I think they're a lot a lot better than Party Queen and LOVE again. I'm happy with them. I'm getting the CD edition so I'm pleased c: I think that's one of the best covers.

totally look so AYUMAZING!
ayu looks so sophisticated and elegant!
i'm wondering about the booklet pics!

I always say that artists shouldn't do it halfass, like ok i give you great music but everything else it's gonna be a lackluster. If you do it right, do it till the end.

At least that's what i always say. And i only spend money (lets face it, you do slavery to live these days) on things that are actually 100% in full effort. So it's kinda the same for me if i don't like the music till very last song i won't buy the album,if i only like the cover i won't buy it. I need the whole pack. And so many artists know how to pull it off. You don't need huge funds just right people.

Oh, they are so great. So simple yet classy and flawless!!

I'm not amazed by these covers, but they don't look bad in my opinion. Text placement could be much better, but otherwise fine, and definitely not the worst Ayu has ever done for covers.
While I do see the point that people are making about these covers not fitting with the album title, I see another side to these covers: these pictures, though they may seem quite plain, do in fact have millions (well, in HQ at least) of tiny different particles of colour, that all together form one image. In the end, even a closeup of Ayu's face would contain many, many different colours because few things are truly mono/duo/tri(etc.)chrome, most things are simply observed at too far of a distance for the variation in colour to be noticed.
Or at least that's my attempt at taking a deeper look into how the covers could tie in with the album name, it might not be the least bit close to the official explanation for the choice of covers at all, but it is the explanation I'm using.
Also, one thing that did bother me majorly about the covers, or should I say about one cover, is this;
http://i.imgur.com/VDxYLCP.png
Lazy editing???

LOL thats obviously the background....its just a blur from the lens...i dont see the need to photoshop it away..

Not bad. Fits the whole slick dance album idea she seems to be working with. Still buying CD only when my money tree starts growing!

I like the covers! At least she looks classy and there's no pink or rose colours!!

What bothered me is how it only appears on this one cover, and how the rest of the background is so plainly white in contrast. It looks very unintentional, and very much like "I half-assed the background a little", which in the end gives me an impression of laziness and lack of professionalism so I personally think it should have been photoshopped away. But then again, I'm a perfectionist...

But this exists

Wow, that black spot on the one cover is super freaking annoying. My favorite photoshop fail is when they didn't photoshop the background from white -> black in between all of her hair for that one Secret cover/promo pic. lol-ing for daaaaays.

Pic under the cut:


That is lazy as fuck and I am nhft. With how OCD she can be about certain things, it's truly a wonder to me that these make it past her approval stage.

i love the shoot but definitely not the placement of the text. Only the cd only works fine for me. Most likely getting that version only

Am I the only one who is bothered by her hands? Like she's holding a wig which is not well fixed and she can't take her hands out of her head?

Besides this, nice covers, not her worst, not her best, but a relief among the PEACHED-FACE-KOSEE we were getting. I mean, it's still a kind of facial shooting, but at least there's a different hairstyle, her eyes don't look giant and artificial and the outfit is also interesting. I wonder if the booklet pics will each be filtered to different colours~

^^^lol i don't understand why they need to cut her out at all, just shoot the whole thing in front of the black backdrop xD seriously, Leslie must have been on a budget xD

regardless of the lack of concept and safe aproach you've gotta admit she's looking increadibly mature and beautiful. AND herself too.

I think there's actually a background... a very very very light background. Especially on the CD/BR version you can see shadows in the back. (as opposed to just being blank white)

And the blackspot looks like it could be her own shadow, more than just a mistake. Granted, as it doesn't add anything to the cover they could have gotten rid of it, but if they just cropped a bigger picture (which contained the fully visible shadow) it could explain it, and it'd be more of an overlook than mistake.

I really love the covers. So classy.

nobody realized it's nearly the exact same position :D

http://img.imageimg.net/artist/ayu/i...ct_1010769.jpg http://img.imageimg.net/artist/ayu/i...ct_1004726.jpg

I like them... they're classy and remember me to one of my favourite shoots from her (something at the beginning of 2007 promoting A BEST 2)
and i'm not sick about that strange font... just about aYUMI HaMASAKI CoLOURS - i don't see any sense for this...

the best 2 Cover for me:

http://img.imageimg.net/artist/ayu/i...ct_1010771.jpg http://img.imageimg.net/artist/ayu/i...ct_1010968.jpg
(CD only & CD+Blu-ray+candle)

Alvin Goh made the photoshoot?

for sure :D

Actually he's the Stylist rather than the photographer