[4 videos][account] World Cloud surprise events for Rain at his Nagoya fan meetings. (4/27)
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When Rain’s Official Cloud Fan Community (in South Korea, though it is now global) sent out the call by word of mouth that it was time for submissions for Rain’s surprise 15th anniversary video, Clouds from across the globe got to work. (Y’all were represented as well — my submission was not only for the Cloud USA community, but all fans in the USA and North America.)
And so, when The Cloud and the head of Cloud Hungary were done splicing and slicing and doing their magic, there were 3 finished message videos — 2 abbreviated ones with all messages edited to the time constraints (1 for each Nagoya fan meeting) and 1 full uncut video with everyone’s messages intact.
The countries/territories represented were Australia, Azerbaijan, Canada, China, El Salvador, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Spain, Thailand, the USA, and Viet Nam. There were also monetary donations from fan clubs and individual Clouds that were used to benefit the children at a welfare center Rain visited last year, as well as provide fan meeting tickets for them and purchase congratulatory flowers for Rain for the hall lobby.
Everyone did a great job. I’m really pleased and I’m sure Rain was too. ❤
One of the cutest things included in the videos came at the very end — a cute placard made by Cloud Sanko and a message to Rain that said even though you’re married now, you’re still our man.^^ kekeke ㅋㅋㅋ Well, my name is Stephe and I approve this message! 🙂
You can see the videos below, as well as part of the Overseas Fan Coordinator’s account of how things went in Nagoya. Please enjoy!
[account] Report on the World Cloud event for Rain’s 15th debut anniversary, 4/27.
Source: huhuhuhu @ The Cloud
Images credit: huhuhuhu @ The Cloud
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Because there were two consecutive fan meetings in Nagoya on April 27, 2017, we split the video into two parts, so that we could maintain some “surprise” element for Rain at both fan meetings. To reiterate the final message in them, we had prepared placards which were distributed to all fans at the first fan meeting. All fans would hold this placard up to show it to Rain after the video was played, at both meetings.
Part 1, 1st FMT:
Part 2, 2nd FMT:
Fans messages full uncut version:
A video was played towards the end of both fan meetings. When Rain said he would sing his final song, instead of playing the music of that song, the screen played our video and our music. It was indeed a surprise for Rain.
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After the video was played at the first fan meeting, a 15th anniversary cake was brought to the stage and we all held up our placard, with our words: You are still our man! We want to tell Rain regardless his status, he is, and will continue to be, our man, our prince, our idol, our family.
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There must be a telepathy between Rain and clouds, because Rain also had a video for his fans which was shown in the middle of the fan meeting. It was his hand written letter: To my family, from Rain, expressing his great gratitude and thankfulness to his fans who stayed with him for the past 15 years. Our video responded wonderfully to his letter, yes, we are Rain family, and will always be.
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[Stephe’s note: You can see a translation of To my family, from Rain at the top of my previous post HERE. ^@@^]
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Thank you again to all who supported this initiative. Special thanks to Harudo11 from Cloud Hungary for putting up with all the changes and last minutes rushes in making the final perfect version of the video. The cute and joyful placard was designed by our Japan cloud Sanko san. Japan cloud sisters also helped in selecting a sumptuous 15th anniversary cake and a beautiful flower arrangement. The cake looked so beautiful, Rain wasn’t sure it was edible.^^
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Big thanks to them all, and especially to our world clouds who donated and contributed to make this event possible!
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To our man again: Rain, happy 15th debut anniversary, and many more to come!
Stephe, I know you’re not “Stephen”. I came here to tell you that my new phone requires me to hold the “n” key down super long to get the comma; but then, even though I made sure to hold until I got the comma this time – it auto-corrected Stephe to “Stephen”! (Which I thought I’d already turned the auto-correct off.) *hate getting a new phone cause it’s always when I’ve finally got the old one to cooperate*
No problem, Beez. I’ve had problems with auto-correct myself, so I get it. And other folks have done the “Stephen” thing too, haha.:) It doesn’t bother me.
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Thanks for sharing this vidèo !! Rain est toujours notre homme celà m’a fait beaucoup rire !!
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Stephe thank you for making sure we North American Clouds were represented well!
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Stephe, I know you’re not “Stephen”. I came here to tell you that my new phone requires me to hold the “n” key down super long to get the comma; but then, even though I made sure to hold until I got the comma this time – it auto-corrected Stephe to “Stephen”! (Which I thought I’d already turned the auto-correct off.) *hate getting a new phone cause it’s always when I’ve finally got the old one to cooperate*
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No problem, Beez. I’ve had problems with auto-correct myself, so I get it. And other folks have done the “Stephen” thing too, haha.:) It doesn’t bother me.
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