Majesty JAPAN Magazine Cover Sept 2013 Issue
 

wow ayu in new magazine cover!
*O*

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...ent&1375684021

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the cover without text found here:



source: https://www.facebook.com/majestyjapa...ed_target_id=0

is this a new magazine?

Cool! Thanks!

:O Awesome! :heart

HOTNESS!!! :luv2

Bigger size (1599x2048px):

OMG!!! HOTTTTTTT!!

On a side note, it's like the November issue of ViVi all over again!! :luv2

Probably the best expression she's had on a cover for YEARS. Hahahaha. xD

Gorgeous.

Wow!!! <3
But I wonder why there are so many magazines lately...

She looks very sexy & beautiful :O I wonder if she's ever going to be brave enough to remove her hand from her boobies in these topless shoots.

Bold Ayu!!!

holy hotness *__*

OMG!!!

OMFG, what with this glorious thing!!! :heart

first I was excited about the cover... but now I feel like it's too much.

Japanese are writing comments "how desperate", "isn't she a singer? what the hell is she doing", "she looks stupid", "she's lost the charm", "I was a fan 10 years. now I am not interested in someone who's only popular for scandals", "and then I catch myself thinking if ayu's fans are happy with this cover", "buy a bra may be?", "even the colour of her hair looks old", "waiting for her AV debut!" and etc.

tbh I waited for something gorgeous because I didn't know what the Majesty mag is and I thought it'd be something super-fashion.... kinda disappointed

^
I'm 1000% done with trying to understand japanese public.
And I think this shoot is truly stylish, you don't have to wear fancy clothes to be iconic, Ayu best know image, at the time of her peak, had her wearing a pair of jeans and a simple shirt. She has a beautiful, cute, slender body, that she's showing with decency; very gorgeous bracelets and rings; a cleaned-up and honest face; artless and shortish hair. And, for god's sake, she's 34, not 50. I thought japanese people wanted her to be the "approachable girl next door" again, or something. Whatever.

I thought Ayu's half naked image has always been iconic?

Talk about a generation gap!

Ayu has been doing the 'bare-upper body with breasts hidden thing' for yeaaars. Since the very beginning of her career as a singer. These people who say that it's a tactic really must have forgotten all the other times she's done it.

Haters gonna hate and jealous with whatever shes doing, shes 34 and still looking hot and gorgeous! Plus shes still present in the industries doing her activities and stuffs, even shes been slowing down a lot compared to before. Guess they wanna see Ayumi Hamasaki's name sinking down in the sea

And btw, that cover is ok and she looked good, when is the last time we saw her half naked pic for magazine?

^I think the last one Was back in 2010?Vivi naked talk,wasn't it?

^Yep! It was ViVi November 2010. :D

but i think she's also topless on the ABL goods like the shirts and the towels.


anyway, is it just me or her boobs are actually shrinking? lol

wow thanks a lot for the Bigger size awesome!!

LOVEppears.. album cover.. just to say.. :innocent

You are letting them get to you too much, ayu was half naked on LOVEppears and it was on her way to the peak, I don't think people said anything like "isn't she a singer?" back then. lol

and for another note - OMG she looks so sexy!!! If I would suffer from nose bleeding then it would definitely happen now.

She looks amazing, one of her best magazine covers in a very long time.

Great cover! She looks great and I don't really care for those hateful remarks...I'm really curious what's next:)

Sexy !!

Very unflattering and inadequate concept for a singer of Ayu's grade.

GORGEOUS!! :heart

I can't believe there's people complaining about something she has done in shoots ever since 1999 like if it was new...

Thank you. Not my thoughts exactly, but I do agree in some way.

Ayu has a great body and topless shoots can be beautiful, but this cover has nothing enchanting to it. I do not say she looks horrible, but seriously... after so many naked shoots she could have given more glam.

i think the old ayu is going back

It's a clean and nice photo, no makeup overkill, but I can't stand that hair style. It ruins everything for me :(

This

I love everything about it expect the hair. It's probably supposed to look cool and a bit messy like this, but it doesn't work for me - just looks messy.

this is hot but i feel like its just another recycle of Mirrorcle World

Ayu is known for being half-naked every time she can :P I remember Jolin Tsai saying she could never do something as bold as the half naked I Am... cover.

Loveppears
I Am...
RAINBOW
Mirrorcle World
Arena Tour 2010 ~Rock'n'Roll Circus~

You shouldn't accord so much credit to these people ... It's not like she was vulgar and shows us her nipples -_-'

I think it's a pretty photo.

This is really pretty. And it's a simple, nice pretty. I guess it's been almost 3 years since she was topless in a magazine...

her body is so lovely :heart

Looks AMAZING!!!!

Luckily, she haven't done that yet.

I beg to differ. She's done similar projects in the past, indeed.

This doesn't equal one shot with another, though, even if a distinct similarity cannot always be denied.

Especially since covers like the one from LOVEppears are the opposit of the trivially exposed nudity as usally seen within the industry. There's something aggressive to her facial expression. Doesn't makes me entirely feel as if she's taking off her shirt to please but to actually convey a message.

I do not see that in the Majesty shot.

it's worth what it's worth but since the cover has been revealed the magazine jumped in the top 10 of Pre-Orders lol

I like it, she looks nice!

Loveppears was bold and unique, this is just trashy and questionable. It wouldn't be so bad if she didn't have the "just had sex" hair and a "Ooohh me?" Barbie expression on her face.

****-shaming! ****-shaming everywhere! D:

i love her, and this cover, GO GIRL. You are a gorgeous blooming woman and world needs to have you in all beauty especially since you seem to be so in peace with your body and who you are, as long as you feel comfortable keep doing this! I'm all for it! ♥

I love this! She looks gorgeous.

And her topless shots are always tastful and clean. some of her fully dressed shots are wayyyyyy worse and wayyyyy more trashy than this will ever be.

I can't stand that dry hair look she's been doing recently and that stupid deer in headlights face she keeps making, so I don't really like it. Good on her for getting them out again, but eh, it's not that shocking.

Actually there's nothing shocking about the magazine cover, Ayu is gorgeous even if the pic isn't really creative and looks like the ViVi one.
Nudity is gross when the photographer can't make look good the model or when pictures are made for adults only. If you know what I mean lol.

Also, I don't get why japanese should react so negatively. Girls with school uniforms or school swimsuits photoshoots are more sexualised than Ayu with an arm covering her naked breasts.

Whatever :rolleyes can't wait to see inside pics.

People who hate will hate no matter what.

If Paris Hilton donated 1 million dollars to some charity, people would say she was only doing it for press--ignoring the fact that she'd donated money.

Not sure what that has to do with Ayumi and her cannot be bound by clothes breasts.

OMG
LOVE IT
LET THEM HATERS SIT & STARE

she looks so good old school I could die from happiness :)

Just saying that no matter what a celebrity does, in the eyes of the public, there are bound to still be people who attack them. Paris was just a silly example.

In Ayu's case, every move she makes is criticized now.

I think she looks great.

maybe we could expect this in the future,not surprise if one day she would do that :innocent

I love this cover! :luv2 Ayu looks great with this hairstyle!

ayu x topless x jeans is looking like a queen.

her face, in fact, reminds me a lot of this:

I think she looks gorgeous. I wish there was a pattern or color in the bg though, it feels empty to me being all white.

has ayu had more tattoo's?
I remember seeing the back one from FIVE's album art but that side one is new?
She had a Heart from the last slightly topless one she did on her hip? Maybe she has expanded that one?

btw is that a new tattoo on her left side? '-' the one above the coccyx i remember but the one on her side looks new to me..

if anyone could make that bigger sized version textless, that would be so so cool :)

Well, it got people talking.
mission accomplished :cool

I think she looks great. Reminds me a lot of the Vivi shoot she did a few years ago. I don't remember people blasting her for looking "trashy" at that time. Why is this time different?

And are people really saying she's too old to do this? I think that's what bothers me the most. So once you reach a certain age you can't dress (or in this case I guess) pose sexy? If someone is comfortable with their body (like Ayu clearly is) why does it matter what they do with it?

I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the shoot.

Naked Ayu back again...I can't wait for this!!! HIGH QUALITY SCANS PLEASE!!! I know she's almost 35, but that doesn't mean she's going to act old!

So... have u seen the contents of this mag to say that u didnt get any msg? I think you're judging a book by it's cover.

Btw this cover is much more sexy and risky lol

I wish she had a tank top on or something, I think it would be much classier. But I really doubt it was Ayu's idea to do that, and it's not a new thing for her or for many other similar artists to do on photoshoots.

I don't think that picture is such a big deal lol. It's not as if she got down on all four and spanked herself...Whatever she does is most likely not going to be received well for some time.

We were particularly talking about the cover and I doubt anyone is going to read this magazine like a book, given the fact it's not going to unveil any unexpected content worth reading except of the usual "I want to be myself" banter.

I for one don't thumb through such magazines seeking for a story that could be of any relevance or at least non-fictional. However, I appreciate classy and adequate photography.

One of the absolute stand-outs regarding Ayu's photographic history would be the "Hamasaki Republic" book. Ever since I've seen those thoroughly planned, purposefully arranged, artistic pictures, my standards for Ayu's pictorial output explicitly increased.

I always try to bear in mind there have been these exceptionally well done works and they still exist. It just makes me wonder why standards and values of her producers regarding her image have gone downhill so much.

she is just absolutely gorgeous and I love the magazine name :) Majesty fits our queen perfectly

That happened to Ayu too during the earthquake... A lot of people tried to dismiss her donation and her helping people via twitter as marketing strategy... Funny enough, other part of the haters complained she wasn't doing enough.

The thing is: For some people she is on a lose/lose situation no matter what she does.

Interesting is that it's a pretty fresh magazine, the first issue was out in March of this year...

Yeah, I was wondering the same! She's looking HOT!

People shouldn't take what others say on the net too seriously. I mean, the internet is basically made up of cats, porn and people complaining/*****ing and generally being hateful and rude.

Ayu looks fabulous. I even love her weird messy hair <3

You are right. The picture is not a big deal. In fact, LOVEpears and Vivi had the similair look. She looks fantastic, I absolutely agree, and her body is amazing too, but well... just the question 'why, again' pops up in my mind. I'd love to see topless shoots, just the concept is disappointing and it misses some refreshing charm imo. As for these are my reasons why I do not like this. So far I haven't read anyone else complaining about 'too much revealing' because a lot of fans seem to love the cover. We know this Ayu. Just, why again?

I just want to know if those are her real tatts or not.

I was like damn when did Ayu get new ink? Lots of new Mags as of late. I hope for a new CD Soon

omg that comment those haters made. LOL..
when ayu dressed in highschool girl costume, they would also say she's too old for doing it... and now she's half naked, covering her boobs, they also said she's too old?? what's wrong with their mind??
oh well, haters are just gonna hate.

the pose, the style is very simple but she still looks gorgeous. i love it the second i saw it. we'll have more pics to see, so let's wait and see.

she's just too old to live ~

I don't see anything neither shameful nor trashy about this cover.She looks very pretty. And I personally don't find LOVEppears cover even a tiny bit more classy.

She looks sexy and classy, thanks for sharing.

I don't find LOVEppears cover any classier either :-p

Lp is actually a bit more provocative IMO. She's doing a much more aggressive stance, and she more full on and more "look at me." appears even more so. Her face is a bit more "come here" and in both instances her hands are drawing attention to her "area" lol.

While on this cover she's a bit more coy. Which can be read as sexy, but it's definitely a more feminine cover to me. But Lp and appears are better IMO because they're stronger, while this one is more sexy for the sake of being sexy, which there's nothing wrong with. She's 34 lol.

All her topless covers are pretty provocative but they don't always exude the same feeling for me at least.

i think ViVi shot was way more on-the-edge of "sex sells" mainly because of her face expresions and some gestures, but they didn't use any topless ones on the cover. not sure what we'll get on the inside spread but the cover photo is deffinitelly made for a woman's magazine which Majesty JAPAN is.

her half naked / sexy pics never look trashy for me, except for the party queen cover lol, that's the most provocative pic i've ever seen of her. other than that, her sexy pics always look classy =))

I could have liked the shoot but her hair..

i agree with the Vivi naked talk shots, those pics are way sexually attractive than this, just look at her expression in Vivi, if you get what i mean here

this one looked beautiful and she got really a nice body :innocent

+1
Thought exactly the same !

She is 34 maybe she will do like a Madonna a sex book "joke" :D Ayumi Hamasaki "A SEX BOOK"

Lovely :)

She looks like a rockstar. I like that

totally unexpected! but in a positive way loving her hair n facial expression. so glad with the recent magazines promotion!

Nice! Very simple concept, no fancy diva stuff, just a girl in her tight jeans. I like how the photographer took an angle for her face.

damn!!!! way better than the vivi cover. its young fresh and provocative

Me likes :D

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LOVE

Perfect queen :)