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Old 3rd January 2011, 01:01 PM
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I'm just translating this poorly written text, full of reiteration and lacking of grammatical resources. Yet I tried to make it easier to read, because even me, a Spanish, got problems to understand it. So don't bite me o_<!


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Alarming news:

Like everybody knows, Jpop Queen Ayumi Hamasaki just got married and it was oficially anounced through TA (Team Ayu) and twitter, and instantly Japan got paralyzed with the new. Immediately TA members expressed their doubts about the veracity of the marriage, all because Ayu and Mannie don't know each other for too long. Fast the fanclub Chairmen board was called, who are fans that represent all TA before Ayu and Avex Group. Some hours later through official website of fan president it was announced a press conference to announce this shocking new.

This new rumbled to all Asia, the impact was so big that the Avex Group chairman (Masato Max Matsuura) felt in an uncomfortable position, the new was:

"As representative of the fans who belong to TA, we congratulate Ayu for this new, however we don't stop thinking that there's something behind this marriage, as representative of TA fans we have to not only think of fans but also to get the true known, through this statement to Max Matsuura we wanna let you know that we won't allow to get Ayu's followers to get involved in a lie, we won't allow TA getting mixed in causes with for-profit that only will benefit Avex Group economically."

In order to Avex Group chairman to take seriously this statement, the TA president himself called a "Day 0", consisting on not a single TA member buy the new Ayu album, Love songs, and to give this happening known between their friends. The "Day 0" was called for Jan 2nd 2011, hours after Ayu's marriage with Mannie. Avex Group announced in their official site that there wasn't any change on the sales, but on Japanese National Transparency Registry it was reported the opposite, since it appears that it was one of the worst sales day for this album. This topic immediately was know all through Japan and Max Matsuura and Ayu got prohibited to talk about it, according to their lawyers.

Also in Yahoo Japan, TA presidents announced:

"Ayu, though we are unconditional fans, we won't allow to get manipulated using this situation to get economic benefits, we are happy for your marriage but we feel that there's something behind this, we hope that it's just a bad feelin and if it was real we would feel betrayed by our idol."

Currently in Japan there's a conflict about this issue, it's not clear if they're trying to manipulate the fans, that would cost Ayu the trust they have in her and her complete career in Asia, China, Korea, and Taiwan. Also some fans are getting ready, waiting for this feeling isn't real since everyone would feel betrayed like already happened years ago when Ayu announced she was marrying a chinese artist but this marriage was canceled months later. In the Japanese TV they tried to get the opinion of Avex group chairman but the only thing they got was his negativity.

We can only wait to see what happens, if this marriage has a double intention can cost Ayu her career not only in Asia but also worldwide.

This all keeps on each fan's discreetness and we can only wait what the future holds, without a doubt this marriage is between wall and sword, remember that japanese fans already pressured Ayu to make her apologize publicly and make her retract for several things, like the happening of twitter when the fans pressured her to stop talking in english to do it japanese, and even made her apologize for talking in english.

Without a doubt we have to be aware of this issue and my only thing to say left is that this will keep in each Ayumi Hamasaki fan decision.
Drama, much?

juanes6, where did you read this? And what was his source?
Reading it, it felt like the writter actually read about Ayu's marriage but he made all the rest in his mind o_o!
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Last edited by dulceku; 3rd January 2011 at 01:12 PM.
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