get my hands on some yellow wellies!) I doubt it would get recognised though but yey! AKB cosplay /o/
I'd love to see a Hashire penguin cosplay thing. I won't be able to make it to Manchester though sadly. Post some pics if you do finish the costume!
Hello @nene and welcome! ^_^ Hope you can make it to a future meet up, and considering they've all been in London so far... :O Just so everyone knows, September is going to be our 1 year anniversary for UK meet ups, yay! So we'll be arranging a big one and would love to see some new faces and fans! Details haven't been arranged yet, xxdelta or myself will keep you updated Who here went to Hyper Japan? I couldn't make it this time. What did everyone think of it?
Welcome nene I didn't go to Hyper Japan this time, I'm hoping to go to the next one, maybe we should all have a meet up of it lol
Welcome Nene It's a shame, I couldn't make it to hyper japan in the end, but I'm looking forward to a September meet up!