I feel you. I actually immediately made it my new phone wallpaper.

Such a cute pic of Ayu & Gackt!

:love That's such a good pic of them together. ugh

I love that picture of Gackt and Ayu. <3 So cool.

I really wish he'd collab with her ugh.


Also someone near me at the concert was like "who's Gackt?" Ahh youth.

Oh god last time I felt this old was when someone on Facebook asked where a photo from Free & Easy: Hamasaki Republic was from x_x

There are Ayu fans who weren't even born yet when Ayu & Gackt were on TV all those years ago.

Oh my god. lol

I totally was not expecting to see Gackt and Ayu together!:smitten
Such a moment. I am glad they took a picture for everyone else to see and remember.:thumbsup

Haha I know it's crazy!
Whenever the "what song do you like?" conversations start and things like "Sunrise" and "Days" come before "M" and more classic classics lol.

^ During the TA Tour, for the double-encore on her birthday show she sang Present. It seemed like everyone in the audience was just like...*crickets*

^ lmao, i would have gone crazy because hearing such old songs is such a gift

I thought it was awesome too. Such an obscure song in terms of live performances, and really perfect for the TA concept. But sadly it did not last, and we got My All later in the tour instead.

there are seriously people who pay to be in a fanclub of someone and don't even know their songs?? no wonder the setlist was kinda basic despite being only fanclub members

To be fair, she has a TON of songs. And her current style is hugely different from her debut.

Present is a great song, but I don't know that I would call it a stand-out in her discography. Especially considering a lot of people simply don't like ASFXX as an album, even longer-term fans.

OMG I'D ADD ONE OF MY ARMS TOO. It's still my very silent dream. Cuz i think their voices would compliment each other really well.

I love the fact that we finally got a photo of those two. I don't think there's one anywhere. It's the first one ever. And it's so heartwarming to know that they keep in touch every now and then.

at first I didn't understand what the hell is going on at this photo %)

http://i.imgur.com/4V0tmVVl.jpg

I thought it was a video lol!

Did anyone else notice the sudden huge gain of instagram followers? Like she was slowly moving up at around 360k and now BAM 420k (blaze it)

Yeah... I think it may have been the Gackt thing.

Yeah when the Gackt thing was on the morning news the commentators mostly talked about Gackt despite it being ayu's concert lol. Sometimes I wish the general public doesn't dislike her, like darn she's trying so hard. Seeing non-fans hating on her makes me so bitter.

She get up early to go to Tsukiji

http://i.imgur.com/2ITSGikl.jpg

is it pants from encore?

wow..tsukiji...She still can walk around there without being recognize???

I noticed the sudden jump on her IG followers as well..I'm hoping that she will reach 500k very soon...

aww, she looks so tiny

wah ayu went to tsukiji market!
and love her loose shirt n thats balmain!

^ Did she say where she was going? :)

^ most probably Osaka because the concert is tomorrow lol

usually she use shinkanzen right?

She used shinkansen in the beginning but then also flew a few times. I guess it depends on how far the destination is.

http://i.imgur.com/P8WH1zPl.jpg

Osaka second day MADE IN JAPAN Semi Final
http://i.imgur.com/HVe2jw6l.jpg

2016.07.15 group shot at Osaka
http://i.imgur.com/N3NUVUel.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5koFvCtl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vB2elFyl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ycjM8fyl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kV4hfOCl.jpg

This tiny little baby appreciates the fact that he is standing next to the goddamn Queen! :D:D:D

I don't understand why people come with so small babies

Ayu at the shelter again

http://i.imgur.com/IwHQIMrl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Gg2P8U4l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vYKGOhml.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0QFJPebl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/WyyGRanl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fEAqm18l.jpg
https://twitter.com/isamu1163
https://twitter.com/dtv3h8GLfMKcGZM
https://twitter.com/shiotaree

video with Trauma https://www.instagram.com/p/BICOJq9Dg9t/
https://twitter.com/ayapandacopanda/...05793910509569

http://i.imgur.com/OcUvdZ5l.jpg
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIB6Ct0DvOj/

I think since the kids are 'free' to go, it's how fans justify bringing them. Though for Cirque, iirc Ayu had daycare arranged since the concert was so long.

i'd never bring my 3yo or younger baby to a this kinda concert ayu is delivering if i had one O_O some of them are cute when they seems to know lyrics as well but c'mon, isn't that harmful for their hearing even if they have plugs? there's no-one to take care of the baby when you attend to a concert, really? :no

http://i.imgur.com/B1h6LDTl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/81CSjA6l.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Vg1aAnzl.jpg

https://twitter.com/minami_jsb3

Her hair looks so bad like this, it's like a poop in the middle of her head :)))))))

I agree...

https://www.facebook.com/takafumi.sa...0911656323813/

aww... I love how all those people dance with ayu team

http://i.imgur.com/bKxbiDgl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rJloKGRl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WfujReil.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aWgMocSl.jpg

She's so cute with that hair haha. Seems like she's really sporting adidas clothings this year. I love seeing her doing these kinds of works.

Wow without security and caution tape xD

She's adorable ;;

Сustomized for ayu furla bag
http://i.imgur.com/jAzoFRDl.jpg

few days ago ayu posted photo
http://i.imgur.com/3RNGhd6m.jpg

now we can see what is it
http://i.imgur.com/O5wmXnWm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/jJjrqIQm.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/aKKWtHvl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/H4n8WPUl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/bJLLKgEl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vC1vs39l.jpg

Did they broadcasted the show to the shelter??? It's from the same guy who posted the "Trauma" video.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

How adorable! :love

She looks so darn good in these.

I feel like she wears all brands of sport wear. She's wearing Nike in her most recent Instagram pics.

So good that's she's doing this stuff.

http://i.imgur.com/fNE8LuNl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vJxcyDil.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2Xp9cTZl.jpg

"I was looking for my comfy robe then... look who wore it"
http://i.imgur.com/ej3rhzfl.jpg

ARE YOU READY️
'A' SUMMER 2016 IS COMING
a-nation island 2016.08.02
a-nation stadium fes. 2016.08.28
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIKCqElheSI/

^ everything in that photo looks comfy to me :D

ah loving the humanism side of her...

lovely profile photo

http://i.imgur.com/UZbcQvF.jpg

she use it at twitter and weibo

and this one is from facebook

http://i.imgur.com/9zfjuJ3m.jpg

God, that LINE video for A SUMMER 2016 is so... uhh... it reminds me of the fanmade CdM logo that became real.

https://twitter.com/ayu_19980408/sta...01598159462400

that video edit is just terrible. ewww avex needs to hire a new designer asap. those fonts are the worst.

oh my...who edit that video? really amateurish..

I want to say Ayu herself did it, lol.

Did Ayu do that herself?

I love her new twitter avatar <3

love her new twitter avatar. she looks so extremely happy. cute top notch haha.
and awwww that pic of her hugging that little girl.
it's nice to see her doing this kind of good deed to people.

Yeah, that is kind of a weird post...

I'm guessing someone said something about her relationship with her mother and she's venting. I sense this being deleted soon.

I think about two different possibilities:

1. She could be addressing her mother's behaviour towards her, but we really don't know A thing about their relationship. So it's just guessing.
2. Someone, maybe close to her, told her to be closer to her mother and she's answering this person? "We (she and her mom) make our decision""Not ur business"

I think she is just saying that, shes doesn't have a clingy mother daughter relationship and that they do their own thing. Maybe people were asking why she never has a shot of her close to her mum compared to other photos she does. But it is no new news about ayu and her mothers past, they just weren't that close

#WeMakeOurDecision gives me vibes of the post not addressing her mom, but someone else.

I get the same vibe! She's just telling everyone how her relationship with her mom is. And we know Ayu is not the kind of person who posts pictures of her family/lovers on the internet all the time. She still keeps her life private (there's not even one photo of her husband on her Instagram neither her mom).

She did have one pic of him in swim shorts at one point and her in a bikini. They were on vacation after New Year's around the time the IG went up.

#noturbusiness

at least she is saying it now, in hashtag form :P

It wouldn't be our business if she would stop with those posts. Before this morning I never thought about her relationship to her mother. I'm so done with her teenage drama queen behaviour that I think of unfollowing her on fb. It's so damn annyoing.

Lol

Perhaps she is tired of fans obsessing so much about her private life, that she is just making sure that she loves her mom like almost every daughter does and that must beat the crap they're saying.

wonder why this popped up now

She's at it again, hope staff won't take over again. I wonder why she follows all those victoria's secret models but not naoya

That post is actually quite interesting, I wonder what provoked her to share such sentiments about her relationship with her mother. I think most people who consider themselves fans of Ayu know that Ayu's relationship with her mother wasn't always great (or at least that is the impression one gains from earlier interviews with Ayu?). Wasn't she the topic of A song for xx? Anywho, it isn't really any of our business and I imagine the post will be pulled soon.

oh my god, her facebook profile picture is so amazing. Wow, in comparison with some of the MiJ covers, she looks very natural in there! She should have used those!

She could just quoting WARNING rather than explaining things. I can smell another dark and rocking song about this not ur business in the future...

oh no, what will ayu do? I think she'll survive.

She doesn't post to quench the masses' thirst. She posts whatever the hell she wants, as she should. She's obviously not addressing you, so go back to not worrying about it like you said you were before you saw the post.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13...suecme7na.jpeg

^ so what is that image you are posting?

Love how she changed topics so quickly lol From drama to pedicure in just a few hours.

I honestly don't see how it's even "drama". She didn't say anything mean or controversial. I feel like she's said similar things about her personal life in magazine interviews. I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape when she posts anything remotely personal. It's not as if she's like some Western artists that get into public feuds on Twitter. She just posted a picture and made an honest commentary about her relationship with her mom and it wasn't even anything scandalous. I guess I'm missing something or I'm just too laid back to care about it.

this is old picture taken in LA, it must be Gabriel and her husband (Christophe Choo?) hext to ayu and ayu's mom? I remember she posted the different pic taken the same time, does anyone have it?

UPD: I found it

http://i.imgur.com/1IRnHD9.jpg

Perfect response!!:thumbsup:laugh
I think some people are overreacting. I don't think it is that serious. Still interesting though. But no need to get angry over it.:rolleyes
Family relationships can be complicated. We don't know what goes on once Ayu walks off stage or isn't on camera.

Now seeing these pics (which are like, 3 years old?) i wonder how old her mom is

Yeah like I really don't know what all this "drama" on ayu's facebook feed thing is supposed to be. She rarely even posts things like this. And this isn't even much tbh. I saw it, figured some people tried to come for her and her mom and that she wanted to address it (which she did just fine), and it didn't really bother me.

Idk how some people are so quick to call ayumi things like a fake bitch or a dramatic attention-seeker when it's usually not even called for, but when she's doing things like in the posts on this thread before this, they have nothing to say. I guess because it doesn't bother them.

My thoughts about her have totally refreshed when I saw this post on FB. This is Ayu. She's still the Ayu from 1998, the Ayu that doesn't give a shiz what people think, about standards and social norms. She will forever be my rebel with a strong will. I mean, it even brought me back here to this forum site that I haven't been active in for a few years, LOL. It's not drama. It's Ayu being unapologetically Ayu because it's nothing new to me--that's the tone of her writing.

I think what people don't like about this particular post is that there was no known drama before this post, so it's I assume people feel like she's creating it with this post. But, people need to keep their emotions in check and not get so upset so we don't have Twitter account drama part two. She's not being malicious.

"U know what? I'll never forget when u told me that you'll always b beside me no matter what - even if whole world becomes my enemy."
http://i.imgur.com/ofOj6ofl.jpg

"Wanna meet sea turtle again... take me back there"
http://i.imgur.com/iLwBvHWl.jpg

Some time ago a member roughly translated here a Japanese comment of someone mad at her for the time she spent living in Los Angeles saying many mean things, such as "You dishonoured your family". This connects to everything she wrote, including the very first sentence: "I know there's a wired distance between my mom & I". Supposedly, there have been many comments like that, so maybe she couldn't take it anymore, either because too many mean comments packed up over the time or because lately someone has been overly mean. Everyone experiences this from time to time, no matter how much "She should expect this, being so famous".

This is what I think, at least.

Who is the lady next to her in the first photo? LICO?

I'm not reading anything scandalous or drama-related from her post. She's just expressing how she feels about her relationship with her mum.

and looks like shes in the mood to post in english again.lol Ayu. very good english.

whoooo's the tall looking lady next to her??? Namie Amuro? xD

I think it might be Natsuki her best friend

This drama is created by this forum's members. :shakehead:shakehead:shakehead

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I'M DEAD. NOT BOOTZ LMAO