arent fans tired of surreal and evolution?

I think when you watch it live in person, you can never get tired of SURREAL + evolution^^
It´s just a convert Must Have.

Haha yeah when you watch it in person S~e~S is exciting.

But when you watch the Blu-ray at home... wanna skip it LOL

And I just really hope to hear SURREAL as one song itself :(

How true xD Also same with B&G

You're welcome! ^_^

Songs ayu never peformed (or performed and weren't on a DVD/blu-ray/VHS/TV) -Excluding Love again for the reason that the next CDL/tour might be ~LOVE again lol:

Boys & Girls!!!! j/k


FRIEND
FRIEND II
Wishing
As if...
from your letter
Two of us
P.S II
LOVE ~refrain~
kanariya
ever free
still alone
Liar
criminal
It was
GUILTY
Last Links
meaning of Love
Like a doll
call
Letter
Return Road

21 songs is not a lot compared to her whole discography but I do hope she will sing each of them sometime in the future (AND IT WILL BE RECORDED!! *crying over Return Road & meaning of Love*).

We even got Present on one of NEXT LEVEL's MCs on a DVD/blu-ray.

A personal wish would also be that she will sing Fly high (HAL'S MIX 2000) since that version wins life.

Want to see those perfomed some day. :yes

I'd LOVE to see Return Road live. It's my fave from Party Queen.

So she didn't sing Trauma in Fukuoka during both dates? WTF :-( The setlist was too short out of the gate.

She sang Trauma and Sunrise on 3rd May. I wonder what songs she sang ytd! ! I m keeping a record of the changes actually =x

I especially love return road and letter :luv2 really i dont understand why she did not perform them yet, they were like the only two songs i actually like from party queen

I trust more the set-list on this site:
http://setlist-live.com/hamasaki-ayumi/2596.html
http://setlist-live.com/hamasaki-ayumi/2584.html
There's no Trauma here.
All Japanese sources doesn't have Trauma in the list of songs sung at Fukuoka's concerts:
http://star.ap.teacup.com/sazanstreet/10382.html
http://otosoku.doorblog.jp/archives/26480293.html
http://star.ap.teacup.com/sazanstreet/10393.html
http://ameblo.jp/redbird2409/entry-11523814146.html
I hope someone here who visited these concerts can confirm if it's true :-)

Nah I could never get tired of SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL. It's one of the performances I look forward to the most. As the crowd goes wild and it's really powerful~

I have seen Return Road live, would love to see Liar, still alone, Letter and meaning of Love live the most, though she did sing both Letter and meaning of Love as far as I recall~ I wonder why she keeps avoiding Liar and still alone.

How I'd like to see still alone performed, one of my favourite track ever in my favourite album ever!
In my opinion there's plenty of space for all the unsungs, even without taking away the classics like Boys & Girls or S-e-S, but I'm not complaining because Ayu always brings back awesome stuff. I mean, in the Wake Up CD she used Disco-munication, everywhere nowhere and Beautiful Fighters! And I don't forget part of me in POWER of MUSIC, among others.
I think Ayu does a pretty good job in singing a lil' bit of everything in her discography, and, if she chooses not to sing one, it's because of a reason (or maybe she's just waiting the right occasion!XD)

oh wow so many sources! :) looks quite legit to me. hmm den i guess ayu really did not sing Trauma. Perhaps she screwed up the first 4 times sang this HAHA =x

i pray for 'still alone' performance...

If that becomes a repeat performance, then it counts. Otherwise it was just a one-off thing.

Yeah' i agree with the missing performances (Return Road)

But i also want to watch "alterna" from AT'10... why she changed it with "Last angel"?

I can help u imagine the performance haha. She started from the circular stage and slowly made her way back to main stage. incorporated a lot of her acrobats.. :)

alterna from AT10 was very much like Count down, walking and singing with Ayu bent in half most of the time, I still wish they included it in the dvd.

Yeah I wished she included the lost performances in her DVDs
I was so excited when I saw alterna on the setlist back then, but was disappointed to see it didn't make it to the DVD :( I really love Last angel performance but I wanna see alterna too

And the Return Road performance, she scrapped the wedding dress for the kiss o' kill armor didn't she? I wanna see it too

Where there any changes in the setlist at the 05/04 concert?

If I'm not mistaken she performed Trauma in earlier dates before she changed it to STEP you during AT05. Or did you mean AT03~04 which was CDL03~04 extended to become an AT?

This is CDL03~04 to AT04

Was there any background video? Would think that the feather backdrop is specific to "Last angel"...

Also was Ayu in the miniskirt?

^Ayu was in mini skirt I believe, the background video is something like brains and nerves (you can see it in the Tour Making)

i think you misunderstood chikocchi's question, chikocchi was asking if there were changes to the 5/04 concert setlist in fukuoka not the setlist of AT2004 & AT2005

Ahh I'm sorry I misread it x_x

i am sorry but i was quite sure ayu wasnt in mini skirt and was the huge dress cos i clearly remembered that she had problems turning along the aisle. =x but who knows she changed it haha.

yeah video wasnt anything related to feathers.

Heheh yeah that was what I was asking XDXDXD
I'm trying to keep track of the changes and I know "Sunrise" was swapped in for 05/03 but I haven't heard about any changes for 05/04 yet

Sunrise <3 <3 <3 <3

The live arrangement is SMASHING.

Too bad if she removed Trauma from the tracklist. It made me remember old tour when Dancers (here Zin and Subaru) came on stage to teach.

It was quite fun with Zin asking fan to scream his name at each movement !

I wished she changed and replaced it by independent but keeping the dance teaching class !

I know it's a matter of taste, but I really don't see the appeal of wanting to see GUILTY, Like a doll, criminal, or Liar live. I think they're horrible (especially GUILTY) and I'm thankful they never got to grace any of her lives hahaha :laugh

I'm gonna get forks thrown at me aren't I

Yes, it's a matter of taste and I personally have my list of her songs that won't be good or not that worth it to be performed live. But imo if she could, she should perform all of her songs at least once because most of them are great but underdogs. I imagine she held another PCDL but with a more TA fanatic, performing songs she hasn't performed yet. It would've been superb

Indeed. It would be lovely if she'd do a special live to sing the 'underdog' songs, and I would like that even more if she sings them in alternative arrangements, like in the ~POWER of MUSIC~

That way maybe I could actually appreciate the songs I mentioned.

aaa cm'on ayu, add something interesting to the main set list! Like a doll or something. and where is untitled story 2?

oh dear

I'm already given up on this :yfrown

GUILTY has grown on me so much since it's release. It's not a "favorite", but it's one I choose to listen to now and sometimes I'm actually in the mood to listen to it. Most of the songs you listed would translate very well to the stage I believe, therefore enhancing the song itself. They just seem very theatrical. GUILTY would be very dark. Liar is a song I've always loved. Like a doll I see something like a mesh between HAPPY ENDING performance at AT05 and Marionette performance at AT08.

Sitting in Yokohama arena now. Waiting for Ayu to appear... Any more AHS'ers here? :)

Happy watching, MissElin. I hope for an improved and expanded set list, as well as a better performance overall!

I'm really liking the set lists and I still wish I could see her live! I wonder if there will be a Ustream for the final show? That would be awesome so I could participate as a fan.

Enjoy Elin!! Can't wait to hear what song she sung in the encore. :yes

Oh man. i forgot she had a concert tonight!.
I want to go to one SOOOO bad!

Hi guys! Concert over and that means review time. A short one at least.

Lets see here. Her vocals were overall good but the Saitama vocals was much better. She changed her costume a bit for the Y&M/BLUE BIRD part. She also did this small change towards the end of Wake me up. The lights went off, and coming on again she ran around and tried to push away the male dancers. No music in this part. All you could hear was her breath. Then it got pitch black An then she was suddenly chained instead of one dancer (AT06) and then she kept on singing the same song. Only a small difference that means.

There were no MC in the encore. At all. Veeeery disappointing.

She sang Sunrise in the encore. All fun with the towels and so. Other than that everything looked the same. I was hoping for something more to change as well but well well. It was overall fun to go again. Still not beating the epicness of AT10 though. Man, good days.

sunrise <3

She will never beat AT10, lol.

Oh, I was there! I saw a few non-Japanese people there actually.

I thought her vocals were amaaaaazing!!! Oh, and I liked the English part in voyage! It's nice to finally know what the background vocals are. "We're on a journey looking for love."

Nothing will ever beat AT2010 at Yokohama Arena, and you know exactly why. :innocent

Power of Music already beat AT10 with room to spare :lech

And HLS is on par with AT10 :eviltongu

^
Haha It's a matter of taste lol but it's true AT2010 was very very good the only thing that bothers me is some songs on the setlist !

Oh yeah! :lech
I really liked AT2010, btw. For me, we had great tours these past years, that's why I can't wait to watch the new one! =D

Is it fair to say if she skips the MC she's in a bad mood?

^ It could be, I think.. :(

how much did the ticket cost??


from where did you buy the tickets??

Does the MC of this tour consist only of the Trauma dance lesson?

I kinda missed the Ask Ayu Questions MC in the My Story Tour. That extra disc is FUN to watch...

this. :yes

I'd rather say that this tours MC comes and goes whenever Ayu feels like she have the energy for it. Yesterday she didn't had anything. Not a dance lesson or not even a little "hi". The concert was over in about two hours.

For the one who wondered. I live in Japan, got tickets from TA, payed and got the tickets from 7eleven. Ticket cost original price plus a small service fee. There is a million threads about this already so go search! :)

Panda... AT10 in Yokohama is still one of my best nights in my life, ever!!

rainy day/BALLAD is unforgettable for my AT 2012 at Yoko :D

I cried really bad at AT 2011, probably the worst... my tears just kept coming

I'm sooooo glad that AT10 was my first time seeing ayu!!

I'm happy to see that many international fans are getting to finally see ayu live this year :yes I'm so happy that they enjoyed themselves!

Although I do have this feeling that she will not be touring for much longer, I hope that I'm wrong though!

I say this because her tours and releases don't go hand by hand anymore. Her tours aren't focused on promoting a new album, they are kinda all over the place. It was clever for them to make this tour A BEST LIVE but honestly they seriously had nothing else to call it. LOVE again tour sounds kinda like... :shrug Love?! Again!? :thud

She needs to start releasing singles and albums after that with strong themes, she stopped doing that after RnRC. Love songs' theme is too soft and hard to read.

If we get a new album in the future with a strong theme then they'll have something to work with that is going to be good and attractive, just look at NEXT LEVEL and RnRC, many people might not like those albums but many actually do and love the tours that came out of them!

*Finishes up this essay*

Well, I'm still not sure if I prefer AT05 or AT10 but AT10 was definitely the best since 2006, the ONLY thing I didn't like about this tour was her hair from encore + few songs before that, the pony with bow thing, except for that it's actually perfect concert.

someone finally got a pic of ayu in her 1st outfit of the concert

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...68423856_n.jpg

Looks kinda Gagaish unfortunatey. Like VMA's 2008.

lol i saw that in for a ver club too. was abt to post it.
and yeah it does look kind of like lady gaga. i hope she would do something different in the end.

i thought of
http://i.imgur.com/toSATmv.jpg
first

^
me too ^^

^ omg I just realized that it looks so similar !!! XD

^Wow so similar! :P

^that is one of my fave covers!!!

Oh my thats kinda scary! I love it!

It is the jester masks from A MUSEUM! XD
The mask is revamped with the red petal-like thingies, but yea it reminds me of Gaga

lol omg so creepy, and I like it!

I need to see the rest of the costume though.

Thanks for sharing!

MTE
http://artmagonline.files.wordpress....a-red-lace.jpg

loved the outfit!!

Doesn't remind me of that one bit...Ayu doesn't look like a Silent Hill monster.

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/media/cat...file_50_88.jpg

:thud

Oh dear no... I don't like this... :no

Really hoping Ayu will extend the tour tbh so that I can go see her when my semester ends in August :(

I really want something like the 7 Days final!

She is dress up like that for a minute. She arrives on "the air", then throw away the mask, she starts to sing A song for XX, a capella if I remember, then she go down on the stage to finally remove the red coat and show her grey outfit (similar to Asia Tour 2008 opening).

That really didn't remind me of the cover of AT 2003/04 as she got a bigger part of her face cover including her mouth...

I am so dreaming of that as the tour end quite early this year !

A 7 days final mix up with a World Tour !

(I think I will be true only in my dreams but... let's hope !)

7 days final is still her best concert by far. hoping she would bring this concert to singapore too which is pretty unlikely considering how namie cancelled her concert here.

Namie & Ayu aren't in the same agency ! Avex has nothing to do with the cancelation of this concert so nothing is impossible lol I hope she can tours overseas one more time ^^

Not same agency but after seeing how much tix naime sold, considering that she's the top selling artist now, I'm afraid that they wouldn't bring in ayu... and once bitten, twice shy.... I hope they don't have phobia of inviting other japanese act here :no since they can easily earn much more from kpop acts...

May I ask why Namie´s concert was canceled? *didn´t follow her for a while*

Namie's 20th Anniversary official webpage said that the cancellation was due to local technical difficulties, and then changed to local promoter problems. >"<

Ayu was very popular in singapore in early 2000/2003 no ? I think you are more able than me to say that but I think Ayu has a bigger fanbase there ?? I read somewhere she was the only japanese singer to place an album in number 1 position in the Singaporean charts ? I know it's more than 10 years ago but she must have a good amount of fan there ? wait & see =)

Yeap she's well known here. But seeing that namie was invited and not ayu already says that getting ayu is much more difficult. And it's always been the bad reports of ayu that have been appearing on newspaper :no and I don't think they know the fan base of ayu in Singapore... it's sad that ayunite! Was closed :(

well, at least the 3D version was here :)

AT10 is my fave concert and RnRC is definitely on my top 3 fave albums. :love

Omg, that mask.... not pretty :(

Did she sing Trauma on Yokohama or is it still out of the setlist?

I didn't know that.

She didn't sing Trauma I guess based on MissElin_ report, maybe she thought Sunrise is all the setlist need, no need for Trauma unless the previous song is ballad like YOU or Seasons. That's what I thought by seeing the changes so far

I feel the same way :( it's terrible. A smaller venue will do no justice to their shows too.

was sooo thankful for that LOL!

Great vocals both Yokohama dates, no Trauma, no MC, Sunrise during encore on both dates.

The mask is kind of scary. But I kind of like it though lol

Amuro Namie and Ayu are both in Avex...

the mask is pretty cool looking.. but definitely room for improvement to that costume. especially as the costume for the opening

:yes

Sorry I should have say management ^^ but in definitive it's the fault of Vision Factory not avex.

I miss MCs like those during AT NEXT LEVEL..
The 3rd DVD was really fun~ :thud

I've heard that the "real" reason why Namie's concert was cancelled because of low ticket sales?

You can read that :

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2...27-418836.html