She looks beautiful!

Princess ayu, I love it.

The picture is lovely but the text bothers me. It looks like the guy who wrote them just picked the usual text layout without matching them with pic.

The guiding principle of up plus seems to be the same than Bea's up. I don't get the point to do the same magazine with another name.

It's focused on Beauty.

Loving that cover pic!

Anyone noticed that she unfollowed everyone on insta? So Beyonce

^ How many people was she following??

Showing off all the flowers and kind gifts she got for her 20th anniversary then unfollowing everyone who gave her the flowers : iconic lol

Kidding, i have no idea if her followed people are the one who gave her the flowers, i was just imagining if that was the case lmao

I do not know how many people she followed, about 100 iirc. From people who are close to her, even Leslie Kee and Urata Nagoya to magazines and celebs like Elle Hongkong and Blake Lively, J.Lo and Rihanna haha

She had a lot of lifestyle / celebrity follows, which I think were mostly a remainder from when she really used that account a lot (personally). I think it's safe to say that account is (almost) exclusively managed and updated by staff at this point. She keeps the follows to her private account.

I wonder when it hits news stands... ��

Well the content of the posts are written by her for sure, but now the exact same posts are posted on her instagram, twitter and facebook pages almost at the same time, so i do wonder if she has one social media that she manages and then the staff's work is to duplicate her original post to other platforms as quick as possible? :laugh
Or mayyyybe there is an app or some kind of magic software which can do it automatically?

Her last twitter post with the flowers was posted 13 hours ago, while instagram and facebook are marked as 12 hours ago, so she might be managing twitter? Now i remember that twitter drama when she deleted all her tweets and then there was this announcement that the twitter account was gonna get managed by staff from now on :P

There are apps that will post to all media - many celebrities and brands use them. Also, a lot of her captions are song lyrics, so she really doesn't have to be the one behind them. Most likely someone gets a post ready and she signs off on it or adds a little personal touch.

About someone who her followed, I'm kinda surprised she didn't follow Peco-San or Yo-chan. Peco has, don't know about Yo-chan. Then again, it's not a policy to do a follow back.

Is up PLUS = bea’s UP? ~> See below “Edit”

I received notification from CDJapan on “new released from my favourite artist” as follow:

But no mag cover picture on the site.



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EDIT: bea’s UP changed name to “up PLUS” from 12.03 issue onwards.

So it looks like ayu posted on twitter about drinking too much tequila at a surprise party after the 20th anniversary show. Apparently she had a bad hangover, coudnlt get out of bed, and continued to sleep and sleep. Japanese fans in the comments are ridiculing her saying she should respect the fans who pay a lot of money to attend the lives and avoid drinking since it leads to her voice not coming out. “Aren’t you touring???” People are saying the tour should be the priority and things she’ll “make a fool of the guests” who come to the show.

I think that’s a little ridiculous. It’s her 20th anniversary, she deserves to celebrate a little!! At least one Japanese commented something similar to that extent. But what’s shocking is that fact that those who posts ridiculing comments are getting a lot of likes / hearts...

That's no good. As if it happens to nobody but Ayu to drink a bit much at a celebration. She didn't ruin any show or pulled an Amy Winehouse so why are these people mad?

But then again; especially the Japanese won't be telling if they have hangovers, even when they do. It is very unusual to own up to anything that is out of the ordinairy for them. This might look unprofessional from Ayu's side, but let her have some fun in life. Gosh. Why do they care? Why do we even care? Heck, bet they have all sort it out together.

lol, having one night of fun won't kill her voice forever. Sounds like these people are the same "fans" that like to gripe. She used to smoke a lot back in the day, at least she's quit that (as far as we can tell).

^she used to smoke? A LOT?

As if there wasn't a big alcohol consumption culture in Japan.

I probably shouldn't have included "a lot" as I don't know her personally, lol. However, I remember candids and other shots of her smoking used to generate a lot of chatter.