She should've popped out of that suitcase.

^ I thought she was going to but it never happened... D: But she made a much better entrance anyway lol.

The clowns were cool for a while and then I had to fast forward it.

*Shrug* I cheer cause I like Shu-ya :B

I have NOOO idea why... but somehow Shuya is very popular.... he has a lot of fans, and ppl copying the hairstyles, at ayu's concerts

^hey you changed your username :0

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I wish there were some fancams or something, i am just so curious how her ''new'' voice sounds

I did.... question is... did you? =) Don't think I know ya xD

i would love to see if anyone would record this xD

Ah, duh, the hair style is epic. lol

Talk about best setlist ever.

So this is only loosely related, but I forgot to mention that outside Shin-Yokohama Station on the day of the concert, there were anti-fur activists.

They were handing out papers (in a nice way--they were dressed as Disney characters, I had no idea what they were handing out until I got it) that said "FUR AWAY"--but when read in Japanese, it becomes "ファー アウェイ", or "Faa Awei", which is also how "Far away" is read/spelled in Japanese.

On the back of the flier, many fur goods, including fox tails, as popularized by Ayu, were pictured.

I just thought that was really interesting. haha. I can't help but think it wasn't coincidental :P.

Just came to say that at today's concert in Fukuoka Ayu will use the present some of us did for her in representation of all overseas fans! The fan project called "Under the same sky" ^^

someone gave her the idea to use it as an intro for PoM tour... and it will be done! (though maybe not as intro!)

Today we sent it to one of her staf members and Ayu together with the live video staff spent till 4:40AM editing the video and doing who knows what! xD

We don't know if this is permanent for the rest of the tour... but it's pretty exciting to know that our present will be used today in her concert!!


I hope we get reviews about it or sth! ^^

^that's cool...how you know that? you in Japan right now?

^Nope~ 1 week ago we sent a YT link of the video Miki created for it to Ayu and she loved it. Today she asked through twitter if someone could sent them to use it. We just uploaded it to mediafire and sent a staff the link lol

It's all on twitter~

That is so cool and exciting! Hopefully we get news on it!

Can you link to where we can watch the fan video? I've never seen it!

edit:
ayuuk go for today's concert? ayuuk! Waiting for your review~~

^agghhh...i thought that project is not happening...
too bad...i didn't sent my pic...uggghhh...

I can't wait for today's result !! My hand in there ;) I wanna cry~~~

omg I can't believe that our hands will be in ayu's show XDD

Yay~! My hand will definitely take part of the show ! *0*

[my hand is the one with the snowed up landscape @1'20" ^^]

thats an amazing video!
( the music sounds familiar.. what is it from?)

I think it's miki's playing Daybreak on the piano right? it's awesome.

Yep, Daybreak, Endless sorrow, and a video from the PCDL think... It must explained in the description of the video by the way !

EDIT: indeed it is xD "Music: PCDL's special screen, Daybreak, Endless Sorrow - Ayumi Hamasaki", all played by Miki of course.

^from the video description:
Really beautiful. :)

this is just too awesome, my hand officially was part of an ayu show :laugh

MY HAND TOO T.T
im so touched by Ayu's actions...she totally rocks!!

The show already finished! A Japanese friend told me how it was, but his English was... Well, confusing, so there are parts I'm not sure about...

The fan video was shown before the last song, a song is born, before the video started there was displayed flags of each country who participed on the video (they put the name of each country in Japanese under the flag) if I remember correctly: us, chile, Spain, France, Italy, singapour, Malaysia, Thailand, UK, Germany (I don't remember more sorry...)

There was a text in Japanese, I don't know if was while the flags where shown or when our video started, saying: this was given to me from fans around the world to show that they think about Japanese <- can't trust this is the exact text xD

Then our video started and when finished the lyrics of Daybreak "donna ni toku hanarete itemo, bokura ha onaji sora no shita", where displayed.

After that a song is born started!


And also that friend said sth about Curtain call... I don't understand it... But looks like when the concert ended and everyone was about to leave... Ayu or the PV or sth, idk, apeared on the screens and played curtain call... Not sure O.o


And that's all ^^

I think the video became extra meaningful for Japan as well...
(yay Singapore was shown!)

^ Oh man, I can't wait to see it! I have to wait until Yoyogi though ^^;

I love how things in this tour keep changing... it keeps it exciting.

*Although I wish I knew about the video being made. I think that when things like that are being made, it should be posted in Ayu News no matter what :-\ I missed the A world is One book as well -_-. I never look in that section :( But it's really exciting for everyone that participated!

oh wow...wow...
no Indonesian flag in there? too bad...

^ if we posted it on ayu music news, the moods would have surely moved it

Cool!!!! They mentioned the countries too!! I represents Malaysia ;)

^^ I know, but I mean, I think that it should be allowed there. haha. And then moved once the deadline is over. That way more people will see it. :P

Indonesia was there too I think ^^ I don't remember all!

Miki, could you post the country list? ^^

aura~ and miki_beland
thank you, guys! That was really awesome idea

or they could make a new subforum "Fan Projects"


...

I totally loved the video and adored the music (want it on my mp3 player now) U guys rock! I'm glad i participated!

a japanese friend told me, Indonesian was shown too..
thanks miki and aura for this amazing ideas!
international/foreign fans are known by japanese fans now..
they are not alone.. a world is one!

Will Ayu use that Under-the-same-sky-Video for the show? Have I understand it right???

:thud

this is so amazing!!!!!

ok, i'll post the list I sended to Ayu's staff:


Indonesia, Malasia, Spain, USA, Taiwan, France, México, Philipines, Hong Kong, Singapur, United Kingdom, Germany, Chile, Japan, Canada Peru, Italy, Argentina, Australia, Tailandia

It was extracted from the facebook page. Korea, Brazil and Russia did not participate, but as we were not sure, we added them anyways.

So does Ayu wear the same outfit to every show?

Miki do you think you can update the list for the staff with more countries? (Like mine - Israel) and they might add it to the video for the next shows ^^ (my hand is there too!)

^ i can't contact them anymore, since kome is not following me now =(

I noticed that Finland is not listed either... but I guess it's too late now... :(

but I'm still glad I was able to be part in this!

Very cool that Ayu showed the video. Thanks for the link, Aderianu. I wonder if she'll have it at all of the upcoming shows.

Well if you can, try to twit them that there are more countries, they might regard your twits for that! ayu could be possible too! I'm sure they won't mind to add more countries!
I know that everyone there will be like "huh? what's country is that?" so it should help them know more lol. xD

Well people, don't worry, they already had a prepared list, probably most of european countries were added... i don't know, i only could send them the countries that participated through facebook

I participate! And one my friend too

Hope we'll see it on DVD

It's fine Miki, no one's complaining, it's enough amazing that our hands are there hahaha.

You took the countries from facebook or the countries from the flags from the photos?
(Or is there a list on facebook?) since all of the hands were taken from facebook right?

^yes, I don't mean to sound like complaning either... I just want to ask if we were perhaps supposed to state which country we are from with our picture, because I participated through facebook and Finland is still not listed? I'm just wondering about this, that's all. :)

^ about that that I posted, it's not true XDD The poor guy maybe translated "end of the show" into curtain call not knowing there's an ayu song called like that XD So no curtain call ^^

A japanese girl sent me the tracklist:

01.forgiveness
02.poker face
03.blossom
04.BLUE BIRD
05.monochrome
06.fairyland
07.A Song for xx
08.M
09.NEVER EVER
10.walking proud
11.part of Me
12.Moments
13.vogue
14.Far away
15.SEASONS
16.Bold & Delicious
17.Mirrorcle World
18.evolution
19.Boys & Girls
20.Born To Be
☆video
21.A Song is born

Seems like today there was no medley after forgiveness?


They asked it all of a sudden so we haddn't time to ask. FB groups or pages keep track of the nationalities all members have, to make statistics. So that's where miki took the list. If you don't "like", "follow", sth, his page, maybe your country didn't appear in the statistics... =(

And nope, no one was asked to state the country for the project, cause we just wanted to show we all, doesn't matter our name or country, are under the same sky... it was a decision from Ayu or her staff to do that.

on the facebook page, you cant extract some stadistics, so I listed all the countries where the people who joined the page were from.

^Oh, I guess you didn't notice Finland by accident then. :)

But you said they may have added some European cities by themselves, so maybe there is little hope that Finland is there too.

So our countries might indeed be there!
I joined the page (I think) when I uploaded my photo there.

i think i know why i didnt include some countries...

look, it only shows countries of people who has joined the page since 1 month ago

^Oh, maybe you're right, I remember I joined looooong ago :)

Oh that exlains it. xD

We should still try to contact ayu and the staff about it, I'm sure they will add all of the countries of the project! ^_^

Well that didnt last long. Boys & Girls is back, and according to mixi, in full.

Aw maaan, haha.

I did see that on the BBS as well.

Brazil did not participate -.-

That is so cool. o.o Everyone who participated must feel so close and special right now :heart Grats! I hope it's included in the DVD.

i wish we could get some photos of today's live...
does anyone know some blog of fans or something where there maybe be some photos?

Ah, poker face was the only song performed after forgiveness this time.

Interesting~

Japanese fans don't get pics inside the arena.. it's forbiden, so I don't think we'll find any...

All Brazilians agreed not to participate? XD

I've read your blog and you wrote that Corea, Brazil and Russia were left out of the list. If you read carefuly, Miki did not say that, he said that those countries were suggested too even if they weren't on the list cause we couldn't be sure 100%. So Brazil's flag may be there even if no one participated. as you said..

Boys & Girls would feel really good if Ayu just sat down to sing with her fans in an acoustic setting with her fans singing along in the chorus...

Depends on the fans, really.

I remember seeing a Japanese blog [and maybe a Korean one?] with shots from the tour while it was going on.

sigh...that sucks...-___-

Thanks god! she already added Boys&girls in the setlist!

UNITE! was switched to Boys&Girls. Buuuu.

I prefer Boys & Girls to UNITE! XD

it gave me a hope
*-* thks for the info

I'm glad I got to see UNITE! haha.

But both are really fun.
*BTW, for the past few years, Ayu has sung the opening song for her current tour at a-nation as well, so do people here suspect "forgiveness" will be performed at a-nation 11?

I love b&g! I think it's a nice upbeat song... :heart

Wow... cool photos... as always :)

Was Finland added? ^__^ We participated too!~
But still, this is so amazing! <3 I love how ayu used it~
I hope it gets in the DVD too.

Oh, so it only adds people who joined the page a month ago? Crap XD
Well, I hope that when you said they included European countries they remembered Finland as well XD
And ayu is changing the songs really quickly it seems? : o I'm happy that there's Boys&Girls <3

I thought so too, but apparently boys and girls, along with mirrorcle and evolution are very close to their original incarnation.

Yeah I was wondering about that too.

yes, the video is played before encore. there were no flags shown. it showed all the country names in japanese. and few sentences such as people around the world are connected together...

the second day there is key!!! soooo happy

boys and girls is back. even though i prefer unite!, it was really cool at the concert.

i cried very badly at forgiveness. so powerful! it is one of my favorite openings. also cried so hard (with all other japanese near me) when ayu sang poker face, a song for xx, never ever, and a song is born.

the date specific keyrings sold out, so i did not get to buy them. i bought a couple of ayupans, and i got two more secret ayupans!!! do they make many secret ayupans this time, or am i just too lucky??

i am typing from a japanese computer so i cannot use the keyboard well.

This year's a-nation has the same idea as PoM tour....
I think we'll hear same forgiveness, same blue bird and fairyland

So.. that Video is really in the show????

^ yep..since yesterday and today too!
awesome~~

^i don't think it will continue until the end of the tour though..i doubt it...

Wow... thats greate. I didn't knew about that project here. The thread name was something with facebook, and so I didn't cared it, because I don't have facebook.
Ahhh.. might be greate for the one, which's pic is in the show. Thats so greate.
And it's greate, that Ayu put it into the show. Wow!
Has she got contac with the person, who made that video???? I wished, I would be the one... hahahaha!

hmm how did u guys deliver the video to ayu ?

twitter power! =)
Miki sent it to Ayu's staff

Wow, the video project was shown in the show!? That's cool! Too bad I didn't participate :(
Btw, is she only wearing one outfit the entire show?

That is totally awesome.
Why did I noticed the project when it was too late =(

What a great thing of hers to use the video in the show *-*

I'm happy Italy was included in the video too ^^
I hope we'll see it in the dvd *_* can't wait for this tour to come out (wait*wait*wait*wait*wait)

Miki made the video... the idea is from aura and of course inspired by Ayu's pic the hand in the sky~
Miki sent to one of the staff via twitter..
Miki and several fans told ayu through twitter about the video and she knew it then few days after, she asked for the video.

it's a quite rush project though but it'll represent all the foreign fans <3
coz ayu thanks to all the foreign fans~

That's quite a feat. You fans are awesome!!! It makes me proud to be an ayu fan, but then again I didn't participate. But, still!!!

I love how mellow and low key this tour has turned out to be. It's pretty exciting compared the other tours, rather I should say different, fresh, raw? Either way, it's a lovely setlist.

I think this project was going on since January, so not really rushed. But I am so happy and proud that this was done and our hands are in ayu's show. It also shows support to all the Japanese fans who visit her concert.:heart

4+ months is hardly rushing...

If anyone wants to catch the show (in June), I posted a thread here:

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...28#post2691928

Regarding 4 nights in Tokyo, including airfare, $780.

Luja & njanjayrp, hmmm i mean that the time when they decided to give the video to ayu was in a rush cause there was no deadline before. so all the sudden, it was decided on that day to give the video.

well of course, Miki & Aura, i'm not complaining okay ^^.. i was just surprised coz the deadline was all the sudden decided... but, really, definitely thanks to you guys for your ideas, seriously. please don't misunderstood me =))

So Boys&Girls is back? I'm happy because I love the song. I'm not 100& sure but I think it was my first Ayu song, so I definitely enjoy it every time Ayu performs it. It cannot be overplayed, imho. And I'm still so happy about forgiveness. For that song alone I would go to the concert.

I heard Ayu sang MOON yesterday in Osaka. Anyone has the setlist? ^o^

Are there any youtube videos from the concert? I'd love to hear what "a song is born" sounds like sung today!

Yep, MOON was performed after forgiveness in a capella at the last concert~

MOON <3