Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - [Translation] TEAMAyu blog: 10th February

Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/index.php)

- Ayu Celebrity News (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=92)

- - [Translation] TEAMAyu blog: 10th February (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98236)

ohhh, love her style <3
so yes I'm really looking forward to this year's tour
but, ayu...you know what's even better? knowing what songs might be on the tour = album :D
LOL
I wonder what the stage will look like this year?! (*-*)

:clapclap I'm so excited <3

ahh she looks so cute in those glasses!

She's so cute in that outfit, hehe.

Oooh sweet lord Im getting really excited now!
And she looks great! Love her whole outfit with shirt, skirt and glasses! :heart
Thx for the translation!

LoL with her glasses....

thanks for the translation

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Originally Posted by hachiroku (Post 2239386)

i have to ask why shes calling himself Chon-san? i dont get it.. and why somebody is -chan and someone is -san and so on... i was thinking -san is for boys but she called shu-chan...

Nice translation again Misa-chan!

Not really sure about why she calls herself Chon-san, she's been doing that for years I think. As for name-suffixes:

-san: you can use it for anybody. It's the most common form that is attached to a name, and one that is considered the most appropriate and formal.

-chan: normally used for young girls that the speaker is close to. This form is also very endearing, and signifies a close and good relationship between 2 people, so I guess ayu's using it in this sense.

-kun: normally used for young guys that the speaker is close to.

That's about all I know, -chan is definitely not something which is conventionally attached to a guy's name, but yea, ayu's a cute girl, so shu-chan is probably just a cute nickname she gave to shu-ya, means nothing more. Maybe someone from Japan can answer this better. :D

Cute, nerdy Ayu! I wonder if this is gonna start a new trend - KAWAII MEGANE-CHAN. XD

Shu-chaaaan <3 Suu-saaaaan <3

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Originally Posted by Misa-chan (Post 2240214)

Maybe someone from Japan can answer this better. :D

Misa-chan's explanation is perfect; -san is the most normal, and you may use -chan in a private conversation if you're close enough to her (or him). And you can show a sense of affinity when you use -chan. That's why Ayu says Shu-cha (in this post, ayu even omits 'n' of 'chan') and Jackie ojii-chan.

-kun can be used usually for boys when you are close enough to him. Sometimes it is also used for a younger guy in the group you and he belong to.

As for Chon-san, I think it was a nickname given by Zin-san or someone last year. I think we can find out when it was given if we check ayu's past post in TA, but I guess we need to check Zin-san or someone's blog in order to find out why "Chon-san."

She looks cute. :) I wonder what the tour is going to be like.

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Originally Posted by oji-i-san (Post 2240266)

I think we can find out when it was given if we check ayu's past post in TA, but I guess we need to check Zin-san or someone's blog in order to find out why "Chon-san."

Explanation time featuring a quote from Deli~

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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0 (Post 2123900)

LOL Zyoeru, your guess is cute, but inaccurate - I shall explain.

The origin of the nickname Chon-san is, yes, from ZIN's blog. During the making of the "Days" PV, he put up a photo of Ayu on the set (it was very dark though and you couldn't really tell who it was), and ZIN simply called this person "Chon-chan" because they kinda looked like they had a "chonmage" (the japanese word for top-knot) in their hair. Ayu revealed in her blog later that day that "Chon-chan" was her, and the nickname has since evolved into "Chon-san" and "Chon-mama."

The ninja thing is that Ayu used to sign off her posts with "Doron" or some variation of it, like "dorororororo~n". "Doron" means "slipping away unnoticed" or "silently disappearing," but ayu always said it so cutely that I translated the word as "Ninja vanish!" because honestly, that's totally what she'd have said if the entry was in english.

The Ninja/chonchan confusion comes from one particular entry in which ayu said "Dorochon" instead of "Dorororon" or anything, so she worked her "Chonchan" nickname into the "ninja vanish" phrase. For that entry, I had to translate it as "Nin-chon vanish!" and I put an explanation for it at the bottom of the entry.

In another thread, someone once asked about the "Chon-chan" nickname, and the only TA blog translation that one member could find with an explanation was unfortunately THAT one, but I was explaining "Nin-chon vanish," not "Chon-chan" or "chon-san", so that created confusion.

But THIS POST RIGHT HERE is the accurate explanation for both. XD

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Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 2240270)

Explanation time featuring a quote from Deli~

wow, this is a longer history and anecdotes about Chon-san than I thought. :D
thanks to truehappiness and Delirium-Zer0-san!

^^ Ahhh, I see. Lol though I had this impression that ayu has been using the nickname Chon-san since a long long time ago, definitely long long before Days PV filming! :D

Thanks for the photos, AYU really works hard on every tour every year, looking forward to this year's performance~~^W^

IIT: Ayu and her 5 million nicknames for herself.

It's funny how they have blurret out the sheets on the tables in photoshop. Must contain revealing information :innocent

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/7046/37781382.jpg

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Originally Posted by Maxker (Post 2240420)

It's funny how they have blurret out the sheets on the tables in photoshop. Must contain revealing information :innocent

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/7046/37781382.jpg

Maybe it's a drawing of the stage!! XD

*lol* I didn't notice this. Top Secret Information it seems.

lol Ayu looks like a hipster... :3