SUPER AYU by LESLIE KEE

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by tasking

Idk, regardless of how the photos are inside, I think something that obviously was a birthday gift should've stayed a birthday gift. That goes for Leslie publicly tweeting it as such, the 500 copies, and Mannie selling it on eBay.

THIS

Originally Posted by Rurutia

oh my eyes.....they BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Sorry ayu, I hate this shoot. perhaps i'm not as open minded as I thought but....the majority of the pics are not artistic to me.

oh well, as my brother always tells me....."everything is subjective."

the photos look cheap. it's okay if it's a private present, but other than that, I'm like about them

Originally Posted by YUKARI

I hope they'll divorce soon XD

Originally Posted by waterballoon

omg this photobook is really kinda embarrassing

because it's supposed to be a private present! selling it is

Originally Posted by Zeke.

Are you joking me with these photos? Lol. These look so amateur. I mean really, this man is a model!? Hm, I don't know what else to say...

Originally Posted by letter

Oh my eyes.
I don't particularly care for his looks--he's Ayu's husband.
And I can ... appreciate (to an extent) nudity in photography, but this is just embarrassing. He isn't a fantastic model.

Originally Posted by Isa~

it's soooooooo bad taste!.

[Andrenekoi]

^Nops... I find him to be pretty hot too

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^Nops... I find him to be pretty hot too

Great. Then print the photos out and put them on your ceiling.

[tasking]

Mannie *is* good looking, just not in this genre.

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by tasking

Mannie *is* good looking, just not in this genre.

this lol cuz seriously on his website his "portfolio" photos are quite nice and he looks quite good xD

[Andrenekoi]

^I already have them on my diary surrounded by hearts <3

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^I already have them on my diary surrounded by hearts <3

Which ones? I personally think the ones on the beach might be better for a diary than the assless underwear photos. Those would be better hidden away on a hard drive.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by xLitax

Which ones? I personally think the ones on the beach might be better for a diary than the assless underwear photos. Those would be better hidden away on a hard drive.

But the hearts are exactly around his ass!

[bluegie]

Oh my.... you guys are so funny... reading posts in this thread boost up my mood everytime

[krazeyo]

SO for Super Ayu...it's limited to 500 copies and not available for sale...what does that mean? Leslie just made 500 copies and passed them out to friends/family of Ayu???

Also.....how many pages are in Super Manuel O_o...are there any photos of him in clothes. Fashionable clothing....why no clothing....should have hired a wardrobe manager srsly.

[RayJason]

^ my lord....

[Kazeyomi]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

http://i.imgur.com/A0PMe.jpg

I hope AHS won't be too shocked by this

I'm gonna use this pic as wallpaper for my laptop now. SO HOT.



I don't find these pics ugly nor shocking though.
They're rather funny instead if I were super-duper-rich I'd buy this photobook and look at the pics, whenever I'm sad and laughing so hard.

I don't want to bash Leslie, he's a good photographer. Maybe he did this photobook by.. the irony. I hope . I'd feeling so bad at laughing at his works if they were serious.

[gogirlanime]

Personally I think they're hot lol. We don't know how Ayu feels about it. She knew before marrying him that he's a model and actor so in my OPINION I think she would figure something like this would happen and if I were married to him I would LOVE to have that book. I would LOVE to have something like that of my boyfriend O___O

I absolutely LOVE those pictures of Mannie

[pepper]

Originally Posted by ~ayu-cake~

I absolutely LOVE those pictures of Mannie

that's the spirit!

[tasking]

But that's the thing: we keep saying it's what AYU might like; it only matters if AYU likes the book. I agree, but AYU should've been the only one to see that book. Instead, there's 500 people who get to display her tastes in print on their shelves as if it were some collection item - not to mention the people seeing it here on AHS and on the internet. If I was Ayu, I'd be horrified.

Again, that's the only real thing that's in bad taste here, regardless of what we think of the photos. If they needed to make more money, they should've sold more copies of LOVE & HOPE with photos of Mannie added, not sell a birthday gift for Ayu. I like Leslie and Mannie both, but this lowers my respect for them a little bit.

[ayu_ready?]

propably Ayu just doesn't care. how many times in interviews she told us she didn't care what others thought of her?

it just really feels weird to earn money by selling your present to your dearest wifey

[saigodansu]

there's 1000 of super mannie, which mannie said was his early christmas present to her. the 500 for her birthday was super ayu & since it was a surprise gift, most likely there was no extra photo shoot for it just a compilation of all the photos leslie has done of ayu.

[tasking]

Ah, so it was 1000 copies. Even worse.

But Leslie/Mannie still called it "SURPRISE AND DEDICATION" to her:

Biggest SURPRISE & DEDICATION to our dearest ayu 「SUPER MANUEL」

"Ayu! We dedicated this book to you... and we're selling 1000 copies of it! SURPRISE and Merry Xmas, honey!"



I still stand by what I said, regardless.

[ownsarai]

I think everyone needs to chill out on the whole Mannie and Leslie selling the book thing. It's really not that big of a deal. So what if Mannie's ass is showing? This has always been Leslie's style of photography and we should have expected it to be like this. Mannie and Leslie are both professionals in what they do. If Mannie wasn't comfortable with doing it I'm sure he would have said no. Plus, if I were Ayu I wouldn't be 'horrified' that these pictures are out there, hell, I'd be happy. Mannie is a model after all and I'm sure this won't be the last time we see him half naked.