Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - [Ai Otsuka] She Wants To Use A Shachihata In The 13th Official Thread

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Okay,this is a kinda not related to what's been posted here lately,but I'm having really trouble with something that I have posted at channel-ai but no one has answered yet.

Yesterday I've received 3 Ai singles that I bought from ebay and everything seems to be fine with them but I noticed something.

On all 3 CDs (SMILY/Biidama,Amaenbo,Daisuki da yo.) there are writings in kanji & katakana and I could read only the katakana ones that say "promotion" and got a bit worried after I saw that in channel-ai gallery there are no such writings on those CDs...so I was wondering what do they mean? What are my copies of these singles in fact? I took a pic of them (click to enlarge them).

Look at that orange/black text,they all have it. Is this normal and what does it mean?

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...singles036.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...singles025.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...singles020.jpg

So are these singles some kind of promo or original singles?

^They are indeed promo CDs. 見本 (mihon) means "sample".

Well....then that's bad thing,right :(

Thanks for info.

^ Could be. The difference is promos don't contain booklet pics and if you care, they don't count towards Oricon. They're what radios play when a new single/album is released.

Well they all contain all of the booklet pictures.I checked it out already so I don't get it.
They look exactly and contain everything that the original single have...

wow...is that different from regular single?

i think it's rare item since it not sold in music store in Japan...

Does it mean if they're Promo CDs, the sound quality isn't that good?

@ Chiharo - it depends on how you look at it

it could be a good thing as promo CDs are quite rarely found to be sold online . I don't know in the case of being bad though

but for me I look at it as a good thing as it's not often everyday you can find a promo CD being sold online

whatever works your way

Lucky you Chiharo. I have a promo version of H&MC's Goover and it doesn't contain any booklet pics. :grumpy

Those Promo CD's look so cool, Chiharo. :cool

Ah,well I guess I was kind of just lucky and if I want to buy regular singles I can get them anywhere,lol. (even though I want regular ones,but it's fine xD)

So thank you for all answers and encouragements about the promos that should be original sinlges :)

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Originally Posted by Chiharo (Post 1935504)

you're really lucky , I don't even have a promo single/album on hand , let alone for otsuka's case T_T

Promo CDs are rare. They are good collector's items ;)

Awww Ai looks adorable in that poster! I don't get the tour t-shirts though. The Rolling Stones?!?!?! We need a new Ai thread soon!