I'm making a new Ayu fan site!
 

Konnichiwa ~~~

So we all know how much we love Ayu, but most of her old sites are no longer being updated. I decided to make my own website (yes, one that I actually pay to have up.)

I mostly wanted to do one because I can't find a site where all Ayu's songs and translations would be in one site in a way that would satisfy me. But then I thought - why not do more?

That's where YOU come in!!

I want this site to be something for all Ayu fans, not just me, so my question is...
what do you want to see on an brand-new Ayu fan site?

I'm totally open for suggestions and ideas, because I'm so confused what to put there!!

It's still in the works, here's a preview



I also really miss http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/, so I wanted also to have something similar to that:



The name of the page right now is "The Colours of Ayumi Hamasaki" - not the best name, just one I decided on the spot. Don't know if I'll keep it and again, suggestions, please!!

I'm not asking for anyone else to pay for it, so don't worry about that!
I really do hope I get support to this idea though, it's not fun if I'm the only one using it x) And no, it's not up yet - and probably won't be for a while. I want it to be as perfect as possible!

Cheers ~~~

Edit 16.1.2016:

Already suggested:

magazine scans --> might be difficult to find them all, I know zyrex has a nice collection, but not updated since ~2013

cd+dvd scans --> definately going on the website!
photobook scans --> If I'm able to find the older ones, yes! Newer are going at least since they are pretty easy to find
old and new interview translations --> I'll put what I can find, with credit of course
some sort of gallery
lyric translations in more than one language
wallpapers
news --> this might be difficult since I do not follow Ayu 24/7 and simply do not have time for that... :/

Edit 24.01.2016:

Thank you for those who pointed out that VLC has a screen pic button! Saving hours now, thank you thank you ~~~

Wow that sounds like a great website and definitely one I would use!!

I'll add any suggestions if I think of any!

Ah that already is looking great. I'm pretty excited for the site to be up :) thank you so much for taking the time and money to do this

I'd love to have all the lyrics for the newer albums in one place. :D Also maybe karaokes for non-singles, MIDIs, gallery by album era, sales/chart positions? Just some random ideas. :)

I'd love to have pictures on one site :D by that I mean magazine scans in chronological order,also cd+dvd scans and photobook scans...this can take A LOT of time though.. I would also love to see old and new interview translations gathered on one site :D

Ooh, that's interesting!

I second the above! Some sort of gallery, maybe? Screenshots from the music videos, clean and easy design.

This sounds amazing! I think adding lyrics translations in more languages would be a cool feature for the website (I can help with Spanish translations!)

I would like to see lyrics sort according to album with translation, CD scans, booklet scans, gallery, wallpaper, news.

It will take a lot of time :D I think you should create some account then grant permissions to help you update the site :D

Print screen and paste it on Paint can be such a hassle!
You should try VLC media player, it lets you screenshot easily. :)
Looking forward for the website!

Oh wow, thank you so much for this response!!
This just motivates me more ~~~~

Can you be more specific what you mean with karaoke for non-singles?

What sort of gallery were you all hoping for? To find all pictures of Ayu ever taken is impossible ;)

That's a great idea ! What would be the best is to have all of her lyrics + english translation in one place, because DivineAyu stopped updating since LOVE again ):
I love getting to see screen of all her tours/CDL
I don't have any other ideas, but just wanted to show that i support your project :P

It's possible.
This is Magazine Scans Collection 1993-2012 (5601 files)

http://jpopsuki.eu/torrents.php?id=1...rrentid=256113

2010-now you can find here http://ayufan.com/blog

But it will take a lot of time & I think it's unnecessary :dead2

Hey Sandy that is an incredible job. Have great memories from sites like eneabba and I miss it too. I am glad you are going for an more update version. Not sure if I have any more ideas. Maybe, since you are not following Ayu daily, just the main big news when a new album is coming. How far she is, release dates etc.
Anyway I support your project! Great idea!

I am working currently on an Ayu Gallery.
And yes you can´t collect every single image and such, but I am trying to get it as complete as possible^^

@ Your site
A complete lyrics database in multi-language whould be rly nice to have <3

The site looks like it'll be nice and clean; pleasing to the eye and easy to find things. I'd definitely refer to this for different things, especially lyrics. Good job!

I'm not sure if this is a realistic/easy-to-do idea or if it was something that would work for your website but I really fancy the idea of Ayu releasing some sort of physical "encyclopedia" of her lyrics. So why not have a digital fan made one?

I was thinking it would include lyrics by album (with an English translation of course!) with a few pages dedicated to each of the songs lyrics.

On each song's pages, with the lyrics I would have:

• Full credits including instruments on the track etc
• Pictures from the era (like the off-shoots from the A Complete booklet, behind the scenes pictures, PV photos)
• Any related comments such as something Ayu said about the recording of the song or her personal thoughts on it
• Stats about the song's chart position etc
• As the website owner, any of your own thoughts on the song

Sort of like a database for anything you could want to know about your favourite Ayu song.

As someone else mentioned, it would be great to have a website with translations of all of Ayu's songs in one place as Divine Ayu is no longer updating. I really like the design of your website too!

Wow that looks awesome and I'm super excited for when you make it public!

I'm most interested in the Eneabba-esque aspect. Now that she hardly performs on TV anymore it shouldn't be hard to keep up to date either haha. Just concerts really :-p getting them all up in the first place will be the tough part!

I used to have a huge library of her lives but that computer is long since dead haha.



One thing to add would be a tour goods page. I love looking at her old goods but it's harder and harder to find pictures as years go by without putting some effort into it haha.

Working on this also^^
I love collecting Tour Goodies *_* Especially the old ones :love

If it's like updated version of eneabba, I'll be your regular visitor :)

Kanji lyrics would be also nice, I neven seem to find them together with translation and romaji.

And just a cosmetic suggestion, setlist is nicer to read if it's like standard song under song, not in a line, but maybe that's just me.

If you're using windows 7, 8 or 10 you have a snipping tool which is much better than printscreen or just play the video in VLC media player, it has this screenshot button.

Just another thought, I often don't remember what's on the bonus discs of concerts, the behind the scenes etc, it would be nice to have some shots from that as well, at least a few, plus maybe a general description on what's there.

Some links to other Ayu sites would be nice to, but with descriptions whether there's a gallery worth seeing or good translations, or unique translations, or translations in other languages, or subs.

2nd this!

I'd like and follow an updated version of eneabba

I love the idea!! So excited for this site to open!! I'll definetely use it.

Thank you, but I do not have a jpopsuki account! And am not asking for an invitation, could not keep up with the demands of keeping up an account :rolleyes

Thank you!! Yes, the front page will have the latest releases and so on, but unfortunately that'll be it. I can't keep up with her, and it's not like she's on TV every week! :D

Hmmm... this sounds difficult, I'll explain why:

Even now I'm doing the pages of each of her concerts - and there's really not enough info about them. And I only speak three languages (Finnish, Swedish, English).

I remember reading a lot about Ayu when I first found her - trying to get as much info about her as possible! I remember reading that "teddy bear" was written for her mother and every time she sang A Song for XX she was hoping her father would be in the audience and here it. But here's the tricky part - what's true and what is not? Unless it comes straight from Ayu - and this means interviews or her home page - I can't trust it's true. And uhh, me having to read all the Ayu interviews (the one's translated, of course) just to find out..? Sorry, doesn't sound like something I even want to do because of my new rule to not read too much about Ayu since I'm afraid to "know her too well". Never meet your idol, right?

Side not: I've never read a complete Ayu interview. Ever. And I'm happy as a clam. :D

I took your advice and changed it! Is it better? Please tell me all what you think:



If I'm able to find out, I'll tell you ;) But since I do not have the "bonus discs" (unless I have the DVD, and I have very few) I can't give you pictures of the bonus discs :/

Thank you all for your kind words!! It means A LOT!! :smitten

I kind of feel like I'd love to re-watch some old concerts so if you want I can make some screenshots and send them to you, from the bonus discs as well.

Really?? Oh wow! That'd be amazing! You have all the bonus discs from the Arena Tours and CDL? Because taking pics of them is hard work (I came to notice this...)

Here's a new preview pic!
Tell me, how does this look?



Of course I'll put more on the page, I just want to know, what you think of the layout? Does it look stupid with all three kind of lyrics?
Translation by Misha-chan! I've yet to ask premision to use her translations on my site so like I said - just a preview I did for you all to see.

It's way better!
As for the lyrics, i think it's also good.

Nice idea, Sandy! You're free to post my interview translations (with credit) if you'd like.

Aww, thank you! Although when I clicked the link it said "Sorry - no matches". Do you have your own website/blog?

Edit: I guess I should've looked at your signature more carefully..? ;)

^ Ah, seems linking to search results doesn't work. AHS has a few older translations that aren't on my blog. If you use AHS's advanced search to search for "threads started by tenshi no hane (user) in Ayu Celebrity News (thread)" you can get them all~

Thank you ~~~

Haha, no worries. You've done well to avoid full Ayu interviews!

I really like the updated preview pic - it reminds me of Ayumi's album booklets.

I would love an ayupan section if you have the desire and time to do it. Eneabba use to be my ayupan bible but its been a while since he/she updated it.

The lyric with translation section looks flawless from that preview by the way.

I like the previews so far.

Best of luck on your website. Has it launched?

Ayu definitely needs a new fansite since the others have stop updating? Why did they? :/