#ayu news

[ayuvogue]

Ayumi Hamasaki x Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon collaboration!

Leading up to her New Year's eve concert, Ayumi Hamasaki has announced two collaborations, the first of which is Sailor Moon! The "dream" Sailor Moon collaboration features original art by Naoko Takeuchi portraying Sailor Moon and Ayu back to back on the set of her "BYE-BYE" music video, as well as two unique Ayupan designs. The illustration and Ayupan will be available on a series of goods at both the concert venue and online.

In addition to the above goods currently available to order from mu-mo, there will be a selection of gacha prizes only available at the venue

[ayumitsuu]

Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧 🐉

[hotwaterandmilk]

Ultra Maniac by Yoshizumi Wataru (Vol. 2, VIZ Media 2005)

[emcapi-gaming]

Well. I was just thinking about my as-yet unnamed Hrothgal and her tragic lack of naming and had a sudden moment of very stupid inspiration:

As-Yet Unnamed.

Ayu.

It's... actually a really good name.

[artifedexx]

Happy 25th anniversary this year Kanon! (and a congrats for finally getting an official TL!)

[ayuminamieworld]

preview of ayu's new song 「Aurora」

theme song of アズールレーン (Azur Lane) 7th anniversary.

Available on May 21

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Print:

💖LDK, Volume 19-20💖 By Ayu Watanabe

❣️Shusei & Aoi threaten to shake the foundation of their once peaceful cohabitation! Will all three of them be able to agree, or will their love force them apart?

Available wherever you buy manga!

[alyalila]

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[borobudurnews]

Siapakan Sosok Ayu Ozawa, Seorang TKW yang Videonya Tak Senonohnya Viral

BNews–NASIONAL– Baru bari viral sosok perempuan bernama Ayu Ozawa. Dimana videonya viral di media sosial dengan memperlihatkan aksi tidak senonohnya. Lantas, siapa Ayu Ozawa TKW Taiwan viral saat ini? Berikut biodata Ayu Ozawa TKW viral yang diduga lupa matikan live Tiktok padahal lagi ‘melayani’ majikan. Biodata Ayu Ozawa Nama beken: Ayu Ozawa Nama asli: belum diketahui Umur: mengaku…

[empty-movement]

Empty Movement's 2023 Revolutionary Girl Utena UPDATE

Fashionably late? As always. 2023 was a HUGE year for Empty Movement, so much so that to confess, we did a big fail in actually keeping up with sharing the stuff we did! OOPS. So finally, we proudly bring you: all the Revolutionary Girl Utena content we dropped in 2023. Essays, artbooks, CD information, you name it. Click below for the entire site update, or get it at the source, as always, at ohtori.nu.

In Analysis (Fan Essays): • seebee's essay The Power of Living an Embodying Narrative is about more than Utena, it's about the fandom--including us. We were both interviewed for this piece, and the result is an absolutely beautiful essay that has helped inform how we do Utena stuff going forward. Thank you so much for letting us be part of this! • seebee's VIDEO essay FILM CUTS BACK | transfeminism in utena absolutely blew our minds and it's so good we're listing it. Look at the title. Just go watch it, it rules. • Nicole Winchester's essay No Choice But To Become Witches: The Bishōjo-Demonic Phallic Mother Dichotomy in Revolutionary Girl Utena catches you up to speed on the academic discussion around what might best be described as the shoujo manga iteration of the Madonna-Whore complex. Then, naturally, it finds plenty to say about Utena. Great work that was well worth the coding!

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In From the Mouths of Babes (Translated Meta/Creator Content): • Cross X Talk, A Round Table Discussion Commemorating the Second Musical Utena GOGAI FUCKIN' GOGAI. Nagumo and friends bring us the final untranslated part of the 2019 Black Rose Musical's program guide: the monster interview with Ikuhara and the director of the musicals, Yoshitani. INCREDIBLE content here that 100% lives up to the first musical's similar encounter! A must read!! • The Rose Apocalypse's Ei Takatori Interview The director of the mysterious 1999 musical (yes the machine gun one, and YES WE HAVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IT COMING) interviewed in The Rose Apocalypse book. This...is that. Thank you so much to iris hahn for translating, and I can't wait to bring you more of this mythology!!! • The Utena Dossier Animage Magazine's June 1997 supplemental, this 36-page Utena tome has ben translated by Nagumo with editing by Ayu Ohseki. Because so much of the content is in its visual presentation, I worked the translation into the original scans! Check it out! (PS. Yes that is an entirely different gallery on the emptymovement.com domain, no this won't stay there, yes it has been a weird couple years.) The Dossier includes two long interviews that are also worked into html pages for easy viewing! The Auspicious Joining of Manga and Anime: Saito and Hasegawa For Whom the Director Smiles: Ikuhara and Kitakubo

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In Historia Arcana & The Bibliothèque (Untranslated Resources): • There are a lot of changes happening in this arena!!! How and where to place different materials has been a moving target, so I'll do my best! The sites don't quite reflect this yet, but Historia Arcana will be for cover to cover Utena media, including special magazine publications. Something Eternal's gallery, the Bibliothèque, will be for magazine articles, clippings, and other things. Major artbooks will likely be in both places, cross referenced. New books in Historia Arcana: • The Rose Spiral: Reflections on the Mythology of Utena While not strictly official, this is a fan published book of in depth analysis of Utena, circa 1998! Yep, cover to cover. • Revolution Dictionary (OST 1 First Press Bonus) Cross-referenced from Audiology, this is the bonus dictionary you only got if you grabbed it early! Cool! • Revolutionary Girl Utena Making of Visuals Book Art of UTENA I am mentioning this for completions sake and because I already uploaded it, but this is a cover to cover high resolution, uncleaned scan of the 1999 Art of Utena artbook. I am going to clean the scans, and ultimately be posting the official artbooks elsewhere. • Revolutionary Girl Utena Photobook: Rose Memories This special Animage bonus could be purchased for 700 yen, and back then, was probably a great way to keep the anime in your pocket! It's entirely shots from the TV series, though, so there's nothing specifically new. But I scan it all, baby. New books in the Bibliothèque: • Chiho Saito's 1999 Revolutionary Girl Utena Original Illustration Collection HI THIS IS A VERY BIG DEAL. Read more about why when you visit! TLDR? Here's some of the best artwork of Utena, rescanned and remastered by yours truly to be the best big big scans of big big beautiful Chiho Saito Art. This is a feast. I even made myself a calendar! (Note that the price is such that I don't make a profit on these, so if you're looking to donate, definitely go by other routes, haha.) You will find multiple ways to obtain the scans, and in more than one size. Either way you soak up the rays, enjoy 'em! New articles and clips in the Bibliothèque: • H! Rockin' on Japan Magazine Saito X Oikawa This fashion music magazine's July 1999 article has ALREADY BEEN TRANSLATED? Like, I am going to add the translation officially to the site of course, but holy hell Nagumo is amazing!! This article is actually the origin of a Saito art piece that uh, well. Now we know she went to a love hotel with movie Akio's VA. Cool! Anyway check it out! • Comickers Magazine, August 1997 This absolute monster find is an industry-focused magazine with this gorgeous spread and interview with Chiho Saito. It gets into how she does things. The making of Utena. All kinds of stuff. I'd LOVE to know more about this one!! • Comickers Magazine, June 1998 Again, an industry-focused publication, this time it's exploring the manga and the anime and how they compare. Again looks like a tasty meal!! • Volks Magazine, Spring 2022 YEP SCANS OF THE BOOK OF THE DOLLFIES. For a lot of us, this is at close as we get to these ludicrously gorgeous dolls. I included a few extra pages because they were just fuckin' cool and felt relevant. • Sega Saturn Magazine, December 1997 One of two grabs I got recently on Yahoo! Japan! This appears to be the first look announcement of the 1998 Utena video game! (Yes we have more on it, yes we will eventually post links.) • Sega Saturn Magazine, April 1998 This feature brings attention to the voice actors, who are all returning for the game! • Dengeki G's Magazine, January 1998 Another gaming focused magazine, with frankly a more adult edge, cheaply lets the readers know about Utena. These three game magazine moments are just a bizarre reminder of how we did things before the internet, LMAO

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In Audiology (Music and CD Information): • Complete information about the STAR CHILD - Girls Character Song Best album! You also definitely can't grab the two new remix tracks there. • Did you know there was a first press bonus dictionary for the first OST? I DIDN'T UNTIL RECENTLY. Now I know all about it, and so can you. Check it out! Obviously, scans available, both here and in Historia Arcana. • I FINALLY acquired a complete set of the Utena CD singles!! Check out complete track lists, scans, and information for ALL FIVE Utena singles. Yes. Including the movie Akio guy's one.

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In The Doujinshi Gallery: • Several dozen dounjinshi were uploaded earlier in the year, and can be found listed on the Site Update archive here.

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That's all for now, folks! There's so so so much coming. I have the episode 18 and 20 (!!!!) storyboards to scan, as well as a fully translated scanlation of The Duelist Bible. We're planning to do something for Anthy's rare LEAP YEAR birthday coming up, probably a musical stream or something! Love!

[ayuvogue]

Ayumi Hamasaki performed at a-nation 2024, the first ever a-nation to be livestreamed for free on Youtube! This was also the first a-nation since 2011 where Ayu did not close the show--like in 2011, that honor went to TVXQ--but she had a robust summer setlist as the penultimate performer of the night.

Boys & Girls

Fly high

Fairyland  

HANABI 

ANother Song (w/ Naoya Urata)

Greatful Days

WOW WAR TONIGHT (w/ Naoya Urata)

glitter 

You & Me

evolution 

BLUE BIRD

July 1st

The initial stream was not preserved on Youtube, but it is possible Avex will re-upload highlights like they did in 2020. They've already issued a setlist playlist for the entire concert on Apple Music and Spotify.

Ayu kicks off her limited fan club tour in Tokyo tomorrow.

[oldschool-lolita-archive]

A lolita at club Eve the New Church and Ayu at Yoyogi park wear Baby’s scalloped hem op in black x white.

Example image via this mercari listing.

[soulofzurvan]

Doodledump November 2024

Cuda and Lycan lore

An Ivo and more Cuda lore

New Character concept - The Collector

Quinn and Ayu lore

Quinn and pinktrashgoblins Dak interactions, because I love the docs. Hi pink btw

[satoshi-mochida]

Classic Key Visual Novel ‘Kanon’ English Release Announced

From Noisy Pixel

Visual Arts/Key has announced an English release for Kanon. The classic game was Key’s first title back in 1999 and started the brand. It’ll come to PC via Steam but no release window was revealed.

Kanon tells the story of Yuichi Aizawa, a young man staying at his aunt's after his parents moved overseas. Seven years have passed since he was last in this town and his memories of back then are fuzzy.

On the day he moves, a young girl called Ayu Tsukimiya bumps into him. Later, he will get to know other girls who’ll become important in his life, including his cousin, Nayuki Minase, who studies in the same class as him.

Kanon had a recent Switch release by Prototype but that edition was only available in Japanese. This new Steam release marks the first time in 25 years that the game will have English subtitles as an option.

Kanon was Key’s debut title, with Jun Maeda at the helm of Makoto’s, Mai’s and Sayuri’s routes while Naoki Hisaya handled the others. The duo had also worked together on MOON. and ONE, and are well-known for their relevance in establishing the nakige genre (visual novels that pull at your heartstrings).

[white-cat-of-doom]

New character portraits from Japan as they get ready for opening night in Shizuoka tomorrow, 17 July 2024!

Kanako Fujiwara as Sillabub.

Ayaka Yoshida as Jellylorum.

Yukako Shingu as Jemima.

Nanako Yoshimura as Victoria.

Namiko Hanada as Jennyanydots.

Akane Aihara as Demeter.

Haruka Yamazaki as Bombalurina.

Rika Takeshita as Tantomile.

Ayu Shimizu as Rumpleteazer.

Ryudo Tsutaki as Mungojerrie.

Kyomi Ishibashi as Cassandra.

Junpei Sano as Tumblebrutus.

Miki Kanehara as Grizabella.

Yuto Tanaka as Mistoffelees.

Yujin Haga as Gilbert.

Suguru Fuminaga as Macavity.

Junpei Wakebe as Munkustrap.

Kazuki Kanemoto as Old Deuteronomy.

Seiji Hashimoto as Bustopher Jones and Gus.

Masaru Kitamura as Rum Tum Tugger.

Kaisaer Tatike as Skimbleshanks.

Shuichi Kawazu as Carbucketty.

Ryujiro Isshiki as Coricopat.

All photos from the previous stop in Nagoya, which took place between July 2022 and May 2024.

[capesch-arts]

*gasp*

You have OCs??? Who are they? What's their story? :O

If it was not already clear, I'm new here :P

The two main OCs are Ayu (FL) and Samael (ML)! I have most of their lore posted on Instagram.

The story revolves around the two, trying to work together to find a cult who stole Samael's power! After a failed mission on Ayu's part, she was knocked into a 2-year coma and woke up with Samael sealed away within her. The two now need to work together to break their bond apart, and also reclaim Samael's power from the Cult of Divine Mortals.

As time goes on, the two become very close and fall in love with each other! (But this part is veryyy slow burn lol!)