so the limited version has to changeable covers as some thought...?

AWW, i cant wait to get mine!!! :tired

The official site said that it'll have changeable covers. But I doubt it's ayu photos, I think it'll be another Xillia.

Still waiting if someone already got their limited edition :innocent

I think the image on the back is the separate jacket cover?

That's how it was for You were.../BALLAD's IIRC.

Ah! I'm going to be at work during the estimated arrival. If it can just wait one more day, I'll be able to receive it. Does Fedex always require a signature?

FedEx normally does, I believe, as does DHL.

With USPS, it depends on the shipping method.

http://i25.lulzimg.com/2a4a57.jpg
B3 poster :)

And I think the Xillia version bonus changeable cover is like this :
http://i25.lulzimg.com/f0415e.jpg

Details
http://i25.lulzimg.com/e644fe.jpg
http://i25.lulzimg.com/0c60d7.jpg
http://i25.lulzimg.com/6c7bfb.jpg

Glad I'm not pushing myself to buy the CD only version, the backcover is the same, and of course, I like it more than the backcover of CD+DVD =3

FedEx does NOT require a signature unless the sender chooses that. I believe with CDJ packages, a sig will be required tho.

Xillia version also can change the front cover!!
http://i25.lulzimg.com/09a97a.jpg
http://i25.lulzimg.com/41fc5d.jpg

YEAY!! It's combination of CD+DVD and CD only!!

Haha! Nah, Ayu makes herself look godly lol!

I bought the 1st Press limited ed (with the poster) but in the order status still in "Processed" and the other (CD and CD + DVD) are "In Stock" ¬¬

maybe they are waiting the posters? ._.?

I thought so, my order also hasn't been shipped...
I've pre-ordering it when the status is "Usually shipped on release date"
Usually I get it on release date, but until now, it hasn't shipped. Weird...

I wonder how many chances I'll get for it to be delivered if I can't be home to receive and sign the first time.

EDIT: Too bad I can't change the shipping address to my place of work...

I expected to have it in the relase date xD but at this step >.<! xD
I pre-order it before the poster bonus was attached like a bonus <.<

I think they'll wait for the posters (>__<)
I really hope they shipped it on release date, so I'll receive it on September 4th...



OOT, I saw some seller Yahoo Auction Japan, already sold their Xillia limited CD more than CD+DVD, well, yeah, they're not selling it with the downloadable code xD ayu x Tales of collaboration = win, although, the gamer just buy it for the codes ==" I hope it'll affect the sales very well.

great news thanks for those pictures HTMSD!!

thanks for sharing the pictures =D

Where did you get the poster/what is the poster????

...

YA shipped out my copies of Five ytd. And they've just shipped out the poster this morning!! FOC >.< I love YA~

Eeeh, YA also sent the posters? o__O"
When I emailed them, they said that they don't have the posters :thud

T_T i still haven't got my copy yet. just wondering if your order comes from cdjapan will you also get a poster or that mini uchiwa thing as a bonus ?

great pics

hoping somebody with the DVD can upload HQ PVs!!

But don't you have to pay the delivery guy when he gets it to your house? I don't know. I've never used FedEx :P

My copy should be there when I get home (finally, someone will be there to collect it while I'm not there!). I always use EMS with CDJ and even though it requires a signature, sometimes when no one's home, he just puts it through the mail box anyway to save himself a bit of work. I wish all postmen did that O.O

I can't wait to watch the PV's on the big TV! I really should have had it delivered to my work :P

Mine's delivered alreayd!!! I cant wait to go home now...argh...still stuck at work..
will see it in 4 hours :)

edit: All the short versions of the new PVs are up :)
i wish her fb had more stuff too

You would only have to pay if the item is worth more than our customs limit, which is goods over €150:

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en...added_tax.html

So you won't have to pay anything extra.

^^Maybe I should start using FedEx, then O.O

If you're ordering the llimited edition, yes, you'll get Tales of Xillia poster.
Mini-uchiwa (and hairtie) are the bonus from mu-mo shop and teamayu. :D

Ok I sent in a request for it to be held at my local Fedex location. It's just a few doors down from my work! Can't wait to hold it in my hands!

I have no idea where to post my GENERAL thoughts about FIVE so I'll just post a rough statement here.

I feel like i'm in space while listening to this album.

progress feels like a rocket.
ANother song lets me feel I'm in the stars.
Why... gives me a certain turmoil and sadness in the heavens..(personally the melody is really amazing to me...)
beloved...well not so atmospheric like the past few but there's this sweet flighty feeling..
BRILLANTE sent me back light years into another realm

:)

btw, anyone realize...
Masashi Muto LOVES LOVES LOVES to shoot Profile shots. in You were... and now more in progress, ANother song and also in Why.. (several scenes)

I just translated progress into my language with the PV and it really fits the video (it also give me a better understanding unless if the lyrics are too symbolic/phylosophic with hidden meanings like these kinds of pvs). The song is about going through daily life. A lot can relate to it :)

FIVE has arrived in my city! it better arrive today!

My order is in transit so hopefully it will be on time for me to pick up from the hold location on Friday!

Agreed. Alot of people feel that progress PV is really boring and meaningless, but I really love it because it goes so well with the lyrics. ^^

Woo! Mine arrived :)

I've finally got it on my ipod at raw quality! Now... onto the PV's on a big TV :P

Woo, I got my copy today. My favourite is Beloved pv. It really is about finding hope, and Ayu looks so pretty. Leslie Kee is amazing too. Love his concept with kids and hope.
I'm not too keen on Progress though because I felt sick while watching it, plus with the way the music changes throughout the song, there's so much potential to make an amazing PV.

By the way, JUNO was really cute in Why... pv. He played a smallish part in the PV, but he was so shy about it. Bless him.

All in all, FIVE has been good. The songs are all so different, so should suit everyone's needs. I just hope it does well in the charts because it deserves praise.

I'm waiting so badly for my own copy for listen to this mini-album but the temptation is so strong >___<
everything looks amazing～

Got my two copies TODAY!!!! :D so happy!

¬¬ cdjapan still with the Limited Edition in "Processed" >.<

FIVE PV's short version are all uploaded on ayu Youtube channel~

^ lol finally!

So are the making ofs.

Cross-posting:

^18th disc with #1 place on oricon chart?

Mine the same but has changed to 'In Shipping Process' today, but im thinking they probably had to wait for posters too or for the rest of their stock to arrive

lol at Google Translate
Singer Ayumi Hamasaki 's mini album "FIVE", and sold 5.6 million copies the first day of release, the album debut in the top spot in the Oricon Daily Ranking with 8 / 30. Weekly Hamasaki premier album, greatest hits album in September 2008 "A COMPLETE ~ ALL SINGLES ~" (cumulative sales: 85.3 million copies), first made ​​a total of 17 consecutive made ​​four. 1st album in 1999 "A Song for × ×" (cumulative sales: 145.2 million copies)

^ what?! Google thinks that 万 means million , but it means only 10 000 lol XD

My order is in my hometown! But because I'll be at work during estimated delivery, I won't be able to get until tomorrow due to the hold at location... why must I work today!

EDIT: I was able to pick up my copy of FIVE today! I'm tempted to become a collector of the rest of her discography.

Is there an mp3 of just BRILLANTE without the bonus track? I want to cut the tracks myself with Audacity, but for some reason my laptop won't let me open the track in audacity. It'd be greatly appreciated!

Here you can download it :)
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110973

:thud

she oversell AKB48 (:laugh) and omg at her debut album sales :roflmao.
She's like the best selling singer in the whole world lol.

I noticed titles with Japanese (I'm assuming Ayu's name was in Japanese) don't open on Audacity. If you change that it should work.

She outsold "Thriller"!!
:thud

Thank you!

@susiowong: thanks for the advice, I didn't know that.

I'm laughing on the Google Translate xDD

Just received the album! Never thought they would deliver it to Ukraine so early! *__*

Huuhuu~~ I got my copy today OxO~~
HK/OS Ver~~ with the folder OvO~~

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4705/imag0956s.th.jpg

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1118/imag0955i.th.jpg
dunno if it's been posted so~~~~

^ that's very fast!! Is that bonuses from Taiwan version?
Where did you live? 5music just shipped my order on 2nd with registered airmail, so I think I'll received the clearfile on 2-3 weeks >__<

I think she bought her copy in Hong Kong directly.

AH... I just knew that avex HK also giving the clearfile for the bonus >__<
I hope I'll receive my TW copy soon T__T

The 'CD only' version of 'FIVE' comes with a 'BRILLANTE' "only" version of the song. It's only 5:58min long. I separated the 'Why... feat. URATA NAOYA' track from 'BRILLANTE' because I want every single track to be listed in the album folder separately.

random fact, i just read that Tales of Xillia recieved a 39/40 in the Japanese game magazine Famitsu which is really prestigious with their reviews and it is the highest rated Tales of game ever, so due to the amazing results i think it will be a big seller, resulting in great exposure for Ayu! and FIVE

^That's amazing!! :luv2

whoa 39/40 is high for them. hopefully the game gets mad sales...its out next week!

i think this time no poster /.\"

that's funny, famitsu being prestigious. The more you pay them, the higher the score ; ) Famitsu has sold its soul long ago.

btw, who can share a code for CDL making on facebook?

When a game gets 40/40 in famitsu you ALWAYS hear about it even in western countries(and the upper 30s in fan regions, too), that's enough for it to be prestigious. And from what I've seen I often agree with their ratings. No horrible game ever got a really high ranking I think - at least none I played.

yea probably not, coz usually when I buy in HK, they give out free posters XD

I'd rather have the folder though, more useful xD

Ah their rankings used to mean something 5+ years ago. It seems that many games get good rankings now ^^ Even FFXIII got 39/40 and we all know the game ain't THAT great.

Yeah, Final Fantasy XIII - with Sayuri Sugawara (http://sugawarasayuri.jp/)...

:shakehead

Maybe these two games comparable?

Nintendogs got a perfect score too. Famitsu reviews are useless.

^i thought for its time Nintendogs was great! I didnt have a dog at the time so it gave me a little preview of what it would be like, i thought it was a good game :P

Nintendogs is the type of game the Japanese love. It was the new Tamagotchi. And the technical aspects were done REALLY well.
Famitsu rates very, very japanese, what is typically japanese often gets good ratings, but I don't think that makes it less prestiguous.

What does she have to do with anything? They aren't rating songs...

Both of the games are RPGs, though FINAL FANTASY is the most famous RPG title along with Dragon Quest, while Tales of is gaining more and more popularity, but it's far from the fame of FF.

im so thankful that this mini album doesnt have a generic summer catchy song..

Well, Sayuri Sugawara did the theme song of Final Fantasy XIII (Kimi ga Iru Kara, 2009), but that's trivial...

I wouldnt have minded it, seeing as the last summer single we got was s/s and that was over 2 years ago!

EDIT:
"Namco Bandai previously hinted that Tales of Xillia was on track to see record pre-orders for the series. Now Tales series producer Makoto Yoshizumi has confirmed it via Twitter. Two weeks ahead of release, and the PS3 title is officially the most pre-ordered Tales game ever,with 200,000 pre-orders, the game would already have sold near the equivalent of the Xbox 360 version of Vesperia and half that of the PS3 version."


Clearly this is going to be a very popular game, hopefully there is a coorelation between the success of the game and FIVE!

^
idc if she never release again that kind of song...

^lol I enjoy them xp

Agree with FFXIII not being that great compared to other FF. If it was a stand-alone game without any ties to FF, people maybe wouldn't have judged it this harshly.

Other than that, I think that nearly perfect scores are still a sign for a good game. Tales games are always nice (except spin-offs like the ToS one, I never got over that :no), and ToS was one of my favourite RPGs ever. Tales has an reputation + paired with a good rating + PS3 should mean high sales and exposure for Progress too. Opening sequences are always beautiful, so there's a high chance that people actually listen to the song and decide to buy it. (I didn't know till now that there was a song for FFXIII, but I always liked to listen to the Tales songs before I started playing).

I'm hoping Tales of Xillia will sell over 230,000 copies in its first week and 400,000 by the end of its run. Ayumi, use your promote attack!

Me too! Those are my least favorite songs from her.

I am so happy to know that Ayu got her 18th No.1 Album.
It's not easy. It's a long long way that she has walked through.


To all of you. What if Ayu never release new single again. Then she release album directly
per year. Do you think it's possible in Japan?

Basically for the No.1 single record she has to pick a specific release day every time..
So Im thinking if it's possible for her. Plus she will have more time on her music then..

some FIVE versions could have been sold along with the game, like a combo, so ayu would sell like 200,000!!

I will be super happy if turned out FIVE sells 200k.

For SHAME Famitsu :no

Namco Bandai's artist selection has been better so far. FF songs have lately sucked. Even though I love Angela Aki, Kiss Me Goodbye is among her worse songs. And the Japanese FFXIII track was beyond terrible, while Leona's wasn't that bad.

I didn't mind the Japanese track for FFXIII :P But even though I hate anything to do with reality TV contestents and whatnot... Leona's was better.

^ I just thought it was boring. Eyes on Me and Sutaki da ne? were WAY better imo, real Emotion/1000 Words as well.

The Tales of Xillia opening with progress leaked~

http://n4g.com/news/838838/have-a-lo...ning-movie/com

E P I C.

Ahhh Eyes on Me and Suteki da ne are masterpieces! :P

@truehappiness: I love it! :)

Love it!

WOW the music and the video go hand in hand perfectly!
this makes up for the bad MV :3 this is my new progress PV xp haha

I was just thinking actually... Ayu should have done a whole anime PV for progress like the opening of the game O_O Would have been so much better :P

^anything would have been better than progress

Well, it could have been another TO BE PV or something *shudders* >.<

But yeah. It was just a 'meh' PV.

^ lol agreed

The PV that they made took waaay more effort to make than a normal PV though. I think people underrate progress' PV too much.

^ yes but it had no ayu in it, just random people whom i really couldnt have cared about, and i would have though more highly of it if Ayu had actually flown to California to film it but her appearing was done with green screen T_T though im glad we dont have any more pv's in California cuz we got enough of that with LS

I thought the same thing! Like a combo package!
or i would have loled like the only way you can buy the game is if you buy the album XP

sorry for double post!