Oh wow, this is A LOOK

LOL, i hardly ever use that word here (if ever) but i HATE that photo :laugh One of the worst of her in a while. That style is...bad..... This whole thing is just plain ugly it kinda hurts my eyes xD I don't know maybe it wouldn't be as bad if that black&white filter wasn't so LOUD and didn't make her look like a black and white blob with lips and slits for eyes (that cap is a mistake lol) But i'm glad to see something new :laugh I love the one of her with the flower, there's just something about it so serene i can't put my finger on it. <3

860K views now! :)

*trying to manifest this as a mantra or something*

The hat reminds me of ANother song PV.
But it's weird, it hides half of her face. ^^

But nice pic overall. I'm not expecting the annoucement of a new album before at least months (or years even) but a photobook would be appreciated. :)

Guys, I don't use Apple Music but looks like many albums are just... gone (?) RAINBOW, secret, NEXT LEVEL and some other tracks as well, someone said it's also happening with Kumi :shakehead what's going on?

Yasss, I keep replaying it ^^ So good

I’m in new Zealand, all of her albums are still there

She's serving.

CDJapan says it will have an external bonus to A Ballads 2, any ideas about what it can be? A poster maybe?
"First Press Detail: sleeve packaging
External Bonus: Bonus detail is to be announced"

Germany, all there.

Sleeve packaging is welcome! So far the external bonuses were mostly post cards, poster I don't need 😗

On Apple Music all of those albums aren’t under albums but compilations. It’s a mess.

mu-mo also has an undecided external bonus, wait and see^^

That's nice, thanks!

885K views now! :)

Haru yo is saving my days <3

She looks STUNNING

https://i.imgur.com/adwxn4N.png

her latest post really makes me wish there would be new music soon :luv2

please be new music and not another perfume or bra commercial or ice cream machine like, none of that shit please

AND IT WONT BE PINK!! :weep Thanks god. Are we sure this is 2021? Already teasing something before the new compilation even comes out. The hype.

Is Unstoppable a hint?

I was thingking the same, that would be a cool song/album tittle! like it or not she is unstoppable after all :laugh

Party Queen (Yuta Nakano’s Chimes Progress) coming soon. :P

Could be new song title. Fits ayu very much

It seems like a magazine shoot, I don't know? But it's on the same style as DaD

I think it's most likely a magazine shoot. The title would really fit Ayu and there could be an interview about her resuming her musical activities (new songs) & how she's still working, even though she's a mother now (or the online lives that she did as a response to covid), etc..

Not saying any of that will actually come true but it's kinda the vibe I'm getting.

From neowing:

Initial specifications Sleeve specifications
External benefits A BALLADS 2 original card

Maybe a postcard.

Thank you for letting me know :) I'll definitely enjoy a pretty card.

MV just hit 900K! :love

A MILLION HERE WE COME!

Lmao my thoughts exactly!! Terrible photo processing.

They showed packaging for limited editions


That doesn’t look bad, but I’m not a fan of those loose cards. I also don’t like how they made sides of the box not flowing with the cover. That cut arm:/

T-shirt:

meh

Mu-Mo bonus: mask case


There’s also original card based on CD+2DVD/BD cover (148x148 mm)

omg it looks so pretty

Looks beautiful! I love the colours! Thanks for sharing :)

I'm so curious about the book ��

OMG everybody needs to watch this digest T_T



So well done!!

woooow I love how the tie in movies are edited in as well!

So cool right?! I cried so much from life onwards T_T

Amazing digest! They did such a great job.

Really got me excited to hear all the remastering. Also made me remember how much I love MY STORY era lol.

I'm only eight minutes in but oh my god this is so good! ayu's fans are so so much better than ayu's staff in this

It’s a crime that this isn’t official.

T-shirt is special lame, as I expected! Mysterious bonus photo cards! Looks promising. I also like to homemade case

Omg! The back of this T-shirt looks even more lame

A ballad book 2003-2021. Probably not a photobook

the 2 additional cards are most likley the inside covers of the 2CD+DVD Edition, as it says in the description there will be 2 different covers inside the slipcase.

Damn that's autocorrection XD I didn't notice even after edited message twice. homemade=mask, mask case

I love the mask case the most, the big package is also beautifully designed, I'm still anticipating for a hidden track on the album

The only hidden track I’d want is a remastered version of RAINBOW lol.

The mask case is really cool, so is the shirt. it's way better than I envisioned it being. I like that the text runs down the spine.

HWANYWORLD does some really cool videos, i really envy his talent for real lol He actually knows about AHS but said he can't work out how to use the forum xD

Same here. Now it's my only hope!!!

950K views :love

Something really interesting I noticed is that since the A BALLADS 2 promo started and specially after Haru Yo, Koi release she gained a lot of Youtube subscribers! Before that she had about 490k for several months and now she's got over 504K subscribers :yes

She gained a lot of subscribers in general since they uploaded all those concerts in March etc.. :)

This video impressed me so well, the editor is incredible, the most impressive part is SAKURA and TODAY (How can they know Ayu was singing TODAY while it was muted in the bts) ...

You guys must watch it once because the editor must be super Ayu- lover.

The special edition looks amazing, I can't wait to have it in my hands. :weep

Not a big fan of that picture they used on the t-shirt, but it's all good.

How can we explain it to him to make him come here? :laugh


He's a massive fan, in the Party Queen album review he just posted he has all five editions of the album (CD, CD+DVD, CD+2DVD, collectors box and playbutton). THAT'S dedication! :luv2

he is not the only one that owns all editions xD

I know that, but he's the only collection I've seen personally in recent weeks. And I have an ongoing joke with him about how much I hate the playbuttons and he still buys them. :laugh

my playbuttons also all died, but I still miss 4 and want to buy them xD

https://buyee.jp/mercari/item/m15011812485

I like the description of this item: JUNK

I wonder if they could be restored somehow or if the technology is just utterly obsolete now?

I sadly had something similar happen with my NEXT LEVEL USB. I was pretty sad about that so I bought another one. I was just glad I was able to find and buy two around the time it was released.

So how are you guys getting the album delivered?

Japan post sends parcels to my country.

About track listing. I just wish they had chosen HAPPY ENDING instead of HOPE or PAIN.

They're shipping to the UK, too.

Regular airmail from CDJapan.

From CDJapan through DHL

Probably going to have to be DHL

I'll have a look on that option!

FedEx! Surprisingly, cdjapan's shipping fee isn't that bad

airmail from CDJapan to Belgium

DHl for my CDJ order and I think for tenso I will choose EMS

I adore HAPPY ENDING but somehow I feel like HOPE or PAIN matches the tone of A BALLADS more? I'm also glad the song is getting a bit of love!

I haven't decided yet, my copy is going to tenso and I need to check the postage costs when it arrives. I don't want to pay $180 for DHL shipping again like I did with Promised Land. :headache

^$180 for shipping? This is insane O.O

I hate EMS right now. I’m still waiting for one package that was sent 2 weeks ago. Yet regular registered airmail arrived in Poland within 10 days :/

The video just reached 1 million views! :love

Which ones? I'd be happy to sell you mine if you need what I have. :D


Yep, so I might get AB2 sent by surface mail this time, I'm not sure. I have to bundle it with my mumo sale goods as well.

Woohooo!!:syesyes

Still no EMS to Australia?

Yay! :luv2

We have a smaller fandom nowadays so it's really nice to see that we achieved that in just over a week!

She seems happy about it too, on instagram's stories :love



Now we gotta give Dreamed a Dream a 1M views! Let's gooo

QUEEN! :heart I'm so happy people are enjoying the song and the video. I've been watching it at least twice a day since it was released. :laugh

I'm so happy, she said she felt touched or something like that for hitting 1M views on her IG story :love

Edit: For the first in ages it feels like she tweeted something instead of her staff, I wonder if that was really her or they wrote the tweet like in a more personal way, still I'm glad she's so happy for the MV!

I have been watching it 5 times a day. I have no life lol!

I saw it today, thought it was official since it was released on saturday. It's a shame that it isn't, it was a really marvelous memory trip and well edited. :heart

In case anyone is wondering, I checked the oricon youtube chart and unfortunately Haru yo koi didn't make it to top 30 after all :(

It would have been fun although, I can live without it, she had never been a sensation on youtube.

Usually the videos that enter the Oricon Streaming Top30 have more than 2millions views in one week :(

It's been 4 days...no one talks about the album? Any news on the tracklist position?

^What's there to say? The full tracklist and its order has been revealed a while ago already.

Yeah, even she's been really quiet these days, well she's also pretty close to give birth (supposedly, we don't know for sure) so I think for now we can only wait for the release :laugh

recently I was listening to " Colours " and I realized that such a beautiful ballad as PRAY is not in the tracklist. I love this song so much and I think it would be a perfect A Ballad 2 track...oh well this is how it goes when you are an artist with sooooo many epic songs <3

I wonder if she gave birth and that's why she's so silent

Quick question - i saw that there was a mock up of the sleeve packaging which looks nice with all the other add-ons.

For the 2CD only version, do you think it will come in the digipak folding cardboard design, or will the 2CD come in a regular jewel case?

Probably just jewel case, 2cd is the only edition didnt stated anything in official website.

the 2cd+BDorDVD will have sleeve case.

I think that’s the case...

That would make sense, considering we're so close to the release now... Someone in her team should take over her Insta and keep teasing us! :rolleyes

I changed my delivery option in CDJapan from airmail to DHL, it's $10 difference and I won't have to wait or worry about it :) It's so soon!

I was thinking the DVD Blu ray comes in a fat cd case and have a cardboard sleeve. Maybe is a digipack like the mumo shop version?

I have a couple of problems with the track list and the injustice done to Ivy, Sweet Scar, Shape of Love and a couple of other tracks in favour of stuff like Curtain call, TODAY and untitled is just baffling to me :D ironna koto, ironna koto...ah

Green is the biggest omission for me along with Hanabi episode 2 (I want to say Will too but I never felt that had a chance of making it, more wishful thinking!)

I would have appreciated if Pray and WORDS make the cut over some others not so famous songs. Other than that I like the tracklist. The flow is great for both CDs and I’m digging more her vocal in Haru yo koi (except the first word Awaki I just can’t stand the sound lol)