^ first presses, especially in the states, will linger for longer periods of time because no one is buying them.

But interestingly enough, I moved to a more erm, rural part of Tokyo (i mean it's still in Tokyo, but i mean, it's not shibuya or anything....and there's less human traffic and tourists and stuff) and in one of the non-chain cd stores near me, there's a copy of Daybreak and Free & Easy (with the picture label) sitting on the shelf. As well as a A BEST 2 with slipcase and Mirrorcle World long case. ANd honestly, I bet those things would linger there for years and years, seeing as they're so old. But i'll be buying them. hahahah It also has old (non ayu) cd's from like 2000 with a "new!!!!!!" sticker written on them....it's like, "wow, these have been sitting here for sooooo long!" hahaha

I like those lil cd-shops in the less crowded parts of tokyo, where nobody ever seems to come haha
some true (Ayu) treasures can be found there ;)

Once I bought loads of Mika Nakashima Vinyls at one place and the owner was so happy he gave me a bag,
ran around the store and filled it with all kinds of artist merchandise lol
I guess he was so happy with me buying so much stuff ^^

^ Haha, same here! I bought like 10,000 yen worth of stuff from a tiny old cd shop in the town I'm in, run by a little old man, and he was so happy he gave me a discount, plastic cd sleeves, a huge poster, and coupons for the next time ;).

so cool!! thank you angel!! It's really interesting...because of high costs of japanese presses, I could afford only GUILTY 1st press so it's nice to see wht came together

update please? this is such a cool and useful thread topic. I want to see what else is first press and what everything else came with.

What about the colored jewel cases for NL. Wouldn't those be considered first press? I mean, I thought that they released an encore edition with clear jewel cases (that's what I got of the USB version).

Evidently, I have the first press versions of ayu-mi-x 3 & 4 and didn't even know it. O_o I guess that's pretty cool, though. I also have the first press Rule/Sparkle (Jackest B&C). I also got the first press of A BALLADS. To my knowledge, thats it.

And a little slightly off topic question. I assume it'd be listed here if it was a first press, but does everyone's M single have a pearlescent effect on it?

sugoii...love it ^^!~
i want alll.....

I have a question! Does Memorial Address (the mini-album) have a 1st Press edition or no?

Memorial address does not have a first press, that I'm aware of anyway.

anybody know if a song for xx duty and loveppears had a first press ?

for memorial adress i though cd+dvd was first prs and cd only was teh regular edition but it seems they are both regular editions.

^

no, they don't have first press :)

Ok, thx for answering my question. :)

Mine got it too, but i think it's an effect on the paper, and it's anyway the regular edition. It's like UNITE! with the glossy OBI and paper (but now, since MW, every single got a glossy paper and OBI : MW, Green/Days, Rule/Sparkle)

I think that AVEX likes to do some effects with the paper used, it might bring a little fantasy or whatever, i dunno XDD
For example, see A Song For XX cover, Duty booklet, or Memorial Address cover, it's silverish or goldish, no ?

i have an OS press of LOVeppears, but i don't have the poster...

Aren't anyone going to continue this?

^ What do you mean by that? :confused

Anyways, about the LOVeppears poster, is it just the CD booklet, and you fold it out, and it becomes a poster, or is it an external poster or what exactly?

thanks for making this.

i bought loveppears japanese edition but it didnt include a poster

^ Was it new & sealed? Maybe it had been removed by the previous owner if you bought it second hand?

I bought LOVEppears and it still had the poster in it after being second hand...

Does
.ayu-mi-x 4 + selection Acoustic Orchestra Version
.ayu-mi-x 4 + selection Non-Stop Mega Mix Version
.RMX WORKS from ayu-mi-x 5 Non-Stop Mega Mix
have first press?

^ Not what I know ^_^

I mean, there is 2 saved posts, but there isn't anything for singles..


And well, when you fold out the LOVEppears booklet, you will get about the same picture as the poster, but the poster is larger. It is folded quite a lot, as it is in the CD case (if I'm not wrong)..

And they are picture labeled.

Could anybody maybe help complete this first press guide? And could we maybe start a list of first press dvds and singles? Can we all maybe collaborate together to make this the perfect guide?:D

a perfect guide with pictures and everything? that`d be really cool.:yes

almost near impossible but maybe if we all work together and everybody help with what they know and take pictures of the stuff the have in first press....

Maybe we would go through a couple of threads before we complete it but. It cant be THAT hard with all the members here and there amazing collections.

I can already see it ''Limited Edition / 1st Press Guide thread 41''

lol
:D

Oh okay, I see. ^^

I guess we will have to ask angel ayumi to update and make the reserved posts more complete, since she is the thread owner/starter.

That sounds awesome! We should definitely do it!

How could we go about doing it though, just post pics of our first press/limited edition stuff from our collections?

I am glad for every help.
I have so less time to comnplete it <.<
But I have holidays in 2 weeks ^^

I can remember posting these pics somewhere, but they might be useful here: my regular press I am...

Not first press! mine has a tiny obi :D
More pics in the SPOILER

http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/r...i_JPU/Iam5.jpg

In Yahoo Auction you can still find first press of every album

Wow.....that's the first time i've ever seen a non-first press I am... XD.

you know what would have been really cool? if the CAROLS single came with a first press limited edition glitter/speckle case like the first press of ayumix 2. That would have been so cool. The cover is already really sparkly and it would have added effect if the cd case was sparkly speckly too!

wanna ask if (miss)understood 1st press or limited edition comes with obi?is the regular comes with obi also?

both the regular and first press have obi if I am not mistaken.

so,OS version should have obi also?

Well I have never own a OS version buy most likely, yeah...

lacus,is it the same with this picture (from 1st page)
http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?i...0121777sq8.jpg
i mean the front look

Just adding that first press copies of (m)u have bigger obis to fit the photobooks :D

^ Yeah

...because the photobooks cover the tracklisting, like GUILTY one, so the OBI has the tracklisting...

guys,i'm kinda noob @ ayu's stuff..just started to collect her CDs few months later...i saw you guys said there's an error on My story 1st press booklet
http://eneabba.net/ayu/disco/albums/...ORY-4a.all.jpg
can i know what is that error?
i've never seen normal edition of that booklet before

no one?

I think they made a mistkae with the composer of HONEY if I remember right.

i see..so the extra 'booklet'
http://eneabba.net/ayu/disco/albums/...ORY-4a.all.jpg
is the correction one right

yes

i see...thanks,angel ayumi =D

wow thx !
this thread is my heaven..
my A COMPLETE was singapore version n it came up exactly like the 1st press (which u put the pic up there)
its about 28 $ i bought it in jakarta ~

i have ayumix II Us+EU and Ayumix II JP there are in the sparkle case, but only one of them had the Card in it, although there were brand new and sealed, is it possible that you als can get them in sparkle case as second press or something like that.....

^ Hmm.. are you really sure that they are brand new and sealed? Sometimes when you buy it online on eBay or something the seller may have put them in resealable wrappers which you may have mistaken for its original wrapping.

Second press of the ayu-mi-x II CDs shouldn't have the sparkly case if I remember correctly.

If you have a first press of ayu-mi-x II, they come with the card no matter what. So you were pretty much ripped-off if you really wanted that card.

I don't know, but the seller is serious, I don't think that it was used, because i bought a lot of other Ayu Cds from the seller and always get it like it had to be...

i believe this applies to the JP version because i don't have that extra 'booklet' for My Story.Its either the seller took it or TW version doesn't have that error

well since Avex Taiwan print the booklets too, they probably didn't make the mistake~

i see...thanks

Great, thanks!

hmm,i'm wondering if daybreak is considered as rare item or not?

this thread definitely needs to be updated with ayu's singles and other albums.

Thank you for bringing up this thread. I definetely need this to guide me as I buy more CDs. I only have one first press CD+DVD in hand and that's Rock n' Roll Circus. But based on the information provided in this thread, it looks like I'll be getting the first press of My Story CD+DVD. It doesn't look like it comes with the OBI but I paid a really cheap price for it so I have no room to complain I guess. Can't wait for it to come in the mail, woohoo!

http://i.ebayimg.com/14/!BujOsf!Bmk~...sltSg~~_35.JPG

Wow! Thank you for this, this is so helpful!!!

Yes.. Please update this thread.. Please..

These are the only recent ones I can think of:

Feel free to correct me on anything... but yeah, like everyone else said this thread definitely needs to be updated. XD

^ Oh thank you for this. I didn't know that the RnRC boxset came with 2 posters.

Thank you for this! This is quite interesting

it seems as if the last time this thread was updated was when "A Complete" was released. They don't have next level, or rock n roll circus. And they didn't even begin to do the singles.

You can also add the Rule/Sparkle single, with a labelled disc as first-press and a poster out of 2 possible designs.
And You were.../BALLAD with the alternate cover cards and poster, and perhaps the limited box sold at CDL 09-10 which contains the 3 versions of this single.

and also the OBI for rnrc boxset is different from the normal first press edition

Does the original poster still post here? lol We might have to make another thread. :(

i guess angel ayumi is busy with his/her works.this is why he/she does not update this thread.maybe we can pm him/her to ask him/her to update this thread?

NEXT LEVEL USB: Yellow Case (First Press) ;)

^hehe thanks.

So A Best 2: Black also came with an error booklet like A Best 2: White? If so, does anyone happen to have a pic of it?

A BEST 2 -BLACK- did not come with an error booklet. Only 2nd pressing's of A BEST 2 -WHITE- did.

Thank you. That's cool that the second pressing came with the error booklet. You would think something like that would happen with the first pressing.

Mmhm (: Although, I have a first press of A BEST 2 -WHITE- and it has the error booklet o_O I bought my copy used though...So maybe the seller put that in? I dunno haha.

This has been really helpful! Now I know for sure my A Ballads is a firstpress I always wondered that since I got it at a local mall here

I wish I had gotten the first press of "I am..." =/

I'm just wondering, but does anyone want to start a new thread, and include a guide on first press singles? And also, include more studio albums first press guide, since the first post of this thread only goes up to A COMPLETE. Plus, first press on remix albums, and any other first press that wasn't mentioned yet in the first page of this thread.

I don't think the thread owner will be updating the info on the first page, so it's best to start a new thread.

I read that you wrote that there is no first press of Memorial address. But, I found this photo on instagram. Is this a slipcase or I don't see it well?

https://s13.postimg.org/ncvexnv0j/1519714088330.jpg

I think that's the cover removed from a CD+DVD casing.

Maybe you are right.

This is such a helpful thread.:luv2
But I wish it was updated to include everything and with pictures.:yes
It can be hard to know if a release came with 1st press bonuses or not.

I wanted to update this for long and also set up on my homepage, but I am soooo lazy xD
And it had pictures, they are just not workin anymore xD
Maybe I can update it a bit during the holidays^^

There is also "NOT FOR SALE" Disc for CD shop to use in the past. You can buy those CD in the black market.

It was still useful because I wanted to know if Ayu Trance came with a slipcase for first press.:)
It looks like the only albums I own that are first press are GUILTY and NEXT LEVEL.:think

Really interesting indeed! Seems like I own first press editions of I am... RAINBOW, NEXT LEVEL (Green case) and Guilty! :love