missing preview is so short >.<
One Night Carnival looks funny.
I hope'll get a TV version of the concert soon.

I'm surprised they didn't broadcast or Ustream it, would've been nice.

omg.....where is my return road??!!T_T

OMFG she looked beautiful as EVER

^ thats a good picture!
and ayumi... lol, where did those boobs come from? lol

ayu said who's the real b-i-t-c-h there

So many things change in this tour since the last time i watched it back on 1st July.

The hairstyle, the styling, and there is side stage??? what is that for?

^kiss 'o kill

http://i.imgur.com/EQjFq.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/201...050009-n1.html

so natural and lovely <3 thanks

ayu's adorable feet XD

i really loved the dress! it is like the one that the fairy will wear in the fairyland! xD but yes ^^

what is that picture from?
What song is she preforming?

^ a few posts above it says Missing on the screen

I love that she's wearing no shoes, bare feet Ayu :) I remember she was barefeet performing Virgin Road on RnRC DVD.

^She did?! How could I miss that? I only remember she was barefot under count down and Memorial Address.

yep she did.
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/6990/barefoot.jpg

i remember being surprsed seeing that with this giantic dress....lol i love when she's barefoot.

^

LOL yessss! i was staring at her tiny feet during Virgin Road haha xD

interesting!
thanks for the pictures!

probably a nice push-up bra :D

I'm so glad she had this ponytail and loose hair, I like the wig as well, in general, from the first show photos I hated her look but now she looks amazing!

thank you! i really enjoyed this news report thanx to Ayu and Kishidan :D

anyone knows what Ayu said when she appeared on the stage? like "Ore wa..." something and then the Kishidan leader said the same thing,it's funny :P

It's saying orentoko ni konai ka?
It's like saying "won't you come over here?" or "won't you come to where I am?"
It's a line which is like, you're hitting on someone. ahah.

P.S. Finale setlist is in wrong order at the encore!
HBYA comes after Boys and Girls.

Fixed it!

Ahh, I should have all phones and anything with internet taken from me next time I drink.

Anyhow, I was organising some stuff and thought I'd upload my photos from AT12

Shizuoka:
http://imageshack.us/a/img28/5126/p1040662d.th.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img248/7681/p1040664r.th.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img826/1903/p1040668x.th.jpg

Fukuoka:
http://imageshack.us/a/img547/7015/p1060018.th.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img193/5718/img0457uo.th.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img820/3289/p1060105b.th.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img208/4670/p1060106d.th.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img502/2700/p1060025x.th.jpg

And the message cards they hand out after the concert:
http://imageshack.us/a/img838/381/img0114ea.th.jpg

Looking forward to the DVD of the final :love

JEWELian, thanks for sharing your photos! I'm surprised you managed to take photos inside the venue :-)) BTW they didn't try to give me this card in Fukuoka for some unknown reason. I got it anyway from the girl from AHS I went to the concert with :-)
My photos:
08.11.2012 Marin Messe Fukuoka.
http://imageshack.us/a/img507/4311/dsc0696d.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img831/6425/dsc0626o.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img802/4643/dsc0624e.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img607/3245/dsc0621wh.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img443/5812/dsc0633km.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img203/5152/dsc0632w.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img88/9288/dsc0625fk.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img38/5388/dsc0641db.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img6/7592/dsc0620hc.th.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img826/4568/dsc0619p.th.jpg

No RR? Aw... I hope it will be in the bonus disc or something.

Thank you! wow the understanding the sentence only doesnt mean you really know what she had meant by that,i mean that sentence is for hitting someone! xD

and thank you guys for the pics! made me envy you guys :P

I also forgot to mention...

There was no flowers from Music Station or Waratte iitomo in the road of flowers after the concert...
So I think she and Tamori-san are not in good terms, so I dont think she will ever be on Music Station again...
It's so sad!

That's rather odd... maybe his PR person forgot to send some?

That doesn't really happen in Japan lol They don't just forget things like this

Who does send flowers to Ayu? Most variety shows have been cancelled, so just kind of curious :D

:thud

Well, times sure have changed... No wonder why it's one of the reasons why I'm lacking interest in Ayu...

aww I thought tamori was always like her "otto san" :thud :no :(

Hahahaha, excellent.

I guess that lack of flowers does confirm what people have been saying. It's a pretty big thing to not send some, right?

wondering why they are not in good terms... is it because ayu cancelled being on music station when she stuck in US?
so Tamori-san owns music station??

It's a shame Ayu has damaged so many of her professional relationships with people, her sales are so low she can't afford to continue in an unprofessional way

That's probably why people think so... but it's a bit of a silly reason to considering the circumstances.

I wonder if the flowers were there for the first show? There also tend to be flowers inside the backstage area iirc.

So many? Not that we know whether this is actually true or not...

This. i dont think it makes sense for Tamori and Ayu to not be a good friend or whatever it is, Ayu could not attend Msta at that moment because she just CANT. not that she did it on purpose :thud

and I saw a pic of flowers that had been sent to Ayu to the concert venue,and theres a lot

http://imageshack.us/a/img850/8521/5...7400356590.jpg

I wonder just when the last time they sent her flowers was?

Looking through images where people have posted snippets of the arrangements, I don't see MUSIC STATION for the last few tours.

The MUSIC STATION card is really obvious, so if it's there... you know it's there, haha.

http://puu.sh/1eJtx

I wonder... if Ayu visit MSta this year, will they talk about glasses she wear at Kishidan?) Tamorisan use the same )

here's some photos from the Hotel Love Songs after party that were posted today on Ryan Chan's facebook and by Ayu on her twitter page....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...ps07f5f2b1.jpg
source: https://www.facebook.com/madryanchan

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...ps98fe543c.jpg
source: https://twitter.com/ayu_19980408

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...ps4340654f.jpg
Ayu with Avex founder Max Matsuura
source: https://www.facebook.com/madryanchan

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...psc6e8522c.jpg
source: https://twitter.com/ayu_19980408

I really miss Max Matsuura...what has been going on recently since last year's Twitter fiasco...?

haish..it's really kind of "childish" if they cut the relationship with ayu just because ONE show got cancelled. ayu didn't even do it on purpose. even though it might be ayu's staff's fault for not arranging the schedule right, but still..

ah~ so Music Station did send flowers. and what the card said?
i can't remember katakana~

I didn't notice that but it is strange. Usually there are flowers from every music show. Maybe there really might be something to her not being welcome on certain shows anymore.

the photo of her and max, she looks so pretty!!!!!!!!

Oh what? She's not liked by the music shows?


Looks like AKB needs to teach her to be likable again.


ANYWAYS, yey for the pictures. I like the third one.

Agreed :yes

No no, that was an example of Porno Graffiti's flowers from MS.

lovely pics! thanks for sharing

oops..sorry..
ah too bad T__T

What yummy cake...

But usually music shows are featured prominently. Music Fair, Music Japan, and CDTV were all there. There was no reason for MSte not to have some kind of display.

And yeah, Japanese music programs take last minute cancellations very seriously. Two times Ayu did that... of course, it was totally not her fault, but the TV program has to save face... so yeah. It's really stupid, I agree, but I can definitely believe that it's happened.

Ayu should send them flowers to be allowed back on!

Shu-ya looks so old, he looks nearly as old as PECO. Is he sick?

Thanks for the pictures!!
I live ayu and shuya together

he's the same age as Ayu. I'm surpirsed he and Ayu haven't hooked up, they'd be so cute together.

yeah I love that birthday/after party cake, all the different Ayu's in the costumes from the show...so adorable! they look like little cartoon characters lol I wonder what flavor cake it was.

^
think Shuya said somewhere that hes gay

He's never said it, but I wouldn't be surpised.

What was the kiss o kill performance like? While I love that song, I can't believe they replaced the (argubly) highlight of the concert for me. Return Road was one of those jaw-dropping performances from Ayu. I couldn't imagine this tour being complete without it in the setlist.

Is the return road dress gone from the tour :grumpy

^Most of it.

The bodice is still being used (though slightly modified) and it became a skirt as opposed to a dress.

Even though I like kiss o' kill more than return road, return road made much more sense during that part to me. Oh well.

Just hope its not cut from the DVD/Blu-ray release. In fact, I'd prefer the setlist she's stuck with the entire tour instead of the last show. The PQ-heavy setlist might not seem that great but it was those songs together with the theme that made this year's tour something special.

POWER of MUSIC had some notable performances as tokuten/extras so I think Return Road/call/Letter should get the same treatment. Come on, Ayu~~

I guess this is one of her most versatile tours ever. If you compare CDL and the final is like they are two completely different tours but with the same name lol

I can't recall if she had any other tours like this one, apart from PoM which was always changing too.

love that kiss 'o kill is there^^

They cut call and Letter off the show too? Now I'm freakin' sad, because I love those songs so much and was looking forward to see the performances. Oh well, I just hope they're added into extra material then. :)

I thought that she would sing the song for Urata Naoya... I think call?
Because he was there in the audience. But I was wrong.

Kiss'o'kill was a pretty good performance, but nothing can top the cross in Asia Tour so it was a little disappointing. She just appears at a different location, and instead of her being consumed by the masked people, it's Shuya. Her vocal also wasn't that good for the song, she was oversinging. It wasn't bad, don't get me wrong, but not as good as some of the other songs. Tell me why, reminds me, Sparkle and appears had AMAZING vocals, and surprisingly the Jazz songs were some of the best vocals of the night. Love Song also has pretty good too.

Her vocals were pretty much great throughout the show, except beginning when you could tell she is either nervous or too excited ahaha. song 4 u was pretty good opening, if a little short. Her high notes in all songs were so so good, especially Tell me why and reminds me, and Love song. But I come to the conclusion which is that I absolutely hate this cute cute voice which she does in Ladies Night and I think Step You?... it's worse than her strange vibrato era I think. ahaha.

Perhaps Return Road/call/Letter will be performed during CDL 2012-2013 as the closing for the hotel love songs hence they are taken off the setlist. Then we will get the hotel love songs concerts as a trilogy and the two concerts can be released as special boxset.

ayumi hamasaki COMPLETE LIVE BOX 2012 A ~Hotel Love songs~
DISC 1-2 : ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2012 A ~Hotel Love songs~
DISC 3 : ayumi hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2012-2013 A~Hotel Love songs Final Chapter~
DISC 4 : Hotel Love songs Tour Documentary + MC + Bonus LIVE footage

I hate that she never performs Ladies Night seriously and puts on some ditzy baby voice...she should perform the ~another night~ version and do the song justice. Even the AT06 performance bordered on cute.

^Same. I also hate when she does it for rollin. But everyone is in agreement that's supposed to be some cute song with the stupid dance or something...so.


But Ladies Night definitely takes the cake.

Mh, I like her cute performances.

I like her cute performances too! Just not for those specific songs.

Like I'll go all Angel's Song cute any day...but for those...I think they could be in with her more epically performed songs if she took them seriously.

For rollin' yes, but I think the studio version of Ladies Night has also something cute in it, so I think it works. But to see the ~another night~ version performed would be to good to be true!

hmm no because i think we had enough already for this whole hotel concept,he CDL and then this tour,i want something new and different for CDL please,

ps: Ayu said that Call is for Urata Naoya??

I hope for something like that.. I would love a long two disk version.

That Return Road Live is amazing *___*

(And Letter was for max matsuura)

her voice grew stronger and stronger as the song progressed...really nice :D

Letter was for herself... She kinda confirmed it on an interview

Call being about Naoya is rather strange unless she was in love with him...

Aderianu,
спасибо за ссылку!! Там столько клевых записей с разных ее концертов :-))) Мой вечер удался!

да! там есть poker face! *_*

Yes, I listened to call once more today and realized I confused it with Letter. ahahaha. It would be very strange if it was about him.

But I remember reading in twitter, Urata saying something about some song, and then someone said it's about him... I don't remember, it was pretty long time ago so I can be totally confused. I'm so sorry about that!

I believe it was some song from FIVE... ANother song was based on Naoya's personal life if I remember it right.^^

fairyland from POWER of MUSIC
Poker Face MC performance

^ thanks for the videos!

LOVING these vids! THANKS!

OMG I wanna see those videos! :(

Does anyone know which date is that poker face MC performance from? :)

oh..the videos got removed by the user..Poker Face performance was from the PoM concert in Yokohama

^Thank you so much! I had the audio saved but didn't remember which date it was from and I really wanted to name it correctly. ^^

Can't wait for a DVD :3

^ yes! I would love to have some extras like on PoM DVD

anyone saved the vids or ripped the mp3s? i really want it and poker face was great!

has anyone posted this?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...72940087_n.jpg

^
^ I saved them, can upload tomorrow

I really dont like that outfit or the hair, lol...
Over all, just from the set list (the final) and the outfits I'm not that happy with this tour...

It could change when I see it on DVD of course, but at this time Im glad I didn't get to go.

Aderianu, I think we all would be really grateful for those mp3s :love Thank You!

OH MY ****ING GOD

this was just posted on her twitter page, taken by Ryan Chan. my guess it's from the encore and possibly more photos from the show will pop up shortly from the finale show.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...ps602888c7.jpg
https://twitter.com/ayu_19980408