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So, you’re ready to take the next step and join ALICE NINE.’s Official Fan Club, NUMBERSIX.

Alright then fellow 9kumi, FOLLOW ME.

What You Need

To begin, you’ll need two things: a credit card, and a Japanese address. We can’t help if you don’t have a credit card, but getting a Japanese (proxy) address is quite simple: sign up for a free address using a site like Tenso.com or Blackship.com

How Much It Costs

To be a part of the NUMBERSIX. fanclub, members must pay a one-time initial fee, and then a slightly smaller yearly fee in order to maintain their membership each year.

Start New Membership: ￥6000  (￥1000 initial fee + ￥5000 yearly fee)
Renew Current Membership: ￥5000

You can use credit cards issued outside of Japan to pay the fee.

How to Sign Up

Go to the NUMBERSIX. homepage and scroll down to find the enrollment button.

On the resulting login page, choose the option on the right, to join the Fan Club as a new member.

You will be taken to the Terms and Conditions page, which you must scroll all the way down the page to accept before continuing.

Next, enter your email address to receive an email from @eltra.co.jp, which will contain a confirmation link to verify your email address.

It will be valid for 24 hours, and should look something like this:

Renlorel from Livejournal community was kind enough to donate the screenshots below, which illustrate the rest of the process from when they created their own membership. Once you’ve clicked the signup link in the email, you will be prompted to enter all of your personal information, as well as your payment information, on one long signup page.

Personal Information fields marked with a red asterisk * are mandatory.

Entering your proxy address might be a little confusing if you’ve never done it before, and Blackship has a great public help page you can refer to if you’re unsure. If you did ended up using Tenso.com, you can also use [ this ] page as a guide when you are logged into your account there.

Section A (*) – Enter your first and last name. The top two fields are meant for kanji, but if your name does not use such characters, just enter it in roman letters. The bottom two fields are meant for katakana, and if you don’t know how to turn your name into katakana (there are many converters online you can google), you may be able to just repeat the full-width alphabet characters a second time.

Section B (*) – Enter your Japanese address’ postal code. Once you’ve entered the postal code in the field on the left, you can press the button on the right to automatically parts of the rest of your address (like prefecture, city and street name).

Section C (*) – Enter the rest of your address in Japanese (again, this guide is a great resource). Or send me a panicked comment in the comment section below, and I’ll come to your rescue. But I think the postal code button and the guide above will serve you very well.

Section D (*) –  Phone Number. This should be the phone number associated to your Japanese address, for shipping purposes; if you’re using a proxy address from Blackship or Tenso, a phone number will have been included as part of your address.

Section E – This would be where you could indicate your own (cell) phone number, but it is not required, so it may be skipped.

Section F (*) – Enter your desired account password twice.

Section G (*) – Your birthdate (Year-Month-Day). This information cannot be changed once you have finished registering your membership.

Section H – You can indicate your gender if you would like to, but it is not required. 男性 means man, while 女性 means woman. This information cannot be changed from your dashboard once you have finished registering your membership, though if necessary, you could probably send their staff an email requesting such.

Section I – Indicate whether or not you want to receive news and updates via email about ALICE NINE. and the fanclub via the email address you initially provided. はい means yes, while いいえ means no.

The bottom half of the application page prompts you for your payment information.

Section J – Select the クレジットカード option to pay your membership fee with a credit card. Your card number goes in the カード番号 field, on the following line you select the expiry date. The drop down menu that follows (in the orange box) indicates whether or not you want to pay in a lump sum (一括払い) or in multiple installments. I’ve never tried paying in multiple installments so I have no extra information to offer there, but you can see the number of installments in the drop-down (eg: 3回, 5回 …). Paying the whole sum at once is the simplest option. In the next field, enter your security code (セキュリティコード). Finally, decide whether you want to automate payments so that your membership automatically renews each year; you can do this by checking the box next to 次回からこのカードで…. If you choose not to renew automatically, fear not! They will send you an email well before your renewal date to advise you to pay the renewal fee.

Section K – The first line will show you, on the far right, your application fee (1000JPY), the second line will show you your yearly dues (5000JPY), and the final line will tell you whether you owe a service fee (applicable if you choose to pay via a convenience store in Japan).

Confirm and Submit – Once you’ve double-checked that all your information has been entered correctly, press the big shiny confirmation button in the blue box at the bottom of the page.

This fourth page prompts you to check over all of your information one last time. If everything is good, you can press the 入会申込み (apply for admission) button and complete your application!



NUMBER SIX.
Your fanclub admission application has been completed.

Upon reaching that final confirmation page, you will receive an email giving you your very own membership number, like so:

A9-000000

Welcome to the fold!

You can expect your shiny new golden membership card to arrive in the mail at the proxy address you specified, and can immediately log in and start enjoying all the paid content that is up on the membership website, including a selection of past fan club magazines in high quality, PDF format.

A summary of the membership perks is below:

What You Have Access To

Membership Card
Fan Club Magazine (2x per year) / Express (occasional flyer)
Advance Access to Tickets for lives
Advance Access to buying merchandise at lives (some merch is FC only)
Fan Club Exclusive Trips / Events
Yearly Birthday Message (via email) from the 5 members
New Years’ Greeting Card (Tenso has discarded this postcard on me in the past, but Blackship will keep and forward it for you)
Exclusive Interviews, Videos, and Reports on the website
Longtime Member (5+ years) Special Present
Email Updates (FC and General A9 news)
Exclusive Preorders (i.e. Gorgeous Limited Editions of their albums)

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Questions? Leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer.