^LOL! Well...it's a nice dress, at least...? XD

I LOVE Kurage, Nagare Boshi!! It definitely has a Chinese-y/more oriental feeling to it, with the marimba-like instrumental, but the lyrics most definitely win me over. It sort of feelings like a mash-up of "Planetarium" and "tears" like vocals.

I love her new song. Now this is an actual comeback. :)

Oh wow YES!!! she looks pregnant :thud
about how long that pic is? o_O

Ai wears...high-waisted dresses...thus they tend to have the "fattening affect". I just really don't like her hair color.

On the other hand, I really love this new song.

:dead2

If I'm correct that pic was taken during the time when she was promoting the PONDS CM that she was featured in , so it's quite recent sorta

^ wow... I see...

weel, If she having been pregnant we already had known the news.
Anyways... I hope that soon begins the promotion of its new single. ^^

But will it sell? That is the question.

that's true

I do hope it can suppress the sales of Rocket Sneaker / One x Time . That sold even less than her debut :(

^ We hope so, the song deserve it :yes

Which is so rude, because I absolutely adore that single :weep

Which is really sad, because she's like... | (<- Twiggy Ai)

I'm sure her next single will sell well - the song is too undeniably good not to. I just hope Avex promotes it enough. Her vocals seem to have strengthened a bit too.

lol wow so much hype over this new single XD I wonder how good it is now ! BUT MUST NOT DOWNLOAD XD LOL I'd laugh if the cover was ai in a jelly fish suit with a shooting star in the background XD ~!!!!!

LOL too bad or else you wouldn't have known how great her upcoming new single's

prior to hearing it , I had lots of bad assumption as to how it will sound given how corny/cheesy the title's but it's not after I heard it

I hope that the new single is going to sell more than 100 K . .

LOL ... nope XD for thar beautiful song the cover that you say is not the ONE.
Anyways... I would love to have that pic in the collection XD

even tho she looks a little chubby she is still cute and i lover her :love

Ummm, I wonder why you all like the song so much, it's ok, but far from amazing.

cos Rocket Sneaker / One x Time wasn't really the comeback single that I was expecting from Ai but the new one ? yes

^ Maybe it'll be LOVE-chan in a jelly fish suit =P LOL! No I'm kidding ^^

I'm pretty sure this single will sell over 100k XD Well if its as good as I hear it is it will probably sell over 100k. Actually most of Ai's Singles have sold over 100k except for her debut and the 2 newer ones =S

Oh my God.

The new song... I was kind of turned-off/uninterested at the first minute or so, but once the instrumentation kicks in after the first chorus, the rest of the song tugged at my heartstrings... what an epic ballad.

Jellyfish, Shooting star!

^ I know , the song title's stupid but the song itself's wow

Ai always comes up with such weird song titles.

yes I know

like Kuroge Wagyuu Joshio Tanyaki 680 Yen

what about frienger? :laugh

I was wondering if anyone knew the ranking for Love Piece Tour? Is it charting atm?

:laugh

I don't think it's a weird title at least it's cute to me

Friend + Ranger = Frienger

how about, "Mackerel's canned food?"

yeah that's another weird song title coming from Ai

I don't think the title is stupid, just as weird as Kingyo Hanabi, yumekui and xD the mosquito song had an even weirder title, BUT Kurage, Nagareboshi is AMAZING! Otsuka is getting better and better with each new song :D

^Katori Senkou!...ahh! i love that song:love, I don't care about her weird titles, cause you know that in most cases with Ai, if it's a weird title, then it's a good song:)

I thought Ishikawa Oosaka Yuukoujouyaku was a strange title like Kuroge and Kurage

not sure if this has been posted before though : http://asianjam.wordpress.com/2008/0...moi-photobook/

oh, i've never seen that, thanks!!

thanks a lot for sharing!!!

much of those pics are so lovelys!!!! :love

OMG YOU GUYS.

OH MY GOD

THE LOVE PIECE 2008 TOUR TOTALLY BLEW ME AWAY.

From the opening movie (gastrulation! morula formation! embryo! astronomy! robotics! dorky science things no one but me probably cares about!) to the WACKED OUT dancing in Mirai Taxi to all of Ai's really ugly clothes (but cracktastic and wonderful at the same time)....

to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL, classy and exquisitely masterful piano performances (tears! with the wonderful violinist Mio Omakura! Renai Shashin -Haru- with that amazing strings ensemble!) to ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLANETARIUM!

to the once again super-cracked out Peach, CHU-LIP, etc to the

AWESOME slow-down performances of Rocket Sneaker, Ticket and Pocket...


best. ai tour. ever.

I honestly thought Ai Am Best 2007 tour was a tad lackluster...before this, Love 99 Cook 2006 tour was my favorite, but I have a new favorite now. WHO'S WITH ME?! :love

^ omg really? i downloaded it to watch and i found it kind of boring, her outfits and hair looked really bad, though she sounds great live.

Yeah her outfits + wigs were TERRIBLE. She looked like she got dressed in the dark. With blind stylists.

But she was so great live (like you said) and the quality of the music + energy was just so amazing, I don't really care what she wore. XD I liked her pants in the encore though.

lol i agree. i liked her pants too, my gosh she is soo skinny!

ahh, i need to DL this tour since you guys like it. :D

(i haven't even watched koda kumi's last 2 tours, either :innocent now i have so many tours to watch :weep)

are these the full songs or previews ?

in anycase I'm downloading them now thanks !

EDIT - ok the B sides are previews while Kurage , Nagareboshi's the full thing I think

at least this time round , there's a longer preview of H20

Kingyo Hanabi nabbed the top spot in this Oricon poll titled What's The Best Fireworks Song ?

http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/confidence/56790/full/

well done & so deserving to be top since KH's 1 of my fave Ai songs

Good Job... congratz for Ai.. I like kingyo hanabi but Hanabi is wayyy better

Yay, i like kingyo hanabi so much :>
the covers are maybe the prettiest from her

^ I agree!! Beautiful song + covers

yay Kingyo Hanabi is a grate song! :yes
it deserves the first palce~<3

That song definitely deserved first place. I gave it another listen, and I like it even more now.

can someone post some caps of the LOVE COOK tour..i wanna see how nice and bad it is

The Channel-Ai blog has a good review + a few caps of it here: http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/2007/...ook-tour-2006/

^ yay thankies I was looking a review of the concert ^^

ehh the DVD love piece realese last wednesday..if there anyone find the review??

I AM DYINGGG. Such an amazing cover!

Wow, the cover's beautiful. <3

Thanks for sharing. ^^

woow! <3 The cover is so Beautiful !!! *0*!!

AMAZING cover. :love

wow that's beautiful :D

is the the normal or 1st press cover that's being shown on her website ?

Oh my god.. I'll die..
this is AMAZING cover...

it's the CD+DVD version, but i dunno about which edition it is.

Oh, that's a nice shot on the cover! Can't wait to see the CD-Only cover!

@Lisa: Pretty set you got there, hehe! :)

haha, thanks jacky. i wonder who made it....:tipsy

ITS VERY EMO...but beautiful

edit: Omg sorry..i miss typed LOVE PiECE for LVOE COOK...i wanna seee LOVE PiECE videos and photos

well at least 1/4 of 4 covers have been released & so far it looks like everyone's liking which's good

at least it's not a joke & kinda does justice to the feeling/theme of the song

aw. i don't really like that cover it looks too dark/sad. she could have made it prettier

It looks so sad ;_; But still a very VERY beautiful cover! I love it <3

The cover is gorgeous and completely suitable for the song.

wow the cover is so amazing!!!

i don't think a pretty cover would fit with a ballad. the cover is sad and it describes the song well.

plus, i just noticed that ai is underwater, and those green things are jellyfish? :P

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8...499w200or6.jpg

Wow, that's beautiful! It could be a little lighter, but it does have a very dreamy, looking-at-the-constellations type feel :yes

hmm yeah i guess you're right, it does fit the song..omg i didn't notice the jellyfish!!

I like Ai's covers cause most of the time what's on the cover is a part of the pv...Chu-Lip, Frienger, Kingyo Hanabi, Neko Ni Fuusen...just to name a few.

The cover is GORGEOUS!! :love Unbelievable! This is definitely one of my favorite singles to date already (just between the songs and the covers themselves!). I'm a bit confused how Ai went from Rocket Sneaker (with that song, cover, and PV) to THIS! O_O Ai, you are awesome. :)

They look like leaves to me... O.o

Really? Maybe because it's a fairly small image, but I could've sworn she's lying on the ground....above water. Those green things look like leaves to me.

cover is gorgeous! the song's good, too.

really? but they honestly do look like jellyfish to me, haha. :tipsy it even has those little legs on the bottom. i only recognize it because of this:

http://www.unitedspongebob.com/jellyfishbio.jpg

:laugh just look closely in the cover. i'm not seeing things, i swear! :dead2

:roflmao

well at least it's not a big joke because with a song title like Kurage , Nagareboshi , I was expecting worst things

:roflmao

is that the Emperor jellyfish or what ?

i think it was the queen jellyfish. i can't remember that certain episode of spongebob. :laugh

but seriously, please tell me i'm not the only one who thinks it's jellyfish. :weep

oh yeah the queen jellyfish :laugh I remembered watching that episode it's very funny

& actually I didn't really paid attention to those weird green stuff in the cover til just now :dead2

^^I think they're leaves. :shrug I mean, I don't see the legs that jellyfish have, and she has sand on her arm and her hair's stuck to her face (it wouldn't be like that if she was in water). I dunno.

Yup, I agree. And I hardly see any cnidarians kinda just....lie there :laugh

It was just an excuse for you to post that Queen Jellyfish picture, wasn't it, Lisa? ;)

I see seaside plant life rather than jellyfish on the covers. I'm sure Ai is lying on a beach.

*2　--　*22,597　*22,597　*1　LOVE PiECE Tour 2008～メガネかけなきゃユメがネェ!～at Pacifico Yokohama on 1st of May 2008 / 大塚愛

Oricon poll : Who would you like to go to the beach with ?

http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/specia...ml?cat_id=rank

otsuka's 2nd behind ayumi

:weep i was actually being serious about seeing jellyfish! this is such a conspiracy! :weep

:laugh it's all good, though. maybe we just need a bigger cover. then you'll all see i was right. :innocent

Promo pic or other cover of "Kurage, Nagareboshi"?
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/8...gepromonb3.png

I like the cover. I think her best covers tend to be with ballads.

Oh, that's an interesting pic. Hopefully a bigger version comes out soon...looks like Ai is wearing a wig? At least I hope so. I don't like her hair that short XD

I like the cover :D

ohh i like this from what i can see. and i love her hair :love

I want to see the PV! D: the song is so beautiful

^ Oh I'm so jealous. The Ai Am Best tour last year?

wow it looks great even though it's a tad tiny

woooooaaaaaahhhh!!!

the cover is so beautiful!!!! I love it *-*
this is gonna be THE single!!!!!

thanks ^w^

^ Lol! aww XD ~! I wanted to go T^T Maybe next year lol ~!

I GUESS the covers are pretty XD ~! It would've been cooler if she was in a jellyfish costume LOL!