[News] Step by step PV Full version

[LONJJONG]

The full version PV is aired!

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI3OTc0MzQyOA==.html

Stream here if you can, I'll try to rip it! Enjoy!

EDIT:
HQ Rip:
part 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7e...ew?usp=sharing
part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7e...ew?usp=sharing

Originally Posted by chestergringo

I ripped this PV (LQ): http://www.mediafire.com/download/af...L+%28LQ%29.mp4

Originally Posted by holy_arrow

I also ripped this PV for mega: https://mega.co.nz/#!LlZC3BYD!Q-AYRu...HFsaaWlJE_a308

[chestergringo]

Thank you so much!!!! <3

[holy_arrow]

Just watched. Lovin' this PV but I want to know how the girls feel uncomfortable, annoyed when they wear the red thread. More emotion please!

[chestergringo]

I ripped this PV (LQ): http://www.mediafire.com/download/af...L+%28LQ%29.mp4

[holy_arrow]

I also ripped this PV for mega: https://mega.co.nz/#!LlZC3BYD!Q-AYRu...HFsaaWlJE_a308

[Beauty4123]

Truly loved this PV, so very much. I've enjoyed the whole "red thread" concept & it's nice to see that they all broke free from it, at the end. Speaking of the end...ayu looked simply gorgeous during the last few scenes, of her on the rooftop. Overall, what a fantastic video! Great job, ayu!

[truehappiness]

Hideaki Sunaga's PVs are always so beautiful!

http://www.toyotaoffice.jp/ayurikonno/

Looks like I was right about Ayuri being in this. I knew she looked familiar!

[AyuGAME]

I like the PV...simple and meaningful.

My only complaint is we don't know what tied Ayu...

The hairdresser having affair.
The teacher maybe feel frustated with teaching.
The student maybe feel not smart enough.

We don't know what the reason behind Ayu tied by red thread.

[KPL]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

I like the PV...simple and meaningful.

My only complaint is we don't know what tie Ayu...

The hairdresser is the affair.
The teacher is maybe the frustation on teaching.
The student is maybe that she feel not smart.

but we don't know what the reason behind Ayu tied by red thread.

ayu's "husband" in this pv is having an affair with the hairdresser

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

I like the PV...simple and meaningful.

My only complaint is we don't know what tie Ayu...

The hairdresser is the affair.
The teacher is maybe the frustation on teaching.
The student is maybe that she feel not smart.

but we don't know what the reason behind Ayu tied by red thread.

I think the teacher doesn't feel confident in her teaching and the student doesn't feel that she's smart enough as you can see her mouthing "baka/idiot" to herself in the mirror.

Maybe Ayu's red thread is related to when she was 'running away' from Japan last year? Surprised they had her stay in the room without doing much else other than sing, but maybe they wanted to keep hers ambiguous. Love the touches like the butterfly trapped inside.

The hairdresser leaves the salon, the teacher gets her confidence back, the student seems to be at peace with herself, and Ayu seems to venture back outside.

[holy_arrow]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think the teacher doesn't feel confident in her teaching and the student doesn't feel that she's smart enough as you can see her mouthing "baka/idiot" to herself in the mirror.

Maybe Ayu's red thread is related to when she was 'running away' from Japan last year? Surprised they had her stay in the room without doing much else other than sing, but maybe they wanted to keep hers ambiguous. Love the touches like the butterfly trapped inside.

The hairdresser leaves the salon, the teacher gets her confidence back, the student seems to be at peace with herself, and Ayu seems to venture back outside.

I love your idea

[orbitalaspect]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Maybe Ayu's red thread is related to when she was 'running away' from Japan last year?

What is this about? When did this happen?

[luna7996]

I really like this pv. Such a nice concept and the acting was very on point. Love!

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

What is this about? When did this happen?

From ''A ONE'' promotional interview:

ayu: I realized during rehearsals for the Countdown live that I had been running away.
I think I said to you before when I started dividing my time between Japan and overseas how I wanted to keep my private life and work separate?
It makes me laugh to even say it now! Like that was ever going to be an option…
I tried to run away but I couldn’t, not really. And do you know what? Eventually I realized I didn’t even want to.
It’s not about where I am or who I’m with: I am still me, and this is still my life. So I decided to stop running away.
The Countdown Live concert came from having made peace with that.
That was when a lot of things became clear, and I rediscovered a certain intuitiveness and confidence.

Also Ayu herself stated in a recent TA message:
"Last year, I left Japan to escape from all of that.

Then I returned from L.A. with a new sense of purpose, and began the Midnight Circus at last year's Countdown Live.''

[orbitalaspect]

Originally Posted by luna7996

I really like this pv. Such a nice concept and the acting was very on point. Love!


From ''A ONE'' promotional interview:

ayu: I realized during rehearsals for the Countdown live that I had been running away.
I think I said to you before when I started dividing my time between Japan and overseas how I wanted to keep my private life and work separate?
It makes me laugh to even say it now! Like that was ever going to be an option…
I tried to run away but I couldn’t, not really. And do you know what? Eventually I realized I didn’t even want to.
It’s not about where I am or who I’m with: I am still me, and this is still my life. So I decided to stop running away.
The Countdown Live concert came from having made peace with that.
That was when a lot of things became clear, and I rediscovered a certain intuitiveness and confidence.

Also Ayu herself stated in a recent TA message:
"Last year, I left Japan to escape from all of that.

Then I returned from L.A. with a new sense of purpose, and began the Midnight Circus at last year's Countdown Live.''

So, these last several years have been Ayumi trying to put space between her personal life and her public image?!? Like... everything since late 2010 with Manny?!

[clover_bali]

simple but... this PV have a great meanings

[oaristos]

I like that she went for a more meaningful music video this time, even though this one was quite boring.

[orbitalaspect]

It's kind of a typical j-pop video / theme, but compared to Ayu's last dozen or so PVs, this is so refreshing. It has a message, and the message, though generally unoriginal, is not at all cryptic and difficult to grasp from the first watch. I like this, and hope so, so much that Sayonara and Summer diary will reflect the same attention to detail as seen in this PV.

Fantastic job, Ayu. It does, finally, appear Ayumi Hamasaki has returned from abstraction.

[freedreamer]

the mega link needs a decryption and the two HQ google links are the same are they? haha

I really LOVE the PV...probably her most meaningful PV since hbya..and most symbolic since MOON omg..5 years
it's so Japanese and genuine and very juxtaposed with the positive message the song is saying. great work!!!

i think Ayu's red thread stems from LONELINESS. her story is the only one devoid of anyone else and it's been a recurring theme in her works recently..

[TheRainbow]

I liked the video. It's up there with Last minute for me.

[holy_arrow]

I don't know why I can't access to the links (mega + mediafire) on the first post but in my own post and chestergringo's one is Ok