Depends on how copyright laws work in those countries, I guess.

I think that people who make that kind of stuff (the T-shirts...) just look in google for some random chinesse artists and put them in her products/posters/etc. thinking that nobody in Europe or America knows who are they... So they doesn't have to pay to any model xD

Another Ayu find!
A known composer, singer, etc. Hyadain has made a [cover] megamix of songs featured in Kouhaku song battle during 2000, and as such, SEASONS is featured:


How many songs do you guys know?~ I'm surprised, that I knew most of them, although I started to listen J-pop only in 2005. [And in 2000, I was only 7 XD]

There's also a featurette of Kouhaku songs in 2009, Rule, is heard at once:



Haha, these are nice~ : D

I'm pretty sure Ayu knows about her image being used for shirts anyway. I know someone posted to her a picture of some shirts they found in Spain I believe with her image on them and Ayu loved them. I don't think she has too much of a problem with that at least. I do wonder how she would feel about being used in ads for fur coats, car companies, etc. without being asked.

This has probably been mentioned but the official government site for Shibuya, there is a photo of Ayu's Glitter/Fated promo in the header graphic -
http://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp/

:roflmao

Must have been inadvertent...

That is pretty cool. haha

Oh, Good Thread !! Ayu is everywhere!

I found this few month ago ...
(Anime : Onichan no koto nanka zenzen suki ja nai dakara ne)

^good eyes xD

OMG how could you notice it?!?!

woah great eye :thud:

I don't know where to put this, sorry to go a bit off-topic, but something random and awesome happened to me today in Twitter.

I had a great opportunity to tweet with Junichi Masuda. [Game director and composer of Pokémon games.]
I asked him how tall he is. And the answer I got was this:

@eve_19931001 Thank you message!! I'm 173cm!! I like music of Ayumi Hamasaki !! ありがとう！あゆ、いいよね！

I was like OOMG XD I didn't even ask that! He must have looked at my profile page :,D
Then I asked, what is his favorite song. He answered to that too! XD And he said it was evolution among many others. He also asked what was my favorite song :,D

How cool! I wondered if he liked ayu, since he once talked about going to a-nation and mentioned ayu among other artists in his blog. Well now it's confirmed!

But you can imagine my face when I'm talking to the head director of Pokémon games about the fact what's his favorite song of ayu X,D Simply awesome.

He seemed to like the fact that I like ayu too, since he mentioned it :,D I'm so happy he answered so many of my tweets~ [earlier he thanked me and said he was happy when I told what was the weather like in here XD]

nice find Maki-chan!! Woohoo

I was reading a Spanish online magazine and I just saw this xD

http://i39.tinypic.com/e7cvfk.jpg

^that picture on the right is so weird...i don't know if its just because the background is black and white, but it REALLY looks like they just photoshopped that model into the picture.

^I think they did. And they did it very badly.

She's photoshopped in. She's supposed to look like a giant, hence why the guy on the right side is tiny. :P

OH, i didn't even notice that guy, i was so busy looking at the giant orange lady! haha!

great find though. i always hope i will see Ayu somewhere randomly.

i have this book called "TOKYO SPLASH. Japanese pop culture" and i felt like there has to be Ayu somewhere in it....I found her, can you? lol

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6475/ayuspot2.jpg

Not sure if this was already posted. I searched 'magazine' in the thread and didn't find it.

The summer issue of V Magazine with Gaga was the 'Asia Issue' and I found this little gem inside it.

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

I tried to take a picture of the article but it failed, if anyone wants me to type it up I can do.

http://i.imgur.com/5cCDE.jpg