'M(A)DE IN JAPAN' out June 29th + 2015 TA TOUR (TA ver.)

[Heavenly]

^ Beautiful shot + beautiful caption

[Kanzaki]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

"I’m no longer scared of anything
and that’s the only thing that really scares me
-Breakdown-"

This is so powerful.

[AyuGAME]

loving the pic

[AyUmIXx]

wow that pic is so pretty.
it seems breakdown will have a PV? and that pic is taken from one of the scenes.

[Deep snow]

Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

it seems breakdown will have a PV? and that pic is taken from one of the scenes.

That's what I hope too, but I've learnt not to expect any addition from what has been officially announced.

[Aderianu]

I think this picture from the same photoshoots she posted recently - Numero / tour goods

[BlackSilence]

i am 100% sure it's an outtake from the Numero photoshoot with a filter on it.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by artcika

i am 100% sure it's an outtake from the Numero photoshoot with a filter on it.

Yeah people need to stop building up the possibility that she's going to go all elaborate and shoot some grandly themed cover. It's highly unlikely and I think we should be prepared for the case that Numero, or something like it, is a possibility. If they wanted to be grandeur about it they would've had the whole package available when she dropped the album online. The logic that she hasn't had time for a proper shoot yet and therefore it will be a grand shoot is a far-fetched idea to me.

[Yumsushi]

As nice as it would be to have a beautiful meaningful cover, I am more interested in the PVs matching the grandeur of the songs. Or rather the Numero shoot is a thousand times better than that horrible sixxxxx shoot so that image most of us have been using is perfect.

[truehappiness]

I liked the sixxxxxx shoot... the covers anyway. The inner booklet stuff was a bit iffy.

Just saying though, if she had already finished everything, we would have gotten covers and PVs when the album dropped, so why keep it all a mystery up till now and beyond?

With that said, I am not expecting much for covers or PVs, but it would be nice to get something a bit different. And even if we did get this simple shoot, it's fierce as hell so I don't mind either way. Interview for Numero was done March 31st and the shoot probably followed shortly after if not on the same day. IF we get this shoot as the main M(A)DE IN JAPAN shoot, why would they not have released it alongside media for the press release when it was done more than a month prior with all the tour goods images floating around as well? We're getting PAMPHLET previews, I think, which is why she's wearing the same thing in everything as the pamphlet images. I don't know about you, but I swear we have gotten pamphlets that were not the same as the album art at all.

Originally Posted by Aga-chan

Oh, that's it!
Thanks for posting that. ^^ Do you have like an archive of Ayu things? lol

It's in my brain usually, lol.

[BlackSilence]

i'm always expecting for concept but i never get my hopes up, really. That's one thing i gave up on with Ayu. Japan in general isn't very much into concepts. And talking about Hamasaki, you can count the covers on 2 hands from the amount she had, how many of them actually had concepts, the stuff that doesn't look like a beauty shot or a mag photoshoot with props from a first glance. SO really.

And @Zeke, you really don't need to go all out and about, and spend 1mln on a set or travel somewhere to get a cover with full impact. They just need to be cleaver. Simple stuff can be really effective if done right. Though It happens very rarely in j-pop industry i have to say.

[hidekirby]

I think we can almost be sure the covers will be in the same vein.
Simple, natural etc.
Her photoshoots and promo pictures almost always reflect the image of the album they are promoting, the scenery it depicts.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by artcika

And @Zeke, you really don't need to go all out and about, and spend 1mln on a set or travel somewhere to get a cover with full impact. They just need to be cleaver. Simple stuff can be really effective if done right. Though It happens very rarely in j-pop industry i have to say.

I know but even the chances of that are slim, as you said it rarely happen in J-pop. I mean half the time avex sinks all this money into Ayu traveling somewhere to shoot something or even to record and it always turns out to be a huge waste of money, imo. They could stretch those dollars further if they just stayed within the confines of Japan or even Tokyo and focused on quality.

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

I know but even the chances of that are slim, as you said it rarely happen in J-pop. I mean half the time avex sinks all this money into Ayu traveling somewhere to shoot something or even to record and it always turns out to be a huge waste of money, imo. They could stretch those dollars further if they just stayed within the confines of Japan or even Tokyo and focused on quality.

i have to agree on that with you. Like the only cover that actually have ever blew my mind and to this day makes me go "wow" was RAINBOW.

also the pics she's been sharing are from the tour phamplet down to the last one we got with Breakdown lyrics. Just saw some pics on facebook.

[truehappiness]

I want to say that since we're getting Japanese-y style bonus goods, I wonder if they'll try to incorporate that somehow into the album art. Simple and elegant yet very Japanese.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I just don't want another Decision video.
I would be so disappointed lol

Sixxxxxx really saw her videos moving into a better direction so that gives me hope.
Even Winter Diary's video looks good. The song itself is the questionable part lol

[kotora]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

I just don't want another Decision video.
I would be so disappointed lol

Sixxxxxx really saw her videos moving into a better direction so that gives me hope.
Even Winter Diary's video looks good. The song itself is the questionable part lol

decision is not so bad, compared to most PVs from Colours...

[Yumsushi]

Originally Posted by kotora

decision is not so bad, compared to most PVs from Colours...

Exactly. I know its pretty boring for such an amazing song but compared to that embarrassing PVs for Angel r XO its a masterpiece.

[truehappiness]

But we know Ayu and Ayu doesn't really like doing that. She would always rather go elsewhere to get the locale and then not really use it to its fullest at least since she did uraayu. Alas, such is being an Ayu fan, and really it doesn't matter that much anyway. A lot of the shoots end up becoming iconic for a variety of reasons. Sunrise/Sunset, some calendars, etc.

And I think Winter diary is a sweet song, lol. Not a masterpiece but it's something she never really had in her discography till now.

[truehappiness]

Angel isn't horrible but Lelio and XOXO are... hm.. did they have a budget of 200yen?