[Scans] Sweet 2009 September

[x-megumi-x]

Thanks for the scans!

Ew that facial expression again... So emotionless... Her photoshoots suck lately
I love the last outfit though <3

[pommy48]

At least Kazuyoshi didn't shoot the latest Vivi issue~

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by pommy48

At least Kazuyoshi didn't shoot the latest Vivi issue~

He did.

http://www.avgvst.com/photographers/ks/profile.htm

Here is his portfolio.. when Beyonce popped up, I was thinking.. NO.

It appears he also did the recent Mirrorcle World / GREEN / Zest SPARK CM photoshoots too.. does Ayu think he's a genius or something?

http://www.avgvst.com/photographers/...5HondaZest.htm

...huh..
http://www.avgvst.com/photographers/...cket_index.htm
http://www.avgvst.com/photographers/...over_index.htm

[pommy48]

oh god he did...well at least the vivi photoshoot wasn't that bad...well just because ayu wasn't looking straight into the camera...

[truehappiness]

Not everything's his fault, but I do think that after he stepped in, things took a turn for the worse.

[daybreak123]

Thanks for posting the scans! But this time I have to agree, I don't like those pics. Her face looks same in every pic. But I love her nails and outits.

[sanzo2011]

I wonder if she saw herself in the mirror ? ! oh ! god ! i hate those pictures ~~!

[truehappiness]

Actually, people thought she got a nosejob before that.. like way before that.. haha. So, I dunno what changed for people haha. Though I don't think it's really something that's actually happened.. if you look at her behind the scenes and all that, she looks the same as she always has.

[octolina]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Actually, people thought she got a nosejob before that.. like way before that.. haha. So, I dunno what changed for people haha. Though I don't think it's really something that's actually happened.. if you look at her behind the scenes and all that, she looks the same as she always has.

Well, you mean her pre avex aidoru era to the avex days? Yeah, people said she got heaps of surgery. Whether you disagree or agree on that, most people agreed that she looks really beautiful and better than before. And she was truly, magnificently beautiful. From 2000-2006 she was gorgeous. Her face was the envy of so many Asian girls from what I remember. What's shocking to us (those who think her nose/face changed) is that we think whatever she did seriously ruined her beauty. I for one find her less attractive. Her face is less harmonious. She also looks generic. It's not surgery that's taboo (I'm all for it), but if the result is bad, then I don't like it.

And I disagree with her looking the same as before in the behind the scenes stuff. She looks weird in the count down live 2008/09 behind the scenes and just about all the time now.

[sugarbasil]

Originally Posted by habelie

Also, I seriously doubt she's trying to look like a teenager. Just because someone (as most women do) likes to look a bit more youthful or girly, it doesn't mean that they're trying to act young (up to the extent of under 20 o.0).
About having an image...cripes, trying to decide whether someone has an image with a handful of photoshoots? Ok, I know she hasn't been looking fabulous, maybe even pretty bad (Sunrise cover x_x), but the ViVi book? That wasn't THAT long ago (depends on your perspective), and she was stunning there. Ups and downs, you know? Is an Ayu 'image' based on photos? To me, she's an artist, part idol, but not an idol who's as dependent on visual concepts as full idols are.

LOL. I think you might have thought my tone was harsher than it was. I didn't say she's trying to act like a teenager, I said she's trying to look like one. And there's a difference between trying to look younger and trying to look like a teenager when you're...what? 30? 31? It's unsettling. And almost immature (though this is my opinion, not everyone's).

And regarding image: I'm not talking about whether she's "ugly" or not. I'm talking about an image that strike someone as, "Ayu." And not her whole personality, included. I'm talking about her clothes, fashion...outward appearance. Right now it seems she's trying to do more exploring with her image (and that's a GOOD thing!), but it's not giving her a cohesive appeal. Nowadays she's like, "today I'm 17, today I'm 30, today I'm trying to use sex appeal, today I'm trying to be 20 things at once," and frequently without portraying her personality into the images. You can see her emotions frequently in her past photoshoots (it made the image), but nowadays it seems like it's just about the clothes. I dunno.

Originally Posted by octolina

*steps out of the dark alley* wow... you also think she had a nose job? I do too, and some others here. We're like a secret society... having to keep quiet or else get flamed. I'm coming out too!

I believed (though still kept my mind open) before 2008 that she didn't necessarily have any kind of surgeries. I suppose it's possible, but I don't really believe she did. Her face changed naturally over time, and make-up could make her face look completely different for different images.

But I really have had my opinion changed now, and I've got enough evidence for me to not need the reassurance that other people also think so. Most people on here don't think she did have her nose changed, that it's just photoshoped, but I'm allowed my opinion. I'm a full-on, long-lived Ayu fan, who has gone through with her for most of her career and never thought anything of her having surgery. I know well enough if something about her has changed. And I'm perfectly fine with other people not agreeing with me. Their arguments have valid points, as well as mine. But I think as long as we can all pose our viewpoints in decent and polite ways, I really don't think we should get flamed. I have definitely seen it in the past, and I really think it was uncalled for. But a lot of people see our view as something negative about Ayu's image and then think of our opinion as negative, so they dislike what we're saying and take offense. So I can see how people get offended and defensive, but I refuse to take that as a reason to not say what I think in a decent manner. We can get offended, too, by their remarks, after all.

Originally Posted by octolina

Well, you mean her pre avex aidoru era to the avex days? Yeah, people said she got heaps of surgery. Whether you disagree or agree on that, most people agreed that she looks really beautiful and better than before. And she was truly, magnificently beautiful. From 2000-2006 she was gorgeous. Her face was the envy of so many Asian girls from what I remember. What's shocking to us (those who think her nose/face changed) is that we think whatever she did seriously ruined her beauty. I for one find her less attractive. Her face is less harmonious. She also looks generic.

I seriously agree with this. If she had done something to her face pre-2008--whether I believe it happened or not--I think she looked gorgeous. Whatever happened with her nose (be it surgery or heaps of photoshop) has seriously depleted a considerable amount of her beauty. Entire photoshoots and pictures are ruined for me by just the shape of her nose. It looks ugly and unnatural to me. It is a serious hurt to her beauty, in my opinion.

Originally Posted by octolina

And I disagree with her looking the same as before in the behind the scenes stuff. She looks weird in the count down live 2008/09 behind the scenes and just about all the time now.

I agree with this, as well. Her videos and behind the scenes show the same nose as in her photoshoots. Noses can be photoshopped in pictures but not videos.


Whatever, though; this isn't a thread about whether she got surgery or not.

I do think that her dress in the last picture is gorgeous, though. I want it.

[hidekirby]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Actually, people thought she got a nosejob before that.. like way before that.. haha. So, I dunno what changed for people haha. Though I don't think it's really something that's actually happened.. if you look at her behind the scenes and all that, she looks the same as she always has.

I can't agree more. I just don't understand people who see surgery job every now and then
The fact is she's always changing her appearance... If you see her backstage and so on you will see she is still the same...

As regards te photoshoot, I don't like this dead expression. Boring as always. But I like the way she is trying to be more natural, less like an alien or plastic monster.
Yet, why are people saying she is not ayu... ayu is like that actually (minus crazy opened eyes and fish mouth). Look at ayu-mi-x acoustic orchestra cover & photoshoot... she is still the same (yeah of course she is aging).

[HanabiChick]

Ayu's been looking dead/emotionless in her expressions for quite a while now, and it's something I've come to expect with these type of shoots, but in this one it looks like she's trying too hard to look half her age and the result is that she only looks like herself in one of the pics. When she's not trying to look younger, she actually looks better.

[truehappiness]

I feel as though she should just.. vary it up a little. Don't use the same guy for every photoshoot. He's had the same guy shoot everything for the last 2 years, which is people [like me] are kind of not expecting much from photoshoots nowadays, haha.

[Diana]

Ok.. very bad!! Same expression, hair doesnt suit her (at all) and ugly outfits.. But, thank you for scans, of course..

[agashi]

i think that photo is nice...

[nemesisyume]

funny how soo many other kazuyoshi photoshoots are really nice
not just ayu

[agashi]

Originally Posted by nemesisyume

funny how soo many other kazuyoshi photoshoots are really nice
not just ayu

agree!! maybe ayu;s enemy paid kazuyoshi to make all ayu's photo look so bad... kazuyoshi used hypnotist??

[love in music]

really though, how long will she keep using him as a photographer? it's every single photo shoot now. she has to change it up sometime.. right? someone give me some hope LOL

[yuki_unmei]

ok.. this photoshoot scared me a little, lol
i think Mika should do more of her photos..

[yamadashun]

am i the only one who likes these pics??

i think a less-makeup ayu looks younger and fresh~
and the brownish color series is done very good as well.