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20th February 2007, 09:30 PM
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Wow. Just wow.
I already knew I loved the song, but the PV was awesome. In fact the only thing so far that I still don't like is the title!  Anyway, I feel like I actually got most of what was going on for a change. Although ugh...white kimono Ayu freaked me out. =x 
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#22
20th February 2007, 09:34 PM
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I think white kimono Ayu has gone a little too far in the lipsticks department...
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#23
20th February 2007, 09:40 PM
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I really like the song but I think the preview is kinda cheesy. Pretty, but cheesy nonetheless.
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20th February 2007, 09:41 PM
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wow....this pv is just too awesome! I love everything about it...very beautifully done...love the song too! Im so happy ayu went back to being cool again...I thought the pv would be very boring since its a ballad but this was really unexpected! thank you ayu...im so happy...T_T
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#25
20th February 2007, 09:42 PM
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love the song! but the PV is too red LoL, anyway i love the part when she "dies"
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20th February 2007, 09:46 PM
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I think i am the only one who thinks the pv is CRAP...
maybe it's too much of a word... but i seriously didn't like it. The song is wonderful... but the PV - she looks bad, the 'story' (i can't really find any story behind it - it's just LOTS of random symbolism) is extremaly cheesy (dying under a cherry blossom, PLEASE!), the colors are bad, the CG animals look unnatural (the horse is the exception, but it doesn't fit the fakeness of this PV). When the snake ate the mantis - i was laughing... and it was supposed to be such a dramatic scene... The growing hair is so GROSS... I really liked some of the moments... when she put out this thing out of her hair and destroyed that sakura petal, or when the lamp started burning... but that's like... ALL... plus... SHUYA AGAIN! Why do i have to keep seeing SHUYA in her PVs? I'm DEAD TIRED of SHUYA! GO AWAY! The director made such a better work with CHU-LIP... Dissapointed... maybe tomorrow after seeing it more timesi i will change my mind a little... The song is BEAUTIFUL at least... Last edited by Shiso; 20th February 2007 at 09:49 PM.
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#28
20th February 2007, 09:47 PM
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The pv is quite good compared to some of the last year pvs. Everything looks good except the hair growing part... they could have done a better CG for that.
Also, the snake and mantis (?) part... I dun really understand at all..
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#29
20th February 2007, 09:53 PM
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Ahhhhhh, A good PV after so long!!
 I don't like the song, it's really repetitive, The red lipstick and the CG were horrible but I think it was def. better than the recent PVs she's released.
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#30
20th February 2007, 09:56 PM
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i guess the red lipstick part is how people make up when they wear traditional clothes. People in Japan probly won't find the red lipstick part that weird compared to us
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20th February 2007, 09:56 PM
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I actually really like the animals...to me, the horse being tied up to the tree (whereas usually horses represent pure, unbridled freedom) is largely symbolic of who Ayu is supposed to represent in this video--she's supposed to be be free with her lover dude, but because she's tied up to the tree for so long waiting for him, she eventually dies and becomes ONE with the tree (and thus the growing hair = roots, y'know)? And the CHU-LIP PV was really, really random. The cow poo = not good taste. I'd take overusage of lipstick over cow poo anyday lol. What really confuses me is what the traveling people/soldiers were wearing. Ayu is in a traditional Japanese kimono (albeit, at first I thought it was a Chinese dress due to the frequency of use of those colors and patterns in China), but then what the people are wearing (the ones carrying the lanterns) are more like Chinese headgear or even Thai. I'm not a Japanese history buff, but I definitely recognize some of those as Chinese/Thai cultural patterns. Or maybe her lover IS Chinese and he has to come overseas, which is why it takes him so long I actually really like the pink and red. She could've done a lot worse (aka the BLINDING lights in the Born to Be PV), and pink and red are usually the spring colors of Asian cultures. I like how this one, no matter how pretty it is, is more than pure eyecandy (like JEWEL; that was an unshameful jewelry commerical to me), and holds certain depths that need decoding I like it.
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20th February 2007, 09:59 PM
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#33
20th February 2007, 10:03 PM
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When she fell on the ground and her hair started growing I was like, "Great, now she's going to grow into a tree.." I was pretty surprised that she just died instead!
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20th February 2007, 10:03 PM
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...but the BIG RED LIPSTICK had to symbolize something!!!
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#35
20th February 2007, 10:04 PM
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Not to be culturally biased or anything, but I think while some of the motifs in the PV might seem random, they make sense if you look at it in an "asian" way.
For example, yes, Cherry Blossom tree is cheesy, but in Japan it does symbolize life. As for the red lipstick, well, if you look at the way Geishas dress and stuff, their lips are also bright red. So  I don't think it's that odd, with the red. But then again, it was just chinese new year, so the redness still hadn't passed yet.The other costumes reminds me more of thai/cambodia actually.
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#37
20th February 2007, 10:12 PM
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At first I wa so excited because I thought her reflection was the "Voyage" Ayu. Then I was just like "oh.". It was interesting. The snake bite was awesome. I didn't know Ayu was auditioning for the Grudge 3.
Very Chinese-y. Very old-looking Ayu. I guess we know what she'll look like in the future.
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#39
20th February 2007, 10:13 PM
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Yeah, Shiso, I didn't think this PV was exceptional either.
-The CGs were horrid. The growing hair was very fake and looked bad (like they were just using some cheap photoshop toools and making animation out of it. The snake looked weird. -wtf, ayu's hair color is horrible. The geisha ayu, yikes, what an horrid hair color LOL The other extremely blonde ayu was ok but the lipstick was way too bright red. And the japanese guy looked ridiculous with his 90' punkish hairdo in traditional clothing, bad mix XD-I do think the symbolisms there weren't random though. I think you can make a theory out of this PV, but I need more time to watch it properly. -I HATE PVs WITH SOUND EFFECTS. THEY SHOULD BE BANNED. They spoil the mood, spoil the song, and sometimes are poretty awkward. (I stopped watching the walking proud PV before it made me grow sick of the song just because of the stupid random sound effects). -I really liked the song, but it is very generic HAL JPOP. It doesn't add much to her discography, she could have released this album without that song and it wouldn't be much to miss. _I find it weird because I know H/\L has nothing to do with filming PVs, but even watching this PV made me think, wow this is so your typical HAL LOL
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♬♪aijou de nuritsubushite Last edited by ImpactBreaker; 20th February 2007 at 10:16 PM.
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#40
20th February 2007, 10:20 PM
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Ayu-chan, I still love you, but that was horrid.
To me it was just a dramatic-wannabe nonsense. And the song is so unoriginal.. chorus repetetive and the rest is just another momentum. And the red lipstick? .... no comment
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