Thank god they didnt use that MW cover!

And I think the original covers are still the best. But I do enjoy HEAVEN, TO BE, NEVER EVER and Poker Faces alternative covers alot. ^^

WOW all the unreleased covers are gorgeous!! I really like the Dearest, NEVER EVER and MW covers!

Can't wait to get ym hands on them!

dearest, never ever, MW...:love

I love NEVER EVER!!

Maybe you got used to the other ones? Or did you not like MW's concept to begin with? There were some people that sorta hated it from the start..

Everyone has different likes and dislikes on some ayu's released or unreleased covers, lol..

As for myself..I love them all !

Wow MW's unreleased cover is gorgeous.
The NEVER EVER, Dearest and TO BE ones as well :love

That Dearest cover looks better than the official one, tbh.

Woah! I like all of the images, Dearest and MW specially...

and i'm really dying to see the forgiveness and STEP you ones :luv2

No, the alternative cover is just ugly and makes Ayu look stupid imo.
Edit: WOOPS just saw your HQ stuff...ok ok its better than the YOU cover. <3

Yeah.. I wondering what else they have up their sleeves. The BLUE BIRD one will be interesting if the "alternate" ends up being more than just Ayu lying down..

I love the ones for NEVER EVER, Mirrorcle World, and Dearest :luv2

Er no. I love the covers, but I don't like that one.

I really like the MW one, I wish that one was released *Cry* and the NEVER EVER & Dearest ones is really pretty too, thanks for sharing them ^^

absolutely love that MW cover

truehappiness: I saw the poker face one on a wallpaper WAY back in the day, like 2000 or 2001... I can't seem to find the wallpaper for it at the moment (i'll post it when I do), but I do have this small magazine scan which has the same photo on it (can't source the scan, unfortunately.... maybe you can help with that?)
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1...0011774jm0.jpg

I also saw it on the back of a tri-fold pamphlet that was distributed with early promos of the "poker face" single:
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/854...1141nm8.th.jpg

i am loving the MW one. so pretty

Unreleases MW and TO BE's covers looked stunning!

I just hope that they put for BLUE BIRD a variation of that picture in the a-nation fan and poster, I don't think that they count that as unreleased... but seeing how unreleased the poker face cover was... nobody knows xD

Zyrex has the wallpaper I mentioned:

http://www.zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/...umi25.jpg.html

I still prefer the covers they decided to use over the disregarded ones, But i think the Mirrorcle World, and NEVER EVER are really cool.

agree.. after i looked at the unreleased covers. i felt that they made the right choice by disregarding them. they somehow look worse than the original one.

I think that Heaven one looks better than the chosen..
I dunno, that kind of feeling I get from unused one seems more.. like the song.

Woaw no kidding.

I wonder why they didn't use that Mirrorcle World cover, it looks so much better than the other ones >___<;;

Of course the unreleased cover art is gonna look better. They always have (even on the Divine Ayu website)! :laugh

Thank you for this information, though. ^^ 'Preciate it!

Will there be unreleased cover art for albums too..or just the singles ;o? Cause if theres like 43 pages then thats 80+ photos right there
NOO I read the description again and it said single covers :weep

^Just singles

also, the booklet is 48 pages isn't it? So will there be multiple unreleased covers for some or will there be some other type of unreleased cover?

^ My guess is that the more..important? singles will get multiple pages. Like A, Dearest, SEASONS etc. Orrr maybe they will have covers of songs that were supossed to be singles but never made the cut? That would be exciting :luv2

great perception! that's something I never even thought of before...that would be cool...

WOW!

The unreleased MW and NEVER EVER covers was so prettier than those official one.

God Mirrorcle World is GORGEOUS!

I really like the MW one. its not too "posey" and its a lot more natural.

My opinion on all covers.
Poker face: I dont like either of them 2 much.I the original it looks like she wasnt paying attetion in the unreales it looks 2 ....cheap(thats not the word Im looking for but i cant think of anything else.Sorry!!:innocent)

To Be:I like the original because,whats better that 1 Ayu?Thats right,2 Ayus.lol
But also the unreleas one she was really pretty and cute while the original she looks like she was consentrating 2 hard.Plus,she was leaning more towards the camera and we get to see her face better.

Far Away:The original one is way better.The unrealese on looks....random.The original,I feel like she is showing more emotion.You could feel her emotions coming out of that pic.

Never Ever:Im sorry but I never liked the original sooo yeah.Im going with the unrealese ver.

Dearest:In both pics she looks stunning but in the unrealese one her eyes were open and I feel like there was a lot of emotion in her eyes that should have been shown to her fans before,soo I am going with the unrealese ver.Her eyes just speak a thousen word to me in that pic.

Heaven:The look similar and she looks beautiful in both sooo :headache ?????

Mirrorcle World:Just like with Dearest I feel like she looks stunning in both pictures.They are very different however.While in the original ver she looks sexy and also looks proud to be a woman in the unrealese ver she looks more ....innocent??? Yeah,innocent but strong at the same time.Overall I like both cover very much.

So thats my opinion in all the cover.

it's because they need only 4 covers...

^I'm also not really liking the MW one. There're too many butterflies and her facial expression looks surprised which is quite weird. It's too candid.

the HEAVEN copy looks the same as the released one?!

that NEVER EVER shot is niceeee!!! coooool!!!

i love all of them and im excited to see the cd/cd-dvd release. i know theyve always had these pics, but amazingly, to see them now through all these years (10th anniversary) is just .....lets just say --#1 ayu fan forever!^^ lol

I hope that only a small percentage feature Ayu looking in another direction or with her eyes open or something. D: I wanna see new poses like NEVER EVER and MW.

in HQ MW looks nice)

Those are soooooo beautiful!!!
can't wait for the photobook

thanks for sharing ^.^ I love the MW and NEVER EVER covers. HEAVEN looks better in monochrome though.

thank you for the HQ
she is so kawaii

OMG @ Mirrorcle World cover!! It's AMAZING~~~ I really love it!
and NEVER EVER is also really fierce!

im in love with the never ever one

*o*

and the mirrorcle world one too




the poker face one is not that pretty but is nice to see something different from the old singles


how could they "hide" those pictures for all this time?

=S

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i want all.....Thx

Wow!!!! I love the Mirrorcle World cover!!!!!

Lol, truehappiness...what are we ever to do with you? I just looked at this topic and read through many pages, and right from the get-go it was completely obvious that your favorite was MW's (actually from the front page even) and that you loved it to death. I knew as soon as someone said they didn't like MW's too much, you just were going to have to reply. Maybe I'm taking this out of context here, and if I am I'll shut up, but it really seems like, through all the threads I see you in, the main reason you have 16,392 posts is because you can't stand it when someone disagrees with you and you feel the need to reply to all of them and start discussions until you can get them to see 'your' side. Did you see ayu-cake's response? I know this particular example doesn't seem like much (no big deal, right?), but you do this in literally every thread. Find all threads with your name in them, and there's about a 50% chance there's drama centered around you because you are trying to make someone see your way about something. Ayu-cake just didn't like the MW one - thought it didn't look good. It's not because he/she was "used to the other ones", lol. Or that he/she "didn't like the MW concept to begin with" and was "one of those people who sorta hated it from the start". You get what I'm saying here? I know your response to this, if there is one, will probably have something along the lines of "This is a forum, we are here to discuss" in it, as your response usually seems to have that when someone calls you out like this. And I get that. I totally do. But come on, man, you need to sometimes pull back and relax a little, let people have differing opinions. This forum would have a whole lot less drama if you would just cut your 'attacks' in half maybe, only try and make people see your way every once in awhile instead of all the time. Please? Pretty please?

Anyway, I'm just saying.
*prays he didn't just start a war*

P.S: Oh, and by the way, to everyone in this thread, "publicity" and "advertising" kind of go hand-in-hand, anyway. GRACE wasn't really wrong.

^<3~ @ PS

Unreleased HEAVEN has color, released HEAVEN is black and white~

i wonder what these images are for o-o

^ A COMPLETE's first press photobook

I was seriously considering pre-ordering the JPN version of this to get the booklet... but after seeing these unreleased covers I think I can do without. I'll just wait for OS version thank you very much :P...

Oh.. the picts are nice! NEVER EVER is good.. I think Dearest is also not bad.

Can wait to see the full set. hahaz

Guys,wouldn't it be much fun if Ayu remaked ALL the single covers?

i love never ever one <3

I've just realised something... I think this means I will finally get to see another shot of the forgiveness cover o____o

ZOMG @____@

OH FOR THE PHOTOBOOK

*smacks head*

@ayucake: IT'LL BE SUPER WEIRD O__O

I don't know, I just like discussion. I wouldn't call it "drama" but I do like to know why people think the way they do. And if they don't have good reasoning for believing the way that they do, then they're gonna end up talking in circles.

I have a lot of posts because.. I don't know why. It really just added up after my first few years here, to the release of MY STORY with a few thousand -> (miss)understood -> Secret... where I became most active with Secret, what with all the overflowing sources of information and stuff. I'd slowed down posting since there was a lack of anything to really talk about in the months leading up to now [MW and onward was like.. nothing.] but now there's a LOT to talk about. If you didn't notice, I didn't really argue with ~ayu-cake~ not liking it, since I understood that she just didn't like it. I mean, there are always going to be people that dislike things [i.e Life].. I just wanted to know why. The 10th anniversary thread was pretty much the place where I was like "Wow, you guys. Wow. -weird look-" since no one really had any well-supported answers until TakaSama posted [who lives in Japan.]~ I think that perhaps.. that was the one place where I sort of just "attacked" everyone and it did seem like that, but it's not like many people agreed with me, so it was just like an "Okay, why this? Why that? How come? Why? But why do you think that?"-fest. It's just something I do when I post, I guess, since it's obvious to me that I do it often, but eh. If I wasn't so passionate about Ayu, I wouldn't have such a strong opinion, but tbh, if I say something like "LOL Y DONT U LYKE DIS", no one is obligated to respond. No one has to say something back, as there are plenty of cases in which people ask questions and are ignored on this forum. I mean, I could just not post anything at all and really just forget about AHS... actually that sounds like a really good idea right now. Like. Not posting anything at AHS anymore. (A few threads in the last week or two are not all the threads I've ever posted in, you know.)

Back to the topic at hand, I'd say that the new covers will be fantastic in that they'll be like.. new interpretations of older material that we're so used to seeing. Stuff like CAROLS, A, M, and evolution... maybe even glitter! We're like "Oh, that's the cover." But what's this? There's MORE? I'm sure that many fans will dislike the new covers that we'll get in the photobook, but there's probably a reason for that. I mean, we're so used to these older covers that these new ones just aren't as good. But given that, there are those of use who sorta wanted to see something fresh / different with the covers.. perhaps it'll show who was fine with the covers to begin with and who really hated the covers chosen to use? [case in point: STEP you or something..]

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thanks for the covers...interesting expressions ayu have

Thanks for sharing these! I really loved the Mirrorcle World unreleased version! ^__^

Love the MW one, and Dearest, and Never Ever (it would have been cool if the latter two came with CD and CD+DVD and one of those would have been used for the CD+DVD)

OMG OMG OMG
Finally another picture for Mirrorcle world!
Beauty!

That Mirrorcle World one is gorgeous.:love

The OS version may have the photobook as well but there was some discrepancy in Guilty where the HK press had it and the Singapore production team decided to slap us in the face to save prodution costs or whatever. One can hope.

Lol, well actually I was about to applaud you for taking the time to read my post and respond in a mature manner. Not that I thought you weren't going to, I was just hoping you would, and you did. Seriously, thank you for that. Buttt then I got to the end of your post, with your lame "I should just not post at AHS at all!"-stuff. Come on. No one has said that (that I know of). Like I said above, I just want you to be more aware of what you say/your actions, and try not to literally question everybody's opinion on anything & everything at all in this forum. You know, be more relaxed - laid back. It's like, we all know you're Ayu's #1 fan, (:P) (i.e: How passionate you are about her as an artist), but just be more aware and try to hold back some of those urges you have to question everything and everybody.

But, you did just state that you are aware, mostly, of what I'm talking about here, so that's good. You're aware that you just seem to do that when you post. Well, better than not being aware of it at all, right? :) So since you do realize it, maybe it won't happen as much anymore. I mean obviously it's just in your personality - you seem to be a go-get'er, and definitely a questioner, as in, you definitely want people to back up what they believe with 'good' reasons. The problem is, not everybody will agree on what's a good reason, and what's not a good reason, heheh.
Also, "(A few threads in the last week or two are not all the threads I've ever posted in, you know.)", while I realize that, you have to be a bit more realistic. It hasn't just been 'a few threads in the past 2 weeks'. I'll admit I haven't been here nearly as long as you or the majority of other people (My first post was in the AyuReady downloads section: 26th November 2007, 01:48 AM - yes I actually just found it, haha. But in the post I say that I've been following the forum anonymously for about 9 months, so I guess estimated ~ 1 1/2 years maybe 2. Whatever), but still, even though it hasn't been that long, I've still seen countless threads where at least somewhere in them, you and someone else are kind of arguing (maybe more like a debate, but not a healthy one :P). And, if I read it all, it seemed to usually be because you just couldn't stand someone's opinion being different than yours so you had to try and make them see yours. But I'm just starting to repeat myself here, so I'll shut up. Point is, come on now, it's been more than just a couple threads in the past couple weeks, lol.

But you do realize it all and I think you and I are both okay, right? No, I don't want you to leave AHS. So please don't. Actually this conversation has been pretty good, don't you think? Oh, and by the way, I realized my "you have a lot of posts"-thing above could be taken kind of ass-ish, sorry about that! I made it sound like I didn't even realize a lot of your posts are actually posting NEWS to us here, and other stuff like that. I thank you for all of that :) See you around.

I wish now that I had enough money for it, but I actually just want it for the photobook. I hope somebody scans it after they get it D:

If I could buy two copies, I'd rip the 2nd one up for scanning. LOL.

But.. hopefully it's a photobook that's easy to scan. They'll pop up sooner or later.. I mean, on my way/off my way did and that was a crazy book to scan.

I know what you mean, after I got my copy of Ai's 'LOVE PiECE' I wanted some of the pages of the photobook scanned for graphics, but I was really careful and was too afraid to scan more than 2 of the pages because I didn't want to bend it too much.

Also, from the looks of the screenshots, I actually like most of the unreleased covers better ._.

Yeah, that's why I'm not really impressed by this. Pretty much all of those pics have been available to see and they are just slightly different from the released versions, so I don't really see the fuss. :shrug:

There were never unreleased covers pics anywhere of I am...'s singles until GUILTY~MW singles and it's a lot of unreleased covers pics :shrug

I never really get that excited about photoshoots anyways though and if they are just slightly different versions of what is already released, it doesn't really interest me.

True, but we shouldn't be expecting too much.. if they released like, unreleased concept photos [i.e scrapped photoshoots], then people would probably be able to expect more.

With this unreleased single business, we get a few different poses, and that's about it. A completely new photoshoot never seen before would be nice.. or a completely new photoshoot in general would be good as well.. [I'm talking haute couture, Ayu.]

Yeah, of course a completely new photoshoot would be better, but just for me any release with a photobook isn't really that big of a selling point whether they are new or old shots. I think I really want them at first, but then over the years they just end up sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust; I don't really use them for anything. I'm much more interested in something like unreleased tracks or performance footage. :yes At least this will have the a-nation videos.

Sooo pretty!!!

I love NEVER EVER, TO BE, Dearest and Mirrorcle World :D The last one is gorgeous!!!!

HEAVEN looks better than the released cover , imo.

There's a decent collection of unreleased cover art on ayumi.primenova.com [DivineAyu] site..

OMG MW IS AMAZING!!!!

As far as I'm aware, the ones that we've already gotten unused photos for are different unreleased photos.

"There were never unreleased covers pics anywhere of I am...'s singles until GUILTY~MW singles and it's a lot of unreleased covers pics."

i hope there will be also albums unreleased covers) coz we have only 43 singles, but 48 pages)

Some unreleased covers might be from here?

http://ayumi.primenova.com/gallery-unrelease.php

Although the poker face one is different. Those are from the A MUSEUM pamphlet.

NEVER EVER is love :luv2

I am in lurve with the MW cover. :thud

I believe I read that the unreleased images are different than the ones released there. poker face and TO BE could be proof of that ^^;;

Some singles are likely to have more than one photo.. or something.

This is not an "unreleased jacket photobook" but an "unreleased single jacket photobook.." avex is specific when they name things and tend to not surprise us.

The A MUSEUM "booklet" was like, a collection of all the single covers [the actual ones] on plastic discs or something. These covers were never available on them.. the closest things we've had are the unreleased covers from the COUNTDOWN LIVE 2000-2001 concert pamphlet, which DivineAyu cut the images from. Maybe they should source it from there soon... Anyway, the images are definitely not the same as the ones found there.

Yeah true. Its cool either way! Im soooo interested of how the alternative INSPIRE, moments or STEP you/is this LOVE? covers looks like!

They are all really cool! I cant wait to see the rest of them. My favorite is the Heaven one.

Woahh , i LOVE the MW one :luv2

I like the unrelease cover of poker face and far away better the official covers they used

Thanks for HQ! I really like NEVER EVER and Mirrocle World.

Cool! thnx! Unreleased Mirrocle World cover the same gorgeous as original! <3

i love these covers!!
the never ever one looks so similar to the released one...i cant tell the difference

Dearest, NEVER EVER, HEAVEN and Mirrorcle World = :luv2 They should have used those covers!! Even the TO BE cover was nice~

10x for these :P i like mirrorcle world and heaven the most ;)

The Mirroricle World one is really nice

Right on!! I like all of the unreleased versions better lol, but not the MW though.

hq thxxx!!
mw super pretty>v<

I think she looks gorgeous in the unreleased NEVER EVER cover.

TO BE should have been like that. It feels more fitting to have a softer cover.