Attending AKB48 handshakes: how-to (work in progress)

It's kind of difficult..my name is not long.. it's a different kind of problem and I don't want to explain it puplicly here But thank you very much for this.

 

For what it's worth, I won three times and let my oshi write a card with my name in roman alphabet, one with the katakana version, and one with "DJ", from my internet nickname.
Guards never complained, and I used DJ everywhere else too. My oshi isn't that popular though, so maybe they were being extra lenient lol

 

End of the day its all up to the staff. If the staff is strict, it doesnt even matter if the girl was popular or not lol. This goes the same for handshake time as well

 

Are we able to oshi mashi for the girls whose names are highlighted in yellow? White means that they are sold out for that slot, right?

http://www.kingrecords.co.jp/cs/pages/9th-album-member.aspx

Thanks in advance.

 

The rules seem to have changed: tickets are not pre-stamped anymore, just photo ID check in the queue when you hand over tickets.

 

That has always been the case for Japanese names, but are they doing that for foreign names now too?

 

You have a source for this, or personal experience?
They still stamped tickets last month during both chara-ani and fortunemusic events.

The stamp isn't mandatory for foreigners anyway it just saves you from getting into a discussion with the lane's staffs.
There are basically two points why it is desirable to get your tickets stamped.

- As a foreigner it's most likely that you identify yourself with a passport that doesn't include the adress printed on the tickets.

- The name printed onto the tickets doesn't match the one in your ID. This is especially a problem with chara-ani since the number of characters you can use is limited. Therefore some can't use their full name. Also keep in mind that there are countries that don't use JP or latin characters in their passports. Afaik you can't use these at chara-ani at all. But even fortunemusic causes problems here. I had it happen to me and also friends that they printed the furigana field on the tickets. So you now have latin characters in your passport and katakana on your tickets. *gg wp*

Whether the staff at the lane is going to cause you problems is entirely up to him and if he gave attention during his training. If he won't accept your ticket you have to go all the way to the information booth, explain the situation to them and re-queue. As a consequence you might run out of time to visit other members you have in this slot.

The stamp saves you from running into this problem. If the lane staff doesn't like your ID you just show him the stamp and in 999/1000 cases you will be fine. for the 1/1000 let them call over their supervisor. There's generally one close by, so you only lose a minute or two.

 

Personal experience, at Nagoya Dome right now for SKE.

 

As long ur name matches the one on ur ID perfectly they wont hassle you these days about addresses. But if the names dont match, eg. Katakana vs romaji, it’s still better to get it done. Some lane staffs may let u pass, some may not. Last thing u want is queue for 5-10min only to find out the lane staff wants u to get ur tickets stamped.

 

I started the day asking for stamps but got refused. They told me photo ID in the queue is how it works.

 

maybe just for this event? if i'm not wrong, each event is handled by different teams and there are lots of temps, part timers so many of the information they provided is not universally true.

 

Some time ago I discovered a webpage created and updated by a Japanese fan which lists all 48G and 46G events in the next months:

https://blog.goo.ne.jp/inocente/e/9d953c5d985be7b3e7f220048751f902

Obviously it's unofficial and not necessarily 100% accurate but it gives an idea of the many events scheduled in the coming weeks.

 

To all my sempais here, at 2shot and hs events, any tips on getting a sure win for the ipad thingy?

 

its literally random.

 

Buy more tickets.

 

^ Second this
https://twitter.com/otanaochaaan/status/972687393298956289

16/106

Do the math