Free & Easy Hamasaki Republic?

[IYFreak]

Where can I purchase this book was it limited edition or something. Cause I see this other Japanese magazine called "Free & Easy" with the same font so does anyone know where I can get this?

[immel]

It's only obtainable through auction sites.

Try eBay, I got mine for like $15 half a year ago or so. It's quite common there.

If it was limited? Depends on how you look at it. Sooner or later everything is limited, considering that they stop making new copies eventually.

[IYFreak]

so then when it was first released where was it sold?

[immel]

The date on the back of my copy says 2002/6/22, so summer 2002 it seems.

I think it was sold during Stadium Tour 2002, but I'm very very very very unsure about that, let's wait for some expert.

The magazine is quite boring, there isn't too many Ayu pictures in it and they're not too pretty, there's an interview and tons of ads.

[IYFreak]

yeah I saw it I just thought it would be a great Ayu product to collect though

[Delirium-Zer0]

It actually is the first issue of a magazine. They giant-sized it and made it an ayumi hamasaki special. But it's a magazine, not a photobook, which is a VERY common misconception. It was available on newsstands for however long the duration is for this magazine to be on the stands (judging from the date, it's a weekly publication). So it's really hard to find, and auction sites are really the only way to get it now.

[IYFreak]

I knew it cause in my japanese store I see a magazine called Free & Easy all the time it made me wonder.So I'll keep checking at book-off

[immel]

Thanks Deli.

You should write an Ayu dictionary. You'd be rich.

So the magazine is actually called Free & Easy?

[Delirium-Zer0]

Yup. The magazine IS called that. I doubt it's cuz of ayu, probably a coincidence that their magazine called Free & Easy started when ayu's single called Free & Easy was released (might have been why they decided to make their first issue an ayu special though).