Ayu's blood

Although the thought never occured to me until reading a post in the Enquiries forum today. The discussion was on why Ayu's videos had such an American style, why she had so many American people in her videos, and why she so frequently goes to America.

A member mentioned how Ayu was born in Fukuoka, a town with a high American population due to US military bases and activity.

It was also restated that Ayu's father left she and her mother when she was very young. Nobody knows anything about him, really, just that Ayu (for quite some time as seen in her lyrics) was not very crazy about him for having left.

Another strange account is how Ayu's mother, she has said, always wanted Ayu to call her the American-English "Mommy", as opposed to a Japanese name for a mother.

Obviously Ayu does have some naturally Asian features, and her hair and eyes are naturally dark, despite all the color changes she likes to create. But it's funny: a lot of my friends have seen pictures of her lying around, and they have not known that she was asian. They thought she was just "exotically white".

Myself, now I quite think it is an entire possibility that Ayu could be half-Japanese, half-American.

I feel like it might also explain her hyper-affinity for all things American. Aditionally, if her father was American, it may also speak words about why, pre-RAINBOW-forgiving-my-angry-and-sad-past, Ayu prefered sticking to all-Japanese lyrics. But strangely, she had almost entirely English titles.

Of course, that would get entirely psychoanalytical, which nobody here can do without (a) having proper training and (b) personally having a revealing interview with Ayu. But I thought it would be fun and interesting to speculate.

Thoughts, conversation, speculation, suggestions...