I haven't been keeping up with Ai since LOVE LETTER came out. Did I only miss her tour? That's fine-- I'm not really a person who enjoys watching tours.

She should come out with a new single soon! ^_^ Like people said earlier-- I'd really like a summer ballad! Something like Planetarium, Kingyo Hanabi, or Kurage, Nagare Boshi. Something like Cherish for the b-side please! (_ _)

there was just a rumor of a single for september, but i really hope that isn't true.

yeah. was hoping for a single too. at least there's smth of Ai to keep up with.

im actually happy shes not releasing anything now, let her rest for abit and come in september with a genius song :luv2

im sad too though since i did want a happy summer ai song :P

oh well, u cant have everything :laugh

oohhh OK!! thanks for the tip :D i have vacation now (yesyessss im making yall jealous nowww :lech) so i can watch them alllll

otsuka to perform at J-WAVE LIVE 2000+9 festival

This summer event featuring many artistes will be held on 14th, 15th and 16th in August.

she will perform on the 15th.

source - http://www.j-wave.co.jp/special/live2009/

YAY for flumpool whom will perform on the 14th 8)

^ i thought it was a cover :O

and yay for her performing at J-WAVE :yatta i wonder what she'll sing

I kinda wish she had a summer single this year. Those are my favorite from her, and it's been a while since she's had anything released. LOVE LETTER was released in...what? February? I could be wrong. But I really miss her. :(

LOVE LETTER was released in december, i think. and "bye-bye" was released in february.

just finish watched her love letter tour
and i really dissapointed...its just so bad...

^so bad...the stage is blank, she just used one costume + one costume in her encore, the lighting is mediocre, no screen...nothing there...ai looks bored...the song is -_-... sorry to say, its just so bad

^That sounds horrible! :(

Maybe avex decided she's not making them enough money so they cut costs from her tour :eviltongu

aiyo O_O

ya maybe so & in the process shifting their focus to other avex artistes like alan & GIRL NEXT DOOR

I will not be surprised if it's true though

Too bad an awesome album like LOVE LETTER gets such a lackluster tour.

aww.. that wld be disappointing..
how can they do that to Ai??!!

^yeah its really dissapointing... i love ai concert, its always full of energy and crazy thing...but this one...is...i just can't help it...(-_-)

by the way, looks like she held two tour this year, right?
the one, that i download is Ai Otsuka LOVE LETTER Tour 2009 ～チャンネル消して愛ちゃん寝る!～ at Zepp Tokyo on 1st of March 2009
but she held an arena tour too this year, right? hopefully her arena tour is better

^ I sure hope so!! If not maybe she's more of an artist than a performer...

well all I can say's that she better release something fast before my interest in her starts to fade away

I know, but I don't want a ballad; I think I've had enough of that! I want a nice hyper song!!!

I 2nd that Shandae

I don't want a ballad during the time when Japan's having summer (makes no difference in S'pore anyway) , it just doesn't seems right to me at all

Agreed! lol Ballads are for the winter!!! Fun and crazy songs are for the summer! Oh,and Karen... I don't know if it was a typo ,but there is no, N in my name... I hope I don't sound rude.

:yes

oh sorry for that Shadae

you have an unique name that's why I was wondering if yours have a N or no N in it

now I do :laugh

@ Karen lol it's OK! As long as there is no R I'm fine! I hate it when people say Shardae! Bleh!
I want another happy days or bonbon/ ponpon... I forget which one it is :P

:roflmao

it's PonPon , Shadae

otsuka doesn't have a song that goes by the name of BonBon , HAHA :rofl

That is true, Ballads usually do sell well in Japan,But she already did like three ballads/mid-tempo songs in a row.
LOl oops ! I get it mixed up, because Itunes Japan had it as BonBon, and I was introduced to that song by their preview ... I don't know if they still have it as that or not . Someone on this site also corrected me about it before, but I still get it mixed up HAHA!

ai ballad song is superb...
kingyo hanabi is still in my top 20 fav japan song...
so i will be happy if she release summer ballad again...

Yeah... Even another Peach would be cool! I love that song!

haha I don't mind if she were to sing a song on another fruit xD xD . I mean she has sung about Strawberry Jam before & let alone PEACH

who knows , maybe she will do a song about Pear ?

dammit everytime I see pears or strawberries now , it will remind me of something er I mean someone *COUGH* :innocent

^ LOL I don't know what you're talking about! :innocent

No news of any new single yet... I guess this summer is a miss again... :cry

Man, I was hoping for new single from her!

:D :D

1582 + Turtle Pear in Japanese = ......

:innocent

I want another summer single from otsuka no doubt about it , her previous ones were good

:conhuh

i still don't get it, karen.






:bgiggle

o_O

WHAT you don't ?

Turtle Pear in Japanese - Kame Nashi

1582 - Kame's dear solo

:D

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I have to relisten otsuka's albums now , I haven't do it in a while man @_@

LOL i was just kidding, karen! who else would you refer to as a turtle :laugh

:roflmao

& I thought my surname's terrible at being mocked at , poor Kame poor Kame :laugh :innocent

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I frankly can't believe otsuka hasn't released a new single yet this year (not counting Bye Bye)

I hope she hasn't really gone MIA & she need to release something before my interest in her starts to fade away

Guess Ai wants to take in summer. Not have to work on a single till August lol.

LOVE IS BORN 6th Anniversary in September!

2009
大塚 愛【LOVE IS BORN】 ～6th Anniversary 2009～(仮)　開催決定!!

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Venue: Hibiya Outdoor Large Music Hall
Seat tickets: ¥ 7,350 (tax included)
Standing room tickets: ¥ 6,800 (tax included)

no offense but is it necessary to do an anniversary thingy every year ? it's so I don't know , doesn't make sense to me

couldn't we just get an anniversary SINGLE instead? :laugh

we had that last year isn't it Lisa ?

except the single tanked badly in terms of sales which suck

It's only been six years... I thought it was longer than that! Ai just give us a new single!!!!!!!!

Oh wow 6th anniversary!!! :rolleyes Ai please a new single is what we want...

It was so depressing that Kurage Nagereboshi bombed so horribly. :( I REALLY loved that song. :weep

And yeah, to keep doing anniversaries without any new material is kinda...silly, IMO. :/

yeah I think it's dumb if you ask me Cat

there's no incentive for people to go to her concerts if this keeps up

Ayu has CDL's , Koda has one night lives and Otsuka has LOVE is BORN xD

^ It's more of anniversaries that aren't working in her favour.

your forgetting Cherish :love


but nothing beats planetarium for me :innocent

oh, and Ai is a good ballad too :yes

I want another Cherish too :( & yes Planetarium too (for obvious MatsuJun/HYD reasons :mischief :innocent)

I like the -Haru version- of Renai Shashin too

great for her 6th anniversary, but really... new song is a must. i miss ai.

^ I thought Cherish was obiviously a ballad? :confused

I consider Cherish as a mid tempo rock ballad

I don't know for you guys though

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Recochoku - What artist would you like to marry?

1. Ai Otsuka
2. YUI
3. Yui Aragaki
4. ayumi hamasaki
5. Kumi Koda
6. Namie Amuro
7. Kaela Kimura
8. misono
9. Aya Ueto
10. Kiyoe Yoshioka

source - http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000050394

wow look at her go :O

i always saw cherish as a ballad :shrug but it's kinda rock-ish, i think.

It's a mid tempo rock ballad to me... I love that song.

oh yeah. Congrats to Ai being the top of the charts. so many pple wld like to marry her!

aww.. I hope Ai wld release an album this year, but I guess its not quite possible since it's kind of rushing. and she didn't release any new singles recently (not including Bye Bye cos it's re-cut).

I'm kinda impatient. oh well, I just wanna go crazy for Ai again.. I like some of her cute funny songs like Chu-lip. wat's with the mosquito song? lolz.

I LOVE Katorisenkou! She needs to do another song like that xD

LOL :laugh

if that song's played now , depending on my mood , I will either like it or dislike it

i love you, aichan ♥ :)

No matter the mood, I'll always love it. Bat **** crazy Ai is welcome lol.

omg YES!! i love these kind of songs by her the most XDD

ooh guys u don't know where can i find her albums in 320kbps i only had her best and the 2 next albums i love some of her songs like PonPon xD It's so sweet :3

which albums you don't have of her , dude ?

I probably can help you out on this

omg when is she coming with new material....

(Cherish is one of her best songs <3)

TY Karen u r Always The most Helpful member in AHS :3

i only Now Need Punch And cook in 320kbps :3 i try really hard to find them only 192kbps

oh I have all of otsuka's albums from her debut LOVE PUNCH all the way to LOVE LETTER

I can rip/upload them for you in 320kpbs , not a problem

after doing so , I will PM you :)

OMGGG that will be Amazing Tyt and i'm waiting for You ^^ Yapee

I have already uploaded LOVE PUNCH at this point in time

am working on LOVE PUNCH now :yes

EDIT - I have already sent you a PM on this dude , go check ya

finally some news of otsuka !

according to http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/ -- http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...6th-in-taiwan/

^ oh cool!

i continued watching the LOVE PiECE tour, finally :P and wowoowowowowwww i LOVE the momo no hanabira+tears performance!!!!!! she sounded AMAZINGGG

Sooo... Ai's performing in Taiwan and that's it? No news on any new material being released?! What is going on with her!? :(

I don't know hopefully writing somemore new material ?

if not probably feeding her pet rabbits (she has 2 btw)

aww, she has bunnies? i never knew! :P

I like the new, more mature, singer-songwriter-y Ai but at the same time I miss her cute bubbly side~ :(

Do you guys think that's the reason why her popularity and sales have significantly dropped?

^ I wouldn't be surprised. She was known for that image, you know? I think that's what made a lot of people like her. I miss it too... :(

I don't think she changed though... I still see her the same way.her ballads always make her look mature,and since she released like 3 in row,it makes her look that way.

probably , I will not be surprised at that

maybe because as she grows older , her songwriting skills have changed & she probably went though some changes in her life that she didn't mentioned to the media but you can kinda sense it , especially in LOVE LETTER

livedoor lists a NEW ALBUM on september 9th :P b-side album? a best? it can't be a studio album so fast, lol.

A b-side album? The last b-side album that I knew of was Shiina Ringo's. It didn't sell very well... Anyways is it too early for another BEST album?

^ YUI had a B-Side album she released last year if I'm correct. And it did very well.

Really? That's cool! I hope if Ai does so to it will do well. YUI is awesome. :luv2

OMG I WOULD LOVE A B-SIDE ALBUM!!!! i love all of her b-sides :luv2

sorry for double post, BUT SHES IN A MAGAZINE AGAAIIINN!!!!

Oricon Style, oh,... wait... WAIT!!! this is from 2008 :thud how stupid!!! eh im gonna post it anyways!! i like this photoshoot :P i wont put all the pics, only the best!
http://www.channel-ai.com/gallery/d/23630-1/1.jpg



i guess this is from the Rocket Sneaker period, since she got the same hair style~

^ lol, you had me all excited!! It's a nice photo shoot though, I'd never seen them.

eeeehhh

A B-side album ala YUI's MY SHORT STORIES ?

sounds tempting but if this's true , this's 1 album I will not buy because I frankly don't really like her B-sides that much unlike YUI

very pretty mag scans :P

oops I forgot to comment about the Only Star scans

she looks great even though the dress that she wore , I'm not really feeling it that much

lol im sorryy :laugh i was excited too since i thought these were new ones :P


maybe it isnt a b-side album, since MEG is also releasing a new album without releasing some singles =/ i really hope its a b-album though!