nice picture!

That cover o w o I totally love it.

Yay for traditional Ayu! FINALLY!! I hope the inner pic not as awkward as her last time traditional pic. The SCawaii mag when she wore an edgy cut red and black kimonos. With more awkward expression and hair do.
The theme kinda 成人の日 or Coming of Age Day than a regular New Year. Imo

Her eye makeup looks so different compared to what it usually looks like.

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yeah, she looks different, that's why I "WHAT THE FUCKE'D"

No, since she's promoting BUDHA 2 and The New Year with this traditional look ^^

btw look at her new haircut! I'm glad it's not so short a la 2011 :)

She has a cat face here! Beautiful as always :)

PS: For sure, I prefer this mature and 'distant' look, instead of one too childish or childlike, considering we're talking about Popteen. It's more like herself.

she look so pretty! :D

I see a hairband with bunny ears too :P but it's so low quality it could be something weird with the Popteen's font too :laugh.

She's really pretty though :3

She looks cute, but I find the cover kind of..awkward?

What is awkward about it?

I think she's supposed to be in horse ears.

very girlish...

The cover is cute! She looks really young there

†Her face is the size of my thumb but she looks like deer in headlights.

That is the "Popteen" look.

i keep thinking she has half her hair pulled up, but she cut it right? lol

i dunno what you all see in her face...she looks fine to me *shrugs* Typical ayu expression....

She did cut it.

Her eyes mainly look different to me. The expression is typical for Ayu Popteen.

Great. It's also amazing that Ayu can still be on the cover of Popteen at her age.

the expression should have something to do with the theme of the cover.

People should open their eyes and look that there is a small bubble next to her cold face.