thanks so much for sharing the trans..
so it's cancer then!

So the cake gave him cancer in his awesome?^

^ hehe how could the cake give him cancer..
hehe~~ poor him~ XD

I see flumpool as the highest non-Ayu, but they're not as popular as Ayu, so we're GREEN BOARD for the record!

* That. :yes hehehe

HAHA xD I'm sorry~~ My mind still in blossom mode XD

Yeah, it's VR :laugh. Thanks for correcting me :)

Did you ignore SID? SID is the highest non-ayu and they've outsold flumpool for ... well for all the time flumpool has been releasing singles.

Still, they're no match for Ayu. Their best selling single might've sold more than MOON/blossom, but that had an amazing tie-in and didn't have strong first week sales so it still wouldn't matter.

Are the glasses ayu wears on crossroad cover available for sale?

http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/blog/2010/09/post-61.html
http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/blog/2010/09/post-62.html

I wonder if the single will leak tomorrow?? :3
foyuki? :3

No, they are only being displayed there. :)

bahahahahaha..awesome storyline XDD

asmAyumi1992, that's okkk~~~~

Oh good they made S/S cover small XD
I can't wait to have both on my walls :heart
Thanks LostHeaven

I like posters!

the covers are a lot more appealing in the poster that comes with L

@LostHeaven, That's the posters for what? I'm sorry if I ask dumb question.

I love the second poster....it's better than the furst one.
That means that someone has the single???Hope it leaks tomorrow

honestly this the second banner of singles lol at least it'll spark some interest in older fans

and YA i'm so eager to get the single!! i've actually not listened to the Last angel preview

i'm really worried about L waaah

HOPEFULLY i cant wait. crossroad leaked around the same time too

First press posters for crossroad an L

Meaning her recent covers are better?

yeah, when i look at them side by side i notice her really old ones are a bit dull in comparison.

I agree! :roflmao

Me too, even if the old ones are more original
Off topic:Have you already listened to Virgin Road 700 times???O_O

Yes! I absolutely adore that song~ Listening to it now LOL.

ooh i like the posters! ^^ her newer covers are definitely more colorful.
(i wish they'd made the cover for Endless sorrow bigger though)

Do we know for sure that there won't be any special first press packaging for L? I really want to know it as I already made an order...

promo poster

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...oi8gc94856.jpg


cdjapan and mu-mo wiped information about special packaging

Beautiful! But I'm glad it's not the poster for the first press.

I think the PV for 'Virgin Road' is actual the story of Bonnie and Clyde.

source

^so, end of this PV might be very dramatic

I hope L leaks tomorrow like crossroad did last week. I want to hear Last angeeeeel!

:rolleyes:rolleyes:rolleyes

Yes it should be the story of Bonnie & Clyde with a few little changes.
As I know the two weren´t married, Bonnie was married to an other man.

I'm quite excited to see the pv after watching the cm and reading this! Now where's last angel!

I would steal it from the shop...OxO

wow lol! do you listen to it like all day? i love the song but i would probably get sick of it listening to it THAT much.

yeah that's what i thought too. most of them are more colorful and exciting.

^
Yeah. I mean, I think VR is the best ballad ever released by Ayu (yes, even better than M). But I've "only" listened to it about 30 times or so over the past few days, which is x3 times more than I normally listen to a new song by Ayu. Too bad I have the song on a computer without last.fm, or I'd be able to give a more exact number.

But I've seen new Ayu songs been played 800+ times before by fans, so I'm not shocked :laugh I mean, it's just a good thing!

I would've ripped that poster down the wall, and made a run for it o.o

^I think too that Virgin Road is just THE best. This song just never gets boring. 800 times is really many listens. I listen thi song now for 95 times, what is pretty much for me.

Posters- hmm i would prefer an offshot from teh shoot but i'm akoy whit this

lol i only have 12 plays of Virgin Road. i'd listen to it more but i prefer to listen to ayu songs in the highest quality plus i'm focusing more on the crossroad single right now.

^
Same. But I'm like: "Must...not...listen...wait for...Ultra-HQ..."
Good thing my Itunes won't work atm :laugh

Ah! I didn't notice it! Thank you ;)

Bonnie and Clyde... It IS really weird... I created a character back in April (for my school) just based on her bunny waitress outfit, and I named her... Bonnie and it is a road movie :tipsy

So many coincidences! Haha.

YES! I'm thinking that I should stop before I get sick of it, but that chorus! :heart

In fact, I'm sitting in Panera doing homework, desperately resisting the temptation to use my hand to channel my inner conductor and "direct" the four piano notes/chords that make the downward scale just before the chorus starts.

Wow, I don't know how people can listen to a song THAT much! xD
Even when RnRC came out and I was obsessing over "count down", i'm sure I didn't listen to it over 200 times. I don't want to get sick of song I love! XDD

And I don't even have "Virgin Road" on my ipod yet, also waiting for HQ.

HUge promotion for L ^^ For the while she is on the main page of yesasia http://www.yesasia.com/global/en/home.html

if by "huge" you mean "moderately noticeable by westerners" then yes, huge promo

I was excited for a sec for the huge promotion until I saw the link was directed to yesasia... sigh..

Huge promotion should refer to lots of posters around Shibuya... (dreaming rite now..)

Oh, nice. I wouldn't exactly call that huge promotion though :/

i usually see ayu advertised on the front page of YA anyway. i don't think it's that big of a deal.

crossroad and L in yesasia had posters ????


I love the 2 posters together like a huge poster

about promotion, ayunews in twitter said sth like in 50 music stores in Tokyo there's will be real size cardboards of ayu for some time..

http://twitter.com/#!/ayunews/status/25414544806


that seems like a good and new promo, right? =)

wow.cool.i want it!

cool!

Wooow, amazing promo!

great discovery, i think that's the story

Yea same here! Im trying not to listen to it so many times because the HQ is gonna be wow. I'm listening to crossroad so often now hahha...

im gonna be stalking this place today...
*prays*
(i bet its not gonna come out when so many of us hopes that it will lol!)

Awesome thing for promo!!!
Hopefully it will help :D

That's a good promo, but I wouldn't want one in my room XD Those cardboard cutouts scare me O_O

Im still obsessing over crossroad, I cant get enough of it. Who knows when Ill be ready for L @_@ This is too soon @_@

^ surely this promo will boost up the sales...:D :D

go ayu go!!

beat seiko's record!!! :D :D

Why would normal people want that???? (except for rabid fans).

Bad promo AVEX.

errr,its as a promo tool or it actually given to the people to bought it?

that's a really cool promotion idea. i'm happy with all the magazine promotion she's doing too for these singles. now just for more lives..

Has the poster for L been revealed yet? I'm excited for it since the batch of covers is much better. And because it'll be at my door in the next week~

^ once again

That thing about promo in 50 stores looks great...
Do you guys think L will leak today?

^ I didn't heard anything about it.. seems it will leak on monday

my order on cdjapan In Shipping Process

mine too :x hope it comes soon as i'm trying not to download the full crossroad/blossom PV :">

Im digging to get the 2nd poster since all of the singles I own was there :D

Mine too ^^ i'll try to keep the songs in HQ for when i receive L, try to not DL the single this WE =D

Pics from L single Jacket A


Pics from Virgin Road making (a lot of pics)


And the guy from baidu who shared the pics described the PVs
Google Translation

^On the making pics with her hair long she looks like (m)u erea

omg she reminds me of penelope cruz, don't know why xD

YES back to awesome looking OBIs! I was just thinking today how I hate lately the Obi's have just been extensions of the cover :) now they're going back to being preeeetyy.

have you guys seen the "el mariachi" trilogy by robert rodriguez? this pv looks so similar to that movies^^

Sweet! I can't wait for those rips!

She looks sooooo great in those pics...Please someone rip the single soon!!!

i'm excited to see Virgin Road Making Of because i bet Ayu will speak some in english!!! :yatta

I'm speechless!

She looks so gorgeous :heart
I can't wait for the whole single and PVs =D

thx ^^

Sweet Seasons... suprisingly...I LOVE THIS SONG!!! so relaxing!!!

Last Angel.... OMG I LOVE IT!
It's to freaking epic. :heart

It's like GAME intro, dark and low verse with some speed-up in the chours a la evolution/sparkle.

Perfection...

Last Angel sounds like Connected, it has an old sound
Sweet Seasons is too lovely

I LOVE THEM ALL!!!!!!
Last Angel's opening is amazing.

I'm so happy right now...it almost feels like a new album with all the new songs in such a short time!

Oh my Last Angel is SUCH AN AWESOME SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This single is so so so so great!!! :D

OH MY GOD 'Last angel' is probably one of the best songs i've heard. i love this entire single; each song is ayu at her possible best.

Last angel is brilliant!
I love it sooooo much!
Thank you Ayu!!!!

Last angel = LOVE

Sweet Season = Hmm...

ALL OF THE SONGS ARE AMAZING. what a solid single. Last Angel's arrangement is ****ing awesome omg. i know what i'll be having on repeat the next few hours.
Sweet Season is so relaxing and i really love her vocals. i almost wanted to cry listening to this song because it made me so happy. i really want to know the lyrics now.

Sweet Season is... sweet XD, has cheering but non cutesy sound. I really like it, but I don't think I will listen to it a lot. Virgin Road is still epic, I think I even loved it more listening to the single.
When I heard Last angel intro I immediately thought of Mirrorcle World XD and it was misleading in the same way :laugh From all those positive and ultra hyped comments I expected something really epic... And this is... Too slow for me for a while. However, it's still very good and kind of unique.

kyaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! i love this single,i love everything!!

Sweet Season is really calm,and yepp,really a girl next door theme ^_^

and Virgin Road sound great in HQ!

...and OMG!!! this one made me crazy! Last Angel...i thought its gonna be a ballad again,and BAM! its a trance-ish song and i love the arrangement this time.

thanx to the Empress!

I like crossroad, Virgin Road and Last angel. But I REALLY hope this is the end of TK. These songs are too long and their melodys too weird. If she does more of them, I might have to die x_x

I like Virgin Road the most, followed by Last Angel. I don;t see anything special about Sweet Season, it's just another b-side.

She sang with emotions in VR. As for LA, it sounds like a song from Koda Kumi. The reason i like it is it's been a long time since we last hear an upbeat song from her.

Best single in 2010 in terms of song quality. I hope the PVs are good too.

besides the title being the same as one of kumi's song titles, what do you think is similar? like, what kumi song does it remind you of? i'm curious. i can't think of anything in kumi's discography that sounds like that.

My take:

Virgin Road: Still as epic. Sounds amazing in HQ because of the right dynamics and sound. I love how it just builds and builds!

Sweet Season: YAY! Just what I needed. It reminded me of Life actually. I like it alot. The verses reduced the supposed-cuteness by miles and everything just flows so nicely. Yea, there's something country in the background music :)

Last angel: This is some tempo crazy song! I APPROVE! When the opening came, I was thinking what on earth am I listening because the chaku-uta was so lively. I love how positive the chorus is and it totally contrast with the cool verse. I love the part in between where her voice is clearer and the tempo picks up. Her voice is just stunning there. LOL, i have so much to say about this song. It's seriously really cool.

GREAT SINGLE!!!!

I don't even remember Kumi has a song with the same title, it's just her vocal and the melody here and there. It doesn't resemble any particular song but her singing just reminds me of Kumi. I still like the song a lot!

L is defenetly one of my all time favo singls.

Sweet seasons, gave me a warm summer evening sense, very lovely song. I adore it

Last Angel: for me it fits in the rule sparkle train. I know it is more rock and little slower it fits that train. Really I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song!!!!


This single is just toooooo awsome for words

This this this ! This song is a perfect happy medium between cutesy songs and ballads, I feel so nostalgic when listening to it !

And Last angel... O Ayu, why don't you make such perfect single every month ? :D

Seriously, best single since Rule/Sparkle !

Despite listening for a few times now, I'm still not sure what really to make of this single. I realy, really like Virgin Road. It's my favourite Ayu song since a while now. Sweet Season is not as horrible as I thought from the preview, but still a little boring. I don't love it, but it is an okay song for me. Last Angel, I'm the most confused about....some parts are really cool, some feel incredibly dated and a bit weird. Overall I think L is a good single. I prefer crossroad & L over MOON/blossom and even over Rock'n'Roll Circus so except for MOON/blossom even though I'm not completely in love with current Ayu-music the direction is right.