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Originally Posted by Ayu-me
How do you know that? Japanese TA members could have been leaking stuff to Japanese fans long before we started doing anything. Piracy, leaking of pay-stuff and such, came way before us. It's a big problem in Japan, in Asia, in North America, and in Europe. Where there's Internet, things WILL leak. I seriously doubt the leaking is only done by international fans. I've seen Ayu's all singles and albums, available for free download, on JAPANESE sites. Where you can also download complete scans of every single page in a Japanese magazine, or manga, or even a book. Piracy happens all the time, it may not be OK, it may not be legal, but we were not the ones to start it. Blame the person who invented Internet instead.
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You know what, this is VERY hard to believed. Japanese TA members are usually VERY VERY loyal to Ayu, and when the news broke about the death of her close friend, and the break up from Nagase, Ayu was really angry because somehow her diaries were leaked to the press. So after that, I know many TA members who really didn't want anything like that to happen again. So while you will find CDs and ALBUMs on kyo music city or so, you will almost never find a Japanese member posting information from TA to another website or blog because Japanese don't wanna break the status quo, and they don't wanna be the one who is different and doesn't follow which Ayu says.
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Originally Posted by ownsarai
I still don't understand how they, the JAPANESE TA MEMBERS that live IN JAPAN, feel like the membership isn't worth it. Oh yea, let's not forget that TA members got to be part of the Sunrise/Sunset PVs, get a chance to go to every concert, get special items through mu-mo, get the TA magazine...geez, all of that ALONE is worth however much it is they are paying. I see them as selfish, personally. They need to get over it. I don't think Ayu will give up easily on this. They do not own her just because they pay for a fan club membership.
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You know what, I'm sorry to say, but many people on this forum sound EXACTLY as childish as some of the TA members.
I can agree EXACTLY with some of the things TA members say. If I am paying for TA, yes like Misa-chan described before, I MIGHT get a ticket for CDL which I still have to pay for, I MIGHT get something good in a lottery, or I MIGHT be able to go watch Ayu perform at a TV show. But how many times does Ayu perform at a TV show now, and how many people are allowed to go? Not even 1% of TA members. CDL? CDL tickets are around 16,000 availability, and now over 200,000 members in TA. Do the math. Lotteries come once in a blue moon, and usually we have to go to the concert halls to get the lotteries.
If you imagine, around 6000 yen per year for TA, CDL tickets are usually around 7000yen, plus all other costs including transportation (shinkansen is NOT cheap), etc. That's IF they could get a lottery for the CDL ticket or tour ticket. If they can't, then they will spend 20,000 yen or more just to get a ticket. If they want to get a free gift from buying album, they still have to buy the album, and most likely the one with DVD, which costs even more. Nothing in TA is free, save for a magazine, and If I find out that International Fans will be getting all the information and access to most TA things, including diaries, I would be extremely upset that I'm spending 6000 yen for something which is readily available for free elsewhere. It's kind of ridiculous to say that TA is being greedy, when actually AHS members don't pay a dime to get any information.
TA is a FANCLUB, and is for the fans, and Ayu SHOULD give all the information to her fanclub first, because they pay for it. Now I am in Canada, so I cannot even join TA anymore. However, I don't agree with international fans who say "omg I cant join because I am overseas so give me info!" It's just tough luck. If they make it international, great. But for now, its just in Japan, and to call the Japanese fans greedy and immature is like the pot calling the kettle black.
Yes, we have to remember she is a JAPANESE artist first and foremost. Her main market, and the bulk of her fans, are JAPANESE. She HAS to cater to Japanese fans first, because they are the ones giving her money. Shes a good person yes, but at the end of the day she NEEDS to make money, it's just a fact of business. TA needs to have an incentive to continue, or it shouldn't continue at all because really if you think objectively, it's not fair to those people paying 60-70$ more than most of you guys on AHS ever will to get Ayu information.
Ok. I'm finished with that kind of talk. I wanna bring up something that EVERYONE has been talking about FOREVER. PLASTIC SURGERY. She finally addressed this in TWITTER!!!
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Originally Posted by Ayu
それ系ももう言われすぎてずいぶんと慣れたなぁー。笑 そんな暇ないし。笑RT @kumi090kumi0903: @ayu_19980408 あゆ最近また整形した��ソフトバンクのCM あゆじゃないみたい
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I've been told that already too much, so I am already extremely accustomed to that. LOL. I dont even have that kind of free time. LOLRT @kumi090kumi0903: @ayu_19980408 Did you get plastic surgery recently? It doesn't look like you in Softbank's CM