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Got my pre-ordered singles the day before at the hotel, so I had 2 handshake tickets in my pocket, so I went off early to Odaiba. I arrived about 1.5 hours before the exchange of the tickets and got off at the stop at Venus Fort. Since Mega Web wasn't open yet, I had go around the back of the building, but when I approached the back of Zepp Tokyo there was already a staff member guiding me towards the front where there were already a lot of people queuing. Since I didn't know much about how all this was going to happen, I had to keep my eyes and ears open as to how this was going to go down. So at 10h, the line started to move to go up to the counter and exchange the vouchers that came with the single for an entrance ticket and handshake tickets. I saw several people with many vouchers, and as I didn't know how the handshake would be, I wanted to be sure and bought an extra CD, so I had 3 handshake tickets. I had 4 members that I wanted to shake hands with (Serina, Kohara Haruka, Noro Kayo and Ohori Megumi) but I was also thinking of not spending too much money, so I kept it at 3.

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Seems I'll be doing more of these anime conventions from now on :-) After New York Anime Festival in October 2010, this year I'm going to Japan Expo in Paris. Main attractions for me will be May'n and PASSPO, and in the same weekend X Japan is performing in Paris as well, so that a perfect combination! Still more artists are being announced that are coming to Japan Expo so maybe some interesting surprises :-)
Let's hope some more interesting industry guests will be announced, but I'm gonna try to get everyone's signature if there's a signing :-) I'll be there from Friday July 1st till Sunday July 3rd.

Japan Expo Website

So it's finally going to happen, and this time for real ;p They've announced it several times in the past (and put it on my blog), but this it's real :-)
Dates for the time being are London (June 28th), Paris (July 1st) and Berlin (July 4th). More might be to come. Would love to go to one of them! :-)

Original article

New Perfume single announced for a November 10th 2010 release. Title will be ねぇ (Nee) with B-side: FAKE IT. The DVD will contain the PV for ねぇ.

PV Preview:

Tracklistings
ねぇ [CD+DVD]
Catalog: TKCA-73620
Price: 1300yen
CD:
1. ねぇ
2. FAKE IT
3. ねぇ -Original Instrumental-
4. FAKE IT -Original Instrumental-
DVD:
1. ねぇ -Video Clip-

ねぇ [CD]
Catalog: TKCA-73625
Price: 1000yen
CD:
1. ねぇ
2. FAKE IT
3. ねぇ -Original Instrumental-
4. FAKE IT -Original Instrumental-

Together with the announced of the 49th single, also came the 50th anniversary single. And what a single it is! Finally after 7 years,we get a new single letter title AND a triple A-side single! The title is 'L'. As before,we don't actually know the meaning of these letters, but L is the roman numeral for 50, but this might be a coincidence. The single will be released only 1 week after the 49th single (which means she will have 2 singles on the Oricon charts in one week!).

Tracklistings
L [CD+DVD] (Jacket A)
Catalog: AVCD-31936/B
Price: 1890yen
CD: 3 songs, 6 versions
DVD: 2 PV's, 1 making

L [CD+DVD] (Jacket B)
Catalog: AVCD-31937/B
Price: 1890yen
CD: 3 songs, 6 versions
DVD: 2 PV's, 1 making

L [CD] (Jacket C)
Catalog: AVCD-31938
Price: 1200yen
CD: 3 songs, 49th single song orchestra version, 7 versions

L [CD] (Jacket D)
Catalog: AVCD-31939
Price: 1200yen
CD: 3 songs, 49th single song accoustic version, 7 versions