Meeting an (Ayu) fan - Page 2

polka-dot-jewel · #21 26th July 2009, 10:28 PM

I've actually met four Ayu fans that are here on AHS XD I've met Calico, KillTime111, Neo_Daydream, and HONEY_INSPIRE_19. I haven't met anyone else, but I am friends with some other people here as well =)

But, a couple of my friends in real life are Ayu fans... only one keeps up with her music (sometimes, through music sharing communities mostly), and others just listen to it whenever I give them some of her music, haha. My family really doesn't care about JPop, though.

ownsarai · #22 26th July 2009, 10:56 PM

I've never met a random Ayu fan, anywhere really here in the US. I know they exist though. Where are you?! xD

zellyx · #23 27th July 2009, 02:02 AM

SO LUCKY!
I've met a bunch of Japanese music fans, but unfortunately no one knows who Ayu is! They all like that hyper-anime crazy little girl singing very fast techno, if you know what I mean. xD
Or they like J-Rock (aka my sister).

My mom and dad don't like Ayu's music! Or any asian music. :/
But my best friend and I share crazy Ayu fandom... we are planning on filling our rooms with Ayu goods and going to Japan together and seeing a concert someday. :] Her mom is pretty interested in Ayu; she thinks Japan is very cool! ^_^

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Originally Posted by ownsarai

I've never met a random Ayu fan, anywhere really here in the US. I know they exist though. Where are you?! xD

I know you're not talking to me, but I live in the USA too!
^_^
I live on the East Coast, in Virginia.
Hbu?

ayuayu798 · #24 27th July 2009, 02:13 AM

That's so cool! I wish I knew someone who knew who ayu was...

emikoishida · #25 27th July 2009, 02:25 AM

My mom doesn't like Ayu that much but I don't really talk about her. But my aunts and mom dismiss the idea of me going to her concert anytime soon.

My aunt doesn't like her because her merchandise costs so much. XD

My dad doesn't mind me blasting Ayu in his car even whenf the windows are open but my uncle hates Ayu. I was listening to NEXT LEVEL in the car while my dad was driving and he said 'turn that ****ing **** off'. Then he was like, who was that...that Miley Cyrus girl? I didn't speak to him the rest of the day.

I managed to convert my friend into a Ayu fan. She did an Ayu marathon with me weeks ago. You're a real good friend when you are willing to stay up from midnight on night to noon the morning listening to all of Ayu's songs.

AyuRox · #26 27th July 2009, 02:50 AM

*sigh* It must be nice to meet someone who likes Ayu... Everyone knows me to listen to "that weird Asian crap" (they don't typically mean "crap" ofensively). So I'd like die of joy if I met someone who listen to, or even just heard of, Ayu.

But my mom does take interest in Ayu. I talk to her about Ayu and she listens and we can talk about Ayu, so that's good.

My dad doesn't care that I play it in the car or whatever, but he doesn't really take interest in it. Then again, he's not much of a music person to begin with.

**Yoake** · #27 29th July 2009, 03:31 PM

It's nice to you
I already met some people who love japan^^

***bulmasman*** · #28 29th July 2009, 11:21 PM

In the charity shop where i work, if i'm on the till i'll occasionally have a CD on (nothing beats blaring out some Jpop in a small british shop

). Anywho, one day i had A Song for XX on in there, and one of the customers recognized it immediately ^^. Was definitely an interesting moment lol

kendelle · #29 30th July 2009, 05:18 AM

I met an AHS member on the weekend at our anime convention AVCon.

She was wearing the 09 Team Message shirt and I told her the shirt was awesome. She then saw my Staff badge and said she'd seen me around the forums xD

Probably the first person I've ever met who likes Ayu, let alone comes here! It was pretty cool to know there are fans in and around Adelaide after all! o__O;;

Insanity1240 · #30 30th July 2009, 05:45 AM

Lucky :[[[[
I have one friend who likes Ayu but ive never met her irl we just go on AIM sometimes and talk about Ayu; but shes not usually on D:
I wish I had a friend irl who loved Ayu as much as I do hahah

hanabiwings · #31 30th July 2009, 05:54 AM

Mmm... I've met many fans in Japan. Not so many in the US. Some from Taiwan. My mum once was humming "Depend on you" while vacuuming, which I got a kick out of. Probably I listen to too much of Hamasaki's music on the stereo while at home on holiday.

y_nathz · #32 30th July 2009, 02:25 PM

everyone's stories are intresting ~ ^^

oneheart · #33 31st July 2009, 02:40 AM

You'd be the best friend if you gave me a single...

C+R+E+AYUMI · #34 31st July 2009, 10:42 AM

that's a cool experience!

MiiSan · #35 9th January 2010, 10:28 PM

Wow, nice experience, guys @.@

Didn't met any Ayu fan in real life, just a J-Rocker when I started high school.

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aura~ · #36 9th January 2010, 10:52 PM

I've met a lot of Ayu fans... when I was in Bournemouth studing english I met some fans from Taiwan and Hong Kong and also my roomate was japanese so she knew Ayu but wasn't her fan ^^

Now I'm studing a degree at the university about Asia and there's a few (almost 10 or so) that know Ayu and like her music (though I'm the only hard core fan of Ayu there xDD) But also with this 10 people another 30 or so LOVE j-pop or k-pop, KAT TUN, arashi, NEWS, namie, koda, utada, mika nakashima.... that's great because I can talk about j-music with them ^^

Also my all time friends from secundary school are j-pop fans, and 3 were BIG Ayu fans, even though now they prefer others before Ayu they keep listening to Ayu and are interested in what she's doing at the moment ^^

Also, I know a lot of people from my region, Catalonia, I met in forums and are Ayu fans and j-pop fans... and in Barcelona one time in a year theres like a "meeting" about manga, there's a lot of shops with merchandising, manga, music, people make cosplay, and it's a place where is easy to meet j-pop fans....

and last, my mom is almost an Ayu fan XDDD She wants to be in an Ayu concert someday, she says "you have made me listen to Ayu a lot, now I want to go to a concert!" xddd I had Ayu's CD's in our car and she listened to them even when I wasn't on the car... if I put a song, for example JEWEL she knows the melody of it, and before momentum starts she is singing momentum's melody XDDD and moreover, she love Jun Matumoto because she saw with me Hana Yori Dango and she loved it!! she has "Love so Sweet" as a message ring tone, and she had Jewel chorus as calling ring tone XDDD She's great!!

gallowsCalibrator · #37 10th January 2010, 10:08 PM

Ahhhh, my friend and I both love Ayu, and so does my aunt!

I'm working on my little brother, and so far I think I've got him

He wandered into my room the other day, and I was surprised by this conversation:
Bro: Do you have any music videos on your iPod?
Me: Yeah, duh. Why?
Bro: Which ones?
Me: *sighs and begins naming music videos*
Bro: Can I wach the Ayumi Hamasaki ones?
Me: :OOOOO REALLY?!?! YES
Bro: O.o You have STEP you, right?
Me: YEAH C'MON WATCH WITH MEEEE~~~!

*overjoyed that I've converted my little bro XD*

Also, my mom used to be like, indifferent to Ayu, but a week ago, I caught her with my iPod, and she was listening to Ayu :O Lol, she made an excuse...But she'll come around...eventually XD

I wish people in my school liked her, though...

aura~ · #38 10th January 2010, 10:31 PM

^a lot of people that aren't ayufan love STEP you PV!! One of my friends that likes Ayu, have a little brother and he likes Ayu a lot and his favourite PV is STEP you!! XDDD This PV has sth XDD

gallowsCalibrator · #39 10th January 2010, 10:53 PM

^Whoa! XDD Lol, that's so funny! STEP you is an awesome pv, tho (imo), so it's no wonder they love it XDD

mcluva420 · #40 11th January 2010, 06:21 AM

My friends dont really care about Ayu, nor can i convert them just a bit. I do know some people that listen to her, but we're not that close.