The ~A~ symbol
 

I have been thinking about the ayu's symbol.

Is her symbol since the beggining? Who has designed it? And when?
Is a original symbol really, and very personal.

(Maybe someone have asked this before, and if it's like this, sorry!)

I think she even had this ~A~ logo in her IDOL era so maybe it was designed by herself (?)

I'm pretty sure the first time she used the "A" logo was the A Single A, and then it was changed into what we see today.

Anyone else notice it looks like that Hitler plus-sign thing?

^ oO"" wut? xD

it was created by someone in her LOVEppears era, I think

swastika

My dad made the comment to me when he saw my AT08 wristbands =(

you are seeing things that only you want to see...it does NOT in any way, shape or form look like a shwashtica...

@GRACE: Ah, swastika, that's it in English.

LOL funny how my dad made the comment, too.

@ownsarai: Actually if you're not seeing it than you're not seeing what you don't want to see, because, well, it's FACT that it resembles a swastika if you take away a small part of the logo. =)

My friend's brother pointed that out to me when he saw my PDCL phone strap last week.

@^: Haha, funny I'm not the only one.

Actually it's interesting considering Japan was allies with Germany. XD

Actually, you could say that it looks like a symbol for Buddhism instead, since that's where the Swastika comes from. :rollseyes

Whatever, I don't see it Melrose...I see an A, in a unique shape.

exactly, people seem to think the nazis invented or something @_@
i once had a little charm of it, but it was a buddhist symbol...but now i don't use it >_<

does anyone know who create all those animations of the A at AT06 then?

Lol maybe some parts of it resemble the swastika like the curves. Overall I don't see any resemblance. She's obviously got more than one A symbol too. I guess everyone refers to the main one when they talk "A symbol".

LMAO @ the swastika comments!
My friend was watching the AT08 performance of Mirrorcle World with me and thoguht the "A" on her hat was a swastika. I don't really see it, but I guess there must be some resemblance if she wasn't the only one who thought that.

well, i heard it was made originally for the A single, but the idea was to combine the A from Ayumi with the Pi symbol because the A single was about patterns. thats why the songs on there repeated. like song 1, song 2, song 3, remix song 1, remix song 2, remix song 3, another remix of song 1, another remix of song 2, etc...

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d.../Asingle-1.png

OMG my Mum said the exact same thing! that it looked like a swastika and that if I wore my armband to school I'd be arrested or something!
I think it looks like an "A"
:)

i don't see any resemblance at all...

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d...123/lkjhfd.jpg

^Exactly. I think SOMEBODY just wanted some attention...

@_@ i really don't know how people can think the A symbol can look like that @_@ maybe from a distance it might....

~A~ symbol looking like a Shrine Torii? :cool

http://www.shinmei.or.jp/en/images/zu-toriiEN.gif

I think it does KIND of look like a manji. But it also looks like an A and a torii, maybe the designer took inspiration.
After all in Asia the swastika/manji doesn't really have any negative connotations and it's a symbol of a peace in fact.
So maybe it is like...

Ayumi + Peace + Holiness = A symbol.

I think it just were something for the A single. I don't think there is a bit story about it ;)

the A in the single A was the first A used as a logo lol

but the one we all know (the "A" that looks like japanese writting) was first time used in her single appears (10/12/1999)

here u guys can have a look:
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/disco/singles/11.appears.htm


:D

I think the "A" symbol looks a little like tori'i. Maybe this is where she (or someone else) got the inspiration from?

Oh, I didn't see that someone already pointed out the tori'i resemblence. Sorry. ^^a

LOL and Melrose had to delete the "swastika" subject to stop embarrasing himself

LMFAO

I don't see a swastika on A symbol anyway it's something absurd.

Please remember that the swastika symbol derives from another greek symbol who rappresented the sun (it is differently oriented).

The swastika is the symbol of death, ignorance and the deepest black part of human soul so PLEASE let this symbol be buried forever.

i agree!!

oh found this on some site~
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/...bols/id/613248

i've always have this theory that the symbol is actually "A" and "H" joined together and designed in a Japanese manner, resembling the torii gate found in temples in shrine.

It was designed by Shinichi Hara :D

http://www.d-cord.com/hara/logo/pl01.html

Did you mean Graphic Design Goals?
:love

Lol its a A lol, might as well say the cross or any shape with corners looks like it :P but in truth hitler stole the symbol from Asia and just tilted it

I though ayu designed it or maybe that was the A in her tattoo