[EN]<LoveLive! Sunshine> The School Idol Group “Aqours” first time visiting Taipei wow-ed 6000 fans in Taipei International Convention Center

Original Title: 《Love Live! Sunshine!!》的校園偶像團體「Aqours」首次全員訪台 ６千人嗨翻TICC

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“LoveLive! School Idol Project” has the main theme of “a story everyone realizes together” and which is distributed through a wide variety of platforms.

The school idols “Aqours” from the series “LoveLive! Sunshine!, held it’s first Asia fan-Meet titled “LoveLive! Sunshine!! Aqours Club Activity LIVE & FAN MEETING Trip to Asia - Landing Action Yeah!!-”. The Asia tour’s final destination was held with great fanfare at Taipei (Taiwan) held at 10 February 2018, attracting around 6000 fans on site attending it! This is the first time that all 9 members visited Taiwan together to meet with fans. The members specially took time to visit the night markets, sampled their long awaited bubble tea, bean curd**, sesame seed chicken soup and other sumptuous food, whom they all felt were extremely delicious.

**TL Note: Probably the dessert and not the drink

All the members of Aqours specially learned a few words of Mandarin Chinese and the Taiwanese to converse with their fans. At the start of the fan-meet Takami Chika (cv: Inami Anju) who was chosen as Taiwan’s image girl, greeted fans with “Hello Everyone/大家好” in both Mandarin and Taiwanese!

(Inami) Anju didn’t let the fans down, and did her call and response in Mandarin for all the fans live on stage: “It’s nice to meet everyone for the first time, I am the voice of Takami Chika, Inami Anju/初次見面大家好，我是飾演高海千歌的伊波杏樹”.

For Takatsuki Kanako (Voice of Kunikida Hanamaru) she instead shouted: “Thank you/謝謝” while at the same time hugged Kobayashi Aika (CV: Tsushima Yoshiko) on stage, the sight of every member being so adorably cute made the entire audience broke into cheers and applause.





As February 10 is Matsuura Kanan’s (cv: Suwa Nanaka) birthday, the members, in accordance with the requests from fans, wished her happy birthday in the roles that they are comprising! There were many fans who wrote in saying that after knowing of Aqours, they proceeded to know lovers and even more friends, and they even went to Japan, Numazu to participate in the events. All the members of Aqours even felt very touched that they were able to share this bond** with everyone.

Following closely with the segment “Drawing action Yeah!!”, the afternoon session had members drawing the subjects: “Golf”, “Baseball”, “Steam Engine Train”. “Otter”, “Frilled Neck Lizard”, “Ohara Mari”, “Gorilla”, “Rhinoceros Beetle”, “Statue of Liberty” and etc.

In the end the subject: “Frilled Neck Lizard” was unfortunately not guessed correctly, but after hearing the actual correct answer, the members felt that Takatsuki-san’s drawings were well done, how could they have not known!



**TL Note: Although the CN wrote it closer to “destiny” then “bond”, I decided to use bond as has a better context.



Afterwards it’s the segment: “Most Votes Landing action Yeah!!”**, the first scenario given was to have the members act out “I love you!/我愛你！(In mandarin)” in the guise of a sister that’s 5-6 years old against her older sister in front of the camera. No matter who it was, made the entire hall go crazy.

The second question posed to the audiences was to judge which delivery was cooler, the first scene was set between a couple with regards to a failed valentine chocolate. The boy would have to tell the girl: “It’s alright, compared to chocolates I would rather taste you instead. The scene was enacted with Furihata Ai (cv: Kurosawa Ruby) as the boyfriend, and she would have to enact the line in reaction to the different members with different respective personalities.

Another scenario was with Inami Anju acting as the boyfriend welcoming the girlfriend home, with the other 8 members as the girlfriend saying: “Welcome back”. Regardless of whether it was matched with “leaning one’s head against the shoulders” or “holding the shoulders” prompt, or any other prompts, every action was so devilishly cool that it rocked the entire floor and caused the members to keep saying: “That’s so cool!”. At the very end, Inami Anju was acting the role of the girlfriend, and said: “I’m home” with the other members before rushing towards them and hugging together.



**TL Note: A segment where they had to act out certain scenes to get votes from audiences





Finally was this fan-meet’s most hyped up segment, the concert. Takatsuki Kanako said: “This particular’s fanmeet has areas/scenes where it’ll be done especially closer (to audiences), this is to let all the fans see clearly that everyone’s outfit on stage has slightly different designs as compared to the carefully crafted animated designs~” They performed many songs in a row, the penultimate song was decided by the color of the fan’s kingblades, and the song decided in the final afternoon show was “Taiyou o Oikakero!”, and the final song performed was “Landing action Yeah!!”.

They shouted their thanks to the fans: “I love you!”**, and finally used mandarin to say to the fans: “Goodbye!/再見”, and brought the day’s performance to a close.



**TL Note: The TL mentioned that Aqours were “touched” as they said goodbye, but I couldn’t make it fit into the sentence. FYI please.