New photo on Instagram! :luv2

Reminds me of party queen so much

Leslie Kee just thanked Ayu on IG for a birthday present she sent and he talked about how they first met 20 years ago, and he said "Now she's a wonderful mother of 2 children" I know this doesn't confirm anything but maybe she already gave birth :D

^Which IG post do you mean? His most recent one appears to be from March... Could it be that he deleted it?

EDIT: Nevermind, checked the wrong account.

Her and her son’s shoes??

Did she say anywhere it was a boy? As far as I know she haven't said anything about it

That picture is super cute!

I think once she said at Instagram that when she plays with her baby other people call them "two boys"

^yeah, I think she has refered to him as a boy a couple of times on instagram lol also once she posted the "boys room" once IIRC I wonder if the second one will be/is a girl, a mini Ayu would be so cute! haha

2021-04-08(JST) | AYU BLOG

Eh. What does she mean with that rather cryptic post?

Ayu posted Kishidan's One Night Carnival at the story

Photos aren't showing up anymore for some reason.:think

Try reuploading to Imgur or Postimg. Maybe Instagram isn't allowing hotlinking...

What happened to her lips? LOL That pictures looks like she got food allergy.

Pretty sure she's just pursing them for that picture?

SHE' LITERALLY POUTING, that's what lips do when you pout them, they look "swollen"...-_-

Ayu edited post and deleted lines about laughter and spending time together. What was wrong with them? Now it's truly commercial post about ice-cream

Maybe it didn't fit the influencer posting requirement for that brand :laugh

That brand has weird lips fetish from the influencer, aka from ayu.

Ok two more days till some exciting news. Just let it be a new album and not fill version of 23rd monster Mv

^ I'm feeling pretty confident that it's going to be the 23rd Monster PV. :yes

I believe it will be 23rd monster pv or another short teaser of it. Or something related to music for life. Maybe some goods. It was mentioned that goods will not be on sale at the venue, but they can be up at the mu-mo

but with zin in it.

She announced the logo of MUSIC for LIFE —return—

I like it. It is different from previous ones a lot.

What time can we expect anything? I'd be fuming if I was in Japan and still didn't have anything at 7pm :laugh

She posted something, any translation?

I don’t really know what she’s referring to but my rough summary is she seemed to be really touched today because she “met” some people who were dancing to her music? Talks about how she’s glad she’s living in an era with masks so she could hide that she almost cried a lot today.

…my very rough summary until someone else can translate it better :tipsy

Ayu really posted some cryptic “exciting” message for her fans to see, and it was just for dancer auditions?

At least that’s what it seems like to me. I suppose it could also just be general rehearsal for the shows.
———
She’s thanking the people who came and danced to her music.

She felt that seeing them re-taught her what it means to be alive.

She also thought for the first time how grateful she was for the requirement to wear masks, because she could hide how close to tears she came.

Oh dancer auditions make sense. I really had no idea what she was talking about.

We don’t want nor need more dancers :weep

.....

So it’s past midnight now and I think it’s safe to say we aren’t getting anything.

Welp, she must have been referring to the dance auditions or whatever that was.

I suppose she never mentioned it was going to be exciting for US :laugh

I'm really disappointed that we finally had nothing today. I was quite hyped for a new single or album announcement but nothing happened. Umm I wonder if they regretted about announcing something today. Maybe they decided to postpone it.

She posted on TA! The auditions were for the MV, it seems. I think she said they're still filming it

oh good to know! in retrospect it was kind of sweet that she released the ayu-less "episode 0" just before she had to deliver her baby. it worked as a kind of teaser for something hopefully more epic that she would be able to join in after her brief maternity leave.

She said there will be a lot of performers (or at least that's what I got from the automatic translation), so I'm not sure if ayu will be featured much :(

New dancers profiles

@oozora0112
@hayate_myo0211
@yuk10609

@kiki__saki
@satsu25s
@rinka_a_3
@aika_mayahara

New album, H(A)IRY

It seems the band will be present at the TA’s concert :weep Thanks god. Also, just noticed she has cut her hair really short.

^It's like shoulder length. She didn't go to Party Queen hair yet. THAT was SHORT lol
I do really like her with short hair though, and i'll always be a dark hair Ayu fan. She just looks so sharp and vibrant with it. The blond is really megh. I mean it suits her, but it doesn't do much.

Yay, the short blonde hair look makes its return ♡♡♡

We are waiting for two annoucements, tomorrow at 12 and 19 JST

I don't think we'll get that but I'd love a new summer single! :heart

Let’s hope for some new music!

Summer single and some tour announcement?

a-nation 2022?

I genuinely have no idea what to expect. Maybe one of it will be TA summer event

^Yeah her message makes me think one of the announcements is going to be another TA limited live or some kind of a-nation performance.

Of course my ideal scenario would be summer single + early autumn album, but there's no way they'd drop this much at once!

Maybe 23rd Monster -episode 2-? I know I keep going on about it but we still haven't seen the shot with the hat+red lipstick, that HAS to show up at some point!

Maybe a new baby lol

As for a-nation 2021, summer festival is cancelled

It's another edition of TA Summer Party. With audience. If I understood well, there will be no streaming available this time.


https://avex.jp/ayu/news/detail.php?id=1092954

the logo is nice.

https://i.imgur.com/QS0S1DF.png

The next announcement is probably YouTube Music Festival happening this weekend where CDL19-20 will be streamed. Fingers crossed it’ll be more though..

One great thing about her recent concerts is that they’re all near to where I live lol.

I’ll be happy if I can go, I like the logo too. I’m just hoping that this summer song festival will be accompanied by a new summer song… fingers crossed that’s what the second announcement is!

Less than an hour before she announces her new album! (yes I'm trying to manifest it)

More seriously, Aderianu mentioned that a nation was off the table this year, and I really hope it's not the Youtube music festival thing as that was technically already announced. So not much of an announcement.

So that hopefully just leaves either some kind of second half of the year tour / concert or a new single. Trying not to get my hopes up but I want to believe.

Summer TA Panty 2021

That would be a good merch idea.

I can’t see anything but panty now lmao

Help I can’t unsee this

Coming here to post it’s new material whenever ayu teases about something new on her social media. And hopefully don’t get disappointed with non new music stuff

EDIT: nvm

I guess I'll be really disappointed if she continues with TA Summer Party with an audience. Probably it'll be legal and "following all the security measures", but I'll still think it'll be irresponsible from her and her staff to going on with this. The number of COVID cases are really out of the control in Japan.

I recently found a bunch of Ayu's old Twitter photos she posted in 2010-2011 and I honestly started missing those days when she was the one using it instead of her staff. It was fun to watch how she interacted with fans all the time even though there was a ton of drama because of it. She was the only reason why I started using that app in the first place tbh. Otherwise I wouldn't have even made one. :D

Maybe they think the virus might not spread if the event is held outside. I read there's a smaller chance to get exposed to it outside because the air moves around so much more unlike inside a building. However, I do agree with you. I think they should do a livestream without an audience instead.

I checked the venue online and, unless I'm being mistaken, it's an indoor venue.

Well damn, that’s really unfortunate if that's the case. Hopefully Ayu and her team finds a solution to this issue.

I would agree with you, guys, if this disease affected only the people who are willing to take a risk, but that's not the case. Other people who didn't have the alternative to choose to be exposed to that risk will be affected (and infected). But this is just going off-topic, sorry about that.

Regarding this concert, it would be interesting if she sings summer song which are not frequently performed on her concerts, like fairyland. It's been a long time.

Mannnnn, that would be great!!

Independent, Next Level, Blossom are underrated.

far away, SEASONS are also summer songs but they should be performed with vogue.

I was always reticent to include NEXT LEVEL on the "summer song" label because it was originally released in spring, but it was part A SUMMER BEST later, right? I love NEXT LEVEL.

According to ayu’s instagram on August 28th Ayu will be at FNS Laugh & Music.

From official web
https://avex.jp/ayu/schedule/detail.php?id=1090714

OMG SHE'S GORGEOUS :love



is it 2001 again? :D

Truly, she looks amazing with short hair.

And out of nowhere she post my way feat m flo with lyrics saying she’ll always be the queen. We know Ayu. But release an album thank you.

omg I didn't know her mom's birthday was on Sep 13 :)

Wish there was a "like" button for this post!

Ayu just posted a story with a "vaccinated" gif. All praise to a non-negationist queen.

Queen.

I thought she was vaccinated long time ago... Zin also posted a story, he received second shot. They probably went all together

Maybe the second shot for adults of her age with no comorbidities was just now. Vaccination in Japan was kinda delayed (but now it's going on in an acceptable speed).

So I just saw Ayu's latest instagram post with a very strong message on birth...

I'm a bit surprised at how this private subject is published on Instagram, while she won't even tell to her fanclub's Q&A if she prefers tea over coffee or what shampoo is she using...

Ya I am really surprise too. That she reveal to have a c section birth. A topic which is quite personal

It looks like she tried to speak up against the stigma associated with those who did a c-section, so it's not like she shared this info just for the sake of it

Wow wasn't expecting this sort of post from her - go Ayu!

Do we even know if her second baby is a boy or a girl yet? lol

Her post started a lot of conversation and even debate about the c section in social media and news sites, and many women and health workers showed their support to ayu, saying she's right about it being normal and to stop judging those who "didn't feel the pain of birth" (like that makes you more "mom" than others lol), some doctors even took the chance to give advice and exercises for those who just had a c section, all that from just one instagram post, call her "irrelevant" all you want, she's still as powerful as ever imo lol

It's amazing how one small post became hot topic. I'm glad ayu doesn't use her power for something like conspiracy theories

wow I'm so proud of ayu bringing up such important topics! I think Japanese women who had c-section felt this support from ayu.

Oh no! Ayu’s latest IG post says she broke her ankle. I hope she’s okay…and that IG translated her caption correctly.

Oh gosh that is so unfortunate, I hope it's not as serious as it sounds since she's still going with the show and will alter some elements of it. But she also mentioned the setlist stays the same if I understood it correctly. I'm sure she will be fine :)

She'll probably just sit throughout the whole show

I hope she's okay and her ankle heals well!

Ayu going to post something tomorrow at 12:00 (9 hours from this post)

What's the A squad? Is it just her way of referring to her team or have I missed something?