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First reply! (LOL)
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I really like the green military styled outfit
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Thank you for the organized post truehappiness! I'd like to have the key phone strap! It's awesome XD.
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Thanks for all the effort truehappiness. Thanks to your topics we are always updated with Ayu's tour.
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i prefer her tours that had big screens and a lot of laser lights like arena tour 2006 and 2009 did =\
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The same outfits and scenary from LADIES NIGHT and MOON from CDL 2011-2012???
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http://i.imgur.com/ga4LA.jpg
i really love this pic on the right i wish there wasn't that red tag and it was bigger i want a poster of it on my wall or smth |
I love outfits, especially catmaid one. Adorable to the max. Wigs are not the best but oh well
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finally i got some free time to access my laptop, this is my thread for the live recording of 8th april. i'll add more files slowly. (^_^)
http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113515 |
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And Sparkle right?
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^Yeah. Sitting center the first night was the best view of them. Its like in Next Level with all the different colors and such
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Edit: She sounds fantastic. I hope she maintains the vocal epicness until the end. |
i so wannna go to this!!
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omg I love that maids dress is so sexy.
I'm definitely getting those keychains they are awesome |
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oh..my god..........the "I am a lonely queen" is so...intense live..
I just listened to the recording. Well dang. I HAVE to buy this DVD now. |
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^After listening to it I wish they would have had the "I am a lonely queen" part in the studio version as well.
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^ where can i listen to the live version? i'm very intrigued.
hope a video of this will pop up sometime soon ^^ |
^I had uploaded some tracks to the download section, please check there. I'll upload the others when I have time.
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^ thank you! i didn't find it when i first looked there.
very surprising edit indeed! surely that caught everybody off guard. can't wait to see the live in future. |
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that sounds sad... It makes me feel sad for ayumi...
I want to see this concert! I hope she adds more dates! |
After hearing live version of Party Queen I wish this version was added as a secret track on the album like Party Queen ~lonely queen ver.~ its much sadder and more beautiful
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Yeah I just wanted to say I wish we had a Party queen ~lonely queen~ version too haha.
It's epic. |
So when this tour was first mentioned, people were concerned about whether or not Ayu would be able to attend a-nation this year, but (I don't think this has been posted yet?) a-nation 2012 is very different this year. The "stadium" performances are only at Osaka and Tokyo, while "music week" is held in Shibuya from the 3rd of August until the 12th.
There hasn't been any artist lists yet, but I just wanted to say that assuming the tour doesn't get extended, there's still a chance Ayu could appear at the Osaka and Tokyo dates, which are the 18th and 19th (Osaka) and 25th and 26th (Chofu). Didn't want to make a new thread just yet, since there's no artist list. http://a-nation.net/index.html |
Talk about odd. I wonder why they changed it up.
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I wonder if a-nation is not as popular as it once was... it seems to me that a lot of avax tracks artist are kinda going down hill. ( unless some of the groups are part of avex and I just dont know it.)
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avex as a whole just goes downhill. it's lazy and not willing to renovate itself. not seeking boom artists like Ayu & Kuu, new artists suck (ICONIQ, wtf happened?), it's just not the best in my opinion
Max should look up to Papa YG, okay, because he's crazy but amazingly modern & fresh maybe they changed because the number of people who attend it has decreased? maybe because last year was bad? or just cutting budget |
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^Isn't Exile big anymore? I believe Namie could have the power to sell out the stadiums, but is not like she gives a crap about A-Nation xD
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EXILE, Ayu & other artists, which are top avex, will go on being forever, really, and earn, not maybe much, but they are a type of artist people will always come & see, i think...
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Koda is touring halls right now, so, I doubt a stadium is a possibility... Otsuka also never had that big of a concert selling power (that's a pity, girl is a great performer)... BoA's fame is long gone... Tohoshinki is dead... who else is noteworthy on Avex?
They have to sell out a stadium tour based on the fame of Exile and Ayu/TRF legendary status... Yeah, seens hard... |
^Tohoshinki is dead? Not what I heard recently...
But yes, I think Avex pretty much heads downhill. Even though Namie and EXILE are still huge. |
^Woah, I thoght they didn't have survived the scandal thing! So, I don't get why A-Nation isn't running as usual, considering 4 big artists is good enough to atrack enough people and sell out stadiums... o,o
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All these damn K-Pop groups and AKB48 LOL but seriously, I am in Japan now and that is all there is!!! hahaha
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^ did you move there or just visit?
I forgot all about Exile! but there sales are going down and dont know how a stadium would sell out with them... I wish avex would turn it around, I mean, back in the mid 2000's they were on top... I miss those days... EDIT: And what scandal thing for Tohoshinki? |
^I am at university here.
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lucky dog! lol
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Hehe thanks :D
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Or something like that, I'm not a Toho fan, so I don't really know much about it. |
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But overall, the global music scene should follow the digital developments more. |
Japanese music market works very... stupid towards internet, it's not even funny.
I was amazed once I noticed AKB48 channel as full subtitled videos o,o Why aren't Ayu, Hikki, Namie, Koda putting their subtitled videos online?! |
I think that is a major problem...
Japanese companies don';t really track digital sales like America does. Because i mean, sales are down, but where is it all going? I hope everyone is not going to pirate all their music! |
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Imo that's pretty much the only thing they should do the way Korean companies do and NOTHING else. Oh and even DBSK aren't as popular as they were 3-4 years ago. Their popularity in Japan has decreased from their golden days. |
I think it might be just a crisis of ideas and certainly new modern kpop takes inspiration from old jpop lol
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^I was listening to some old school kpop and both genres always had a lot of similarities...
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I don't think it is as bad as they have to go to Kpop lengths
EXILE sales aren't dipping what so ever and all their tours that are huge aren't really sliding, lmao I think album sales are just becoming less an important factor and more so touring, TVXQ actually sold out their dome tour pretty fast,they aren't suffering either the only people who are the newbies, AVEX hasn't had a breakout star in a long time and their over promoted ones have flopped hard like GND and Iconiq random rant, just I think they don't care about international fans just yet since they aren't that important to them like Kpop I do think they are changing like all of C'kay and Perfume recent releases who have a strong overseas fanbase are getting faster itunes releases worldwide I don't get why Ayu doesn't do this or Kumi, avex needs to more ahead of the times like the used to be, UMJ is beating them ----------------- I am still sad no Like A Doll, also love all the fan write ups |
Thing is, K-POP market themselves as a market. You have different companies which fans see as families to that extent. When you see K-pop artistes, you link them to one another...this is not the same for J-Pop, where there are too many artistes and you can't see them as ONE. At least thats how I see it..
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Last year I thought them inviting AKB48 to perform was a sign that ticket sales were down. At every date each year they have always had a "surprise" artist from a different label perform at the show - but it was always truly a surprise, not something that was promoted before hand. When I went Remioromen performed. But last year was the first time they actually announced and promoted who the surprise artist would be. |
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Anyway, the genius of the kpop market is all into their promotion. Not just how much of it they do, but also how they do it. Anything to hook people and sell the whole package~ It's kinda like AKB48 or Perfume. Is the music even really the most important thing with them? lol |
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I just hope this whole fad of having a few groups dominate the charts is about to be over...
its sad really. |
With ayus avdvertisment, AVEX does seem lazy. Like what. happened to the Duty, I am... and MY STORY type CM's (Love songs CM included). Or even the DVD menu with ayus DVD's, nothing special. I think though ayu will always sell her tour tickets and always liked to be seen live despite her CD sales. I think people would rather download than buy though. You cant pirate something which isnt released. Though this may be ayus choice. I think ayu could climb back to the top but she would have to give her soul back to avex. Im just happy if its what she wants, and if she happy with it, than as a fan, thats all I can ask for :)
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Though I do think downloading/etc and not buying has a big role in declining sale
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^what about AKB & KARA huge sales at this time of high-developed digital downloads then?
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wow... 2 who groups out of how many people making music!
Man talk about a revolution. AKB are what you call phenomenal. Besides, they still dont match the album sales of 10 years ago. As a whole the physical side of the sales as gone drastically down. |
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^actually in AKB48, there's at least 64 of them in different teams, and having so many members, the media exposure is much higher as different members get different jobs offer. Their CMs are all over Japan with different members.
And yes, the handshaking coupon is the major bait to get people to buy the CDs. |
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Japanese CD sales have always been pretty front loaded, but these days it's gotten to the point where you can pretty much tell that only people that follow an artist vigorously, usually core fans, buy CDs and so the sales aren't necessarily indicating any sort of mainstream popularity of a track. It doesn't just go for idol groups, but any artist really. |
I might be in the wrong thread to ask this, but did anyone who attended the concerts get this limited photobook Leslie did? It'd be interesting to know some more about what's inside or seeing scans. :)
(sorry for interrupting the ongoing conversation:P) |
The whole "declining sales" mess would be fixed if Oricon got it's act together and started counting digital sales.
Although, then you'd have the problem of how a loot of the downloads are ringtone downloads, which you can't really chart alongside full track downloads or buying a single. |
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If you look at last year's chart, it was AKB and her sister groups that were about 60 our of the 100... it was horrible. |
Oricon should have their own digital sales chart, but they should focus on trying to count all the damn physical sales first, including all the ones they sell at the concert venues, not just some stupid percentage.
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^ there really is no way to track that though. they could go by what the company tells them, but there is no way to know if that its the real number.
I think thats why they only track a "few" of the copies. |
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The tour blog posted a picture with one person who got the book. (There may have been more than one, but when I checked about a week or so ago, they just posted one picture.) It's very, very hard to win the book. There's only so many copies of the book and eyelashes. Most people were winning posters from the draw. |
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call has replaced Letter in the encore starting with the second Osaka show.
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^ aw, i like both songs so much! She should just do both and get it over with!
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I bet we won't hear either on the DVD, it will be an upcoming single or something. That's what I hate about earlier live shows, we end up missing out when it comes to DVD. :(
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It would be nice if they would always make dvds/blu-rays with the extras like they did with PoL (even though they didn't shoot blossom in).
I like Letter more than call but if it's a new song replacing them later I won't mind :) |
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^What day is it released?
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http://www.amazon.co.jp/ViVi-%E3%83%...5180050&sr=8-1 |
:yeek ^*RUSHES OFF TO THE LAWSON across the street*
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If she/we/I have to choose I want Letter on the DVD instead of call anyday. |
^I'm so disappointed we didn't get those, plus alterna!! Did you see it live at AT10? Last angel was pretty awesome, but I wanted alterna more... :thud
QUESTION. Is there only 5 types of this strap, or 10? http://www.yesasia.com/global/ayumi-...0-en/info.html Becasue Yesasia says there's 5 types, but the live report from Misa chan's translation says there's 10, I think... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ishiosaka5.jpg |
^There are only 5 types.
The 10 in the picture is saying that one person can only buy a maximum of 10 straps. (I guess it's a popular item, or people are just addicted to collecting different colors haha) |
^yup. the key strap has 5 design and one person is only entitled to buy maximum 10. And yes, it is very popular at the concert. They were sold out on 8th April when I was there.
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Thanks for the info. I saw some inside photos on twitter and it looks so nice, with all the smiling fans and such. I'd love to have this book, a shame it can only be won at concert venues. |
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Can't believe how underwhelmed I am by the setlist. Ah well. There's a good chance I'll be attending CDL, so hopefully she pulls out her best for that!
I'm looking forward to the performances of: 03.reminds me 04.Tell me why 05.appears 07.Shake It♥ 08.STEP you 09.NaNaNa 10.Sparkle 13.Return Road 15.Ladies Night 16.Party queen 21.how beautiful you are ...I guess that's a nice chunk of the concert, but, meh... |
Soooooooooooooooo.....
Just landed back home 2 hours ago xD Japan was fantastic, Ayu was fantastic *_* (too bad we had to leave after the next LOVE to reach the last Shinkansen back to Kyoto <.<) We were at 21st April Fukuoka Show^^ When we arrived at the venue the Hoodies were sold out allready <.< So we bought Cookies, Uchiwa, Light Stick, Bag (to carry all that stuff xD) and 15 Ayupans (we got a whole set^^)(some other Goods I allready pre-ordered at YA) Then I went to TA stand to get my Room sign 8got the one were she writes on the mirrow) and then to the CD stand to buy Party Queen CD Only (for the lucky draw) and LS Playbutton. Then i grabbed into the box and picked out a red ball and the men on the stand became big eyes and another rang a bell and all were congratulating me, and guess what?, one time in my life I had draw luck xD Spoiler:
Our seats were also pretty good, Row 20, place 64/63. We were ap. 15m away from the runway, almost at the height of the bsmall front stage. I didnīt need the monitors to see Ayu xD (and omg she is so small xD) It was a bit sad that the show was so similar to CDL except for the songs, but I really liked the outfit of Shake it/STEP you, soooo cute *_* Too bad we had to leave after the next LOVE, but trip was planned long before, concert was only a gimick (we only planned Kyoto + Tokyo, so Fukuoka was a day trip just for the concert xD) But it was still fantastic to see her live *_* It was worth it defionatly, even for only the half concert xD (next time I plan my trip arrount the concert, this time it was only a inclution to our wedding trip) |
^^That's fantastic! I'm glad to hear that you had an amazing time! Hopefully I can have that experience one day too! :D
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I am so jealous and happy for you! I bet others fans must be staring and congratulating you too!. Do you mind taking some pictures of the book inside? |
Yes they did xD
And yes I will definatly make some Photos of the book after i unpacked all (took the photo in the hotel^^) my suitcase still stands in the floor starring at me and calling "open me" xD |
Guys, can you please give link to a thread that explains how and where I can buy tickets for the show, because I've got no idea, except for Yahoo auctions.
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^ here! http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70001 Best bet is scalpers the day of the show, or the reseller shop YOKOHAMA ticket. Check what tickets they have/slash what location http://www.yokohamaticket.co.jp/tick...cket-music.cgi store it is at (Shibuya, Ueno, or Shinjuku) The only thing is that is for Tokyo area shows. Other places, you have a 99.9% chance of scalpers the day of the show!
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The info in here is quite helpful, thanks
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And congrats for winning the book...wow, you're a lucky girl! :) Can't wait to see some of your pics! |
I'm looking at Osaka Jo Hall tickets right now and I see 3 variants:
1) Numbered (?) seats (指定) 2) Stage side seats (ステージサイド席) 3) Elevated (立見) Can you please tell me which one I should choose if I want to be close to the stage? |
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