A BEST 2 RELEASE in JAPAN
 

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Wow!! I want it now!!!! I dont know when will I buy A BEST 2, because i have to wait until i go to Singapore..

Haha so cool!

Did you snatch these from kiseki's post ;)

Anyhow, nice pics.

I love how they sell Black Cherry among the Ayu's stand. <3

AND FLAVOR OF LIFE W00T <33

what are those DVd things? and isnt it redicilous to put Black Cherry to A BEST 2 XD

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looks weird if you put these ones together
omg aliens are coming!

I'm guessing it's to hinder thieves, I saw a lot of things like that when I was shopping in Tokyo. I believe you pick it up, walk over to the counter, hand it in & pay, and they give you the CD+2DVD version.

hikki and ayu together <333 O_O look the a best 1 copy
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8404/p1000955me0.jpgLOL xD a best 1 among the aliens xDDDDDDDD

Haha, it's like such a repeat of the A BEST competition!

1. A BEST vs. Distance (REAL competition!)

Subsequently, they both started to 'compete' on really DIFFERENT grounds. It's just pure coincidence, like seriously!

2. BLUE BIRD vs. ULTRA BLUE (Single vs. Album)
3. A BEST 2 vs. Flavor of Life

Haha, just reminiscent of the A BEST - DISTANCE days, because both of them are everywhere!

OH MY GAWHHHHH

yeah so cool!!!
hope to hear a good news about the sales

Wow, so cool! :D

Yeah, I noticed... in most of the pics, wherever there's Ayu, there's also Hikki.

Ayu is everywhere o_O Thanks for posting all these pictures ^^

wow simply cool!! thks for sharing these pics!! =)

At least she's everywhere right where those photos were taken.

I can now live peacefully knowing that A BEST 2 is being sold at the music stores www.ayudears.com webmaster goes to. :P

Wow
so happy to see
so many ayu posters !

i noticed something!!
what are this cover for ???
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there are some errors in the original booklet (greatful days by crea etc), thats why you get this "update".

I got it today too (bottom left)

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wow that's alot! i also see utada hikaru's "flavor of life" too, lol. thanks for the pic.

Sugoii!!
Arigatou for the pics!!

Completely gorgeous. Thanks for even more picture BrauMeister! Awesome.

This is great! Thanks for the pics! :D

omg what are those cds!!!!!!

Before you ask again, please check the replies :).

now, looking at the stores, i undertand the marketing strategy they created --- those eyes everywhere staring at the consumer...

i also want to know what are those cd's...

edit -- > so those are corrected cd's?? O_o i dont understand anything...

ooh.. I thought that was about something else...

mmh.. interesting... I want one! lol

@Ayesha: I think they are! yes.

So when you buy A BEST 2 -WHITE-, you get two booklets?

so, there willbe 5 different covers, after all..

haha, we are so excited, better to let time pass and let someone illuminates us with their knowloedge and their real copies! LOL

mmh to the lucky ones? or to everyone? like MY STORY? errors?? only some ppl got the special "sorry" booklet.

meeh! I need that cover too! is beautiful!

The CD's are all still the same. They've put in a correction "booklet", or rather a piece of folded paper, there's no pages inside, on top of the original cover.

Remember what they did for MY STORY? The same thing happened back then, and everyone who bought the early editions of it could go to the stores and pick up a correction "booklet".

Oh, thanks for the information! Although do you happen to know if the future pressings of the album will have the mistake corrected in the original booklet or will they come with the correction "booklet"?

Like for MY STORY I'm sure they will stop giving away the correction booklet, since later editions will be edited contain the correct credits, or whatever the mistake was of.

interesting.. so probably all CDs come with it.


PS: see quoting is not such a bad thing!

so many Ayu faces.. scary O_o ... But yet cool :D

this is great! I hope that A best 2 will sale good.

no, only the first editions of them... when they are ordered again to the producer, they will correct the mistake and ten they will make more cd's...

btw, that pic used for the "special" page belongs to those two promotional pics that appeared some days ago around AHS...

yep! is a pretty good pciture of ayu!!

Thanks for these pics!

My copies shipped this morning... What version will I get? lol I love the "correct version" cover, but i want the "special" mistaken version xD

WOW, now that is promotion!

everything looks so beautiful, I'd probably have a heart attack just looking at so many goodies.

I would die if I were in that shop

Ahh man, I recognise a few of those places where the pictures were taken :D Right now would be a great time to be in Japan. :yes

Holy... she's everywhere!!!! Haha!

OMG SOMEONE HAS TO HAVE THE ERROR COVER OMG

it's good to see cd stores... but how about some street pics? i wanna see ayu floating around shubuya... :P

Those are already available here:
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O_O lol im in awe.

They have a box of rolled up posters!!! I want one...T_T Hopefully Ill get one in my order :(

great pics, can't to have my own A BEST 2.

which song were included in A BEST 2 ??

does it sold in Sydney??? and where?

A best 2 black:
CD:
Dearest
CAROLS
No way to say
HANABI
walking proud
Free & Easy
Endless sorrow
Because of You
About You
GAME
is this LOVE?
HANABI ～episode II～
NEVER EVER
HEAVEN
part of Me
Panasonic デジタルカメラ LUMIX FX30
TV-CFソング

A best 2 white:
evolution
Greatful days
independent
Humming
UNITE!
Real me
my name's WOMEN
ourselves
INSPIRE
STEP you
July 1st
fairyland
Voyage
Moments
A Song is born

What the heck did-- OMG.

So.

That's in the main A BEST 2 thread. :D

i still don't get the new cover thing
is it just a slip of paper?
or is it a completely new book with the correction made, with a new cover...
and if that's the case, how come the CD+DVD+DVD version of WHITE doesn't have a new cover?

and BrauMeister, is it possible if you could scan the new cover of the A BEST 2 -WHITE-? :)
i wanna use it for my iPod picture :)

I think it's a completely new one.

And CD+DVD+DVD had one too I think.. just not included in the packaging itself.. D:?

that's weird
i never saw a new cover for the CD+DVD+DVD version...
i would love a new one for that though, the WHITE one is bad
this is confusing :S

wowwies! i want to go music shopping in japan one day!

That's amazing o.o

soo coooll!!
this must have been the biggest promo for her album so far..
dats jus good! oh yeah! keep it up!~

oh does dat means they will make more cd's for the new ones?? if yes then its gud

RELEASE !!!!!!
Thats it !!! Shibuya is out of control (or in absolute control ?) - its sooo crazy !!!

Here my new pics :

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Wow, awesome pics here :)

Thank you for the pics !
Maybe I should have gone to the Tower Rec because I did not get my poster in HMV ... I bought it yesterday around 18:00

wow...thanks for the pics!!! I wonder how busy are the cd stores and if ppl are buying the cds.

thanks for sharing out cool pictures :)

about the new cd cover thingy....I got the booklet thing with the correction for my story cd (coz they made a mistake with the HONEY credits) and it was packaged outside of the cd, covering the actual front cover of the cd....so it might be possible that the 'new' cover could just be the cover pic of the correction booklet. (mine had a different picture which was not any of the cd covers and the cd booklet pics)

omg, wow..i want to go japan :D

so that's the real A BEST 2-WHITE- truck I want!!! LOL! (the last pic posted by BrauMeister..)

Edit... there're actually two trucks.. Are we allowed to steal one? :D
Edit2... it makes me getting freakin' excited now... OMG OMG...

Yeah... I wonder if I can get this 'error' thing in singapore... Since I did receive the error page for my story

Thanks for all the pics! It's very nice to see how she's being promoted.

Awesome pictures. And oh my god, them trucks! And there's 3 (2?) of them in the same picture! o_o;

hahahaha... i second that! but glad that ayu is all over the place!:D

woooooop maaaaaaaaaaiii gaaaaaawwshhhhh!
thats stunning!:thud

Thanks =333

SO different from promotion in the US- and much more! Ayu invasion v2.0- it's usually like this for major albums, or am I wrong? xD

^Yeah, but BEST albums get the extra notch.

wow this person has gone to many cd shops in tokyo to take pics.

it is really quite creepy to see so many ayu eyes staring at me i nthe pic with many ayu cds put together!

this is the advertising posters i have
4 pcs "A3"size = poster
4 pcs "A4"size = mount with 5mm forex
4 pcs "Album"size = mount with 5mm forex
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I wish I could be there... T_T

WOW! Such great promotion! :D

Where did you get these posters ?? :luv2

i work in a printing house in SINGAPORE
all this just a sample print out from JAPAN,
is just to let me match color for printing in SINGAPORE ver. posters
now im working on BUS STOP poster, HMV LIGHT BOX POSTER, & many...

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damn you are so lucky. I did not get my poster, I am so sad

HEHEHE thanks...
cos from the begining of i work in here,
i already ask my SALES to ready get AYU jobs in,
so they start to take note of bringing ayu jobs in,
this is the 2nd ayu job for me,
the 1st time job is "MY STORY" LIGHT BOX POSTER. . .
but no FINAL ARTWORK for me,
now A BEST 2 have so many FA for me . . .
if u want i can print it for u
hehehe . . . dont tell ppl oh...

I wonder if they fixed the posters. (IN STORS => IN STORES)

I thought it was just some promo on the site that said that..

ihave no idea, but all singapore ver. are in " NOW ON SALE "

^wow i feel jealous with you gishimura...
and what are you printing is for promotion at singapore not for japan right?
so happy to do something real for ayu

Max took some photos of the trucks and 109.
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i can't believe how overpublicized japanese albums can be haha

yap yap yap . . .
is for singapore promo posters...
but the date of installation are on 10/3/07

is kindda late

THIS IS THE PIC THAT FULL OF CRAZY OF ME TO AYU
ALL OVER MY TABLE CAN BE SEE AYU A BEST 2 ADVERTISING

my right side of my main table (name card size)
before this, the box is infill my name card
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my back of my main table (another small table)
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Those huge trucks are just awesome. But do they really play her music at loud volume in the streets? But it would be cool to just see such a big face drive by in the street :D

@Gishimaru: I like your subtle warning next to the advertising: "Please do not touch" :D

yeah i really love that "Please do not touch" as well LOL :D.

and there are lots of real A BEST 2 trucks... I wish I can see one in real life... :cry

Edit: Wow there are lights behind the ads/pictures on the truck... sugoi ne~e!!

all hail the queen!

the trucks are crazy...Avex knows how to publicize lol.