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[FoxyPinkGirl]

Originally Posted by Ayumi_lover

I really don’t think she is alienating anyone. Too bad for international fans but it seems that her team got some kind of deal with Abema(as Abema was participating in production of dorama about Ayu and broadcasting a lot of her older live shows) so maybe as part of this deal Ayu needed to give them some exclusive to draw more people to their platform and it just so happens that Abema for copyright issues or whatever actively blocks views from abroad. I’m sure the concert will be available later to international fans too in some kind of release or maybe even on other services.

I would hope so, but she seems to be doing that sort of thing with her international fans in general. Even with the tour commentaries recently. I know it’s probably a hassle to provide subtitles with her team doing extra work, but most of international fans don’t speak Japanese. Again, why open your fan club internationally whose paying money if you’re going to mainly cater to your Japanese fans (when it seems she has more international fans at this point)? It’s not right. It might not make that much of a difference, but I might mention that in the Letters to Ayu section of TA. It’s frustrating as an international fan

[summerain]

Originally Posted by FoxyPinkGirl

I would hope so, but she seems to be doing that sort of thing with her international fans in general. Even with the tour commentaries recently. I know it’s probably a hassle to provide subtitles with her team doing extra work, but most of international fans don’t speak Japanese. Again, why open your fan club internationally whose paying money if you’re going to mainly cater to your Japanese fans (when it seems she has more international fans at this point)? It’s not right. It might not make that much of a difference, but I might mention that in the Letters to Ayu section of TA. It’s frustrating as an international fan

She obviously has more Japanese fans than overseas fans... Or do you think the only 5 remaining domestic fans replied themselves to fill arenas and halls during all these past years? haha

Only the diehard fans buy her physical CDs, but she does a lot (A LOT, indeed) of touring for a reason.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by summerain

She obviously has more Japanese fans than overseas fans... Or do you think the only 5 remaining domestic fans replied themselves to fill arenas and halls during all these past years? haha

Only the diehard fans buy her physical CDs, but she does a lot (A LOT, indeed) of touring for a reason.

You are disregarding her fanbase from China, Taiwan and HK which is still pretty large.

[summerain]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

You are disregarding her fanbase from China, Taiwan and HK which is still pretty large.

Of course she's popular in those countries and the fanbase is large, but I think we can't compare with the Japanese one. And I'm not gonna start with the western fanbase...

I mean, I'm not disregarding the complaint about the lack of attention to Global TA, but I doubt there's a lot of demand to the point she NEEDS to do a lot of things to western fanbase... That's sad, but genjitsu wa tada zankoku de...

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

You are disregarding her fanbase from China, Taiwan and HK which is still pretty large.

If Ayu's fanbase was THAT big, she would be touring China. People has been going to her tours in Japan every year for the past 20 years, and this by irself shows how much larger her native fambade is.

[Toniayu123]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

If Ayu's fanbase was THAT big, she would be touring China. People has been going to her tours in Japan every year for the past 20 years, and this by irself shows how much larger her native fambade is.

She didn’t tour outside Japan until 2007, and her peak (in Japan and overseas) was way earlier. So maybe she simply doesn’t feel like it. But of course, her fanbase I in Japan.

[Ayumi_lover]

Originally Posted by FoxyPinkGirl

I would hope so, but she seems to be doing that sort of thing with her international fans in general. Even with the tour commentaries recently. I know it’s probably a hassle to provide subtitles with her team doing extra work, but most of international fans don’t speak Japanese. Again, why open your fan club internationally whose paying money if you’re going to mainly cater to your Japanese fans (when it seems she has more international fans at this point)? It’s not right. It might not make that much of a difference, but I might mention that in the Letters to Ayu section of TA. It’s frustrating as an international fan

Well her fan club was not open to international fans for a very long time officially and when it did it was personal wish of Ayu and international fans get huge bias to get better seats at the shows. (And usually next to some other foreigners)
Her main core is fans in Japan and TeamAyu website is horrible because the team behind it is horrible. In general I do believe that for Ayu to really come back she would need to change most of her team. Dvd editing, managers, creative advisors, and yes - get new people to redo the website too. At least her instagram promos and teasers seems to be well made and it gives hope.

[summerain]

Originally Posted by Ayumi_lover

Well her fan club was not open to international fans for a very long time officially and when it did it was personal wish of Ayu and international fans get huge bias to get better seats at the shows. (And usually next to some other foreigners)
Her main core is fans in Japan and TeamAyu website is horrible because the team behind it is horrible. In general I do believe that for Ayu to really come back she would need to change most of her team. Dvd editing, managers, creative advisors, and yes - get new people to redo the website too. At least her instagram promos and teasers seems to be well made and it gives hope.

I have to disagree about her team of DVD editors. I think she has some of the greatest J-Pop registers.

[Ayumi_lover]

Originally Posted by summerain

I have to disagree about her team of DVD editors. I think she has some of the greatest J-Pop registers.

I just have personal grudge against them for not putting pure vocals from her microphone in a separate channel on 5.1ch audio. For some big artists that are not linked to Avex at least you can extract vocals from 5.1audio tracks without almost any background noise