yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!

finally!!

:D!!

wow! big news day today :P

and MOMENTUM!!?!?!?!?!?!? YAY!!!! (it will be included right?????) i'll have a conniption if it isnt!!!!!!!!!!

AWESOME! I cannot wait for it be released. Will pre-order once I get enough money.

If this DVD even has English subtitles on some version, I'm willing to show up for my graduation in jeans and a T-shirt, rather than a suit - the DVD is totally more worth it. :P

omg my day is made XD!!!!!
remix album and tour of secret !!!!!!!!!
freakin' Happy :D

I'm going to pre-order as soon as possible

YESSSS!!!!

Im so happy they included the special performances!!!

I cant wait for this concert to finally be released!

I wish for English subtitles on the documentary...but I know THAT ISN'T going to happen.

great news!

The ending to this tour was at her hometown in the Marina Messe Fukuoka.

yes, i know :yes
and YAY!!! for that...we will see a new place :luv2

Finally, it's been such a long time!

it's really a great thing to see Ayu's performance at her home town~

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!...(finally) XD
-dances around in joy-
I hope i can buy this one!! D:
I really want it!! :P
Thanks for the news!!!

GOD it's about FREAKIN' TIME!

This concert is going to be SO amazing!!! :D :D :D

omg finally =D!

tnx!

OMG!!!

FINALLY!!!!!

thanks for the info...

it's avalible in yesasia to preorder???

is anyone else more excited about the documentary more-so than the actual concert? xD i mean, dont get me wrong, i CANT WAIT to see the concert...but i love seeing the different side of ayu...haha

^ I know what you mean haha, but I'm looking forward to both sides! hehe.

I can't wait!!! =D

Sweet! I wanna preorder... Wonder if my dad will let meh!? xDDD

Me!

I mean, the concert is great and all, but what really made me say "I'M SO GETTING THAT!" is the documentary. I'm just hoping against hope that there'll be subtitles for it, otherwise I'll just follow it by sight or wait for fan translations.

YES!!! I JUST PRE-ORDERED ON CDJAPAN!!! CAN;T WAIT FOR IT TO COME!!! WOOP WOOP!!! Although.... it took all my allownace money away >.< Oh well... ALL WORTH IT FOR AYU!!!!

wow... thx for the news ...
saving up now for it :D

I can't wait to watch the documentary

OMG PERFECT BDAY PRESENT

gosh , until march, last time rumour say released @ feb also not that long waited.....dunno in the live part which stop of the tour they use, hopefully not something like her previous stadium tour dvd, all clips match together, then no live feel d....

thanks for the info! doc is 210 minutes long? omg, that's really long!

It's likely that it's 200 minutes, since it seems that the site was like "nearly three and a half hours!"

I dunno.

5,5 hours..hhahahaa

i think i will buy OS because it's very expensive..

YAY!!! finally !! >w<!! great great great!

it's actually pretty cheap! only £25!!

I preordered on yesasia :P

Haha, I totally agree. The BEST of CDL Documentary Film is an experience in its own right, who cares that I can only understand, like, 5% of what's being said. :P

YES! Boy now I have a lot more to order~ :D So glad to hear the tour is finally being released!
edit:Does anyone know if computer DVD players are region free or if they are able to play Region 2 DVD's? If I can't play it, I won't order it after all...:/

She's like.. few months late! .. It was about the time

HMV's price for AT07 is so low lol!

@ ownsarai: I use a program called DVD Region+CSS Free.

expensive :'(

I'm pretty sure VLC player will play DVD's of all regions, but Windows Media Player won't (you have to reset the region, and you can only do that so many times), and then any DVD playing program that came with your computer will most likely not play it either.

Am I the only one who caught this typo? :laugh


Thankz for the info~!! :)

Geez why are you people complaining its only 2 discs? Should be happy its even being released~ lol lol

It's actually her cheapest tour DVD ever. [2002 DVDs don't count as they were part of a box set as well]~

Oh, and the 2 DVDs shouldn't bother people since the content of this 2DVD set is more than her 3 DVD sets. :O

typo?
the official site is not typing a typo..i saw 7/4~

SOOO excited!!! Too bad i can't afford!!!!! D:~

hmmm...i come up with something :) especially for this!

btw topic poster neferet...you did typo humming 7/4 as 3/4 :)

The price for this dvd is cheaper than her previous...its a good thing but I hope they won't go cheap on the packaging. I'm looking forward to the cover :D

ITS SO EXCITING @~@

i hope there is subtitle..at least in english is enough to understand what they said...

With a basic understand of Japanese, you can kinda figure out what's going on.. KIND OF.. XD

^ even with that i will find it difficult to figure out what ayu is talking for 3.5 hours X.X

i hope there will be english subtitles but i know there won't be any..haha. So im kinda looking forward to the performance part rather than the documentry[ if it's similar to the one in ABESTll black ].

I doubt they'll sub the pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~. version, as they never did.BUt the HK/OS one may have the Chinese subs XD and I am gonna wait for it anyways, cuz I am broke (the last money I had went on GUILTY and Fly High), and I want to see it badly :( but the eng subs would be great.And DVDs are Dual layer, so its as if they released 4.

hahaha I'm sorry, :thud I was too excited to think about what I was writing!!! I want Asia Tour DVD now!!!!! :luv2

Hm. I wonder if my head exploded while reading the Excite translation.

Amazon.co.jp reports 210 minutes, which is just about 3 and a half hours.. for both discs total.

That'd mean that 120 minutes is the concert, and 90 is the documentary just like A BEST 2. Now I feel.. odd. O_O

Well, hopefully we get more info as time goes on.. =<

It's confusing as the official page somewhat clearly states 120 minutes + about 3½ hours. Hopefully Amazon is wrong about this. It would be a small disappointment otherwise. Surely 90 minutes of documentary would be way too short for something as huge as ASIA TOUR :irked

always trust the official website of ayu!! :)

Haha. But anyway, since it's the ASIA TOUR, you'd think they would put some Chinese/English subtitles. Oh well, we can only hope...

Since it's an Asia tour I expect that they'll market this DVD for the Asian market and thus it'll have at least Chinese subs.

^ yay!..[hope so]..chinese or english subtitles please.

YAY im excited for this. but too bad its no going to be released in blu ray and hd dvd.
the reason why i think is that when they filmed the documentary parts, they weren't in hi def. what a shame. it would've been really cool if it was in blu ray or hd dvd. but anyways excited for the release!

When they were bring out best of cdl with A best 2, it felt like it was marketed for the asian market since the asia tour was around the same time too but the documentary didn't have subtitles.

Yeah, I'm actually quite surprised this doesn't have a blu-ray or an HDDVD release yet. AAA and Ai Otsuka have both had releases in both of those formats (or at least one of them), and I know other Japanese artists (such as Mika Nakashima) have had HD releases for their concerts. True, the documentary may have not been for a HD release, but they still could have released the concert in blue-ray or HDDVD... Maybe they haven't announced it yet, haha.

And my Dad pre-ordered the DVD, so I'll be getting it as a late birthday present! =D

Definitely. HD would be so fun! So HD you can smell the sweat lol

is that have a bonus if we buy this DVD ???

There is no bonus. Just a plastic box for the DVDs like the last two releases.



And just to be safe, can someone PLEASE translate the following sentences? I need to know if I was wrong in my guess that the tour's total running time was 3.5 hours or not..

According to HMV HK Koda's Black Cherry Tour in Tokyo Dome will be released on th 5th March. I hope this won't affect the sales of the AT 07 DVD too much.

No worries. Koda's last DVD sold 20k 2nd week. :|

*1　--　76,434　*76,434　*1　KODA KUMI Live Tour 2006-2007 SECOND SESSION　倖田來未
香
*3　*1　19,909　*96,343　*2　KODA KUMI Live Tour 2006-2007 SECOND SESSION　倖田來未

Ayu's last 2 tour DVDs' first and 2nd weeks:
*1　40,668　*40,668　ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2005 Ａ ～MY STORY～　浜崎あゆみ
*2　11,458　*52,126　ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2005 Ａ ～MY STORY～　浜崎あゆみ

*1　--　47,129　*47,129　*1　ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2006 A～(miss)understood～　浜崎あゆみ
*3　*1　*9,401　*56,530　*2　ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2006 A～(miss)understood～　浜崎あゆみ

I doubt it's true.

Considering that tour ended like a month ago.. LOL

The BC Tour was filmed on the 1st December and that's plenty of time for editing and dvd-authoring till the 5th March. Usually Ayu's CDL DVDs also come out after 3 months, so it may be also true for the BC DVD.

If it does turn out to be true, I don't know who I'd be more angry with; Avex for releasing them on the same date or myself for buying them both DDD:

That'd mean a huge rush job.


And it'd be the week before, milky_way. 3/5 is a week before 3/12.

^ Thanks for the correction. You can tell I wasn't paying attention :laugh

Ahh...I want to see Koda Kumi's tour too, but I don't have enough money. :(

Just download that. :lech

I remember seeing HMV HK say that Namie's PLAY Tour was released in ~23 January or something. :/ So, maybe they're wrong a lot? :O

lol can we go back to the original topic? :P

I'm really disappointed that it doesn't have Blu-Ray...

even tho I just pre-ordered the JP version, I bet it'll take around two weeks for Avex Taiwan to translate the documentary, I can't wait.

True that!! LOL.

AVEX is really dumb if they do that. And I don't understand what people see in Kumi's concerts, the 2nd Session was poor, with no band, and really lame performaces.But I guess it's all have to do with her being popular atm. And why is it that every thread has to have her name mentioned!?

Because 80% of AHS is in love with Koda :|

is it already confirmed that the sleeve will be plastic? and not cardboard like A BEST 2? I was worried about the sleeve. I like the plastic dvd box thing from AT05 and AT06.

according to cdjapan, the documentary should be about 3.5hrs.

DVD release from Ayumi Hamasaki's first ever tour of Asia in support of the "Secret" album. Includes songs from "Secret," classic Ayu hits, and a stunning encore for a total of 120 minutes of live footage. Also includes tour documentary spanning the time from her first rehearsals for the tour up through the final show--condensing 150 days worth of tour into nearly three and a half hours worth of road movie footage. For her Asian tour, Ayumi Hamasaki went all out, bringing her standard 600 ton stage she uses in domestic performances all the way across Japan, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and more! You'll also see the warm greeting she receives from her Asian fans with tons of never-seen-before footage. Sleeve design.

Hm.. so I was somewhat right.

Nearly 3.5 hours is around 200 minutes [210 is 3.5 hours]~

I wonder if they can make a good quality documentary on a dual layer disc? :/

It looks like a "nearly 3.5 hours" documentary should just fit on the 8.5GB of space..

You're funny. You actually have the guts (and power) to poke fun at her. I love Koda but I wouldn't buy her products unnecessarily.

Ahahahah. :thud


Anyways, I've been searching and I've found like 3 places that cite AT07 has having a 210 minute running time [TOTAL.] :<

Amazon.co.jp
Yamano Music - http://www.yamano-music.co.jp/userPr...8011183&type=V
CDJournal - http://www.cdjournal.com/main/dvd/di...dno=4208011183

I really wonder though how long it'll be... how the heck can you compress 1000 hours of footage into 90 minutes?! :|

It's gonna be a pretty good package, i hope we get translators and subtitle makers for all the documentary stuff. No one ever got to doing that ARENA TOUR 2006.

hey.. what did the ayu's official website says? just follow that. cos that's official?

How can someone follow that when it's so unclear? O_o

I know that it says it on the official site [duh, where else did I find out about the running time first? O_O], but it's so misleading :|


VAAAAAGGGUUUEEE.

^ That really IS vague! It seems like it's talking about BOTH being a combined total of 3.5 hours (which would lead to a 90 min. documentary), though...

That would suck. D=

Would the phrase "...this is a blockbuster road movie..." be referring to both the concert tour AND the documentary, or just the documentary?

Yeah..

And we mustn't forget the ultimate confusion~ CDJapan's translation of the same paragraph!

IS THERE A POINT TO THIS D=

^ Well, that quote makes it seem like the documentary is going to be 3.5 hours instead of 90 minutes.

OH MY GOD AYU'S SITE NEEDS TO UPDATE WITH THE OFFICIAL TIMING OF THIS DOCUMENTARY. XD Just so all this confusion will be settled...

I tried to ask a few people about it, and so far the people who are fluent in Japanese say that it's likely that it'll be a 90 minute long documentary added onto the 120 minute show for a total of 210 minutes [nearly three and a half hours]~

But I find that hard to believe that after waiting so long, all we get is a dinky 90 minute documentary.. couldn't they have finished that in the time that they did the A BEST 2 one? Jeez. [btw, A BEST 2 one took like 2-3 months or less to finish the documentary]

Well, it's a "gorgeous sleeve"~ so it's likely to be the same as it has been for the last two tours.

oh no! then perhaps we shld start worrying. 90 minutes of documentary for such a fantastic tour out of japan?

How about the documentary of BEST of CDL? how long was it? lol

That was only 90 minutes.

Well, I'm sure they only worked on the 06-07CDL for a month or so. (They didn't have as much to edit, cut out, etc.)

This one, however...I will be surprised if it's only 90 minutes. Assuming that the documentary is done with editing and all of that, they had roughly 6 months to work on it (edit it, translate fan reactions, cut out boring parts, etc).

Now that I really think about it...a 3.5 hour documentary seems a bit unrealistic. Most movies aren't even that long! Not saying I wouldn't mind sitting through production of an Ayu tour that lasted 3.5 hours...it is long, but it does have it's own disc...

This is a lot to think about. >______<

I thought about the time too... it just feels appropriate considering that we had to wait for so long. It should've taken them half the time that it did to announce the release date. :/

It's coming out less than a month before the new tour begins! That, and it's coming out around the time that CDLs usually come out! That's how late they are with this release!

90 minutes seems like it COULD be enough time to cover stuff like fan/celeb reactions from overseas, rehearsals, meetings, and such.. but I dunno. To go from 1000 hours [60,000 minutes] to 90 minutes.. that's a lot. It's 1/666th the time that the filmed. D:

My guess is that that could put all MCs in the documentary somehow or at least on that disc [16 MCs] as well... Then they'd need somewhere to put the SPECIAL SCREEN videos and the AYU-MARK encore video and so on...

Ugh, I hate when DVDs take 9 months to come out XD

that's a bit ridiculous i must say. why were they so proud to announce that they have 1000 hours of footages in the first place, then only release 1/666 of it. lol

that MAY happen to. cos i was wondering why they didnt mention about the MCs and Special videos. There were 3 videos if i am not wrong. perhaps after all 16 MCs and 3 videos, we will get a 90 minutes documentary of ayu shopping in Taiwan, Hk and Shanghai. -______-

although it took 9 months to be released, it is releasing!!! BE HAPPY ABOUT IT!! :D how i wish we can ALL watch the video together. cos i must say this is the best tour ayu performed!!

The time does seem appropriate, considering everything that happened in the tour.

Well, they haven't even announced when CDL07-08 is coming out on DVD. (I think in another thread you stated CDL's usually come out around March / April.) I'm pretty sure CDL07-08 won't come out in March, because it would have been announced (along with the new remix CD's and the ASIA TOUR DVD). It'll probably come out around April. But I do agree - this took FOREVER to be released! (Announced, too.)

If this does end up being 90 minutes...I'm afraid all of the content will be rushed. Like, here's the rehearsals, takes up a good hour of the documentary, then the tour starts, then they go international, then they come back, tour ends, fan reactions, then the documentary ends.

I'm pretty sure the concert itself (concert + encore) will be on the first disc...aren't they including the additional MCs (from Shanghai, Taiwan, and Hong Kong)? I think those might be on the second disc, and not part of the documentary. I'm sure the SPECIAL SCREEN and AYU-MARK will be another feature on the second disc. All those might be featured slightly in the documentary (I've been listening to the ASIA TOUR promo video for a while now, and I know the SPECIAL SCREEN making-of's are featured in that video), but they most likely won't air the full things in the documentary itself.

I wonder how all this content will be divided up - obviously the concert on the first disc, documentary on the second, but I wonder if they'll put the SPECIAL SCREEN's and MC's and all that onto the second disc, or some onto the first..?

The first disc will most likely have the live + encore as well as the missing performances that were done in HK / Taiwan / Shanghai [Memorial address, JEWEL, momentum / flower garden]~

And the 2nd will be dedicated to extras, I believe.

The most obvious combination is like:

DVD1:
All songs from Fukuoka + MC at the final concert
Songs that were performed elsewhere
[however, AT06 was like, live+encore = 138 minutes spread out on two discs O_O]~

DVD2:
Documentary + all extras like MCs and SPECIAL SCREENS and "haha lol" moments

Im so excited to buying this!!

AVEX is really good at sucking our money...lol

I hope ayu's site will update more info soon! 1.5hrs and 3.5hrs is a huge difference!!!! I am really praying that the documentary will be 3.5hrs. The documentary for best of cdl was like 1.5hrs? and that was only for a cdl...this one is 5 months of tour...so avex please make it 3.5hrs!!! please!!! :weep

sigh i want 3.5 hours not just 1.5 hours...