Thnaks Misa~ Although they look have the same input, but they're not actually.

wow... never seen her happy face like this for a long time... :D

thanks you, Misa

Thanks Misa-chan!! :)

No families or friends? Sounds like my type of wedding! Good idea Ayu, get a quick, cheap wedding and SPLURGE on the honeymoon!

Haha I thought about the 27 years thing: if Ayu said that in 2001, that means her parents divorced in 1974, 4 years before Ayu was even born. Ayu was conceived after her parents divorced?!

I remember from an interview that Ayu said that her father left when she was very young (like maybe 2 or 3) and she had very early memories of her and her father fishing at the pier or something. I think that was the CDTV long interview?

If you don't mind, could you post the link to the original source please? o.o

I hope Misa-chan can translate this one as well..
it seems so interesting!

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...000530-san-int

I'm sure the report meant 27 years from now (2011), not 2001. ;) ayu would have been 5-6 then??

It was from Yahoo News. The link was posted by AyUmIXx some pages back. Here it is again:

http://zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp/artic...0301-jisin-ent

Gosh...

Title reads China's netizens on ayu's marriage -- "She was obviously tricked by the Westerners"

Translating more now.

^ thanks a lot Misa..
I'm curious of what those chinese netizens said about them~

wow, Mannie told ayu "i will never leave you"??

sounds romantic.... I hope he meant it!! :)

hamasaki couple lol

i've missed so much!! are they finally a couple?

I only translated the sections relevant to ayu.

"She only knew him for 5 months, I’ve been her fan for years…"

That's the most irrelevant comment to make, haha.

But thanks for the translation. :)
However, the whole "Western men are bad" vibe I was getting was kind of disheartening.

Netizens aren't exactly a bastion of intelligence, though. Just look at what the Korean ones are like. Idiots and vitriol-spewing losers, all of them.

It's an interesting example of women's roles in some Asian societies that people are automatically jumping to the fear that she's going to bow down now that she's married. But I also must say that the people sincerely worried about this clearly have not been paying attention to Ayu all these years. When has she ever proven or shown herself to be typical or standard? Her behavior might not seem so strange to westerners but as far as Japanese artists go, she's probably more than a little daring and bold.

Besides, she herself as said she isn't going anywhere. Shame on people for not taking her at her word, which has never proven false before (even if people have interpreted what she says in completely absurd ways).

I lol'ed

hamasaki couple
cheated by western


LOL

Pure losers!!! seriously...

I wonder if the whole thing about Mannie proposing is true... sometimes I wonder where they get their stuff...

Oh well. The whole thing about fans being negative was to be expected. It's impossible for everyone to be happy, there'll always be people agreeing and disagreeing. Though some of those comments are quite funny~

thanks a lot Misa-chan for translating it :)

this is what most people scare of, really~
so i hope it won't happen~

^ haha, That's what my little heart said about Mannie except the has no reputation of his own part is not even I've ever thought about it.

What's funny is that reputation in English used to have a very NEGATIVE implication. People who "had a reputation" were considered BAD back in the day. So that's an unintentionally humorous line.

^Lol.
The thing that interested me most about the article was that part about Tibet. I"m surprised she's even known there.

same here

Thank you! I really like this article. I wanted to save it in english and japanese. :P Oh and thanks for the translation too! ^_^