hm...semi-tempted to buy >>~ I LOVE that in pool pic though XD

ahhh! she looks GORGEOUS in the water pic and the smilin flower pic :luv2 :luv2 those are my favs!

water and smiling flower are just about the best of the calendar has to offer~

Smiling flower is by far the best of the entire calendar...the face of Ayu in other months are forgettable to me...& the water one too.

shimomura had a great thunder my god I'm outraged it's from him x)

So I'm not the only one?! goood, phew :shakehead

^i dont like that pic either :no

(the rest is love though :P ok... i also dont like the one with the red flowers .____.)

i love them all :D even the one where she's sitting down with that weird mouth it's still adorable and i love the whole setting. i finally ordered mine from YA yesterday, i hope it doesn't take long to get here! i'm not going to use it as a calendar, but i'll use the pics as posters. i'm putting up the water pic, smiling pic, and the one with the flowers/leaf things in the background right away when i get it :P

idk, the pottery one kind of freaks me out too. the face is too photoshopped, in my opinion, and it's kind of weird :laugh all of the other pictures are gorgeous though, and my favorite is the daisy one :heart

i finally realized what was sort of bothering me about the pics... she looks so young! of course she never looks her age, but in the smiling flower picture i could convince someone she's 16.

^lmao xD that is hilarous xD

I mean... out of all the complaining, that has to be the best escuse xDDD

ROFLMAO
xD

^^ Hahah. :laugh It's funny, so many are complaining about how her hair makes her look like an old aunt, but yeah... She does look really young, I think. :O Between the Photoshop covering up any and all signs of aging, and then the youthful style that the hair actually has (fringe almost always makes people look younger)...

she ain't old anyway :no
31 or whatever...

Age is just a number after all, I'm 19 but people still believe or think I'm 16 lol I don't feel 19... I feel younger ;) My mom as well for example, she is almost 39 but people think she's like 25! xD cause she is soo pretty and yea lol There's also people that look older than they really are... age doesn't decide how old you really are/feel.:shrug


Well Ayu said that this was who she really was and she didn't want to change in that CNN interview back in 2006. I personally believe that ayu will never grow old and I don't mind if she doesn't.:shrug

she's getting younger and younger XD
compare her look @ AT05 with AT08 or PCDL...
can hardly notice her wrinkles XDXDXD

http://i34.tinypic.com/289g46q.jpg
I love this pic, co cute:x

I'm so excited for this calendar! I just ordered mine off of YA :)

I don't really mind her looking young...but I do think that in these pics, and recently, the hair has made her look weird.

Sometimes it's cute and nice, like in the flower pic and that mag scan that's in kuriayus sig...

but other than that...even when she was on TV with it...I thought it made her look awful...so...that's kind of why I don't really care for the calendar either...


there doesn't seem to be as much diversity in the pictures as her past calendar's either...but I may just be forgetting.

^ I guess it could be argued that the pictures are similar since they are taken in a tropical country (Bali)... but still, I hoped for more diverse pictures as well... something that isn't all about flowers+sun+sky lol, but it's okay for me. :yes

and YES the hair she's been sporting in the Sunrise era is so disgusting! It's like she's hit rock bottom with that era... gross covers, disgusting hair @_@ but thank God her hair looks much better now! :D

Think of it this way.... If she hit rock bottom during the sunrise era the only way for her to go now is up again. lol. :D

Anyway I adore this calendar. Except for the picture in the vases. I cant really tell what exacly I dont like from that picture. I can tell u one thing. Is not the dress. That dress is so pretty.:luv2

^ Madonna looks young? Does she really? >_<

I love the water one more each time I see it. <3

No.. Madonna don't looks young, I think. Only in pics,which are photoshopped.
But.. in others, she looks older.

i think she had gross hair most of the time, but i like the way it's styled in this photo shoot, it looks prettier and less messy than say her hair in the Sunrise PV.

Her hair has just been looking really fake lately. That's what bugs me about it, not the style or even the colour. But from what I can see, her new hair looks a hundred times better. :yes

I received the calendar from YA today!

I tried taking pictures from different angles, but my camera's flash kept reflecting on the paper. So, here's what I managed to take so far. Some of them are brighter than others because of the flash, if the picture is light it does that. I'm sorry >___<;;

The smiley flower and water pictures truly are the prettiest out of the bunch. But the last one with the dress on the chair is very beautiful too.

The water picture: It's true that the water looks fake, except for next to her head and on her arm at the back of the picture... Anyway, you'll see for yourself.

WARNING! Big pictures!! My camera's resolution is 2300pixel wide, I shrunk them to 1000pixel wide so it doesn't take as much time to upload...

Neffiline, THANK YOU! it's so gorgeous :cry i can't wait until mine arrives

wow....thanks, neff...
i still love the one she covered one of her eye with flower.that one is nice.
and the picture wit the flowers on top of her head.that one also not bad.kinda like it when i see the pictures taken by neff

thanks fot the pictures *_*
aaaaa the last one is lovely, too :luv2
cannot wait for the ultra HQ scans.. >_<

omg thank you neffline... my favorites are the flower-smiling, the water, and the last photo. :heart

Ooooh thats great Stacey! ^^

You're welcome, everyone~

I didn't think I would like the last photo, but it's very beautiful n___n I will be very impatient to use it!

Ja! It looks really awesome! I hope the desk calendar is just as great, if not better!

^Yeah now I am really curious about the desk version! If its good I buy you one! ^^

I just noticed her hand on the last picture..
this also looks huge in real life, Neffiline? :dead2

yay! I got mine today

Wow I didn't care much for the last picture before, but whoa it's GORGEOUS... :thud I love esp. her hair and expression.

Am I the only one here who thought of that picture as my absolute favorite from the start, and not the water picture? :P I would love to hang that picture on my wall, now I just hope I can buy the calendar somewhere! And that my mom won't take all my student money... :grumpy

lol ) I will start tomorrow

^ yay! thank you :)

you are wonderful, i can't wait!

Ahhh! That would be so nice of you Elin T____T!!


YES! It's SUPER big! I knew it was big, but I was really surprised when I opened it!!

Thanks so much Neffiline, the pictures look gorgeous

I found these pictures of the cover and the poster *_*

http://i49.tinypic.com/hte5mp_th.jpg http://i47.tinypic.com/3444hl3_th.jpg

Credits: speedsam @ AC

the poster is really awesome!! :luv2

The poster is really pretty :) I am considering getting it!

How much are desktop calenders usually?

so beautiful *~*

Wow o_o I think I'm going to wait a while lol. Thanks for the information :D.
OR...maybe I might get this desktop calender for my best friend for Christmas. Hm.

Yeah! My aunt from Japan sent me a calendar, and I just got it! I was so surprised (I have not gotten anything Ayu-related in a while). I was shocked at how big the calendar was. This is also my first one. Heh heh. I feel so happy! I am holding it as I currently type this.

some new scans don't load with me, it's the same for you ? =/