Ayu in Mika's Blog - November 8th, 2008

[Delirium-Zer0]

Here's my translation of Mikajohn's blog entry, the one that ayu says made her cry. It's quite nice.

Here's a link to the original entry: http://www.1oven.com/mika_noguchi/ar...our_final.html

ASIA TOUR FINAL


(Ayu photo)
This person's face is a natural gift.
Look at it well, even in this trifle of a photo, her eyes are sparkling.
The one who gave birth to this performer can say proudly that they did.



Ayu has safely finished her Asia Tour.
Before this, Japan's girl was already burdened with the living thing known as a "live", and now has been able to conquer Asia.

This 1 year has brought Ayu has had 32 live shows,
& her 30th birthday,
& her 10th anniversary...

And through all of it, she hasn't had a huge celebration until now, in the final country of Taiwan, she had a huge party.

I helped in the coordination of it.



(red carpet photo)
An absolute requirement. The red carpet.

(roped-off crowd & dancers photos)
In accordance with the Princess's idea, instead of there being a dress code, red bow ties were handed out.

(bar, food, decorations, wine)
This was kindly provided by the folks at Wacoal. Xie Xie.

(Ayu & Shuya)
Our lead actress (Ayumi Hamasaki) makes her appearance!!

(Ayu's manager & Mikajohn on stage)
The combination of Mikajohn (Stage Mama) and Hasshii (Ayu's manager) were appointed as leaders of the proceedings.

(Ayu bowing)
With a striking bow of her head, the Princess repeatedly thanks everyone.
Her words, "...Even to all the staff who couldn't be here tonight, I give my sincere gratitude." were very moving.
Yes, the fact is that at this moment in this venue, there were more than a hundred people in touch with each other, working on the event.

(Mikajohn on couch, talking)
Interviewing Nao-kun, who cried during the encore.

Afterwards, I had a word one at a time with each of the band members, dancers, everyone.

(yay party)
A-a.

(yay more party)
I omitted the beginning.
The party begins.
Of course the start of it was Go-Mi sensei (dancer) removing clothes.

(HAHAHAHA more party.)
(Party meets Mikajohn.)
Even Gori (Makeup) stripped down.
Why this sort of delighted look....?

(CRAZy crowd on stage)
This right here, try to escape it.

(Mikajohn & the DJ)
DJ.EMMA, Yeeaaaahh~~~~!!!
He was brought all the way from japan especially for this event.
How extravagant!

(Dancing with light sticks!)
(More dancing with light sticks!)
Eh?? Whats with the afro...

(more dancing with light sticks!)
Is that Takahashi from ZACC?!?!?!?!???（￣□￣; ）!!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.

(...over to the left, if you look closely, you see the drummer sleeping.)

(Mikajohn & a dude)
I'm doing pretty well, Gyou-san (ayu's manager) is flirting with me!

(...and in the background you can see the drummer Eguchi, sinking down completelyyyyy....)







...................





..........8 hours pass.




The next morning, we leave the hotel & head for the airport to head back home to Japan.

(Ayu sleeping in the car)

The princess is in the car, unable to be woken up because she's sleeping so soundly.
On the highway, even fans' cars are passing right by us.

Hundreds of fans seeing ayu off have been kind enough to wait for her at the airport.

(Car)
It seems that this artist popular around the world is being seen off even while still in the car.







Extra.


(Airport - running person)
Why are these people in such a rush?


(Ayu in yellow)
This is from when we were on our way home from the trip to Hong Kong.
The airport terminal was huge.
We must have run for 1 kilometer or more.
Rude to the cart~.


Stan (ayu's bodyguard) took the photos, this was his favorite shot.
The dynamic sleepy duo.

(hotel room with photo lighting)
Ayu and I can never be defeated.
Peach John also finally decides to advance into Asia.
December 5th, one Hong Kong location will be open!!
For that reason, ayu practiced for our PR (lol), and during that,
we received various collected data.

After this, there'll be tons of end-year progress made.
Ayu, good luck to you - wish me luck too!

[pommy48]

ah thanks for this~ kinda see ayu in a whole other light now
kinda made me cry too..and due the fact that i'm listening to theme of a-nation '03, and the song is sad

[emi♡]

ahh that was great!

Thank you Deli!!!

I love her little cherry blanket...wonder where she got it...

[ayumisrael]

Awww mika sounds so cool!
She really likes ayu (well, best friends!).

Thanks!

[ren0210989]

wow, that sure was one awesome blog entery!!!
i can see why Ayu cried TT_TT

[stardusties]

:3 gawd she's sooo cute ^________^ I love the pictures especially the one with all of the logos!!!! Can some on name them all for me? I'm not sure of them exc ept for the m(u) one, the general one, and the one for this year

[Delirium-Zer0]

Originally Posted by stardusties

:3 gawd she's sooo cute ^________^ I love the pictures especially the one with all of the logos!!!! Can some on name them all for me? I'm not sure of them exc ept for the m(u) one, the general one, and the one for this year

Clockwise from the one squished way off in the background:
Arena Tour 2002, Stadium Tour 2002, A museum, MY STORY, (miss)understood, CDL 06-07, and the general one. And the big 10th anniversary one in the middle.

[Yoake]

thanks for sharing

[Bigtop]

Thanks for sharing!

[kirei_ayumi]

wow, eguchi was pretty tired, huh?! thanks for sharing!

[MissElin_]

THANKS once again Deli!!!

Very fun to read all this. And wow it must have taken som time for Mika to put down all those words. I want to see the Ayu sleeping in the car pic. ^^ *Runs to the blog*

Naaah I love her little sleeping blanket. Looks very cozy! ^^

[crea_spain]

Thank you for sharing Deli!

Mikajohn♥ is really a very nice person, anyone here can post a picture of her? thx =)

[pUrpLeSn0w]

thanks delirium-zer0!!! u've updated so much of blogs!!! tough work but thanks!!!!!!!!! (^_^)b


the food looks yummy~
the people are having great fun~~
the decorationz are eye-ooooooglinnnnnnng~~~~


awwwwww i wished i was there~~~~~~~~

[jbrat2219]

Mika's blog isnt' working for me so I was unable to see the pictures D:

Thanks for translating though <333

[AyuGAME]

thanks for posting it
want to see the pics

[taskinillusion]

Thanks for translating!! It's so great to hear about everything they did.

[thesilentspeaker]

Thanks for the translation~~ geez, eguchi must be damn tired~ he actually fell asleep during the party, with all the music gg on and the people making noise... lols~ I see tht her bodyguard had also stripped!! lols~ *looking at him in a different light already* the disco-party animal- bodyguard~~ lols

[stef_gal]

Thanks for the translation

i understand why Ayu cried after reading the blog entry...
IT'S SOOO TOUCHING!!!!

[kuri♥ayu]

thanks again for translating <3

what a party! lol

[k21sh3n]

many many thanks for the translation~~~~