thanks for that & T______________________T @ the LOVE EYES

what's that supposed to be ? o_O :irked , I guess I will only know about it in due time

hmmm not sure whether for the Hong Kong press of LOVE is BEST , will it come with a digipak or not & that whether will HMV be importing the Taiwan or Hong Kong press of LOVE is BEST in due time

I said so because for LOVE LETTER , they imported the Taiwan press ; 1st press ; digipak ; CD + DVD over here , unlike her past albums where it has been Hong Kong presses

ah decisions decisions decisions

LOL i dunno why but LOVE EYES just cracks me up :laugh

LMAO yeah me too :roflmao

I imagine LOVE EYES to be some silly goofy 3D-ish googles or something like that o_O

yeah i really don't understand the glasses thing LOL.. but it's.. original i guess?

yeah I suppose so

other artistes I know , don't have such a 1st press item called LOVE EYES

already the name of the item freaks me out somehow

LOVE EYES 8)

Well maybe one of her PVs (Is?) would be 3-D and we need the LOVE EYES to see all the LOVE in it, XD

:roflmao

I'm curious to see if that really will work Jun Xiang :laugh

come on avex , please surprise me on this xD

It will be an interesting gimmick, otherwise the "LOVE EYES" would be a collectable sunglasses or something then...

And I finally remember why I like Neko ni Fuusen's PV so much... the cats remind me of Smoky from Mahou Sentai Magiranger!

http://www.toeihero.net/archive/noa/.../07/smoky0.jpg

i dont like is, i've repeate dit like 5itmes, and it wasn't appealing to me..
I definitely like her balalds so much more

First thing that came to my mind when I thought of LOVE EYES:

http://i34.tinypic.com/wrzw38.jpg

:laugh

LOL :laugh

maybe Travis & it probably be in PINK 8D

^

Maybe the glasses Ai wear during LOVE PiECE Tour 2008 during Mirai Taxi Performance?
But the glasses doesn't have any Love Sign...

OMG I NEED TO HAVE THAT :thud

LOL these images you guys posted are hilarious. especially that picture you posted, waterballoon :laugh

LOL. This is sort of what I figured, too. :laugh I don't think it's much of an appeal but whatever. :laugh

Or perhaps they're LOVE shaped?

i'm watching the LOVE LETTER tour from March now and the new version of chu-lip is soo different, omg i love it.

^ Me also like it~

She sings it in "quiet version" for some parts, that's cute!

EDITED
I browsing google for LOVE EYES, and i found this:


The fourth one is looks like an inspirational cover for LOVE LETTER TOUR 2009 :D

But, about these LOVE EYES, these aren't glasses, so, i don't know either~ :D

^^Hm, that last picture IS interesting...Though, I have seen plenty of hearts cut in half so that they're kissing. XD So it really could be anything. :shrug

And could anyone upload the instrumental version of Bye Bye? I think I used to have it but lost the whole single when my desktop crashed. :weep

HILARIOUS!! :laugh but adorable, too. :P

Nevermind on the instrumental, I re-downloaded the single from the downloads section. :)

But hey, I'm trying to make a sort of "Ai am Ballads" CD for myself and took ALL of her ballads and she's only got like...23 or something. :dead2 I thought it would be so much more!

^ I made a compilation like that before too. XDDD

Well, when you think about it... She really doesn't have very many songs total. She has 5 albums which are like 11 songs each, + B-sides... So that doesn't really add up to toooo many songs.

interesting!
maybe we have to use the LOVE EYES to watch the PV?
haha

new downloads!

Futatsu Boshi Kinenbi ~New Recording~ (Radio Rip).mp3
Pocket ~Last Love Letter~ (Radio Rip).mp3

credit to miyago @ Channel-ai, i just reuploaded them

i really love them both! her voice is a lot better in Futatsuboshi Kinenbi imo. and i love how the new version of pocket is just simple. it's like a piano/acapella version

wow thanks for these

perfect , just before I go to bed LOL xD

I might review them in my music blog too :yes

new recordings comments

Futatsu Boshi Kinenbi - oh this's more jazzier/lounge/chilled back than the original & her vocals's better in here . Love the strings too

Pocket - it's like Ai except it's shorter & it's somehow more emotional driven than the original take of the song

I'm so glad that I decided to get LOVE is BEST locally in due time 8D & looks like my inital mixed reaction on this might NOT be so bad now after all haha

This "BEST" album doesn't seem to be so bad after all. :P

Her voice in New Futatsu Boshi Kinenbi is a much better than before~
Can't wait for the album~

You mean it's like LOVE LETTER? XD That's exactly what it sounds like... so I really don't like it. :x I hate the beginning sooo much. I wish the original Pocket would be on the CD instead. ;_; But oh well~

The new Poketto isn't as good as the original, but the new Futatsu makes up for it! :)

cover
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7007/amdvdl.jpg

promo
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6205/amcdz.jpg

1st collab track "aisuxtime" ai x SU (RIP SLYME) will be on the album, full tracklist http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ai/discography/

Wooooah cover. XDDD I like it though.

it looks very.. valentines day-ish
and i hate her hair. but it's ok. at least it's ai on the cover :yes
and i'm not so excited about the new onextime version anymore :(

wow the cover is adorable :love

Ai borrowed Angela's hairdryer it seems. The cover is so different. I really like it. Yay for new collaboration.

OMG THAT IS STUNNING. a HUGE step up from LOVE LETTER! my favorite cover since LOVE PiECE! :P i love the setting, her outfit, and all those hearts. her hair isn't so bad, either :yes

I love the cover and promo pic! She looks so different and beautiful! Man she's surprising me this year. ^^

Ooo I love love the covers! So different and cute! I was scared she wasn't going to be on the cover like in Ai am Best.

And WOW, Ai x Ripslyme? Never thought they'd collaborate. Rather random~

wow

that's 1 really cool cover & the promo pic is :heart

1st collab track "aisuxtime" ai x SU (RIP SLYME) will be on the album - it's track what in LOVE is BEST ?

I totally dislike the cover :dead2

the promo pic isn't so bad though XD

I like the cover but totally not liking the font LOL

the concept is cool...but i don't feel the execution and the result is fine, not great not bad

Jesus her hair *pukes*

But everything else is perfection. I'm in love with all the details... so pinkish cover and omg her clothes especially the boots are :luv2

I forgot to say I hate the Font, so much, with a passion.

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the cover!!! :heart Seriously, I think this has been the best cover of any artist for the last 2 years!! :heart I love everything about it! I never expected the cover of such a compilation CD to be so awesome. This cover just triggered me to buy it when I wasn't even considering it anymore. XD

And my god, this cover just lifted my spirits so high from being so lown today. I can't believe how much this has helped me tonight. :)

EDIT: I just listened to the 2 songs. The new Pocket is so strange...it IS just like Ai! O_O I wonder why the current interest in acapella songs? And Futatsu Boshi Kinebi sounds exactly the same to me except that her voice is a little more toned this time around. It's not as...(what is the word I'm looking for?)crackly? Maybe that's the word? It's a lot more smooth now. :yes I like it. And does this song remind anyone else of onsens? :laugh

^ You mean LOVE LETTER, not ai right? @_@ Because it's LOVE LETTER that starts out a cappella and goes into piano, not ai. XD

behind the scenes of aisuxtime PV..

holy ****. i did not expect this..
i really do not know what to think right now!

.......well this is shaping to be an interesting release now, isn't it? :laugh

btw, that's a crazy looking cover (i like it though, haha!). love the pink. :heart

OMG I LOVE THE COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and omg at the pv x____x thats so not the ai we know XD (or maybe she is :lech ) shes definatly going into a different direction like what she mentioned before!

@ Tom Punks - I don't know but I feel that the new version of Pocket sounded a lot more like Ai

I don't know why I didn't mentioned LOVE LETTER initally but yeah I will include that too haha

mmm looks like getting LOVE is BEST wouldn't be such a bad thing after all LOL LOL

the cover is really nice (;
not what i expected, but still... so is there any differences between CD only and CD+DVD covers ? i didn't notice anything...

^^ sorry ot but is that seo in young in your ava?

^ that's her ;)

OH MY GOD........... WTF.

Edit: I meant to quote identity, not you. XDD BUT YEAH, wtf at that PV preview. @_@

omg...another ima sugu hoshii? :laugh i really don't like this sexual kind of PV, lol. :laugh

:dead2

ok LOVE is BEST probably might not get a PG rating in due time here LMAO

ooh holy ****, i thought i will never get hooked by ai again, but here i am :luv2 woot, love the cover A LOT, its the best album pic for ai otsuka and probably one of the best cover in the year! her hair looks like chara's :laugh

Wow, it was really weird watching that o.0 wtf happened to her XD

I'm gonna watch that PV preview thingy now and omg I hate Ai for making me like what I used to hate (LOVE is BEST)... XD

WHAT A COVER!!!

I really like the PV too, it looks really hot, but in a nice way! I loved the effect of the kanji getting tatooed on the person's leg.

i'm hoping LOVE is BEST will sell well to make up for the LOVE LETTER sales.
i wonder if she really will leave the "LOVE" off of her next album titles. hopefully she won't replace "LOVE" with something else. i'd like totally different album names

omg Ai is horny. :O It looks so cool... I can't wait to watch the PV!

Can't wait to watch the PV...looks very risque, my she's pulling out all the stops recently, isn't she? XD

Though I wish the guy was hotter... if I were Ai, I might need to puke after each take with all the intimate scenes with him... XD

I think he's hawt personally. LOL

Well to each his own :P I'm so happy Ai is becoming a naughty girl again. LOVE LETTER was like wtf too demure @_@

I don't know but this probably might be her last ditch attempt to boost her sales up

seems like a sell out thing to do which I really hate

you mean you think the sexual thing is an attempt to get attention? :( idk. but it's not like.. the naked girl in the video is ai though right? or is it? :shakehead

yeah & it's attention of not the good kind

otsuka always have been all along known for being demure & goody goody

how will her long time fans who have supported her from the beginning 6 years ago til now react to this ?

better quality (but still kind of small) image of the cover
http://i37.tinypic.com/15clm6f.png

i'm liking it more now! the colors look a lot more vibrant!

at channel-ai people don't seem to like it much. i've supported her for 5 years now and it seems weird, but i'm just going to wait to judge it when the full thing comes out. i have no problem with her trying new things though as long as she doesn't go overboard with the sexual image and not every PV from now on is like that

^ i love the pink!!!! :luv2

i hope so too :(

Well Ai has always been weird-horny.

CHU-LIP for example, was just lol. And her black cow tongue song... lol

^ Yeah, Ai's usually been sexual but not like sexy sexual, if that makes sense. Just like... innuendos and stuff. I've been a fan of her since like almost the very beginning of her career so this really is so strange to me. x_x I used to love her little girl image so it's like... totally weird. XD And yeah, it does seem kind of a sellout thing to do.

cover of WHAT's IN?
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4900/amcdq.jpg

nice set of pics from the site (vid comment can also be found there)
http://www.musicnet.co.jp/whatsin/ar..._otsukaai.html

^ she looks so pretty! but what is that weird thing on her head :dead2

she looks so cute in that hat and boots. the shirt is weird though.
what color is her hair now? is it the same color as it was during a-nation or did she dye it back to the color in these pics? or were the pics taken before she dyed it? i'm so confused lol

so beautiful. one thing i really love about ai is that a lot of her photoshoots look natural

I hope she dyed her hair cos the color in a-nation was just gross beyond words.

@Tom: I get what you mean since this time her sexiness is really direct and "in-your-face", but this could be a new image/direction she's taking. I don't think it would last really long... she's too cute like in the mag scans, XD

nice photos & omg at that Kame lookalike side permed mimic hairdo D: :dead2

:roflmao

some fur hat which has been mangled badly -_-

I LOVE IT :luv2
it will be her best PV in yeaars *oo*

I'm actually not a big fan of the cover... and wow at the PV!

LOL for the PV, it's kinda~

I think that's because this line :


That's why Ai Love Otsuka :D

wow @the pv o_O

WOW its like ima sugu hoshii feel. Sensual~

hello, can someone help me find this ai otsuka performance ??
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95059
please please please, thank you in advance!! :D:D:D

Ah crap the PV clip was removed before I could see it. After all of the comments I'm very anxious to see!! First the July and August calendar pics and now something more nosebleed inducing ( :heart )?

wow, those pics are beautiful! i love ai's hair and poka dot shirt :D

Including Ai in a sassy blond wig (think NEVER EVER but less rough), doing sensual movements such as

- Grabbing the leg of a naked female and singing
- Showing scenes of foreplay; rubbing/stroking of thighs
- Lips close up as she and the fug guy sing

video was removed :/

new photos are so awsome. she's so sweet and beautiful

her hair look like perfume's nocchi :D very cute

“aisu x time” is the title of the new remix song of “One x Time” which will be included in LOVE is BEST planned for November 11.

Otsuka came up with the idea of doing a new version of her “One x Time” with a hip-hop flavor. As a fan of RIP SLYME’s music, she invited SU to do the collaboration with her.

The “aisu” in the title refers both to the song’s theme of love and the names of the two artists.

http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/

wow One x Time getting the hip hop treatment , shiok man

& the cover for LOVE is BEST is the same for both CD & CD + DVD's editions

Unusual to have the same artwork for each version, isn't it?

not really

her Ai am BEST also have the same cover too . Well a while back ago , there was a limited pressing release of the CD only edition & it had the same cover as the CD + DVD so yup

Ahh, maybe I'm just used to other artists not doing this. XD
But at least it's a good cover. ^^