I don't know.... the outfits seens to fit the tour concept... I would think it to be very stupid if she used big flashy costumes just for the sake of using them "I'm Ayumi Hamasaki, so I need to look like a birthday cake when singing ballads" o_O

I wanna know how the lights and special effects are, but really? If this a performace-oriented tour, I would love to see it! To me, some of ayu best performaces are very simple like haven, teens, (miss)understood and is this love? at AT06, memorial address and because of you at at03-04, secret at at07, and so on...

I just think thats strange that a lot of people who did not watch the concert are complaining about the concert... the only forum member that went there didn't say anything bad about the tour.... o.õ

youre really calling BoY AT03-04 simple? o.0 It had its own costumes, a video on the screen(even if it was taken from the pv), the spinning platform was only in the stage because of that song, too

The outfits look fine, I just don't like that poofyish wig =|
She looks so cute in that red cheerleader outfit though

Well, we will have videos in this tour also, right? All of her at since 03-04 have tons of videos... And the spinning plataform isn't anything to write home about either...

About the costumes:
http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/live/pa...R_EVER0805.jpg
never ever, surreal at a museum - 2003
http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/live/pa...RREAL22A12.jpg
because of you, surreal, evolution at AT03-04

=)

It's not the first time she is re-using something, she does it a lot... Aways did.... =)

Ah, im sorry, I was kind of...I just forgot she sang the surreal~evolution~surreal medley with it because I usually skip that xD

but the platform IS something special/was something special wasnt it the first time for her to use a spinning platform in concert? of course now its nothing special because it belongs to her stage for so long

Okay, so the costumes are a bit boring. SO?

I'm sure the show's amazing and she's giving it her all!

I'm going to see her in October, and I can guarantee you I'm going to cry, yell, sing, shout, scream and every other thing I can do to show her my support. It won't matter even if she's wearing a brown paper bag for an outfit.

Yes!!! I totally agree with you!!:yes

Remember people that in AT 06 at first she wore during AUDIENCE performance a horrible yellow dress (it seemed that was made of flowers...) and then in the last tour presentations she wore that golden corset with that feathered white dress and the white boots...

I hope that her costumes will change a bit. I think that they are simple ones because of the new stage where she doesn´t have enough space to run, for example, as the previous stages from the other tours.

This is my point of view...

^Let's hope that happens.

HAHAHA REMEMBER THE AUDIENCE CHEAP YELLOW DRESS?

But that was most probably not because the real costumes werent finished in time, she had very much time for the costumes, she usually changes costumes when they get destroyed(yellow dress for Born to Be...) or she just thinks it should be different, everything is planned so that the costumes are finished in time, im sure it is

hmm first i thought , yea this is a copycat of PCDL too truthfully. but i think she looks absolutely amazing. they are going to mess up especially performing this live for the first time to lots of people so i expected that. the setlist is okay, im glad shes singing most of the NEXT LEVEL tracks, but not feeling for the older songs. i dunno i think im being picky. but like i said she looks awesome.

I don't care about her outfits as long as she doesn't look like a 2$ *****.
I just pray that her vocals are great and she's having a great time with the audience without much pressure over dance routines or some unnecessary "wow" factors. (even though I do love the big highlights like alterna at (mu) tour and the ship last year, but sometimes the simplest is the best :b)

I don;t mind the outfits being recycled, as long as they fit the theme and the songs.

However, if executions are recycled that would not be too good, especially the shuya-ayu separation and the tissue performance again and again

I heard that the LED screens this year are really amazing, i actually look forward to the show.

But hopefully, she can modify some of the costumes and ideas of performance along the tour if she has time to come up something new

Exactly. In CDL06-07, all of the costumes were re-used from other concerts (mostly AT02 and AT03-04).
Free&Easy AT02:
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...d_Easy0506.jpg

Free&Easy CDL06-07:
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...d_Easy1006.jpg

evolution AT02:
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...lution1102.jpg http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...lution1104.jpg

evolution CDL06-07
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...lution2603.jpg http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...lution2605.jpg

Her re-using sets and / or costumes isn't anything new. Ayu produces all of her concerts, so she's the one that has the final say about what an outfit may look like. True, she's re-done costumes before, so she may do the same during this tour, and she may not.

You did a mistake, polka-dot-jewel

CDL 0607 was a BEST of her previous concerts, thats why its called BEST of COUNTDOWN LIVE 0607 A, it's meant to copy some of her performances(and make them better like most were...) and theres another difference: this is a TOUR, sure, she copied for tours already, too, but never in this amount + she calls it NEXT LEVEL, whats NEXT LEVEL about copying most of the costumes and at least one of the performances

All I care about is that she sang all the NEXT LEVEL songs, so everything else to me is just a bonus. Some of you whiners are so annoying, repeating the same thing over and over again. Stop please...

My friend finally got back to me. She went to the first show and she only has good things to say. Everyone I have talked to that actually went enjoyed it, so maybe because we haven't experienced it, we don't know how good it is. ;) I know lots of stuff has been posted already, so I will just post a bit of what she said. Ayu interacted with the audience more than she did when she went to AT08, like having them sing more lil parts. Ayu looked really happy and cute, quite slim and in shape. And yeah, there was a little problem with sound, but she said it wasn't a big deal, just a small part of the song. One of the things she also said was that she sounded really great and as far as she could tell, it was live. So as long as she keeps that up, I'm happy. She also got some vids and pics before the security got to her. :D

So is there any prop we dont know about yet?

Really?! Please put them here ^^

yeah, the vids...that would be amazing to have vids from the first evening already! and pictures are interesting, too(more of the stage and the dancers costumes)

I'm glad that she went to the show and enjoyed it!!
I want to hear the good things she want to share =DD hehe.

I love the costumes so beautiful and fresh ! The tracklist is very exciting i want to know how Ayu is going to sing NEXT LEVEL's songs >< A little classical but so good =D

Oh Megshere please do tell us more!

^I seccond that! Tell more! (And maybe share?) ^^

i wonder how the music was performed and all :p , thanks for posting, she looks great on those pics. :D

Well, true, that's why most of those are the same, but at the same time, look at "my name's WOMEN" performances from AT05 and AT08 - the outfit's are the same, just different colors.

And I think people are misinterpreting the "NEXT LEVEL" part of the tour title - it's called "ARENA TOUR 2009 ~NEXT LEVEL~" because 1) it's her 2009 tour, and 2) the tour is promoting her "NEXT LEVEL" album. Just because it's called NEXT LEVEL doesn't necessarily mean she's going to pull out some new tricks on us. Besides some of the songs being different and this being the entrance to her second decade as a singer, I doubt there's much new to her, the tour, etc etc.

I don't mean to seem like I am whining about the tour. I guess a lot of us where just expecting something a lot different. With every tour/concert There are new songs, just the themes,concepts,outfits and how she transitions from one set to another just seems to not change and just get repeated over again. You could love someone to death but eventually see something multiple time gets disappointing I guess. Like the smashing the cage with a chair thing. I think she did that 4 times. I loved seeing it for the first time then it lost it's cool factor.

Again sorry if it seems like i am whining. I am just hoping to go see this and a small part of me might always be a little disappointed that I had already in a way seem some of the visual parts of the show already.

Yeah sure, I know she did it often, really often, theres like at least one song every tour, but this seems like a completely new amount and didnt she write in one of her TA massages that she wants to bring everything to the next level? thats what i was talking about, not the album title but ayus comment about this tweltht year(her second decade actually began on the 8.4.2008)

Teth was supposed to be going but over at JPM but said he couldn't for various reasons. His Japanese friend went though and described the concert as only "so-so." Honestly of the Japanese opinions that I've been reading, most have said the same thing "average", "not her best" etc. etc.

Overall, it seems her voice was at the very least ok. Ranging from ok to pretty good and then the person here plus one other Japanese comment saying it was great. One person said that they aren't sure if she was using playback or not sometimes though.

Well, I don't wish to take any stands or be a stan, but I just gotta say this.

In any live performance/concert, the only reason why you're up on stage singing is because you want to SHOW OFF something to the audience. Your hard work, your efforts, what have you.

Ever since AT 05, Ayu has opted for a more aesthetic concert... sacrificing vocal quality for dance, visuals, etc. Honestly, her recent concerts were eye-candy; she looked great, everything was like "wow!".

But I can feel that with AT 09, she looks like she's going back to the simple style of Concert Tour 2000. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's really simple now. In return, we actually get comments that her vocals were "okay" (not bad for me considering all the factors).

So I mean, the rehashed costumes, while disappointing to me, don't bother me that much, because it appears that she's concentrating on something different this time. Something she did in the past; her voice and her audience.

I agree with you. It'd be great if there were more audience interaction and actual live singing because a lot of that was missing in AT08, believe it or not.

No.. I think this is the reason why people get so worked up and disappointed about her outfits/setlist all the time. They pretty much have no life, so they decide to make up their own concert and then they get mad when the real concert doesn't turn out the way they imagined. The truth is, y'all don't know squat about how to throw together a concert.. because well, y'all are not the ones performing the concert. Ayu and her team might come up with all the same stuff you guys do, it doesn't mean it can reasonably be done. Do you think Ayu would have went out in that skintight jumpsuit she wore in the Sparkle PV? And then make her dancers wear those same suits with the asphyxiation masks? And then expect them to sing and dance (well) to it with a bunch of lights shining in their faces? It could be done sure, but it'd be a lot to prepare for in 2 months.

About the recycled setlist. Makes perfect sense to me.. We all know how hard Ayu worked on that show only to play two dates. Don't you think it's more efficient if the band doesn't have to memorize yet a new set of obscure songs on top of all the new tracks for NEXT LEVEL? The band and dancers would already be comfortable with these performances and would also be bringing them to a wider audience.

And I don't care what anyone says- Madonna, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Kylie Minogue, David Bowie, Britney Spears. These artists have already done it all in regards to concert theatrics. Whether Ayu recycles from herself or other artists, people are going to complain either way. Unless you want her to be completely original and come out with a 10 piece clown suit, but that's just ****ing bizarre.

Actually for many artists, it is because they want to make a ton of money. That is certainly the record companies reason for doing tours otherwise there would be no point for them to exist for the companies. I'm not saying Ayu feels that way, but there are indeed several artists that do it for the money and not for the audience.

I'm all for that. One of my favorite concerts is actually the TA 03 tour. I really don't care much about a lot of flash and what not. But it seems that this tour is primarily the dancers tour and that I don't really like. Also, at least from what I have read so far, the more simple style this time around didn't actually translate into something that was better/high quality.

I agree...
every pop performer recycle tons of stuff, by the way.... I'm a pop diva concert lover, and I can say that Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Namie Amuro, Gwen Stefani, Beyonce, Ivete Sangalo, etc...
They all repeat themselves a lot... outfits... stages... choreography... concepts... performaces... Most of the time, some songs (3, 4) that are going to be the top performaces of the concert have brand new impressive performaces and the other ones are more common...

Well, yeah, unfortunately, in the realistic sense, it's to make money. But well, at least for me, before I go to perform in a symphonic band concert, my conductor would tell us that. And he would say that while performing is the only time you can afford to be haughty and proud, and yeah... something like that. So, honestly, to me, to be able to perform is an honor. I don't know about Ayu, but it APPEARS as if she's someone like that too. :yes



Haha, dancers tour. Okay yes I get what you mean when she was whoring it out with the guys in the gray tank-top/shorts. But well, there were a lot of discussion about her lip-syncing for the past few concerts, and at least for now, I've not heard anything like that. :)

And oh, ever since PCDL, I kind of expected her vocals to be even better, and it seems like she has not disappointed me in that aspect, based on other people's comments.

I would like to add that, for the rehash of the costumes... I mean, I don't know. I don't really expect her to have some 'WHOA!' costumes actually, after all, she doesn't have LV, Prada, Gucci and Chanel backing her tours! ;)

At least she has bothered to go edit them while in America, instead of re-using everything. There's a difference between reusing and recycling. :P

Well to me I thought your comment was pretty rude. It is mean to tell people they have no life. They where just giving there opinion. I didn't see anything yet about people getting mad at her for the decision she made. They just didn't like it and wanted/thought it was going to be something different thats all. No big deal.

Everything I think of is Ayu writing that she will do things her way and in her pace. And the outfits for PCDL was ten times better then the AT08 costumes and I remember that I thougt to myself "these are to good to just be seen in just two shows". Sure, Im a bit disapointed that she did recycle so much, but they are so good that its all fine by me.

And yeah, fans can "have no life" to think about their own setlist but I wouldnt really call it having no life. It really isnt a bad thing to make up your own setlist in your mind just for fun. Its the same thing as making a list of your top 20 favourites songs kind of. But the bad thing is to get so happy about the imaginary list that the real setlist feels like a disapointment. Its not a big thing at all, but ppl should be careful with word though the internet cuz it can sound very wrong too. But for myself, Im pleased with the setlist. Offcourse (with my standards the setlist could be better a la Arena Elin Tour 2009, haha, but everyone feels diffrent for diffrent songs. :P I think its awesome that Ayu does so many songs for a change and also ALL the songs from NEXT LEVEL.

Fair enough. I guess I have no life either for reading the 22 pages of this thread, lol. But still, I made sure I gave my opinion after wasting time out of my life to read a thread full of overdramatic opinions that njanjayrp already pointed out.

Thank you for bringing this up. People have been misinterpreting the title 'NEXT LEVEL' since day one. I swear if someone makes another lame "LOL THIS IS REALLY NEXT LEVEL!" or "EW THIS ISN'T NEXT LEVEL!" pun one more time...

The title NEXT LEVEL has nothing to do with quality like people seem to think. If Ayu was going to make a statement about quality she would have named the album "HIGH LEVEL" or "LEVEL UP!", lol. It's just a step in a different direction. Musically, yes it was different, and was received with mixed results. It was never Ayu's intention to make some kind of pretentious statement about how awesome the album is, so it's entirely your own fault if you have higher expectations than you usually would just because everything has the name 'NEXT LEVEL' attached to it.

I want to raise another issue

did ayu's right hand fully recovered? I saw some pics that she didn't wear gloves

I seens so =)

I thought the same when I saw the pics^^ Its great that she seems to be recovered^^

ah, I didn't seen the yellow outfit of AUDIENCE in AT06 before... can someone send me the link? thx so much~

for me i never thought NEXT LEVEL as that. I kind of saw it as a ''different level''. and after hearing the album i thought the tour would have a tecno/dance feel to it and we don't normally see that so i thought "well me might see something we might have not seen before''. I do think without a lot of over the top visual stuff she can concentrate on her vocals, but it is possible to have both good singing and good original visuals too. there will always be a point at the beginning where people don't like something but in most part it passes over time and the more info we get the more we most likely will come to like/love it.

Someone said the stage have 6 screens, and most of the songs have different visuals. I wanna see some pics...

The NEXT LEVEL tour have all the NEXT LEVEL songs. What more do you guys want? Be happy that she is still performing.

@ ayulove 18 Yes, she had many performances with amazing visuals where her voice was really good, because she didnt have much more work during performance(like Born to Be...AT06, it had great props and costumes, but the dancers had the extra work, not ayu) I think her voice suffers more from dancing than from the visuals of a performance xD(I mean: how does a great prop, an amazing movie or a special light show effect your voice? but moving very much and being breathless affects your voice)

6 screens...could that mean its similar to AT06? but people would have said more if its that amazing, wouldnt they?

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...0504011-p1.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...0504011-p2.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...0504011-p3.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090...0504011-n1.htm

I would like to cry/and or barf at that Real Me rehash outfit with the horrible wig. Her entire look for Next Level from album covers to this tour is absolutely terrible. I declare this her mid-life crisis.

ok, the stairs change colors and theres lasers, fits the next level theme^^

This is pretty RUDE. :no

That's stupid because she's thirty, not 40.

And it's also stupid because it seems that you've got no idea what means to have a crisis.

yeah, if she had a crisis, everything would be way worse, look at what britney spears went through 2007/2008, THATs a crisis!

Love this picture. I think is the beginning of RULE. :love

now those pics help a lot with the outlook of the concert. It might take awhile to enjoy everything but i think the more hq/glossy pics we get the more happier i might be with everything. I do think she should have her hair down with the rule outfit. the hair seems too plain compared to the outfit.

yes, the picture looks GREAT! It seems the beginning is more powerful than AT08, theres lasers and not just smoke^^

YAY GREEN LASERS

But Rule acapella will sound quite weird,I think.

she might sing the bridge acapella? that would sound quite good and then kick in with the first chorus like it was the last

^Maybe,but the intro in acapella would sound really blah.

By the away... people said the acapella thing happened last year... but she used this at a museum too :P

Should I make a topic with everything she recycled over the years on her tours? xD~~~ That would be funny

I already intended to do that(together with a thread listing every playback), but with costumes^^ I just needed to watch EVERY concert before(havent done that yet) if you do it i will help as good as i can^^

i don't get why people here freak out SO much over something as little as costumes for a concert. SERIOUSLY. if you went there and her voice was bad and she looked unhappy or not into it i can understand complaints but jfc a lot of you are being drama queens

THIS

^i agree with you

Finally some words of wisdom.
I couldn't put it better myself.
NEXT LEVEL from the beginning intended to be something different and nothing that goes along with being higher quality, musical friendly and bring the tour awesome new level things ayu's fans never saw in their life.
The NEXT LEVEL is purely about the album being different with its songs, the use of electro style and in some use her pop and rock to fit the electro style inside of them.

ayu gets lost in translation for people a lot of times.

WOW :love

Can anybody shed some light on the amount of screens? From the picture, it could look as if there's 5 screens, 1 in the back and 2 on each side.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1457/23344z.jpg

truehappiness posted "extravagant use of screens" so it could be.

possible, but someone said 6 screens, so its either 3 screens each side(and 1 big one in the back that wasnt counted?) or 2 on each side and 2 on the back

Wow love the new pics! ^^
And 6 screens? Awesomeness!!

Is that Ayu singing limp wristed??!! Haha We haven't seen that since like...2002! Hahha Love when old habits come back! :D

Maybe the back screen is one that opens up in the middle like usual, creating 2 screens.

about the whole costumes thingy

i still disappointed with it.. because Ayu has never really done like this before in her past arena tours..
look at MY STORY, (m)u, Secret, GUITY, all of those ATs have different concept and style..and when i saw pictures of the costumes of NL AT, it has all reminded me of PCDL and should have mentioned this tour as PCDL part II....all the clothes are too much a like~

but maybe, it's still understandable of why she recycled most of her PCDL costumes for NL AT..probably she lacked of time to create new ones.. we all know that she has been going back and forth from Japan to US for recording and PV shooting..it happened around March where the arena tour will start on April..

as much as i disappointed with the costumes, but i love that she sang all the new songs :), maybe that's the way of her to cover up all her recycled costumes? because she has never sung all the new songs from the new album in ATs before~

a friend of mine who went on the 2nd night of the concerts said that her vocal is much better than last year's~

thats what i meant(sorry if it wasnt included well in my sentence) or it could be two screens above each other which can go up and down?

i do agree, i'm sure that ayu's performance is and will be great. i think once i see and hear some video my altitude about the whole thing will change.

I love these photos, I guess the costiumes didn't appear nice also because the shots were bad (angle, size, quality). Here we have better ones and they look much better.

^ I love the photos :D She looks great <3

found some new pics xD:

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In The Corner costume is the "&%$# same D:

I really like the cheerleader outfit!

thanks for the new pics! lol it looks like she's having so much fun in the cheerleader outfit. but that high kick..noo
i hope she did that same thing she did in AT08 in depend on you/fly high where she pushes her booty out and gasps :P

lol @ the high kick. great view for those who dig it xD

Wtf. It's like a condensed version of PCDL with a hint of NEXT LEVEL.

Ayu...seriously? This could have been so much better, meaning it could have actually been good.

she looks like Cleopatra with the wig in the purple outfit. I can't really see which outfit she used for GREEN though.

I don't see the Mario Bros outfit xD lol

The Mario Bros thingy is on the opening video for EnergizE song..
so Ayu in the video is like she's in the Mario bros world, where she ate mushroom, she can be smaller or bigger, and if she meets monsters, she will become smaller~
i think the Mario Bros outfit is the red cheerleader one~

After I see all the costumes in better qualirty and re-think. They're all great, some are recycled yes, but ayu added some new details into them. YES, this is the word, 'DETAILS'.

01. The Rule/UNITE outfit is something different from Rule PV and MS Perf. It resembles both, but she aded those rhinestones on her boots/legs and waist and cuffs

02. Cheerleader outfit, yeh this is new

03. Mini gray outfit, I'd love it more if it's not gray, plus the misplaced of pockets. But it still looks nice ^^. New costumes. Thou I think it's what namie would wear.

04. In the corner...no comment ^^ She can just wear a nice tuxedo/suit kinda thing like evolution in BoCDL evolution. which is better.

05. Ballad section. the 1st gown is what ayu loves to wear, she use it many times. in PCDL it has big furry collar thingy but here she use big buttons? Then the Mermaid dress after it looks like PCDL mermaid dress but it's really different, colorwise and oher details.
I wish she will change the mermaid dress into big gowns like what she did last year.

05. The evolution/SIGNAL outfit, the pants look similarly to In the Corner. BUT HEY!!! look at what she did ner her ankle. she put 'rubber band' kinda thing to make it looks like 'tucked in' her boots or rather sth like tracking pants. Deja vu yes, but if we actually see it's sth 50:50, old style new detail. The corset top is nice. But Black again??? She should use red or other colour.

06. rollin'/Sparkle...no comment ^^. Purple is nice thou, but she can do it better, new costume ayu!

07. NEXT LEVEL outfit...no comment...she just added a jacket/trench coat. Which resembles MW in AT08. She can do itt better really...it's too simple ^^

08. Encore outfit....no comment, ayu can always change the jeans or boots ^^

Remember this is a year long tour. I bet somewhere after a-nation she'll come up with new style.

Omg no her hair in Rule! >.< And wow the EnergizE segment looks adorable! Will she make me like EnergizE? Hahaha.

And okay, I watched Confessions of a Shopaholic on Friday and why does her Sparkle outfit remind me of that movie SO MUCH? Hahaha.

i find it astonishing how much AHS members can complain. seems like that's the only thing they do latelly :rolleyes
no offense everyone.

personally i don't care if 90% or the outfits are recycled, as long as she's there and singing, that's all that matters. i'd be satisfied if she just wore a pair of jeans and a T-shirt during the whole concert.
it's her being there and singing that counts and not what she wears.

i can't beleave i actually saw someone comment here how she wore the same black boots in 2 costumes. JEEZ whe the *******k cares, you make it sound like a sin and like she should be shoot down because if it. =.=''

anyways.... i actually digg the wig thing xD it's very retro and fits the whole style she did for NEXT LEVEL^^
and the setlist is just amazing!!!!!!!!!
i can't wait to see some videos of her performances :D

I agree with ren0210989!

People are thinking this is a FASHION thread! No offense, but could you all stop complaining about her outfits?

You have to see that Ayu is alive, she's dancing, she's singing with a great voice, the stage is awesome with a huge lights effects, and she's performing the most of NEXT LEVEL songs! Do you want anything better than all of this?

I'm really enjoying this tour and I believe it will be one of her best tours! ^^

i think the cleopatra wig is horrendous... :x

AMEN!! :yes :D

uhmm I'm not really sure about that


shes a "fashion icon", she appears in magazines, etc


all about ayu is pretty about fashion too I think.

I love the better quality pictures!
I'd also like to see some of the older costumes from AT 06, before she changed them? Anyone have any pictures?? :)

teddbear55:Check these links!

http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...album=9&pos=23
http://siesuchen-wirfinden.de/ayu-ga...album=9&pos=43

^The only one I remember is her evolution/Audience dress thingy. It went from Flowers--->Golden corset. They were both equally good in my opinion

edit: nvm newer ones=better =P

This thread is pretty much nearing its maximum allowed amount of posts, so.. continue on in the next thread as soon as this hits 500! [or not~]

Next thread, yo!

she looks kinda fat and weird on the rule outfit xD

sorry but it's true, and I think the purple outfit it's terrible D:

Tight leather or w/e doesn't seem to work too well on Ayu's body. Oh well though. If only we could complain via the TeamAyu BBS or something. Eh, not really.

I've wondered why she's doing what she is, and I don't think anyone's ever going to find out/know any time soon. -sigh-

That would be awesome xD "Hey Ayu!, you know...those leather pants.... no dear, ain't wordking" xDDD

On the other hand the cheerleader outfit is a great add ;)

Well but she looked hot in Sparkle with the tight leather. It's just this 'Rule' performance is bad... the cutting is horrible and it makes her look fat...

Ayu looks fat... You all gotta be kidding me.

Okay this thread is reaching the end, so I'll just make it quick here.

Maybe I shouldn't have used fat... 'wide'? I mean I know how hot she can look, but c'mon that black outfit for Rule doesn't make her look good at all. It looks baggy and she has extra flesh everywhere or something. I mean if she wore a black version of the leather suits she donned in Sparkle, she would look really hot!

"Unflattering" is the word you're looking for.

I suppose so then. Or for lack of a better word... makes her look bad. The hair doesn't help much either.

As always, there's hope that the costumes will change in the later dates and NOT because they are bad but because they are unflattering on her; especially the Rule outfit!

omg i'm getting a mental image of that, and it's so cute <3<3<3

omg yes!!

soo cute I wanna watch that XD

That's better :yes. But I think that's totally based on the individual person's opinion of "bad." I happen to think she looks great, but that's just me lol.