『A SUMMER BEST』8. August 2012 ~II~

[TeamAyu2004]

I dont understand this Rainbow house stuff??
was it special or something from ayu-ready?

[Linoa62]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

I dont understand this Rainbow house stuff??
was it special or something from ayu-ready?

From wikipedia

She briefly hosted her own television show, Ayuready? (October 2002), on Fuji Television. The talk show, aired on Saturday nights from 11:30 to midnight, often featured her performing songs with guests, among whom were Goto Maki, Puffy, and Akina Nakamori. To promote the program (and her album Rainbow), Hamasaki opened a restaurant, Rainbow House, on Shōnan Beach; it was occasionally used in episodes of Ayuready? After less than two years, the last episode aired in March 2004.]

RAINBOW HOUSE closed down in early September 2003.
RAINBOW HOUSE pics http://www.sfile.org/ayu/rainbow-house/index.html

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

^ It was a restaurant/beach house that was also used for filming of Ayu ready?, which opened from the beginning of July until the end of August in 2003.

This site has a kind of brief photo history of it if you're interested:
http://www.sfile.org/ayu/rainbow-house/index.html

Just click on the dates and you can see the building through taking down of the beach house.

You can also see some pictures from Ready Go! Sept. 2003 issue:
http://zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayum...ReadyGo/mag38/

And, the top of this page are the screenshots for the Greatful days performance she did there:
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...tful_Days2.htm

Someone mentioned she sang HANABI ~episode II~ there as well, but I couldn't find anything about it?
I think she may have sang more songs, but only aired that one. Otherwise, I feel like they wouldn't advertise as much as they are? But who knows haha.

She should have done it again! That would have been really cool. Even if she doesn't have ayu ready? anymore, she could have probably teamed up with some sort of beach bar in Enoshima Would have been good promotion too without her actually being present. Such potential wasted haha.

[TeamAyu2004]

Oh, cool! thanks for the info!
I wish the restaurant was still open! I would love to go eat there!

[love in music]

Originally Posted by SURREAL__RAINBOW

Seriously though, both covers are fine But obviously an ant in AHS is always a ****ing dinosaur, every damn time

While I agree that AHS is known to do this, I think this time it's a little more understandable with how off she looks on these covers. I mean, if the majority of AHS complains when she looks flawless (which they do), it's only understandable the world will be ending when she looks a little off, as she does in these pics.

[koumori]

Originally Posted by SURREAL__RAINBOW

Seriously though, both covers are fine But obviously an ant in AHS is always a ****ing dinosaur, every damn time

BUT THE LAUGH LINES
BRING BACK THE LAUGH LINES
OH GOD


Seriously though, bring back dem laugh lines.

[emi♡]

^idk I think she'd look much much older if they left them in...they're forever taking them out...

[tasking]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

^ It was a restaurant/beach house that was also used for filming of Ayu ready?, which opened from the beginning of July until the end of August in 2003.

Wow, it was only open a month? How sad

[koumori]

Originally Posted by emi♡

Idk I think she'd look much much older if they left them in...they're forever taking them out...

But in a photo with such a wide smile, she looks all flat and very plastic without them. Even just leaving the faintest shadow of smile lines would of worked. Everyone has them when they smile that wide, even the youngest of children - it just adds to that not-quite-human feel of the photo.

[clover_bali]

nothing special with A SUMMER BEST covers
if just make this cover like these, Ayu can make it in a indoor studio

BALI have everything special more then it!
BALI have a unique culture, BALI have a panoramic beauty!

and Ayu NOT used it in her photography concept for this compilation album

[jewelbox]

Originally Posted by ~X2RADialbomber~

Ayu is such a beautiful woman, yet she looks so awful in these photoshoots... it makes me very frustrated.

This

[the angel song]

Originally Posted by clover_bali

nothing special with A SUMMER BEST covers
if just make this cover like these, Ayu can make it in a indoor studio

BALI have everything special more then it!
BALI have a unique culture, BALI have a panoramic beauty!

and Ayu NOT used it in her photography concept for this compilation album

I agree. I was expecting something more like BLUE BIRD's cover. I guess she's done trying to be creative and is just going to settle with this kind of photography. I wasn't going to get this (re)release anyway, but it's a shame the covers came out like...this.

[Aderianu]

The DVD includes video clips from 10 years of a-nation lives, from 2002 to 2011, some past summer PVs, the PV for new song You & Me, which was filmed overseas, as well as “Greatful days” performed by RAINBOW HOUSE. The extremely rare collection adds up to a total of 25 tracks. (planned)


http://misachanjpop.wordpress.com/20...t-on-8-august/

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by Koumori

But in a photo with such a wide smile, she looks all flat and very plastic without them. Even just leaving the faintest shadow of smile lines would of worked. Everyone has them when they smile that wide, even the youngest of children - it just adds to that not-quite-human feel of the photo.

yeah it does lol

you know whats funny, lena fujii has really pronounced ones like ayu does...and usually, they just always keep her from smiling a certain way lol

[clover_bali]

and this is... A SUMMER BEST -ANother cover...-

[microphone]

That's a decent cover! She looks sweet.

[macmaayu]

worst cover ever...

[FoObY]

Please. Nothing is worse than S/S.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by FoObY

Please. Nothing is worse than S/S.

This is a close second and it really isn't that far off from S/S so yeah...

[TeamAyu2004]

maybe its just the way she photos with a tan??