These costumes suck.

But if the performances are ok, I'm good.

I don't know, but I have the impression that the girl in the pics is not her.
Did anyone have the same feeling, like it's a double of ayu? It's a really weird feeling.

I want to see Ayu on the aerial silks singing Angel!! That performance has to be amazing.

The FTL tank top and black capris look kinda...dull. If the colors were reversed, that would look much better. It's missing a pop of color. Other than that, the outfits don't look that bad lol the arial catsuit I think is the same one she wore during a-nation last summer, but altered the sleeves?

i wonder which costumes will be altered or replaced for the final, as it seems to be a habit for ayu to change some costumes for the final tour dates (ex. A song for XX/Memorial address in ABL)

To be fair, her tours are usually quite a bit longer, and more spaced out. This tour starts and ends in just over the space of a month--and given the fact that she already peaced out and went back to LA, I don't see a lot of changes happening. (hopefully.)

I wish Last angel was replaced with something.

I don't think it's a good live song. There's too much downtime to make it interesting, imo.

She looks so much more mature now with these clothes on :)

I completely agree. One of the (many) travesties of RnRC~7d~ is that LA replaced alterna. :no I love the studio version, but it does nothing for me when performed live.

Especially because she doesn't sing the low parts. If she did, it would be an interesting dynamic, but she can't... so it just ends up with everyone like "Will this be over soon?"

I'm not really sure why that keeps popping up in shows... is it because it's an opportunity to use the acrobats?

agree with Last angel.. it's good on the CD but she doesn't execute it well live.

the rest though.. WHATEVER, Connected, TO BE... I love it!

Last angel is just in general a bad song. They need to redo the arrangement completely.

I have to disagree, I love Last Angel lives, I love that song so much and I think it's great live, specially the a-nation '11 performance :heart

^I love Last angel especially in AT10 where it looked like a battle :D
But I do agree that her voice is not at its best when she sings it, and the arrangement sounds a bit dated

I think seeing it so many times over the last 3-4 years has made me a little bitter towards it being in setlists. The same goes for Ladies Night IMO. Ladies Night is supposed to be a bit more aggressive than the way Ayu typically seems to perform it, or at least that is the vibe I get from the song/video that was only ever really translated at AT06.

^ I would LOVE to see her perform Ladies Night ~another night~ for a change, that version is awesome.

Not true at all. I was really excited about the song being a part of the encore during HOTEL Love songs and personally loved hearing it live~

However what you described was exactly what I felt about Ladies night live. It was boring.

there's a reason why she fill performances of songs like Last angel and Ladies Night with circus antics, flailing dancers etc... to fill up the fact that it's literally boring if she just sings it, and she gets to rest her vocals since most of these songs don't require her to actually sing (it's okay to play a recording etc etc)

The costumes actually look OK, except for the FEEL THE LOVE singlet and the silver vest, which [OPINION] are ugly [END OF OPINION].
The red dress look great and the blue one where she is suspended in the ball look somewhat good too. And that black armor(?)like dress is also good.

I'm looking forward to seeing more photos soon!