yes but i just dont like that it will too obvious when we didnt get to see Ayu on her A huge car (whatever you call it :thud) and then suddenly shes already on the main stage, i love seeing her going around the stadium singing closer to the audience, without it something is missing,

well they did it before too, and its weird to watch the show

Has someone seen Ayu's a nation performance ?

I just founs this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BV5lmjyCMAALO3P.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BV5oSDkCUAA9MDs.jpg:large

I don't know how to watch online T.T
Is this show good ?
I wonder how she sounded :)

its up on jpopsuki http://jpopsuki.eu/torrents.php?id=145191

Oh, I don't have the account ! T.T
Can someone please upload on the other website ?
So exciting !

God dammit I just hate how they stop letting us register. I want to watch it so bad! If anyone can be kind and upload it on here it would be really appreciated :'(

Haha, this :laugh. I totally thought it'd be cut down to like, INSPIRE/Moments/You & Me/July 1st. Y'all have been a bit spoiled with Ayu's a-nations for the past few years, but from like 2002-2008 they'd cut out a good half of her set. :)

I would've taken TO BE over HANABI though, since we got a performance of that last year and I don't see it being that different.

somehow Aderianu said that this rip only started from Moments not from the beginning :thud :thud

yeah, people are commenting the file is incomplete '-'


(but we have the complete show here http://jpopsuki.eu/torrents.php?id=1...rrentid=196136)

there's a lot of autotune in the whole concert… even when she is just screaming "come on!" and things like that… ridiculous

INSPIRE and Rule are indeed missing...still her vocals were awesome! Especially in Moments and HANABI. The woman is finally in full control of her voice again~

i've seen the full Ayu live, she sang really well.i love when she sang hanabi *///*

This is such an energetic set. I haven't felt this about an Ayu performance in a long time. She was on point, soooo energetic, and so into it. I felt goosebumps from Boys & Girls. For some reason, the performance is so charged, and so alive. The whole of Ajinomoto Stadium was with her - you can see everyone in the stadium waving their hands with the La La La of Boys & Girls. And You & Me was a perfect continuation! I'm so happy with this a-nation. Her vocals on Moments and Hanabi are rough, but she gets so much better.

Ahhh I'm so happy right now haha.

i'm hopin someone will upload parts of it on some streaming website

INSPIRE and Rule were really nice as well!

INSPIRE & Rule
http://v.yinyuetai.com/video/780823
Moments & Hanabi
http://v.yinyuetai.com/video/780832
Boys & Girls & You & me & July 1st
http://v.yinyuetai.com/video/780846_1
ayu vocal is so good!!!! omg

gotta check them noww! thank youu:love

This. It was really really beautiful and so fucking well done.

And OMG SHE THREW THE T-SHIRT HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
:thud

It is a wonderful live ..
Ayu is so cool but Timmy makes me scared !

Is it just me or are we having a new female background singer and new background dancers? Or do they just look completely different with new hair cuts and colors... Still not finished watching the full thing. I will probably see it, when Ayu introduces the band and dancers, but still I haven't seen one dancer. Where's Aki?

^ I miss Aki.. >_<
It seems that she wasn't at her 15th anniversary tour either..

WHAT?!?!?! That's sooo sad. She was one of the "oldest" (if you know what I mean ^^)

^ I know what you mean XP
I saw her for the first time at DOME Tour 2001, so yeah.. I'm shocked too.
I just hope she only took a break for something. :yes

her voice is amazing!!!

I liked this a-nation! Although I'm not a fan of the costumes.. they look cheap to me (except the red kimono). INSPIRE/Rule costume makes her look older in my opinion, like an old gymnast or something.

And really.. am I the only one to see how ridiculous looks her chest in the Hanabi dress? It must be filled with air!

I feel as though I may be content with her using a little bit of auto tune as long as it at least stays the amount she's using now if it means she'll perform as good as she is here. She seems confident.

Thanks for this. It was a really good show. Her voice was really good.

^ I agreed! Her voice sounds really good!!
Even the ppl who commented on the video feels that her past vocals has returned!

request
 

is there someone who can upload the "inspire + rule" video from A-Nation'2013 ? it is the only part difficult to get (the chinese stream sites are very difficult to access). thankx in advance.

Thats how she proves she is the empress of jpop. Her energy, her stage presence, her power... No one can beat her. Her vocals were also very pleasant, and she looked amazing. Really great, legend A.

PD: can Timmy stop trying to be an hybrid between Lady Gaga and a drag queen? Thanks!

Am I the only one who likes the INSPIRE/RULE outfit? XD

Her vocals are defiantly more powerful lately. I'm loving it. Her vocals during INSPIRE were amazing <3

lol, i think he will never change. I'm expecting that since 2011.

Stupid people still believe Timmy chooses his outfits and the way he acts on the stage.

Watching the INSPIRE/Rule performance and I am reminded of why I became an Ayu fan. Her lives are full of energy!

What I was trying to say was that her vocals are rough, that they're not smooth until she gets to Boys & Girls and You & Me and July 1st. You can hear husky, rumbling in her voice. It's still good overall from the beginning. Much better than previous years.

I understand what chu mean buddy. But yeah compared to previous years, this year was the best. Not sure if there were any autotune, but her vocal is smoother than last year and POM tbh.

I dont care if he chooses or not, he needs to get out of that stage. And if he uses pics of himself with that horrible drag queen makeup as profile pictures in twitter and other social networks i guess he kinda likes the idea

I'm glad there are very few shots of tim, seriously, I wish Ayu could force him to tone down or at least FIT the rest, he seems to make his drag fantasies come true on the stage and she approves and I understand she wants her crew to feel good but hell, he looks just so bad it's sometimes a shame to show it to my friends :/

It's Ayu's vision and creation, whether people like it or not. I once asked Timmy if he chose his outfit at a-nation 2012, and he said it was all Ayu. She added the purple cloak and collar at the last minute because just the corset and skirt "wasn't enough". He's a prop, no one else gets that more than he does. And don't you think it would look awkward if he didn't look comfortable in what he was doing? :shrug:

^ maybe ayu has realized that timmy was way too stand out on last year's a-nation, so she decided to tone timmy down haha. which is good, and i'm not against timmy, just hv to agree that timmy should be just liked the rest of the team, just simply act like a background vocal.

Is it me or Ayu is wearing domething under her costumes ? like a big belt on her waist... You know something when your back hurts...
She didn't move as well as usually...

And when she thew her shirt.. I felt like she had something under her short...

Is he really a Drag Queen though? I don't think he is. You guys sound ignorant calling him that, you should ask him personally to see what he likes to be called when he's wearing makeup, although maybe he just likes makeup which doesn't make him a Drag Queen instantly.

I'm only 3 songs in but these are some of the best performances Ayu has done in a while.

I loved the INSPIRE/RULE outfit and Ayu was owning the stage and her vocals were great, I acknowledge they have likely been edited for TV.

With Moments her vocals were so good, you could see she was trying to sing those high notes and not scream them, her face scrunched up each time those high notes in the chorus came along, was funny.

Timmy is not drag queen...it's simply a image on stage....

this is kind of cool!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/4a3ec4f38...5mseo1_500.gif

someone on twitter said it was kind of amateurish and that it should have been done by mechanics but i think this looks more alive, it's like the dancers are givng her wings, if you think about it, everyone who's working with her indeed helps her "fly"... :)

She sounds great, since Party Queen her vocals were getting better and better and i love that and she and looks great and evereything is just so sophisticated and well done... I am not particulary liking the rest of the outfits but the performances were of a great quality and well planned i think.

He told me she wanted him to look more like a witch. :P It's not like Ayu just let everyone on stage doing whatever they feel like doing and it magically turns into an organized spetacle, she even watches a double of herself performing the whole thing with outfits and dancers to see how the audience will see it.

she got this Namie vibe for Inspire/Rule, just the hair because Namie always set her hair like that :P

during Inspire/Rule perf, Ayu is smiling all the way, she looked relax and enjoying the songs,she lookes so professional too, loved her dance, but theres seems lack a bit of this "WOW" power for Rule and i'd prefer she started off with Rule and continue with Inspire

i agree with you! theres something weird with her chest with that hanabi dress! i really preferher red costume for last year's hanabi performance :luv2

i really really love this part! so beautiful and amazing, they did a great job, did anyone else love the intro for Moments? i fell in love with it oriental vibe :yes

You & Me got a new choreography, they got this lil different dance routines in each part of the song,and its cute to see Ayu also dance along there

ps: what happened to Yo-chan?? he had lost weight but he looked like hes sick or something :thud he looked so different really and seems like not really the happy go lucky Yo chan

This

and this!

Leave Timmy alone.. And yes it's all ayu at ayu's shows.

HANABI a-nation 13>all other HANABI performances a-nation 05's too.

Wasn't she sick during the a-nation? Or was that on the festival later?

God I love Moments. It's in my top 3 Ayu songs ever. But, there isn't a single performance of it that I enjoy. They never do the studio recording justice, and the song sounds completely different and less "uplifting". I think it's because they change it so it's easier to sing live.

It was in the Festival, not a-nation.

Right now I'm really in love with HANABI.
It is really one of the best performances ever~ :heart

But.. Did Kazuma leave too?

Wowow really decided to change the Ayu's voice live during the show ?? the voice effect looks like all the arabian songs (but it permits not to hear faulse tone) theshow was nice but boys & girls/july 1st fed me up...

totally agreed. she killed it. it made me cry T_T
her vocals are amazing and there's a lot of emotion on the performance!


btw, thank god SHU-YA isnt there running from side to side of the stage punching his chest... i was missing so bad her solo acts.

Anyone's got a youtube link??

Oh I see, thank you ^^

Anyway, I was very impressed with Ayu-s vocals on a-nation! I definitely like it more than her A Best Live CD :D

Thanks!

Omg Moments was great!

Vocally it's my favourite Moments performance :O

thank you!

I love her enthusiasm and her energy, but something is slightly off on her long tones. It sounds a lot like autotune, but at the same time it doesn't make sense that they're autotuning her, because I'm pretty sure she can do it on her own. Might be audio distortion too.

Edit: First time I've noticed that people aren't really singing along with Boys & Girls.. And I think the very short kimono/yukata was slightly unnecessary..

after watching the video, my feeling:

(1) her voice seems more stable and mature.
(2) she is not fat, but her legs and hips seem getting bigger...
(3) HANABI performance wins

I saw quite a lot of Ayu fans and they were pretty enthusiastic, but I think the rest of them are not Ayu fans, even though they probably see her all the time everywhere. Maybe that explains why the audience looked kind of dull and I can't really feel anything :no

the Moments performance was the best I've ever seen of this song!
i love how the dancers build her wings *-*
but also I'm really tired of ever-the-same-HANABI-performance .___.

I LOVE THE July 1st PERFORMANCE... the best after a-nation '09 *-*

i think this worth to be my first a-nation DVD ^_^

_________


EDIT:
i think I've saw this at many of her performances in the last years...
e.g. Dearest~evolution~SURREAL (Kohaku or FNS 2012), SURREAL (X-mas 2012), evolution (FNS'13), some Boys & Girls/evolution a-nation performances from 2006 (evolution or UNITE from '06) until today...
some years are better, some are... yeah'...

i think 2008~2009~2010's a-nations we had a more enthusiastic audience ;)

the wings parts in moments is the best from this show and this year's a-nation is the best !

this kinda bothering me too, during You & Me release, she looked so tiny,seeing those pics in Vivi taken by Ryan chan, but now especially with that high cut short à la 90s era jeans, he thigh and hips looks bigger, and her arms too look like getting a bit fuller

well Ayu tends to gain weight sometimes ,maybe shes happy now :P

I don't really like how polished it sounds. Like, it's a concert. But you can't hear the audience or anything. Also, it just sounds like they took -everything- apart and put it all together again to make it sound so perfect. And that actually distracts me. It's like I'm hearing a recording placed on top of a live performance.

This might be a really weird critique lol. It just sounds too... fussed with. Maybe that's just me though.

Probably she has gained muscle. You can see she doesn't have belly or bingo wings when she performs INSPIRE. When she runs on stage, her legs are quite solid.

She just worked out so hard and makes her hips and legs bigger....

My favorite was INSPIRE, Rule, Moments, and You & Me.

I always dislike how Avex edits audio for their tour releases/A-Nation. This isn't just for Ayu but all their acts. Most of the acts on the label are pretty talented so I don't see the need for the amount of auto-tune they use. :/

^I thought it maybe sounded a bit..weird but I couldn't tell. Anyone else think a-nation was auto tuned?

to be honest that's what i hear in the A BEST LIVE CD as well *shrugs* however i have to say i noticed less autotune on this than on the live CD.

I agree with that as well :)

I much prefer PoM live recording

I don't think that there is so much autotune. I believe that Ayu sang really well because we can see how she tried to sing.(Some of her gestures in Moments and how she express on her face in Hanabi). However, all of the others are cool.
Everything the editor did as I think is separated Ayu 's voice and the fans' sound. Then louding up the singer 's voice. Maybe they just edit the vocal for a little bit. We can realize the difference between Ayu's a nation 2012 perforamce in Wowow version and DVD ver.
The only deficiency in ABL CD as I think is just the quality. Ayu's voice is strong and now she can control it !

Her performance of HANABI was so good. The vocals near the end gave me chills!

She works out a LOT. She runs like a few miles a day and practically trains daily.

I love this year's a nation
ayu is so great, she is still the one!!!!!
love INSPIRE Rule Moments HANABI!!!!!

What a great a-nation, she sounded the best she has in a long time!
I couldn't believe how good she sounded in INSPIRE and HANABI. wow. Nice one ayu :D!

It was miles better than last year, that much is true. But I also don't think these vocals weren't tampered with, they were just to good. Doesn't go for Ayu only, all the other artists sounded very good, too. Anyway, please Ayu cut your dancing staff in half. Once again you have to search for her on stage. No wonder the best performance was Hanabi, because it was pure Ayu with some classic Yo-chan.

Really good a-nation this year! INSPIRE/Moments/HANABI all sounded great. and I loved how they changed up the Moments dance with that whole part where they gathered behind Ayu to give her wings - that was so beautiful. You & Me is still a really fun song to see performed live, it has so much energy and dancing.

Anyone else been loving the little English translations we've been getting recently from the back-up singers? :P Like evolution/HANABI ~Ep II~ from last year's a-nation, and this year with HANABI. It's a nice little touch for her English-speaking fans!

I got the same feeling! It was indeed a little strange. Especially because you can see the audience and how pumped they are, especially during B&G, but you can't hear them at all, lol.

I felt like it was a little too tampered with as well when I was watching it. It was like "Where's the audience?"... even though they were obviously pretty enthused. Whoever did the mixing probably needs to get replaced, haha.

Yes, when I watched AAA perform I also didn't hear much of the audience. I think the whole a-nation was edited. Which is sad. Listening to the fans reacting makes a live experience. Otherwise one can just go and listen to a recording.

Could it be that the recording was direct from the mic output and not from the speaker?
For me, when watching from home (dvd, blu-ray or computer) audio is the priority. I don't mind edited audio as there's no way to perfect the live performance experience when watching at home. Being at the performance LIVE is still the best. Though maybe a bit of sound from the audience interaction would be good ^^

I don't understand why some of you are surprised/are doubting that the whole thing sounds edited. It has ALWAYS been the case with ayu's lives on DVD, CD or with non-live broadcasts. That's-a-fact. And that's also why she sounds so awesome and sings like perfectly. You can't really judge her performance. The only thing I'm positive is that her voice sounds less husky and clearer.

I think the issue is that it sounds extremely edited as opposed to having been slightly tinkered with. It's like they took the direct mic feed for all the acts, amplified that, and toned down the audience whenever possible. It doesn't really feel like a-nation without the screaming fans, haha.

She's had DVDs/live CDs where she sounded kind of iffy though imo.

^ And live TV versions where she's sounded stellar! :) So yeah, it's not really consistent.

Iirc, a-nations don't usually take this long to be broadcast, right? The fact that they took a little over a month to broadcast this one might have encouraged them to edit the crap out of it. There's no dispute that avex edits a lot of their stuff, but it usually doesn't sound quite as unnatural as this year's a-nation.

When we hear the Audience in the Live DVDs, the Audience is being fed through special microphones placed throughout the venue to capture the sound of the audience, usually dubbed "Audience Mics". Normally, the microphones given to the singers and to the drums are specially designed to only pick up the singers voice or the sound of the drums. Anything outside of the range of pick-up for these microphones cannot be heard. The guitar, bass, and keyboards are almost always plugged in directly through the sound board, so no outside noise - audience, vocals, or otherwise - will be captured. It looks like they chose either not to use them, or not to mix in the audience noise from the microphones in the stadium.

We are hearing exactly what Ayu hears on stage - no audience at all. The only time a singer is able to hear the audience is when they take out their ear monitors.

a-nation is usually broadcasted around the 26th September so it wasn't that long really...

Totally agree.

I missed the audience screams, it was so weird... I don't like watching lives without the audience screams >.<
And her vocals sound just splendid, and not only hers, all artists sounded way too perfect in this TV version...

The weird thing, though, is that watching the performances from August 31st you can clearly hear the audience. For some reason, they edited those two dates differently (for the audience part, the vocals were also perfect in the 31st performances)...

HANABI was just amazing, almost the same as in a-nation'05. The intro of Moments was very peaceful and her vocals were good. I also liked INSPIRE and Rule and the rest was okay.I don't even care if her vocals were edited..at least she always sings live with the same magical emotion.

Maybe the difference is because of the different broadcasting channel?
31st was from FujiTV NEXT and the 1st Sept was from WOWOW LIVE.
That's the only difference. If not I really don't understand why avex would do such different thing for the concerts. Or maybe they're experimenting which versions the audience liked more. :rolleyes

^ True, that's probably the reason (if not, then it makes no sense), though the vocals were equally edited for both.
haha, if they were testing, then I like the one I can hear the audience much more :D

I always felt the one of the most prominent cases of over-editing vocals is Tour of Secret. I can't even watch it as it sounds too "smoothed over" if you know what I'm saying. I know her voice wasn't as rough then but the entire editing and production aspect of the finalized product really feels like it's almost CG. I just don't feel it's authentic.

It really feels like something big is missing when you can't hear the audience screaming as well when it comes to concerts like a-nation or her tours. I always have goosebumps whenever she goes to the center stage and the audience gets so loud! i hope the dvd will include the sound from the audience too.

You guys think this performance of HANABI is better than a-nation '05? idk...gotta listen to 2013 again...

This performance is the first since 2006 that I watch over and over again and in the whole, the first time I watched it I smiled and enjoyed in every song, she's so full of energy, she's singing cool again, she can run and sing, the audience looks happy, she looks happy, I totally adore You & Me performance also Moments and Rule; it's not her best at singing but she stopped the long vibrato, and sounds quite better I think (And I love the vibrato) The best a-nation in years for me (Correct me if I'm wrong, Hide is again in the troup right?, wellm now as a she, I loved her dancing (Sorry couldn't catch her new female name) ;)

Yes, Hide is back as Lico.