Numero Tokyo, October #70 preview
 

This is gonna be the issue where Ayu's house is featured! I'm so excited!

http://i.imgur.com/3PWzxV1.jpg

Apparently it's already for sale on Amazon too!

source: Ayu Fan Party and AyuAngel FB

this ***** don't age, wtf!

^ HEY! XD

LOL.
She looks great is what I'm getting at, haha.
I'm just curious, is her natural hair that long?

Aww, she looks too cute

^ I know, I know. XP
I think the hair is really that long, uhm..

Anyway, here's a slightly better quality of the pic~!
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/5171/w6v9.jpg

Lovin' it~ *O* She looks so beautiful and young <3

omg I NEED THIS!

Cant wait for this issue..

ayu is very pretty in this picture! :heart

:luv2

HOLY CARP MIGHT WE SEE THE INSIDE OF HER HAUS?

lovely! I wonder if she gonna show us her closet too (lingerie, bra, night gown collection. Better if she wear it too) khu..khu..khu (perv mode lol)

Wow, I'm excited! ^-^ Thanks for posting!

amazing

perfect :)

hope to see more inside pics, better yet the scans!
ayu looks soooo sooo soo young on the pic <3

This pic is adorable! :heart

Loving the boots!

OMG i absolutely love her looks and everything here!! her hair, smile, skirt and boots!! everything is prefect!

OMG OMG OMG
AMAZING AYU

I like that pic. Hope, we can see the inside-pics soon.

Another small preview photo ^^
http://i40.tinypic.com/o5rpr5.jpg
http://numero.jp/news-20130820-ayumihamasaki/

can't wait to see the complete scans ! <3

AyuAngel posted a French translation of a piece of the article that's been released. Apparently the Super Manuel photo book that Mannie did was a BIG contributor to the divorce, and she says that revealing she was dating Maro was the biggest mistake she feels she's made in the last 15 years.

This is gonna go down in Ayu history as one of those hugely important & very revealing articles, like the Rockin' On Japan one from 2001. I know it.

Oh my goodness, I really can't wait to read that. Seems it'll be one huge interview.

:thud

I love that Rockin' On Japan interview, and glad that she will go in depth here. Thanks Deli :) will you be translating?

The million dollar question: Will we see her diamond toilet?

diamonds toilet should be the covergirl. Just photoshop ayu's feet near it or something.

ooo, can't wait for this interview then. :)

wowwww
can't wait to read more about it because i wonder about leslie kee who worked on super manuel book too. there's no way that ayu didn't know about their collaboration in the first place, right? unless Mannie has the "power" to persuade Leslie to do it without ayu knowing?

loving it!
Can she share the elixir of life?

She looks good :)

Thanks for sharing

Could you link me to the original Japanese article? (if you know) I can't find it.

Hmmm even more excited.

Thanks Leslie for ruining a marriage :laugh

http://www.weibo.com/1707105773/A61Nugwqu
The most important paragraph seems to be removed from the original article, which is interesting.

She looks so frigging YOUNG!! She's really lovely, I adore this style!
I absolutely can't wait for the interview: I was just dying to know what Ayu has to say about it all. I still feel she didn't say much about herself since the divorce and in the interviews she always seems to me more bitter and mature than ever. I want some high lights of Ayu's mind!

thanks! I guess that explains why I couldn't find it lol.

I wanna read this article when it's possible! And pics of her house, too~ ♥

WOW, this article seems good!! I'm so curious now!

I think its not so surprising that those grotesque Super Mannie thingy is one of the factor that they divorce. There's so many speculations about that years ago. But why they bring it up again right now? When some people already knew and forget it... well in my case. And the same goes for Maro thingy, I thought Ayu had said something that she didn't wanna talk about it and... forgive... got some blur memory.
Anyway still can't wait the inner picture.

^Maybe she decided to talk about them, to forget them. I mean, if she says nothing, there'll always be someone to talk about that again in media. Look at Maro who brought the subject 6 months after the break up. Saying things could shut media up about that. & she would be able to make a fresh start.

The original source for my comments is this overview/preview of the article from the Numero Tokyo website: http://numero.jp/news-20130820-ayumihamasaki/

But I didn't translate this myself, I read the french translation from Ayuangel. So as a disclaimer, it's a summary of a translation of a translation XD

I will definitely try to translate if I can - been busy lately but I'm so excited about the article, I might give it a shot anyway :D

ayu and Leslie are still like best friends and she still uses him (he was just with her on the A BEST LIVE tour after party).

Maybe it's just a thing Mannie made public and ayu didn't want it (and leslie didn't mean to publish it)?

Maybe the article will give a clearer picture of the issue, I hope ayu explains why it was bad of mannie but Leslie was ok XD

Thanks to the translation on Ayuangel we know she will also talk about Matsuura. What she thinks about him. (don't expect something we don't already know IMO).
According to the translation, she says she was really shocked by the naked photos of Manuel, while he didn't seem to understand the issue. She hadn't slept/eaten for some days because of that.

Man, I remember when fans were like "why the hell would she be so shocked about the photobook? She's a mature woman, that's not the reason why they seperated" back when the divorce was announced.

Well, this proves that the human mind cannot be predictable, wether the person in question is mature or not. :laugh

I'm curious about this interview... and Leslie.

I'm excited to see the translation when I becomes available! We'll be able to learn so much! :yes

Also, I love that photo of her. :)

this is really great, finally she can clear saome stuff and justify herself in the eyes of some haters :)

I like Ayu in this look~!! She's so natural here~!! ^_^

Yeah same here, why is Leslie still in the good books? It always seemed like a weird reason. lol

Wow, I'm really excited to read that interview!

oh my god I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS

I really don't think that the book was a contributor to the divorce because of the nature of the photos, though it probably didn't help. We all know that Japan has its fetishes, and we're used to this kinda thing from Leslie alone. I think what probably happened was that Mannie realized it could be an opportunity to make some money/launch himself at Ayu and Leslie's expense and was just using her birthday as an excuse. It's not like it was a random, one-of-a-kind, Ayu-only thing like Leslie made it out to be. It's actually part of Leslie's "SUPER" series and he was selling them, even though they were limited. Ayu probably realized this and that's when things went downhill. It's stupid to think Leslie and Ayu's relationship wasn't strained either, but in the end, he was just doing his job as a photographer regardless of Mannie's intentions, and Ayu probably came to this conclusion as well.

^ Good point, I agree. I'm guessing Ayu wasn't too fond of finding her husbands magazine around gay sex shops in japan... I mean, they were meant for her originally, no?

Yeah, I agree, Ithink it's probably something like that.
Let's face it, Ayu probably didn't mind the content of the pics because she obviously have seen him naked many times before and it was a Leslie photobook... But it was very strange how his photobook was for sale and had more copies than Ayu's photobook that was never for sale.

wow..she looks really good on the cover.I've always wondered how her house looks like..can't wait for more details :luv2

I don't know, I'd be pretty upset if I jUST got married and my husband published a photobook of him with a ton of different pictures showing his buttcrack :S

^ Yeah, it's one thing if it was only for her, like I said.

It's quite different to see your husband naked in person and in-print. Let's be real, who wouldn't be a tad uncomfortable with seeing your husband's junk in a photo book that's available to the public? We'll probably only get snippets of why they divorced, which is better than nothing I suppose. People omit details to save face.

Previews from inside the magazine
http://i.imgur.com/UXBFM8v.jpg http://i.imgur.com/y86xuHu.jpg
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A mirror, amazing.

dat mirror omg i bet her house is full of A's

I can't take poses like the top pic serious :laugh
I'm imagining the photographer go all, "pretend like you're having menstrual cramps, but in a sexy way"

I really wish I had bought the SuperMany book when I had the chance. It would be hilarious

New pic(for a ver)
http://i.imgur.com/aIAgEfz.jpg
That drawing is kinda creepy.
But I honestly wanna see more house and less artificial poses!

I need this so bad :weep

That black dress on the top left corner... omfg I need more shots of that!!!

All these pics seem so promising omg

OMGG perfect photoshoots..
so can't waittttttttttttt!!
and ayu's A MIRROR..awesome!!

This is all so precious... Ayu's mirror, omg... This photoshoot can't come too soon!!

her house is amaaaaazzzingggg

It's like ayu lives in an apartment that is ayu's Domain. She must love the "A" logo so much to use it in her own house XD

:roflmao:roflmao

wonder where is that part of her house is? bathroom? :D

loved her staircase! and the A mirror of course! omg :luv2

cant wait for this full scan, a worth to see photoshoot

I'm in love with this~ :heart

Omg Seriously??!?!?!? I can't wait for the full scans!! The mirror XD

Love Número!!!

PHOTOS LOOK AMAZING!!!!!

oh my God we need HQ now

It's so sad that she has all these fabulous and expensive shoes and clothes but we hardly get to see her wearing. She should've wear some designer labels during her tour. Off topic.

anyway... her house is a dreamland

Awesome,awesome house *O*

Beautiful preview!

She is fan of herself :O

Every pictures preview was gorgeous! Can't wait for the hq scans.

Hope we can see more scans from the magazine soon...*dancing while waiting

asdfg, her mirror, her clothes, everything.
I want more.

Ikr! We should get a photobook of this :weep Something like A Life but in ayu's house

im in love with her house *-* A MIRROR

I suppose we should have full scans soon, it was released yesterday =) can't wait to see the article's translation too if someone would do!! ^^

I just bought the magazine! It's the first time I buy a magazine for Ayu lol

I wonder if that is a house she may have purchased in LA? In one of the photos there are palm trees.

It's possible, I noticed on her FB she has liked a lot of Beverly Hills/LA property pages and estate agents. But Japan have trees similar to palm trees called "Shuro".

Jean Bordeaux just said on my facebook's page that Ayu's house is in Fukuoka. Proof of that it's the picture below which was posted on Ayu's twitter when she was in Fukuoka, last May. The window are the same, and the pool too :)
http://i.imgur.com/l2JUWeb.jpg
The link with his explanations > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...9754118&type=1

^ who's Jean Bordeaux?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BS0wsiqCUAAxQ7C.jpg:large

ℳoe ‏@moe19941215

:luv2

I don't know if Ayu has a house in Fukuoka or not, but I know at least that she has a huge house in the center of Tokyo, in the area of Roppongi

Her dog XD

So nonchalant about it too.