I found on amazon Japan a slightly bigger version of BEST FICTION TOUR DVD cover, it's more colourful than the previous one we had :

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/123...tre2ibs.th.jpg

oh even more vibrant....ah ah just think about how pretty the booklet would be *drools*

I dont think Namie's DVD will have any booklet ^^

really? she didn't have any booklet for her other DVDs? so it's just a case with a DVD in it? :thud

Yep, and usually there's no bonus section, just the full concert only =]

oh XD i'm so used to ayu's DVD that i never thought that namie didn't have booklet

well at least BF Tour DVD will have some bonus footage...ah is this the first time that namie used an overseas concert as the footage for the DVD?

^

just like Ayu used Taiwan footage for her ASIA TOUR 2008

can't wait for the DVD...
it's been such a long time that I don't see her concert dvd~

Namie looks so fine on the Fine magazine cover :P

I got into Namie when she sang "Put 'Em Up" on Hey! Hey! Hey! They used to air the show on the International channel over here and I thought it was a cool song.

^omg!! international channel?? :tipsy

There's an international channel?!

HQ cover of September issue of Fine:



Previews:

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...0223846423.jpghttp://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...0223846532.jpg

:luv2

^cuteee :3

Aww, she looks cute! I love it when she smiles.

Whenever she wears a ponytail she still looks 12 or something. :)

she looks so adorable in the previews :heart i just wanna pinch her cheeks

and omg. can you guys believe that she's almost 32? ..... yeah me neither



edit: omg this is my 1000th post. yay me?

Ooooh, thank you for sharing!

Oooh, I love the previews. I can't wait to see the full scans.

:laugh my thoughts exactly.

She looks like she's 20, and not 30 lol

Another preview:

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...0224508785.jpg

:luv2

Those new pics are so cute~ <3 Namie has a very beautiful smile. :)

And thank you all for answering my question. I was so curious about it. I wasn't very surprised that most of you became fans after you heard newer songs. :) I was the oher way around. I became namie fan after I heard her OLDER stuff and whole discography. Nowadays I even downloaded her singles just because I wanted to hear all the b-sides she has on her singles. Those are pure hotness~ :love

More previews:

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...Image092_t.jpghttp://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...Image089_t.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...Image090_t.jpghttp://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...Image091_t.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...Image088_t.jpg

:luv2

Thanks for the previews and better quality cover! I loooove her smile, she's even more beautiful when she's simling. I hope we can get scans for the other pics too, she looks great in them. :yes

omg she's absolutely adorable on fine! <3 she doesn't look 30 at all xD

I found this extra pic of the BD photoshoot on last.fm:

http://i26.tinypic.com/ddhllf.png

Fine magazine's awesome & it's 1 of my fave magazines around

helps that my dear posed in last month's issue too :innocent

I can't wait for scans of these in due time , Namie looks so fine it hurts

There was, a long time ago. :P I used to watch Hey!x3 on there all the time, and that's how I discovered a lot of J-Pop artists. I think that International Channel ceased to be sometime in 2005 (I could be wrong) - it became AZN TV or something, and they no longer showed Hey!x3, and only ever showed Sony artist PV's.

"Put 'Em Up" came out in 2003, so I've been a Namie fan since then. :)

adorable! :love

Sooo cute!!

&& SO hot!

Ohh..aww.
I joined the J-Pop bandwagon a little too late. :|

^me too :laugh

I love the picture of the BLACK DIAMOND shoot. And the other previews are so nice, she looks so cute.

OMG, I :luv2 this!!!!

This I must have in a higher resolution. =o

^ That's the only size I've found. :=(

so cute !

Oh wow! they are both so pretty! I love double's hair

Double's hair looks awesome, for sure.
I'm NOT loving Namie's bangs. At all.

^Really? I actually thought they were kinda cute. :laugh

bad angle for namie ...

i love namie with bangs, like in the black diamond or new look pv. she looks so fierce

Funnily enough I'm not such a fan of bangs either.

*cashes in on the 'How did you discover Namie?' discussion*

Earlier last year I believe, is when I got into her. Funny thing is, my first songs and videos from her were WANT ME, WANT ME and WoWa in 2006. Anyway, didn't think much of HER at the time, even though I just had to download WANT ME, WANT ME and WoWa. I... even thought she looked old and that she wasn't hot or pretty. Oh how my eyes have opened. And I recall vividly the reason why: I was at the pinnacle of my Ayumi Hamasaki obsession. If no one sounded like her, then I couldn't listen to her... and needless to say, Namie has a very different sound. What also didn't help were the rabid Namie fans saying Namie is the queen and Ayumi sucks when I had barely even heard of Namie at the time, let-alone knew who she was.. So my little brain assumed that she wasn't such a big deal, and that Ayumi was so much better. At the time I only listened to her hip-pop songs so as someone not really well-educated in the subject of Japanese music at the time, I thought the likes of SO CRAZY and Put 'Em Up sounded like American knock-offs. Oh how I bad I feel about that now. But then I watched a clip of her performing WoWa at her Space of Hip-Pop tour and remember thinking, "Okay, this isn't for me, but I can respect that." Her performance impressed me.

o yeah, I had always had WANT ME, WANT ME and WoWa, but they were always casual songs for me that I had put on my iPod.

Oh, right, so... how I got into her. I watched the video to Hide & Seek. In part I have someone on lj to thank for that, because they were talking about this Steven Colbert episode where he makes fun of the Korean singer Rain. So I looked up the clip on youtube and I also looked up Rain music videos. I found this one video where the user was comparing Rain's "I'm Coming" video with Namie's "Hide & Seek" and I thought, "How cool is this?" so I clicked on the video link. Needless to say, I was entranced. It was the best music video I had ever seen. The effects were so cool, Namie looked cool, her costume was HOT, and the song was hot. I kept thinking, "Why is this ***** so hot with her sunglasses and crap? And her hair...! Her face...!" in my head. I kept getting distracted by her when I should have been doing homework. Then I found the video of FUNKY TOWN and fell in love with that, but it still wasn't enough for me to jizz over Namie quite yet. My inner-Namie fan had to be awakened somehow. I then watched the making of "Rock Steady" which I thought was interesting because she worked with Orlando Pita and Patricia Field who are some high-class *****es. fakdhfasdj. After that I actually watched ROCK STEADY and fell in love with that ****. It was pretty much a blur from then on; I had to know more about this *****. So I looked her up, and found some really nice fansites that had lots of information and articles about her. Needless to say, after reading about her life and what she's gone through from her growing up poor and fatherless, her pregnancy, mom's murder, divorce, to her declining popularity after her marriage, I'm couldn't be prouder to call myself a fan.

i lisneed 2 namie amuro/SUPER MONKEY song koi no cute beat :luv2 in FLASH i became namie fan! the song 2 cute 4 words :yes

anyone know where this picture of namie is from?

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...20fm/namie.png

^ :eek , I 2nd that

she looks great in there :luv2

^ from SWEET(August 09)
U can have all the scans here
U guys never check NNN huh? =( That's sad!

Lol Im in college full time right now so I really don't have much time for checking anything, sadly. :(

Ty for scans. ^_^

i enjoyed reading your story, especially the parts that i highlited. because that's exactly how i was at first too, and how i became a fan.
;)

it's from sweet magazine this month :P
you can find more scans of it here:
http://namienewsnetwork.blogspot.com...gust-2009.html

edit: rocky_raven beat me to it.. xD

thanks for your help , Alex :D

Namie looks great in those Sweet mag shots <3

n u not even thanks me cause I reply first lol! That's double SAD!

lol, i check that every day :D

:laugh Same goes for me. I love that site, it's awesome.

Oh wow so cool, thanks for the textless picts^^

Thanks for posting! She looks amazing in those pics. :heart I'm in love with her curly hair.

oo, nice shoot :o~

NICE! thanks for the textless

Thanks for the textless pictures! You rock!

What I find interesting about those Sweet pics is that they covered up the tattoos on her wrist, but not the ones on her shoulder. Weird.

lol i didn't even notice =o
that is strange..

here you can find the meaning and images of her tattoos ^^
http://namienewsnetwork.blogspot.com...s-tattoos.html

Yes I do have notice that too, first I think it's weird but thinking again, I remember that that wrist Tattoos(which presentin' her youth interest n also Komuro Tetsuya's time) was covered up little n little from the time Tetsuya got into copyright scandal...
Not the mention, I do belive that BEST FICTION tour tracklist has something to do with that scandal too, even tho it'd started a week before the scandal(BF tour started on 25th October 2008, the scandal was 4th November 08) ...there'r no artist who held concert n dont even sing their old time famous songs at least one...only Namie
This is just my thought tho

the bar code tattoos are really cool. It is so sweet that two of them have to do with her son and mom.

I think Namie's management already knew about TK case way way back before Nov 08. Insider should know what happened earlier you see.

So in order not to end up with any legal case due to using TK's songs which their copyrights are already screwed up, Namie must have be informed or advised not to use them for the time being. So hence when she planning for the tour and deciding the setlist, she uses all her post-TK songs instead...

It's 100% not coincidence....

seriously, this song is so noisy :roflmao and she is wearing the uniform outfit from CSCEIS :luv2

Yep, that's exactly what I think too! =D Cool that we have the same thought dude!

does anybody have the 2 Coca-Cola Zero Wallpaper in 1280x800 please?

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2...l011024.th.jpg http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3327/wall021024.th.jpg
These are all I have =)

thank you very much :)

Thank you for posting!

For those who know Chinese, this is lulzy:

Anyone willing to translate exactly? LOL "AUTISTIC"

I still have the wild health wallpaper on my desktop xD

Just a basic translation
After breaking up with a member of V6, Namie just closed herself off. She don't even have any friends to eat with anymore. When she's working, she barely talks and when she have free time, she just listens to her iPod. She just totally closed herself off after breaking up and has caused a big trauma on her.

Namie may not be a very sociable person nor has many friends or exciting private life but no way she is autism.

o_O

WHAT she went out with someone from V6 ?!

:dead2 , I wonder who will be that ? I don't think it's the scaredy cat Sakamoto :laugh

it might be the flirt Miyake Ken I have no idea :innocent

is this another negative tabloid? :rolleyes

oh sorry~ 三宅健=miyake ken

edit: and lol

I read somewhere else that Namie was in a relationship with Ken after her divorce and they even lived together

But 6 years ago, she was shot living with Ken and under pressure from her company, they broke up

o_O

they actually look couple like together LMAO but ick , Miyake's younger than Namie T_T T_T T_T

I wouldn't think for a second that Namie wasn't sociable. But, she doesn't have autism, so...

No no no, I was laughing because the rough translation of "自閉" was autism. It was all over the article so I was laughing thinking of the article calling her autistic just because she is not very sociable. Which is just really stupid.

Namie doesn't have anything to gossip over so the Chinese tabloids have to bring up something from 6 years ago... nice.

Yes, it was Ken Miyake.

Yes, I've read several places mentioning this... someone said it was a rumor though, but I read that they were photographed together, so there is probably some truth to it.

I thought it was pressure from Johnny's actually since she has a kid? That's so dumb. :shakehead They always mention how she was really upset over the breakup, though. She's gotta be over it now...

Yeah, so ick right. He was born in 79! That's such a huge difference.

:laugh I agree, serioulsy, Chinese tabloid people need a life.
I can only laugh about this idea that Namie has autism (well, not that autism is something to laugh about but you know what I mean)

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if that's how Namie normally acts. I mean, she seems really work-focused, she always put so much energy into learning her dances, and getting things right. That's why she has so many fans after so many years =D

Ohh, another "scandal" Bahah how stupid. However I kind of agree Kaiouforever in that Namie does seem a bit on the shy, work related side. Not that it's a bad thing though.

She's not gonna be in a-nation this year, right? =\

o_O at V6's Ken again

I really can't see Namie going out with Ken at all even though I have to say that they looked really couple like together

A bit of an error on my part... when I put the paragraph into a translator the characters read as "autistic" when as everyone knows that machine translators can often give you a different meaning. So, the paragraph did not have the word "autistic" in it. I think "lonely" is the correct translation.

I think that anyone who follows Namie as a human and not just a cool and sexy singer knows this. It's apparent everytime she makes a public appearance, and in interviews. :)

Why couldn't you? Also, when were they together looking couple-like?

is that serious??poor namie...=_=

So that means she's single right now?

Whoa...didn't know this drama was occuring with Namie.

She's not?!

^ No. Not a big shock though considering the only year she has ever done a-nation was last year.

Too bad Namie's not gonna participate in a-nation. I think that would had been cool. :< I didn't like what they did to her last year. If I remember correctly, Namie's performance was cut off from the DVD. -.- Avex is stupid.

damn cool feature of the BEST FICTION DVD on HMV Japan - http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/news/article/907220125/

I have seen alot of pictures from her fanspace magazine and her best non fiction blog where she's being silly with her friends/dancers/staff etc etc. Yes, she's a shy person but I think that's because she doesn't open to people as easy anymore.
Does it really matter anyway? lol

And yeah :( it's a bummer that Namie isn't on a-nation this year, I was hoping she would make it a regular thing lol. Maybe it's because her tour just ended and she needs a break? oh well, let's hope she's on a-nation next year :P

Yeah it was cut off of the DVD. I guess if they were going to just do that again then there's no point in her going.

For real.

Why Avex cut off Namie from the DVD is beyond me.

Stupid.

why cant friggin Avex treasure Namie more :weep
I also wonder why its so rare for namie to be in a-nation o__O