I'm loving the stage! it's so colorful and bright! I don't even care if it's lipsynched or not!

The sound is awful but for the moment I don't think it's playback XD
This kind of "kawaii" performance makes me think of previous performances like HONEY or ANGEL'S SONG *_*

I really doubt its playback, does sound very live to me + cutesy songs playback are mostly performed with headmic(ANGEL'S SONG PCDL0809 for example, or the AT06 cutesy part, it was completely playback, but AT08 cutesy part was probably live and used a normal mic)

thanks for sharing~

omg the stage & screens. so awesome. i'm speechless.

Some people seem to under-estimate Ayu's intelligence, I believe that there is no way she would actually lip sync and made the recording sound worse than a studio version - she isn't stupid. And well all I can say is that EnergizE did sound more chipmunk-ish than the album version.

^ some people seem to underestimate ayus intelligence really strongly.
ANGEL'S SONG PCDL0809 sounded worse than the studio version and was synched, theme of a-nation '03 on CDL0506 sounded worse than the studio recording and was synched, these two are 100% proven because she made a mistake miming the words, she is smart to make them worse than the studio recordings, because people like you would believe everything worse than the studio recording is live xD

I love the stage & screens, she looks so cute... i wanna see the full show now >_<
thank youuu

OH NO please!!! ... again lip-sync discusion starts...-___-

oh well, by the way i'm lovin how this AT is tourning out! I love the stage is so amazing and colorfull!! and she is so cuute!

I don't think it's playback. After ANGEL'S SONG you would think that she wouldn't be stupid enough to sing a song on playback and have the screen zoomed on her face. ;)
Therefore I think it's live. Plus it SOUNDS live from what I can tell. :)

^ Well, they HAVE to show her face sometimes xD

Well only the ppl who saw it will actually know about the lipsync. I will give that discussion a rest until I see it for myself and later when the DVD comes out.

However, OMG the stage is AMAZING!!! O.o Love it!

Very muted, but it sounds like she's singing to me.



I swear, a lot of you are going conspiracy-theorist on Ayu for no real reason whatsoever. It's rather sad that people always think of "playback/lipsynching" when she sounds okay. Gone are the days when people just enjoyed a concert without thinking: "Oh, maybe she isn't really singing this..". It's a sad day in the world of an Ayu fan.

i totally agree. and i don't know why the lip-synching thing matters so much to people. it's especially weird when people spend a large amount of their time 'investigating' each and every performance to see if it has been lipsynched. that complete playback thread is CREEPY. :no

i'm just happy she's there doing her thing. bad voice or not, lipsynching or not. lol

Also, concerning the whole ticketing situation, I wonder if the economy really does have something to do with it. That plus the fact that she's probably going around to arenas closer to people's hometowns, it's possible that they knew some arenas weren't gonna sell out (like the largest two she usually performs in, Yokohama and Saitama). It just doesn't add up that Ayu / avex would add so many more dates to the tour and have it last for so long only to have it "fail". And another thing, considering that NEXT LEVEL came out less than two weeks before the tour, I feel as though people might have needed time to digest the album, since they usually get 3-5 months to do so since her albums tend to be released in the fourth quarter of the year. Eh, we can speculate endlessly about why things happen and why Ayu wanted things the way they are, but.. in the end all we can do is enjoy (or.. not enjoy?) what's being shown to us. -sigh-

The screening looks awesome!!
ayu sounds so good in there, and makes even cuter voice lol.

I don't understand why people try so hard to prove she's lip-syncing when she does that and they try to find it. Is it so important to "prove" she is "crap"?
The lip-sync subject is shoved too much, yeah she does that (and luckily it's not most of the time) it's ok to say oh she lip-synced that song but there is no need to exaggerate more than what it is like it's a sin and she murdered the japanese prime minister. Specially when she is just using a playback and singing live and play back discussions become serious (not the lip-syncing).

As long as she sings live almost all of the time and give good performances who cares.

It's starting to be a paranoia or something....

OMG the screens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Turns out it is true that costumes aren't the main thing of this tour!

Yeah the screening and effects alone got me really drew me around it, they should be one of the bests yet.
I want to watch the DVD already, so long time...

About the EnergizE perf....I thought the people who went to it live here said that she actually did sing it...

but she sang it in the cutesy voice because she was being safe or something?

So yey her outfits still suck...but everything else is total greatness<3

I don't think I'll like the energize thing lol but the screens and the stage is wonderful.

thanks for posting guys :)