okay i found something really unexpected while reading sayonara, zetsubou sensei !!! :luv2

i watched and read this years ago and on a reread when i read cry to songs i knew there HAS to be an ayu reference since the series is packed with references

https://i.ibb.co/d0JcPQ2/20200310-122617.jpg

and another less interesting sighting was this in a chinese shop (i was looking for ayu things the whole trip there...)

https://i.ibb.co/7z64w67/20181220-141842.jpg

^lol at the caption, nice find, may I ask what is the context of the image?

I read the chapter from volume 1 and the context is that Japanese people are too nice. They'll say you're cute if you're not cute or cry at a song that has no meaning due to politeness. This was around 2007+ onward so I guess it was probably songs from around that era it was poking at.

2007? omg I thought this was during her peak

An article talking about the 2020 Olympics and they used this old (?) picture where you can see A Best cover on the background.

https://i.imgur.com/InowxmG.jpg

It's for MADE IN JAPAN:

https://assets.media-platform.com/bi...3992)-w640.jpg

I was watching anime and suddenly I noticed a familiar poster lol

Serie: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 10

https://i.imgur.com/fgXUAca.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hZyK8DI.jpg

I'm sure this is not the first time I saw this poster in anime, I can't remember the names but I think there are a couple more animes that have used that same poster, maybe it become like a stock file for anime backgrouds (?)

I love this thread so much ��

I was watching comedians Tomochika and Yurian Retriever web show and they mentioned Ayu. They joke that the year is 2002 and mention something like "Ayu released one after another CD this year" and that she was a big hit and even people that were not her fan became her fan after watching a dorama (My Little Chef) featuring her song (Voyage). And then they start impersonating Ayu lol

I was randomly watching some Doraemon episodes on Netflix while eating breakfast the other day and.... it seems that Suneo has Ayu's sign lol.

^GOD, I LOVE THIS :luv2

Lucky Suneo :grumpy lol

Belo Horizonte, 2015, Brazil 😂

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtF1wofWMAEMj4w?format=jpg

^Nice finding! it looks like she's suffering, free her :laugh

While browsing my youtube recommended, someone put ayu's infamous picture as a thumbnail on a video that has nothing to do with her :laugh

https://i.imgur.com/fczJzfj.png

For the new Generations:
1. The link doesn't work anymore but I have a capture in my blog CLICK HERE

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2. Then This were some sigthings in my city, I'm from Mexico.

Ayu nails and a Poster for a Karaoke place next to a movie theater . CLICK HERE

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3. This was this magazine that came with the a newspaper subscription and had a little article that talked about ayu. One page just for her. CLICK HERE

A few months later the same magazine had a "letters from readers" type of section and the magazine people mentioned that they received a lot of positive comments on that ayu article and they were grateful.

On the same magazine Utada hikaru had an article just like ayu's from a few months before, and l'arc-en-ciel had one too.
CLICK HERE

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FINALLY...

4. There is this important cable provider that used ayu songs for clips that played all they, you know like those clips that used to fill the empty spaces from show to show.

They used 4 ayu songs for those clips. I remember I would always stop what I was doing and watch them and dance along! haha.

GAME CLICK HERE

Startin' & Fly high CLICK HERE
(Tho I couldn't record fly high's clip, but I commented on what song was used.

CONNECTED CLICK HERE

I think a similar one is in a restaurant in Odaiba, I remember seeing this exact Ayu signature there in 2014.

Awesome, thanks!