Tomomi Itano: AKB48’s first solo artist

As Tomomi Itano, of AKB48 fame, embarks on her solo career, she took some time to promote her new single with a live performance.

After performing a few songs, Tomomi took a break to reveal a special prize. Seeing as the event took place just before Valentine’s day, she would give one lucky fan a batch of her very own hand made chocolates. Let’s back up just a second. In Japan, couples and lovers don’t exchange gifts on Valentine’s Day. Ladies give the man of their choice some sweets, usually chocolate. Guys reciprocate with sweets of their own, but not until White Day (March 14th).

Seeing as Tomomi’s hand made chocolates were a very big deal, the crowd erupted and every guy in the place wanted them probably almost as much as they wanted to get in her pants. There was a quiz and a few other games to determine the winner. I personally would just use the chocolates as a bridge into her pants, but that’s just me.

Later, Itano did an interview where she went on to tell everyone that she was very nervous seeing as the rest of the group wasn’t there. Then close friend and well known tranny Haruna Ai came up on stage, gave her some flowers and told a story about how good “Tomochin” smells after she gets out of the shower. Yes, these are the type of things that occur at single release parties in Japan.

She then went on to sing a song with the bubbly transsexual and closed out the show with her single (again). The moral of the story is… ah who am I kidding, she’s hot, and that’s what counts.