[Official Message] Ayu will attend a-nation '12

[Linoa62]

Did anyone see this?
From Misa chan's blog

a-nation’s finale show on 26 August at Ajinomoto Stadium will be shown as a live stream at various cinemas around the country.
A once-in-a-lifetime dream performance during summer’s highest peak, let’s party together with the artistes from the cinema’s big screens and powerful sound systems!

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[Date]
26 August 2012 (Sun) 15:30 onwards

[Venues]
Cinemas around the country
Venue list here: http://www.liveviewing.jp/contents/043_a-nation.html

[Tickets]
All seats are ￥4,000.
Comes with a complimentary limited original fan, which will be given out at the venue.

For more information and ticket sales, visit http://www.liveviewing.jp/contents/043_a-nation.html

[SKYia]

Just to make sure, Ayu will perform ONLY next Sunday? Just one show?

[Linoa62]

Originally Posted by SKYia

Just to make sure, Ayu will perform ONLY next Sunday? Just one show?

Yes, only this one.

[Chritopher]

Oh, I missed Ayu so much during A-nation in Osaka! I was kinda expecting her to appear, because this event feels weird without her:-) I hope Ayu will attend more stadiums next year. I wonder what she's busy now with when her tour is on hiatus till September.

[Bigtop]

I don't understand why she's going on ONLY ONE... I mean, previously we would see her in most a-nation shows prior to this - but I don't know why she's really "cutting down"... Maybe it's up to her how much she wants to go, and for sure we can't adjust how her schedule goes...

[Earth_maiden]

Hasn't it been that Ayu has only attended the last few shows for a while now? I seem to remember her only having 2 or 3 dates the past few years, but I could be wrong.

[freedreamer]

Think...that incident with the whole DBSK and Ayu thing...made her just not feel like performing in a-nation that much?

[ayuuk]

^That's a possible guess.

[TeamAyu2004]

DBSK and Ayu thing??? what is this?

Its sad that she is only do one show, but maybe she is getting ready for a super show next year? New Album, tons of singles... her 15th year better be epic.

[tasking]

^ Ayu always performs last, but because DBSK and JUNO were both there, they put her in the middle of the show - I guess so that they didn't run into one another. Ayu got extremely upset and and posted about it over Twitter. She didn't hold anything back either. (Though I think Ayu and JUNO thought it was because he was a newcomer, and not because of DBSK.) This incident also seems to be one of the reasons she's not replying to fans as much as she used to.

[IYFreak]

Originally Posted by tasking

^ Ayu always performs last, but because DBSK and JUNO were both there, they put her in the middle of the show - I guess so that they didn't run into one another. Ayu got extremely upset and and posted about it over Twitter. She didn't hold anything back either. (Though I think Ayu and JUNO thought it was because he was a newcomer, and not because of DBSK.) This incident also seems to be one of the reasons she's not replying to fans as much as she used to.

She got extremely upset and didn't hold back???.....what did she say exactly?

[Queen Bee]

^If I'm not mistaken she was upset by the way her juniors and seniors were being treated in regards to a-nation so she actually refused to go last if I'm once again not mistaken. I'll need to try to do some digging for those tweets before I can say that's 100% correct.

[tasking]

^ OH WAIT YEAH. avex didn't even allow JUNO to perform with her; Nao did instead. She was pissed and refused to perform last:

http://www.koreaboo.com/index.html/_...of-ayumi-r9535

[TeamAyu2004]

Im SOOO confused... what does JUNO have to do with DBSK?
And why wouldnt avex let JUNO perform??

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I heard (recently?) that TRF had expressed feelings to Ayu that they wanted to go last, as they're friends, Ayu asked a-nation organizers to make the change, and as they're the oldest performers at a-nation, Ayu was also upset when they were not allowed to do so, instead it was given to DBSK.

But I don't have anything to back up these claims. Just 2ch stuff.

JUNO is the brother of one of the former DBSK members, and now there's an uneasiness between the current members, who refused to switch labels in Korea, and JYJ, who did switch labels, thus removing themselves from DBSK. So there was weird pressure going on behind the scenes of the labels and label mates.

Ayu was upset because he's featured in her song and can't even perform one song with her on stage. Which makes sense, but it was out of her hands. Obviously labels always have the stronger hand haha.

I mean, before the song was released Ayu was even getting tweets from DBSK fans who were all "Why not collaborate with a DBSK member instead of their brother???"--which is a stupid argument, as she can collaborate with whomever she wants to, lol.


ANYWAY, I'm excited for Sunday. Actually it's cool because I don't know any tracklist yet.

[Queen Bee]

^You know I could easily believe the TRF thing since Ayu did say this: "The reason of my distrust was because I was suddenly forced to change the set list, and also, the fact that the existence of the seniors (whom I highly think of) and my darling juniors were not respected."

I wonder if there were other things that happened to the other a-nation performers that bothered Ayu. I still love how much she loved Kuu's a-nation performance last year.

[jang-kun]

So is it safe to say Ayu will again close the show?

[TeamAyu2004]

thats rough stuff.
but rather interesting.
I hope I get to go to japan one day so i can go to a-nation before ayumi decides she no longer wants to do it!

[waterballoon]

Ayu's the coolest ****. love it when she stands up for people. I wanna be her BFF ;__;

[twistedflower]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

Im SOOO confused... what does JUNO have to do with DBSK?
And why wouldnt avex let JUNO perform??

Pretty much SM wants anyone involved with JYJ away from Toho and JUNO is the twin brother to one of the members of JYJ (Junsu).
From what I've read SM gave Avex an ultimatum; JUNO or Toho.
So Avex axed JUNO from a-nation and that angered Ayu.
From reading her tweets I think she wasn't gonna perform at all during the Tokyo shows but knew her fans had bought tickets so she instead refused to close the show.