[Fanaccount+Video] Meeting Ayu At London + Pictures + Video 23.01.2010

Here's the full-length fanaccount from our blog reader Ianiee also the member of AHS, Thanks a lot for sharing your experience! it's really so wonderful!!! wish to be there!!

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23rd January 2010!!

Ok well... it was 7am for me when I finally got out the house... I’m actually about 30-40 minutes away from Ayu’s Hotel... So I figured it’ll be best to get to the place early =)... I met up with my friend and we both decided to go look for the hotel, wasn’t hard since my friend had a rough idea where it was. When we got to the entrance of the hotel, I manage to meet Walking.Proud and her friend GiGi. As well as a few people that were from France and then later came a few others, didn’t actually know where they were from but yeah haha... I manage to get along with everyone and me, my friend, Walking.proud (also known to be Laura!) and Gi were talking about when they got here and how long they been waiting for... It surprised me that they actually woke up and got to the Hotel at 6am and waited in the horrible cold. So we stood up, walked around, talked and sat down at times and having laughs about Ayu is most probably at the top laughing at her fans freezing in the cold haha...

A few hours later we saw many of her staffs came out... Probably about 3 black vans full of staffs, though I think all of them were preparing some sort of thing for Ayu later on PV? Photoshoot? Who knows... Everyone stood up and got a little excited, since so many staffs were there maybe Ayu will come out soon too... But after an hour wait we were all in the waiting mood again. Then apparently someone saw the staff’s came back... Most likely they finished they’re preparation and went back to the hotel for some lunch. This was around 11am at the time I’m guessing...

During this whole wait we had people asking us “who are you waiting for?” “Is there someone famous in there” We all replied and they just gave us one of those “ohhh” faces AKA don’t know but ok kind of reaction haha. We had many people giving us funny face expressions and maybe even some finger pointing. Nevertheless it didn’t really matter to us since they weren’t who we were looking for! haha

A few more people started to show up, it ended up from 8 people to around 15 of us all waiting... Someone suggested forming a line so it’ll be easy for Ayu when she comes out to sign our things. We saw Stan-san come in and out the building a few times and we figured any minute now... About 30 more minutes (12:30pm) we finally got to see who we’ve been waiting for =) for some... it was a 6 hours wait.. for others it was 3.. maybe 2 hours wait... but it does not matter, every second you spend after seeing Ayumi was worth it.

Ayu came out of the hotel and saw our line and went right into the middle of our line and was like “so what am I signing” lol it was kind of funny haha and also Stan-san mentioned no camera’s as well... Either way Everyone got at least 1 thing signed in their Ayu items, some burst out crying and some were just very shocked. I personally was very shocked, but I manage to keep myself cool as well haha. After I got my CD signed, I manage to get a hand shake with Ayu too... It was a very great experience and probably one of the best experiences ... I’ve never waited for so long just to get something signed. But I also had this thing going round my head that I am actually standing right next to Ayu and I’m actually able to get a handshake as well as an autograph for someone I’ve been idled for so long. I just got to always say to myself that I am one of the luckiest people to ever meet Ayumi Hamasaki, no matter how many times I say it... I know there are some that are fighting their obstacles to get to Ayu and didn’t work and I really hope that someday you’ll be able to meet Ayumi too...

She is no doubt one of the kindest and sweetest person ever, she came out of the hotel with such a natural smile and she was so kind to the people that stood in the cold, like when I read Walking.Proud’s report about Ayu holding her hand and saying “ohh your hands are cold” it must of meant a lot to her. Having said that, it’s so cute when Ayu is so small xD it’s soo kawaii haha... She looks totally different in person too. Make up or none, it’s just... Wow... those are my words.

Well thats my report...
And now for the photos =)







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[Photo] Meeting Ayu At London Pictures 23.01.2010

Here's more pictures of those LUCKY European fans who were able to take pictures with Ayu again!, those lucky people are walking.proud & Ceresu and the others, sorry i don't know, but OMG, i'm seriously so envious of you guys!!!

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[Fanaccount] Meeting Ayu At London + Pictures 22.01.2010

Here's the fanaccount from walking.proud @ AHS
Awesomeee So envy her and her friends!!!!!

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^ oh yeah!

here my story (is the same but XD)

As I know you will want to hear the full story with detail, here you have it:

Me and my friend (Gi) Went at 8 to her Hotel, Langham. There we met cronopl and Ceresu with a french friend. We waited there a lot. We were in front of the hotel thinking Ayu was inside... Everytime we saw some japanese guy we shouted: say hello to Ayu! XDD

At 10pm Ceresu and the french friend left because we were like becoming ice cubes XDDD But Gi, cronopl and me waited there... and it was worth it...

At 10:50 a car arived and cronopl saw that the driver was the same he saw the first day on the studio, so he said: Ayu, Ayu is here!! I was like, no, no it can't be posible... XDD But yes...

First from the car, the camera men came out, then Stan and then Ayu. I can't find the words to describe that moment... how to say, Ayu was there! OMG!! she was stunning! without make up and still stunning!!! any make up seriously!! She was wearing a red hat, so cute!! Really the short hair suits her a lot and makes her look younger and so cute!!

Her face was like... like she didn't expected anyone there!! She came to us, and started signing our stuff (pics later). In my case, I gave her my You were/BALLAD single, and my TA member card. JAajaja she made this face: O.O "oh" XDD signed it, signed, Yw/b booklet and then opened the case of the single and expected me to say were she had to sign more XDD I only gave her the case so that she saw it, but finnaly she signed the CD too ^^

My friend tried to say that we came from spain only to see her, but she was too nervous XD I ended the sentence, and Ayu did another O.O "oh" And said something in Japanese to Stan that I couldn't hear...

Then cronopl asked for a pic together, and immediately stan/chan said: oh, no, today no pics, Ayu is too tired!

I was still amazed for what was happening that I hadn't time to get sad because I wanted a pic... but Ayu turned back to Stan and touch him, saying: it's ok. So she came, OMG, next to me!! I had Ayu next to me!!!! and Stan made two pics!!

after that, she turned to us and started touching our hands, holding them tight saying: "oh, so cold, you are so cold!"

Then we thank her to be there with us, and she entered the hotel...

Then, well, Gi and I started to cry... XD That moment was so... so surreal... it was amazing!!!

Ayu is so kind, I can't describe it with words... She was there for us, signed, make pics.. omg... so kind, so generous... it's so human... really you don't feel like.. Ayu=Diva, no,s he was like... anyone else! just that we were amazed by her presence!

it was incredible.. simply.. no way to say...

Then 2-3 more bans came with ALL her staff, ALL!! and we saw Banchou XDD and asked also a pic XDD she was too surprised that... really I think she didn't knew what to do XDD

And seeing it, we 3 came out with the idea that she sure was recording a PV... al her staff with her, she was so tired and arrived late...

so thats it!!

I-ll post pic now!!

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[Fanaccount] Meeting Ayu At London Metropolis Recording Studio 21.01.2010

Here's the short fanaccount of a member of AHS who has met with Ayu yesterday.

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I've been at the recording studio today at 14:00 and waited for 2 hours and it was worth it!!!!

She came out just before 16:00! I was to stressed to take a pic not to scare her away (I'm a big bloke) managed to speak with her (very good english afterall) got an autograph (she was stunned when she saw my NEXT LEVEL DVD ) I asked her how long she will stay in London and we will have another 10 days to see her

I'm going back there tomorrow mornig after work @ 8:00am hope I will be able to see her and take a pic this time ;/

See you there

BTW: cars/driver were hired from www.londoncarhire.com (that what it had written on one of the vans that the staff used when they left)

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Hope to hear more from him/her!
Ganbatte to all British fans!

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[Fanaccount] Ayumi Hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2009-2010 First Day 30.12.2009

One of the AHS members went to the 1st day of COUNTDOWN LIVE 2009-2010 and she just posted her fanaccount at the forum so i thought i would like to share it here too :)

It seems that the setlist is not that long this time.

I am... and Moments:
I am... was simply amazing. Great voice, really strong and nice. She was wearing a red kimono that had one long arm on her left arm and just a strap over her right shoulder. It was really pretty! Moments was allright, pretty much like the one from AT05. She used the center stage for these two songs. In the outro there was a tissuedanser again.

STEP you and EnergizE:
Here she wore a pink (alice in wonderland-ich) costume. It was kind of silly and overload cute as usual but it was okay. She was out in the runway in STEP you and on the other side stage (like Ladies Night in CDL 07-08) in EnergizE.

About You:
Here the band did a rockintro and then Ayu appeared with a black short dress where the skirt was really big and fluffy. It was kind of a rock dress but black cute too with a big black bow in her hair and such. She did really great. I enjoyed this song very much! She was in the center stage.

momentum and You were...:
In momentum Maro (NO SHIRT AT ALL!!! Just a scarf and jeans) and Midori did their lovers dans like in AT09 and Ayu where on the stage in the very far back and sang in a really white, flowy and pretty dress. I was really excited over momentum and she did it really well. In You were... it was just Ayu in the middle of the runway while the round stage liften her up and spinned slowly. It was really pretty. I did cry (well Im a bit of a wrek feelingvice) but she did great! In the outro there was a tissuedanser like always.

Pride:
Here everything was placed in the center stage. There was these gospel singers present and strings and the dansers doing a trap game with Shuya where he did this "im lost" dance and the others where like shadows or something. Anywho, in the middle Ayu was, with a big black dress (better then AT06 one but it could have been nicer still ). The whole everything was very pretty and bombastic! In the outro they used three guys in rings hanging from the sealing and one girl who jumped on the middle guys ring. It was really pretty too.

INSPIRE, Because of You, 1 LOVE and until that Day...:
This was probably my favourite section of the whole show. Maaaan I LOOOOVE Because of You so it was a winner for me. In INSPIRE they started off on the center stadge, the dancing was like in AT05 with Gomi in the leader dancer role. In the end of the song they all were gathered in the middle of the catwalk. Then BoY started, just like always, Ayu on the floor, moving up, walking around and in the end enter the central stage. I loved this performance, she had a great voice and even better energy! In 1 LOVE there was this cage thingy again, and the chairdance and the poles. until that Day... was just like AT07. It was very fun! The whole audience was rocking in it! ^__^

Then they showed this Ayu video before the countdown.

Humming7/4, evolution and Startin':
Yeah I dont know what to say here really. She used the whole catwalk stage running back and fourth and everyone was happy and cheery. I cared the most for Startin'. It was really really fun! ^^

Encore!
Ayu began in the round stage in the middle of the catwalk, singing teddy bear together with a bear sitting on a wood chair. It was really nice. Ayu teared up a bit too. She was now wearing her encore shirt, with grey skinny leg jeans with hanging braces and black shoes. After this she called in Zin and Subaru and we got to learn a new dance for RED LINE! It was really fun. Ayu messed up once too that everyone found very funny. After this the last songs started. First Sunrise～LOVE is ALL～ with the towel dance, then Boys&Girls where Ayu sang less and less. She didnt even sing those few lines she have done these last couple of years, the audience did most of the work. Anywho, then we finally(sadly) got to the last song RED LINE～for TA～ where everyone did the dance and was happy. She did very well. ^__^

Tomorrow Im going back again, wow Im soooo broke. Anywho, I had a GREAT time tonight and I bet it will be even more special tomorrow!!!

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[Fanaccount] Ayu's male fan's Point of View about Tohoshinki

*Puppy eyes*
Sorry for always talking about Tohoshinki here, but this is very interesting that Ayu's fans have put their interest towards Tohoshinki during a-nation 2009 and in fact that Tohoshinki's fans also cheered for Ayu during her performances!

Here's the fanaccount:

Ayu male fan's comment at a-nation Osaka 09:

This year at a-nation Osaka, what was surprising was definitely TVXQ. First of all, they performed after Kumi Koda. Does that mean that they are more popular than Kumi now? Last year, I didn't really notice them, but this year, there was a huge difference in atmosphere. It seemed that the whole place was filled with TVXQ fans, and right before they showed up, we had to cover our ears because the cheers were incredibly loud. We could not hear anything but the cheer of the fans. Both my friend and I were amazed of the heat the whole TVXQ fans brought to the place and made us worry if Ayu would have as good a response as TVXQ. But we did not have to worry since these TVXQ fans cheered for our Ayu at the final of the concert. They brought good energy to the a-nation which we were happy about.

Source: Mai, Akira, tvxqlove, Yoosu, sholonpo
Translation: Junsulv @ OneTVXQ.com
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[Fanaccount] a-nation 2009 29.08.09: Ayu got Tohoshinki's signatures

When I read this fanaccount, i was so extremely happy.. Ayu has once again shown off her fangirl side!!

read it thoroughly, will you guys?

Fanaccount a-nation 2009 29.08.09 Osaka 

A-nation Osaka was really good! Well, everything after Alan really. Her voice....I've never heard her live before and never listened to one whole song of hers but...Wow, she totally blew away all the other female singers beforehand. Lovely song, main theme of the epic film Red Cliff.

Anyways, when the beginning video for DBSK started the crowd went wild. The stadium became a sea of red and blue lightsticks and everyone (when I say everyone, I mean most of the female population and a few males) was standing up screaming and waving their fans.

Ahhh...They started off with Share the World and it was so good. Yunho and Junsu had a little dance break in the middle where they both did handstands and a flip....People were screaming so much lol, so much more energy than when I watched the 3rd tour T (in Osaka as well). It was great!

Then they sang Purple Line...ahh, the urge to shout *OK!* when Yoochun sings *I really want to touch myself*.....so tempting, so tempting lol. Yoochun was really sexy today lol....

They sang Sky, Doushite, Stand by U, Survivor (this got loads of screams), Summer Dream and Somebody to Love.....

During the ment, the camera focused in turn on each member and the screams grew louder and then ear-splitting when it got to Yoochun. Lol, Yunho went "Yah, isn't that enough for one person?" Haha, poor Leader. There was a pause when it forcused on Junsu and then the screams grew gradually lol...Dolphin is so cute. His charisma was on full blow today.
In Summer Dream he kept the first two moves from the MV (at the end when he improvises) but for the last part he did a hip swing and a thrust aha, he knows how to get the crowd pumped.

It was good to see everyone so energetic and happy despite this whole lawsuit thing. I hope it works out for the best

Once again Ayu held her THSK towel but this time she went "Today it got signed!"....Waaaaah, my heart. The girls were screaming away.....Lucky Ayu.

Stand by U was beautiful.....Perfectly in tune and they really put themselves into the song. If only they'd cut out the other "Shooting acts" and the main singers excluding Do as Infinity, Ayu and AAA.....

Oh, and Naoya from AAA went "As I thought, Tohoshinki is everywhere" when he saw the stadium filled with green towels, both from BigEast and the official A-nation goods. I was first in line :)

Next time I'm, going to make sure I'm near to the front...Need to ask a friend in Japan to book for me since you can't do it overseas.

Tohoshinki ganbatte!

Please credit if you use this entry to clubotaku@livejournal.com. Thanks!

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[Fanaccount] a fanaccount of Ayu holding Tohoshinki's green towel

Haha sorry guys for being so excited about this so much! but if you read the fanaccount on the 2nd picture one, it was so sweet of Ayu to ask the fans whether they already got the towel or not and started waving it! so sweet~

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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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[Report] Fanccount at HEY! HEY! HEY! Music Show 26.07.09 shooting

Argh, i didn't check on AHS Forum since 2 days ago, that one of the lucky AHS members, tokyoxjapanxfan was selected to shoot  one of the HEY! HEY! HEY! episodes where Ayu performed Sunrise ~ LOVE is ALL ~ How lucky he is!!

Here's the fanaccount

I'm back from my day in Odaiba...aka the location of Fuji Television Studio...aka where HEY!x3 was filmed 

So basically here's the run down (and since i'm ridiculously tired it's not going to be in depth paragraphs filled with "fluff" *i'd make my high school English teacher's proud right there haha*)

-I arrived outside the studio at around 3:30 and had to wait until 4:30 to line up.

-There were a bunch of those ayu fan's cars with pictures of her on it and lots of people who were there that weren't able to go inside. I waited around the entrance to try and see Ayu when she was getting out of her car, but she was taking too long and so I went and sat under a tree in the shade.

-We lined up *all 200 people selected, though I was number 87 * in the ordinary Japanese fashion--very slowly--at 4:30 as the mail said. However, today was 32 degrees celsius/89 degrees fahrenheit and we were standing next to a glass building, which reflected all the heat onto us, in the hot, hot, hot sun, for around 45 minutes.

-Then we moved inside and stuff, not much to see, we went through all the back entrances and it was all stage setup stuff, boring. We got into a dance practice room and had to sit down. Prior to sitting down, we here handed a little HEY!x3 cellphone cleaner strap and the a-nation 09 towel. WHICH ISN'T FREE.

-They taught us how to use the towel, we had to spin it in the air when the first and third chorus is played. They take the towels back at the end of everything, but how nice--we got to keep cheap little cellphone straps haha...though, not gunna lie, they are helpful 

-We got into the stage/performance area and I was shocked...it was a really different looking stage than I had imaged...Everyone was like... "huh? Sunrise? this stage? I don't see it." haha But I think it was going for an Atlantis feel or something. It was strange, hard to describe. But the lights were really pretty when they lit up and stuff.

-We waited for a little bit and then ayu and her male dancers walked in. I couldn't believe how close I was to her. I was in the 4th-ish row and I was like 12-15 feet away from her (i don't really know exactly...but I was closer than you can get at her concerts haha) and she was wearing an orange version of her already posted outfits and she was soooooo cute! She said a little bit like do your best and be happy and then she started singing.

-Her vocals were really good, I must say. They were strong and clear! No lipsync here And we did as we were told...but not very well. We were all basically going off the person next to us haha. And so the song finished after like 3 minuts which went so fast, ayu left and then we were told that we were going to do it a 2nd time, but to be better at it haha. So we did, and then that was it...We left and ayu left and then that's it... haha

The little strips of shiny plastic were shot out during the final chorus and it was really exciting. I had a great time and it is a once in a lifetime opertunity... How many people can say they've been to a HEY!x3 filming with ayu?! hehe~~~

BTW, during the 2nd filming, I dropped my towel on the floor and couldn't spin it during the last chorus with the confetti and stuff and that's the version they're using I hope I won't be visible on tv during that part >_<

Credit: tokyoxjapanxfan @ AHS Forum
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