Ayu got engaged today! (12/12/2013)

[truehappiness]

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...000046-dal-ent

Looks like it's a guy who is attending medical school at UCLA as a graduate student. He's also 10 years younger than her. The guy we saw before? I think they met via Christophe and they started dating in the spring of this year.. She posted about it in TeamAyu. SHE IS NOT PREGNANT.

From AnimeNewsNetwork:

The official fan club of Ayumi Hamasaki announced on Friday that the 35-year-old singer is engaged to a 25-year-old male medical student at the University of California, Los Angeles. She added to her fans, "As my partner is an ordinary student, I would be very happy if you could watch over us quietly."

The couple had gotten engaged on Thursday. According to a source linked to Hamasaki, she is not pregnant. The two had met during the New Year's holidays through a friend, and began dating around spring.

Hamasaki had told fans that she had married Manuel Schwarz, an Austrian actor living in America, in Las Vegas on January 1, 2011 (about four months after meeting him). However, she announced a year later in January 2012 that she had gotten divorced. Hamasaki had not registered her marriage with Schwarz in Japan, so her upcoming marriage with the medical student would be considered her first in Japan.

Hamasaki had just shot a music video for her song "Feel the Love" in Los Angeles with DJ Hello Kitty:


Hamansaki is also writing and singing the "Pray" theme song for Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Buddha ~Owarinaki Tabi~, the second film in the planned trilogy based on the late Osamu Tezuka's Buddha manga. It will be Hamasaki's first theme song for an anime film since her "No More Words" song for Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time in 2001, and only her seventh theme song for any film, live-action or anime.

Hamasaki contributed theme songs to the Inuyasha television anime series, the live-action film SHINOBI - Heart Under Blade, and the live-action Dragonball: Evolution film. She played Yuri Sakazaki in the original anime video Art of Fighting (Battle Spirits Ryuko no Ken), and her "Connected" song inspired an animated music video.

Sources: Daily Sports, Nikkan Sports via 0takomu

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...edical-student

Spoiler:

I believe this is the guy we think is the boyfriend/future husband? Due to the time frame, I think he's probably met her mom, Mariko, too.

歌手の浜崎あゆみ（３５）が“再婚”することを１３日、ファンクラブ「Ｔｅａｍ　Ａｙｕ」のサイトで発表し た。お相手は、ＵＣＬＡの医学部に通う大学院生。関係者によれば、浜崎は１２日に米ロサンゼルスに向かい、 ２人で婚約の手続きを取ったという。妊娠はしていないという。

　浜崎はファンに向け、「ワタクシＬＡ時間の本日、１２月１２日に婚約いたしましたぁ♪ワン、ツー♪ワン、 ツー♪」と報告。「相方さんは、大学院で医学部に通う一般の生徒さんなので、ひっそり静かに見守っていただ けると嬉しいです。」と喜んだ顔文字入りでメッセージを発信した。

　関係者によれば、今年の正月休みに友人の紹介で出会い、春ごろから交際を開始したという。今月１２日、現 地での婚約手続きにより、フィアンセＶＩＳＡを与えられた。時期は未定だが、近々にも正式な婚姻届を提出す るようだ。

The article also mentions things about her catastrophe with Maro.

[AyuWorld]

thanx for the thread!

i have this feeling already when she showed her 2 rings on the covers, like hint, hint, hint

[jang-kun]

ENGAGED again



prepare for meltdowns, hey

[kagami]

Whoa...Ayu really does like to jump into things huh. Well, I wish her all the best. She deserves a stable and loving relationship.

[~angel*ayumi~]

Originally Posted by AyuWorld

thanx for the thread!

i have this feeling already when she showed her 2 rings on the covers, like hint, hint, hint

They engaged yesterday, so i doubt that on the cober is her engagement ring.
btw was she engaged with Maro? Because with Mannie she technically wasn´t becuse they did a rush wedding o.o

[truehappiness]

She was not engaged to Maro. They were just dating.

They've been dating longer than she did for Mannie or Maro so....

[mecury2511]

I'm curious about this guy... Hope he comes to her not for money...

[rainbow_smile]

I don't mind her getting married as long as she finds her true love and is happy. But omg, girl rushes things all the time. Doesn't seem like she started dating this guy too long ago? None of my business to judge her personal life. But just before the single release? Again? This sounds a bit fishy

[AyuWorld]

Originally Posted by ~angel*ayumi~

They engaged yesterday, so i doubt that on the cober is her engagement ring.
btw was she engaged with Maro? Because with Mannie she technically wasn´t becuse they did a rush wedding o.o

yes i know,but its kinda give this engagement feeling for me xD

but really,people gonna say this is another news to promote her new single,why must be almost end of the year too ayu...

[truehappiness]

This is HORRIBLE TIMING. It's always around November/December or around a release. Ayu, if you are going to announce this, at least do it after the single comes out, ahhhhhhhh.

[ayuuk]

Why am I having the feeling that this will alienate more fans??

[truehappiness]

Honestly, I don't know...

It probably won't be like with Maro since people will want her to find love, but still... aye.

[waterballoon]

-_-|| seriously I'm so over her personal life. she never learns does she...

oh well I'll just be jamming to the new single

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Hey, Ayu.

Here's a dating tip...
Not every relationship needs to end in marriage...

Blah. I don't really care but it's just really weird. She must really want to be attached to someone.

[pommy48]

I kinda wish she was pregnant, so maybe this marriage could actually last

But congratulations to her....I hope her new found love will make her more inspired
Or not since she'll be busy shacking up

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Hey, Ayu.

Here's a dating tip...
Not every relationship needs to end in marriage...

Blah. I don't really care but it's just really weird. She must really want to be attached to someone.

Well, keep in mind that she had that whole "I'm on a journey for love" thing during Voyage.

And they have been dating for almost a year, I guess...? He must really make her happy. No wonder why she is all over LA lately.

I wish her happiness, but she needs to stop doing this around the end of the year and/or around releases.

[AyuWorld]

Originally Posted by waterballoon

-_-|| seriously I'm so over her personal life. she never learns does she...

oh well I'll just be jamming to the new single

playing Merry-go-round headache aaahhh

i mean i want to be happy,but it seems like a tradition for her,why cant she wait until the single being released or what

really bad timing, im just happy for her new single and Pray and now oh Ayu

[ayuuk]

Some Japanese are wondering... Mannie and Ayu's divorce is because Ayu doesn't want to leave Japan... but why now all this featuring LA (her home, and Majesty photos etc) and then engagement with an American??

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by ayuuk

Some Japanese are wondering... Mannie and Ayu's divorce is because Ayu doesn't want to leave Japan... but why now all this featuring LA (her home, and Majesty photos etc) and then engagement with an American??

I think that was just at the time. It was bad timing, really. (staying in Japan when they need her)

She's had overseas photoshoots all the time, it's just that now she also lives in LA.

[Larien]

Originally Posted by rainbow_smile

I don't mind her getting married as long as she finds her true love and is happy. But omg, girl rushes things all the time. Doesn't seem like she started dating this guy too long ago? None of my business to judge her personal life. But just before the single release? Again? This sounds a bit fishy

You know, I think it's weird, too, but I wonder if it's not simply social pressure--somewhat ironic, given that her partner is assumedly American (?). But still, almost every single Japanese girl I know in her twenties is sweating heavily about the prospect of getting married ASAP. Men as well, actually. :-/