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Wuu wan is a gesture created by [[YUI]] in her show [[YUI RADIO]] back in 2007. It became her characteristic greeting and a trend among fans.<br>
[[File:YUI_wuu_wan.gif|frame|none]]
==History==

[[File:YUI_Diary_178-01_wuu.jpg|right|thumb|wuu~]]

[[File:YUI_Diary_178-01_wan.jpg‎|right|thumb|wan!]]

===YUI RADIO #18===
In [[YUI RADIO]]'s [[YUI RADIO SPECIAL|special show]] #18, she got a letter from fans asking about her upcoming appeareance on the show [[Music Station]] were she would perform [[Rolling star]]

(Minute: 50:25)<ref>Transcriptions taken from Half-Banana.com http://www.half-banana.com/2007/04/wuuwang.html</ref>

Shigezou: YUI san, on Jan 26th, it will be Music Station live broadcast.<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: !!</span><br>
Shigezou: YUI san, next week, next friday....<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: Aiks, what should I do? I'll get nervous.</span><br>
Shigezou: YUI san, when you're on Music Station, as YUI radio's representative, can you do something (what is aizou?) for us which only us can understand?<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: What shall we do then?</span><br>
Shigezou: All of us (YUI radio listeners) will support you~ Are you going to be fine that day? ganbaruyo YUI san in Music Station!! We will follow you for sure! We'll stick in front of the TV that night. Wouldn't it be great if YUI san willing to do some easy-to-understand gesture for us?<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: Hmm what shall I do then? Wuu....wang!? Something like that?</span><br>
Shigezou: Are you SURE that you can do it???<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: (waves hand) No way no way.</span><br>
Shigezou: You really can do it?<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: Cannot, really cannot. So how?</span><br>
Shigezou: Lets do that thing you just did again.<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: This is 'wang' right? wan wan~ Wu~wang!!</span><br>
Shigezou: It'll be great if you can do that in ms (Music Station).<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: Little kids will surprised by it.</span><br>
Shigezou: Little kids...even Tamori san (the host of ms) will be surprised by it.<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: Yea Tamo san will be surprised by it.</span><br>
Shigezou: Just do something that you think you'll able to.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: Ah found the wristband. What about putting on it?</span><br>
Shigezou: bla bla bla<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: maji de? *mumbles* maji de? Seldom use this word but I used it.</span><br>
Shigezou: (pretends to be the host) Next up will be YUI san's Rolling star~! *drum rolls*<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: *shows her hand* </span>(minute 52:17)<br>
Shigezou: That's impossible for you to do so.<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: Yeah it's just impossible. It's hard for me to play guitar as well.</span><br>
<br>
...<br>
[[File:2007.01.26-Msta-wristband.jpg|thumb|Music Station 2007.01.26]]
[[File:2007.01.26_Music_Station_-_Rolling_Star.jpg|thumb|YUI en Music Station 2007.01.26]]
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: So how?</span><br>
Shigezou: What about waving hands?<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: *waves hand*</span><br>
Shigezou: Wonder if the audience able to see or not...<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: *hums the intro of Music Station and waves her hand at the same time*</span><br>
Shigezou: *hums along*<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: I'll be nervous for sure.</span><br>
Shigezou: Then just wave your hands or something. Normally people will do that during intro right?<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: Oh really?</span><br>
Shigezou: Normally what will you do? During the opening.<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: *hums the intro of ms* (53:09) pam!! sayonara~</span><br>
blablablabla<br>
Shigezou: So just waves your hand as hard as you can will be enough.<br>
<span style="color:#009000">YUI: I'll put on it, then bye bye, something like konnichiwa, or konbanwa. If something like this I think I can do it.</span><br>
<br>
Then, as she promised, she wore the wristband in the opening of Music Station; After that, in the performance you can see the white wristband on the headstock of YUI's Telecaster.<br>
Even YUI's staff talked about it on YUI-net <ref>Comments and pictures on YUI-net's "Tachiyomi" section http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Info/yui-net/book2/main-200701.html </ref>

===YUI RADIO  #20===

One month later, some fans mentioned about it again in YUI RADIO #20. (March 7, 2007).<br>
Around minute mark: 47:30~52:40.<br>
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A fan sent a messgae asking YUI to do the wu~wang thing in the next ms. Then Shigezou san asked YUI to do the wu~wang thing again for the listeners who didn't have the chance to watch the previous YUI radio. (49:15)

And around that time there's a YUI short poem contest going on in YUI-net and the prize was the leftover Rolling star wristband. Shigezou suggested that do something with the wristband in ms just to commemorate it.

Then comes Music Station:

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[[File:2007.03.09_MSta_wuuwan.jpg|Music Station 2007.03.09]]

==Other wuu~wan appeareances==

* Music Station 2008.07.11
* there are more... help!


== wuu~CROSS wan! ==
On Music Station 2010.06.04, for [[to Mother]] promotion, YUI came up with a new variant called CROSS wan.

== wuu~bang! ==
On Music Station 2010.07.16, for her [[HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN|Please Stay With Me]] performance, YUI introduced the new variant called wuu~bang! 

== wuu~kon! ==
Introduced in Music Station 2011.01.21, for her [[It's My Life/Your Heaven|It's My Life]] performance.

== wuu~Yeah! ==
Introduced in Music Station 2011.06.03, for her [[HELLO ~Paradise Kiss~]] performance.



==Related trends==
*[[Adieu]]
*[[wuu~nyan]]
*[[Y__Y]]

==Notes==
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