This CD autograph event will be entirely virtual, so anyone can participate, and is being facilitated by a third party website (Limista).
It will take place on October 30th 2022.
You have until October 30th, before the end of each event to order autographs, but be aware that quantities and time is limited, so they may sell out at any point before then. If you are preordering, you have until October 28th to make modifications to your order (i.e. nickname); after that point, whatever information you provide at time of purchase will be final.
You can only get an autograph from a single band member on each CD you order; it’s not possible to get a single CD autographed by more than one member.
There are two autograph sessions, the details for which are below:
GRACE Regular Edition Personalized Autograph Vol.1
Autographed by One Member (chosen at time of purchase)
Public Livestream – 3300 JPY
October 30th 2022, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Japanese Time
Limista Link (Japanese) | Neokyo Link (English Proxy Service)
The main portion of the autograph session will be livestreamed on Youtube; the members will be chatting as they autograph CDs. There will be no archive, so you will have to watch it live, if you are able. They will be autographing the regular edition of GRACE, and you must preorder the copy you want autographed through the third party website; at the time of placing your order, you will be given the option of which band member’s autograph you would like to receive. The autograph will be personalized with your name, which you will be able to specify during the preorder process. You will also be able to write a short message to the band member you have selected to receive the autograph from, and they may or may not read it aloud during the livestream. You can preorder up to 5 copies of the CD per band member in a single transaction (for a total of 25 autographed and personalized CDs). It is not completely clear whether absolutely anyone can watch this; I believe the link to the live feed may be distributed to those who preorder CDs to be autographed; it is clear, however, that if you have a youtube account, you can chat in the message box as much as you like while the event is going on.
If you would like to get more than one copy of the album, and have each album personalized with a different name, you will need to place a new order for each different name. You can then include a difference message for each name. If you place, for instance, one order of 2 Show autographs, they will both share the name personalized name and message. If you place two separate orders, each with 1 Show autograph, they will each be able to have their own personalized name and message.
(Thank you to irenejanais for bringing this up)
GRACE Regular Edition Personalized Autograph + Exclusive T-Shirt Vol.2
Autographed by One Member (chosen at time of purchase)
1-on-1 Private Video Session with Band Member – 8800 JPY
October 30th 2022, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Japanese Time
Limista Link (Japanese) | Neokyo Link (English Proxy Service)
Important Notice: In order to do the 1-on-1 private video session, you must download a free app (Android / iOS), but the app is region-locked to Japan. At this time, I have no workaround to suggest, so if you are unable to download the app to your phone or tablet, understand that you will not be able to participate in the video session. Unless you truly want the t-shirt, it would be better to treat yourself to the Vol.1 autograph instead!
(Thank you to irenejanais for bringing this up and LauPocket_A9 for confirming it)
If you preorder a set of the regular edition of GRACE plus a t-shirt only available through this signing event, you will also be granted a 30 second 1-on-1 virtual autograph session with the member of your choice. This 1-on-1 portion of the autographing will happen after the above main session ends. The autograph will still be personalized with your name, you will simply also be able to speak to one another for 30 seconds. You can preorder up to 10 copies at once for a single band member in a single transaction; each copy of the CD/t-shirt grants you 30 seconds of 1-on-1 time, so for instance, if you preorder 2 copies, you get 60 seconds of 1-on-1 time with the member who is signing your 2 copies of the CD.
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Limista plans to ship the autographed CDs (and t-shirts) within 5 business days following the event, though they will not be sending out shipment notifications to customers when they do so. They will not be shipping to addresses outside of Japan, so you will need a Japanese address in order to receive your merchandise (you can get a proxy address through Blackship or Tenso if necessary). Or, you can place your order directly through their partner proxy shopping service, Neokyo.
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Placing an Autograph Order Via Neokyo Proxy Service
This proxy service is the official partner of Limista, and their order process is entirely in English, so you shouldn’t have any problem going through that process. Keep in mind that, since it is a proxy service, there are a few extra fees, so take a moment to read this post about how Neokyo’s services and fees work, and decide whether you prefer to use Neokyo or to buy your item through Limista anyway and send it to your preferred proxy address. Neokyo does not provide a translation of the shop pages for the autograph sessions, so you can still refer to the details I outlined above, which are the same on both sites.
Important Notice: Please keep in mind that there is no international equivalent of the app required to participate in the 1-on-1 session in Vol.2, so unless you can figure out a workaround, or live within Japan, your safest bet would be to preorder a personalized autograph through signing Vol.1
Placing an Autograph Order Via Limista
On either order page, scroll to the bottom a click on the photo of the member whose autograph you would like to purchase.
Keep in mind, both of these types of autographs are considered completely separate events, and so have completely separate carts and order processes.
You must then login or create an account (新規登録) on the website to begin the preorder process.
From top to bottom, enter your:
> Nickname – this is just a username; it doesn’t need to be the same as the name you’ll want written on your CD
It does, however, have to be in full-width characters (max 20), contain no spaces, but can have dashes and underscores
> Email Address (x2)
> Date of Birth
> Gender (Female, Male, No Answer)
> Password (must contain both letters and numbers, at least 8 characters, but no more than 12 characters, all in half-width)
> Re-Enter Password
Check the box to accept the membership agreement, then click the button at the bottom of the page to register.
The next page advises you to check your inbox for an email from support@limista.jp. Click the link in the email to complete your registration.
Once you have clicked the confirmation link and been taken back to the homepage, return to the order pages I linked to above and once again click on the image for the autograph package you would like to order. On the resulting page, click the カートに入れる button to add the item to your cart. If you’ve added everything you would like to, you can click the small white カートを見る button to view your cart.
If you have added more than one type of autograph from more than one member, you will have several order bubbles on the page. An order bubble looks like so (click the image for a larger version):
In the purple field, enter the name you’d like the member to write on your CD(s). It can be up to 10 characters long.
In the green field, write the same nickname in furigana (essentially, this means writing your name again in katakana so they know how it’s pronounced — they will still be writing the name you wrote in the purple field on the CD itself)
In the orange field, you have the option to write a short message to the member (up to 120 characters long)
You can modify the number of autographed copies you would like, if necessary. Your cart will be preserved for 1 hour, after which time, it will reset. So once you’re done, make sure you press the button outlined in red at the bottom of the page to proceed to address information, which is needed in order to calculate the domestic postage fee to ship your item(s).
The name and address input, along with payment, doesn’t differ greatly from what was outlined in the FC Signup Tutorial, so take a look at those pointers if you need some.
However, at the bottom of the address page, under the heading お届け先 (shipment destination), you will be asked whether you would like to send it to your home (ご自宅) or to a different address (他の住所へ). Select home (ご自宅) if you have input your proxy address above. Choosing the other option would just make you re-enter the address a second time. Save yourself the trouble!
I’ve used the regular Autograph as an example above. With the 1-on-1 session, they don’t prompt you for a nickname or to write a message, because you’ll be speaking to the member directly yourself. You’ll be prompted to enter (or modify) a リミトークニックネーム (Limista Talk Nickname), on the address page, however, which the member may base your personalized autograph on. But either way, you’d be speaking to them directly!