Secret released in Tokyo
 

Information and pictures from Ryan Chan's blog again. As usual, it's released one day ahead of the scheduled date.

Pictures posted with permission from Ryan:

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4...yan2ly9.th.jpg http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6...ryanoj0.th.jpg

Haha, lucky guy :).

Source: http://www.katoonbaby.com/xx/?p=285

O___________O I want that poster on the Shibuya building on my wall (I don't think it would fit through the door though). XD

Eeek, what time is it there immel? It's only 7 AM here (so sleepy too, I have to write a 5 page essay on net neutrality in 2 hours).

Thanks for the info! 1 more day to go!! ^___________________^

In Tokyo it's currently 9:53 PM, November 28th. Considering when most stores open, 10 AM, the album has been out for almost 12 hours now.

yay!! pray that this album can hits a million seller...
by the way...i really want to know how hard the advertisement for secret was?
i think soysaucestar that live in japan right now can give us any clue about this?

soysaucestar was in Japan for school last year, but is not there anymore. She's in the U.S. now.

But here's a snapshot of a booth~ probably taken this morning.


GUESS WHAT'S ON THE TV?! -cough-
It wasn't this effing big when I copied the image D:

I bought 3 pcs in Osaka! :D

Woah! :D

Awesome! I hope the sales are high!

1LOVE WoW. <3

Thanks for the pictures Anthony, awesome. You should post thumbnails though =P. Or a spoiler tag.

AyuGAME, soy returned to the US a while ago. I've been talking to a number of my friends who live in Tokyo right now, one of them told me "THAT DAMN DVD IS EVERYWHERE", on the AT06 DVD. I've been asking if they've seen any of the black glittery Secret ads around, but no. Although none of them has been to central Tokyo for a while.

may i no who's this ryan chan? a celebrity? he seems to be 1 of ayu's good friend! n he sure knows lots of superstars!! notice how common or average he is on streets of tokyo n no one knows him but always hanging around with superstars?

He is a co-worker with Leslie Kee, a famous photographer of various celebrities, including Ayu.

He knows both Leslie and Ayu personally.

Thank you for the pics, I want to see more posters please !
Let's take photos!Are you really japanese? I need more photos please :)

Hmm.. I'm curious to see more promotion too.

I would want that too, but i'll hang it outside my HOUSE! :D And i'll worship her everyday like god... dog...:D

Hanging it outside the house... I believe that would make some people wonder.

Anyway, I wonder how much it costs to promote on the Shibuya 109 building tower per day (or per hour).

Good question, I would like to know too.

I think avex doesn't have money problem, anyway even if they would had problem, with this album, they will earn so much money ! (I hope)

Whoa!..thats nice...1 LOVE ooo!

plz plz break a mill

whahah!! i wan the posters too!! anyway, i think that Secret will break a million. i have confidence in ayu!! :D

Asking me? No, I'm not. I live in Sweden.

I'll ask around if anyone I know can go into central Tokyo and maybe take some photos.

I want the poster.... sob
I want Secret to break million!

I want the poster.... sob
I want Secret to break million!

That building is pretty huge, the poster would cover the larger part of the wall of the house I live in :laugh.

I think people would glance suspiciously at it.

Damn, I want the entire shelf... :innocent

That's amazing^^ Cannot wait to get recieve my copy!! It's always more special when you have the actual product in your hand :D

oooh.... I wish I was in Tokyo now! :( *sigh*

I'm so envious of my friend who's in Tokyo right now. He gets to be surrounded by Ayu.

I added the two Shibuya 109 pictures from Ryans blog entry, with permission.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4...yan2ly9.th.jpg http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6...ryanoj0.th.jpg

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/6...uya1dq7.th.jpghttp://img481.imageshack.us/img481/9...uya2kr8.th.jpg

Two more pictures :P

Credit: ayulove

You are so mean!! Why did you do that? Grr... .... :P

It looks wonderful, the picture that says Merry Christmas :).

Christmas is soon upon us, ahh, looking forward to it.

Thanks for adding the pictures!

Thanks! Hoping to see more promotion!

I hope it doesn't come too soon! That'll mean I have to have 7 final projects done! @_@ I dun wanna do 'em all just yet!!

I hope Secret breaks a million too!

Aah, so awesome! It would be so cool to be in Tokyo when an Ayu album's released!

hey mina-san !!!!!

I was there this morning too, bought cd + dvd version and got exactly the 109 poster (a real big version) for free at tower records. They always start selling a day in advance.

Here my pics :

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...shibuyaFar.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...ibuyaClose.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...hibuyaWall.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...hibuyaSell.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...yaEntrance.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...zy/109Left.jpg

Wow you're so lucky :P

Aw come on people, Secret being this good, 1mil is no prob...I want 2mil, I await the old days of Ayu DOMINATION.

I wonder whats up with that Secret stand on the street...

I'm still wondering whether to get the poster...

thank you :)

they did it last year too - here my pictures from 2005 (taken with my cellphone, not the best quality) :

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...y/SN320502.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...y/SN320499.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...y/SN320498.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...y/SN320497.jpg


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...y/SN320463.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...y/SN320461.jpg

I'm not even paying attention to the Secret ads, I'm more interested in the buildings and streets and people^^ It looks so festive.

Thanks for the pictures BrauMeister! :D

Ayu looks so omnipotent in those pictures. :tongue That would certainly be a sight to see! Thanks for the pictures! Here's hope to large first day sales!

Awesome BrauMeister, thank you so much for the pictures :).

Excessive amounts of Ayu poster after Ayu poster, heh.

whooooa so envy of ryan leh~
he had pic with the real ayu too....
how i wish i was him... T__T

Awesome BrauMeister, thank you so much for the pictures :).

Excessive amounts of Ayu poster after Ayu poster, heh.

It's good to see Ayu all over Shibuya again :yes

I have a feeling Secret will do rather well (I hope)

BrauMeister awesome pics I might say :yes I envy you :P

btw. you have a really good phone :laugh

wow so many surprises with this album release!

I want to be to Japan right now and feel the Ayu's atmosphere.
I wonder if the station also became Ayu's stations ? :)

Do you mean the train/subway stations?

Japan just wouldn't be Japan if Ayumi weren't plasterd over every square mile of civilization :D

Jesus, those posters are huge. I just cracked myself up imagining how it must've been for the end of 2005...

Picture it: A HUMONGOUS promo poster for (miss)understood plastered across every skyscraper wall. Using the CD-only cover. I can see people looking up and screaming in horror and running home.

Guess why Shibuya 109 chose to use the Christmas picture rather than a album promo picture back in 2005...

Heh, just a slight theory.

Yes, usually there are many posters there.
Everyone goes there so I think it is a good place for promotion.
But I don't remember seeing singer promotion, only beer/camera/cellphone...

Damn. I would've loved to hear about the public's reaction to seeing huge versions of that thing leering across the skyline.

Her albums are always promoted like this

I don't think it'll sell a million but it'll be close

COME ON AYU!! 1MILL!! BIG MONEY, BIG MONEY!!!

yeah i want ayu to make it to million!!!
hope the promotion goes well
and praying for this first day sales!!!
hope for the first week she can achieve about 500-600k

All of a sudden we're on Wheel of Fortune, I guess?

Nah.


We're on "Deal or No Deal" D:

awww, i wanna go stand underneath the ayumi poster as well!

shibuya looks beautiful!

thanks!

The Japanese version was released on the 28th instead of 29th, I believe the OS version might be released on the 29th instead of the 30th?

She can sell a million copies... maybe she just needs to do the Madonna MTV stunt with Koda & Ai.... and give the same stupid explanation where she's the mother popstar passing on her energy to the baby popstars.

Wow, looks exciting ^_^ I really hope Secret surpasses the 1-million mark as well~

That is so cool. I see the HMV store. If only I lived in Japan. It would be great.

anyone know abuot how long until they will take down Ayu's secret posters?

wow cool! the poster looks good. but it may not be eye catching enough because of the dark colours :(

when Black Cherry is about to be released :P The ayu hype is now over, make way for kuu T_T

Awesome.Thanks for posting.

wow, i can't wait to lay hands on mine!!!

uh so excited!!!

million seller, Secret!

Ahahaha. Howie Mandel = <3! Some of the contestants...not so much.

It's so nice to see how festive Shibuya looks. :) I can't believe Christmas is already here again!

I wonder what they do with all those banners when it's time to take them down? They probably just throw them away, right?

I'd park myself on a bench and when park & rec people came around to take them down, I'd jump them and scream, "GIVE ME THE BANNERS!!!!!!"

actually I posted the info and i received the email... :) yea

i just hope it comes on the same day on the overseas version wan...

MILLLION!!! 2 MILLION!! OR A MILLION WILL BE FINE!!

Posters !! o.0

I want them!!!

If I was in Tokyo right now I'd take a night stroll and pick a few of them banners for myself.

lucky!!!
you can be in Japan during the release time of Secret

The overseas version, i mean HK version is released and i got my copy today,finally, everything pays off and Secret album is worht my effort in insisting not to listen to the download! You know what, i like Born To Be... more and sure, the voice is clearer than b4. I'll watch DVD after i finished with the CD

very nice ^^ thanks for sharing

that's so great, so cool that Japan gets excited with the release of a new Ayu album.

Immel?? One question about the "permission" thing...
Does Ryan knows about this forum???
If he does and he's actually a friend of Ayu, so we gotta convince him to tell Ayu about the forum, to get her into the forum, read it and she 'll know about her international fans (Including the rest of the world minus Japan).
That'll be so amazing >__<

He does not see Ayumi often, in fact very rarely and only in connection with work. So that would probably be an impossibility and I don't know how wise it'd be to invite her to a place where her music is shared illegally.

That's so true! But!!

I think that almost all members bought at least one single/album in his/her entire fan's life.

And!! If one of each fan had the money for buying all Ayu's singles/albums, they would buy them for sure. (Sorry for my bad bad spoiled gyak ouch english...) =(

oh thats cool^^

So Cool! I wish I could be in Japan for one of Ayu's releases. :)

ahhhh... Ayu in Shibuya 109... i don`t know why... but i feel happy

Anyway... i want the poster... in that size of course

yea... if you got the money and IF you like her, u shd buy it...:yes
actually i dunno why i buy some of her singles, since they will be included in the upcoming album, but i just cant help it =p

just take secret as an example, i bought Startin'/Born to Be and BLUE BIRD singles and also Secret itself T__T :o (no more money oredi) :tipsy

but trust me, Secret is something worth to buy... and i like JEWEL and Momentum really much :love she look really erm, how shd i put it, special and mysterious in JEWEL, ichiban! :yes

oh by the way, if you buy the DVD/CD version in singapore, a huge poster (not as huge as the shibuya building) will be given free to u =D

I strongly believe this album will hit over a million!

Ayu Forever~~

It would be a great idea but as immel said there are still illegal stuffs.

And I personally doubt that most people buy Ayu's CDs.
It took me 2 or 3 years before buying an Ayu's CD.

I think it is great to know someone who knows "personally" Ayu. T be able to talk with her is just amazing!

nice pics

Cool pics!! I wanna go to Tokyo!!
Arigatou for the pics!!