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zoomzoom 7th March 2008 03:54 AM

Ayu-mi-x 6 covers, how do you like them?
 
Since the covers were revealed, how do you like them?

I think it's the best yet, not overly weird but still cool. The soft lighting looks really nice on her.. it's kinda mysterious too.
My fav is the gold one, probably because it has the color.


http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2540/goldmnv1.jpg
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1755/silvermjp1.jpg


milky_way 7th March 2008 03:55 AM

I like the one for GOLD. SILVER not so much.

Bashumaru 7th March 2008 03:56 AM

I hate them :O

Rurutia 7th March 2008 04:09 AM

I love the gold one..silver not so much

[taskin.ayu] 7th March 2008 04:11 AM

The gold one is nice, but the silver's design on the face is kinda ugly. XD

pop909 7th March 2008 04:12 AM

They should have done differnet pictures!! its just a flip. And the patterns..a grade 5 could do.

AyuGAME 7th March 2008 04:15 AM

its really nice..so creative and appealing

Yeli13 7th March 2008 04:28 AM

Well, it's unexpected, creative, but the darkness of her skin on the GOLD ver. shocks me, whereas the pattern of the SILVER ver. looks weird... I would rather prefer the gold pattern on the silver ver.^^

UHPlus 7th March 2008 04:30 AM

expected, uncreative, not WOW-able, looked fan-made (i can do it like that also ^_^)

but it's just a remix album that don't sell at all and not much promotion or anything...

and i'm not buying it so who cares ? ^_^

minna 7th March 2008 04:31 AM

interesting but cool
and surprising too

I thought her face would be the color of the album but I never thought she would have 'drawings' on her


I think the best is gold, because of the effects and the 'drawings' on her
I really like the way they did some parts of her face darker and some lighter
the silver is good but not like gold

AyUmIXx 7th March 2008 04:36 AM

hmm.. honestly, i don't really like the covers..
i prefer her pervious covers where she wore kimonos ones or any other olds one~

kotora 7th March 2008 04:41 AM

Silver - I am A SUPERSTAR~!
Gold - I was going to say if ayu would do something else than this...............

Now I am curious how the special edition of 12'' covers look like. Are all of them based on these two covers?

lilchan 7th March 2008 04:55 AM

..uuhhh..one of my least liked remix covers..
a bit scary actually
the silver one..is just a ton of random lookign designs splashed on her face

FoObY 7th March 2008 05:07 AM

It'd be sweet if they made the designs in shiny gold and silver on the physical covers.

AyuGAME 7th March 2008 05:13 AM

hopefully they will emboss the pattern on the physical cover
it will be really COOL!!!

Nu-NRG 7th March 2008 05:36 AM

^ maybe just like Memorial address
with the metalic-ish coloured cover?

takashi526 7th March 2008 05:41 AM

dislike...
is crazy

prussian blue 7th March 2008 07:05 AM

i dont like it
looks like fanmade
i think its the worst cover
sorry to the cover lover

Lanz16 7th March 2008 07:15 AM

Hmmm...... *Thinks*

GOLD - I like it very much
SILVER - ummm... Its very pretty.

I like the way they design it but its quite "scary" for me or some.
So far, this is the cover that I really liked for Ayu-chan's remix albums.

ayuzlove 7th March 2008 07:19 AM

the colors and design on ayu's face for gold looks pretty neat...but the star on ayu's face for silver is kinda funny :D

Choyan 7th March 2008 07:29 AM

eh, I think it can be more wow, this isn't very wow v-v~~~
the gold is better overall, but colouring doesn't look great on the gold cover, silver one seems better 'suited'~

me0wie 7th March 2008 07:30 AM

learn to appreciate...

its not that bad... right...?

but i kinda prefer the gold one to the silver one... :x

DA1SUK1DAY01691 7th March 2008 07:44 AM

I like how the silver one has a pentagram, and the gold one has a heart. :)

TITANIC 7th March 2008 08:08 AM

i like GOLD...so cool..but i prefer old remix covers like ayu-mi-x IV orchestra

Melrose 7th March 2008 08:31 AM

I love the patterns. They're mysterious and gorgeous. I also like that both faces are actually the same. 'cause then they have some kind of real connection.

Halla 7th March 2008 08:42 AM

I was expecting a face shot with somekind of gold/silver variation so I'm not surprised.

I think Ayu is one of the few top j-pop stars who can really pull off a plain face shot. also these covers sorta match with the A BEST II covers.

I think they're both OK, but I really hope they're like shiny in person with the figures painted with metallic color. that would be really cool.

sibby 7th March 2008 09:59 AM

i actually couldnt recognise her for a while.. BUT ITS SO.. coollllll.. i like the.. idea of.. erm painting her face.. it actually reminds me of someone's avatar BUT I CANT RMB.. dang

Deneb 7th March 2008 10:02 AM

i like the gold one's pattern, silver's star looks sorta weird. but they will look good displaying next to each other

errikkutrancex 7th March 2008 11:11 AM

I don't like both ! :( prefer the Ayumix 4 covers !! :)

sitara 7th March 2008 11:18 AM

i hate them both! the silver one reminds me of union jack bc of the stripes -_______-
gaaahn the boring covers continue D: and another closeup of her face ;___; BAH

CREA.tive 7th March 2008 12:57 PM

I like the patterns in the gold one but I think her skin looks better in the silver one. They could've been better but also worse.

Catzi 7th March 2008 01:26 PM

Her remix covers aren't awesome in general, but I like these.

fanmail 7th March 2008 01:47 PM

I like them but, at the same time, I hate them... :shrug

stickyrice 7th March 2008 01:53 PM

Gold's hot. Silver just looks boring =\ But it was expected for the covers to be the way are.

CHAS_AYU 7th March 2008 02:07 PM

I love them very much!

tourniquet 7th March 2008 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yeli13 (Post 1360513)
Well, it's unexpected, creative, but the darkness of her skin on the GOLD ver. shocks me, whereas the pattern of the SILVER ver. looks weird... I would rather prefer the gold pattern on the silver ver.^^

thought exactly the same. no more words.

she has better remix covers indeed.

alternarist 7th March 2008 02:22 PM

i like the covers after ayumix 4, then ayumix 5.

these covers are pretty easy to produce right? jus take the shots and photoshop everything else. GOLD looks kinda classy while SILVER looks like a kid drawn on ayu's face. i prefer GOLD!!

tasking 7th March 2008 02:36 PM

Okay, prepare for a bit of a rant here, but I'm sick and tired of being disappointed by Ayu's covers. They either go overboard (these) or have nothing at all (all the rest, excluding RAINBOW). Why does everyone like these? They SUCK. I give Rice Momoya credit; they did create the A logo, but their sense of creativity for album covers is HORRIBLE. When I first saw these, I thought they were fanmade. GOLD looks more like ORANGE. SILVER's not too bad, but still not what I was expecting. They went way too overboard with the designs on her face, too. Can someone say overlay much? And the font's so plain!

Again, we have a spectular shot of Ayu (i.e. A BEST 2) and it's been ruined by crappy Photoshopping. Seriously, we need to start sending our portfolios to avex.

~ayu-cake~ 7th March 2008 02:46 PM

Not the best remix album cover.

But I like them.

The silver one is a little un appealing. I think the pattern on her face looks strange.

It looks cheap, which is a shame because I was seriously looking forward to these covers.

It doesn't even look like a new shoot. Just cast offs from last years A BEST =/

Would be better if the pattern was actually painted on =)

freedreamer 7th March 2008 02:54 PM

i prefer the SILVER wan..(i tink its just me..)
The angle makes her look more like Ayu to me...

the GOLD wan has a nice design too but the face...angle doesnt make it look like her

austin. ♥ 7th March 2008 02:58 PM

Well I like them.

elekons 7th March 2008 03:05 PM

i love gold and silver is fake

kiseki89 7th March 2008 03:42 PM

A little scary...
GOLD's relatively better though

orochicloud 7th March 2008 03:59 PM

I dont really like the covers actually, but I suppose the GOLD one is better than the silver because it actually has some shapes that arent just random stripes and stars.
I liked her previous remix covers better, especially the Ayu-mi-x 4 acoustic orchestra version.

Earth_maiden 7th March 2008 04:27 PM

Like the gold one, hate the silver one.

panda87 7th March 2008 06:02 PM

they look cool... how she looks with those colors reminds me of that one LOVEppears album cover... and that one Panasonic D-dock CM she did with her "GAME" song... weird looking... but very creative.

marcelosama 7th March 2008 06:05 PM

I didn't like it:grumpy

ayu_ready? 7th March 2008 06:21 PM

well these do look photoshop all the way but anyway I guess I like them
what did u expect from gold & silver anyway?
I just thought the covers will look like this - a close up of gold & silver Ayu face...
honestly, could have been worse...the pic itself without photoshopping the face looks very beaut indeed/ I guess they would have better gave it a more techno look

although old remixes covers were much better...ayu-mi-x cover with short black hair is my most fav :)

Echidna 7th March 2008 06:37 PM

a bit scary...
and another close-up...
I think I'll like them....

CHE.R.RY 7th March 2008 07:05 PM

I think they were all pretty cool but they were just a tad bit creepy to me. I like the designs on Ayu's face though...but I must say if you guys wouldn't have said that was Ayu...I'd never have known that was her! xD

ayuayu798 7th March 2008 08:01 PM

I love them, its very unique ...

Sasha 7th March 2008 08:04 PM

they are horrible, previous futuristic covers was way better

sunny 7th March 2008 08:20 PM

cool concept ... but i dislike the typo they choose for ayu-mi-x 6

and it will be even cooler for the photo if they do a face painting instead of digital editing for the pattern design

Chiharo 7th March 2008 08:25 PM

Almost all Ayu's remix album cover sucked for me.
But this time I actually like them a bit :D

tokyoxjapanxfan 7th March 2008 08:34 PM

i actually prefer the silver cover over the gold one. :) i love them though! i'm excited for them! i hope they have like gold/silver foil stuff on them? like a metalic finish? haha iunno how to word it :P

and also, i wonder if it'll have a nice booklet? with more pics? her other ones dont have like photoshoots, but this one might :P im also excited to see the CD :)

elepop 7th March 2008 08:54 PM

I must say... I expected something A LOT better than this. These covers are a bit of a let down. It could easily be photos from the A BEST 2 photoshoot. Then they just added stuff. Compared to her past remix albums covers, this isn't good. It looks like something fanmade. I don't think they are unique, creative or special. I know that they are just remix albums, but umm... They could have put a bit more effort on it. It looks quite... cheap I must say.

I'm getting a bit worried for her "Mirrorcle World" covers now...

I wonder why she doesn't have awesome covers anymore. She needs a new art director or something...

Oh yeah, and she MUST stop doing super up-close photos...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halla (Post 1360728)
I think Ayu is one of the few top j-pop stars who can really pull off a plain face shot. also these covers sorta match with the A BEST II covers.

Eh... not so much. A BEST was her only nice plain shot cover. The rest are just bad. Especially A BEST 2. There are tons of other J-Pop artist who makes better face-shot cover. Like aiko. Even though aiko's cover are the simplest covers ever, even though they are just face-shot, they are REALLY amazing.

zoomzoom 7th March 2008 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by asongforXX (Post 1361509)
I must say... I expected something A LOT better than this. These covers are a bit of a let down. It could easily be photos from the A BEST 2 photoshoot. Then they just added stuff. Compared to her past remix albums covers, this isn't good. It looks like something fanmade. I don't think they are unique, creative or special. I know that they are just remix albums, but umm... They could have put a bit more effort on it. It looks quite... cheap I must say.

I'm getting a bit worried for her "Mirrorcle World" covers now...

I wonder why she doesn't have awesome covers anymore. She needs a new art director or something...

Oh yeah, and she MUST stop doing super up-close photos...

She almost never does face shots for her singles, I wouldn't be worried. She really doesn't do that many face shots anyway.

A Song for XX, A BEST, Memorial Adress, kinda MY STORY, (miss)understood, A BEST 2 (they referred to the first A BEST, but with no tear) and GUILTY, though it had a cd-only with a far away shot. I mean, does Utada ever do anything else than face shots?

Halla 7th March 2008 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by asongforXX (Post 1361509)
Eh... not so much. A BEST was her only nice plain shot cover. The rest are just bad. Especially A BEST 2. There are tons of other J-Pop artist who makes better face-shot cover. Like aiko. Even though aiko's cover are the simplest covers ever, even though they are just face-shot, they are REALLY amazing.

I don't personally think Aiko has the face for face-shots :o

I think Ayu is pretty much the only one who can do a face shot like this with hair all slicked back and pretty extreme closeup and still pull it off.

letthemeatcake 7th March 2008 10:17 PM

i lurve the gold, but i must say, i like...ayujarl's (i think it's him) version of the silver! ^^ he put the design on a photo of himself as his avatar!

Isthan 7th March 2008 11:08 PM

I belong to the minority who likes SILVER more. If I didn't know Ayu and saw the album in the store, I could buy it just because of the cover.

GOLD is pretty too but... it's too dark, too orange, doesn't look like Ayu... Heyy~, it's all about opinons.

DA1SUK1DAY01691 8th March 2008 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halla (Post 1361623)
I don't personally think Aiko has the face for face-shots :o

I think Ayu is pretty much the only one who can do a face shot like this with hair all slicked back and pretty extreme closeup and still pull it off.

I get what you're saying.

The fact that A BEST 2 had the impact without anything but her face is amazing. It shows the work of a true model.

alternarist 8th March 2008 03:27 AM

^agree!! and the best thing is that the thing that differentiated BLACK and WHITE A BEST 2 is the background. not anything done to the face.

i like it a lot. actually its kinda expected tat ayu will do some kind of up close shot for GOLD and SILVER ever since she did it for BLACK and WHITE..

Larisa-chan 8th March 2008 03:51 AM

You know, I really like them both, especially the gold one. They are both simple and to the point.

KLJames 8th March 2008 07:34 AM

like the gold, silver the pattern is abit over... actually if all without pattern r nicer... is like wasted ayu beautiful face... but i like the gold colour tone...

TITANIC 8th March 2008 12:37 PM

gold is awesome...
at least is better than my story classical

Maemi 8th March 2008 04:59 PM

i like almost all Ayu's covers,but those are kinda...fake.
don't kill me O.O

still i like the way they put colours and everything,but what they have done with her face? >>

LacusClyne 9th March 2008 03:45 AM

unexpected.....creative but i find them a little scary looking~~~

Kobayashiwoof 9th March 2008 04:05 AM

I have seen fan art that are better than these covers.

Really disappointing.

DA1SUK1DAY01691 9th March 2008 05:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larisa-chan (Post 1361940)
You know, I really like them both, especially the gold one. They are both simple and to the point.

Which was probably the reason of the covers anyway. "This is GOLD, this is SILVER, that's it. I don't care if you don't like it, it's what it is."

Most people in Japan would probably be attracted to it because it's so busy and shiny. Ahaha. I know I'm attracted by busy, shiny things.

Ayu_no_tenshi 9th March 2008 05:04 AM

i like -SILVER- the best

Teyla 9th March 2008 09:51 PM

i like them

ayumisrael 9th March 2008 10:10 PM

They were strange at first but now I think they're nice.
Not the best they could be but not the worse either.

tobehanabi 9th March 2008 10:25 PM

I don't think ayu looks goods in those head shots (A Best 2, Ayumix6), specially when we don't see any hair..

truehappiness 9th March 2008 10:31 PM

We'll get used to them.

It's not like the original ayu-mi-x covers were any better. LOL

zoomzoom 9th March 2008 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 1364403)
We'll get used to them.

It's not like the original ayu-mi-x covers were any better. LOL

People seem to praise them so much, I don't see what the fuss is about. Ok, that pink Asian themed one is pretty, but the rest are really nothing special. Most of them are headshots, yet people complain these are headshots.. hmm.

truehappiness 10th March 2008 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoomzoom (Post 1364476)
People seem to praise them so much, I don't see what the fuss is about. Ok, that pink Asian themed one is pretty, but the rest are really nothing special. Most of them are headshots, yet people complain these are headshots.. hmm.

Nonono, I was talking about the ORIGINAL ayu-mi-x. XD [The rest of the ayu-mi-x covers were goood~]

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9...umixhr2.th.jpghttp://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6...stratf9.th.jpg


Most other ayu-mi-x covers are really quite good. This one seemed to have gotten the short end of the stick in terms of design [like, the ayu-mi-x III covers with the cat/butterfly were like... this remix album's done well XD]

zoomzoom 10th March 2008 02:23 AM

The ayu-mi-x II covers were pretty boring to me, her with a stripy background.. Then there was those computer ones where she's in space and in some electronic helmet, they were pretty cool. She looked pretty odd in the ayu-mi-x 5 cover tho.

I really don't think these look THAT fanmade, the skintone looks real, like she's painted with black stuff (maybe she was), and you can see her skin texture through the pattern on her face. With the avex graphic artists, it could've been so much worse.

~X2RADialbomber~ 10th March 2008 08:25 AM

Those first ayu-mix covers were so much better than these covers. I don't mean to rain on everyones parade, but Ayu is really bad looking when she has her hair all slicked back and she puts on those emotionless expressions. I honestly doubt she was painted with anything... the covers position look like A BEST II covers that didn't make it and were photoshopped. xD

daisywong2612 12th March 2008 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by milky_way (Post 1360422)
I like the one for GOLD. SILVER not so much.

i agree too.:yes
and...do you like Alice Nine?
i merely see your signature and guess.:)


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