I really wanted Mika to win the big award because I preferred her releases more than Kuu-chan's. I'm really sure that Demure_Dusk is right in that Ayu doesn't participate in the Taisho anymore. It's because she won an unprecedented 3 years consecutively that she wants to give other artists a fair shot. She won for Dearest, Voyage and No way to say. She probably would have won for Moments last year, but there was that whole Avex/Matsuura/President scandal and the fact that it would be her fourth year running.
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