(04-06-2010, 02:16 PM)Akane-FST Wrote: Hi guys!

I'm really sorry because I don't want to disappoint you but we've decided to reserve the fanbook only for people who are from Europe or who are gonna attend the Paris show. I apologize because my first answer to your question was unclear.

It's not that we do not want to welcome our friends from other continents (we love everybody!) but we are afraid we will not be able to manage the book correctly if we recieve too many participations from all over the world.

Sorry again >_<

Ok, thank you for making it clear. :-)
I have encountered feelings about this situations because it is the same story over and over all around the world.
Last year's fanbook was not an "American Fanbook" (As in fanbook from USA) it was an "All-fans-fanbook" it was called VAMPSxUSA because it was made for their VAMPS USA tour. A lot of people refused to participate on that fanbook because "it was an american project" (from USA) I am not saying any of you were in that positon, but a lot of people was. And what is sad is that fans can't unite, they get invited into projects and they will, as a general rule, want to start their own projects instead of joining others for a bigger purpose.
In Mexico, for example, the person who administrates the Street Team made some meetings on chat with people from other countries to create an International forum. The reaction was positive in most cases, still some were hesitant and the project was not solid. When Tokio fixed this forum to be International I sent word to Mexican Street Team, so they would stop project and come join the existing one. Being together makes groups stronger... anyway... I don't see them around posting. Part of the reason could be that VAMPS are not going to Mexico and I must admit spirits are low. Still I wished they could be here at least for this kind of projects. But instead of being happy that an international forum exists, they seem discouraged, because our project failed. I would really love to be able to cheer them up, to make them happy and excited about this projects, but as things are, apparently we will either participate only in HP's project like we did last year (thank you again HP!) or start a Mexican Fanbook ._. I reject that last option, because it feels like a competition among countries and that is not the feeling I like to have towards fellow fans. What I will miss more after seeing VAMPS this year, is sharing with other fans, I feel like we should be a brotherhood, not rivals.
It is not that we don't "love each other", I understand that, but somehow we just cannot get together for one or another reason. I really miss that "fellowship" that is accomplished after camping a few days with perfect strangers.
I sincerely hope these projects everyone is starting work out well. In Mexico what brings us to the ground usually is that incapability of joining all together, there are usually 4 or 5 groups of people fighting for causes, only they have a fifth of the power they would have if they worked together. I guess that as long as you stay together as a country everything will be fine.

Good luck and my best wishes for you and the french LIVE, may VAMPS rock you all :-D