a-nation '09 DVD tracklist

[Corvina]

You aren't serious?
I can't believe it... I am an Ayu fan, but this is just ridiculous.

Avex is stupid, they even cut Tohoshinki. I'm sure Tohoshinki's fan girlies would have bought the DVD as hell but with just 1 performance? Same with Namie last year.
I'm angry, really angry.
I was looking forward to more Kuu performances and from BoA!

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Corvina

You aren't serious?
I can't believe it... I am an Ayu fan, but this is just ridiculous.

Honestly, in previous years I would have thought it was awesome. But this year, there is really no point since they already aired all of hers on TV anyways. (and in HDTV no less) It's just ridiculous and is indeed not fair. There are actually people who go to A-Nation for other artists. When I went to A-Nation 2007, the seat next to me was open for almost the entire show - then one performer before Otsuka Ai a man finally came and took his seat. After Otsuka, he left and never came back. lol. Point being there are people that are interested in other artists and not just Ayu. With so little of other artists being shown on tv, I would think the better strategy for them would actually be to put more of other artists on the DVD and less of Ayu since everyone that would have bought the DVD for Ayu already got to see everything for free. Stuff like this really does make me think that she has some kind of back room control over how A-Nation goes or something (especially when you hear she does the editing, something I'm sure the other artists don't get to do).

This is more mind boggling than them leaving Namie out of the tv broadcast and the DVD release entirely last year. (Even though she sells the most dvds these days of any of the Avex artists.)

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

Unfair or not, many agreed that the TV ver. was relatively boring, besides the Ayu part (+Kumi's Lick Me), so I guess there was no point in putting more boring performances on the DVD.

That all comes down to personal preference though. Like you, I felt that many things were boring as well but as I stated in the example above of Otsuka Ai - different people like different types of performances. Not everybody likes the Ayumi style necessarily. But of course most people here will say they found the other performances boring, naturally.

[AyaCere]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Honestly, in previous years I would have thought it was awesome. But this year, there is really no point since they already aired all of hers on TV anyways. (and in HDTV no less) It's just ridiculous and is indeed not fair. There are actually people who go to A-Nation for other artists. When I went to A-Nation 2007, the seat next to me was open for almost the entire show - then one performer before Otsuka Ai a man finally came and took his seat. After Otsuka, he left and never came back. lol. Point being there are people that are interested in other artists and not just Ayu. With so little of other artists being shown on tv, I would think the better strategy for them would actually be to put more of other artists on the DVD and less of Ayu since everyone that would have bought the DVD for Ayu already got to see everything for free. Stuff like this really does make me think that she has some kind of back room control over how A-Nation goes or something (especially when you hear she does the editing, something I'm sure the other artists don't get to do).

This is more mind boggling than them leaving Namie out of the tv broadcast and the DVD release entirely last year. (Even though she sells the most dvds these days of any of the Avex artists.)

Somehow, it's true because avex plays an unfair game with the other artists, but I think it's just because
ayu is avex's best-selling artist though she's best friends with matsuura-san and he owns avex in a way.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

That all comes down to personal preference though. Like you, I felt that many things were boring as well but as I stated in the example above of Otsuka Ai - different people like different types of performances. Not everybody likes the Ayumi style necessarily. But of course most people here will say they found the other performances boring, naturally.

Of course it does. Don't get me wrong, I like many other AVEX artists and even though I am not a fan of all of them I still watch the majority of their tours; Ai Otsuka's concerts have quite improved lately and even before while she was just standing and singing she was more into it than she seemed this year. AAA were also fun the last year riding the cute bicycles xD I dunno, as I said, the majority of people failed me when it comes to their performances and the general feeling they gave out while performing. Even though I like Delightful a lot I think that the only time Ami seemed like she was actually having fun was in 2005.