Me don’t like. The kimono shot should’ve been the promoting one imo. Anyway, the girl is inspired, hoping for something fierce or at least different for future things. Shimoko, don’t let us down.

She looks so good. :heart

Love those shots!!! She looks so... fierce and feminine and womanly haha

I'm assuming these are in the photobook and I approve.

Just pre-ordered a 2CD+DVD on Cdjapan. Japan post does airmail shipping to my country so yay ^^ So excited!

She looks STUNNING in those new pics.

Original A Ballads has few hidden covers. Any chance those pictures related to it?

Could be. Or back cover/booklet... or SPECIAL BOOK? Maybe we'll get some disc art too? Did any of these have a slipcase?

Those shots are perfect, should have been the covers :(

I wonder why this isn't doing so well on Amazon Japan? Usually, BEST albums shoot all the way to the top in preorders.

I feel like Avex isn't doing much to promote this album.

I ordered from mu-mo/TeamAyu so I won't be counted there. The LE is hard to miss tbh!

Last I saw there were some stock issues. Can't even look at or buy from Amazon.jp properly unless you're in Japan but I assume a lot of fans just got from mu-mo vs. Amazon.

Stock issues? Then it's an AVEX problem. They have got to get it together.

mu-mo itself has the luxe version at number 1 atm. I dunno if Amazon.jp is ever really a good indicator anymore unless you have a tie in.

I think with the flow of the album is just from the times we live in :P artist sadly no longer make much money off albums since the rise of digital content. Artists get very little from that. They probably did most to what they would be best for profits over making it the best they can :P Concerts and tours are were artist make money now. They really say if you want to support your artist nowadays, go to their show because they make money off that :P To which ayu does very well with :) iTunes killed the album business :P PVs, singles and cms and all that were investments into the physical item, which now no longer makes nearly as much as they used too :P

"Haru yo, Koi" PV has over 635k views at the moment. That is very good!

I agree! I love that song SO MUCH.

Even I sometimes forget about it but whenever I give it a listen- wow.

Yeah, it's like... a true experience. I love listening to it so much when it comes up.

Wonder how long till a million~!

What if My All Chinese version will be a bonus for overseas print?

Haru Yo, Koi has passed Ohia no Ki in terms of views now! (Although Ohia had a short version which probably didn't help + the video came out almost a month later)