[Video] 14.02.2013 Ayu at G-nation

Ayu attended G-nation in support of her dancers, and Zin posted a video!  Check it out below:

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[Videos] 14.02.2013 LINE Bubble Ustream Event

The video from Ayu's LINE Bubble event on the 8th has been posted on her YouTube channel!  You can view it below:

 

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[News] 01.05.2012 "how beautiful you are" to Be Theme Song for Tokyo Pride Parade

Ayu's "how beautiful you are" was chosen as the theme song for this year's Tokyo Pride Parade.  You can find out more info about it below:

 

http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/event/4448/Tokyo-Rainbow-Parade-2012

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[Photos] 10.03.2012 TeamAyu LIMITED PREMIUM PREVIEW ~Party Queen~ Event!

The TA preview event for Party Queen has started, and fans have already started sharing photos and tweets! (Ugh, don't you just want to break in those display cases and steal everything? XD)
















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[Photo] 08.10.2011 Ayu & JUNO Pictures at LANDS of Eden Premiere Event More Pictures From Mantan-Web

More pictures from Mantan-Web.jp

More pictures can be seen this link

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[Photo] 08.10.2011 Ayu & JUNO Pictures at LANDS of Eden Premiere Event More Pictures From Barks

So many pictures update from Barks.

Here are the two!






More pictures can be found on this link

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[Photo] 08.10.2011 Ayu & JUNO Pictures at LANDS of Eden Premiere Event

Pictures of Ayu and JUNO at LANDS of Eden Premiere event today!

Bonus: JUNO's Mother specially came from Korea to support her son

More pictures from the Mama

http://twitpic.com/photos/zunoxiahmom

Original sources: Leslie Kee's & JUNO's Mom's Twitter

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[Info] 23.05.2011 Leslie Kee’s World’s 200 Most Beautiful Women Come Together with “Love & Hope” Charity Photobook 『TIFFANY SUPPORTS “LOVE & HOPE”』!

More detail information regarding to Leslie Kee's LOVE&HOPE Photobook.

Leslie Kee, who was filming and visiting in Ishinomaki City and Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture during the earthquake, was rendered shocked and wordless by the disaster. As a photographer who started his career here, he wanted to bring “LOVE & HOPE” to Japan, his beloved 2nd home, by putting together 200 portraits of female celebrities from 32 different countries, taken during his 7-year stay in NY, into a charity photobook. Limited to 2500 copies, these will be released for sale on 1 June 2011. The entire price of 5,250yen will go directly to Japan Red Cross, for the affected regions.

Photographer: Leslie Kee’s World’s 200 Most Beautiful Women Come Together with “Love & Hope” Charity Photobook
『TIFFANY SUPPORTS “LOVE & HOPE” LESLIE KEE』



Release Date: 1 June 2011
B4 size. 252 pages
Price: 5,250yen
Cover: Hamasaki Ayumi
*2 different covers are available, with the same content within.
Participating Artistes: 200 celebrities from 32 countries
*Photobook contains photos of 200 celebrities from 32 countries, Hamasaki Ayumi included.
*This is not a photobook of Hamasaki Ayumi.

＜＜How to Purchase＞＞

☆ Leslie Kee Photo Exhibition 「LOVE & HOPE」 Venue Purchase (Omotesando Hills Main Building B3F Space-Oh) *Free Entrance

【Sales Period】 27 May ~ 31 May
27 May – 11:00~17:00
28 May – 11:00~21:00
29 May – 11:00~20:00
30 May – 11:00~21:00
31 May – 11:00~18:00

Purchase at this venue is before the actual release date, and the book will be signed by Leslie Kee.

☆ Amazon.co.jp
【Sales Period】 1 June~

☆ Francfranc Aoyama
【Sales Period】 1 June~

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[News] 23.05.2011 Tiffany & Co. Supports LOVE&HOPE Photobook By Leslie Kee

Leslie Kee Photobook Project "LOVE&HOPE" for Japan's Charity and Ayu is the cover for this special photobook. There will be two covers available.

According to Tiffany & Co. website, this book will begin on sale start from 1st June 2011 and can be purchased through amazon.co.jp, for online sale only.

From Tiffany & Co. Official Website

From Ayu's Official Website

There will be LOVE&HOPE event at Omotesando Hills, starting from 27th - 31st May and also at Francfranc at Aoyama starting from 1st June. It will also have the autograph session by Leslie Kee for every Photobook purchased.

The schedules of the event:

27th May Friday 11:00-17:00
28th May Saturday 11:00-21:00
29th May Sunday 11:00-20:00
30th May Monday 11:00-21:00
31st May Tuesday 11:00-18:00

Photobook's description:

B4 size and 252 Pages.

It will include 200 female celebrities from 32 countries who have participated on this photobook.

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[News] 16.09.2010 Billboard Japan Music Awards 2010 Will Be Held On 6th February 2011!

World-class music awards to be held ◆! Amuro and Kana Nishino, The Nominees

World Music Award as the second level - the Billboard JAPAN Music Awards 2010 - now revealed to be held on February 06, 2011!

In the event of the award ceremony will bring together artists of various genres, exclusive live performances. The award ceremony will be awarded to top Billboard JAPAN 1 year chart "Chart category", and music fans voted "Artist category".

The artists who are nominated are Namie Amuro, Arashi, AKB48, EXILE, Kaela Kimura, Justin Bieber, Kana Nishino, Hamasaki Ayumi, JUNSU / JEJUNG / YUCHUN as the Pop Section Category. Norah Jones, PE'Z The Jazz section category, Tsuzii Nobuyuki, Nodame Cantabile as the classical section category, VAMPS, HY, have been announced as the independent sector from the theory of relativity. The voting is starting from 11th January ~ 15th January, So please join us!

Tokyo Midtown and Billboard Live Tokyo, Those events will be held at Fuji NEXT (CS) and broadcast Live from Tokyo. If you're free to come here, Please do not miss it!

Here's the full list nominees of Top Pop Artists 2010: Ayumi Hamasaki is also nominated!


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[Info] 07.08.2010 Ayu's a-nation 2010 Setlist Ehime Venue

Here's the official setlist for today (7th August at Ehime) Ayu's performance at a-nation 2010

Woww!! She sang almost all the summer songs awesomeness!!
and I can't wait for blossom :)
OMG..i just love the a-nation 2010 setlist!!

-THE INTRODUCTION - As the Opening
01. Microphone
02. A Song for xx
03. Greatful days~glitter~BLUE BIRD
04. blossom
05. MOON
06. Boys & Girls
07. evolution
08. SURREAL
09. July 1st

and the descriptions for the costumes Ayu was wearing today :)

Black dress, yellow dress, floral pattern dress, yukata, white (although some other person said pink) shirt with short shorts (like always) and ponytail and huge ribbon.

According to everyone at mixi, this is exactly the setlist except plus evolution. The said the setlist is really really great,
And that this time she starts in like a coffin like setting, and makes her entrance into Microphone through it??
This time she wore a yukata when she was on the stadium car (how can I say?? LOL the one she rode sunrise in last year)
And she sings Boys & Girls and evolution in it,
And everyone said the performance was really great for those two, and really cute.

And she wears ponytail and pink t-shirt for ending.

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[Info] Ayu To Attend On A-Nation 2010!

Apparently, Team Ayu members just got an email about a-nation 2010 and Ayu will be one of the avex trax artists to attend this year alongside with other artists TRF, Every Little Thing, Do As Infinity, Koda Kumi, Ai Otsuka, Ami Suzuki, ICONIQ, AAA, and GIRL NEXT DOOR. More artists will be announced on later date.

Here's the schedules for a-nation 2010 event:

8/7 (Sat): Ehime Prefectural Sports Complex
8/14 (Sat): Port Messe Nagoya
8/21 (Sat): Nagai Stadium (Osaka)
8/22 (Sun): Nagai Stadium (Osaka)
8/28 (Sat): Ajinomoto Stadium (Tokyo)
8/29 (Sun): Ajinomoto Stadium (Tokyo)

Credit: chocopockymaster @ AHS
Original source: a-nation.net
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[Info] NHK 60th Kouhaku Official Setlist

NHK 60th Kouhaku Official Site has announced officially that Ayumi Hamasaki will be the 1st performer to open the event by performing 「Rule」

Picture taken from NHK Kouhaku Official Site

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[Info] Avex Gallery 2009 WIll Be Held Again!

The Yearly avex Gallery even will be held again and this time, the location is in Namba city, Kansai region on 12 / 7 (Mon) ~ 12/17 (Thu)

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[Fanaccount] a-nation 2009 23.08.09 by MissElin_ at AHS

I'm going to share the fanaccount of the member in AHS, MissElin_ at the a-nation 2009 23.08.09

Hi Guys!

Just got back home from a-nation this day!
I must say! This was a really great day! I had so much fun!
BoA was stunning as always, makin' all those dance steps amazingly.
Koda Kumi actually supriced me and was much better then I ever thought. (Never seen her live before). And I got soooo happy when she played Ningyo Hime. It was awesome!
TRF was great for the audience making us dance and sing along all the time with their catchy songs. Tohoshinki isnt my cup of tea really but I laughted the whole time cuz their fans are MAD! Crazy I tell you! I thought all of them would faint like 50 times. Lol. I actually think that Tohoshinki had most fans in the arena, there where these green dots (green is Toho's theme on their goods this yeah) like EVERYWHERE!
The scene was really colourful and had 5 screens in total. 2 big for the cameras and 3 long but thin screens that was in the upper frame. Those 3 othen hade diffrent themes for diffrent songs.
Also a funny thing that I remember. Sometimes in the pauses they filmed the audience and one time there was this guy who first got so supriced that he was showed on the big screen that he jumped in his seat once. Then he started to twich in his whole body and suddenly he's head fell back and he played dead. It was really funny for a change since the others just did the cheering and peace with their fingers. Also in the pauces the Weider ailien appeared on the stage doing this little silly dance. The there was this secret artist. It was SOOO great! But I'm so sorry, I ALWAYS forget the name of these guys but its three men, dressed as american (kind of) women singing these really catchy songs. They are all over japan right now and TV-shows and such. Anyway, when they was announced everyone SCREAMED of happiness! You all should have seen it. It was great! ^^ Anyway... I shall not bore you anymore...

Let's go to Ayu. She was stunning! She (as what I think) sang all the songs and it sounded really really well! Rule and A Song for XX was simply perfection. And yes Sunset for that matter to!
Befor the real start her intro video was the "Ayu a a a Ayu, Ayu ready" song and with her A movin around with the a-nation bear and the weider ailien. Also two A's was forming Enrique and Yo-chan playing on a stage and their guitarr/base fliped over several times with writings on them and such. Then the notes sad that it was time. It got dark.

First there was a japanese ninja themed start with the male dancers doing these ninja moves that they does in the PV. Then suddenly She appeared! She started of with Rule, doing that acapella thingy that we have seen from the tour clips. The 3 upper screens was showing all diffrent thing depending where in the song you where but there was powerful movement in the cours and falling sakura leaves in the brigde for example. She was on a upper stage and during the song the upper stage went down and she entered the catwalk. She did the "Rule lift" backwards, like flying from the catwalk back to the big stage with her back facing the direction she went to. After Rule they did a pretty good job to make it fit with A Song for XX so the song started really rockish. She sang this song just like last year, but withour the heavy rain.

After this you saw the dansers in blue-white light costumes (kind of the ones they had on the sunset TV performance for the girls) that was doing this light and airy dance. It was soooo beautiful! Then BLUE BIRD started. Ayu had her blur dress and sang the song really well and she just stod there but the energy inte the audience was really amazing!

After BLUE BIRD Ayu spoke some few words, introducing the new song "Sunset" and then it started to play. Like said before, she sang it perfectly! It was so great. Made me really teary-eyed! After the song the light went dark and then they came back on the seccond later she had her white dress. They took the blue one of very quickly! Then she sang TO BE, here she was a bit strained in the voice in the end of the chourses and kind of yelled but it didnt sound to bad actually. Just a bit out of breath. ^^ Otherice it was a pretty beautiful performance. Here did also Shu-ya dance around Ayu and both of them where reaching to each other but they didnt get to like always... In the end of the song Shu-ya found Ayu and stod by her back with his arms lighty around her but then she sank down in the floor, out from his arms. Then he did this sad grin danced some few sad steps and then danced away.

After this it was encore time and Ayu came out from the side in a very cute boat! ^^ She, Shy-ya and one more (I didnt catch but I thought it was Zin) stood in the front of the boat the the other dancers where below the top and a bit back from Ayu's spot. They sang Boys & Girls and she didnt shot but she actually sang thank god heavens. In this section all of the fans (including me) where runing from our spots to the sides so we could se her from close. It was amazing I tell you! ^^ She was so happy!

After B&G you could here the intro for Sunrise and Ayu got this secretly mona-lisa smile on her face and started to tell the audience to take up their towels and then she took up a green Tohoshinki towel by herself and she started to laught. The Ayu part of the audience laughted with her and screamed about how cute she was. The Tohoshinki part of the audience made these girly screams and took up their towels right away! Then she sang Sunrise (really good) and the energy on the audience was amazing! Everyone did the towel dance! It was really the best time of all!!!

After Sunrise it was time for July 1:st. It was just as epic as I had imagined! In the middle she introduced the band as always and then herself and in the last chours confetti was shot all over the arena! So pretty! Then she thankes the audience just like she use to do and just when she said "arigatou gozaimashita" fireworks was shot on the other side of the arena then where the scene is placed. There where ALOT of fireworks. Probably for 5-10 minutes. I thought it just would be lite 5 shots in total or something. Lol.

Yeah also, I ate the ice-creams. They where DELICIOUS really! Jum jum jum! ^^



Goods to the people!



Ice-cream!



Delicious I tell you!



Happy me with goods(t-shirt, towel, fan + key-ring) and ice-cream!



And some cars as always.

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[Fanaccount] Ayu was wearing Tohoshinki's green towel!

*So sorry guys that I gotta share this one of Tohoshinki fans' fan account at yesterday's a-nation 2009 because it has something to do with Ayu!!! and this has been making me smile the whole day :) !!

just read through all the fanaccount and a fan spotted that Ayu was wearing Tohoshinki's green towel!! you know the a-nation 2009 merchandise towel..
i hope that there will be a picture of Ayu holding it though..

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090822 TVXQ Fan Comments: a-nation Ajinomto Stadium

TVXQ is just too awesome!! Their live performance was super wonderful as always!!

Green, green, green, green and then more green!
The whole stadium was filled with Bigeast towels.

It was an amazing sight to see that blue color change to red at once when our TVXQ appeared on the stage.
Until then, the whole stadium was blue (a-nation color theme),
but then as soon as TVXQ came on the stage, the whole place had turned into red!!
What a scene!!

Way over half of the stadium was filled with red.
It was as if I was standing at a TVXQ concert.
I was overjoyed and I started to cry right then.

They sang seven songs, and when TVXQ sang Purple Line, the whole place was covered in red and blue. Watching it from way back of the stadium, it looked purple and dramatic. It was just so wonderful!

I believe that this was the order of the songs.

1. Share the World
2. Purple Line
3. Doushi.te Kimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimattandarou
4. Stand by U
5. Sky
6. Somebody to Love
7. Summer Dream
8. Survivor

090822 a-nation Doushi.te Kimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimattandarou

Junsu looked very energetic and super happy and he was so cute.
During Summer Dream, he was embarrassed with his own cute pose afterwords
and the way he looked was adorable.
When he danced and sang, he was charismatic, then when he talks, he is too cute! Love you, Junsu!

During the MC time, Jejung said, "We have microphone in our hands, but then we can hear everyone's cheers clearly, it is amazing!"

Yuchun yelled, "Tokyo~~~!"

I believe Junsu said "I love Bigeast!"

Yunho yelled, "We love you!"

Changmin was being his normal self, trying not to be bothered by the fans cheers.

Changmin, "Next song is~"
Fans, "No~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!"
Changmin, "PLEASE LISTEN!!!!!!!!!" (In a really strong voice. ^^)

And everyone loved him just the way he is!

JaeSu, after shaking hands together, hugged each other during Summer Dream.
Their smiles were so big and they looked very happy. Many fans screamed for joy!

Yuchun's "WASUREKAKETA~~~~!!!" in his own unique powerful way. Really cool!

YunJae did a high five. ^^ They surely did not disappoint me!

All members smiled a lot towards the camera, so we could see all of their happy smiles on the screen!

There were many male TVXQ fans present at the stadium.
Everyone was really nice to each other.

To eat Happinsu (Korean sherbet desert), I waited 1 and a half hours. It was really hot,
better bring your big water bottle for tomorrow and please pick up garbage and
try to stay even after TVXQ is done with their performances, OK?!

Other artists mentioned Tohosinki (TVXQ)
and even Ayumi Hamasaki was wearing a green towel on the stage.

I am so thankful that I live on this earth where TVXQ exists!
Thank you, TVXQ!! We love you~~~~~! (*^O^*)//

Always keep the faith!!

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One more of fan account that confirmed Ayu was holding Tohoshinki's green towel!

090822 a-nation in Tokyo Report Day 1
By a non-Japanese living in Japan

I went to a-nation yesterday, as I figured that if I couldn't afford the Tohoshinki concert tickets it would be the only other way I could see them perform live. There was so much green (the color of their towel) in the stadium it made me kinda feel like it was St. Patrick's day or something.

I wouldn't say the whole stadium turned red with the lights during Tohoshinki's performances, there was some blue mixed in too. But I will agree that the red probably did outnumber the blue.

It was pretty apparent who most of the audience really wanted to see, and the acts on stage seemed to notice this too. BREAKERZ was a special surprise guest and they had a song where they have the audience spin a towel around. The lead Daigo showed the a-nation towel to explain this and then mentioned that people can use the Tohoshinki towel too, as it was probably quite noticeable that's what most people had.

Then Ayu did have a Tohoshinki towel, instead of one of her own, when she had the audience do the same for one of her songs near the end.

The set list looks right to me. Most of the time I was more focused on the fact I was actually getting to see the boys live for once. They sounded great and really impressed me with how they had such a strong performance with all the singing and dancing they did in the heat. I mean the sun was down by then but the stadium was still rather hot, and even more so for those on stage of course. There wasn't a single artist that didn't end up looking pretty sweaty by the end of their performances.

But I'm so glad I went, especially with the current legal issues with SM going on. Though with how the boys were on stage you wouldn't imagine they were bogged down with anything. They all looked so happy.

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Comment sources: Japanese fans; Aya, Machi, Ayu, Nami, Mari, Yuri, Sachi, Miki, Nori
Translation: junsulv @ OneTVXQ.com
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[Blog] Max Matsuura's official blog about a-nation 2009

Just to complete the last entry, where I only posted the pictures from Max Matsuura's blog, here's what he blogged about a-nation 2009

Max Matsuura's official blog entry

a-nation 熊本


今日、僕の夏がSTARTしました。



途中、機材トラブルで皆さんには


大変ご迷惑おかけしました事を


この場をお借りしてお詫び致します。


ネタバレしちゃうといけないので


詳しくは書けませんが


会場はこんな感じ。



毎年、a-nationで色々な土地に行きますが、


場所によって違った高揚感を感じます。


またそれが楽しみでもあるんですが。



次は愛媛。


去年も楽しかった記憶がある場所なんで


暑さにも“ぜってぇ負けねぇ”で頑張りたいと思います。

Translation:

a-nation Kumamoto

Today, the summer did START.

In the middle of trouble happened to recording agency

You must be worried a lot

In this entry, I shall do my apologize

I’d like to give more information regarding the case for you

However, for now I haven’t known the exact details of the case

Therefore I couldn’t afford you anymore information

Every year, we’re traveling to many different cities for a-nation

I always feel different exaltation feeling depending on the location
The selfishness to being joyful all by myself

Next arena is Ehime.

The place where we had such fond memory from last year

Everyone’s getting hype and defeated the hot weather. I’m looking forward to that.

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[Photo] more a-nation 2009 venue pictures

I got these pictures from Tohoshinki's fanblog

The first two pictures are taken form a fan who went to the event and the rest of the pictures are taken from Max Matsuura's official blog

From Max Matsuura's official blog

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[Photo] a-nation 2009 stage design picture

Below is the picture of how a-nation 2009 stage design looks like, it's pretty great, colorful like usual!

Now, I'm wondering what kind of outfit Ayu's wearing!

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[Info] a-nation 2009 event will be broadcasted on WOWOW Channel

WOWOW TV Channal official site has announced that a-nation 2009 will be broadcasted on TV on 26th September 2009 which will be taking the 22nd and 23rd August footages.

Picture taken from WOWOW TV Channel official site

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