GLOBAL TA launching in December!
 

http://i.imgur.com/sxtfK2E.jpg

credit: AyuAngel

FREAKING OUT.

OMG! Finally!

That's awesome!
What about international TA members that already got a membership though?

Technically TA members are supposed to be Japan-based, so I'm not sure.

@ayumisrael
Yeah I am also curious about non-Japan-based TA members, but this would really be great. Then we all wouldn't be needing these middleman services anymore. Hope we can easily change the personal information on TA (after global launch) and don't have to register again for international membership.

Registered on the 20th Sep, but if I had know this awesome news I would have waited ^^

OMG!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!

However, I still need more information... XD

For existing members it's always possible to change address details!! So no worries :-) I hope English language will be available so that a lot of foreigners can suppport Ayu and enroll!

How exciting!! Hopefully lots of people will join so Ayu can see she has fans all over the world!

Just in time for my birthday! Very exciting!

Great news!! But where's this flyer from? From the a-nation's venue in Singapore?

^
yes

YESSSSS! Finally! I'm in :D

YAY!

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.

I wonder if global TA'll have the same advantages than Ta member. For instance, the TA shop is on mumo but mumo doesn't send items oversea, isn't it?
I hope the price'll be decent.

OH MY HEUAOSHEÇJWEQWEQSHAIUDA FINALLY! BETTER START SAVING MONEY FOR IT lmao

Finally.

Thought this was coming when the actual TA started the lower membership fee since everything is just online-based now

But at last, finally! Lol

Fantastic news! Hope many joins, making it a success!

I want to join!

How much it costs to join?

good but not really understandable

i'm in!!!

I look forward to this!

This is exciting news! I hope we will be able to get tickets to her concert in Japan easiler

YAAAAAAAAARRRRRSSSSSSSSSDS!!!!!!!!!!


I wasn't looking for this but now that it's here, SWEET!!!!

Ohhh wow!! This is huge!!! I'll join to TA!! Yey!!
And it only takes 15 years to become international.

I feel like it's too little too late. If she really wanted to expand her international fandom she should have done it forever ago.

Stop being debbie downer! This is great news for foreign fans!

I hope it's not too expensive.

I wonder which will be the benefits.. can't wait !!

Don't we already know that it's about $40 per year though now...

I thinks the benefits and price will stay the same. Membership costs 3200 yen plus 200 yen commission, so total 3400 yen. Benefits are digital TeamAyu member card, wallpaper downloads, early tickets booking lottery, diary from Ayu herself, documentary videos, photo gallery, exclusive online magazine, birthday mail service, newsletter.

^Oh thank you, it's really expensive, Ami Suzuki FC was like 1000yen or something

If its digital I'm not interested

^^Probably to make up for the low record sales. They already lowered them. Didn't they use to be $90/year or something crazy like that?

Lmao you seriously comparing Ami to Ayu?

Poor Ami :'(
At least Ayu isn't growing strawberries yet.

I think a lot of new members will appear since many people don't really need physical goodies. New price is very affordable and I think there will be English translations available. Perfection if you ask me.

This is what I'm worried about because if they don't merge the two, guaranteed there'll be another fuckin' fanwar about which is superior, who has the better benefits, etc. Actually, even if they put us all under one thing, we're gonna have that anyway, because TA Japan will probably call themselves the "originals" or something. Just warning y'all now: be prepared. They're probably going apeshit already, like how they did when Ayu joined Twitter to chat with us and think that they're gonna lose that "closeness" with Ayu now that it's international.

I'll save up money to join. I'm in!

Yes! This is so exciting! :)

the hope on world tour is brighter now...

YEEEESSS

Well, I was planning to join TeamAyu in December, until this just happened...

Hopefully this will make an even stronger case to join TeamAyu! I'm so really excited that I can't wait for further details...

awesome!

Just let´s wait and see^^
If it´s different I will join both xD

about time !

If it's $40 a year, I don't think that's bad.

Could someone explain briefly what are the benefits of being a member of TA? apart from access to the TA site and blog do you receive any kind of monthly magazine with news related to Ayu, a newsletter, at least a postcard?

Could you please read this thread? I already described all the benefits that are listed on official site.

oh sorry I didn't see what you wrote earlier :ywink so the benefits are mostly virtual then

I'm just interesed in the member card and TA goods!

That's nice after Kumi started it now Ayu will follow ♥

Awesome.

lovelly news!! I do agree it should have been done ages ago, but better later than never... ;p

I want the card!

WHAT?! $90 per year???? that's cheap!!! I thought it was something around $100-200 per month! :yes:yes:yes

Old TA membership with magazines was 6000 Yen.

Took these bitches long enough.

That's great! If it's really around 40$ this will be my christmas present to myself!

Though we may get something from it, Koda's one was free to join. I hope the team ayu magazines get made as pdf's or keep the same principle as them but in English. They may even put in an international shop page in

^ koda gumi was not free...you still have to pay

^woops got her official email magazine thing mixed up with it

Zomg, I'm so happy! I'll definitely join :D

If its as cheap as Miss Kumi Kuu's fanclub I will probably join.

YAY!!!!! I am so excited!!! This just goes to show that I need to get a job so I can afford this!!!

Looking forward! I hope they will give equivalent benefits. But looking at the catalogue there seems like a slight diff, email birthday greetings. Hope we will receive the actual cards and gifts ;(

This has been a long time coming! Such great news :)

it was about time.

true :D:banana1

me too *^^* i'm already in TA but i wanna support the international fan club! :love

been waiting for this foreverrrrr. no idea what took them so longggg.

definitely very keen to join the international fan club to show support!!! i certainly hope it gives us ticket balloting rights just like the japan TA~

OMFG

Global fan club could lead to global tour...

That could happen. Similar to what Perfume did since they opened up P.T.A fan club to the world...

^ please let it be so.

I am really looking forward to this. I am already a TA member but with the international TA version there will be english posts as well for sure so that's awesome! Also I hope they start to ship orders internationally without having to use damn expensive tenso...

I can't wait to join! I hope they announce something about it soon!

hmmm... now when i think about it it could not just open up possibilities to international fans but also a whole new can of worms as well...lol we all know how japanese fans can be....

And to them I say...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13...psyxetqgkr.gif

lol, its time to let her nicer and not so judgemental fans in, who wont dump her just because she dates someone we dont like (the whole manny and maro thing) :P

i'm so happy for this!! i wanna be a member of TA really bad!!

Well that's just one more reason why I need to get a job~

Lol you say that like it didn't / hasn't also divided her foreign fans just as much!

We also hold Ayu to high standards and let her know if we don't like something. PQ covers, all the tweets about FTL PV....

I'm starting to believe that the "global" TA is more supposed to be an ASIAN TA...

It seems so but I can't see anything wrong with that. It's business, one should focus on demand, and demand is in Asia.

I just think this is all a bit misleading. Who knows how thos "global TA" will turn out if the focus is only on Asia...

^ Wouldn't you be more upset if they only opened it up to Asia and didn't give European/American/etc. fans a chance at all?

I live in Europe and I am TA member through the middleman service Celga, so I don't think European, American, Asian fans don't get a chance to register at all. But who knows what is really behind all the global TA launch. We really don't have that much details, except for the fact that there will be something happening in December, but what... Just Ayu and avex really know.

I just want to be able to sign up and get a membership card, have access to the blog, TA exclusive gifts and purchases, and raffling to get concert tickets...

If Kuu got a Global FC there's no reason for Ayu not to get one. Probably Asian fans will get to enjoy more than the rest when it comes to concerts, but if they I don't see why not making it worldwide.

I forgot all about Party Queen and Feel the love PV drama era and those weird bible giving fans lol, It was all just stupid remarks from fan who think they own her :P But I think the nastiest remarks come from Asia and the Asian media.

I guess I don't see ayu's love life as something that a fan should even have any right in judging her on

I thought they were not doing a card of the global TA, though it better not turn out like her official page with her english site being like 4-5 months behind her Japanese site

Wasn't the membership card removed with the renewal (massive update) of TA in October, just like the gifts, greetingcards, TA magazine. Just people, who signed up before October will get a membership card, etc...

That's correct. Only digital member card now.

Guys, tomorrow Global TA will launch!! Ayu just posted an entry on TA, the Global TA will be opened December 1st between 0-6am Japan time, so excited for this *O*

really? but only for asian fans?

^i don't think so, it says Global :)

I'm so in.

So do we still need Tenso?