At first I thought Go-mi is in the group again :(

A vex ～Recycling is All～

You just like anni & say its perfect if you like songs , but you don't consider thing as anni if you don't like. It's subjective not objective! It's what I said since the start. kinix explained you too (& in a better way than me). The project & Tell All was also things done with the purpose of celebrating her 15th Anni as MW. But just because you don't like it, it's not Anni! However, if you put your feeling aside, she celebrates her 15 th Anni.
+: I didn't consider that you bashed Ayu & I'm not a stan (I don't say "you have to like everything Ayu did for this year." It's not what I want. You can dislike them) . However, when I see words meaning "Ayu did nothing for her anni" & how Hitomi Shimatani's one is celebrated. I feel that way.

Also, my thought is Ayu's trying to celebrate her 15 th Anni as the combo: AYU+FANS while her 10th was for everyone. Most of the gift was only for TA, she made a poll for A CLASSICAL, another one for concert,... I think she did that because she didn't create Ayumi Hamasaki alone. If Ayumi Hamasaki exists, is also thanks to her fans. It's why she wants to celebrate it to this way.

^ i kinda agree with you here, i mean sure as a concert RnRC was way more fancy than the BEST OF one, but then again, she was promoting an album, and A BEST LIVE was directly linked to fans. she had new stuff comming out even tho some fishi marketing was included, she made colaborations with various products, and has been giving more mag apparences than before, so it is a celebration mainly focusing on fans. i could even say japanese fans. Cuz most of the songs she sang were basicly her old classics. Now it might be a missed opportunity for gradioze stuff, and the DVD of the tour was meant to be released anyways, they could have incuded all the tracks but decided not to. People here seem to have expectations that obviously are way too off from Avex's marketing plan, and people get mad because they don't get what they imagined they would. But really this whole thing had so little promotion and extravagantic stuff because she clearly seemed to be focusing on her loyal fanbase who would know what's going on even with no promotion at all, rather than general public.

Now I get your point of view, and I agree: this anniversary was focused on her hardcore fanbase.
I never said she didn't do anything, but I still believe she didn't do anything for the anniversary. She did more and different things for TA and closer fans, sure, but that's the point to be in her fanclub to me, you get to have special things other fans can't, everytime not just in a special occasion. But for celebrating her career, I don't see anything. I see special bonuses for TA and people whom can afford to spend a lot of money, but not a project intended to pay omage to 15 years in the musical world. Sorry, but it's my point of view, and I think it's kind of objective too.
I really hope she will surprise us with something more focused on an anniversary (and with a lot of performances in the rest of DVD), but that would not cancel the mess she did before anyway. I'm not gonna be fooled and praise avex for an album, because even if they say it's for an anniversary, it's clearly not, like GUILTY wasn't for her 10th.

I think she doesn't do something like 10th anniversary releasing something like A COMPLETE. But she do something different with this 5 consecutive releases. And thinkin in the fact that Party Queen was a release like FEEL, an album without 4 previous singles, I think is good for ayumi. But I hope she release new material with powerful dance and rock songs, and maybe with the old style on the first albums.

And don't forget that she will release so fast the arena tour 15th anniversary and one live cd too. So I think that this is a great anniversary.

And of course I understand that people want all the encore on the DVD because is something ''special'' in a way.

I'm very satisfied with Song 4 u and its PV so I can forgive the lackluster anniversary release. For you yeah yeah yeah!

Maybe she'll come out with new songs early next year. I believe she is still recording, no? Even if she decides to stop her music career she's got so much material for us to go back to.

I do find her anniversary tour similar to AT2008. Nothing really WOWing (based on pics only). But I have yet to seen the concert yet, so i am refraining from further making conclusions.. :P

I am pretty sure later this year, there will be more releases.. who knows April 2014, we will have one more brand new album to wrap things up! :D:D Let's be optimistic guys! It's ayu's a-nation period!

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from For A ver, M and No Way To Say, i love how she sounded here, especially for NWTS! omg, just like back in 2003 <3

So what are the bonuses (or 'is the bonus') for the DVD/Bluray, if any?

Well the DVD/blu-ray will be released in two full months + a day so it might be another month (or a month+a week or two) until we get ALL the inforrmation.

she sounded really good on the final no doubt :)
was just awed...esp on HEAVEN

she sounded a bit strange (kinda screaming too much) in M, though No way to say was really great ^^

Thank you very much!
Even if the audio is LQ, it almost sounds like an edited version from a dvd!
Some parts are off and so on but god, those years when she couldn't sing properly seem very far!
I hope she will continue to improve even if I'm already proud of her (at least something ayu-related I'm enjoying lately...)

can't wait to receive my limited edition blu ray and relive the experience of actually being there. it'll be my first time. so SURREAL.

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Damn Avex! How dare them have the same visual identity for the tour and for the album recorded from this tour?!

:rolleyes

The Previews are out!!!



o gosh, all the memories are flooding back :') she was that good that night!
(and omg she hit that note in Key!)

OMG!!! Flawless!!! I fell inlove with the emotions in Teddy Bear.

it sounds perfect in every wayyyyy