Well, I think I pretty much speak for everyone in saying that this is a HUGE improvement over these:
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(Apologies if you do like these a lot, but.. yeah. Bald Ayu was never something that many people liked, I think. Plus the awkward cut of these two covers made her head look like she was from Mars)

Yeah anything will be better than A BEST 2 covers. Seriously those were not so great.

I agree, it is a step up from the A BEST 2 covers, even though I do like the A BEST 2 covers XP

I hope we get an official leak sometime soon...

^I agree. I like the A BEST 2 covers, but this is a definite improvement. Ayu's long hair~ :smitten I really hope the picture is an official one.

Hope this turns out to be true :yes I really like it!

That's beautiful!!

It photo looks like one that this in the book in A best 2

the A BEST 2 covers weren't that bad to begin with aside from the CD only ones that I didn't like

hopefully the A COMPLETE one will be da bomb

WAW!!!
That was so beautiful! :love:luv2:luv2

wow this is like: guilty cover x mirrorcle world hair x together when dress

I dunno if I like this cover...it looks more like a mag photo shoot...but it IS a lot better than the A BEST 2 covers.

I think that a lot of this photographer's work looks very magazine-esque. [for reference, he's the one who did the ViVi shoot in her old clothes, t2m/A BEST 2/MW's covers and booklets, Cawaii shoot during the t2m era, VOGUE NIPPON, the brand new 2009 calendar etc..]

I think she should use ND CHOW or something instead of this guy for everything.. or a mix of Leslie Kee and ND... Kazuyoshi always seems to make Ayu look really artificial in his photoshoots imo.

His photoshoot portfolio [not all]
His PV works (tbh, none of them are that good..)

Don't be surprised when you see a certain someone alongside Ayu in the photoshoot portfolio..

LOL TH you make me so happy and sad at the same time :D. How do you know that I actually love A BEST 2 covers?? You do read my mind hehe. At the same time I feel like an alien because I belong to one of those few people who love A BEST 2 covers so much... :cry... Anywayz, I dun think I will compare A COMPLETE w/ A BEST 2 covers, because A BEST 2 covers follows the A BEST cover. A COMPLETE doesn't need to follow the pattern so I expect she has more freedom on making the cover. But like Ayumiko said, I feel like this should be a magazine cover.

Again, probly i will love the cover once I see a HQ version. :)

I like it :) But I hope it's just the cover for the box and the CD case covers (hopefully more than one CD case) are all different photos showing how Ayu style has progressed through the years along with her music... I think that would be interesting.

Wow, he did cocoon and Kingdom too o_O Sort of surprising on Kingdom's part, Anna's cocoon covers sort of remind me of A BEST 2 now that I think about it.

oh that is cool~it would be great if that's the cover, but i'm waiting till the offifical new~ but i wish she didn't wear leopard..

It'll probably be a different pose or a completely different photo altogether. I'd say a different pose would be somewhat cheap for such a grand compilation, so.. it's possible that there could be a different photo on the CD only..

Eh, we still don't have exact confirmation if this is real.. but I'm gonna guess that the covers will be revealed this week [a month prior to release]

Mid-2005 and onward of cover reveals compared to actual release dates:
fairyland c/w alterna: July 5th -> August 3rd
HEAVEN: August 23rd -> September 14th
Bold&Delicious / Pride: November 5th -> November 30th
(miss)understood: November 27th -> January 1st / December 27th
Startin' / Born To Be...:February 14th -> March 8th
BLUE BIRD: June 1st -> June 21st
Secret: November 8th -> November 29th
A BEST 2: February 5th -> February 28th
glitter / fated: June 29th -> July 18th
talkin' 2 myself: August 27th -> September 19th
GUILTY: December 6th -> January 1st / December 25th
Mirrorcle World: March 11th / March 12th -> April 8th

It's usually a little less than a month to a month before the release. They're all fairly similar though.. We should expect the covers sometime between August 10th -> August 17th...

HmmmI think I'll buy this, it's just a freaking beauty

he directed XXX LMAO! XD

Oh I really don't care if this is the cover, of course the cover can always be improved on but hey, I am already satisfied =D i also like the gold colour scheme man I wonder if its the real deal or not?

wooow pretty.. i hope that's the cover