agree :yes

Didnt the concert happen a month ago? I wouldnt call that short notice. Avex is a huge company with huge resources. The editing could be done in a day if it was deemed necessary. Ayu simply saying, sorry avex im busy, so just leave me out of the broadcast; wouldnt fly. They would edit it anyway. This was to try and make more money, plain and simple. They are a business afterall.

I don't think this is for marketing purposes. I don't know how these A-nation DVD's usually sell, but I can't imagine Ayu not being broadcasted makes that much of a difference? Above all, A-nation is her least interesting performance of the year. As a fan, I would much rather save my money for the Arena / Asia Tour, and if I have money left, the Countdown Live. DVD's are very expensive, I personally never buy the A-nation DVD's anyway.

Dunno about you guys though, maybe everyone always buys the A-nation DVD's and I'm just weird :laugh

Maybe Avex's capacity was not enough to push through and make it into TV...we'll just have to see for the DVD. I hope there's some of it, but remember that TV networks have to fill in with their other programs as well...

More money from what? A-nation DVD sales sux, and they always will xD even when they have non-broadcasted songs from all the artists, even Ayu, the sales are VERY low... If they did it to boost her sales, they are just dumb... A-nation big money comes from the festival tickets, everything else is just to make some naive fans feel special...
They most likelly cut her out cuz they showed her entire performance for 2 years on a row...

Thats why I said, try to boost the sales. :) The dvds dont sell well because most buyers have no incentive to get it. This gives an incentive. How much it will effect sales or not, who knows - but it is something to try. Also i dont know why they would cut her entirely from the broadcast just because she was shown in her entirety the last two years. she is their most popular artist, it doesnt make sense to cut her from any broadcast for that reason.

Yeah.

Oh I'm so sorry you have to wait a little longer to have, literally, everything.

We used to say it ourselves a-nation = Ayu-nation.

I don't think it's that crazy they are saving her for the dvd. Sounds pretty smart imo, to force all the hardcore ayu fans to buy it.


And lol Avex ALWAYS has an ulterior motive. And it always has to do with munny.

ayu's performances was so great at a-nation this year. She was SO much better than usual with evolution and surreal! Her BEST performances in awhile

I just think it would be smarter to have shown some parts from a-nation. At least the blossom and crossroad part. It wouold have kicked up some sales for sure.

By airing the Short ver.s of Ayu's latest PVs and cutting all the PVs on her Youtube channel, avex has already proved how incredibly dumb they are.

THIS is a good point :P

And I wouldn't be surprised if they cut Ayu out of A-nation just to control some fuss between jealous artists for the last two years... Ayumi is their most popular artist, but not the only one giving them money... If Avex was really worried about A-Nation DVD sales they would record the entire thing to appeal to all their big acts fanbase while promoting the less popular acts that also performed... Or release the performances on different Dvds focused on each artist aiming differet fanbases.... Cutting Ayu out is not really a good way of making money, she is not even the biggest DVD seller of the festival (Now, cutting Koda Kumi out of the TV Broadcast would make sense for marketing purposes)

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I agree :yes They should just put everything of everyone on DVD :yes Maybe then the DVD will have better sales and fans won't be disappointed. I love Ayu and therefore I love getting her whole performance, but I like other artists too and would love to see their performances too :yes I would buy the DVD if they included the whole concert, even if it's expensive :yes

Putting all the performances of every artist would require more than one DVD, not to mention the production costs and it would hardly be profitable considering that the majority of people wouldn't get a release that would get pretty expensive ^^

If they were worried with A-Nation DVD sales that would be a better option than just cutting some TV Broadcasting that is not really watched by that many people anyway...

Even if Ayu has her hardcore fans, and even if most of the time there are not broadcasted material on DVD, the sales always were low... I don't get why you guys think Avex would try to boost the DVD sales by putting Ayu performances only there, considering the original content never sold the DVDs to begin with and that Ayu is far from being their biggest DVD seller and it's at the lowest point of her career as a individual releases seller...

And BTW... considering Ayu released her A-nation performances on A Complete, I'm pretty sure they record the whole thing... If a-nation recordings were a interesting material sales-wise, they would be using it, even if as extras of the artists main concerts DVDs...

We care about A-nation being recorded... most of the world, and most of Japan, and even most of japanese pop music listeners simply don't...

At least Ayu's in the THX A LOT clip, where's featured quite a lot (close-ups, etc), also you can hear people in the audience screaming for her, kinda cool. =p

she just looks so cute and absolutely adorable...
her charisma is so big!!!

It is kinda sick, to cut out Ayus performances from a-nation TV-version. Most people watch a-nation on TV because of her, that's my guess. And avex knows that. And still they cut it out. For editing reasons? Who is gonna believe that cr4p? Seriously.