I was watching some Ai Otsuka DVDs last night and checked YesAsia to day to see if anything new was available. Her new album Love Letter will be out December 17th and is available for pre-order now.

I don’t know much about the album yet, just that it will contain the tracks Pocket, Rocket Sneaker, Kurage Nagareboshi, Ai and Love Letter and the DVD will contain the PV for Pocket, Rocket Sneaker, Kurage Nagareboshi and two more tracks.

This is completely random, but I ran into this photo of Ai Otsuka yesterday. At first I just thought “ooh, a nice Ai picture I haven’t seen before”. Then I looked at her sweater. It looks like it says “Gustavus Adolphus”, which is the Latin name of a Swedish king (Gustav II Adolf the Great). He was the founder of the Swedish Empire.

Ai cut her hair again! Her latest song KURAGE, nagareboshi (クラゲ、流れ星) is a nice ballad. The title means something like “jellyfish, shooting star”, so perhaps it has some connection to Kingyo hanabi (goldfish fireworks)?

Ai Otsuka ~ KURAGE, nagareboshi for PSP

17MB 4:43 H.264/AVC 480×272

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Credit: source video from doobie@jpopsuki via justlisa@ahn

Here’s LOVE MUSiC by Ai Otsuka

Ai Otsuka ~ LOVE MUSiC for PSP

11MB 4:31 H.264/AVC 480×272

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The PV is from Ai am best.

An unusually dark PV for being by Ai-chan.

Ai Otsuka ~ Cherish for PSP

14MB 4:51 H.264/AVC 480×272

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The PV is from Ai am best.

Another Ai Otsuka PV in August. If you’re looking forward to Planetarium, I’m sorry to say that it’s not coming. As much as I love both the song and PV, it has certain negative associations for me, which I may write about some day (or maybe not).

Ai Otsuka ~ Kingyo hanabi for PSP

20MB 4:33 H.264/AVC 480×272

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The PV is from Ai am best.

This PV is absolutely beautiful.

Ai Otsuka ~ Daisuki da yo for PSP

25MB 6:26 H.264/AVC 480×272

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The PV is from Ai am best.

I just love Ai Otsuka. How much I listen to her music comes and goes in waves. I love both her happy-happy songs and her ballads and not-so-happy songs. The following PVs will be of the latter category.

Ai Otsuka ~ Amaenbo for PSP

27MB 4:12 H.264/AVC 480×272

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The PV is from Ai am best.

There are more Ai videos coming, every other day or so.

Rocket Sneaker (ロケットスニーカー) is Ai-chan’s latest single. I thought I’d post the PV (TV rip). It’s a pretty nice song although it doesn’t pop quite like her other songs. It’s easy on the ears though. I’ve listened to this song several times at work. The PV is a little slow perhaps, but interesting all the same. It’s one of those “frozen in time” PVs like ELT’s fundamental love or Kaela Kimura’s Rirura Riruha.

Ai Otsuka ~ Rocket Sneaker (ロケットスニーカー)

34MB 4:00 H.264/AVC 480×272

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Enjoy the video. Next we’re back to Ayu PVs (perhaps with another BoA appearance).

Here’s Ai Otsuka’s heart PV sized for PSP (but you can still play it on your PC).

Ai Otsuka ~ Heart for PSP

33MB 5:11 H.264/AVC 480×272

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This PV is also from the LOVE PiECE DVD.