[Coelacanth]

Complaints about quantity are annoying because there's no logic involved... It's as if Avex and Ayu have this unlimited budget to shell out on an artist way past her peak AND in a shitty sales climate. Has it occurred to anyone that there aren't many new songs because SOMEBODY is paying 5 WORLD-RENOWNED producers for material that, unless there is a huge shift in the opinion of Ayu for the general public, will "flop" anyway by Ayu standards? The ROI on this release probably won't be huge if it sells less than or as
much as LOVE again... yet people still expect her to release maxi-singles and these grand releases as if she still pushes tons of units.

EDIT: and on a side note, I'm wondering if Avex was pinching serious pennies with LOVE again... Everything from the PV's to the arrangements and cheap programming/mixing. I really think there were budgeting issues that quarter, rather than a deliberate intent by the team to make songs that sound like they were created in a Fruity Loops sample library.