Had a blast at the show - slight pity about the lack of “big announcement”, but the show itself was excellent.

Set list seemed to have a really rock vibe to it.

Highlights for me were 100% the opening and Tell All.

The ballad section a bit of a let down to be honest, I think something like Jewel instead of Beloved maybe would have made it better for me, I dunno. Overall vocals were great, she lost it a bit at the start of Heartplace but that is a difficult song I suppose.

Low point was Humming 7/4, such an awful song hahaha

Edit: Also Ayu’s mother was in the first row of the stand, before Ayu came on she was waving and everyone was screaming for her lol

Regardless what people say, it may be big news on a way but was it really necessary to make such a big deal about it. I guess that is what flips people off, including me. Also it isn’t that hard to get around in Japan since she played in a lot of big city. “Excluding” is a bit dramatic when talking about fabs from certain prefectures. In Germany bigger acts usually only play in the same three big cities.

90% of her fanbase are Japanese, so of course they'd be at the front of her mind when she does stuff and makes announcements. I can definitely imagine this being big news for her japanese fans and that's her core fanbase. Not sure why she chose to announce that in English though.

Edit: for all we know, the big "news" might've been her finally letting go of hating hamasaki ayumi, which may sound trivial to some, but this kind of acceptance can be a huge stepping stone for a person, and hence it would be a big deal for her

I had that thought too but since she announced that 4 month ago this whole “mental barrier” thing isn’t as huge anymore if you choose to make a show out of it. Don't get me wrong - it may be huge for her to do that but the whole circumstances woukd take away from that.

in love with this setlist seriously :love

and i'll def try to attend one of the dates, it's the best opportunity for me, ive never been to japan

Some videos of the show on bilibili

We are the QUEENS and MR
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ss...om=333.999.0.0

Not gonna lie, it’s not the kind of news I want. If she make it like new song for each part of japan for the tour, that would be a more impactful big news

alterna

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV11h...om=333.999.0.0

Seeing Yo-chan and Ayu got me teared up

https://i.postimg.cc/VN3Grd6m/atashi...-FBpz-Y-10.jpg

I would always hope for a Asia tour. That was suppose to happen in 2021 rite. But it didn’t.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12k4y1v71X/
End Roll - As If - Dolls - Aerial

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ms...card.all.click
VIBEES so much fun!

Heartplace + alterna with english subs
https://t.me/ayutubebr/59

Well, I just came back to my hotel after the show and I need to say it was a wonderful experience. It was the kind of show I was expecting to see when I came to the 20th anniversary.

The setlist is already here so it came with some fan favorites, all her commemorative songs and her usual staples. The outfits were great (although some of the dancers were recycled from CDL as I noticed) and it had the anniversary “feeling”. Let me explain.

Before GAME, she made a mashup of many tour videos, finishing with the GAME video from AT2005, so the performance of it as well as My Name Is Women were recreations from the AT05. I thought at that moment that she was going to do something like Best of CDL. But didn’t happen. Instead, she created new performances and all the show interludes were remixes or instrumentals of many songs, and they were well mixed and blended.

There are all around the show some snippets and reuses of some of her previous works. Like, in Alterna, the idea of Real Me’s MV puppets is there. On evolution, the screen uses the single’s font. On Mirrorcle World, the AT08’s ship appears on the screen. You can feel that she put some work on it.

I don’t know if they already returned on the CDL but the live band is on. :)

My only complaint was the audio quality at the arena. It was so loud and sometimes it was very difficult to hear anything. Since there are some noisy songs, when they put it live it was a total mess :P

Her voice was good in most part of the show (beloved was incredible since she could listen herself well enough), she nailed the new songs (VIBEES and Just The Way You Are) and the lowest part definitely was As If, she tried to emulate a higher pitch and it was off and she was kinda lost at this song. Ah, Lady Dynamite was definitely my personal favorite with all the drags on stage representing her at different eras.

So, to sum up, an incredible show. I missed A Song for XX but well, she sang in many others shows so it’s ok hahaha
I can’t wait to watch the concert again, it was an epic experience since I was on the first seat next to the central stage. Never thought in my life that I would watch her so close. :luv2

Looking forward to see the full show !!!! please a streaming / drive version :p

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1pm4y1B7H4/
LQ

Dolls performance was breathtaking, with the great vocals and the air spectacle. Even the background was so fitting to the overall atmosphere. Also, we finally got As if..!!

thank you for the link. Waiting for a better quality but nice to discover the show :)

That is why I recommended ear plugs. I was wearing them and could enjoy and hear everything without distortion or hurting my ears.

Same! I haven't seen an Ayu concert in a while so I was like "Where's Enrique? WHERE'S YOCCHAN!?!?" It was so sweet to see him delivering her flowers. Their on stage energy is so warm and inviting.

I also loved when her mama mode kicked in holding the lil child. That alone would have convinced me that she would announce retirement 😂

Hikaru in My name is woman, the best LGBTIQ+ moment !!!

I love Vibees on CD but in live it so much better ! Loved watching Ayu dancing on it, the song was perfect !!

Yea her holding the child was so cute!!! I almost thought it was her son. 😂

I love this big news actually :D

I had experience living for 1 year in Sapporo (Hokkaido) in 2012-2013 and I remember Namie came there with her 20th-anniversary dome tour and also AKB48 and Arashi came but ayu never did. if I was still living there, I would be sooo happy and excited! :luv2

I kinda love this idea of touring every 47 prefectures in Japan. makes me think that she wants to gain back her popularity in Japan :P I'm so relieved she didn't announce her retirement or didn't say that tour would be the last. I guess she'll be like Seiko Matsuda, not like Namie Amuro. I only hope that her health will be OK so she can manage all concerts in all prefectures without any problems :heart

Agreed! That was the biggest and best surprise of the night!

Also the fact that Hikaru is th first words in my name's WOMEN makes it even more hilarious (i bet it was done on purpose) :D

The Yochan surprise was very real for Ayu.

Interesting fact: Yochan said that the new guitarist is his kohai!

thank you, this was how I've been taking the news, as well. the all-47-prefecture tour is unprecedented ("first") and probably not something she will attempt again ("last"). to me, the news makes sense. plus I'm just relieved that she wasn't announcing a retirement.

The show was great but it wasn't my favourite. I think it was just because I got shafted with bad seats again. I cried when Yochan gave her the flowers!

I'm glad she's doing a tour of all of the prefectures. It gives me more of a chance to get better seats and I don't have to fly up to Tokyo, haha. I'm currently groggy in the airport.

The Heartplace is sooo good. And the Alterna too. I need a videos of them with eng lyrics. What do people do nowadays to add lyrics to videos?

I don’t know how vocals sounded on abrma TV but in the arena, she sounded fine and even if she didn’t on the high notes, it was nearly impossible to tell as the music was so loud the sound was distorted. But it wasn’t bothering me, it was just really loud, loved the live band sound over pre-recorded anytime

I had terrible seats, 2nd floor towards the back lol.
And the screens were barely visible, and I could barely make out her face lol

But, I’m glad I went. I was very happy and surprised to see Yocchan :heart

I guessed the surprise though haha it’s really a great thing for her to do for her Japanese fans. I plan to go to a few of the shows! Would looove to go to one in Okinawa and combine it with a little vacation haha.

In terms of the set list though, well… honestly a bit sad she didn’t sing any of the songs during the strings section. Literally all the ones I was hoping to hear lol. But I loved Lady Dynamite, and was happy to hear Game, alterna and heartplace!

OK, I am going to receive hate for this as always, but it was an ordinary Ayu concert vocal-wise. Ear plugs let me hear all her misses. She did very good on some ballads, singing in a quiet way, but overall lots of screaming, going off-key, improper technique, baby voice, forced vibrato, struggling with high notes, etc. Nothing like her pre-recorded TV performances which tend to be actually good. But the show itself was very enjoyable. It felt great to be allowed to sing along again. We were going wild during the remix section. And dancers came to our seats multiple times.
Camera operator was next to us and he was filming 2 foreign girls in cosplay. He zoomed in into a necklace for like a minute.
Monitors with song lyrics were very visible on stages, it was fun to watch them.
MC was very funny, especially when ayu asked if Yocchan planned to eat the whole cake. And holding a baby moment was adorable.

Although I did feel a little bit sad when she announced the 47 tours in Japan instead of Asia Tour(fan from Taiwan), later I thought her fans across Japan didn't miss her less than us, of course she will need to meet them before she goes on any further tour plans...

Cuz I'm also the fan of Adele, I had already give up the thought that she will hold a world tour LOL

Anyways I've been waiting for Ayu fro 15 years, I can still wait...LOL

Is my string of crap seats to do with how long I've been in the fan club? I have had membership since 2021. I haven't had good seats since I was an international fan club member in 2018 and flew from overseas.

My seats weren’t great but weren’t bad and I only joined TA the day the ticket lottery application started so think it’s all random.

I've heard the international fans get better seats. Did you apply from overseas or within Japan?

Global TA for my case, was yours using TA Japan?

I got my best tickets on japanese TA (there was no global one back then), 2nd time on global they were pretty fine. 3rd/4th (both PoM18) were not that good, also global

Did someone ripped the Abema broadcast?

I found it on Bilibili but quality is not the best.

Just off topic. I realised blackpink concert was held on the 8th at Tokyo dome too. Cos I saw some ayu fans mentioning they wanted to go for blackpink’s tour, but they skip it cos of ayu.

thank you for sharing the videos and impressions of the concert =)

They performed on the 9th as well, both at Tokyo Dome. I wanted to go but missed out on tickets as they were using the anypass app which I couldn't register with an android phone.

That’s not what that means. She wrote, “I hate ‘Hamasaki ayumi’”. Tore it up and threw it away. Meaning she has decided to embrace her stage/product persona.

I had great seats right next to VIP area. Naoya was there as well as her mother. Was personally hoping for Gackt but oh well.

I think that is what Aderianu meant with: 'and going to stop it', to stop hating Ayumi Hamasaki.

‘Stop hating Ayumi hamasaki’ does that refers that to herself to stop hating herself? Or was it meant for the everyone else to stop hating her?

Herself to stop hating her Ayumi Hamasaki side, coming from 'Ayu'

came back to watch some of the night performances and wow, she was vibrant, it must've been awesome to experience this concert just like everyone is saying, can't wait for the bd release :love

Someone has the concert in HD ??
I would like to watch it !

Decided to log in and not at all surprised to see people complaining about the announcement. Hilarious to me that so many people still held on the idea she was retiring, even though she basically said she wasn't. The news was always going to be a big tour or some sort.

Concert was awesome.
Off-topic: Blackpink the next night was also quite good. Holy cow that crowd was insane.

At the Instagram stories next day she wrote
"I've been ashamed to be Ayumi Hamasaki for a long time"
"I threw it away yesterday"

I was really curious abt blackpink one too. It must have been pretty high production since they are currently popular worldwide.

It was honestly an amazing show. I’m very happy I was able to see her! I was seated near her mother too.

If anyone didn't get the email, 25th Anniversary goods are back online for sale - shipping around June. Including the keychain.

Someone has a link (drive or...) to watch it in HD ?

Today, April 11, 19:00~.
TeamAyu (ayumi hamasaki) Official Shop
mu-mo store
will start resale of "ayumi hamasaki 25th Anniversary LIVE" official goods.
"Phone tab + neck strap" and "Charm key holder" which were sold out immediately at the venue due to their great popularity will also be available!
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Please note that some items will not be available for resale.
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For more details, please visit the following website.
https://avex.jp/ayu/goods/detail.php?id=1002131

The following items will go on sale at the same time
ayumi hamasaki 25th Anniversary POPUP STORE" goods
Don't miss the "ayumi hamasaki x BASEMENT TOKYO" collaboration items!
Don't miss out on the "ayumi hamasaki x BASEMENT TOKYO" collaboration items!

Basement stuff was sold out in a heartbeat, also the LOVE BOAT mirrors.
But not only the key holder and phone tag went back on sale, also the shirts, towel, whristband, nearly everything (except the penlight and stickers I think)

I second that :love

will get me a black tee =P

What a great show! It definitely felt like it was for the fans as it wasn't as staple heavy as the 15th anni show! Alterna!! As If & Dolls were very unexpected too and WOW what a moment with Lady Dynamite!

The only songs I could have done without were You & Me and Beloved. Beloved doesn't do a lot for me and I felt a better ballad could have taken it's place. You & Me I do enjoy but it being after Leilo just made it feel like any other Ayu concert to me instead of an anniversary show.

I actually really enjoyed the aerial stunts too. I usually find it a bit cliche (kinda feel everyone started doing it after Pink did but I'm prob exaggerating there!) but it really worked here and looked stunning!

From hearing folks' thoughts on Just The Way You Are I wasn't expecting to be my sort of song but I am enjoying it more on the album than I thought and is a good concert ender!

ayu x BASEMENT ayupan Tee
it’s sold out at mumo

But it is available at cd japan
If like to order
All the sizes available

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEODAI-160611

Im still having withdrawal symptoms from the concert. Everything was perfect and I really want to see her again soon!!!

Loved the live! I felt a lot of nostalgia but in a good way !!!
Everything was very good, so much fun, dance, love... and Ayu did well with her voice, I enjoyed every song !

23 years ago/later ...
https://i.ibb.co/yQ9wtvj/yo-chan.jpg

probably the best thing about this live!
Yocchan :love

Just thought I’d mention to anyone who purchased the air fresheners, but once you open the plastic blind bag, they’re just in their without a secondary pouch around them—so you have to use them immediately or prepare a ziplock back for them haha. But mine lost the smell after about… 4 days? Lol

It is a nice way to stop resellers

I don´t think anyone buys them for the scent alone

Yocchan is the best!!

https://www.facebook.com/AyuLiveVide...3438113544678/
https://www.facebook.com/AyuLiveVide...2906145186601/

is that little boy her son?????????????????????????

No, there was a segment where she brought a few fans on stage and one of the women had her son with her. Toward the end Ayu picked up the baby and held him for a minute before giving him back.

Opening + We are the QUEENS + Mirrorcle World (English Subs) https://t.me/ayutubebr/76