Where's Ayu? - a thread for Ayu sightings
 

I suppose since I'm unable to find a thread like this... I'll make a new one.

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/615...514649222m.jpg

Can you find Ayu here? (Apparently it's a singing show on NHK, and these guys sang Moments.)


Feel free to post any random Ayu sightings, like Ayu in that Godzilla movie, or when she was seen at a Sarah Palin [?] press conference or something. Possibly even something Ayu related in a completely random place.



Example:
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8...odzilla0au.jpg

A poster of Ayu also appears in Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but only for a second.

Is this from Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift?
http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...yodriftkz1.jpg
Credits: angel-ayu.de Gallery
We see that Christmas poster from 2005(?) year.

ah.is this true??? @@i didn't realize bout the poster appears in fast and furious

Others:
http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...01/2likh1u.png
Devil beside you
http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...48462e98e7.jpg
Making of Animatrix
http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...ayufilm4qh.jpg
Unknown, unfortunately
http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...al_sheayu1.jpg
http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...al_sheayu2.jpg
S.H.E PV
http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...al_tomie_2.jpg
also unknown

credits: angel-ayu.de gallery

I dont get it... where's Ayu in this one?

the christmas poster on top of the tree

lol, I didn't know that her christmas pic is in F&F. I've watch that movie about a dozen times and didn't noticed it.

there is also on the Jackie Chan's movie "Shinjuku Incident". Just for a few second, a billboard of GUILTY, but i forgot in which part it is... :D

Oo! I like this thread :clapclap

There's some little documentaries about Tokyo here in Spain where I could see Ayu. It's like a program where thay travel aroudn the world to different cities and meet with spanish people living there... tehy made a documentary for Tokyo twice, on in 2007, where I could notice A BEST 2 covers while they where driving, and also last year, I could see NEXT LEVEL's cover in Shibuya...

I'll try to find screencaps...

There was this clip about The Large Hadron Collider at the official youtube channel of CERN and they showed this image:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4898/cerncap.jpg

They were showing different captures of websites, like a collage.

The clip was uploaded in 2006, now is no longer available.

I saw the Mirrorcle World poster in the Sensei wa Erai special. I closed the window after seeing the poster. XD Let me see if I have the screencap.

I found the clips!!

First is a program called "Duti Fri" (you know.. XDD duty free XDD) it was in 2007 ^^

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/899...t2dutifree.png



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qexy2n0Dc6I

minute 3,45 ^^

aaand, in "Callejeros: viajeros" (stray: travellers) may 2009

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/7...callejeros.png



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qexy2n0Dc6I

minute 7,45. very fast XD

EDIT: can you see the youtube videos?? xDD well I'll post the link in case I did it wrong...

Temple University of Japan

http://www.tuj.ac.jp/default.html

You might have to refresh the page a few times before you can see it

LMAO I never knew that Ayu was featured in Godzilla movie :laugh

omg this thread is awesomee xD

thanks for all those random ayu-appearances :D

lol, I'm the one that made that thread. I always wanted to go to japan, and thought about temple university, and then i realized that there's a temple in japan and looked up the website, and first thing i saw. ayu. :D

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...ghlight=temple

these are some photo of maxker's

This thread isn't really for posting photos of her promotional posters, but rather more for random appearances in some TV programs or any photos that might have Ayu in them that weren't intending on capturing her image, haha.

^ agree on that

Woah guys.. great found !!! :D

hehe can anyone spot ayu here??
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7...1022h00m34.png

i found the Ayu DVD case underneath the blue camera

oh that funny. . .the cyber trance. . .so random though. . .these are great

good thread!!
thise are a very nice discoveries :D

Actually I think I've just spotted something else in behind ayu trance.

If you look at the stack of CDs behind the white box looks like it has ayu's name on it

i LOVE this thread!!

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8244/1852423075.jpg
(my desk XDDDD)

^ me too!! :D:D:D

I'm very very interested in this thread,too.
So funny where she can be found :D

Ayu is everywhere XD

On the dorama 1 Litre of Tears, it was a scene when Mizuo Ikeuchi praises his little daughter after he saw her play at her kindergarden, saying that "she was great, just like Hamasaki Ayumi" or something like that XD

http://i50.tinypic.com/6qzdkg.png

I remember seeing a magazine with ayus face on it in a german documentary...damn, forgot it's name xD

Awesome! How did his daughter repsond? If I got that kind of compliment, I'd be spazzing XD

the trailer for the ps3 game coming out Yakuza4, believe Ayu's poster is in the background.

woaaa i like it this thread its funny

maybe that's quite random...

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...u/d8060401.jpg

http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k1..._102678_pc.jpg

that's awesome i've watched Shinjuku incident i didnt knew about Ayu's there XD and of course Godzilla??


nwey awesome thread ^ ^

edit: ok got to watch 1 Litre of Tears dorama lol,i'm not really interested before cos it's a sad story XD

ya.you should watch 1 LOT.its superb.must watch drama :P

yeah i'm sure i will lol ^

omg i know!!! i laughed so hard. LOL makes me wanna go rent that movie now. :innocent

Which GODZILLA movie was it? does anyone know?

this is a really cool thread! :D

is there a thread of Ayu's song titles in weird places?

like 'Taste The Rainbow'?


great thread, having lot of fun looking for Ayu everywhere (!)

She didn't respond ^^;; the rest of the family laughed XD

http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k1..._102678_pc.jpg

Ayu's just standing there like "Oh, hey." in the background...

yes, i remember this!!

At the time i was watching this in tv, I'm using headphone because it was so late and i don't to disturb the sleeping nieghbors because I usually watch tv loudly. And when I heard" Kasing galing mong kumanta si Ayumi Hamasaki"(You sung great just like Ayumi Hamasaki"), i was so shocked and at the same time I was laughing madly. After watching the show, I shared it to my online friends and they told they heard it too and they were too laughing and the first person that come to their mind is me. ( Among us, I'm the one who introduced Ayumi Hamasaki to them:lech )

Oh my goodness! I'm so mad at myself! I have the tokyo lookbook and didn't notice the truck!!!

well I posted this in the Chat-Room, but JackieRos mentionned this thread
Find Ayu ^^

^Utada! Kiss & Cry and Niji Iro Basu! @ 4:58-6:14

wait...what about ayu?...

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...vrgrk/mer4.jpg

I don't think this next one counts but I will post it anyways:
http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...rk/avex_01.jpg

What about this? found it in Thailand!!!

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3859/29012010121.jpg

You can see the Mirrorcle World promo billboard at 6:32. ;D

lol i forgot i got this, look at the girl at the left :P

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5282/image255.jpg

can found it in any contact lens shop here,well you know she's famous with her eyes :D

Hm.. I don't have a picture, I'll try finding it because I'm 100% sure I saved it :D
I was watching anime Jigoku shoujo, and in one scene in the city (or just a street) there was a blurry poster of Ayu's Sony commercial with soundtrack "Heartplace". It was so blurry that you couldn't see that it's Ayu but it was identical to me :D And very random lol

EDIT: i can't find it, i think i deleted it ._.

This is from the drama "Orange Days." It's about a girl who plays violin but has lost her hearing. She asks the guy what her voice sounds like when she cries.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...0304081129.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...0304081150.jpg

Lol, it sounds kinda bad the way it was translated...she means "not as good as Ayu"

(Before, the guy had said his voice was better than a frog's but not as good as Chemistry)

omg really nice thread!

This is random. I hope it's in the right thread.

My Cousin brought a pair of duck shaped headphones from eBay.



And Ayu was on the packaging~ That's a pretty random finding.

Apparently, Kouhaku is in a Death Note page and they talk about a woman named Ami Hamasaki.

Someone can find it, but a friend told me about it.

^ Eh ? I read Death Note but I didn't realize that... :thud

omg so cute *.*

http://ameblo.jp/saeko-doll/entry-10481379865.html

Ayu's CDL07-08 DVD at a relatively famous blogger/model[?]'s blog...

In Vancouver, there's a nail salon, and they use Ayu's photo in their front window as advertisement.. Haha. I'll take a picture one day and upload it.

this is all so cool.

I don't have a photo unfortunately, but I was walking around last week and someone had a large printed out Ayupan up in their window.

Also, not Ayu, but in Toronto China Town, some hair cutting place had a picture up of Maki Goto to promote their shop.

Oh, and back at my old place there was a dollar store. they had some fake nails and on the packaging was Ayu.

I remember I once saw an Ayu poster in an anime, not sure if it was Loveless or Jigoku Shoujo, gotta look for it XD

my friend Dawn isnt into jpop, but she does this manga comic strip of hers, so i had her insert a couple Ayu things into the background of a few shots. One is one of the characters holding Ayu's "I am..." CD in their hand.

I don't have a photo since the store didn't like people taking photos of it but there use to be a shop here in town that sold anime/japanese collectibles, cds, dvds and there use to be a wall scroll of Ayu hanging in the window shop.

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9...hairsketch.jpg
This is a hair salon in a Korean area of Carrollton, TX... saw it last night just before going to Karaoke :)

^Looks cool. I would've walked up, opened the door and randomly shouted "AYU ROCKS!" :P

many beauty saloon love to use that image as their promo picture.haha.from hair saloon to facial beauty shop

lol that Ayu pic is kinda famous too in my country XD

Haha yeah I've seen a full sized poster of Ayu stuck outside a beauty salon --right at the door. It's a beautiful full-size poster! Ayu from head to toe, not sure if it's real size though.

Thats really cool!
I live in an area with a lot of asian shops and businesses but it's mostly korean so you see people like BoA and the popular boy bands.

^Its kinda funny cause i even get looks and comments from Korean people when wearing my Ayu stuff like tshirts etc.

The other day i was out and just randomly shouted "Ayu! Wonder Girls! BoA!" in this Korean supermarket when I found some flyer with their pictures on it and almost everyone looked over. I guess I should've taken a photo of the flyer for this thread.

What a fun thread!

Wow is amazing :)

That read headed Ayu pic was in some celebrity face-mixer website I went on a while ago...
I wasn't a fan of Ayu but I knew of her and I was excited that their was a Japanese person on it!!

I was looking at this website, hit page 10 and there was that new Vivi photo of ayu!!!!!
http://weheartit.com/?page=10
So random, it's an English website, and so far I've only seen random artistic photos, no celebs. Suddenly ayu! <3
here's the photo: http://weheartit.com/entry/3486472

^her eyes look real weird in that picture....

Oh, I love these random Ayu sightings. :) I have one as well:

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4112/ayuraab.jpg

It's from a German TV show from 2002.
I made a thread for this with more info a year ago: http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87170

Don't know if this was posted yet but when I was watching Proposal Daisakusen a while ago I took a screencap of this:

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9...nap8682923.png

Actually this is a very normal pic, but in that time I intended to take a shot of THSK's poster in Shibuya, but accidentally Ayu's poster in above was in too ^^ So to me, this is a random shoot of Ayu:

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/b...newposter5.jpg

7 or 8 months ago my bf saw a parked car with the license plate "AYUMIX" and texted me a photo of it. i always wondered who drove the car, but never personally saw it. :shrug

That's SO COOL! The Japanese really know how to promote stuff!

Yeah, I saw a car around here with I<3AYU once.

I never saw it again.

you can have the "<" symbol in california????

I still need to find the picture but one of my fave bands (Sadie; a Japanese visual kei band) had an instore event and they took a picture together, and their stand/posters were just next to Ayu's Rock'n'Roll Circus stand. I was sooo jumpy and cheerful haha

I didn't want to go look for the heart symbol, but you can have this: ♥.

^you can have the heart symbol on your license plate?!?! That's crazy!

alt+3 people! not that difficult! it's not like you're typing alt+4356dfgdw25. One freaking number. Just remember it like this.
anyways, I think it's weird how they have the whole track list for nl on that billboard. you think anyone can actually read that? and from that angle?

^ I just wondered the same haha

weird.i couldn't.it directs me to print page of the thread

these aren't recent but when I went to Japan 2 years ago:

Osaka station:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...32825_2200.jpg

I was in the Japan on the day of the release of A COMPLETE (but stupidly didn't tale pics of Tokyo Records which was decked out with Ayu decorations, one of my biggest regrets of my holiday!!)

Shibuya 109:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...833268_441.jpg

Ayu bus that drove around Shibuya and I squealed every single time I saw it (about 9 different times all up I think, much to the dismay of my fellow travellers)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ame/ayubus.jpg

Ayu poster in a random electronics store:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...e/ayuphoto.jpg

where?
i tokyo drift, i dont see.. whereee?? XD
i have watch this move a lot!

^It's on the Shibuya 109 building in the background, it's the Christmas picture of her in the Santa outfit coming out of a Christmas bag.