bea's UP May 2012 cover + LANDS OF Eden insert
 

Wow... she looks amazing.

She looks cute on the cover, but SCARY in the second picture. Those blue contacts seriously freak me out ;~;

I love the cover! *o* Thanks

Now there's the Ayu we love. She looks ****in' gorgeous, unlike just about every other magazine shoot she's done recently. But those God-awful Land's of Eden shoots... she looks so un-human in all of them.

Gorgeous cover.
Iuno, I like the Lands of Eden pictures ._.
Thank you for posting :)

i like the cover!!!

gorgeous! minus the duck-lips. :yes

Cover is okay. Lands of Eden are just yuck. I'm really not feeling the contacts.

the cover is alright. and i think i do agree bout those blue contacts, they are too bright, tho she looks gorgeous! and photoshop isn't that bad this time lol

I really love the cover...even the lips this time too

And I love the inserts *_* She stopped looking human to me a long time ago, so I have no beef with these lol

ooh, I didn't realize this came out Thursday... I thought it came out next week... Can't wait to pick up my copy!!

I love LoE photos *_*

Bigger size for the second photo of lands of eden. (from loe's blog)
http://i.imgur.com/iPLiv.jpg

love this AD! thanks for sharing

Love the cover n loe pics.. She looks so sexy.. But 2nd pic she looks so weird

omg so perfect on the cover of mag

yey for everything~~

Beas UP Ayu looks so beautiful!!
But still not loving the lands of photoshop pics ._.

I lover the cover, even fish lips ❤ 2nd Lands of Eden picture looks pretty.
thnx~

she's so beautiful!
the horse and sky is just kirei!!!!!!

LOVE IT!!!
Bea's Up always do a good job, on close up pic...

wow! amazing! :heart

wow *_*

GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!Her best magazine cover for this era,sure.

I really want it now lol But I'll wait for the other scans :yes

The beas up cover looks pretty cool. The lands of eden pictures would have been very nice if I did recognize Ayu's face.

I love the horse but she looks very photoshoped onto that horse that it annoys me. Even her hair against the blue sky looks like a 5th grader photoshoping in ayu's body into the horse picture for his first time. + if she was actually sitting on that horse for real she would be much closer to the horse neck and not so far back. Looks like she's about to slipp back and fall of the horse any time now. Aaanywho, other then that, I love it. :P

thanks for sharing!!

In spite of her lips, I like the bea's up cover. It's so sweet after the dynamic covers of others magazines.

The Lands of Eden pics are 100x better than the last ones.

:love Thanks for sharing~ love it, can't wait to see the inside pictures!!

LoE pictures don't even look like Ayu... Wonder why they hired *the* queen and made her unrecognizable? AyubutnotAyu mystery.

Bigger cover from amazon JP

WoWoW! love the cute cover and the duck lips suits her this time,not too over looking LOL

Cover = great!
Horse Thing = Not so much.

she looks sad on cover

I kinda like the cover (but it's too cute for me) but the lenses for the Lands of EDEN are horrible. Sweet Jesus, I know japanese gals wants to look more western, but she looks like a game character, not a human >.>

beautiful, as usual! :heart

thanks for sharing. i love these scans!

FINALLY AYU, at long last we finally get great pictures from you again! :D

Lands of Eden still making Ayu look like living Barbie. No thanks.

Cover is pretty creepy lookig too.

Haha the anatomy on that horse is jacked xD Could it have been anymore obvious that was fake? Hmm probably not unless you own and ride like me xD but I like it anyway! She looks fantastic!

wooow I love these ads :love

The cover is perfect!!!!!!!!!!!

The Bea's UP cover is gorgeous :heart Bea's shoots are my ever favorite so I'm looking forward the inside pic.

Lands of Eden pics are.. too much photoshopped :laugh would be beautiful if she would look more human and really on the horse rather than cutted and pasted on it meh.

all of them look beautiful!! wooohoooo!!!!!!

Even the horse looks unnatural :/

The cover is amazing! But I'm not sure about the second picture, it doesn't really look like Ayu 0.o

the cover is super beautiful! :luv2 LoE - too much photoshop. me eyes are bleeding :thud

:roflmao

LANDS OF Eden where あゆ almost not sitting...the picture looks so awkward somehow. She needs to get rid of Leslie and Ryan...I'm getting tired of them:rolleyes

These pictures... ARE PERFECT!!!!!!!! AYU!!!!!!! SO BEAUTIFUL

I love the cover, she looks hot and cute! I can't wait to see the inside photos~
As for the LOE stuff, it isn't as bad as the first shots we had...although they did photoshop her onto the (fake) horse here, at least they didn't make her look like complete plastic, like in the mermaid picture. I can deal with these pictures, and I personally don't think the blue contacts look all that bad. It's definitely different than her normal circle lenses that everyone complains about.

I love this cover. Its cuuuute.

I really like the cover.. but the second pic is really strange. The blue eyes don't fits her.

Everyone thinks that her contacts are blue...but they're not.They're the SweetDays Crystal Gray ones(Lands of eden)~ Anyway i love LoE pic

The cover is cute!

All of those shots are gorgeous! Bravo!

She's wearing SweetDays Milky Gray contact lenses on the cover~
Yes,i'm obsessed with those contacts xD

she's so gorgeous. :D

I think Ayu looks very pretty, more so in the Lands of eden photos.. I just don't like those blue contacts. :\

The cover is GORGEOUS :heart
But the new LADS OF Eden pictures... well, these are better the the previous ones.

previews here!!!!

http://lockerz.com/s/200425470

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gorgeous!!!

must not say anything

just......
:roflmao

@SURREAL__RAINBOW
holy moly!
the first picture she looks too skinnyΣ(￣。￣ﾉ)ﾉ

I need this mag sooo bad :cry

Ayu has a different body in each photoshoot, the cover and the picture from the right are cute, but the other one... wtf.

Oh god. That left picture is just... sad o.O But the overall picture is nice.

Bigger images:

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8830/2465394b1d.jpg

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1781/2465398b16d.jpg

horse looks too fake
complain, complain, complain, do it again:laugh

:shakehead umm... that tummy...
Too much photoshop..

it's the lips and expressionless..ness that I don't like about Lands of Eden.
Hair is freaking gorgeous length and color, so is the outfit, concept, colors, fake looking horse...haha, then REALLY??? they ruin it with crazy lips and a weird dead expression...

What the hell is up with her body in the left picture? How can they even let that pass? She looks perfectly thin, but not so perfect in this angle... But I think the styling is superb, I love her long hair!

*O* This magazine is perfect!!!!!!!But she looks really skinny O_O

Freaking freaks. I'm pissed. What the hell is that? How the hell can he head be almost twice the size as her hips? And look at that stomach! :shakehead Such amazingly twisted beauty ideals. Stop that and stop that now. I know Ayu always have been photshoped and with a body that by all means is thin e.t.c. But I have never seen anything like that. And I work as a model too. Hideous!

Is she still doing photos or they keep on copy/paste her face on various bodies lol?

Yeah...her head is really big on the first photo comparing to her body...

The photoshoots have been lookin' the same to me lately...

I've not been a fan of her style for a while. The last time I really liked her look was around Rock'n'Roll Circus... and before that, one photoshoot around the release of Rule (I think). She just keeps disappointing me over and over again, and it's not her fashion choice alone. I'm at a point where I begin to feel indifferent, which is worse than other negative feelings, because it means I no longer care.

overrall pictures are nice, but yet too photoshopped. she looks like an android again.

Those previews are awful...
Her stomach just looks... ergh.

well, ayu has a big head...and she's an extremely skinny person :shrug

she's at a weird angle in that picture.

They probably shouldnt have had so much contrast with the shading.

She's always that photoshopped, which is fine, I just hate how they always have to choose weird angles and bad pictures.

I love her look in bea's Up, but her photoshopped stomach just disgusts me

Omg loving these pics! Not a HUGE fan of the contacts used in the lands of eden photos, but she still looks great!

eeeh oh please she's always been super skinny, and her head and face are always bigger :laugh in curtain call's pv you can see how her features are overpowering, she's tiny!

and the angle, the shade, etc seems to be like she's really thin even though she is anyway :laugh


that picture seems to be the back cover of the mag

https://twitter.com/#!/ayu_19980408/...Fs%2F200529330


I'm really loving this :cry

Makes me wish I could get this magazine here! But the only shop that I know of that carries japanese magazines only ever has ViVi. sigh

you can get it through yesasia, but maybe you don't use that website

Really they are not that bad! Sometimes I feel like I disagree with just about every single person here on AHS.

They must have emphasized her body since the interview is focused on her "body training secrets".

ikr lol I think this is her best mag in ages

I knew the shading on her tummy wouldn't be so dramatic in print~~ Cool how it's the back cover.

I think she looks great, and I'm really excited for the scans/HQ photos.


People crazy jump to conclusions and get bent out of shape with the weirdest things. Like the anatomy of the horse. Who even cares. :shrug

I'm with you lol

omg this so much :laugh hahaha

Yea but anatomy of a human is so F'd up in that Stomach photo, it's just so absurd :laugh

it doesn't look that weird to me :shrug

http://pixhost.tk/img/2unm.jpg

it looks fine, get over it

Naturally it do have alot to do with the shadows and angles. And I did say that I know that she has always been photoshoped. But what I complained about was the overall portrayal. Like how they twist her angles and shadows to make her look like that. Since I've been in this industry for quite some time now I have faced alot of girls, seeing models "fake" their bodies to make them thinner. Some of them even face cold facts like they have to loose about 10 cm around their hips while their bmi already is below 17. And how do you loose hips really if you already have no fat? Like, you need to saw through bone to do that. I'm just really happy that I have a very nice and healthy agency that take care of their models. Cos this kind of industry not nice.

Aaanywho, now. Since I have faced this so close and dealt with this with my beloved ones I get really angry by seeing this. Is it maybe me who's overreacting? Yes. Perhaps. I know Ayu don't aim to teach young girls into thinking that being thinner than healthy is fine. I'm more like ranting at the whole industry. But really, Ayu have been taking pictures that looks more "healthy" and "real" too me and sometimes not. I'm fully aware of that. This picture is not looking "real" to me. But that might just be me. But there is no reason to say that I jump to crazy conclusions, since I've been there. This is just how I think and feel when I see that picture. I get sad.

And the horse thing. I have been riding horses for 15 years and yes, I do get bothered when I see that her position on the horse is odd and the horse looks weird. I'm also annoyed on how bad they photoshoped her hair into the blue sky. That's not me crazy jumping into conclusions and get bent out of weirdest things. It's just me making a comment on a picture on why I don't like it. Happy that you guys do. But I'm simply not and while I'm expressing this and why perfectly fine there's no need to say that it's weird.

btw it seems to be that bea's up is helping to promote the album in the back cover, which should be a first, right? I don't think I've seen a front and back cover of bea's up with ayu + the album being promoted.

And to finish with the other thing, Japanese are generally VERY small, like even when I go to their festivals, I feel huge and I'm not even overweight :shrug I've seen girls thinner than this picture who are Japanese and they don't have eating disorders. You're just seeing it from another point of view, and you come from a different culture too, so I'm sure overseas fans will be seeing what they want to see.

And she looks happy, and healthy to me, she doesn't look like those western models who look sick AND thin as well :shrug

Some think different, but I also feel that this pic looks horrible.
The angle, the light, Ayu's small body - it just doesn't look appealling or beautiful at all to me.
And it's not even that's she's too thin or anything.
It's more ... unaesthetic to me. :shrug

It is Japan, but I would really like to know how the japanese readers think about it.

Well, I have lived in Japan for a year and worked as a model over there too so... I know all about how they look. In the end it's all about taste. This is not my cup of tea. Happy that it's yours though. I'm not here to make you change your mind. I'm just defending myself since I was having "weird conclusions".

Her shape is not weird, it's just the shadow over her tummy which emphasize its lines and makes us think that she just holds in her stomach to appear more thiner.
Other than that, I think this pic looks fine, but I'm not a fan of the hair-ribbon :/

Please don't think that anyone was singling out just you.

I give you fine praise for your views on the industry and modeling. I understand how that industry works as well, and I know how harsh it can be. Alternatively, some people might just have to make do with the fact that they just can't be models.

In Ayu's case, I don't see this really as an issue. I don't think Ayu looks too thin. She's a small, skinny person :/ How else is she supposed to look?

Is she supposed to forego taking pictures sideways just so all of these people will think she looks okay to be a role model for women and young girls?

I know you know your own views, but in this particular case about Ayu, you aren't alone. This whole issue of "taste" shouldn't even exist :/ People have different body types. That's really it.

This is Ayu's body today. I think, we should all embrace how beautiful she looks, rather than just criticizing her "you look too thin and distorted". Especially in a case where...it's the angle and shadowing :shrug

I guess they should have photoshopped the shadows out so that she looked more "average" to people. Or maybe, like in a lot of other cases, they should have used a different shot.