JKT48 Ramadhan Meet and Greet
Yesterday (July 12th) it was concert watch event together. Fans watched last year’s AKB48xJKT48 concert recording. I didn’t come to the event yesterday, but from what my fans said on Twitter, the event was quite dull, since the recorded show is in low quality (I believe it was downloaded from the recorded YouTube live stream few weeks after the show was held). Several fans said that they were bored during the show playback (since most of them have previously watched the recorded concert), though they became excited again after the MC session with Cindy Gulla, Jessica Vania, and Sonia Natalia.
Today (July 13th) was actually my first time coming to a JKT48 meet and greet event. The MCs for today’s session are Sendy Ariani, Rica Leyona, Rezky Wiranti Dhike (representative of Gen 1), and Natalia, Noella Sisterina, and Saktia Oktapyani (representative of Gen 2). Since I know that Sendy is already great doing MC, so I decided to come to today’s event, instead of tomorrow’s.
If you want to watch tomorrow’s JKT48 meet and greet event (July 14th), it will be hosted by Beby Chaesara Anadila, Devi Kinal Putri, Shania Junianatha (representative of Gen 1), and Dwi Putri Bonita, Sinka Juliani, and Fakhiryani Shafariyanti (representative of Gen 2).
Today’s meet and greet was opened with Overture (hahaha I thought Overture is only played before song’s opening), then the 6 MCs came to the stage and greet the fans with “Assalamualaikum.” Since it’s Ramadhan theme, they introduced themselves with different Jiko, all related to Ramadan and fasting. These are few Jiko examples:
Natalia: “Bagaikan kolak yang sulit kamu tolak, aku Natalia! (Just like a kolak (a fast opening dessert) that you can’t resist, I’m Natalia)”
Noella: “Bagaikan adzan maghrib yang selalu kamu tunggu, aku Noella! (Just like maghrib azan that you have been waiting for, I’m Noella)”
Dhike: “Seadem air wudhu, selembut sejadah, aku Dhike! (Just like the coolness of wudhu and the softness of sajdah, I’m Dhike!)”
Rica: “Selalu dapat tajil di busway, aku Rica! (Always get a fast opening dessert on busway, I’m Rica!)”
I forgot Sendy and Saktia (Via)’s Ramadhan Jiko.
Sendy said that in JKT48 they’re not just learn how to dance and sing, they also learn how to do MC on stage and also play drama. Today’s meet and greet will focus on MC and drama. Today’s event is helped by Sendy’s MC performance. She can grab audience’s attention to her silly talks and improvisation. She’s already doing well on Team J’s MC session and she’s also doing it great here. Of course, Rica (her best friend on Team J) as one of MC also help her here.
Each member of Gen 1 and Gen 2 are partnered with one another to do drama play. Sendy with Via, Dhike with Natalia, and Rica with Noella.
Sendy and Via asked to do drama role play about life of a mother. They gossiped about their “husband” while shopping grocery. Sendy was quite dominant during the drama, since she can improvised quickly.
Dhike and Natalia then asked to do drama role play about a pickpocket (Dhike) that was caught by a security guard (Natalia). Natalia started on fire since this session. Personally, I always like Natalia’s MC session during Team KIII’s theater shows. She is naturally a talkative person. Natalia asked Dhike why she stole the money? Does she need more money to buy photopack? She keeps on referencing about fandom world to make the conversation relate to the audiences. The song reff of “Yuuhi wo Miteiruka?” was suddenly played when Dhike gave good words of wisdom, and Natalia instantly danced with the song.
The last drama is between Rica and Noella with theme about a bad girl that atoned for her mistake. The bad girl played by Rica (she’s wearing the Lay Down’s leather jacket) while Noella is supposed to remind Rica of her mistakes. In one of the dialog, they’re comparing one another about their muscle. Noella said.“Do you not see my muscle?” (Noella is known to be the Team KIII girl with the most muscle).
Afterwards the audiences gave applause to each performance. The biggest applause are received by Rica and Noella. After another words of wisdom coming from the MCs, the song reff of “Yuuhi wo Miteiruka?” played again.
The second part of meet and greet event is karaoke. The song played is Kimi no Suki Dakara. The 6 MCs were not seriously sang it. Even Dhike do wotegei during the whole song (hope somebody lend her two light sticks).
The third part of the event is sort-of-eat-bulaga game. The group was divided into 2: Sendy, Noella, Via (Team 1), and Rica, Dhike, Natalia (Team 2).
Team 1 started with Team 2 gave question to Sendy. Sendy had to do mime and gesture movements, imitating the question, so that Noella and Via can guess the answer. There were 3 questions given and Noella and Via can only manage answer 1.
Team 2 received different question. Dhike is the one who do the mime and gesture movements, while Rica and Natalia who will guess the answer. There are 5 questions given, and Rica and Natalia guessed them all right (well, most of the answers came from Natalia).
The last part of the event was interaction with fans. Dhike, Rica, and Natalia choose 3 fans among the audiences. They were asked to stand on the seat’s front row (not on the stage). Each of them had to guess a song’s title that will be mimicked and gestured by a member. Later, every one of them received JKT48 merchandises from members, along with a member’s kiss is given to each merchandise.
The 6 members then said closing statements. They apologized for the mistakes that they made previously, before finally saying goodbye to the audiences.
The show ended with fans walking outside doing high touch with the whole 6 members.
My personal opinions for the 6 members:
► Sendy was the MVP. Without her, I’m sure the meet and greet event will be boring and dull. She’s already great with the improvisation, though unfortunately she still mostly dialogued with Rica and Dhike (who also off the stage are her best friends). I’m sure if Sendy can learn and understand more of Gen 2 members, the chemistry on the stage with them would also be exciting.
► Natalia is my 2nd MVP. She looks shy on the start, probably because she respected Gen 1’s seniority on the stage. Though I believe, if both generations on the stage, there should be no seniority whatsoever. I believe Natalia’s talkative habit could match Sendy’s improvisation given time.
► Rica, Dhike, Noella, and Via are still lack of improvisation. Rica was only good when Sendy talked with her. While Dhike is not a talkative person, she can make up on other activities, such as the best mimicker for the sort-of-eat-bulaga gama. Noella and Via still need to learn more about MC.
There is still another meet and greet coming on tomorrow’s evening. If you want to attend, just follow JOT’s instruction here.
Sendy was the MC leader that night ~ and was good at it , looks dhike really enjoy the show ..she express all her craziness *gelo* , nat ..still too shy when hug the gift to selected fans (^^;)
ramadhan edition’s jikou. that’s what i call a joke lost in the culture
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