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Originally Posted by Misa-chan
That's quite an unfair statement there. There's literally hundreds of thousands of people in TA, and how many were in S/S PV? 100? That's not even 1%. And I lived in Japan for a year, got 10+ invitations to join lotteries to attend her TV performances, and how many did I win and go to? None. Being a Japanese/living in Japan doesn't mean you're any closer to ayu.
Get a chance to go to every concert? Of course, if you pay. TA doesn't go to concerts free, you know. Get special items, true, but YA and CDJ also offer the same goods nowadays. Get TA magazines, yeah, we pay 6,000yen a year for 4 magazines. I could buy a dozen of the back issues online for half the price. Besides, the mag scans appear on AHS almost immediately. Same for TA diary translations and latest news.
So what's there to complain about? When you think about it, TA members are at a disadvantage here. The "poor international fans who get nothing"?? They get everything nicely wrapped and packaged for them on AHS, IMO.
Sorry if I sound horrid, but I'm just really frustrated that you guys just keep lumping all TA fans into a crazy-hater-group and throwing all the blame on them (without good reason).
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You are right...
Maybe TA and everything they offer wasn't made for international fans, but here you can get everything!
The only thing we don't have is the facility to attend her concerts and participate in some FC privilegies (like go to TV performances and such). Other than that we can get EVERYTHING through YesAsia, becoming TA member or through a middleman.
Yeah, we have to pay more for shippings, and wait somedays to get our CD's and all that... but well, Ayu is a Japanese artist... It's our decision to suport her no matter what, and international ayu fan (or every j-pop fan) has to know that pay extra money is part of being a fan of those artists.
We can't blame TA members or japanese fans in general for that.
I don't say any of those members or whoever who send ayu angry messages is right, I don't think what ayu said about CDL is that bad to complain like this... but I would understand they complain for all the info, messages and pics leaking... and it's not enough to say "if you think it's not worth just leave TA"... TA members pay for all this material, not only for the tickets, mags and the chance of attending a TV performance... they pay for exclusive ayu messages, personal pics, early announcements and exclusive products.
And I've to say that it's us, TA foreign fans who started leaking EVERYTHING, before that I think people ha to search or wait for AyuChina to say sth... So in fact TA members would be in their right to be angry with us...
But anyway... I'm almost sure this discussion has nothing to do with us... They just complained because, not only TA info leaks by members who share, but if they THINK Ayu herselfs also starts saying things in twitter before in TA, then TA it's 100% useless for everyone...
And I don't say Ayu did, but if they think so I can understand them...
The other thing is that, because they complain, Ayu may decide to quit twitter, and that would be really sad for us. But that doesn't mean they are complaining to leave us without twitter!
I mean... I attended 5 concerts 2 weeks ago, and japanese fans were really happy to see foreign ayu fans, in any moment I felt they looked bad at me, the opposite!
Maybe those who complained because of that CDL info are wrong and went too far complaining to Ayu, but that doesn't mean TA or japanese fans hate us because it's not true!
But also, that they are wrong with that doesn't mean those who complain for TA contents leaking are wrong, it's another thing and I understand them...