[Translation] TEAMAyu blog: 6th March "In one breath,"
 

Judging by this post, I gather Zin called her name wrongly again :P

Edit credits: walking.proud, oji-i-san

*1 Hard to explain, but check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_nadeshiko
*2 Insert whatever vulgarity you like here~ Yes, she really wrote it.
*3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru
*4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri

Thanks for the translation! Always appreciate your contributions to the forum!

Thanks for posting the translation.

Thanks for translating Misa! ^^ Lol I really like this entry. She's so cute :P

thanks for the translation :heart
i wanna see microphone so badly now :(

thanks for translating~ all this info makes me so impatient to see the real thing *-*

:bchuck



Ayu you're so nice indeed, hope one day i'll get a boss that would make onigiris for me :P :heart:heart:heart


Misa chan thank you sooo much!:yes

Ayu's vengeful
beware

Thank you!!

Another great post from ayu.

Seems like it's going to be an awesome PV :D

Woah misa-chan ..
thanks a lot for the translation!!
love ya <3

thanks for translation!

I want to see the microphone PV so badly now!!

She's so cute when she makes mistakes, and when she's smiling so widely like that.

I want to see more!!!

Thanks Misa-chan :D

wow~~
nice work misa-chan!
Thanks a lot!
I'm getting more and more excited with this album! :)

OMG did she really swear in the blog?? lol London has had the ASBO affect on ayu lol

Thanks for the translation. Microphone looks like it's gonna be awesome :D

Thankyou so much Misa-chan! I always await your very brilliant translations.

Thanks for the translations misa-chan, i like this entry a lot ^^;

xD aawww haha

Thanks for the translation!!! Ayu makes me laugh :laugh

thanks. she is so funny.

Crossdressing? o.0
xDDDD

Thank you! This pv is gonna be great!!!!

just realize who's GoMI-o-kaa-sama? and Ayu wrote that word??hahaha

^Yep, it's our favourite GoMi lol!!

And yes, she wrote it. I think oji-i-san translated it as bull****? But since Japanese has only a couple of vulgarities to match to the scores available in English vocabulary, I leave you to insert your own. :D

As always thanks so much for the translation! :)
I love this post, it is so cute and funny!! :laugh

"*Please view the next photo under full lighting conditions and at a good distance away.

GIRL-SUBA & GIRL ZIN!!!"

The pictures are awesome, really looking forward to AYU's new works, thanks for sharing!!

hahahaha...suba-sama and ZIN is too funny!!!
and piggyback piggyback..rofl

can't waaaaaaaaaaaait! this PV seriously looks amazing. <333

A mystery she says...?
I think I've never been this excited of an Ayu album ever acutally.

Thx for the translation! :heart

these pics are so promising :yes
thanks for sharing Misa

Thank you so much Misa-chan! ^___^
I want to know what type of trick she talks about O.o

Thanks for the translation! :) Can't wait to see this music video. :heart

haha omg! ayu why are you so cute?! i adore those pictures and the Stan piggyback ride is my favorite! :love

and..wow..Zin...i just love his silliness! love him more and more~:smitten:heart

I love when Ayu swears. : D

Thank you very much for the translatiom!!!

i like seeing Ayu in a black dress and with white hair ^.^

it's great how she gives us information about the microphone PV..

thanks for sharing!!
I wonder wat's the mystery Ayu wants us to solve. I like her dressing.. so cool!!
can't wait for the new pv. ^_^

That's hmm... kind of her to show some photos from PV making.
Revenge for wrongly naming, that was funny XD
Thanks for translation, great as always!

thanks so much for sharing ^^ lovely entry. i loved both her look alot. great hopes for the PV and song

Thank you!


awesome photos man and LOL Ayu still remembers her tranny photo with Leslie Kee! And seems like she knows she looks like a tranny when she posted ZIN being a GIRL! lol

lol GoMi's mom is cool :P

naughty you, Ayu :lech

The more I come back to look at these pictures, the more and more interesting I think this PV is going to be.

haha, it's not GoMi's mum. It's GoMi himself. ayu calls him "dear mother GoMi" lol!! :D

with this...she probably ain't bloggin till maybe the 9th or 10th..
hopefully she'll reveal more.. lol

thanks misa!! haha she's so funny!!

but the GIRL suba&ZIN, well they ar enot only "girls" they are dressing like Gyaru's, maybe you could put that word and a link to wiki? You know.. they are dressed like kogals, with the uniforms, white eye shadow, tipical of kogal gyaru ^^ XDD

pics are amazing, i believe pv will be awsome! thanks misa

They just look sooo hilarious dressed like that! For Ayu, that's really really really good payback hehehe. Even if its just for laughs, I always do wonder what possesses them to dress like that lol

Well, GoMI has been known to do that, but always to cheer everyone up and make them laugh during stressful work days. It makes me really appreciate a person with a character like that.

No probs, will do. ^^

ooppsss i misundertsood that :P he's funny to tell Ayu about that,*imagining it* :D

thank you for making things clearer :)

Thanks for the translations! I just love her comments on everything. I love that older pic she posted of herself too.. you can see the teddy bear she talks about better in this pic :P:

^
I don't remember that pic! *saved* lol

btw I like this entry :laugh Ayu's is really funny and cute.
thanks a lot for the translation Misa-chan :heart

Thank you very much for the translations Misa-chan ^^

xDDDDDD LOL
I miss Ayu but also Stan-chan, what a cool guy !!

^ woow! i didn't know this pic, she looks super fashion xD thanks identity

thanks a lot. I feel that the first pv'll see is Microphone. I don't know why.

Ah, this is an interesting point. hmm...

Firstly, I think it's true that Japanese has few swearwords.
Typical ones are くそっ and ちくしょう (ちきしょぉー！), which ayu used here.
Both of them can be used in a same situation to damn that situation (or a person or anything you dislike at that moment).
And as you can guess from the fact that Japanese has few swearwords, I guess both of them are "weak".

Secondly, because ayu made up these lines (Let go!/(damn!, s**t!, or whatever)/I'll be a bad girl!) afterwards just for this blog to make this post funny, I don't know how often ayu uses くそ or ちくしょう in her real life. I didn't think deeply when I translated this line because I felt it's just funny.

So, why did I choose bulls**t?
The original meaning of ちくしょう is animal, cattle, beast, etc, and くそ is s**t. And I think the usage of ちくしょう and くそ is almost same. Having thought that, I picked up bulls**t because bull is an animal and the word includes s**t as well. haha, that's it but what a long　comment!

Thanks for the translation as always, Misa-chan. :D:D
Let me tell you my suggestions when I have time!

Thank you Misa :)

I'm sooooo pumped for this PV!

It used to be Hamazaki, for like 3 seconds in her idol days - Kurumi Hamazaki. ;)

I think she's talking about Sunako Nakahara from Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi henge (The Wallflower / Perfect Girl Evolution) ^^a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wallflower_%28manga%29

Thanks for sharing! (Sorry that was late...)

thanks for translation <3

I'm really looking forward the PV and also the song, uuuu I can't wait.

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/u...hpromo1mal.png

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hamasaki ayumi is her legal name, hamasaki ayumi is her stage name.
濱崎歩 is her legal birth name, since most (if not all) natural born japanese have their full name in kanji. 浜崎あゆみ is her stage name used for herself as an artist, etc.

As for the zaki, saki debate..
The last name is actually pronounced hama-SAKI OR hama-ZAKI?, that is according to google translation with 濱崎 as is the same case using 浜崎... where people get hamazaki from? maybe a typo or the same character's used in her name -- which is the case. Also this character 崎 by its self means Qi in japanese (accoriding to google; I have no idea how accurate this even is -- but its entertaining), while this character 浜 means Beach; Seashore in Japanese. This character 歩 means Step;Stride;Pawn in Japanese.

now that I think about it.. the correct answer is both are right.. as far as pronounciation goes and spelling go?. also you have to take in to account that there are different dialects, et. Ayu however said in the blog that is was Saki, which might be a prefferance? I don't know..

Hamasaki はまさき -->　浜崎 --> 濱崎
Hamazaki はまざき -->　濱崎 -->　浜崎
Ayumi あゆみ -->　歩み　--> 歩　--> 歩美


In Chinese this character 歩 means Walk; which more or less is the same word for Step/Stride.
In Chinese this character 浜 means Bang; which could reffer to a loud noise.
In Chinese this character 崎 means Mountainous.
In Chinese the character 濱 means Bin.

So in conclusion Ayu's stage name means....
To Step across the Beach with Energy*?

* Qi can be another word for energy...

I don't know that that is just my theory on the subject, all of this reffereing to the HamaZaki which appears on the picture with the directors "action" block thing? Also If I am way off, let me know... I am hopin not to be criticized because I don't know japanese nor how any of the rules work, etc.. again this is just a theory.. (and I don't think its off topic)

^I don't think this issue should be discussed in this thread (the meaning, correct kanji whatever about ayu's name)... but well, the correct kanji, or at least the official for hamasaki is: 浜崎, we don't know how they wrote her name when she was born, but I know only in Chinese they use the kanji 歩 for ayumi, but they say: bin chi bu (pin qi pu, not sure, sth like this, that's why you got Qi for 崎, Qi doesn't exist in japanese, only in chinese, and it's pronunced Chi I think ) Anyway.. the kanji thing is difficult, it can be read in a diferent way depending on which word it is, it's not always the same (kunyomi and onyomi...)... Koda kumi, the kanji for DA 田 in some words is TA but in her name it's pronunced DA, and in other words DEN.

the thing in that pic is not that difficult... the name of the cameraman written on it is english.. there were english staff there, so most probably a english person wrote it and when they said to that person her name he/she probably listened Zaki instead of Saki... that's all... it's only a mistake...

Yamato Nadeshiko is a common phrase though. MANY places have used it, haha.

Oh wow, another Vocaloid fan!

I think this is my favorite blog from her. Thanks for posting!

The Microphone PV looks cool :3

she's so hilarious!
damn, i love her :laugh

thanks for translating <33


"*Please view the next photo under full lighting conditions and at a good distance away."
.... :lmfao

hello~, here are some of my suggestions.
Please take a look to check if they aren't different from what you meant. :P

> I took on the spirit of Yamato Nadeshiko's elegant female ghost.
>> I showed elegant Yamato Nadeshiko's spirit of actress.
* I just wondered where 女優 (=actress) has gone.

> Before this, we also did a scene in a lo~ng corridor filled with mirrors.
>> In front of this, we had set up a lo~ng corridor filled with mirrors.

> Ruined...
>> Tumbled donw... (or Fell down...)

> These moments of anger after the ruin leave me broken, but I still smiled--
>> Though it was me (that tumbled down), I couldn't help laughing because I tumbled down so spectacularly.

* I didn't get serious impression like ruined or anger. This part reminded me of that ayu slipped down at Saitama arena some years ago :lech

> BISH. (Hoho, I've decided...)
>> BISHI. (Hoho, I've done perfectly...)

> This scene was then dubbed over
>> I'm dubbing this scene (with comical lines) as I please

(after "Please view the next photo...")
>> ready? then, let's go.

OK, thanks again for your good jobs as always~~

wow... what a blog post that was ! :D

thanks for translating! ^^

this is probably the best blog post i've seen from her yet. and i'm really hopeful about her new direction, musically and PV-wise. the PVs for ballad and you were... were surprising and refreshing (for me!) and so far microphone seems to be following a similar path.

i'm not sure what happened to give ayu her spark back but, *******, i hope it stays!

Lack of exposure to Kazuyoshi in photoshoots? -hides-

*hides with you* I agree!

I guess the swearing wasn't a big deal then? Didn't she sort of swear in Days PV making? Hahaha.

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i.../shunazisu.jpg

:innocent

^really what'd she say? :P

^ A thread regarding all instances of Ayu behaving 'adult' should be made, so those of us who enjoy knowing that Ayu's just as vulgar as we are will feel empowered. (I don't know if she did curse in Days making or not.)

And I love this entry. I love the tart 'It's 'saki', you know.' I love seeing her so fired up. <3

Lol, I think I kinda split 女優魂 into "female" "elegant" and "ghost". I personally don't know much about Yamato Nadeshiko, so I wasn't sure of the actress reference. ^^"

I took ayu's コケタ as 転ける, which stands for both "fall/tumble" and "fall in ruin", right? Lol, because she looked so serious in the photo that came along with it, I thought it meant something serious lol. :D

Hahaha I can't believe I missed out this entire line. :P

Thanks again for helping with edits!! ^^ I feel like I'm really learning new things about Japanese language everyday hoho!! :innocent

IMO, this looks like the scene that'll follow the words "a na ta dakara ~pipe organs~" or something, haha.

sumhow reminds me of her dad n mum..

ah I'm all exited for this new album

lol at this blog. Ayu is too funny with the profanity.

I wonder if that seen where she fell going to make it into the Making of... DVD.

Thanks again Misa for the translation.

oh wow! haha that picture is great! :bgiggle when was this going on? lol

Oh goodness, she actually told us stuff straight up! And I'm excited that there's a story-line PV; those are my favorite.

I also though that she meant taht fell down, for that pic, she seems like going down XDD poor ayu with that big dress may be difficult to walk xDDD

:yes

I love her new spark. Mm, kick-ass Ayu. I've wanted a kick-ass album for quite a while now. I think NEXT LEVEL was close (and really damn good as well) but I wasn't all that into that electro/futuredisco/lotsofbrightcolors vibe back then. Me wants rock Ayu, now!

Damn, that PV looks even more awesome now. lol at her comments.
thnx~

thanks for the translation~

Oh Ayu haha this is cool XD

Ahhh thank you for the translation! More and more excited!

Thanks for the update

Funniest post ever :yes Thanks for the translations, not just this one.

This entry is sooooo funny! It's good to see, that Ayu doesn't seem to be in a bad/depressed mood anymore. I'm always worried, when she is like that! ;.;

I LOVE the screencaps from the PV shooting and Ayu's comments made me laugh so hard. She is a sweetie.
And the Gals look very cute! ^.~


Thanks again for the translation!! <3

Thank you Misa-chan!! I always appreciate what you put up here for us!

Love it all :) Thank you!!

Those pics make me even more excited for Microphone! It looks like it's going to be grandiose like Mirrorcle World!

I smell Because of You feeling!