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Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think the fact that people buy her albums, go to her concerts, and so on are the reason why they released this. They KNOW people will buy this because it's been in demand for a while and just look at how it's sold out of the Blu-ray Limited Edition already.

I do not think that the Duty "PV" will be included, but it's a possibility. It's possible that the pachinko company owns that footage and Ayu/avex doesn't really own it or care for it.

To break it down, you will get every PV and TV-CM she's released (minus remix ones understandably) in this set in Blu-ray format for 24,150yen. (I will use the suggested retail price since that is what we have for this set.)

In order to get all of this content, you would have to buy the following items (in DVD format):
COMPLETE CLIP BOX - 10,290yen
Memorial address - 3,465yen
MY STORY - 3,990yen
HEAVEN - 1,890yen
(miss)understood - 3,990yen
Secret - 3,990yen
A BEST 2 -BLACK- - 4,700yen
GUILTY - 3,990yen
Mirrorcle World - 1,890yen
NEXT LEVEL - 3,990yen
Rock'n'Roll Circus - 3,990yen
crossroad - 1,890yen
Love songs - 3,990yen

Which totals about 52,055yen.

You're getting the same (video) content as the releases you would have purchased for about half with some more bonuses that you normally would not be able to find in other releases -and- they're Blu-ray discs.

IMO, something like this is inevitable when you're a fan of an artist that lasts for a really long time. The way I think of it is that it's like a really long term version of how singles culminate with albums. Fans buy the singles and just about all of the material on the singles is also on the album that's released a year or two later, but with this it's 13 years in the making.

Hmm...that makes good value sense - this might be worth it for Ayu collectors! (But still the price overall prohibits me from buying it personally...)