Red’s Diary : SHARP Mini Live Concert

Last week I attended the SHARP – JKT48 Mini Concert, held in JKT48 Theater at fX Sudirman. It was sponsored by (obviously) PT. Sharp Indonesia. JKT48 previously stared in SHARP Aquos CM and recently some of their members appeared on the packaging of Sharp Hair Dryer and Hair Straightener.

There are some ways to get tickets to this mini-concert, mostly by buying SHARP products. At first I was hesitant to try to get the tickets, since I don’t think buying a hair dryer or hair-sraightener will really benefit me as a boy and buying a plasma TV were really out of budget. But Sharp Indonesia post a tweet saying that there are some benefits for VIP ticket holders, I bought a Hair straightener from an online shop, and got the VIP Ticket for myself.

When I arrived at 4pm, the lobby of JKT48 Theater was already decorated with Sharp advertisement. There are also a booth selling Sharp Products. Since I am a VIP Ticket Holder, I exchanged my email for a ticket. Turns out there are two lane, each lane represented which members we would like to take photos with (one of the benefit of the VIP Ticket Holder. There were Kinal, Melody, Jeje and Veranda on Booth A and Nabilah, Shania, Ghaida and Stella on Booth B. I choose to exchanged my tickets with Booth A since there were Melody and Jeje, both my favorite. Then I got a small piece of laminated paper with the word “Booth A” on it.

After waiting for about an hour while hanging out in front of the theater, the VIP ticket holders queue in the lobby to enter the theater. There were two separates lane for each Booth. The foyer part of the theater (which is usually the place where the security check our bag before entering the theater and when members doing hi touch) had been made over into a photo studio. Slowly but sure my turn comes up to take picture with them. They had professional cameras to take the pictures, but we’re allowed to bring cameraphones and asked the staff to take another picture for us. But before we take the picture, I made a convo with Kinal.

Kinal : What’s wrong with your leg? (I was holding a cane because my foot injured)
Me : I just fell… in your heart
Kinal : *awkward silence*

Taken with my camera.

After taking the picture, we’re given goodie bag and was shown the way to enter the theater. I got lucky to get a seat at front row. While we’re waiting for others to fill the theater, we then opened the goodie bag. Turns out the content was a notebook, a small purse-like bag, a bottle of Pocari Sweat, and a JKT48 Mug. Then someone pointed out that the Mugs actually had JKT48 members’ sign on them. I checked mine and It had Melody’s sign. Lucky me, I mum the word.

Then , the show began. First, the kageana (shadow announcer) is Melody, reciting the theater rules (as usual). But then, a MC came up the stage. While sure he’s not really familiar with JKT48 members , he’s not annoying, and actually pleasant and funny. The MC explained that, as a VIP ticket holders, we actually had two session, with the first one is limited to VIP ticket holders only. Then he asked Mr. Koji Tokuda as the New Business Development General Manager of PT Sharp Electronics Indonesia to give welcome speech.

The show started with JKT48 performing Heavy Rotation in the American Pop costume. The members are Melody, Haruka, Shania, Kinal, Ve, Stella, Ayana, Jeje, Gaby, Dhike, Rica, Cindy, Beby, Gaby, Ghaida, and Delima.. Then there was a Q and A session , with the questions from the VIP ticket holders already gathered before. The members are Jeje, Kinal, Ve, Melody, Ghaida, dan Nabilah.

After the Q and A session finished, they performed the song Baby! Baby! Baby!. After they finished there was a mini-quiz. The members asked SHARP-related questions. The fans who could answered the questions would have merchandise from JKT48 signed by their chosen members.

Again, I was lucky. Stella asked the audience “Can you named 5 SHARP Products?”. While others hesitated and trying to solve the question first, I raised my hand. Since no one raised their hand, I answered the question, and I got Melody sign the merchandise. Unluckily, they use non-permanent pen, thus made the sign faded in some parts.

The quiz ended , and then we got a short break before the second session began. The picture with the members were already printed nicely, and being put in a paper frame with the member’s sign on it.

After all the regular ticket holders entered the theater, again the MC explain about how the concert being sponsored by SHARP Indonesia. There was also another “opening remarks” by Koji Tokuda, but this time he also did some shuffle dance and break dance. Really nice !

JKT48 started the second session with RIVER, followed by Gomenne Summer and Namida Surprise , now in their Valentine costume. But then something happened, while doing the dance for Gomenne Summer, the heelpiece of Stella’s Shoe broke and she sprained her ankle and she didn’t appear til the end of the show.

After Namida Surprise, which was also intended to celebrate Dhike’s Birthday, Jeje and the MC appears on stage with SHARP Hot Dock, apparently a new audio gizmo from Sharp. After explaining about SHARP Hot Dock, there was another quiz. Jeje would play some JKT48 songs with a guitar connected to the SHARP Hot Dock, and then the fans who could guess the title correctly would get JKT48 Fortune Cookie in Love CDs with Jeje’s sign on it.

The quiz ended with 5 winners, then the show continued with JKT48 performing Aitakatta, Ponytail to Shushu, dan Oogoe Diamond. Then, as the last song, the members (with Stella appearance using another pair of shoes) asked the audience to stand and dance Koisuru Fortune Cookies together. After the last bow, there was a Hi touch session with the members.

It was a fun mini concert. Some of the songs are kinda nostalgic since they rarely performed it now, like Aitakatta and Ponytail to Shushu. Thank you Sharp Indonesia for sponsoring the concert.

PS. I still have the hair straightener, if someone wants to buy it, contact me. Hahaha.