A SUMMER BEST covers
 

Thought I'd make a new thread for this.

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

Bigger 2CD-only cover from Sanspo:

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

Thank god I'm getting the CD+DVD. The CD-only, her head looks like it's Photoshopped onto her shoulders, and her hand looks deformed o__o

shes looks amazing!

Wow... I love them!!!!!!! Very glitter-esque, but I like the expressions here. No duck lips and genuine :) :heart

(and the font didn't fail!!!)

^^ wouldn't be so sure about the duck lips.... we need bigger covers, because i can kinda see the duck in the full body one...


they are nice i guess, i think full body shots are always better.

I like cover for 2CD+DVD

The covers look nice! Her pose in the 2CD one looks a little bit awkward but still pretty :D

This thing what happens here is fabulous. Really.

I really like them both^^

awful.. the first one has those horrible lips, and the second one is bad photoshopped, similar to glitter/fated cover...

I like them a lot, and for once the Cd+DVD cover is finally the better looking one!
Less than a month! yay!

(from the other thread) I agree with miki beland about it being really similar to glitter / fated covers. I just couldn't think of which single it was again XD.

Eww lmao

I'm loving 2CD cover. <3 Her ass looks delicious on the 2CD+DVD tho.

I also think so. They're still better covers than sunrise/sunset.

Why do they always release small covers? You can barely see anything. From the little I can see, I like the 2CD+DVD.

The Cd+Dvd one looks good but the Cd only looks kinda meh to me since that fake tan doesn't look well blended against the blue background.

wow they seem to be gorgeous

Eww. That tan.

And those nails.

tan is a little dirty or so to say obviously fake but it works for me on the covers. so pretty

2CD+DVD is AMAZING, one of her best covers since BALLAD.
2CD only is nice too, but it's like a weaker version of the Glitter/Fated CD+DVD cover.

Covers have already been posted on the official site as well and the best's description has been updated too! It says something about "RAINBOW HOUSE" & ayu ready?
http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/discography/index.html

It's a beautiful picture, but it doesn't look like Ayu at all. The lips, teeth and eyes look different and wrong. Granted, there aren't a whole bunch of pictures of her doing a full tooth smile like that... but she looks like a stranger there. :(

I'm not a fan of these covers. Ayu looks so not like herself....

She looks psychotic here! Like she is going to cut you into pieces with those nails and eat your heart :0

I wish those nails were a bit shorter. And that smile is a bit too much. However the cover does make me think of the beach and summer.

Yeah her jaw looks huge in the CD only and of course fish lips with the CD+DVD. Hopefully bigger version of DVD is nice but as far as CD goes, it is one of her worst.

The tan combined with those blue contact lenses plus the angle of her head... That does NOT look like Ayu to me at all. It looks like a gyaru model trying to look like Ayu. The other cover seems okay from what I can tell, but really need a bigger pic to know for sure.

The CD scares me. I like 2CD+DVD cover since I was hoping for a full body cover. :)

minus contact lenses and strange color and cover looks better

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6...5mseo1_500.jpg

anyway.. I think I can see High Pass filter on this cover ^^'

^ That does look a little better.

I really like the covers >__<;
She's so cute!!! :3

They're... ok xD

She looks scary, looks like Gackt's infamous "r*pe face"

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lra0h3EwZI1qm7bqh.jpg

and OMG the blue one looks like the missunderstood one, the uncensorned version :P

Still liking the covers but the bigger version left me awkwardly speechless for a.while... Oh well

CD+DVD looks amazing! I love it! But CD-only... :eek no... that's not Ayu...

the 2CD+DVD one is so much better IMO... the more I look at the blue one, the more disgusting it becomes.

something like this would have been better, took 2 min of crapy photoshop... the first one (original) looks anything else but ayu, at the second one you can recognise her at least...

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/attach...7&d=1341354651

^ Let's not exaggerate. It's obvious that it's ayu on the cover.

It would have been a different story if it was something like this:

...

I want bigger 2cd+dvd cover, NOW.

Not bad!
Duck lips in the first one but sexy.
The second one... to much photohop but..uhm, no bad

I like both covers! Very summery--although I do wish the CD would have been more colorful, kind of like &, but they're still nice

@RayJason looooooool thank god it didnt turn out that way ^^

LOL IKR. There actually is a celebrity who looks like that, I'm not sure who though XD.

I hope the bigger resolution of the CD+DVD version becomes available too!

Actually, I quite like the 2CD cover... I don't think her hand looks "deformed" at all :rolleyes
Her tan is appropriate, seeing as it's a SUMMER best album lol.
Her smile looks really beautiful.

She looks absolutely fantastic. The tan indeed looks somewhat dirty, and her smile in the CD-only looks a bit off, but the overall getup of the covers work! I love them.

goshh her expression looks so ugly on 2CDs. thank God 2CDs+DVD is fabulous except the lips. I start getting used to it tho

she looks weird...

I actually want to buy this now. haha That 2CD + DVD cover is so hot.

i think both covers are beautiful! but my favorite is the 2CD+DVD cover. :heart

She looks so weird in the CD version. There is something REALLY wrong with her smile, I think she's showing too much teeth in the corner of her mouth? I don't think her smile is that wide normally.... :P I think Ayu looks fine with tan and blue contacts usually, like with the UNITE cover. But her tan here....

The other cover looks pretty. Hopefully will still think so when I see a larger version :)

I was comparing the cover with the ayu on your avatar and, wow, the difference :O

My thoughts exactly, but what did you mean by uncensored version?

That really does put it into perspective! The second picture is so perfect >.< It would have been a fantastic cover. I'm definitely not a fan of the original one... dirty tan, menacing smile.. ._.

The 2cd+dvd looks nice though... :yes

A JOKER
:P
Now all the clowns make sense! xD

the hell this look 100 times better holy crap.
that's amazing.
Just position the head a little higher and bam perfect.
wow I could never say no to that.

Fantastic omg. Even though her head is awkwardly angled in the second one.

she isnt as beautiful as she used to be
XD
Since crossroads her face is changing
still pretty tough

I have to admit, it's not my cup of tea at all. One thing I really haven't enjoyed about Ayu's makeup in the previous eras (and current one) is her eye makeup (it is almost a mutated take on her 2005/2006/2007 eyes). And a tan certainly does not help. ;)

I hope this doesn't turn off consumers. Covers are so important, especially for casual listeners/new fans.

the 2CD closeup is freaking weird. She looks like bee have bit her lips. She doesn't look like herself.

But the one with DVD is pretty neat! Very glamour and sexy.

Uh, even though it's small, the 2CD+DVD cover looks amazing. I love the pose/scenery.

2CD she looks rabid...

Oh, and she looks like she is having a moustache.

I really love them :) She looks gorgeous >_< Too bad that I'm getting the 2CD+DVD version, I want the close-up one!

They look like a-nation covers I like that, I get the summer feeling

But that's one creppy smile

She looks so gyaru, she looks like DOUBLE, and they are like UNITE! covers -episode II-

they're okay i guess. i like the 2CD+DVD one a bit better, i think.

i wish she would ditch those darn contacts. :P

They look terrible but I'm still excited for the album.

That's called smile :D
Love tan, love both cover ><

woww... 2CD+DVD looks nice~
need to see bigger pic..
2CD Only weirdddddd... >.<

Who is she?? Especially on the 2CD version. OMG:thud:thud

Her smile looks gorgeous but overall i looove the cd+dvd cover

Overall the covers look a lot better then Party Queens one.

I think the both pictures looked okay to me~So I decided to buy the album!!! :) :)

agreed. she looks terrible especially on 2CD ver. >>"

I know what's wrong with this photo. Her smile. It looks like she's forced to smile.

If I ever have the album on my iTunes, I'm gonna use this picture for it! LOL

bad photoshop for the CDs only cover.. i like the 2CD+DVD cover more

WOW, I love them!! Ayu looks really happy in the CD only. :heart

2CD is worse than Sunrise covers. Gross. I seriously thought that you guys were joking on facebook at first.


2CD DVD looks great. Even with the duck lips.

^idk! How can someone take such a disgusting photograph O_o I thought maybe they had mashed it up or something lol

we're always doing crazy **** on facebook :laugh

she looks so dark in the 2cd cover, and that smile is really disturbing.
But anyway, they are better than sunrise/sunset.
I think i prefer the fan-made cover

It's nice that the DVD gets the better cover, usually the other way round.

I hate that she's pouting in the 2CD+DVD cover because it's either that or the creepy 2CD cover.

she's trying to be a kuu wannabe (?), IMO

I'm looking forward to seeing a larger version of the CD+DVD cover; the thumbnail looks really nice. However, the CD only cover...somebody went overboard with the photoshopping. It doesn't even look like her!

Yeah, like, the thumbnail of the 2CD ver looks pretty good but in HQ it's just like... ): It doesn't look like her at all. I'll wait for the scans before making a complete judgment tho. At least the 2CD+DVD ver is gorgeous :D

I'm gonna agree with the majority here and say the DVD cover looks good, and the CD cover looks like a botched photoshop job. There's something completely unnatural about it.

Lol I'm pretty sure this is what some people actually see
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Anyway, I like both covers. But the CD+DVD one is better to me. I really like that one and want a bigger version of it....the CD one would be great to me if her jaw didn't look so strange.

I'm not sure what some people mean by it not looking like ayu. Apparently I don't know what ayu looks like lol. The one with the two picture comparison with one supposedly looking more "ayu-ish" seems a bit pointless to me. Idk, ayu often has looked a tad weird to me.

She has had some ugly covers throughout and I like these, love the CD-DVD.

BRING THAT THING BACK TO UNDERWORLD PLEASE M(U) HAS BEEN HAUNTING ME EVER SINCE AND NOW THIS?

wtf ayu but dvd looks unf <3

I like them but the cd only looks like they had a photo which they liked her pose and a photo that they prefered her face in and just combined the two. I like leslies work but not the second rate photoshoping that goes over it. Should be some good off shots

i can't believe i will say this, but she looks freaking creepy here O_O like she has a knife in the hand you can't see and is gonna stab you with it and that psycho smile...i'm dissturbed =S

Love the 2CD cover, I think I'm getting this version.

While I don't hate the covers, I would be content if this was the last thing Leslie does with Ayu. He hasn't truly impressed me once since he's come back. Everything had the exact same feel to it. The lighting, photoshopping, etc. Why use the same person over and over again when you have so many options at your fingertips. It's weird to me.

Alas, they're probably shooting something right now at their overseas location.

please tell me the correct color of cd version is not this!!!!!!!!!!!:no
The larger cover is really the few horrible covers they have for cd version

The CD cover looks scary... I don't like her tan either.
CD+DVD is awesome though~

I think that her smile can be that wide. The reason it looks so weird is because her teeth are clenched in a tight smile that is wide. Usually when Ayu smiles that wide her mouth is open or slightly open. This is a very forced and awkward smile. The pale lipstick contrasts, and the tan is not flattering, reminds me of her bad RAINBOW days.

In the the 2CD cover if you start from the middle of her teeth and count the middle right as tooth one and count till the end of her teeth to the right there are 5 and one small 6th one way back there. In most Ayu pictures she only exposes 5 teeth per side but she also doesn't smile super super hard. I couldn't find any 6 teeth smile photos so maybe it was shopped in there. But also, we haven't seen her smile this hard and at this angle maybe she does have a 6 teeth smile.

Counting in this picture on the left side she has a 6 tooth smile. I just think it's rare for Ayu to smile that hard http://www.generasia.com/wp-content/...i201102002.jpg it's really hard to see though I counted 6 maybe I'm wrong.

I think the problem with the 2 CD is

-Bad lighting
-Too much contrast
-Abnormal Ayu smile
-Contacts
-Angle
-and pretty much everything else

This smile is big/fairly big and it looks fine :-\

I blame it on her new teeth.

I shopped it, darkened her lips, teeth, hair, eyes. Lightened her skin and made the whole image more on the red hue/color instead of blue-ish. I also made her hair more of a bright blonde almost her strawberry blonde. I did the lips pretty bad, but considering what I had to work with this was the best I could do. It looks way better (to me) It looks like Ayu

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../ayu_album.jpg

Love those covers..

Very summer looks..