I'm a sucker for these compliation videos, and this one opens with Hato wa Modoranai <3

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

I love the fashion lol.

But really I’ve always been impressed with the tone and clarity of her voice in these older lives. I do wonder why Avex had her sing so nasally? Was it to give her a unique sound?

^I would guess it was because what was popular at the time were super high pitched voices.

It's amazing fabric- I think it's shown in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LzlVDG2CM and she goes through other similar fabrics. I reckon Ayu is most likely to use the Japanese fabric company though. I think I could watch videos of the fabric floating in the air all day :luv2

Am I the only one who needs Ayu-trance 5? She could give us Ayu-mi-x 8 this year and I’ll STFU for another 5 years without an album. Well, maybe. But please bring the trance remixes back :weep

^ a remix album would be amazing!

Same! Ayu is the only singer that I listen to the songs remixes.

Same here. I listen to her remixes on a daily basis. SUPER EUROBEAT presents ayu-ro mix 2 is my favorite.

Defo! I've been listening to Ayu Trance 4 a lot lately!

Seriously though... For 23rd Monster and Haru yo, koi, is she singing through a potato? Dreamed a dream sounds fine, but something is off with those two (I still love them though).

Dream a dream also sounded like potato

The promo materials for ayu-mi-x used to legit scare the crap out of me. I almost forgot how eeries the pictures looked.

https://mega-mix.ocnk.net/phone/data...037001b3e9.jpg
You are telling me this isn't the video tape featured in The Ring?

http://img.youtube.com/vi/_HT3bJji2CU/0.jpg

Actually NOTHING FROM NOTHING had a pretty eerie cover as well:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...thingalbum.jpg

^^ I wish Ayu would do more horror-inspired concepts and visuals, I *love* the ourselves PV.

Thats the Vinylbox I saw last time in Toyko but did not get

Not sure if this is the right place but I had my first Ayu-related dream in years so I wanted to share :laugh

I had a dream that the full version of the 23rd Monster PV was released, and it was basically a long dance-shot in what appeared to be the old ruins of some kind of roman-style temple, looked amazing to be honest. I was just confused because the hat+lipstick shot was nowhere to be seen and Ayu was dancing a lot and I was thinking she was killing for a pregnant woman :laugh

Also she announced at the same time that each month there would be another single release, and the ones for next month were two short words I can't really remember, I think it might have been BLISS and Caress, don't ask. I was trying to rush back home to listen to the previews because apparently mobile phones with sound weren't a thing in my dream?

Anyways, that shows how excited I am that there is some activity on the Ayu front after years of her touring :laugh

Omg, I did some digging around and found this cover for one of the cds from the ayu-mi-x box set. NIGHTMARE FUEL material: (Seriously, what was their creative team thinking around that period???)

https://www.calvadoshof.com/artist/H.../aboxomake.jpg

I love that though! If I saw it I’d want to buy it for the cover alone.

Actually this is the case for the cards, not for a CD, ayu-mi-x Box are Vinyls^^