Maimi welcomes ℃-ute Day 2014 in her September 10th update “September 10th is… ℃-ute Day~ヽ( ；▽；)ノ“. Full translation below.

Good evening
It’s Maimi

I’m really happy right now(ノ_＜)

I love everyone,
I feel really grateful to everyone,

and my heart is overflowing with love

Today, September 10th,
is ℃-ute Day

Continuing from last year,
we stood on the large stage at Nippon Budoukan,

and a loooooot of people celebrated with us

The instant we appeared,
my entire field of vision was filled with glowsticks, and I was really moved thinking “Whoa”

Thank you for showing me such a wonderful sight

This performance there was a passage through the audience to the stage,
and we were able to be closer to more people than we were last year

Everyone’s smiles made me really happy…

There were a lot of glowsticks,
and when I got close to everyone,

I was moved by each and every light thinking
“This is the light they turned on for us~”

I was also able to notice things like

“A child that small is grasping a glowstick with all her might for us~“…

I’m happy…

Budoukan can fit thousands of people,

and that many people singing all at once and calling out to us…

It’s really amazing
I don’t think that could happen unless everyone’s hearts became as one…

Therefore, when that many people’s voices unite, it’s so moving that it gives me goosebumps。・゜・(ノД`)・゜・。

I wonder if how moved we were, our gratitude, how much fun we were having, and our happiness reached everyone??

Were we able to satisfy even the people all the way on the top row??

My close friend came and watched today,
and she sent me an e-mail saying “Good job~” and gave me her impressions,

and here is part of what she said

“I’m on the train home right now, and there’s a fan in a red t-shirt right in front of me, and they’re holding a bullet train ticket, so surely they came from far away to see Maimi-chan, and I want to tell them ‘Thank you!!’, but I’m resisting!! lol
I cried along with you during the final speech, and Maimi-chan is lucky to be surrounded by so many wonderful fans! I’m also fortunate to have such a friend!!”

Her words made me so happy,

and it’s exactly as she said…

Surely, a lot of people came from near and far, from a variety of places, all to gather at the one place called Budoukan

 

Thanks to everyone,
that warm atmosphere was born~

And then, of course,
I think there are a lot of people who unfortunately couldn’t come this time,

but the power you send us is the source of our happiness

Like my friend said,
we’re really fortunate…

So that we can live up to everyone’s support,
I want to grow more and more, and work harder and harder

Since we love everyone’s smiles and want to see them, we will continue to move forward

Everyone in team ℃-ute who we haven’t ever met too, I hope that we can make you smile through the things we do wherever you are~

There are tough times and times things don’t go well in life,
but I hope that ℃-ute can make you forget about those unpleasant things~

 

And then, Berryz Koubou participated and celebrated with us this ℃-ute Day

Our companions who we’ve walked side-by-side with since the audition

Because Berryz Koubou have been there,
we remembered our frustrations and were able to have dreams

For ℃-ute, one of those dreams was Budoukan,

and it’s amazing being able to achieve that dream with Berryz Koubou, the ones who gave it to us…

If I write about my feelings for Berryz Koubou, this update will become unthinkably long, so…

(Eh…? It’s already that long? Is that what you’re thinking?…(^人^)lol)

I’ll write a lot about Berryz Koubou in tomorrow’s update

Anyhow, I’m really grateful to everyone in Berryz Koubou, and once again I thought “As expected, I love all of them。・゜・(ノД`)・゜・。”

 

Tomorrow is the 2nd day at Budoukan
Berryz Koubou will be the main performers,

and as a member of Berikyuu (Berryz Koubou X ℃-ute),
I will appeciate my time standing on stage at Budoukan, and do my best with everyone tomorrow

And then, to everyone in Morning Musume。’14 who came as a guest and appeared on stage with us, thank you

Thanks to our Hello! Project juniors who came to watch as well

I was really happy

The staff, my family, and my friends who support me from the sidelines,

and then, the other members…

Today was a day where I once again felt gratitude to a lot of people

 

Each and every person’s feelings have made ℃-ute what we are today…

Yajima is happy to be a member of ℃-ute

 

From here on, with eeeeeveryone,
let’s make a lot of smiles
Let’s share a lot of happiness

 

Please continue to support ℃-ute

I love everyone, everyone

p.s.
Lastly, there’s something I must apologize to everyone for…(´Д` )

There’s a high probability for rain at ℃-ute events and concerts,

and it seems it was raining really heavily today

Everyone, you didn’t catch a cold, did you??

Yajima was probably too fired up…m(Rain._.Girl)m

Before the performance, I got countless sound notifications from LINE, and I expected they were messages like “Do your best~” and “Congratulations on ℃-ute Day~“…

But when I opened it up, the messages were like

“Maimi-chan…(´Д` )”,
“It’s raining so hard outside…!”,
and “You’re trending on Twitter…(°_°)”…Σ(゜д゜lll)

I, I was trending on Twitter~???((((；゜Д゜)))))))

How surprising!(◎_◎;)

There were that many tweets? About me??

I hope everyone was able to get home safely

Everyone who came in the rain, thank you so much!!m(_ _)m

 

And then,
the date has now become September 11th

I’m sorry

Everyone, please have wonderful dreams