I am starting to think the same thing. She has stopped wearing wigs and fixing hair all the time during the shows which probably says she got tired of it. Good thing in a way.

Still even though some costumes were altered/recycled last year, I liked them a lot better. The only thing I liked from MIT CDL was the kimono which got sacked lol

She looks so damn adorable in this pic <3
http://i.imgur.com/IZ5eHqD.jpg
*from ayu´s FB*

^looks like dance teaching


I think ayu says that at the Sendai fans will be allowed to take pictures from the Spring and Summer Chapters and encore

Yeah I also understand it that way. Online translator was horrible to read though xD

LOL soon the finale will be completely unbanned

It does kinda add up that the entire show will have the photography ban lifted by the end if she does it in certain increments, lol.

There's a new promotion for TA. Those who share the MADE IN JAPAN album from AWA can get an AWA x Ayu original sticker at the venue. The email says:
But Imma translate it for you lol.

So basically you download the app, search for the MADE IN JAPAN album, click the "share" button and share this on twitter/facebook. You have to take a screenshot of the post that you shared, and present it together with the digital memebership certificate at the TA booth. You can get the sticker even if you don't have a ticket for the show.

AWA only works in Japan, but if you can attend the concert it means that you are in Japan, so yeah.

And I don't know about the iOS, but when I downloaded the app on Android it prompted me to log in or register, which I couldn't outside Japan. However after some time it logged me in as a guest. I didn't do anything, I just opened the app and could browse it. I just couldn't play any music, because it kept saying that I have to be in Japan for that. But I can access the "share" button, and that's the only thing we need in this case.

The interface is in English, so there should be no problem.

I've actually really been enjoying this app

It's my first time using any streaming service and now I understand the hype haha.

Though I won't be attending until the Tokyo date, I shared it

The pamphlet pictures give me hope that the shoot for the album will be a different one, as much as i like the pamphlet pictures but re-using them for the album would be a little... Ugh..

I downloaded the AWA app when I was in Japan last week and am still enjoying the album now that I'm back stateside by starting the album in airplane mode and then turning it off again once tasky starts playing to get around the regional restrictions :P Good times.

^ I just tried to use it this way, and it says that I can't use it offline for more than 7 days :c

She's 37, right? Seriously, if I ever look this good at any point in my life, I'd be so happy.

There is a pretty decent rip...

I don't have my laptop to sync it to iTunes tho. I've been on vacation for two weeks. :shrug

anything is possible with... products and technology

^ and healthy lifestyle if you are not completely lazy
You actually can do wonders to your body and health in general if you exercise regularly and she does. Though I will not dismiss the fact that she does have access to plethora of beauty and variety of other products that helps her to stay fit.
She really looks good now to be honest

Even with help of any sort, looking as bomb as she does with her stressful lifestyle is an accomplishment.

She already changed her hair from night one to night two, she had long hair tied back for the spring segment when I saw her.

My audio recording from last Sunday's show v

I'll be taking it down in a week.

^ THANKS!

Oh my god I expected it to be a short recording not the entire 2:45 hours hahah. She sounded okay! I kinda always laugh when she sings "XOXO", I don't know why she struggles singing "girls just wanna have fun" lol... The "summer" part of the show would probably be my favorite in this tour.

Haha btw if ur username is "goldtransam29" then you're giving me major Kesha vibes lol

thanks JEWELian! that picture you put as the cover is amazing hahaha

just listened to FLOWER, vogue and You are the only one. I might say she sounds ok. vogue sounds amazing!

No worries! I really like the new version of evolution too, and she nearly kills it during the piano-only opening.

@rikku1994, yeah my usual username is indeed a Kesha reference.

Thank you so much!

I like the Japanese arrangement of evolution and vogue. So beautiful!

Group shot Sendai from today
http://i.imgur.com/mPjXpmx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/t91xL2x.jpg http://i.imgur.com/I01DTHS.jpg

ayu looks so tiny!

thank you, JEWELian

Thank you, JEWELian! Absolutely loved it!!

MOON sounds so good and HOLY SHIT THAT INSPIRE INTRO :luv2 thank you JEWELian :)

edit. she sounds perfect in You are the only one, it's such a beautiful song

Thank you sooooooo much for feeling this concert in my home! You safed my weekend :-)

She sounds great and I so love "You are the only one"!

Thank you for the recording! Seems like she forgot some of the lyrics in FLOWER :laugh

You have downloadable file?

http://i.imgur.com/GfCA8WVl.jpg
https://twitter.com/partyqyuuin1011

http://i.imgur.com/cGTr8Vjl.jpg
https://twitter.com/tallest_ayu190

http://i.imgur.com/JBFeI5vl.jpg
https://twitter.com/tsuu_pfj

http://i.imgur.com/fOSjZPgl.jpg
https://twitter.com/kanonmix

http://i.imgur.com/k7cFc5jl.jpg
https://twitter.com/yoichi1992

http://i.imgur.com/Y6TvTxJl.jpg
https://twitter.com/zutto_ayu1002

http://i.imgur.com/Zc9SRW5l.jpg
https://twitter.com/m0136m

and long wig for Spring Chapter again
http://i.imgur.com/zpNWZ7Gl.jpg
https://twitter.com/anslove45

Thank you JEWELian!! Just arrived home and saw this! Downloading now~

http://i.imgur.com/rQreVVXl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4M69Z35l.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QkzfUIEl.jpg
https://twitter.com/ayayu_TA

http://i.imgur.com/y3D5QLdl.jpg
https://twitter.com/A_yokotani

http://i.imgur.com/zi5L1KTl.jpg
https://twitter.com/A_yokotani

I certainly love the short golden kimono, best outfit for this tour. The others are pretty uninteresting.
The white kimono looks similar to the one Kuu wore at Best~ss~ tour in 2006.

And thank you, JEWELian!
Her voice is nice overall, INSPIRE and Endless sorrow seem to be the weakest.

http://i.imgur.com/uQtxohil.jpg
https://twitter.com/kero_ayu

http://i.imgur.com/5CWspEol.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/jCj4Ke1l.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WF0i0cgl.jpg
https://twitter.com/yuuuuuki_bts

http://i.imgur.com/lSTnOiEl.jpg
https://twitter.com/ZxkNBLynmykONsb <- cool page link btw %)

i like her voice in flower. especially the new songs are very good. warning as in MiT more screaming, but she sounds all in all satisfiying!

I love looking at her fans in these pictures..LOLOLOL

With vogue sounds so Japanese-y, she could've put it up front with GREEN and FLOWER. I love love its new arrangement!

I hope the DVD changes my mind cus I'm not feeling evolution and vogue's new arrangements.

sexy? )

http://i.imgur.com/XDPJdJMl.jpg

Those pants hanging mid boots are so fucking ugly I can't. She couldve worn other pants or shorter boots. Damn.

^oh please...why you always say bad thing about her? She is not dumb, she is surrounded by professional..

have you watched her live? if not you can't be so sure about anything you say about her concert...

wow, I wasn't expecting her to sound this good in FLOWER. Even the chorus is nice, I was expecting a lot more shouting.

I didn't mention anything about her performance, just her slit pants.

Some video snippets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tlG49wZfM
(you find some more uploaded by this account)

thank you!

Thanks!! She sounds so good during GREEN!

her voice is so good here :love

Thank you for the recording JEWELian!!

She sounds so good. Mad World sounds so good live. <3

Her vocals sound really good! It's amazing how she can go from CDL 15-16 to this in such a short amount of time.

.... aaaaand it's gone. ;)

Can someone who saved them post a download link please?

WOWOW is planning to broadcast the Tour in August:
http://www.wowow.co.jp/music/ayu/?ut..._twho_inf_0136

Link: https://mega.nz/#!gQgmQB5L!MLX3MgaXe...7gxcnF1QG4-r1Q

password: ahs

Thank you so much!

I guess this means that the tour won't be extended?

I believe it is still possible.

August would be when she is doing a-nation, so she could be doing a FINAL post a-nation set at Yoyogi or Yokohama after the TV version.

IIRC, didn't she do an early TV version before?

I don't think we normally get a broadcast before the final leg... But who knows

This tour pretty much reminds me of Premium Showcase though, so I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't extend it :D

...literally in what way is this tour similar to Premium Showcase?

It would be a bit odd if she ended in Osaka Jo.

I think she's only done that once? Or was it Marina Messe Fukuoka?

Because it's relatively short (at this point at least), we got all the songs before the album was released. And, my bad, I thought the tour goods featured the pop art, but I just checked and it was the CDL before PSC.

I'm not saying it's very similar, but just reminds me a little bit.

Asia Tour 2007 ended in Fukuoka, last year´s tour and several of her early tours ended in Yokohama.
So why shouldn´t she end a Tour in Osaka?

Seems a bit strange since the usual finale is Yoyogi. I understood AT07 since they were doing the asbestos removal and some of the Yokohama dates thanks to size, but Osaka Jo is a bit random IMO.

Why is Osaka Jo Hall random to you?
It's one of the biggest arenas in Japan (around 16,000 people just like in Saitama and Yokohama) and one of the biggest cities in Japan.
Yoyogi is smaller and even though it is somehwat her signature concert venue, Osaka isn't really random.
It'd only be her first time ending there.

For Ayu, it is random.

I believe the last time a tour extension happened, we had a finale at Osaka Jo Hall during the first set as well. Or it was slated before a Yoyogi was added to the end.

One thing though, Osaka Jo Hall is almost always just before the tour final.

http://monochrome0408.web.fc2.com/PC/LIVE/LIVE-MAIN.htm

Monochrome has been documenting her live #s and after this set of shows, she'll be at concert #507 with CDLs included.

Last tour extention was CdM, the first leg ended in Yoyogi and the final leg then ended in Yokohama.

I don't think the venue is an indicator lol I mean, yeah, she normally does her finales at Yoyogi, but last year the final dates were initially at Yoyogi and then she added a few dates and the actual final was in Yokohama.

Even if she does extend the tour, I'm glad we'd be getting the footage of both versions of the concert then.

I guess we should wait and see, because all we can do is speculate :D

I wonder if it'll be another TA Tour like last year instead a MiJ extension.

It's just that throughout her history aside from Marina Messe Fukuoka during the renovations, it has almost always been Yoyogi or Yokohama.

concert tour 2000 pt. 1 and 2 - Yokohama Arena
ARENA TOUR 2002 A - Yokohama Arena
A MUSEUM - Yokohama Arena
ARENA TOUR 2003-2004 A -Yoyogi National Gymnasium
ARENA TOUR 2005 A - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
ARENA TOUR 2006 A - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
ASIA TOUR 2007 A - Marina Messe Fukuoka (asbestos @ Yoyogi)
ASIA TOUR 2008 A - Taipei Arena (Asia finale)
ARENA TOUR 2009 A - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
ARENA TOUR 2010 A + 7days - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
POWER OF MUSIC 2011 A (first leg) - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
POWER OF MUSIC 2011 A FINAL CHAPTER - Nagoya Rainbow Hall (pre-LIMITED EDITION)
POWER OF MUSIC 2011 A LIMITED EDITION - Yokohama Arena
ARENA TOUR 2012 A - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
A BEST LIVE - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
PREMIUM SHOWCASE - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
ARENA TOUR 2015 A - Yokohama Arena
ARENA TOUR 2016 A - ?

The password isn't correct :no

I just scanned my clearfile^^ (as it is flat it was possible with my broken scanner, but it took 3 tries ><)

Thanks for the scan! Will place in first post.

o.o It is, I can open the file with the password. Try again. Don't copy paste, write yourself ahs without dots or spaces. If you can't I'll upload again withouth password.

I think Osaka Jo Hall would be a great place for the final.

Group Shot Sendai 22. May

A lot of women with same hair style as ayu's. I wish i could get mine to stay that way too, but I don't have enough hair for that...

looks like the demographic of her fans now is on 25s-40s range...

was the setlist same as earlier?

I attended today's concert at XEBIO ARENA SENDAI. Oh, it was super duper cool! Better than those concerts I've been before! I loved GREEN, INSPIRE, Endless sorrow & evolution! ever free & BRILLANTE were very impressive.

Oh, if anybody has a ticket for final show (July 18) for sale, please PM me! I really want to attend Final!!!

This is hardly surprising...it's the group of fans that grew up listening to her, and who really grew up with her. Ayu hasn't shown strong popularity with the younger demographic in probably close to a decade.

THANKS FOR THE RECORDING JEWELian!!! Makes me super excited to see her in July now :D wont listen to everything to save the surprises but I'm loving how half of FLOWER sounded. heheh

Yeah, BLUE BIRD is probably the last track that younger fans really latched onto. Other than that, a lot of young fans are the kids of current fans.

I think this is the last tour I would like to watch.

^Why do you say that?

Maybe the decision to finish in Osaka is more strongly linked to the theme tour! I say in a matter of culture and such... A city so historic and modern at the same time.

She should do it in the Budokan.

I wanna know 2

Looks like nothing changed. But a few fans seem to be mistaking You were... for JEWEL.

Budokan is kinda small and the building shape is square which is not suitable for Ayu's concert that using rectangle layout.

I'm not sure if she likes the Budokan, considering the fact how her concerts have been layed out for most of her career...

Oh wow, thank you! That first 'Hana ni natte' in FLOWER is just :love
MOON is good too. And that evolution opening.

This statement makes no sense. POM and a couple of her CDLs have had circular stages which is the ideal set-up for Budokan.

I was thinking, why And then isn't in chapter of nothing? ;(

circular stage is perfect for Budokan, but the capacity will decreasing a lot...

Has anyone got or made any ringtones from the new album?

I can probably do it but depends on what portions. Might have go searching for my m4r creator, lol.

KEYWORD QUIZ updates.

05/14 - た
05/15 - ん
05/21 - み
05/22 - あ

Gotta unscramble by the end of the tour, ffff.

how amazing would it be if ayu announces her next physical release with this kind of update

^Like Kesha announcing title of 'Warrior' album via instagram? lol

Guys, ayu's core fanbase has been 30+ for as long as I've been going to her shows. She's not been cool or relevant to younger generations for a while. Old news.


@YUKARI, I saw she replaced 'You were...' with 'JEWEL'?? if so how was it vocally?
I'm looking at attending 18/7 show in Osaka as well, there are still limited tickets from ticket sellers (eplus etc)

Osaka Jo Hall is actually smaller than Yoyogi. Its capacity is 10,000 and would fit around 9,000 probably for an ayu concert.
Yokohama arena also only fits about 10,000 ~ 12,000 depending on stage configuration. Yoyogi gymnasium's capacity is aprox. 12,000.