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

but the actual secret is to always press the 3rd button.

 

You can always do rituals like purifying yourself in the shrine or run around a tree three times yelling out your oshi's name or perhaps consider do a no lewd challenge a week prior to the lottery.

 

How did this turn out?

 

Thanks for all your replies, guys

Well, that's only a 15% chance of winning. haha.

I guess it's really random. The rest of the buttons seems to have equal chance too.

 

EDIT: Changed the link to the picture

Ok, this is not quite about the HS itself, but still kinda related:

I'm still not entirely familiar with the japanese trash-separation so I just wanted to ask about the right way to get rid of the CDs.
According to the sheet I received at my place the paper inside goes into paper-trash and the CD-cases and CDs itself are burnable? The wrapping would be plastic of course

(Here's the sheet I got: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H7oxD7eLBOQXwcb7ectzTeQ3R8r8PmhF/view?usp=sharing)

 

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Planning to attend the July 22 HS for 52nd single. I've never attended a voting single handshake before but looking at the ruls, I think I may change up my strategy is a bit:

Without gimmicks, I don't think I'll try to see a girl for more than one slot. I may also cut back on girls that usually have 100 per slot gimmicks to see more senbatsu level that usually have 100 per day gimmicks. And avoid higher risk members because I won't be able to oshimashi. Finally, without special stages I may just shake and leave rather than hang around long. Unless there's some performances that I don't know about?

Do lines tend to move faster or slower than non-voting HS ones? Like is 2 members at 3 tickets each per slot still OK? Also, is the time per ticket shorter than for non-voting handshakes?

 

Faster at first because no game/2shot/video etc, but slower when someone matome like 200 tickets at once.

 

I have a friend who will be attending the hs event on 10th of June. He is very excited about it and thinks he definitely gets to do the 1S/2S with his oshi (Ota Nao) since it's printed on the tickets. I really don't have the heart to tell him that he still needs to play the iPad "game".

Well, maybe he gets lucky and the staff gives him an automatic win.

 

Staff doesn't just randomly give you "automatic win". Automatic win is only for very low selling girls (I'm not sure about Ota Nao's HS sales, but I assume they're too good for automatic win). So he'll have to play the iPad game, but maybe he'll be lucky and actually win it

 

Well, he is one lucky dude. lols. He has 5 tickets. I guess I will not ruin it for him since he thinks he guaranteed to get to take a photo with her 5 times.

 

Does anyone have issues with their credit-card for the Teacher-Teacher-Single? They accepted mine (VISA) last year, but this time I always get an error that there's some mistake in my information...

 

Have you tried switching between full or half width numbers? Or the name? Japanese sites are a huge pain and while my US and Japanese cards both work for some things (like chara-ani), sometimes one or both just won't go through with other AKB-related services. Sometimes I just have to suck it up and do a conbini payment.

 

I'll try full width numbers I guess. If not I'll also have to use conbini. I was just not entirely sure, since in the guide for conbini it says that for Lawson and Famima I have to enter my phone number. I have a Japanese one, but I can't receive calls on it so I'm sure if that's a problem or not.

Edit: Full and Half-width numbers don't work, same with full and half-width for the Name. It's weird since the same card worked last year, but I guess I've to use conbini then

 

As far as I know they don't call it - just match it to the phone number on the account. You could always do COD, too. The payment processing in Japan can be pretty frustrating - I gave up trying to sign up for STU Mobile because no matter what I tried I couldn't get the web form to accept my info.

 

I see. Yeah, the payment is annoying. mu-mo works fine, same for the AKB-Shop and SKE-Mobile. God knows why not chara-ani

 

Amex worked fine. Also chara-ani site was smart enough to have just one field for name so middle initial on card was no problem. I did not need to change the keyboard settings either, Finnish kb was ok.

 

A few of my friend and myself had the same problem too.
I tried my visa and it kept giving me this error message. Amex worked fine though.
One person I know also had problem with her JCB card too.
So far i haven't heard anyone (foreigner fans) had a success with visa.

EDIT: btw, anyone ever tried discover card? I read on discover's website that it's equivalent to JCB in japan.

EDIT: nvm, discover failed. Both canadian/american visa failed lol

 

I think there is something about Amex’s network and not being issued by various banks that makes it work well. Amex works with mu-mo too.