thanks! I guess that explains why I couldn't find it lol.

I wanna read this article when it's possible! And pics of her house, too~ ♥

WOW, this article seems good!! I'm so curious now!

I think its not so surprising that those grotesque Super Mannie thingy is one of the factor that they divorce. There's so many speculations about that years ago. But why they bring it up again right now? When some people already knew and forget it... well in my case. And the same goes for Maro thingy, I thought Ayu had said something that she didn't wanna talk about it and... forgive... got some blur memory.
Anyway still can't wait the inner picture.

^Maybe she decided to talk about them, to forget them. I mean, if she says nothing, there'll always be someone to talk about that again in media. Look at Maro who brought the subject 6 months after the break up. Saying things could shut media up about that. & she would be able to make a fresh start.

The original source for my comments is this overview/preview of the article from the Numero Tokyo website: http://numero.jp/news-20130820-ayumihamasaki/

But I didn't translate this myself, I read the french translation from Ayuangel. So as a disclaimer, it's a summary of a translation of a translation XD

I will definitely try to translate if I can - been busy lately but I'm so excited about the article, I might give it a shot anyway :D

ayu and Leslie are still like best friends and she still uses him (he was just with her on the A BEST LIVE tour after party).

Maybe it's just a thing Mannie made public and ayu didn't want it (and leslie didn't mean to publish it)?

Maybe the article will give a clearer picture of the issue, I hope ayu explains why it was bad of mannie but Leslie was ok XD

Thanks to the translation on Ayuangel we know she will also talk about Matsuura. What she thinks about him. (don't expect something we don't already know IMO).
According to the translation, she says she was really shocked by the naked photos of Manuel, while he didn't seem to understand the issue. She hadn't slept/eaten for some days because of that.

Man, I remember when fans were like "why the hell would she be so shocked about the photobook? She's a mature woman, that's not the reason why they seperated" back when the divorce was announced.

Well, this proves that the human mind cannot be predictable, wether the person in question is mature or not. :laugh

I'm curious about this interview... and Leslie.

I'm excited to see the translation when I becomes available! We'll be able to learn so much! :yes

Also, I love that photo of her. :)

this is really great, finally she can clear saome stuff and justify herself in the eyes of some haters :)

I like Ayu in this look~!! She's so natural here~!! ^_^

Yeah same here, why is Leslie still in the good books? It always seemed like a weird reason. lol

Wow, I'm really excited to read that interview!

oh my god I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS

I really don't think that the book was a contributor to the divorce because of the nature of the photos, though it probably didn't help. We all know that Japan has its fetishes, and we're used to this kinda thing from Leslie alone. I think what probably happened was that Mannie realized it could be an opportunity to make some money/launch himself at Ayu and Leslie's expense and was just using her birthday as an excuse. It's not like it was a random, one-of-a-kind, Ayu-only thing like Leslie made it out to be. It's actually part of Leslie's "SUPER" series and he was selling them, even though they were limited. Ayu probably realized this and that's when things went downhill. It's stupid to think Leslie and Ayu's relationship wasn't strained either, but in the end, he was just doing his job as a photographer regardless of Mannie's intentions, and Ayu probably came to this conclusion as well.

^ Good point, I agree. I'm guessing Ayu wasn't too fond of finding her husbands magazine around gay sex shops in japan... I mean, they were meant for her originally, no?

Yeah, I agree, Ithink it's probably something like that.
Let's face it, Ayu probably didn't mind the content of the pics because she obviously have seen him naked many times before and it was a Leslie photobook... But it was very strange how his photobook was for sale and had more copies than Ayu's photobook that was never for sale.

wow..she looks really good on the cover.I've always wondered how her house looks like..can't wait for more details :luv2

I don't know, I'd be pretty upset if I jUST got married and my husband published a photobook of him with a ton of different pictures showing his buttcrack :S