Ayumi Hamasaki Marrying an FG?

[Mulboyne]

[Greji]

This ZAKZAK report (Japanese) says that an article last week in Shukan Bunshun suggested that Ayumi Hamasaki was engaged to a foreigner.-snip-A "source close to Hamasaki" speculates that the two are good friends but hints that she met him in Shinjuku's 2-chome gay bars, where she often goes, which suggests his interests lie elsewhere.

She wouldn't be the first to try that. Didn't that Olympic runner, Arimori, marry a switch hitter?

[dingosatemybaby]

This ZAKZAK report (Japanese) says that an article last week in Shukan Bunshun suggested that Ayumi Hamasaki was engaged to a foreigner.-snip-A "source close to Hamasaki" speculates that the two are good friends but hints that she met him in Shinjuku's 2-chome gay bars, where she often goes, which suggests his interests lie elsewhere.

She wouldn't be the first to try that. Didn't that Olympic runner, Arimori, marry a switch hitter?

Glad I'm not the only one who remembers Arimori. She was a babe, and her husband was only slightly less blatantly gay than Nathan Lane. Man, what a waste. I assume she got divorced, but I've never read any follow-up stories (because they don't exist in Japan).

[Greener]

What is with these women? Have they been watching reruns of Will & Grace for so long that they've lost their sense of reality? Don't marry a fag with the hopes that he will see your crotch and think he's "seen the light!" Not going to happen.

Marry sexybeasts like ME! Chicks dig me... don't they?

Great, now I'm depressed!

[etto_neh]

For a while there, around the time I first saw Ayu's Evolution vid, I woulda torched a children's hospital if she asked... but then I came to Japan and saw her as a guest on London Boots or whatever vomit-inducing show it was...

And the task was something like 'Draw a dolphin.'.. So she concentrates for a second, looks up, and says something. My Japanese friend begins to crack up, and says "She just asked if dolphins have fingers."

[oyajikun]

For a while there, around the time I first saw Ayu's Evolution vid, I woulda torched a children's hospital if she asked... but then I came to Japan and saw her as a guest on London Boots or whatever vomit-inducing show it was...

And the task was something like 'Draw a dolphin.'.. So she concentrates for a second, looks up, and says something. My Japanese friend begins to crack up, and says "She just asked if dolphins have fingers."

What was the answer? :S

[dingosatemybaby]

For a while there, around the time I first saw Ayu's Evolution vid, I woulda torched a children's hospital if she asked... but then I came to Japan and saw her as a guest on London Boots or whatever vomit-inducing show it was...

And the task was something like 'Draw a dolphin.'.. So she concentrates for a second, looks up, and says something. My Japanese friend begins to crack up, and says "She just asked if dolphins have fingers."

In the annals of J-idol vapidness, a close second would have to be the time when Ryoko Hirosue (remember her?) was shown that mouse that had had a genetically-engineered human-like ear attached to its back. A somewhat unsettling image, but Hirosue just asked, "Can it hear through that ear?"

[Greener]

For a while there, around the time I first saw Ayu's Evolution vid, I woulda torched a children's hospital if she asked... but then I came to Japan and saw her as a guest on London Boots or whatever vomit-inducing show it was...

And the task was something like 'Draw a dolphin.'.. So she concentrates for a second, looks up, and says something. My Japanese friend begins to crack up, and says "She just asked if dolphins have fingers."

Nobody said Ayumi was the brightest bulb on the Christmas Tree...

[ichigo partygirl]

Please can this be true?????? If she gets married and maybe gets up the duff then she wont sing so much. THat would be lovely.

[Neo-Rio]

What is with these women? Have they been watching reruns of Will & Grace for so long that they've lost their sense of reality? Don't marry a fag with the hopes that he will see your crotch and think he's "seen the light!" Not going to happen.

Well, she needs a guy who will cater to her emotional needs and won't try to sleep with her. He needs for for almost the same reason - gay men are always getting upset with each other, plus he needs a nurse should he get aids.

[canman]

[Greener]

What is with these women? Have they been watching reruns of Will & Grace for so long that they've lost their sense of reality? Don't marry a fag with the hopes that he will see your crotch and think he's "seen the light!" Not going to happen.

Well, she needs a guy who will cater to her emotional needs and won't try to sleep with her. He needs for for almost the same reason - gay men are always getting upset with each other, plus he needs a nurse should he get aids.

Nah, I think her ego is out of control at this point. She's out to prove, "she's so hot she can make a fag change sides!" Honey, you're sorta hot but nowhere near as hot as you think you are...

[Greener]

My take on all of this: she has had enough with the Japan Inc. Pop Idol machine and is simply "buying" a green card so she can then go to the promised land "AMERIIKA" and launch her new Engrish Billboard smash hit "SAYONARA JAPAN." This will not be missed by the Japanese Inc. Media Machine and neither will her eventual fall from grace when she fails to produce another follow up hit and eventually returns to the Land of the Rising Sun by herself and immediately launches a nation-wide all-time best seller hit with the sad, teary-eyed and apologetic "GOMEN NE, NARITA RIKKON DE" which will then put her back up on the top of J-Pops and earn her national forgiveness. You got to love it, especially, when she goes on all the Wide shows and complains about how much life in America sucks and how she suffered so much from a sexless marriage to a gay dude!!!

Stay tuned!

She's not that hot to me but she clearly needs my Big Valboski!

[fatslug]

Ayumi hamasaki for me is the ugliest bitch that is famous !

I really dont understand how ppl like this bitch ! Her eyes are bigger than my ass ! Fucken wake up to yourselves !!!!!!!!

[sillygirl]

Annoying minger. Thinks she's all that and an onigiri...

Q: Did Ayumi have cosmetic surgery?
A: A lot of Western fans seem preoccupied with whether Ayumi has had cosmetic surgery performed, particularly on her eyes. There is no definitive answer to this question, all I can tell you is that Ayumi has never addressed this topic publically and no one "in the know" has ever confirmed or denied anything.

http://www.hamasaki-republic.org/faq.shtml

[Mulboyne]

[IkemenTommy]

She's at the height of her career. She's probably calling quits with her music career and move on. If she tries to reach out to her fans and continue with music AFTER getting married like Utada, then she will nose dive for sure. She could mind as well kiss all those Panasonic ads good-bye as well. Yeah.. those Shibuya gyarus are weaping for losing their spokeswoman.

[Mulboyne]

Here's Marxy's take on it from his Neomarxisme blog:

1) Johnny's Jimusho has secret deals with the other big jimushos to create media stories that Johnny's male idols are dating the top ranked female idols. At almost every time, the biggest selling female idol "coincidentally" happens to be dating one of Johnny's stars. But they're not really dating, and that's why some of the ladies end up marrying other people out of the blue to everyone's great surprise. Clearly, Avex had made the same deal with JJ, setting up Hamasaki with Nagase from TOKIO for show purposes.

2) So, huge egg on everyone's face when Shukan Bunshun comes out with the news that Hamasaki Ayumi is actually dating a non-geinoujin American - not Nagase - and the engagement suggests that the Nagase has been off for a while, even though the media was pretending it was on.

3) Avex freaks out because a) Johnny's sees this as Avex's problem to be cleaned up and b) they don't want this development to affect the sales of their biggest artist.

4) Immediately, Avex goes into disinformation mode, warns all the networks and papers not to report the engagement story, an order to which the media of course obliges.

5) Finally, when the story "breaks" in the mainstream media, it comes out with various anonymous sources claiming that Hamasaki is well-known to visit gay bars, and perhaps, Tim is just one of her friends from that world * wink, wink *. The engagement is off, Bunshun invented the Tiffany's story, he is really gay. Problem solved. Nobody asks follow up questions.

I find it highly possible that the engagement was real and that the structures of the Japanese entertainment scene have again crushed someone's private life. But this world is all about giri vs. ninjou, with the latter being impossible when there's money to be made.

Marxy has posted a couple of other times about this story since it broke a few days ago.

[Mulboyne]

Five years later, it looks like this thread headline has come through:

Ayumi Hamasaki to marry Austrian actor

Pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki will marry Austrian actor Manuel Schwarz soon, her office said Saturday. Hamasaki, 32, and Schwarz, 30, met last August in Los Angeles when she made a promotional film for her song Virgin Road, the office said. Schwarz lives in Los Angeles. In the film, he played her bridegroom.

His tweet:

Things are gonna change in 2011 I'm gonna have a beautiful wife

[Greji]

Five years later, it looks like this thread headline has come through:

Ayumi Hamasaki to marry Austrian actor

We bought out a good part of her company. She's just trying to run away from a life as number two or three, in the goat pen.

[Behan]

Is this her husband?

[Mike Oxlong]

Him, or one of Derek Zoolander's roommates.

[BigInJapan]

[kuainiri]

Ayumi hamasaki for me is the ugliest bitch that is famous !

I really dont understand how ppl like this bitch ! Her eyes are bigger than my ass ! Fucken wake up to yourselves !!!!!!!!

I agree with fatslug. This b!tch is ugly as hell. Both her and Mao Asada have really weird faces, I can only describe it as fetus face. I rather bang Imoto Ayako any day of the week, as long she wears a mask!:p

[Behan]

[Mulboyne]

I've no idea about Schwarz as a man - he may be as vacuous as others here suggest. However, I don't have a problem with the idea of a bit-part player marrying a star. If it was a male star picking a partner from the chorus line, we'd probably think "good for her". It seems slightly feudal to require Hamasaki to marry according to her status.

[omae mona]

His twitpic page (is that pictures of twits?) seems to have a photo of the happy couple:

[IkemenTommy]

His twitpic page (is that pictures of twits?) seems to have a photo of the happy couple:

It must be the chinpo she is after.

[McTojo]

Now I am F%#king pissed! I am so sick and tired of our treasures marrying these guys. They should be marrying Japanese men, only! Or, adopting momma's boys like ME!


This is disgusting. And Vile! And an abomination to the whole nation.

I'm just disgusted right now! Disgusted. Stop marrying these F%##%king foreigners, that inlcudes N$#$gas too!



F%"%$%k!!

[Typhoon]

Now I am F%#king pissed! I am so sick and tired of our treasures marrying these guys. . . .

Your treasures?

Shirley you must be joking.