ah~~, my name is mentioned? ^^;
well, I'd recommend you all to join the TA if you can afford US60$ + some extra. How you can join it is in the thread aura~ kindly made in the chat room.
I personally recommend AHS to have these TA blog threads in the chat room or somewhere so that only registered AHS members can read them. (In other words, so that search engines and people in avex will not find them.)
Ayu and Avex are very careful about what information should be provided and through what media it should be provided. So, I think it's better for AHS members to be careful about such things as well.
anyway, as a native japanese, I feel unhappy if AHS members are bad-mouthing japanese fans. J-fans are not bad-mouthing foreign fans at all, i believe. They're just saying they feel that the distance between Ayu and her/himself is getting bigger when they recognize ayu gets more and more fans. I think everyone can understand this feeling.
And needless to say I really appreciate Misa-chan taking her own risk of losing TA membership and doing this very very hard task of translating J to E for the international fans.
