In bigger, the covers looks better, I think. But.. I still think, they are to much photoshopped.
By the way... what for, the fans got the towels?

Agreed. All the things I noticed before I still do and it's waaay more appearant.

..and when the covers were smaller, I thought the best thing was the font.

..I was wrong. Very wrong.

*sigh*

Now Ayu looks like a cross between Shakira & an elf.

The PV's better be good.

she should have done something like brave vibration. the cover looked very natural. A little pose-y but still very natural.

I'm wondering why Ayu needs so many people for this pv.. o-o

^ Ive never said this before, but..i kind of think that ayu will have the members maybe (JUST MAYBE) sing the background chorus part? during the PV ?? ~ Im not sure.. (my mind is WHACK) X_X

i actually was thinking of that too. that would be cute

I can't see how the TA members are going to work out... :(

I think the TA members will sing too.
I can't wait for the PV. <3

I think Sunrise will be a big summer party video! And Ayu will jump around in the song with her TA members singing together with her or something~

For Sunset, I really think Ayu would be alone most of the time, perhaps with flashbacks of her time with the TA members, which explains why they're also required for Sunset, no?

Anyway, all these PV talk are speculation, but I really hope I would love them!

About the covers... I have to agree with everyone who doesn't like it... it's just a big :no

^ Eh, I'll let someone else be right. :D I'm so chuffed that I guessed they'd have the same melody. <3

Cuz she wants all of them to buy the single so the sales numbers will hit the sky. XD

I hate how she keeps such a tight lid on one of the songs sometimes D:

wow... making the 5th thread... not a bad idea though... thanks~

This is the sixth, but enough aboot that.

The song is apparently rather good according to someone who has heard it at 2ch, but.. hm..

LMAO. That's exactly what I was thinking.

Although I dislike the covers though, I'm not going to get bent out of shape over them because I really do love Sunrise and I was so disappointed with NEXT LEVEL that I had no hopes for it whatsoever. So I'm all happy for now. Hoepfully Sunset will be just as good, and I'm sure the PVs will be cute with all the TA members in them. Maybe nothing glamorous but Ayu is usually always glamorous so a break from that for one single couldn't hurt, right?

Don't forget a monkey ( :dead2 ).

oooh ayu...i hate both of those covers...

Since they're all TA members and don't mind paying so much money a year for it I'm sure they would already buy it regardless.

:luv2 :luv2 :luv2 :luv2 :luv2

xD

^ Why did they have to use that pic......

oh well.. it's a twist of fate!!! ayu is showing her skin while Koda Kumi covers up!! Both should just remain in their turfs.

Ayu needs to fire Kazuyoshi and her whole graphics team right now. D:

[kidding(kind of)]
I wonder if it would be against the forum rules to make a hate thread for the miserable bastard.
[/kidding(kind of)]

that font looks like BRUSH SCRIPT MT lol... looks like a soap opera.... well it's much better from the other small previews :)

LOL! Her expression looks like she got lost in Bali and when she asking for direction, someone replied her in foreign language and she's like "Huh?!"

of course that picture isn't photoshopped! what place in the world doesn't look that realistic?

I can't imagine team ayu members singing. maybe 10 people singing the chrous, but all 300 people singing? overkill. I just imagine (again) humming seven four but instead on an island.

I really hope this single sells extraordinarily well.

wow! how come leh koda kumi always manages to look like an angry monkey? so funny la.

i change my mind.
after seeing bigger pictures of the covers... omg horrible.

hahaha angry monkey ...
somehow I think the single should be named LOST based on the Cover lol

THANKIES

LOST ~LOVE is GONE~/FISH ~MOUTH is HERE~ sounds about right.

^LOL @ your signature!

Kazuyoshi looks like he's fake calling someone for a new job or something---if I were Ayu's manager, he'd have been doing that a long time ago.

i love coming into this thread. ya'll are hilarious ^o^
i think ayu got drunk taking those cover photos but her boobs looks great (back to the subject)
im just playin' hehe

:laugh

You guys are awesome.

I love the new "A" logo on the a-nation towels! Super cute! It's the Mirrorcle World hat she wore whenever she'd perform that song!

lol QFT
Btw, waitin' for Sunset

LOL it's not like they couldn't notice that after they had done it~

Ughhh I want to hear Sunset! lol

if you think that's sexy then wow. her eyes are so dead on the BF tour covers, even more dead than on ayu's Sunrise covers. and namie doesn't even do it sparingly, so it's hard to forgive her :no

me too. i actually got really excited and thought a preview might have leaked since when i got on it said AHS was unavailable. i guess not :(

I want to hear Sunset, too :yes

the only time dead=sexy is when it's Eric or Bill from true blood tbh

i've been trying to think of how Sunset would sound but i really can't lol. it's just hard to imagine Sunrise turning into a ballad

I actually mentioned Namie in one of the first discussion of the covers concerning the photoshopping. I said that Ayu and Namie usually use it professionally and effectively and that it usually fits in with the theme. For example, Namie used in for Best Fiction to fit in with the "fiction" them while Ayu used it for Next Level to fit in with the futuristic, digital theme.

i want to see lots of Sunrise performances
because seeing Ayu's outfits, Ayu looks cute and lively!! so can't wait!

Yes!! Me too, I think Sunrise performances will be nice and happy *_*

Sunrise kinda reminds me of Humming 7/4, well just the mood of it <3 i can imagine the audience jumping up and down with it

while you immature people where arguing about namie in this thread :rolleyes

le covers are in her avex website so no too bad no covers changing :laugh

i zoom out the screenshot so you can see is in her avex
alot of people knew already oh well im making it obvious

Covers suck :/ Ugh.. I thought they would be pretty but this is just all fake! Is she imitating Shakira? lol Anyway, love the font xD haha.. Thanx for the info2!

I know I'm really late...

but...EW.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. At least she doesn't look as plastic though.

Well, now that I see them bigger... it looks worst than I though first... but its her choice to do covers like those. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is her music, not the aesthetic

are we looking at the same covers? Because these covers have MOUNTAINS of photoshop

Look at her hair on top of the head, they shine as if the photo was made in a sunny day, while the background seem to be cloudy. Also the lack of horizont is suspicious, as if the sea was going up the hill @_@ It's hard to see some words too, if I didn't know the cover I would probably miss it in the store.

I just read the ViVi translations. :) The songs sounds like it will be really good right now. Can't wait! :D

Covers ^_^

^In due time, in due time! :) We got spoiled by getting Sunrise (the song not the PV) sooooo early since it has a drama tie-in.

^ That's true~.
I really can't wait to hear Sunset...wonder how it'll be arranged.
So...is CMJK arranging both songs? Or just Sunset?

Theres a very high chance its going to be HAL. WHich is a good thing. Keeping my fingers crossed for the ambient ethereal summer ballads like the Hanabi's, theme of a'nation, etc.

So...CMJK arranged Sunrise?

^Yes, CMJK arranged Sunrise.

Yea I don't like the offical covers for this single at all. She looks very tired and wafer thin. Plus her face is not expressing an emotion that would be suiting to the titles of the songs. She looks like a deer caught in headlights. The only positive thing I can say about the covers are her hair, her outfit, and the background. Glad she went really blonde again. Sorry Ayu, the covers were a strike out for me :-/

What was "last time"? Rule/Sparkle?

Aie. I wouldn't count on it...but we can always wish. I'm wondering if Sunset will leak at all...although I really wish they'd play her PVs on MTV or something like that. :(

SoCrazy: I would buy her singles but hell, I don't even have a job at the minute. LOL

^^Haha. ...I think she PVs should air, like, tomorrow.
I really think this single is not being promoted enough, ne?

^ Nothing from her recently is being promoted enough...

Mirrocle World was mass-promoted.
Days/GREEN was promoted a little.
Rule/Sparkle only got one live performance.

NEXT LEVEL wasn't promoted at all except from a few magazine mentions.

And now Sunrise / Sunset is being promoted with a few magazines and a few performances.

I honestly doubt that a leak would affect sales at all.

^ It never really did in the past anyway.

I hope the mash-up mix isn't just random parts of the songs played together. I hope it's really mixed...and GOOD.
I'll never stop hoping for more trance...lol

Wow those covers are really scary (the real ones)... the song isn't anything to shout about either... hopefully Sunset is better.

i hope it's not anything like the remixes on ayu-mi-x 6
and yes TRANCE! i don't think it'll be trance, but that would be amazing :yes

...

You do know that a mash-up generally means that it's just parts of the songs in one thing, right...

Anyways, Sunrise debuted at #1 on the Recochoku ranking.

http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/index.html

I expect it to do quite well. It's an AWESOME SONG. Listened to it 500-600 times and I'm still singing along as though it's my 10th.. hmmmm yum~

^that's cool.


I wonder why they chose to do a mash-up, instead of remixes.

w00t, I'm glad it debuted #1!!! :D Seems Japan is very interested. Maybe due to the drama?

They probably are remixed...? I hope so at least.

Megamix should imply remixing, but the Mega-Mash-Up-Mix thing.. just smells like it's a really big mash up of all her summer tracks to make people happy, haha. Usually a mash up is two/three songs at most...

Sunrise #1 at Recochoku... this is a good step ^^
congrats sunrise!

I hope Sunset doesn't pull a Days and wait for the PV to "leak" =/...

Speaking of Sunset, I wonder if the PV will wait until the release date to come out..

I'm so surprised that Sunset hasn't been leaked yet... not even a small snippet has been released!

Only 3 more weeks away!! I'm excited!

Yeah it's barely 3 weeks lol.. I hope the song leaks first before the PV... but hmm there are a lot of things about this single that I can't wait for!!!

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P.S: Yesterday night, I showed my friend the Sunrise/Sunset covers... or rather I blogged about them and he read the post, and this is what he told me (a paraphrase):

"Ayumi looks so FAKE in your new post! But she's so FAKE that she looks CUTE! In the second one (which is the CD+DVD btw) she looks like a character from FF (Final Fantasy)! Omg"

I guess he likes them. XD From someone who really hates Ayu... good news, I guess?

It's good to know it's debuted at #1. :D

my friend doesn't like her very much either lol but said she looked really skinny and pretty on the CD cover. i'm like "nobody likes these covers" she's like "why? they're better than those last ones where she looked like a damn alien" (rule/sparkle) :laugh

^ Her body is smoking hot too. :D

That's what I keep telling myself ;_;!

not all fans hate these covers...

^i'm one of them, i like the cover
its not her best, but its not bad... i think the weirdness and awkwardness making it pop out and stand out than other cd cover

^just think if they made the packaging like that....O__O!~ like....the mirrorcle world cd+dvd and days/GREEN cd+dvd boxes....just turned to the side~ i would LOVE that~

it would just be ironically hilarious if the cover art quality was reverse proportional to sales. since not many like the S/S covers, maybe they'll sell fantastically! (i can dream) besides, she's been churning out great/decent covers for a while now and sales have been declining. maybe she needs a nice mistake to boost popularity.

i pray pray pray this will be a success... tho i think it will just do average.

^ yeah i never see the old ayu team anymore. i think the hair and makeup artist has changed, or she just uses random ppl that someone else hires.

i remember up till the off my day photobook, there was this short japanese man who is really tan, short hair that always did her hair! and there was this bald man with huge earrings, and just a whole team of familiar faces i always see when watching makings of loveppears, uraayu...

not to mention the young, loud osaka-like chick with black hair! she was so funny!

recochoku uta ranking sunrise got #1 and RBT #2
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/rbt.html

I hope to hear Sunset soon
I can't wait to get the single

Good to hear it debuted at #1 on recochoku and in front of B'z's DIVE ^_^

And the general ranking

http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/index.html

I'm so glad that it debuted at #1!
Hopefully it will maintain it for sometime xD

I'm glad that Sunrise is well-received in Japan :yes

truehappiness please update this thread every day with the chaku-uta rankings please if possible.
^^

I hope to see #1 tomorrow again.

Actually, if you'd like, start a new thread for general rankings [Oricon + Recochoku].. haha.

I'm not one to update ranking threads often, sorry to say..

when was it released on the rechoku thing? recently??...if yes, then hurray!! coz it climbed to #1 really quick

i wan a preview of sunset! even though its the same tune...

Wow congrats to Ayu for topping the chart! thx for the info!

I'm sure it'll sound quite different, but it'll probably sound familiar in a way since it is the same composition. Don't think that it'll simply be a slower Sunrise, though it could probably be that way.. but.. with the way Ayu remade Ladies Night for BLUE BIRD, I don't think that can happen. We'll see though. Perhaps Ayu can be the first artist to do this ~connecting two songs on a 2A~ thing right.