ayumi hamasaki 15th Anniversary TOUR ～A BEST LIVE～ III

[Mirrorcle Monster]

The outfits are pretty meh... And there is no water in the pool or what?

[terra]

Finally costumes!! Yayness
I love most of them but I love the colorful jacket (probably for You & Me), the white gown (ofc!), the suit dress (really reminds me of SNSD's PAPARAZZI lol) and her SAKURA gown.

^Yeah no water there plus the photos take showing her looking so silly


The dress looks like a bathing suit, I can't imagine singing a ballad like JEWEL and HEAVEN in such dress tho I can imagine her performing HANABI in it

Originally Posted by ayuuk

I am guessing, just guessing, that Avex is cutting a lot of budget?? But just judging from these photos (and also CDL 2012-13)...

It could be, but I though AT12 was already toned down like AT09 I can only hope she saves the best for the last

Originally Posted by artcika

she needs to find a new label. they are getting kinda lackluster after PoM. It seems like they want everything done cheaply to get more money. i'm wodering if the same thing is going on for other artists under Avex too...

Kinda agree with you, avex seems becomes cheaper and cheaper especially for ayu since she had those grandiose props back in the past. But I thought Kuu's tour was a bit lavish this year but maybe because she just had a year hiatus and a small tour for Dejavu in 2011.

So to conclude, the long pink jacket is poker face - school girl is Fly high and HONEY - White dress is M and No way to say - Colorful jacket is You & Me and BLUE BIRD - Bathing suit dress/Swing dress is JEWEL, HEAVEN and SAKURA - Red costume is Wake me up and Tell all - The suit dress is SURREAL, evolution and Voyage. Where's the costume for Asfxx and Memorial address then?

[EnergizE]

Originally Posted by terra

^Yeah no water there plus the photos take showing her looking so silly

[/IMG]

There is like 10 cm of water on the pool and for Heaven, Ayu is throwing water everywhere ! And Ayu is quite wet actually, at least the legs and maybe the hair too as she threw water on the air around and on her

The costume for A song for XX and Memorial Adress made me think about the one of the opening of Asia Tour 2008

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by terra

Kinda agree with you, avex seems becomes cheaper and cheaper especially for ayu since she had those grandiose props back in the past. But I thought Kuu's tour was a bit lavish this year but maybe because she just had a year hiatus and a small tour for Dejavu in 2011.

Did you see JAPONESQUE Tour?
I went in March and didn't notice that much difference to past tours, there also were fireworks and stuff.

Hm, those cotsumes are a bit disappointing.
I just like the black an the pool one.
The big dress ha s such a nice shape, but that flower print is ugly. Or better not fitting to such a grand dress.

[terra]

Originally Posted by Corvina

Did you see JAPONESQUE Tour?
I went in March and didn't notice that much difference to past tours, there also were fireworks and stuff.

Hm, those cotsumes are a bit disappointing.
I just like the black an the pool one.
The big dress ha s such a nice shape, but that flower print is ugly. Or better not fitting to such a grand dress.

No I didn't, I really wish I see it. I only read reports and such. Maybe lavish wasn't the right word, sorry. But at least Kuu didn't change, she has her usual mixture. In my point of view ayu went a bit low these past years of you compare on what she did in AT05-AT08. While Kuu based on my observation stays constant to her usual tour formula or tweaked things up but constantly had a kind of similar quality from one concert to another.

And yeah the flower print wasn't nice, I thought those were some corsage but it was printed.

Maybe it's because on the past years she makes high standard (sometimes higher than before) it made some of us expect that this special ocassion would be like the sky pirate ship thing. And without able to witness the concert itself we as usual draw our own conclusion.

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by terra

No I didn't, I really wish I see it. I only read reports and such. Maybe lavish wasn't the right word, sorry. But at least Kuu didn't change, she has her usual mixture. In my point of view ayu went a bit low these past years of you compare on what she did in AT05-AT08. While Kuu based on my observation stays constant to her usual tour formula or tweaked things up but constantly had a kind of similar quality from one concert to another.

And yeah the flower print wasn't nice, I thought those were some corsage but it was printed.

Maybe it's because on the past years she makes high standard (sometimes higher than before) it made some of us expect that this special ocassion would be like the sky pirate ship thing. And without able to witness the concert itself we as usual draw our own conclusion.

Ah, ok, I see what you mean.
I was interested in your opinion, cause there aren't that much foreign fans going to Kuu's concerts as e.g. for Ayu. My friends and me seemed to be the only ones at Saitama!
And you're right, Kuu's tour concepts are pretty much always on the same level, with Black Cherry Final in Tokyo Dome probably as an exception (and hooray, no cute section in JAPONESQUE tour, I just have to add this )
There are also no big changes or finals for her tours, everybody going watches the same stuff.

For Ayu this always was different, I agree. Nevertheless I was surprised to see her Saitama dates weren't sold out, cause I mean, it is her Anniversary Tour and Avex did promote pretty well this time. And PoM Tour was a "smaller" tour in terms of props and co. and a success. But people probably had different expectations back then with all that mess happening...
She still has a big amount of dates though. So I don't worry.

[GREENsora]

Originally Posted by Corvina

Ah, ok, I see what you mean.
I was interested in your opinion, cause there aren't that much foreign fans going to Kuu's concerts as e.g. for Ayu. My friends and me seemed to be the only ones at Saitama!
And you're right, Kuu's tour concepts are pretty much always on the same level, with Black Cherry Final in Tokyo Dome probably as an exception (and hooray, no cute section in JAPONESQUE tour, I just have to add this )
There are also no big changes or finals for her tours, everybody going watches the same stuff.

For Ayu this always was different, I agree. Nevertheless I was surprised to see her Saitama dates weren't sold out, cause I mean, it is her Anniversary Tour and Avex did promote pretty well this time. And PoM Tour was a "smaller" tour in terms of props and co. and a success. But people probably had different expectations back then with all that mess happening...
She still has a big amount of dates though. So I don't worry.

I always thought that was unfair, I mean, people are paying big bucks to go see Ayu, why make one show more elaborate than the other? :/ That just may leave one group of fans with a better experience than the other

Originally Posted by Zeke.

I just think R'n'R Circus was such an elaborate concert tour with a CLEAR image. It was just packaged together so well - everything since has paled in comparison.

That tour was pure gold. If Ayu can give me another tour like R'n'RC, I'd be the happiest kid alive

[Zeke.]

I just think R'n'R Circus was such an elaborate concert tour with a CLEAR image. It was just packaged together so well - everything since has paled in comparison.

[macmaayu]

^Where is the water?
I cant really see it
is it a empty glass pool??

[terra]

^Seems like an empty glass pool to me

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by terra

^Seems like an empty glass pool to me

lol avex is so poor they can't even aford watter for the next show xD

[brener]

'-'
i dont see any evidence that avex is poor now... AT12 was pretty fancy

this is the performance of only one setlist, there are 60 songs to be performed, surely she will wear new costumes... and i know ayu will make it huge in yoyogi

[saigodansu]

The waves show up looking the same from the front as they do on the sides, so I'd say paint, not water. Then again, her getting wet between quick changing clothes wouldn't make sense either, so they should have just planned a different scene altogether.

[GREENsora]

Originally Posted by saigodansu

The waves show up looking the same from the front as they do on the sides, so I'd say paint, not water. Then again, her getting wet between quick changing clothes wouldn't make sense either, so they should have just planned a different scene altogether.

The AHSer's that went to the concert said she was "splashing around" and what not(I think it was in MissElin's review), so there must have been water in the pool. And not all of her was wet, she could quickly dry off in time for the next segment

[njanjayrp]

I think the costumes are better than the ones she wore last year.

[terra]

^ I think so too, this year's got really varied

So there's water in the pool : O I can't see it from the picture

[brener]

in the bottom of it...

[terra]

That blue swirly thing? It looked like a layer or something

[alternarist]

i like the costumes from those small pics.. perhaps need a larger pic and we are bound to receive costume changes by the last concert. yay!

[brener]

the tour, the setlist, the costumes, the whole thing... it will improve as the dates goes by... hopefully we'll have a huge concert to be recorded on the last date =)