I see what you mean. When I think about it more, if there was such a rhetorical 'photobook' I've made up, this cover would probably seem most to be the actual cover LOL. I think I'll be able to decide exactly how I feel about it once the other two covers surface.

I so want a body shot, but at the same time, there are so few covers with just Ayu's face.

Simple and pretty.

Cover has a very warm and elegant look to it, curious how the 1st press poster is going to look like.

me too. she looked the best in Startin'/Born to Be and INSPIRE cover.

The cover is pretty. I'm kinda over the close up shots and would like something a little different, but this is just one cover. Also, it isn't ugly, so I can't complain.

OK, I'm gonna listen to the MOON song. Never mind the covers. After all, the songs are the reason why I buy her CDs, anyway! *stupid me*

.. I don't think she looks over photoshopped at all :/

Her already flawless skin + makeup and there really isn't much left to retouch. I mean, it looks exactly like her. She looks doll-ish, yea, but she probably does straight out of the camera.

Wow you're right! It does look like Moments a lot!

I think some people use "over photoshopped" as an excuse for not liking something. I would bet many people don't even know what they're talking about when it comes to photoshop.

I can go on iTunes Japan and buy Moon by itself I love the song and I don't want to be deprived of it, I don't want the ugly CD+DVD cover to taint my CD collection. It's just ugly. Why won't people wake up? What happened to the million dollar productions, no wonder her sales are dying she doesn't even try anymore to be creative. Maybe it's time she retires.

Don't tell me to "BECOME" a fan, I've been a fan of her for along time, I appreciate her older material from 1995 to part of 2009.. In 2010 its all going to down hill..

I only come on this once good site to find artist updates and stuff, But I think it's about time I leave. Ayumi fans are just childish idiots these days.

Probably. Seems like some people also don't seem to get that Ayu doesn't even really make creative/innovative covers. If you look at her discography, most (if not all) of her covers are Ayu looking pretty. What's so bad about having that now? Jeez. I feel like people were expecting moons and flowers just like how people were expecting guitars and clowns on Rock'n'Roll Circus. -rolls eyes-

And if she did that, people'd talk about how tacky and predictable Ayu was with the covers. So it's lose-lose with some people no matter what Ayu does! Haha!

i thought the same thing it took me some time to realize its ayu

Its a pretty simple cover...love her hair and everything...the only thing I don't like is the bright light shining on her left side.

So the other two covers will be up in like five minutes, right?

TeamAyu is apparently crashing as we speak, so... they might be uploading them now.

Internal server error for TA.. they should be putting them up now

she doesnt look like a japanese girl, she looks like a black girl

Er who lol?????????

I didn't see it at first but since a lot of people have mentioned it, she does look a lot like Miliyah Kato in the cover. Weird.

Uh.. you're talking about Miliyah Kato and not Ayu, right? She's the one with the, to put it nicely, painfully obvious fake lips after all.

I'm excited, because the CD only edition could has the best cover (avex marketing, you can buy 2 editions or 3, one with the dvd, another with pretty cover and now you can feel void and buy the last one for the collection)

I can't believe people want to cancel their order because of the COVER. People...it's not about what's on the outside, the MUSIC is what should matter...:rolleyes

Mr kaz said sth in twitter i think xd

何人かの方からメッセージを頂きましたが、現在TAのサーバーがダウンしています。昨夜公開し た｢MOON/blossom｣のジャケ写をこの時間に見ようとした方が多数いて、アクセスが集中したのが原因だと思われ ます。現在、復旧作業をしておりますので、もうしばらくお待ち下さい。

google trans:

I received a message from some people, but now the server is down TA. Overnight published "MOON / blossom" and they see many people in this time of the jacket picture, because you think concentrated access. Currently we are working to restore it, please be patient.

I can't believe people would cancel this order because of THIS cover. :innocent

I can't wait for this all night, I'll check out the covers in the morning lol.

I agree, but really, some people only order physical releases for the cover. They can always buy the single digitally if they don't like the cover, that's what I do.

used the google translator and he's talking about the TA server being down because of the TA fans trying to see the new single cover :p

lmao I know.. like.. to each his own. If you don't like looking at gorgeous covers/booklets then.. okay lol.

I actually really like these! They're simple, elegant, yet nostalgic. :) Thanks for posting!

oooh gorgeous. Looks like it was stolen from a recent magazine...

it does have the MOON feeling :D but seriously they shouldn't overdo her lips

I like them, but she looks very surprised to me lol!

it looks pretty! <3 could've been better but i still like it~
i may really consider buying this single haha.

I like them. Simple and nice. She looks good.

very ayu-ish... but it's okay~

Her expression creeps me out. Not a great cover, but could be much worse. I agree it looks like her recent photo shoots. I do like the colors and the font (I like how it's the same M as her single).

these are very nice photos, with nice lighting.. though i was expecting something different for covers. guess i was expecting something intricate and not a close beauty shot.

she looks beaten up and then forced to have her picture taken, and she looks like a mix of Kana Nishino and Miliyah. Was expecting more. Oh, and it's so nice to see how some people around here act as Ayu's protector and as if they know every little thing about Ayu... while they don't. :rolleyes

The covers are too pretty!!!! =D

@ marjakun

Well.. I think majrakun edited the cover of Moon/Blossom very well!

It's even as fabulous as the original.

Im really upset because I thought were going to be something different... but the covers are OK :)

It looks nice but it looks like shes gotten work on the face over the years....Lots of celebs do it of course but hers is starting to really show in my opinion

the BEST cover among the latest releases

I love her hair and the lights in the cover. <3 Also, the color of the backround is very pretty. :) Thanks for sharing!

nice one, very simple but nice... just wish Ayu stopped doing that pose with her lips
Thanks for sharing!

looks like she's wearing false nails but i can't see them *sob*
hope we get more shots sometime

the cover is pathetic!!! Her hair is weird and she's doing that retarded thing with her lips again.... How sad :(

u can tell how bad this cover is when people are comparing it with S/S covers. hope the remaining 2 give more surprises, and the PV better be epic~.

ayu won't stop with ahiru-kuchi (aka fish lips) since it's seen as fashionable in Japan.

And I don't mind since most of the time I find her lips the sexiest with that pout, for me, she can do it as much as she want(as long as it's not like a horse).

I don't think it's retarded/that she looks retarded at all to be honest.
She looks pretty normal.

Calendar 2009 cover was ackward and hors-y, now that was bad ahiru-kuchi.

Oh my god... some of you are really harsh... makes me sad...

I'd want to think that this happened because we only have 1 cover... when we have te others people will have betweet 2 face expresions, 3 poses, 2 whole covers to find which one they like and won't seem like it's a complet disaster...

haha yes, Ayu is still suitable to do that kind of fish lips..
just not too much..but i think on the cover, the fish lips are not too obvious..
just that the lip gloss kind of thick~

^yep~

^
^about it she wrote in twitter which lip gloss was using in MOON cover:

here you have the cause (?) XD

(in Rimmel London website there's a ranking and Nude Plump lip gloss is #1 xDDD)

she looks fat n the cover art is terrible -.-

what??

Wait she looks fat? :shakehead I don't see it....

If Ayu is fat then I'm a ****ing dinosaur.

Anyway let's just wait for a while more, I'm sure we will get the covers for the other versions too~

I SO hope, that the other covers will be out soon. I'm so curious...!! :heart

If Ayu is fat and retarded on this cover than the people informing us all of it must be smart. :roflmao

Really. Your only excuse could be that your English is bad, not that it seems that way. Pathetic? Retarded? Some harsh words. Those are just images. You don't have to like them, but calling her pathetic and retarded is dumb.

may be all the people who said it phaetic,,,retarted,,,ugly,,,fat,,,e,t,c...
should check their eyes to oculist,,,
may be getting night blindness,,,lol,,,
huh,,,,

yes,this is what i wanna say :o

i dont get why people keep complaining about the fish lips or whatever it is, CAN YOU PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES WIDELY,HER LIPS LOOK ALMOST NATURAL,JUST A LIL BIT OPEN,NO OVER POUTY LIPS THERE :headache

OHH~ SO ayu is using the rimmel lip gloss
how nice..i love the nude color that could make ur lips look richer haha XD

haha she did POUT or whatever fish lips a lot in CAWAII magazine i think..
and that looks weird wahaha XDD

This thread is almost filled and we just have one cover so far :laugh
Well, I am really surprised by all the hate the CD+DVD gets from some people. I mean, like reli people, I wouldn't even say some of the things you said (like "retarded" or "pathetic") about S/S covers. It's just a cover..and ayu tried her best with it, so you shouldn't be so harsh. This counts for every artists.. if they try their best for their fans, fans shouldn't be so hard on them.

although i don't really like this cover,but,i couldn't believe people will say ayu is retarded(or the fans who like this is retarded).please,people has their own taste.you don't like it,doesn't mean people cannot love it.please respect others if you want to be respected by others

Ayu fat?
Guys you should go to the doctor and check your eyes :| srsly.
If she's fat I'm super-obese :laugh

and i don't think we could even see her body on the cover..wahaha XDDDD
and she looks definitely so THIN!! look at the arm!!

yes,this is what i wanna say :o

i dont get why people keep complaining about the fish lips or whatever it is, CAN YOU PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES WIDELY,HER LIPS LOOK ALMOST NATURAL,JUST A LIL BIT OPEN,NO OVER POUTY LIPS THERE :headache

People should grow up. Seriously. It's very easy to see who the pathetic ones are, and if you wanna whinge about Ayu's work and attack her then you don't even deserve to listen to her music.

I love you my friend :)




and I can wait for the other covers! I don't mind! :)

LOVING IT!! can't wait for the other cover!

You guys should just ignore people who call ayu fat lol. It's so old already that there's no need to defend her. We all know she's not fat, she's perfect, end of story. Just adds up to extra pages of nothing. But if you must ._.

Anyways, why didn't they just upload both of the covers the same day and time? Why do this to us? XD

Because it is fake. In another Ayu forum, people used to post HD pictures of Ayu, where you can clearly see, that she has acne prone skin throughout all her career.

For those people that use to watch Ayu performances only in HD / .ts Quality, its not possible to hide this fact. Just a few random examples of my own:


I also can remind you on "forgiveness" performances, where she had a bad breakout, as well. I can upload those pics later, have to search for them on my external HDD.

It's Off-Topic I know, but its crazy that people like you are denying the reality, when some users write, they don't like the fact that the CD covers / photoshots etc are uber-fake. I feel, it is a fair statement and there is actually nothing to say against. So why do you do so?

^You should put the pics into spoiler brackets so it doesn't take up so much of the page. x_X

Anyway, the one problem I have with the new cover is that the font is white against a bright background... Kind of hard to read.

In my language i would say "Oj tam, oj tam :D"

I mean, chill up guys :D

I'm not embarassed about my skin anymore :laugh

^ Me neither :laugh.

Omg, she's HUMAN.

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Don't do drama about photoshop, because it's a recent fact and it will stay in this buiseness forever. I KNOW she is prettier inrl but i accept the "PS magic". And it's everywhere. US, Europe, ASIA, everywhere.

I'd rather have a cover with flawless skin and makeup than acne everywhere. Sincerelym it looks enough like ayu. Why do so many exaggerate out of proportion. Like they're seeing some godzilla and not ayu.

I like this just fine "fake" as it is.

Its her skin. Like really. Its no different than an ayu ccover from some time ago imo. Its ayu.

LOL @ the tags of this thread...XD

Hm~ I reli like the cover.
I'm happy with her face and her pose and everything.
She looks so beautiful. ~_~

Oh no, Ayu has bad skin ...how horrible! >_______________<

I think, everybody knows that professional pics of celebrities are ALWAYS photoshopped, this goes for Ayu too!
But what's so bad about it?

How can anybody get so worked up over covers? I don't understand it!
The things inside - the songs and PVs - are what counts, not the cover.


It's really sad, that we have to go through this everytime Ayu releases something new! -.-''

well this is what you make out of these type of people i guess


i thought people in here were a little bit more intelligent

The other cover hasn't been released yet? Even though it won't be much different than the CD+DVD version.

The people who saw her in realiy (in London for example) have to be considered as well and according to them she is as beautiful in reality as in the images.

A quick warning to all of you people getting on the mods' bad sides by making stupid tags: infractions will be dealt out from here on for anyone adding inappropriate tags, one for every tag.

She's just amazing and so tender!

too much photoshop.
she's making a fool of herself with that kind of covers.

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7398/copycat.jpg

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These are so beautiful...

Thanks for the cover! I like it. She looks so sweet and lovely. The lights, colors are beautiful.

I'm still waiting for the other covers haha :).

PD: We have to be more intelligent. The covers art is only a part of the disc. It's more important the music (songs) in it. I love Moon and blossom songs :)

Anyway, a friend of mine told me she looked like this picture of Mylène Farmer :
http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/8...ossomylene.jpg

Totally best covers in centuries. Hell, milleniums. :rolleyes

oh yes Mylene! she does! n_n

Mylene is a better comparison


but seriously, she looks like them so????? what's the BIG deal?

ayu looks so cuuuute

While this thread is above 500 posts, I'm not closing it for that reason, so please don't create a new one.

We're gonna do some (major) cleaning here and open it back up when it's done. Then there'll be plenty of space to discuss the covers in this thread.

OK, I opened the thread back up. But please, stay on topic.

And don't spam up the thread with "Where are they?" - "I'm bored, gonna get some corn flakes while I wait." We're gonna have to start handing out spam infractions then.

Thank you!

now I see the comparisons and I agree

I always love miliyah katos looks. She's so beautiful.

There are similarities, which is cool. But I can still feel this weird vibe to know its ayu. Same for miliyah. :)

She looks nothing like that Mylene person except for the hairstyle. With Miliyah, I think it's the hair, the lips, and the coloring of their covers that look similar, but I notice ayu has a lot more life in her eyes.

ewww kato lol
she is in a lot of magazines that i read (Jelly), but i never thought she was pretty.

ayumi is hella pretty! when i went to the countdown tour, i saw her so close. her skin is beautiful! lol
i heard she doesnt even wear foundation and only the base during her concerts. since she sweats a lot and there is no time to redo it.

So at this point, TA is STILL down? Kind of crazy because it has been almost 24 hours...