Sunrise should be in, and i'm predicting Boys & Girls and maybe Rule.

As much as i have to admit that ayu is getting a little more chubby, and wish that she will be more careful with her figure(n outfit), but i can't help thinking that at least she's still very healthy and having a good diet, unlike some artists who get too obess about the figure and end up with eating disorder.....(>_<)

^Yeah thats true. Please don't get that skinny-only-muscles-body-that-will-make-you-end-up-lookin'-creepy-a-la-madonna-body...

^ LOL I agree! :yes But I'm still getting worried, everytime I look at Ayu she seems like she has an illness. Of course it's not meant in a bad way, but she doesn't seem all that healthy anymore to me. Or maybe she's just working too hard and too much?
Anyway, back on topic, the setlist is OK, though Rule seems a bit odd to have on a-nation to me... I'm quite sure her performance is wonderful. :luv2 I'd love to be there to hear it! All the outfits are fine to me, though the mermaid dress doesn't fit her figure. The Rule/ASfXX outfit is epic! :love Same to the encore outfit, though the blue dress seem rather cliched. It's still very nice. :)

three more pics nothing special

http://i27.tinypic.com/2vdis8y.jpg

http://i28.tinypic.com/30xbz7s.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/35d870z.jpg

"Thanks to a friend: She forgot the first few lyrics in Greatful days.. TO BE sounded really good, only bad thing was the outfit. She looks thin as well."

Actually, it is saying that the costumes were really surprising because they thought she had lost weight, but it looks like she gained much weight...
ahahaha.
I dont really understand, she looks fine...

i dont really like ayu's hair.. it looks kinda 80's.

She looks like Peco on the Rule outfit, with that hairstyle. Why doesn´t she gets rid of that black latex costume already? It´s horrible and makes her look like a brick.

She´s been looking so weird lately... that hair... omg xD

Loving the setlist, loving the outfits, and loving the hair!!!!!!!!!!

yea ayumis style isnt all too flattering this year imo T-T i mean i thought she looked great in the sunrise/sunset PV :luv2 but not much after that. her bangs are usually realli cute for example:

i think the thing that makes her look diff is 1)her bangs are cut shorter than usual 2) its cut straight from ear to ear sorrie for my BAD artistic skills LOL
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I thought the same when I saw the pictures.
She looks so dam thin (and fine) in Sunrise PV and the pics in her diary before.
And now the (horrible) blue dress... she really looks like she had gained much weight. Is it really just the clothes?
It also looks like she has less tan in the a-nation pics. Might be a reason, too.

p-chan1986:
I also love this a-nation 2006 outfit, Ayu looked damn hot there! :heart

^ True but nothing can beat her AWESOME 2005 fu**in' body! <3
She was slim but still reallly healthy with an amazin waist and so on!

Wow. Have I really not posted here yet? LOL

Setlist is good! Although Rule is a little confusing, but I hope it's okay.
ASFXX is getting a little over-played though. That's fine though, although nothing can beat the 2008 performance of it! That was amazing.
I LOVE BLUE BIRD! Can't wait to hear it! TO BE is another one of my favourites, glad she's performing it. Greatful Days is okay. Boys & Girls is a classic. :D
Glad she's also performing July 1st and Sunrise. I am a little sad to see no Sunset, but Sunrise is good enough. :)

The Rule/ASFXX outfit is nice...but it's also kind of gross. Looks better than the one for the tour anyway...or was that changed? I hate her fringe.
The blue mermaid dress for TO BE is nice. The skirt is very nice and I love her stomach.
The blue dress with the ruffles is gorgeous, this is for BLUE BIRD?
Then the outfit for the rest is is hot. I love the hat. So she changes her outfit for the first four songs then performs the rest in the last one?

My favourite is either the Greatful Days one or the BLUE BIRD dress...

i agree ayu is putting on some weight~

^ She can't be any more than 50 KG though. She's as thin as me and I'm 45 kg. :P

Ayu has indeed put on some weight but she still looks great, very energetic. You don't have to be thin to look good. Btw, that pic of Madonna... so freaky.

There are some photoshoped madonna's pics on internet released by tabloids, she looks fine:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...Vhquo1g?size=l

About ayu... She looks fine too... o.O

woah, you people must be crazy or i must be blind. she looks thin to me @_@

Well, when Ayu's skinny, she's too thin to people. When she's just fine, people think she's fat.. and when she's fat, people say she looks just fine.

How warped, haha.

Hi, I was at a-nation 8/1 and I must say it was way better than her concert tour. PERFECT vocals, very very powerful! Great song selection (A Song for xx, BLUE BIRD, TO BE -- omg! <333). The whole audience was energetic and jumping and screaming! Very very good performance. Also, no lip syncing this time! :D

She is indeed thin but for some people she has been better. Given her stature I think she is more beautiful when she is very thin (even in 2001 when she was "too" thin, even a bit unhealthy, she looked really great). Yet everyone's mind is different as regards what's beautiful and what's not...

^Good to hear she sounded great!

I'm glad you liked it ^__^ thank you very much for the info!!

ayu's vocals <3

Definitely needs better clothing and hair choices. I'm usually proud of what she puts out, but at least the vocals have been good.

^_^

Hm, I don't wish to sound fanatic, but her hair and outfits looked impressive in real life to me. The BLUE BIRD dress was very sparkly and pretty, and her large Rule/A Song for xx hair looked very cool.

Yeah I really liked the new hairystyle ayu tried with the rockish outfits.

Someone here said it reminds of Peco, I agree positively :laugh
The dress looked classy and I love the encore outfit too, it's cute with the summer logo.
I also noticed she wears gloves along with the hat so it went out really cute eventually as it seems.

As usual, it's one of those had-to-be-there setlists, haha.

It should look better in motion.

Its more that she is really wearing outfits here that exentuate her lack of hips and waist. (especially the black onepiece and blue two piece) However, in 2003-2005 it seemed she was really in slim fit shape because I remember her waist looking awesome then.

The hairstyle is not that new...just my name's women with bangs...but I love it though. :D

Well yeah it's just longer and fuller.
Looks sexy ;)

Thanks RPGames~ Glad she sounds great! The costumes are ok. I think her bangs look weird but it doesn't really matter :)

The 'rule' outfit looks awesome with her hair down! I think all the outfits look really good, and so does her hair! And it's good to know that her voice sounded good as well! :)

I feel as though these candid photos make her look bad. The a-nation '05 candids are pretty bad imo too and she looked hot in that outfit.. -sigh-.

http://i28.tinypic.com/2lo5elv.jpg

for "TO BE" was she doing that fake 'sad' acting again? from the pictures it looks like that :(

identity: I noticed this too...she doesn't need to TO BE is a happy song. :|

Yea it reminds me a lot of her 2000-ish hair. I don't think the outfits are bad at all, though the mermaid one isn't all that great.

i really dislike it and it's unnecessary. and i hope she isn't "reaching for shuya" again. :no

i'm glad to hear that her vocals are good, i hope she keeps it up!

God yeah. I want more of Maroka. Shu-ya isn't liked any more. :(

I think I'm kind of disappointed Shu-ya is going to be dancing for TO BE...it doesn't need choreography. XD

none of her ballads do and he's still there :laugh :gun

LOL I'd like to see him dance for Curtain call. :P

MARO has talked about a-nation on his personal blog and he has posted this pic :


so nice! :D

too much cleavage, girlie.

on the other hand, that blue is a great color. and TO BE sounds like an odd, random choice amongst those others.

Nice set list! Seems pretty diverse to me!

Those are some iiiinteresting outfits though. The blue "mermaid" one especially... :lech

I like she sang Rule but why they tracklist almost all same with last year tracklist like grateful days, july 1st, ASFXX

Usually at least half the tracklist is recycled from the first a-nation performance and a-nation '03.. haha. HANABI / Greatful / July 1st / Boys&Girls.. etc..

I rather watch Maro dance (he was so awesome in pcdl~) than Shuya...>_>...seriously Maro is better looking and dances better than Shuya...the only thing is his height...if only he was taller like Shuya...then maybe ayu will give him more solos.

thanks for sharing the photos.. i love her encore outfit.. the blue sailor cap look realli good on ayu.. kawaii ^^ the blue mermaid outfit is ok for me.. at least these r new outfits as compared to the next level tour

Still no footage? =[

Quick FYI, but we won't get any footage until the final.

Well, you're certainly right, other artists do that to, but I don't like that as well. :laugh
Ayu could choose a lot of other songs which would fit perfectly... Fly High, Unite!, evolution, Inspire, Trauma, independent, Hanabi... they're all classics and very popular among her fans and casual listeners. It's ok that there's one song which is repeated every year, just lika a kind of tradition (for TRF Survival Dance for example). But she has almost the same setlist as last year and this is a bit bland.

the setlist is ok...but i wish ayu can sing more tracks from NEXT LEVEL

^ Well there are chances we'll only see 2-3 "recycled" performances anyways, depending on which ones they air and release on a DVD.

To speak a word of fairness, Shu-ya just dances to what he's told to dance. I mean he doesn't choreograph his dances; other people do. If the dance looks lame or whatever (believe me, I roll my eyes at the flailing too), it's not exactly his fault...

omg, the blue two pieces....make her look plumper.

and forgive me to say this, ayu's upper arms look so "strong"...

@naxxo I love you! That was honestly hilarious... I love them both actually, but... :laugh this is made of win.

LOL great job!!

i think a lot people are really fed up with Shu-ya's role.

not me =(

Do Japanese fans like Shu-ya?

:laugh omg nacho, I wish I could put that on my facebook.

Maro is hot. I don't want to see anymore sweaty Shu-ya with his irritating gay hairstyle and monkey dancing on the stage.

Nope. They always complain about him in their blogs. :P

Nacho: loooooool. XD

Wow, people complain a lot. If it isn't about single covers its about setlists. If not setlists then costumes. If not costumes then Shu-ya. Like WTF?

Anywho, I like how this years a-nation is looking. The setlist is cool (although I would have liked Sparkle) and I like the costumes. I even like Shu-ya's dancing :P

I actually love Shu-ya... he's my kind of guy. But it's good that so many people hate him! Less competitors. :P

Um oh, actually the blue dress looks really pretty, but when she takes it off to reveal her bra... it's well, her boobs are so big that they make her look "chubby" or whatever it is... at least that's how I see it. ^^

^ Ayu's boobs are weird. In the Sunrise she barely had any but now she has boobs again. XD

@ Maemi...that's not a nice adjective to use.

Watch it.

Lurker usually, but I have to say that I think Ayu looks so healthy and happy in these photos...seriously, this is the most attractive I've found her in the years I've been following her.

i love these especially the first 2 :laugh
her acting is too much, it just makes me laugh and i don't think that's what she is trying to do.. or maybe it is :shrug

people always do :yes i hope i don't seem like i am. i'm frightened that one day i'll wind up like a lot of the people here who only complain. anyone has permission to slap me if i get too bad~

this a-nation seems like it's going to be really good though.. i can't wait to see the Rule & ASFXX performances

@Furashubakku Which one? I used more than one. Anyway, their purpose wasn't to insult, but to ... describe in a harsh way. Sorry if I insulted you.
@Evolution7/4 Watch what? Shu-ya? Oh well, it's not that I care or hate, I can't avoid him anyway because he's everywhere - PVs & lives. I'm not gonna stop listening or watching Ayu's lives because I find him irritating.

^ ena mislilu su na gay...

I wouldn't mind never again seeing Shu-ya destroy another ballad performance. I try to ignore him and his facial expressions most of the time.

Maemi gay is a homophobic word. A lot of people on this forum are homosexual, and we do not appreciate people using words such as "gay" in a negative way. Also evolution was referring to your homophobic comment. You may not have meant to offend, but you certainly have.

ID: I think it'll be interesting to see. She performs the chorus acapella again I guess? My, Ayu is loving her acapella. :D

Oh that! Yes, you're right, I'm really sorry to everyone. That's for sure some bad hairstyle... :( You can count one less negative adjective^^

i don't think i'll ever get sick of that lol. it just adds something special to the performance. i wonder if she still is singing it like "ROO!"

The only song I could do without is Grateful Days. Other than that a great setlist, esp To Be!

mi|kshake~

THIS!!! is made of win! :D
NAMBA WAN... i laughed my ass off bc of that. genious! XD

btw: me thinks ayu looks very thin :( give this girl a rest!!
she's not supposed to look anorexic! :tired

At the concerts many girls and a few guys always shout SHUUUYAAAAA so I dont know. lol

Shuya, Zin, and Maro get the loudest catcalls IIRC.

I'm glad to know Japan is getting more liberal. :P

Liked the tracklist
Liked most outfits (minus the mermaid disaster)
I like Shuiya, IMO he is a good dancer, and I don't really get all the hating on him (or the other dancers, or the band, or anyone who touches ayu... I think this is a little freaky, actually)

^ I know right. The dancers are probably another marketing scheme as well, who knows. TA loves her dancers/band members, probably. XD

Really? I guess it kinda depends on what you search for then, because I found a lot of blogs that are in love with him :P

And that's great! One day she should do acoustic concerts or something...

Well, not everyone can hate him. ;)
It's just generally I've seen negativity. :P

Yes! I would love that. Imagine an acoustic orchestra version of Sunset. :heart

I love the tanktop and shorts outfit. that cap is really cute, and the belt <3

she looks thin to me, but her arms are a little buff lol,
i can imagine her arm-wrestling w/ her dancers lol

where/how do you get tickets for this?

I was told they have those ticket machines in convenience stores where you could buy the a-nation tickets.

omg I love her outfits!!!
thanks a lot for this thread^^

a-nation 2009.08.08

01. Rule
02. A Song for ××
03. BLUE BIRD
04. Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～
05. TO BE
06. Boys & Girls
07. Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～
08. July 1st

Yay! Time to add this information to the first page!

Hope, will not be any changes in the tracklist

Greatful days was axed.

It was most likely to promote the new single a bit more. Considering the last year's a-nation had Greatful Days, it won't be missed XD

I spot that train-wreck of a hairstyle in the background of the photo... hahaha

Thank god greatful days is gone haha.

Woooot :) I love July 1st (regular) and TO BE.

Yeah beautiful pics I like her outfit ! no video?

Hmm? Regular? Haha.

http://i31.tinypic.com/11qtyip.jpg

Ahaha, Aki-chan.

at last Sunset was sung...smash hit promotion!

So...there's onloy Boys & Girls now for while driving in the car? Did the cart get scrapped or will she be driving during Sunrise too? It'd be pretty weird if she did that..