Uraayu?

[IYFreak]

What does this word mean I say it to myself over and over again but I don't understand whats the meaning of the title?

[Norrel]

I don't know the meaning of it, but just so you know it's supposed to be pronounced

[your-ah-yu]

[IYFreak]

yeah I know that I just wanted to know what it means

[Norrel]

- Waits for immel or our official Ayu Encyclopedia(Delerium Zero) to tell us -

[Ani_C]

I've been wondering about this too!~ -waits as well-

[Delirium-Zer0]

Ura = Tadashi Ura. He did all the illustration in the book, the dragon on the special edition cover, the speech baloons, the special effects & editing, all that. He does alot of ayu illustration & effects (the drawing-look on the vogue cover, all the TeamAyu magazine covers, the cartoony-looking ayus in the Concert Tour 2000 pamphlet, all that sort of stuff.)

And of course ayu = Ayumi Hamasaki. ^_^

[Norrel]

Thank you Ayu-Encyclopedia!

[IYFreak]

WOAH.......Your amazing like a god or something.I envy you.

[Delirium-Zer0]

LOL... Oh, stop.

I will admit, this stuff gives me one heck of an ego boost... then I realize WHY I know all this stuff (that is, I have no life ~) and I wonder if there's a paying job for crazy insane ayu fanatics x_x

[IYFreak]

that would be so cool if they do. for now on when I have a question I should just put "A Question for Delirium-Zer0" at the top Lol.its really true like what immel says your words are law.

[extepan]

Uraayu literally means "Inside Ayu"
but my interpretation is that the "Ura" part is MatsuURA max, while ayu is AYUmi.

so it is could be a combination of max matsuura and ayumi hamasaki.

[Misa-chan]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

Ura = Tadashi Ura. He did all the illustration in the book, the dragon on the special edition cover, the speech baloons, the special effects & editing, all that. He does alot of ayu illustration & effects (the drawing-look on the vogue cover, all the TeamAyu magazine covers, the cartoony-looking ayus in the Concert Tour 2000 pamphlet, all that sort of stuff.)

And of course ayu = Ayumi Hamasaki. ^_^

Ura in Japanese media means off-shot. Something like a side-story or behind-the-scenes. So uraayu is supposed to be a little side story of ayu's time in the States (was it?)

[immel]

^It was shot in Hong Kong.

[Misa-chan]

^ Haha ok my bad. So HK it was ^^

[Delirium-Zer0]

Could be a pun there then. But tadashi ura DID do the illustration, and the kanji used is the same kanji as his name.

[immel]

I think the MatsuURA is a coincidence, possibly they noticed it before the release and just thought it made the name even better.

[kinix]

I remembered URAAYU means 裏歩 which means 'inside' ayu as extepan said.
I remember think this was introduce by the media during the release of the photobook.

I was told by a Japanese friend that it means "The other side of Ayu" because I wasn't quite sure what the "ura" meant either. As in, it's a side of Ayu that we hadn't seen before or that she wanted to show.

[nmskalmn]

"The other side of Ayu", that's how I remember it being explained at the time as well.

[Qt Mashi]

wow okay, i thought Ura meant something like "ultimate" xD