This new photo is amazing, nee?

I only hope that this photoshoot isn't simply for a magazine. It deserves to be fin a photobook or an album and not lost among pages full of make-up and clothes.

This picture is all I ever wanted from Ayu. She looks incredible!
It's very Madonna and I even get some Beyoncé vibes from it. She (Ayu) is a fierce, beautiful queen.:love:love:love:love:love:love

I want more pictures like this! It reminds me of that little photo-exhibition she did (one or two???) years ago. She looked stunning there as well.
Also the long hair is beautiful :) She looks so chic!

Amazeballs, my day is beautiful now I have seen this (I guess I am easily to impress haha)

I think this is related to the Tour DVD because she's wearing the same outfit as the one from the concert. Also because of all the dancers making part of the shoot with her.

It also may be pamphlet for next tour goods

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Dress from second chapter but with different top?

She looks amazing! reminds me of Days era.

She looks gorgeous!!

wanna bet she will wear same outfit for next tour? :cool

Why would she do a pamphlet for the next tour with the outfit and setup from the current tour?

because that's how all (almost all?) her pamphlets looks like

there's no costume budget.
there's only dancer budget.

It's been a while yeah but her tour books/pamphlets used to all be for the tours prior.

LOL

I would rather choose this style over that.
http://www.xaluan.com/images/news/Im...ayumi21064.jpg

LOL! You win comment of the year!

Amen

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http://i.imgur.com/8y5NngRl.jpg

I was wrong, that's dress from second chapter, so seems that's photo from 2.5 concert

At first I though "who is her 'papi'"??? LOL And then I remembered the dog is called Papino.

"Who's your Daddy?" 😂

hahaha me too!

I knew she meant papico.:laugh

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I'm speechless, what a beauty!

Yes to this photo!

I think the caption was vogue's lyrics?

Oh my gawwwwwwd

I love how she kinda looks her age

Yes! That's what I wanted to see

Very much like her shoot with Leslie for West East.

Also, I'm having BRILLANTE PoM vibes! :luv2

I AM SLAIN

She looks like Namie on this pic :D

reminds me of her Rainbow booklet photoshoot

and more like beyoncé to me haha

also i hope she didnt get the fillers or whatever she did to her jaw or cheek because thats obvious in the video where she teased miccie, i like her evil laugh lol

SEX

She looks so different in a good way.

I wonder if this is a picture for a photobook for her new album.

i would love to see covers like those fotos. black and white ones are great but a bit of colour would be great again!

A QUEEN!

my first though was "omg how much money is she wearing on her wrists" xD
And if I identified all bracelets right it are ap 92.000 € O_O

triple price of my apartment

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Those Jimmychoo boots are stunning.

ok now that you mentioned it lol , I looked at the cartier site and it worts more than that :dead2 the diamond bracelet on the left writs (in the pic) got many range of prices so yeah wow so rich, again :P

I see pics with ripped jeans and I just want Ayu to wear pants that are sewn up lmao

Japan is cold, Ayu, don't get sick! >_<

I imagine she went inside straight away but it just makes me cold lol

I don't know why but I dislike when she shows off too much. like bitch be humble

92.000 €?:teek

I agree, she should be more humble. And those nail bracelets look so tacky.

I think the "show off" thing is an issue with rich people in general and not just ayu lol

For me it's like this, she earned her money, so shall she share everything and "show off" with being rich if she wants to. At least it's money she worked for not money she gets from her rich daddy. I don't think it's rude to show it either because if we think about it, that's her lifestyle and just because she has a rich one she shouldn't be "humble" and have to hide it. We don't tell that people with much less money either (and yes I know the difference).

Anyway, to me she looks gorgeous.

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So she should be posting gym selfies and pictures of a bottle of beer next to an ash tray? XD I just love seeing those on Insta �� Social media is literally full of people showing off whatever they have. Anything you post online can be seen as showing off by individuals who, potentially, have less. Ayu doesn’t have an ordinary life so its hard to appear “humble”. I don’t really see this as showing off tbh.

^preach


Ayu just posted videos of her opening gifts (?) with Timmy and I always love it when she writes/speaks English xD First reason being because I then understand her and second one cuz it in a way makes me smile to know she learned English so late but she's doing pretty well with it, since she definitely can communicate. And I am glad she keeps speaking English with Timmy, I can imagine that otherwise she'd maybe forget a lot. I am sure they help each other with Japanese and English as well. And it was so adorable when she was like "are you ready?"

Me too! I love her accent when she speaks English :yes did you see the blinged out mirror and the blinged aluminum water bottles/flasks? Omg! I would love it if they sold a variation of them for the tour. I would swoop those up in an instant, even if they weren’t blinged out lol

Yaaas I saw them too and I was just like "I want them all *-*"
I would love those as tour goods for PoM ~20th~ but then again, many would find it tacky, cheap etc.. At least many people here on forum, though I can imagine that Japanese fans would love it.

Well when you consider Ayu's life growing up, she was not wealthy at all and had no father. So I think it would make sense that Ayu would enjoy showing off her nice things. I'm sure that she greatly appreciates every yen she has ever made.
I think fans and the media care more about her luxury lifestyle than she does. Ayu has been pretty humble since the beginning. At least she isn't like the Kardashians.

Well, all ayu has to do is to breathe and she's criticized for it LOL

I love fashion and nail art and I love seeing hers

I think I never heard Timmy speaking english. His accent is so strong! Very cute.

At first I thought the gifts were the goodies from the new tour and I was so scared because I hated it lol But it's gifts from the Okinawan fans.

^ Gifts from fans? wow, very well made.

Those would have to be some of the coolest merch of hers ever if she chooses to turn them into tour goods. Maybe the mirror too. But not blinged :( didn’t she say something in the Instagram story of the mirror that her sister got her them?

she was so candid in those videos, loved it

Love this and I agree because thats what social media is basically, showing and sharing everything you love. You got new things and you love it much for sure you wanna show it to others as an act of how much you adore that thing, lol. Ayu is not overreact about her luxury for me. And I love it when she showed us new in trend stuffs like these Cartier bracelets, I got to keep up with the new release haha

And hey does anyone realize how many LV luggage at the back of the video? Haha I wonder if that is in her hotel room?? Aromatic candles is sooo ayu’s style :D

I dont think that is from fan? She stated on Ig Story “thank you to my Sis”

I love lookin at her riches XD I think it's cool to see how hard she's worked.

Don't many Japanese fans love this kind of stuff?. The flashy, name brand clothes and accessories? Maybe ayu just knows her audience.

That is kind of her audience I think. Older women who love a good brand.

New offshot with a funny headshape. I think it looks a bit too alien snatched back here.

https://i.imgur.com/VnPK3tY.jpg

^ Aha wow she kinda resembles Namie in that pic lol

I have no problem with her showing off her money. She earned it with her own efforts. I think that's much better to someone showing off money they inherited or something. Ayu's worked so hard for 20 years and y'all wanna now critique how she spends?

I still love her accent, when Timmy said he liked the back of the mirror and she goes "That's rare".......lol

Timmy looks so different with normal hair and a shirt on. It honestly looks so much better, I wish he wore more clothing on stage.

The decision to have him look like that is Ayu's mostly. But he kinda had that drag persona he showed to her and that is why she hired him partially I think.

Yeah, I know, I just feel like he'd look so much better in actual pants and a shirt sometimes lmao

^
true haha, I think in 2008 we got more of diva style, big glasses, and never forget how they close the mall in Hong Kong just for her to shop with all the paparazzi outside lol

okay I thought I heard she said "thats weird" xD

true I always have to reminds myself this is Timmy the same guy that we saw on stage, he looked nicer and decent with no make up and shirt on, but no not on stage with those thick ugly make up on, come on Ayu put the shirt on for that guy,liek at PoM

Loving this gorgeous picture!

Unfortunately, the size gets blurry when I want to set it as desktop background haha.

You can definetelly see how Timmy influences on her english with the "papi" and "sis" slangs haha Very cute! I'm actually surprised that they speak to each other in english. I always thought they always speak japanese.

I believe his Japanese is still a bit shaky but it's 'good enough'.

if you watch the making of the tour video like Cirque de minuit you'll see shes always speaking english with Timmy alone but switch it japanese if there is Princess let say together

She always speak to each other in english. I believe Timmy practices his japanese with the other members from staff.

thats considerate of her :)

Ryan offshots are amazing! I can't wait to see Leslie pictures



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This looks more like the Ayu that I used to see, compared to the one in the video on the train heh

Seven days of war, rehearsal!!

She looks tired.

Wow she looks stunning there. Looks like ASFXX/poker face Ayu for sure.

Because she wore less make up on her eyes, i love her natural eye look

She looks so good with this kind of natural beauty <3

She made a blog post on TeamAyu, I think. She mentioned something on Twitter.

The post was exactly this:


So nothing to get excited about yet.

After basically no English translations of her entries for the entirety of this forever-long tour, that's what we get. ;___;

Someone should hold a big sign at a concert...

"WHERE DA ENGLISH AT"

From Kazuma's Instagram :)

https://i.imgur.com/HRpK4ql.jpg

Midorin is a legend on the dance troupe. She was like... irreplaceable lol

I think it's sad that her female dancers aren't able to show their personality:-/
She always calls out male dancers, talks with them, gives them tons of solos/dance time.

LICO gets that though, I think. Midoring and Kayanocchi (gone now?) used to get it as well but perhaps they are not as comfortable?

Tbh I could live with her dancers not showing their personality at all and just be what they are meant to be - people who dance in the background.

^ I'd have no problem with that either lol

Me too lool

I like knowing them beyond the showcases but lately they've taken over a bit too much.

It feels like it's Ayu & Friends sometimes instead of "AYUMI HAMASAKI".

Yep so true!! Like how annoying is to watch AT15 emcee parts where she always invited her males dancers, Lico and Kazuma etc on stage and they did their stupid jokes, it really feels like Ayumi Hamasaki and Friends show

I miss AT05 and AT06 where it focused only on Ayu and she answered TA questions! That was so much fun!

That show needed no MC. It was so f-in hard to stand all the time and the MC went on and on...

I have no problem with the dancers getting attention. She just want to spend a special time with them and I think the MC feels more real when she's interacting with someone than just talking alone.

She posted an Instagram stories of the ending party of the tour with a huge cake :)