[Pic] Ayumi Hamasaki 2007 calendar cover
 

http://img320.imageshack.us/img320/427/ahmainte9.jpg

Source http://ecweb1.avexnet.or.jp/sapc/060915cal_ms.aspx#ayu


lol looks like my avatar pic;)

Sweet! Unique! Surprisingly, I love it!

ew
so ugly

interesting... it's 99% your avatar pic

it's cute... but... simple xD.. but o well.. cute anyways

AWW SHE LOOKS SO CUTE!!!! X3

But I really don't like that hair, or lack thereof o_0 Just looks very candid and unglam to me. I can just hear ayu saying "ahhh!! not now!!" and covering her face :D

:thud

IT'S OUT!!!

And I'm glad I preordered it :yes

anyway i love my avatar pic more than this cover :)

cutee..
the cutest cover ever!!!
thx!

It's cute^^ but nothing special.

can't wait to see other peoples reactions

It's better than the last year's ,though I like your avatar more

So cute I love it!!

LOL Cute!

This is a refreshing change =)
I like it.

^I was about to post the same thing..I love it..very nice

I like the cover! I want to see the pictures inside though.

Kawaiiiiii *-* Thanks ^^

I love the picture to bits, I hate the font, though.

better than 2006 one..

OH YAH!!! I LOVE it!!!
It's looks simple and very cute !!!
I have no regret to ordered it!!! :D

Worst cover since 2002 ~~
Yah it´s cute, but not for a calender cover...whould fit better as Album Booklet pic.

Well, this means that they saved the monastery for the inside :D :D

I like it quite a lot actually ^^. More than likely getting this calendar, unless Aya Ueto can swing me this year

so cute
looks like ayu wants to show her funny and natural side...like she did with M(U) cover

OMG lol....its cute i find it ok...i wanna noe wads inside...

i hope there arnt any more ViVi mag scans lookalikes..but more stylish...and NEW photos they took

It's horrible :(

My my, such mixed reactions. Actually this reminds me of an old ASFXX era looking pic of her that seems very very similar. Which is way cool cause that was then and this is now. Crazy cute! I <3 Ayu, thumbs up :D.

NICEEEE!!!
I love it

That's such a cute picture :D Makes me want to buy the calendar o_o;

yatta ze mitsuketa yo
13th page of the "ayumi hamasaki photos" album on zyrex.org
http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/2...umi2ll1.th.jpg

edit: Ok so I change my mind slightly. Seems a little unnatural, and Ayu's usually megagood at looking natural...well we'll see how I feel about it later today.

Wow, that really suprised me! I wasn't expecting that at all! But I kinda like it. It's a lot better than last year, that's for sure! I like how it's cute and simple. Though, her face is a little too covered. Just one hand would have been better. But I think it's original. I guess it will have the "a day with Ayu" theme? Kinda like, the cover... when she wakes up and gets ready... :P Looking forward to the rest of the pictures!

ew

Awww! It's cute! I like it!

I love the face! It's candid but still beautiful and elegant, unlike the (miss)understood cover. Sophisticated shyness? In any case, her expression is gold. Her nail colour is really sweet.

But I HATE the hair. It's like she has little pink slugs and chewing gum stuck to it.

Hey, don't worry, you'll definately feel better later :).

yeah..i don't really like the hair..
but that's the natural theme..hehe :D

can't say that i care for it that much. but maybe the photos inside wil be better.

I agree with all the 'eww" comments and dissagree with all the "it's better than the 2006 cover".

Honestly, if I had to choose her ugliest photo this year, it would be that one by FAR. :P I like the hair though!

^Do you count the (miss)understood cover as a photo of this year, or 2005 :P?

It was on a 2006 album, but probably taken during 2005.

WOW, she looks so cute!!
I really love this cover, can't wait to see more of this calendar!

Then don't throw a bone. If you don't agree, then ignore it.

Considering this is a discussion board I think we can all state what we agree and disagree on, no bones or stones thrown :).

This pink things in her hair does look a tad weird, but I don't think about them much when I look at the picture.

Yeah, the pink stuff on her hair is a bit... Weird. This is the only thing I don't like on the cover. Oh, and the fact that her hands are all over her face, haha.

What's those pink stuff on her hair?

The photo is quite cute, just that it reminds me of some facial cleanser advertisement.

^ Things to curl the hair.

...... Ewwwwwwww, worst cover evar

As little as I know about creating hair-do's I also suspect it's something to make her hair curly, or maybe to make it like it looks in your avatar :).

Ewww. I have mixed feelings about this one. Ayu looks cute in that picture (I don't like her hair though), but on the other hand it looks more like an offshot picture rather than a calendar cover.

The cover is special. I don't really like it.

Oh man, I LOVE her face but that hairstyle is just terrible. I like how Ayu's going for this vintage 30's look but the rollers in the hair is kind of bland to me. I like everything else but that. Hopefully I won't have to look at the cover too much...Or maybe it will grow on me.

no-i--o

A terribly cute pic. Odd but nice.

Ayu looks really cute on the cover. I like this picture more than last year's cover :) The overall cover looks kinda cheap though...I don't like the font and the flip page thing on the bottom right corner.

simply cute

that's also what did come to my mind seein that pic. but she still looks gorgeous and and very diva-ish

very cute :D

I was thinking of getting it, but now I'm not. ... I'm not actually gonna spend money on THAT.. I don't like it at all!

it's just the cover, you still have the inside pics to look forward too^^

EW *shudders*... WTF is that?!

^Aw so mean :P at least, isn't she megacute? mmmmmmmmmmm <hugs Ayu's cuteness>

I think the flip page thingie is just edited in for the product image on the online shop.

how cute! I wish I could get one...

I actually like this cover. o__o; It's really different.

how adorable! i'm gonna pre-order this soon <3

it's very natural! i like it. :]

Cute pic, but why the cover? Definitely doesn't make me want to go out and buy it. Maybe this is a case of "It gets better with every page". Still a nice picture.

it doesn't look like it... it is completely the same!!! LoL...

wow, so cute~~

i like it! but it looks like she's naked :P

ooo. Those hair things are sooo weird. But I really love the picture.

Wheee! :D hehe I actually sorta giggled when I read your post haha. I'm sure she's not naaaaked...maybe just a little ;). She is wearing that coquettish smile though...:D

So far I think that 2004 has the best cover. I wonder if she is wearing any clothes on in that cover.

I like it :D

After several years of glamour I like the natural change. It's refreshing and it shows the human side of her, not the superstar.

seems 60% guys hate it :)

Not bad not bad, reminded me of the cover of m(u) except a LOT better!

What, so did people want this as a photo on the inside of the cover?

:p

imo this is way different from the usual photos we've gotten over the years.. :O WAY different. And I like it. :O It's like asongforXX said, it's like: "A Day with Ayu. In Miami." So she's like "-gets ready to go to Miami-"..

Then the January / February might be like, her next to the plane.. and it'll end with the sequence of leggings/night Ayu as September / October into monastery Ayu for November / December.. or something..

[It's not a hairstyle she has, really.. it's just like when girls leave haircurlers in their hair. People apparently think it's nasty because they probably have never done it themselves or seen it :| Or they expect Ayu to never do that kind of thing and actually capture it on film or something.. The girls here at AHS probably don't look too good with their hair in curlers.. so.. yeah. :yes]

Hmmm....it's very pretty, yet very different from what Ayu usually does :yes

I def. give Ayu credit for trying something different

I personally think that with all the people saying something negative about the cover..

I wonder if they'll be pleasantly surprised with the inside since most of the photos were well received in Sweet..

[imo, you don't even have the cover showing anyways unless you don't use it as a calendar.. so it doesn't really matter as much as a CD cover..]

I like it. XD The font is pretty ugly though. I like the pink of her nails. x3 I'd rather have that pic of her in that white dress as the cover though..

I think that the cover represents the 'fun' she has in the calendar though.

And the last photo will be all hot and sexy with backless-dress Ayu.. :)
After all, the cover isn't really what we see when we change the months right?

Cute pic.

Question:

Didn't we all know that she would put photos from that 'set' somewhere in the calendar? LOL I mean we did get a sneak peek at every single 'shoot' done for the calendar..

Those curles are a bit... strange. They don't look much like the curlers I usually see. They're more... sea shellish.

^ I know. That's very true. o_o

Or are they mini hair scrunchies?

I think they might be minicurling-scrunchies. LOL

Japan has tons of things that look.. awkward.

Oh and the date is 'confirmed' to have changed from 11/4 to 11/25 ;D
２００６年１１月４日⇒１１月２５日発売予定

http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/3197762/s

Oh not bad, I like the timing. : D

Do the commoners/non-fans/regular Japanese/people who need calendars buy these kinds of expensive official calendars?

I imagine that people who need calendars go to a store and just get something relating to whatever they like.. the Japanese are willing to spend a lot on goods like this.. I mean a 2400yen calendar.. D:

If I were in Japan, I'd have like anime calendars and Ayu calendars.. <3 <3
And maybe some cheapo desk calendars.

Well, it should've been expected that any one of the photos from Sweet were to be used as a cover..

I think that they didn't want to use it in the calendar itself, so they sort of just stuck it in the cover LOL~ :p

Artistically, it's an awesome shot so maybe they did want it to draw in buyers. It's a very commercial photo. Like Ayu's going "OMG NO DON'T BUY ME! XDDDD" which of course will make people intrigued and buy.

I wonder if the people who fork out THAT much for a calendar will actually use it, hang it on the wall, and cross out dates and stuff with a marker/pen/un-eraseable equipment.

I would. o__o

I would. It's a calendar.

Then again, I might use Post-Its/sticky notes. LOL Can't write on Ayu's precious face! :p

I do think that the cover was chosen to 'lure' buyers in.. since it's a very inviting look that she has on her face.. :)

Like "I'm having so much fun! Would you like to see? ;B"

Or maybe...it's just a nahnahnahnah~ see this?? just a taster XP cover??? XD

Me too. :P Or I'd use artliners that can be wiped off later.

I imagine that this will be one of her best calendars inner-content-wise in a long time ;D

Last time she had pictures that a lot of people were satisfied with was like 2002.. :p And many people don't even know wtf is in that calendar :yes

or laminate it so ...can wipe of with meths? XD

^ Yep, great idea.

it'll be all water proof too <3

omg that's perfect hahaha props to you TH
seems like she's always like that in the vivi dejideji diaries
*I'm having such an awesome time omg just watching me makes you feel happy too!* (which is kinda (sadly?) true) sigh, the power of Ayu...

Well, it's different...that's for sure. :meditate Hopefully the inside pics will be not as freaky. xD