I guess I'm one of the few excited for a mini album by LOVE ( :P ). I think its exciting to get a glimpse of the old Ai unless the new tracks are like sophisticated techno ballads or something ( :laugh ). Lame, I know ( :laugh ).

LOVE's music isn't of course exactly like Ai's but it does of course have that quality of her so I'm excited.

EDIT: WOW just saw the calendar pics. Anyone else got a nosebleed on July and August? Coincidence that it's on my birthday, I THINK NOT.

I'm excited for the EP too.

Also, guess this means you're sizzling hawt. ;)

I never ever expected to see Ai in a bra so it was like x20 better than if it was some other girl ( :laugh ).

i got my LOVE COOK first press + photo book today and omg
i love the photo book so much she is sooo cute
i can't believe there are no scans to be found online of it.. or none that i know of
please, if someone has a scan of this pic i really want it. i'd scan it myself but i don't want to wreck my book :scry
http://i34.tinypic.com/a59l41.jpg

yes ! can u please scan it ? i 've searched it for long time ! thanks u so much !

Like I said earlier, I love the calendar pics (ESPECIALLY JULY AND AUGUST), but why are they so expensiiiive? For only 6 pages... I know all of these singer's and band's calendars are this expensive but still!

^ Yeah, they say that they're huge and I believe it, but I have more important things to spend my money on, sadly!

Oh my god.

I discovered Planitarium today, I think I'm in love.

I only knew about Ai's happy songs, like Sakuranbo and Peach (both of which I love to bits btw :D) but her ballads are also REALLY good!

Ai :luv2

I agree, her ballads are soooo pretty and puranetariamu is one of her best. :)

Aww Planeterium was my first Ai song (or one of them)! I think its her best ballad, it's one of her most well-known songs after all.

HanaDan ( :heart ).

is it no surprises on nowadays whenever I hear Planetarium , Hana Yori Dango immediately popped into my mind ? .___.

Tsutaya, which is rather known for the reader polls it likes to hold, unveiled a comprehensive favourite artists ranking for fall of 2009. The voting period took place from August 24th to September 10th, with a total of 7,609 responses and 19,658 valid votes. The rankings are divided into three categories: by generation, by gender, and all-encompassing.

Favourite Artists Ranking - Fall 2009 - By Gender

By Gender: Male

1) B'z
2) Mr. Children
3) Kobukuro
4) EXILE
5) YUI
6) Ayumi Hamasaki
7) Ikimonogakari
8) GReeeeN
9) BUMP OF CHICKEN
10) Otsuka Ai
11) Arashi
12) Fukuyama Masaharu
13) RADWIMPS
14) GLAY
15) The Southern All Stars
16) Koda Kumi
17) Porno Graffitti
18) Yuzu
19) ayaka
20) AKB48
21) Amuro Namie
22) aiko
23) UVERworld
24) Utada Hikaru
25) Kimura Kaela
26) L'Arc-en-Ciel
27) Superfly
28) Shonan no Kaze
29) Kuraki Mai
30) HY

Source - http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/music/ch/agerank09/index.html

I went to see what the women voted and was surprised to see that Ai was not on the list. I guess only men like her ( :dead2 ). >KarenPang

Wonder why ( :dead2 ).

愛 @ ap bank fes '09



:heart

Congrats to B'z, Hikki, Namie, Mai, Ai, Kuu, and YUI! :)

*Likes this*Ai's voice is soooo good live.

^ ikr! its almost the same as the studio version :O


the scans are over at Channel-Ai!! i love that photobook!!! shes such a cutieee :luv2

and congrats aichin, for getting #10! thats pretty good :OO

random but is the dog from the LOVE COOK booklet/photo book ai's dog?

ummm I'm not sure

last I know she has 2 pet rabbits & definitely not a dog that she kept as a pet

AVCD-23955
LOVE/Love.It[CD+DVD] CDA
2476 yen US$27/92.25 Release Date:2009/11/18
Description:First mini-album release from LOVE including theme song to the theatrical anime "Oshare Majo: Love and Berry Shiawase no Maho," "Love no Theme" and more for six tunes total. This edition includes bonus DVD with three promotional videos "Magic," "Love no Theme," and "White Choco." *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.
First Press Details:special feature/bonus expected (subject to change)
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=AVCD-23955

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AVCD-23956
LOVE/Love.It CDA
1905 yen US$21/92.25 Release Date:2009/11/18
Description:First mini-album release from LOVE including theme song to the theatrical anime "Oshare Majo: Love and Berry Shiawase no Maho," "Love no Theme" and more for six tunes total.
First Press Details:special feature/bonus expected (subject to change)
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=AVCD-23956

Who or what exactly IS LOVE? :tipsy I'm so confused as to what you guys are even talking about. :laugh

Thanks for posting Tsubasa. "Ai" is one of my favorite Ai songs.

Her bunny character side project!

http://locomusic.jp/love/index.html

She'll release a new stuff!
I would prefer that she release a new single and not a LOVE album

I think her hairstyle +color in a-nation is horrible

I really like Planetarium but there's not a lot else I like from Ai. Anyone have any recommendations? Also, one of my friends really likes the song Cherish...but she doesnt really like jpop in general. How do I use this to lure her into becoming addicted to Ai and eventually jpop :P Thanks

If you like Planetarium, you'll probably also like Kingyo Hanabi, it's beautiful :)

Also, you HAVE to listen to Sakuranbo and Peach :P

but I'm not a die-hard fan, I'm sure someone else can give better advice :)

Kingyo Hanabi's another fave single of mine

what else ... I didn't like Pocket initally but I grow to like it now & that goes for HEART which's unique

basically if you can stand her crazy whacked tunes , then it will be Sakuranbo (which I didn't like initally) , PEACH , Smiley

lol yeah I forgot about Happy Days , that's a crazy whack song

man all these talk about otsuka , I should go & listen to her again

I haven't done so in a very long time :dead2

BABASHI is amazing <3

any Youtube videos of the a nation performances?

just checked youtube. nothing :(

I saw her perform BAI BAI and also the other from the broadcast...icr the name. :(

@SugarBasil: LOVE is her weird cute rabbit... I swear they have been using LOVE as a merchandise for everything... I saw a lot of LOVE plushies, key chains and all in gift shops... but strangely, there's no credit to avex/Ai Otsuka... O_o

And wow her crazy songs rock! I love love love PEACH and Sakuranbo! <3

^ yeah! i see LOVE a lot in Taiwan too...i actually have this tiny LOVE keychain

I really like that one song of Ai's.....with a really long title....something about a black cow tongue? :thud

^ From what I remember it's something like Salted cow's tongue for 768 yen...

There's 2 versions; one on her LOVE JAM (I think) album which is more mellow, and the other on Ai AM BEST, which is more aggressive/rock-toned... btw the original version costs "less", XD.

lol she have such weird titles, i only heard the one on LOVE JAM

I prefer the one on Ai AM BEST lol, have you watched the PV? It's weirder! XD

oh no i haven't, i like only watched...1 Ai PV ever @_@

Wow you should lol... I think her and Kuu's PVs are about the most entertaining... I don't wanna clog up the post with youtube videos, but these are the ones I would watch because it's REALLY funny:

CHU-LIP
SMILY
Happy Days
Salted Cow's Tongue for 768 yen

And for cat lovers:
Neko ni Fuusen

The cats in the PV were really cute imo... :3

EDIT:
@Joel: Btw, the other song she sang at a-nation was Mirai Taxi... so surprised to see that! But I love her performance... she owns the previous few artists... she just ran into the stage and started getting the audience high, XD.

Ah! Yeah! That was the one! Mirai Taxi. :) Cheers. XD

Out of her upbeat songs I love Mackerel's canned food and Pon Pon the most. <3

xD Does anyone else find her hair at a-nation incredibly hideous? LOL

^ yea me too. that's a really bad color for her. =/

3rd that , she looked even more older than her real age in a-nation -_-

& I heard stuff that the PV pertaining to Kuroge Wagyuu Joshio Tanyaki 680 Yen was sexually suggestive in which I have no idea how so :O :dead2

i hated her hair at a-nation too. honestly tho, if you take a look at most of the hairstyles at a-nation this year from the girls, they really were quite disgusting omg

i liked her energy in her mirai taxi performance though

have you all seen this?



WOW @ the costume

^ Her performace for 360 looks interesting!

Can someone upload her a-nation performances on YT please? :(

looks really cool! haha..

OMG it's on youtube! ai at a-nation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHEyiSU3xT8

bye-bye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxW_euGrFrw

^OMG she looks so cute in that pic!!!


YEAH! i even saw one in LEBANON!!!! no one listens to japanese music there XDDD iwas so excited when i saw him though :P and you have a LOVE keychain??? :O! ive always wanted to have one :(

It seems like people are plagarizing LOVE... lol.

And she looks so beautiful, but why Ticket... another old song... couldn't they have used the "new song" from the new "best" album?

wow that otsuka pic is beautiful :luv2

that really should have been used as the cover for LOVE LETTER :grumpy

It's more of the lyrics being suggestive. Then watching the PV, you see tiny bits of innuedo.

I love this pic :luv2 my current wally!

i love that picture too she looks stunning. i can't wait to see her new full dvd. the costums looks fun and original

ME TOO! I'm very excited about this LOVE mini-album! :heart

OMG, I'm totally buying this. :thud

omg the LOVE LETTER tour looks really cool... holy Lord!

why haven't people here seen the tour yet? it has been out for a while. i watched it the other day :P i loved the shachihata performance (and that dress!), Kurage, Nagareboshi, and all the songs on the piano, and chu-lip! the ending was great. ai is an amazing live singer.

^ really??? is it uploaded on youtube? i really wanna see the chu-lip performance XD

OMG THE TOUR LOOKS AMAZING XDDDD that furr thing reminds me of kumi though :P

it looks like this person here is working on uploading the full tour
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=aykohno&view=videos

also, i love the do positive performance so much, it's making me like the song when previously i didn't care much for it. you all should really watch the tour~ it's at JPS if nobody has uploaded it here yet. i'd like to read your opinions on it. i usually get bored with ai tours but this one was really entertaining imo

^I just watched it a bit but not all though. It seems as a really entertaining tour. I still have to watch it in full so I can't comment much about it.

ahh thankyou so much identity!!!!! i just watched animation+shachihatta, and though i didnt understand what the animation was about AT ALL, it was pretty cool XDD and OMG!!! i couldnt stop laughing at those male backdancers in shachihatta :roflmao were they meant to be dolls or something? XDD

i didn't get it either, i usually would skip over them but i watched that one to try to understand but was like "wut?" yeah i think it was just one real guy in the middle and two stuffed dolls attached to him, it was so weird :laugh

Does anyone have translated Ai interviews?

And I heard a rumour (and I have this weird feeling D: ) that Ai could be retiring soon (with all the bests and the LOVE minialbum, and also Bye Bye being the last single that she has released, and that supposedly she wants to marry and have kids). What do you think of it? I would be very, very sad if Ai retired, she is one of my favorite artists -_-

I hope she doesn't retire! :(
I'll also be sad..

it's probably just a rumor. i don't think she'd retire, especially so soon. does ai even have a boyfriend to marry and have kids with?

I want to say hello to Otsuka Ai thread~ :D

I think it's just another rumor...

I just heard that "The First Period about LOVE has ended" Next year, the second period will start, i think that the LOVE period here talks about her LOVE titled album (LOVE PUNCH, LOVE JAM, LOVE COOK, LOVE PiECE, LOVE LETTER) so the next period will start in next year i think, and the album wouldn't have any 'LOVE' title anymore~ :D

^ whaaaat??? no more LOVE albums????? thats so sad :(

LMAO XDD well we all know that ai has this weird fantasy :P

oh really? but that wasn't officially announced or anything right?
i'm getting kind of tired of the LOVE before everything, so i wouldn't mind it

I doubt that rumor is true. I can't imagine her stopping composing and singing for a life of domestication (especially without a boyfriend). :shrug

And can someone help me out here? I really want to buy her LOVE LETTER tour DVD, but I need a region-free version. My computer can only switch regions up to 3 times before it sticks in the last used version. I found this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

and it's super cheap, but I'm a bit confused on it. It's missing a bunch of the songs she performed (according to the set list), and the set list is completely different. Does anyone have any idea as to what might be the deal?

^ it says on that page
"This release records her concert at the Zepp Tokyo on March 1."
the one that was released this month is from her concert at Yokohama Arena on the 17th of May

So, what is next period if this rumor is true? Apparently I want she can do something more than LOVE.

Aw, I totally didn't even notice that they were from 2 different shows. :tipsy Damn, I'm going to have to wait for an overseas version or something. I can't do it unless it's region-free. :weep

eh Cat , her LOVE LETTER DVD's already released in avex Taiwan's site

http://www.avex.com.tw/4th/artist/ar...&anamec=otsuka

in fact that took place way back in May :dead2

HK press of the DVD can be purchased via HMV HK - http://hmv.com.hk/product/product.asp?sku=479705

So basically, Ai has released two DVDs of the same concert? I think I'll dl the one on JPS when I get home. :love

Parts of LOVE LETTER Arena Tour 2009 uploaded

http://www.youtube.com/user/aykohno

It looks like misunderstood...

It means that, her 'LOVE' titled album before is the first period, not the Bunny named LOVE, i mean...
I don't know very much about her LOVE bunny, but about this 'LOVE' period title, so we're going to see another her album title without words 'LOVE' anymore~

I hear that from Taiwan website though, she said that in her concert in Taiwan this year~ (LOVE IS BORN Anniversary 6th if i'm not mistaken~)
And Channel-Ai member who came to the concert also mentioned that :laugh

LOL what if her new albums start with...

^ HAHAHAHAHAHAH

released on 6th May - Ai Otsuka Love Letter Tour 2009 - Channel Keshite Ai-chan Neru! - at Zepp Tokyo on 1st of March 2009

released on 23rd Sept - Ai Otsuka Love Letter Tour 2009 - Light Terashite Ai to Yume to Kando to ... Warai to! - at Yokohama Arena on 17th of May 2009

I think her LOVE era has talked about this tho?

I would say if her new albums start with CRAZY?

CRAZY PUNCH (ugh)
CRAZY JAM (...)
CRAZY COOK (LOL no thanks)
CRAZY PiECE (Ha...)
CRAZY LETTER (.LOL)

BEST ALBUM - Ai am CRAZY!

I would not put it past Ai to name an album SEX _____

me too , that will come off as being really cheap on her part :no

what about meisa? LOL! :laugh i find ai too cute to have a song titled SEX in her discography :P

LMAO , Kuroki Meisa's different as compared to otsuka

otsuka has been all along known for her girl next door demure image since her debut in the scene 6 years ago

to ask her to sex things up now , it's a sell out thing which I really hate

i don't think the LOVE JAM cover was very innocent lol

LOL 8D

it kinda put me off from eating Jam if you ask me @_@

that is what i was thinking!

i'm not sure if this is true but i always see people talking about how ai says some sexual stuff during interviews too. i wonder which interviews they're talking about, i don't read any translations so idk

^ omg lol.

It's a joke people! I think Ai approves of this! (does she? :laugh)

I think although Ai puts out a very innocent image, she's very sexual, I mean she's always using innuendos and metaphors like that.. xD

Suddenly, i remember LOVE JAM covers, and Tsukune 70 Yen Lyrics~ :laugh

If i'm not mistaken, she's talking about sexual stuff in Planetarium Interview, or Music Station Interview when she performed Plantarium, i don't remember it very clearly...

^ yeah she even said she used to watch porn with her parents :dead2 :roflmao

^ OMG I LOL-ED IN REAL LIFE AT THAT LOLOLOLOL :roflmao :roflmao

OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!

XD

:roflmao

I LOVE AI

O_O O_O

omg are you serious on that ?

that's gross :dead2 & I thought looking at KAT-TUN's Akanishi Jin's naughty somewhat porny photospread he did for an.an mag was BAD but this's just .___.

That's why i love her~ ROFLMAO :roflmao

Don't take it seriously though~
Some article said this :
Osaka like to make jokes, i think :yes

That's why i love her~ :D

oh I didn't realised that she was born in Osaka & yes Osaka people are really funny & are LOUD *points to Kanjani8 as prime eg :laugh

I want to hear her speak in Kansai language though . That will be something worth checking out for heh

I did that to my parents too. Well it is a PART of SEX EDUCATION from FAMILY right? Parents have EXPERIENCE and to CORRECT ai's CONCERN of SEX!