It was on her official site, but for some reason now it's nowhere to be found. Hm.

I remember trying to look up the book last week, and like you mentioned, it's nowhere to be found.

Ugh. I'm glad I didn't use this money to buy it, but I hate that my main birthday present won't be here until April :( If even then.

Weird. I wonder what's happened and if they ever release it.

Oh, it's there. Under 1-14-10.
http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/100114.html

Here's the link. It seems that 3/10 was just a placeholder date and they will release it at the end of March instead of the first week. Probably for people who want to buy Rock'n'Roll Circus (lol, Rick'n'Roll Circus) along with it...

Strangely, YesAsia sent my Dad the e-mail saying that the shipping date is now March 15th. Well, that it's expected to ship then, anyway. I included the picture of the e-mail...



Also, from what I understand from the website, Sony Magazines will be shipping the books on March 10th. It seems like people who pre-ordered the book before February 8th are getting their books shipped early :D

edit: YesAsia's advertising that the book will now be released on March 16th. Maybe they have permission to sell it early?

I got that e-mail from YesAsia as well!

they move the date to 25/3

what the hell

weird.5music change the date to 2010/3/26

lol I'm not upset by these new dates. That means we get the book earlier =D

What the hell is happening with sony magazine! If they can't make a book in time simply don't announce a release date!

4 days before the album released???!!!
AT10 is going to start soon =.="

If they continue like this hey can include AT 2010 -___-

YesAsia is still saying March 25th as the release date... but, what I thought was weird was that, a few days ago, my order was classified was "Waiting for Stock", which meant the books were being shipped, but then it was changed back to "Preorder" =/

If the date is really back to April 10, that just means they're coinciding the release of the book and the start of AT10. In the past, she's sold previous tour books at a "current" tour (AT06 book at AT07, AT07 book at AT08, etc), so I can see why they may have changed it.

Sonymagazines = flaky as hell.

We better get this thing soon otherwise no one is gonna care about it when it actually comes out, haha.

People got their books a few days ago!

IT LOOKS HOT, haha.

http://i40.tinypic.com/ejir81.jpg
http://ameblo.jp/dn0408/entry-10492594461.html

http://i42.tinypic.com/2gy8wmw.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/1pzepc.jpg
http://ameblo.jp/yui0121/entry-10492648710.html

http://i42.tinypic.com/2j2gow1.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/zxqnfd.jpg
http://ameblo.jp/eriarudays09/entry-10492588574.html

http://i41.tinypic.com/8xmxc2.jpg
http://ameblo.jp/tink12171209/entry-10492541140.html

Foilz! I LOVE the cover. (Book is A4 sized.)

http://i44.tinypic.com/29y0bwl.jpghttp://i43.tinypic.com/befrd3.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/94qd.jpghttp://i40.tinypic.com/b6v9lc.jpg
http://ameblo.jp/midopyon0825/entry-10492784755.html
http://ameblo.jp/crea-yu1902/entry-10492761778.html

It took them *insert insane amount* months to create THAT? I feel bad for all those who waited all that time. Well at least the book itself looks nice...is it shiny? Can't tell. T shirt is just horrendous...what is with them and that picture?

:roflmao
lol

^i'm not seeing that..... Need to save for my japan trip, I rather see her in person then getting the picture

Blah, go whine elsewhere. They had the shirt design done after the tour ended in October and made a bunch of them for the tour party. And we already knew about the shirt thing since they told us in January about it.

It didn't take THAT long. They just added the AT09 photos to it and waited until March to release it. (After apparently, the products they'd made before were not up to par with Ayu's quality control) I think it's perfectly fine. It's not like you bought it anyway, so what's with the lame commentary? If you bought it and have been waiting for it, I'd understand it, but god, it looks like in relation to Ayu, all you do is complain.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2hnp56v.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/2rwaxhd.jpg
http://ameblo.jp/0a6y1u1/entry-10492862322.html

EXCUSE HER BEAUTY.

shuya's body looks especially flabby in the last picture.

Anyhow I really want this but YA pumped up the price too much :(

It's 70 dollars at CDJapan...

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview....Y=NEOBK-691076

But that's still a lot compared to the 4900 yen original price.

(4500 yen + 400 yen tax)

I suppose it's quite limited, I guess.

Ooohhhh, I LOVE the cover!!

I want my book NOW. lol I'm glad it's finally released <3

wow.HOT!

Yea I looked at that thanks. Did you buy it?

Nope.

I'm not really big on buying goods. Way too much money that could potentially go to other useful things, haha. I do love owning photobooks and etc, but the price is way too much imo. If it were like 2000-2500yen I'd probably get it, haha.

I hope someone scans them all, because I'm quite interested in this held-back-but-going-to-be-released photobook...

You mean "already" released, right?

I hope I can get this book when I reach japan on the 16th of march >.<
Anyone know if it's easily available in the bookstores?

You'll probably have to ask a user in Japan about that, but I doubt it.

I think you could probably find the ISBN and ask a bookstore to get it especially for you...

^ well, I called kinokuniya just now~ and its not in their system apparently.
The manager there also told me that it was something like a pre-order only kind of thing and they didn't do that, so they wont be getting copies. sad....

My order is now listed as "Waiting for Stock" at YesAsia... they're in Hong Kong, so they're waiting for the book to ship from Japan. Or whatever. They've ordered the book, yay.

But, if someone doesn't do it by the time I get the book (my Dad paid for EMS shipping), I'll be more than willing to scan the book :) My Mom's got a real nice scanner that I bet she'd let me use lol

I don't think it'll be available in the states, but that user is going to Japan.

They might have it there. I don't think they would limit a book to be preorder only, but then again the boxes that the book were shipped in were specifically for the book.

More photos + box stuff:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2ptaq04.jpghttp://i43.tinypic.com/neufdu.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2w3e2hu.jpghttp://i40.tinypic.com/nqbnk5.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/rj1f94.jpg

Dou sexy.
http://ameblo.jp/gah-seasons/entry-10493403854.html

Talk about a FAILED photobomb by Shuya.

Oh my! I hope your book is going to hold up to the scanning, p-d-j!!!

１８禁の ayu!!!

TOTALLY.

And... we need scans lol. She's so beautiful~ and what's with the close up of her boobs O_o

The ameblo user zoomed in on them.

"Sekushi."

Hama and Saki are very well kept, yanno.

Is the book supposed to be flimsy or something?

And for comparisons... the size of the book - is it like the size of Ayu's "Deji Deji" book, or like the Dome Tour 2001 book? Or another size completely? Haha. My Mom's scanner is pretty big, so I may be able to scan multiple pages at once... maybe...

^its A4 size~
a little bit bigger than the standard U.S. 8.5x11 computer paper size~

^ Aah, thank you :)

Just be careful, it's probably easy to ruin it. One of the expensive ayu tour books I bought fell apart when I was trying to scan it.

D:

I really hope that doesn't happen when I try to scan it! Eh, if it starts to fall apart when I scan it, I'll probably stop. This cost almost $100, and I would hate to ruin it.

There's a point where you can bend the book only so far before it starts to want to fall apart....

This book seems like it should be bound tightly, but who knows. No one here has a copy yet so we don't really know, haha.

Just taking really clear photos of the inside should be okay if you don't want to bend the photobook...

we want More truehappiness

we want More please?

http://i42.tinypic.com/10dcpig.jpghttp://i41.tinypic.com/2nibp78.jpg
http://ameblo.jp/nauouna0108/entry-10493502481.html

http://i44.tinypic.com/bzxqw.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/qspe6f.jpg
http://ameblo.jp/yoro-yu/entry-10493527934.html

Ayu and her shining uh.... bad light placement.

And more boobs!

wow.nice photos!now i feel regret for buying the unofficial one.haha.i should save all the money to buy this one

Is this book a first press or limited...or something? I think I might buy this book when I have the chance to! O:

WAHHHH! It's already released?
Mhm, I missed it, but I'm going to buy it soon! I hope, CDJapan doesn't outsell until then!

I missed this!!! But I'm glad I bought Rock 'n' Roll Circus instead~ I hope someone here scans the pics, but please be careful so it doesn't fall apart~!

Hahahahaha~

Yayyyyy, the status of my order is now "Ready to be Shipped"!!! :D

I really hope it ships soon. lol

Yay for more Ayu boobs :laugh *don't get me wrong, I'm straight :laugh*

As an update about whether or not the book is purchasable:
Only available by mail order. Bookstores will not be selling this.

I wan't that book!! I just wanted to buy it, but i didnt have enough money :/ I hope I'll get it somewhere later..

My AT06 photobook (the black one that was released at AT07) has come undone and the last 40 or so pages have come completely loose/unbound. Be careful with your photobooks people, they're not indestructible, despite the often hefty price tag. :headache

it looks new and interesting, thanks for sharing the pics!!

Someone's selling it on eBay!

More details and pictures, including t-shirt:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Ayumi-Hamasaki-TH...item335b95bdde

Well, if all orders are based on that eBay one, then the t-shirts are size L... good. Ahaha.

The "Deji Deji" book always seems to flimsy to me. I hate opening it too much for fear of it breaking it.

I'll still do my best to scan these, but if it feels too flimsy (or if it starts to fall apart while scanning), I'll just use my Mom's camera to take HQ photos of it.

haha, lol at the boob scan on previous page....

....I wonder how's the quality of the pictures on this photobook are. I might be intrested in picking a copy.

Probably the same as her other official pamphlets / photobooks.

This basically explains why AT08/AT09 had no pamphlets whatsoever. They were busy making this, haha.

The photos are way better than the ones in P&E.

YesAsia shipped mine today :yes

The pictures look really great from previews of others posting them on blogs/eBay.

I'm excited to get it X3!!

waiting for book scans!!!

more photographs
http://picasaweb.google.com/11623429...22025725315842

I got my book today!!!! =D I took a bunch of pictures with my camera as soon as I got home, and I'm uploading them right now =) And depending how I feel tonight, I may start to scan the book. Otherwise, I'll be scanning it tomorrow =)

edit: Finally got them online! (I had to do a few other things, heh...) Warning: These pictures are HUGE. I mean it.

Oo!

When you get a chance if you scan/take photos of everything, could you zip them up?

It'd be most appreciated. Thanks for the effort! It takes a lot of time to scan things for the ~internet~ but it's so worth it in the end, haha.

Special box!? That's quite unusual - I mean, usually stuff online would be boxed with a logo of the online vendor, but a box like this!? Well, that's sure unique...

It was online pre-order only.

They shipped it in its own box because they only made X amount exclusively for online shops. I suppose this is like the limited box, but... dingier? Haha.

It's still available on CDJapan and YesAsia... for orders on those two sites, and then the special pre-orders, come in boxes like that because they include the t-shirts. It's possible the regular orders come in boxes, too, but I'm not sure.

And, yeah, I'll definitely .zip them once I get the chance. I haven't started scanning them due to work, but I just flipped through the book again... Some of the pictures, especially from AT08, aren't the clearest. I wonder if that's why they canned the AT08 book. Also, over half the book (not 3/4, closer to over the halfway mark) is dedicated to AT09. True, the concert itself was a bit longer... oh well.

I wish there was more writing in the book, because like in the AT08 section, there are a few pictures with bunches of Ayu fans... I'm assuming those are from Taiwan (as the actual concert pics are from those concerts), but still, it would've been nice to see something like "AYU IN TAIWAN" XD

Cool! I really wish I could get this amazing book but, I just don't have the money.

i feel like having this~~

i want every from ayu
but i can't for now....
T.T

I took photos of all the pages and posted them here:

http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread...wpost&t=100107

Kinokuniya selling this book for S$126.90

Thanks!
But I`ll be waiting HD scans)

Is this book a limited edition release? A lot of stores don't seem to have it and not much promotion was done for it, huh? Does anyone have the sales figures for the book?

It was a limited release kind of thing.

It was only available from the Sonymagazines site, I think. However, right now it's sold as a tour good. The first concert's stock sold out quickly.

Yeah I bought this book just because the 10th Anniversary Tour was the one I attended so I needed to have documented photos from that tour. I looked at it twice and now it's sitting on my shelf. Lol. Not sure it was the greatest buy.

Well...there's not much you can do with a photobook besides look at it haha. Hopefully you'll look at it some more in the future. It's a really gorgeous book though; I don't think I regret not buying it. The pictures and everything are very high quality.

Wow.. look at her..
she's just so beautiful!

Price 6500yen 2600yen (60% off)

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview....Y=NEOBK-691076

Yeah thanks LostHeaven *buybuybuybuybuy* : D

Was anyone ever able to buy this to scan? I don't think we ever got scans.

Yes, please, HQ scans! This photobook is really good and deserves it.