When do y'all reckon the 20th anniversary tour will be released in any form? I really enjoyed the TV (?) broadcast and would love to own it in DVD form somehow.

Maybe a CD/Blu-ray combo for a new album this year????? MAYBE???? lol

So, I once looked at some Ayu fanart on instagram. It was an account that made a few manga-ish characters of Ayu, most of them inspired by the Just The Beginning Tour. I remember one of them being inspired on a live edition of Trust, when Ayu wears a black short mini dress, black hair-bob wig and sunglasses. I can't find the account anymore. Is anyone following this account or knows about who I am talking? I would love to check it out again.

Thank you! That is it!

I just found one of the most random Ayu related videos out of nowhere!
A guy covering Ayu in a Vietnamese TV Show called "Your Face Seems Familiar" and it's everything!!! He's clearly a huge fan of Ayu and I think he nailed it lol It's from 2016 but I never seen this video being posted anywhere and I had no idea this existed. lol

^ He did nail it, I love that they recreated the whole performance, it looks very well done and he is so cute!

We had the same tv show in France a few years back, french celebrities covering famous singers performances but it was a total flop and the show only got one season, i enjoyed watching it though lol

saw her wishing chinese fans on her weibo, she sounds struggling a bit with her english? other than that already saw comments on fb bout her face

^ Two possible reasons of her struggling :
- This looks like just after a show because she's dressed in ENCORE outfit and has sweaty hair, so she might be exhausted.
- Since she's no longer with her husband she quit talking in english on a daily basis (except with Timmy) so she's lost part of her skills.

The comments don't surprise me because her face really looks plastic in this video lol

yep totally agree and my guess she maybe got the botox shot before the show, dont know but everytime she looked kinda plastic I would ge and watch her show starting 2016 and backwords lol 2015 Cirque de minuit shes so great looking :love 2014 too for the premium showcase

I noticed in the last CDL that her face was very plastic-looking and it really shows when she's smiling, maybe she is having a middle-life crisis lol I honestly do not mind plastic-looking on people in general, I actually like it but in the case of Ayu I honestly don't know how to feel.

For me it looks like video filter

Definitely video filter

I also think is just video filter, even I look with good and "perfect" skin using those lol

It is video filter for sure. Although I must say that I went to her concert yesterday and she looks exactly the same as the pictures that she posts on Instagram and we always think is so heavy photoshopped. I was in shock! She looks very beautiful, not aging at all. But... I really think she went to the doctor a few days before the concert to "retouch" her beauty. And that's alright because she looks stunning and I guess she also feels this way.

I'm sure it's filler and everyone does it lol. Also I'm sure we've discussed the difference that make up can do to a face. :laugh

I listened to LOVEppears today. Obviously Ayu has always sung about love, but so often we associate (to some extent) mentions of lovers/affection in her peak eras with Tomoya Nagase - but didn't she start dating him in the early 2000s? Is it known who she dated before him? Just curious, as some of my favourite lyrics are from Asfxx and LOVEppears.

^
Yes, last week I decided to read each of her lyrics starting with A Song for xx to Trouble!
I really do not feel any change in her personality or in the way of expressing her words; she remains true to herself in regard to this aspect of her career.
I listed 5 themes in her lyrics throughout her career:

1st obviously all forms of love (love, friendship, death, separation and ...), it's so recurrent since the first day ...
2nd her vision of freedom
3rd lyrics on empowering women and Feminism
4th lyrics dealing with social issues
5th lyrics about sex but honestly she did not write much on this subject lol.

I have already read her words in the past but this time to read everything at once I can really tell that she is gifted and poetic compared to a lot of singers...noting that she is nearly never vulgar even about sex she write it in an elaborate maner. To me the quality of her writing talent definitely didn’t decreased like I can read sometimes.

^ How many hours took it to read through her entire discography, though? °-°

She has circa 250 Songs, if you need 3min per Text it would take more than 12h... (i know 3min is a long time... :tipsy)