Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - Free & Easy Hamasaki Republic?

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IYFreak

22nd November 2006 12:36 AM

Free & Easy Hamasaki Republic?

Where can I purchase this book was it limited edition or something. Cause I see this other Japanese magazine called "Free & Easy" with the same font so does anyone know where I can get this?

immel

22nd November 2006 12:59 AM

It's only obtainable through auction sites.

Try eBay, I got mine for like $15 half a year ago or so. It's quite common there.

If it was limited? Depends on how you look at it. Sooner or later everything is limited, considering that they stop making new copies eventually.

IYFreak

22nd November 2006 01:02 AM

so then when it was first released where was it sold?

immel

22nd November 2006 01:06 AM

The date on the back of my copy says 2002/6/22, so summer 2002 it seems.

I think it was sold during Stadium Tour 2002, but I'm very very very very unsure about that, let's wait for some expert.

The magazine is quite boring, there isn't too many Ayu pictures in it and they're not too pretty, there's an interview and tons of ads.

IYFreak

22nd November 2006 01:29 AM

yeah I saw it I just thought it would be a great Ayu product to collect though

Delirium-Zer0

25th November 2006 07:41 AM

It actually is the first issue of a magazine. They giant-sized it and made it an ayumi hamasaki special. But it's a magazine, not a photobook, which is a VERY common misconception. It was available on newsstands for however long the duration is for this magazine to be on the stands (judging from the date, it's a weekly publication). So it's really hard to find, and auction sites are really the only way to get it now.

IYFreak

25th November 2006 07:54 AM

I knew it cause in my japanese store I see a magazine called Free & Easy all the time it made me wonder.So I'll keep checking at book-off

immel

25th November 2006 08:12 PM

Thanks Deli.

You should write an Ayu dictionary. You'd be rich.

So the magazine is actually called Free & Easy?

Delirium-Zer0

26th November 2006 09:28 PM

Yup. The magazine IS called that. I doubt it's cuz of ayu, probably a coincidence that their magazine called Free & Easy started when ayu's single called Free & Easy was released (might have been why they decided to make their first issue an ayu special though).

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