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I don't think it's a loss of creativity as it is an inability to step back and realize that she is doing a lot of the same thing in recent concerts. However, there's probably a reason why she's doing this because on some level, it all works. I imagine that watching the DVDs and seeing footage of her lives doesn't even begin to compare to how many of her concerts appear to actually being at the concert, so it seems to me that more than ever, her tours and CDLs have become a spectacle that is meant to be enjoyed live, not on DVD. IMO, it was inevitable that she'd repeat performances and start to lack the innovation since she tends to do a CDL/tour every year (this is 6-7 years later after 2003 after all, about 12 individual "shows" later excluding a-nation) but I would never have expected so many fans to be so naggy and negative.
The way I see it, with the sheer amount of shows she does, it's not surprising at all that she's had repeat performances. And lately her focus has been on mainly entertaining those who are actually at the concert, and often that doesn't translate into very entertaining DVDs. I think fans just need to consider that because Ayu has set the bar so high for herself [DT01, and then AT05] it's rather difficult for her to live up to the innovative levels of those concerts. [And anyone who really expects !!AMAZING!! from a CDL needs to realize that those are two day shows and generally weren't that great to begin with... they only started getting quite good after CDL04-05 and 05-06 IMO.]
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