Have you gotten an e-mail for the 29th already then?

I recieved an email for the 29th show. :)

Yes, yesterday.

rehearsal

http://i.imgur.com/WiCeHidl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Qo6IvX0l.jpg

TA updated with new video of ayu rehearsing for CDL
wow ayu is going to do more tissude dance herself!

That was expected, but still yay!!!

^yea, that was expected but I'm excited she finally do that after years of having other people doing it lmao.

I hope she got some 'new weapons' up her sleeves.

Do we know if there will be a center stage this year? If there is, my seats....*hyperventilates*

can someone upload the video from the Team Ayu ?? :)

Got my tickets! I hope it's a center stage!! lol

I just love what I saw in the vid and I am really really sad that I am not able to see this live (started to cry when I watched the vid on TA :scry). It really looks epic.

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This.

She will have the tissude dance in CDL again ? Oh yay, she is wonderful
I have the vision that the dance belongs to "Walk"

Hearing the new single makes me excited for CDL :D I hope all three songs get a performance

I can see Ayu singing "Walk" in nice (or not) sparkling white dress standing on stage alone
fake snow and male dancer or pair on another small stage

I went to 7/11 to take my tickets. Now I'm curious if my seats are good. We won't see a map of the stage before the live right?

Anyway my seats are:

アリーナ　A6ブロック　２１・２２番　(that would be translated as Arena, Block A6 N°21-22)　for the 12/29

南Bブロック　１階　１１列　７・８番　(South B Block, Floor 1, Row 11, N°7-8) for the 30/12

I was seated on Arena A6 Block last year! It was pretty good seat near the main stage but too far from the center stage. Not too far from the catwalk thoigh :)

I am so distraught that I'm not going. Like, feeling like it's somewhere I SHOULD BE BUT AM NOT. Lol I will definitely go if she does a tour starting in april or whatever.

Is someone gonna stalk the rehearsals and tell us what songs they hear like last year?!

Yes:-)

My last concert was Rock 'n' Roll Circus and it was epic, now it'll be Cirque de Minuit, I have a feeling it will be epic as well, I really hope for all ballads from the new single :)

So is the FC ticket for 31st show is ready to be picked up too?

Sure, since yesterday.

This year countdown looks so cool.... Hope next year I can watch countdown live...

where will it be , yoyogi again?

Yoyogi has always been Ayu's "headquarters" for her concerts since i don't know. :)

Yeah, I have to wonder...why Yoyogi and nothing else? I know Tokyo Dome's reserved for Johnny's Countdown (despite the fact that this year it's "B-rated" that even Fuji TV doesn't want to broadcast it, mainly because lack of "AAA-rated" Johnny's artists such as Kis-My-Ft2 and Arashi), but...anything else?

Why fix something that isn't broken? Yoyogi is perfect.

^agree with you, Chris

Don't lots of artists do countdown lives anyway? It's probably not that easy to book a big arena for those dates lol

they do? I have never heard of a single artist besides ayu doing one. concerts that coincidentally happen to fall on NYE don't count, either.

^ Johnny's, KAT-TUN, ...BREAKERZ I think? Sakamoto Maaya whoever she is... I'm just glancing at google but I think they are an actual "thing" in Japan and not just an Ayu thing.

Yes, also Kotoko has CDL and usually KinkI Kids.

I think FLOW does one too.

Do you think she'll perform Movin on without you? I'd die for that

On Team Ayu there is supposedly some documentary showing aerial exercises for coming countdown :o

Doesn't Seiko Matsuda have annual New Years Eve concerts as well?

That'd be perfect as a main concert/encore opener :yes

She hasn't had one for a few years I believe, but she did do a CDL for a long time. I think the last one was when she had a live streamed performance of her and her daughter for Kouhaku.

HELP! Where can I get second-hand tickets??

Fingers crossed the goods are announced tomorrow/asap

^ omg yes please, and that there are Ayupans

also want ayupans...but kind of weird if they just produce them for this CDL for just ignore PS from earlier this year...hm...

Nothing at TA this morning, only a week to go before the CDL. It's normal for them to be announced rather close to the concert though, isn't it?

CDL 2010-2011 goods was announces 22th December
CDL 2011-2012 - 26th
CDL 2012-2013 - 27th
CDL 2013-2014 - 24th

I got a pair of ticket on 31st.
South 1st floor ,Zone F row 8 Seat 1-2.
Anyone knows if it's a okay section?

They just uploaded this on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6vY0bcr0g

seems it's the same video that was posted on TeamAyu

Ayu so tempted to show this to everyone =)


and photo from rehearsal
http://i.imgur.com/eAFdjfM.jpg

They are pretty good seats. You're pretty much in the middle of the first floor, and row 8 is great. If it's a circular stage you've hit the jackpot, if it's the usual stage, you still get a great view, and you should be directly in front of the end of the catwalk.

This documentary!!! She will do some fantastic stuff, Ayu is putting so much work :o i want to see results now!

Wow so excited to see some serious effort put in for the tour. She is always lovely to see live, sans the old Shuya-Ayu-reaching-into-the-distance-scenes

so cool that they uploaded it on her YT too now!



this is just another "shuya-ayu" moment though >.<

just give her the credit omg lol

Ayu deserves so much respect for enduring these in such a short time.
the moves may be recycled for the new tour next year but it would be really amazing..kinda hurts to see her doing this >< hope people actually see that she is TRAINING for it

after daily band rehearsal
rehearsal with dancers started

http://i.imgur.com/pHzJNPD.jpg

^
^ ikr?! She's training to do something beautiful, something she's not used to and it hurts her physically, it's so great imo she got into this, wish everybody could appreciate her efforts in this

you know? i somehow feel like the Ayu i fell in love with is back. She really is putting a lot of effort into this. I mean i know she has done that all the time but this whole new single era feels so right for me.

Though she really looks like she lost quite a bit of weight...

Learning new things is hard. I'm glad she seems to have good coaches. I assume the lady is the same woman who's page she likes on her facebook who does aerial dance things. Proud of her for doing this training to grow as a performer.

I just wonder if Ayu is doing it ONLY because it's hard... I mean if her audience would rather she do something new that doesn't hurt her or take so much work, wouldn't it be better if she did that?

I dunno, I love that she tries so hard but it's hard for me not to be concerned about her trying TOO hard. Her ear, for example - that was reversible for years but she didn't get it corrected in time in the name of "professionalism." I don't want her to hurt herself trying to do something half her audience is tired of seeing, you know?

I just hope if she's working this hard, she really loves doing it and really does think it's cool, rather than out of some "I have to do this for the audience!" sense of obligation.

I'm sure she's fine and also that it's not that serious, like, it's hard work but nothing uneasonable and moderate pain sometimes just comes with the territory of many performing arts. I think ayu is doing this because she thinks it will be a nice addition to the show and the theme. I assume. I hope she actually sticks with the concept but does something interesting with it. This makes me think so. It may be partially her thinking it's fun and a way for her to grow as a performance and partially her thinking fans will like it, whether or not that is true. I'm sure whatever she "thinks" fans will like will always factor in.

Her hair looks wonderful tho

I tried that aerial art. It is very difficult and painful.

ayu has to hold herself in the air with her core, and she has to sing to perform in the air too. Damn....

Wow! What an exciting thing she's trying out! No wonder she's in such good shape if she's doing stuff like that.

But seriously, I was almost too distracted by how attractive she was to care about the cool acrobatics (?) she was learning. Her hair + her figure is just... Mind boggling but in a good way... XD

Admittedly I am coming at this with a bias against unnecessary showmanship lol...

I understand many of her fans do love the bigger shows (as shown by the disappointment with how "small" a show AT09 was compared to AT08 a few years back), but man... I just want everything she does up there to be meaningful, it doesn't have to be awesome or cool, and I don't like the idea of her hurting herself to impress all of us if she doesn't have to.

That said I totally agree that she looks incredible, and if doing all this work results in her being in such great shape, that's awesome for her! haha :)

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she is really hard working to learn the difficult aerial art dance!
good luck to her and can't wait to see how it turns out!
and i wonder in which song she'll perform with it..
we have seen tons of aerial dance by her dancers, so i'm glad that we gonna watch the same thing again but with ayu doing it by herself.. that's already very interesting for me... like the angel performance in CDL. that's super awesome.

I want to tell ayu that if she wants to hurt herself to satisfy her fans who complain everything she did, please don't do it. Those people are losers.

im sure the next question here coming after this is "Did she sing live while performing this?"...I.DONT.CARE

Haha, I assumed she wouldn't because...well gosh, that seems like it would be just incredibly difficult. I wouldn't hold it against her if she doesn't.

Her latest TA entry has me sooooo excited. Ayu is putting her everything into this CDL and I have no doubt she won't fail to deliver. :luv2

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I swear, these outfits better not be tacky af.

Hoping for nice looks

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So I heard one old song during rehearsal, the one I really wanted her to sing:-) the rockish one;-)

You said too much !! What is this song ?? XD
what song can it be ? GAME, Alterna, Endless sorrow, Heartplace ??
Did you heard something else ? :D

Alterna or die

^PLEASE BE IT D:

Almost no screaming!!! I can feel her vocals have improved. It's too cold to keep listening to rehearsal:-)

born to be!!! Pleaase let this stay in the setlist for tomorrow!!! :luv2

Waiiii!!! That is amazing set so far!

Please use spoiler tags:-)

Indeed, I long for this song to be properly documentarized for the second time :yes and it screams circus

Oh, I totally forgot! Now I have to take back my words that she won't perform this particular song.
Yes, she did sing it.

Knew it^ ! Fuck yeah! Sounds like it'll be an energetic show

I'll be supremely pissed if "Walk" isn't performed

born 2 be! Yay :)

The setlist could be realy nice

what a sad tracklist

excited!! can't wait for the full setlist and costumes photos

http://youtu.be/Ocf6rUMTAYU
Part 2 of documentary from official YouTube, seems to be a lot of dancing, CANT WAIT :D

OMG THE WHIP CHOREO! my name's WOMEN?!?!?! omggg

there was one part where the dancers were dancing so intensely it was amazing haha

So much effort, i can't wait to see the result

I saw my name's women and XOXO
I wonder wich song shes gone use those round things

Yep, I'm pretty sure my name's WOMEN will be in there :luv2 And some of the dancing did look great.



I do hope all the single tracks get a performance unless she is saving them for the next Arena Tour.