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Dearest was very well-done, had a great story, and probably couldn't have been filmed anywhere else (the windfarm was symbolically important). Not to mention it was very well-produced; if I didn't see the making-of stuff, I'd have no idea that it was filmed during a sunny day rather than a rainy evening.
Aside from that, none of her on-location videos have any redeeming qualities. Most of the locations look very generic ("BLUE BIRD" coulda been filmed at any beach anywhere, pretty much; "Bold & Delicious" coulda been done with a blue screen - the only thing that proves she was really there was the off-shot stuff spliced into the video; "Mirrorcle World" could have been done in a western-style park somewhere in Japan). Few of the videos have plots, and if they do, they're not dependent on the location ("kyoai" could have taken place anywhere on earth, including japan; "BLUE BIRD" coulda been off the coast of Japan; "Mirrorcle World"'s story has nothing to do with Paris specifically; "appears" coulda been Japan, or any big city really).
These on-location shoots just seem to be ayu's way of getting Avex to give her a free trip to any of these places.
I have no issue with on-location shoots on principle, I really don't. But I don't see any reason to go out of the country for a shoot unless it's necessary to the substance of the video.
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