AKB48 Oshima Yuko’s Heartwarming interaction with Tsunami Victim Kids

  October 8, 2012
Maburrito Kiba

Yuko-san’s smile when she was listening to messages from the kids, and the kids’ smiles when they were listening to Yuko-san’s replies, I’ve always had them in my mind. I’d wanted to bring the kids to handshake events to meet her again. And yesterday, finally the representative of the kids could meet Yuko-san in person. I felt a surge of emotion when I saw them shaking hands with each other with smiles on their faces.
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For several times, we waited in line, and shook hands with Yuko-san. The kid had been nervous all the time during this whole event, but as Yuko-san talked to the kid with a smile every time she saw the kid, at last, I saw a nice smile on the face of the kid. That was the smile I’ve never seen before. And I’m impressed as I realized this is how human being smiles.


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At the last handshake, Yuko-san said to the kid, “When you smiles, You have dimples and you look so cute♪” and she didn’t get her hands off from the kid despite Hagashi came up. The kid were talking about this all the time until he arrived at home yesterday. I thought Yuko-san gave this awkward kid a courage.
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 Yuko-san didn’t ever say something like “Let’s cheer up!”, I mean very direct words. Even though she knows the situation of the kid. But she tried her best to do what she can do for the kid as an equal human being. And she welcomed the kid with her big smile and love. That’s what made me so moved by her.
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For the last session, I shook hands with her, too. I bowed to her and told “Thank you so much for always caring about the kids.” Yuko-san with a smile on her face, said “Please don’t mind. It’s actually me that should say thank you as you always came to meet me and take care of the kids. Can we meet again? Please take care of yourself!!”. She sent us off with a broad smile.
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On our way back home, I walked along with the kid with full of Oshima Yuko-san goods in our arms. The kid looked so happy. “Yuko-san was so kind. Look! She told me my smile is good. She didn’t get her hands off of mine!! I was very nervous but I was so happy, too#^^#”. The kid talked again and again. I could only say “That’s so great^^” as many of memories went through my head.
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Actually I need to learn from Yuko about how to interact with people.

“I’m looking forward to seeing you again.

Take care of yourself”

I can feel love from these words.

And MaburittoKiba handsomely prepared a punchline at the last lol

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When the kid said “I want to meet Yuko-san again! What can I do? I need to work hard!!”, while I was impressed by his word, I snapped “Gahahaha! You should never be a harcore Ota like me!!! Don’t be trapped by a bottomless pit, called Photos.” And the kid totally ignored me.
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As I’m going through his twitter, I once again felt that it was a right choice to be a fan of Yuko.

When I search “握手会 優子”, I found a story where she met a deaf person at a handshake event and she communicated with the person in a sign language.

Some of newbie fans think that Yuko’s popularity at handshake event is thanks to a lot of TV appearance she’s been making, or her fishing,

But she is also striving to face each of her fans as an equal human, and always cherish the moment she can share with her fans.

Sure, she is often being a joker and loves to joke around, but she has enormous charm that is more than make up for her shortcomings.

↑If she were not AKB48, she wanted to be a sign language interpreter.

Anyway, it’s a very touching stoty^^

【AKB48 28th Single UZA goes on sale on Oct 31, 2012】