So we should get an album before april 10th then. An album announcement by Feb maybe? Hopefully sooner.

Maybe they're scared of ticket sales being low?

(:laugh)

About a month after. February 10th last year (heh, my birthday... what.) was when we first had notice of a new album coming out in March via an avex press release posted by Coelacanth. The album will likely come out in a similar timeframe.

Yeah, and that's why this will be one of her longest tours ever...

It doesn't make sense to you? LoL

It makes (slightly crazy) sense to me, but it's not funny at all. More shows means that more fans will be going, so even if the some shows don't sell out, there will be another show that is also near capacity to make up for it. However, from what I saw from photos and the like, AT09 had slowish sales at the start, but still ended being relatively full/sold out.

LOL. Not really considering if they were that worried, they wouldn't give her more dates. I'm going with production costs on this one. :P

:laugh I'm just messing with you true.

I really hope that the increase is for a cooler show...but I kinda...don't get my hopes up for tours anymore lol

It's probably just to cover the costs of more venues for more profit.

Well, people out there should note that higher production costs isn't necessarily going to mean a better show or that you'll like it.

Don't overhype yourselves and then fume at Ayu for not living up to your hype later on.

"But the tickets cost 700 yen more than they did in the last 3-4 years! WHY ISN'T THE SHOW GREATER? BYE AYU."

I wouldn't expect anything either, but it is kind of interesting. I mean her prices are amazingly low to begin with but an increase after 5 years kind of makes me wonder... If it were just to cover costs of venues, why weren't AT07's and AT08's prices higher? She went overseas for goodness sake lol (unless they were higher and I'm just dumb lmao). I thinking (but not expecting) that she may be building a new stage design and the works for this tour.

I do hope that this year's tour will be better than last year's...at least better outfits please! If 09-10 cdl is like the prelude of the tour, then that gives me hope. The money spent on the cdl outfits especially the dancers were decent.

31 dates?? fool!

hahahaa..this is true.don't get so excited now and disappointed later :innocent

So Ayu pretty much over-exaggerated the longevity of this tour as I said, even if they do add a couple of dates after, it could end up having a similar number of dates as the NEXT LEVEL one.

Didn't she go to like Taiwan and stuff? Dude, they probably paid her to go over there :P

nah, I think it was more like 09 was the test run, and this is their solution for making more munny off having more dates.

But whatever, I'm kinda excited for the tour anyway...because I feel like, even if she does rehash whatever, it's going to be interesting and different in some way.

My only tiff with the costumes are those stupid pants where the sides are cut and you can see her legs! xD; Either wear proper pants or take them off, woman! I wouldn't mind the latter. :lech

I suppose you're right. I'm looking forward to this tour as I have all her other ones though. No more or less... But for some reason I have a feeling she has a few surprises up her sleeve... Especially if CDL was the prelude to this year's theme.

Well... 30 95% full dates is better than 15 100% full dates :P

well even if this tour will have 1 more date than NL tour, it will still make this one her longest tour. :D

Anyways, koda's UNIVERSE arena tour tickets are selling at 7500 each. I really wonder what's so different about this tour of ayu's that the price increased...

According to tethevo/teth@JPM, mixi is getting worked up over the 700 yen price increase... I wonder if TeamAyu members will message her about it. Maybe then we'll get an answer via her blog?

About this tour being intense, I'm hoping she'll be able to manage her voice through all the concerts. She mentioned in the SCawaii interview that her throat was strained during AT09, but hopefully she learned from that experience. I really don't want her to get sick or lose her voice after the first few dates like last year... oi. That seemed like a disaster. How do you perform two days in a row when you lose your voice?!

I'm kind of worried about her here though. Looking at the tour dates, she's really giving herself no rest at all. :no

2 consecutive days at each venue, then less than a week to move everything to the next venue (most of which are in different prefectures). And she's going to do this for 3 whole months.

She's really stressing herself out this time. I don't recall her previous tours being so intensive.

^Oh noes! She is gonna die!