Event
    Niji Iro Amazing Smile ver. 3 
Location
    Gamers Akihabara 
Date
    2008.03.09 
Time
    14:00 - 15:30 
Cost
    525 yen (per CD) 
Guest
    Itou Asuka
    Wakabayashi Yuki
    Kariya Rimoko
    Arino Iku
    Harukawa Ruka
    Fujita Michika

On March 9, 2008, the Animelo shinjin audition theme song (?),
Niji Iro Amazing Smile version 3 went on sale.
This song is sung by the three girls who passed the first audition,
Itou Asuka, Wakabayashi Yuki, and Kariya Rimoko.
The name of group had been decided as Mugcup (まぐかっぷ).

There was an event in front of Gamers Akihabara for this CD.

In addition to the Mugcup girls, three other girls who had passed the
Animelo audition came to help out. The three girls were Arino Iku (18),
Harukawa Ruka (18), and Fujita Michika (16).
These girls passed out candies and snacks to those who bought CDs.
Yuki also passed out little hand made cakes to those who bought CDs.

The Niji Iro Amazing Smile version 3 CD was a CDR,
with the labels handwritten by the girls, and each girl tried to
sell 50 CDs.

Just like at the previous events, there was a table set up in front
of Gamers, and they sold the CDs there. Each CD was 525 yen.

It was a very sunny and very warm day (around 17 degrees).

I bought 4 Asuka CDs, 2 Yuki CDs, and 1 Rimoko CD.
(Rimoko and Yuki's CDs sold out faster.)

At around 15:10, they finished selling all 150 CDs, as they had quite
a bit of help from a few people who bought over 10 CDs.

The information about the animelo audition is at
http://www.cho-animelo.com/audition

photo notes
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Photos and videos allowed.
I brought my 20D and just the 24-105mm F4L IS lens.
I took 217 photos with 155 of them worth keeping.

The number of photos per girl was as follows..

Wakabayashi Yuki  | 81
Itou Asuka        | 56
Kariya Rimoko     | 52
Harukawa Ruka     | 36
Arino Iku         | 25
Fujita Michika    | 22

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Web page at

http://www.usagi.org/doi/events/asuka/20080309.html

Photos at

http://photos.usagi.org/asuka/20080309/

Ruka and Iku were very cute.
I hope there are more of their events (where photos are allowed).

--
Hitoshi Doi
                         " this space for rent "
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