That doesn't make the pictures better..? But it seems like the model-deadface is a trademark of his when you look at his portfolio.

Just look at VOGUE NIPPON x DIOR..

Yuck. Gross. Disgusting.

Same facial expression COULD be a "theme", but I wouldn't go that far.

I thought the SCawaii brought upon a better look/whatever... but this... sorry, it's horrendous.

...................................... the pics.... are truly horrible. What happened to the old good pics ayu used to take :(

They doesn't even look like her -_- Especially the 3rd pic. The expression is really weird. The makeup seems a little different this time round though.

I love her clothes but wth is wrong with her face?

:shakehead

She looks dead, like a doll.

Uh......perhaps its done on some special purposeXD

Thanks for sharing, but does it seems to be weird for us or did somebody made Ayu posed that way for the photoshoot? I'm leaning more on the negative side on this...

(And where is the Music Japan performance???)

From just the thumbnails, I was like "Is THAT Ayu?!"...

That face would work for the next horror movie.

It's like Ayu doesn't even HAVE an image anymore.

she looks like... a drugged corpse.

the outfits are cute though!

:P

I know you're desperate to cling to any hope that none of this is Ayu's fault and everything that's wrong in the world is always and definitely Kazuyoshi's fault, but come on. :tired It's getting old.

i woke up from a nap and seeing these pics scared the heck of out of me. i thought her sunrise cover were bad but this tops it for me *hides under the covers*

i cant believe they didnt use eyeliner......~ but i guess...maybe she's just preparing and accepting the fact that she's aging??? ;__; or something?~ i mean, there WAS talk about how they were re-touching her music vids to show less signs of aging?

Who's that?

maybe she want to show that she's like a doll in the hands of photographer and other stuff

or mayve she think that looks like a child %)

LOL! hahaha! I'm laughing out loud but I'm crying inside. From the thumbnails I was expecting pure utter poop but it's not as bad as I expected, but still bad. For these pics her features don't bother me that much but her hair and her makeup... ew. I am not going to save these in my ayu pics folder. They are so unmemorable. She looks horrible lately. She is unrecognizable. Bah. When I was watching the Rainbow pv, I was hit with nostalgia and sadness. She was so beautiful back then. She was also so charming in all her (miss) understood era music videos and photos/mag shoots. Now I don't like the way she looks at all, in her concerts, backstage videos, tv appearances, everything!

People are noting how her eyes lost the creases/drooping. I came across a video on youtube about it. I want to find it again and show you. Perhaps this is why she always opens her eyes like that now? Her eyebrows are like "surprised" mode always. She is aging rapidly... so sad.


I don't blame him either. He's been taking pics of Ayu for a long time and some of my favorite shoots were by him, for example the A BEST 2 photos. But back then Ayu was still really pretty.

Kazuyoshi just happens to have the unfortunate task of documenting the degradation of, in my opinion, one of the top beauties of our time. I truly think Ayu is at her worst recently.

Thanks for the scans!

I actually like the outfit, make-up and hair..now if only she hadn't looked so dead in the eyes and closed her mouth >.>
thanks for sharing! (is there any chance you could scan the interview-part more clearly? I'd like to translate it, but some of the lines are faded)

I love how people are JUST NOW realizing that Ayu doesn't look like Ayu, when she hasn't looked like Ayu for mooonths.

Yeah, the pictures suck though. She looks like ayaka more than Ayu. Her eyes look like they're about to just burst out of her head.

I miss Ayu when she was still like Ayu. ;(