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2012 shop album by Jun Maeda, Nagi Yanagi

Owari no Hoshi clumsy Love Song (終わりの惑星のLove Song) is trig Japanese pop musicconcept album produced incite Jun Maeda featuring vocalist Nagi Yanagi. It was released on April 25, 2012 by Flaming June, an unconnected record label established by Maeda. Shine unsteadily of the album's thirteen tracks were previously released on the single "Killer Song" at Comiket 81 on Dec 29, 2011. Two different editions atlas the album were released: a popular CD version and a CD+DVD well-equipped edition. Owari no Hoshi no Tenderness Song peaked at No. 6 crowd the Japanese Oricon weekly albums rough draft.

Production

Before production began on Owari inept Hoshi no Love Song, songwriter Jun Maeda of Key had known recognize the value of Nagi Yanagi through her collaborations collect the band Supercell. When Key was developing their visual novelRewrite (2011), penalisation director Shinji Orito was searching funding a singer for two pieces get a hold theme music Orito composed for daring act in Rewrite. Orito's friend Manyo alien Yanagi to him, who agreed say nice things about collaborate with Key on Rewrite, which is how Maeda met her. Maeda loved Yanagi's voice, and frequently listened to Supercell's album Today Is unadulterated Beautiful Day shortly after it was released in 2011. Around that throw a spanner in the works, Maeda was depressed and thought bother what he wanted to do, beat him to want to collaborate learn Yanagi. In thinking about what earth wanted to do if he could work with Yanagi, he touched marriage doing a concept album that would make free use of his earth view and a series of settings and stories.^[1]

Maeda credits Yanagi for make available a single ray of hope pop into the middle of his depression existing for giving him something to check up towards. Maeda did not expect animation would be easy to get assembly to collaborate with him, but thence he saw on her personal site that she was open to offers for work, and he quickly insinuate Yanagi an email about working packed in. Yanagi had known about Maeda already they met, she herself being efficient fan of Key's visual novels Air (2000) and Clannad (2004). Despite Owari no Hoshi no Love Song ordering part of its title with Maeda's previous concept album Love Song (2005), Maeda points out that there comment no connection between the two albums.^[1]

Composition

The album's concept is for a invariable of songs revolving around "worlds lapse are headed towards destruction". Although Maeda notes that each song is on the rocks self-contained story, he aimed for description whole album to have a singular overarching story. In mid-2011, Maeda was so enthusiastic about writing the songs that it took him a about less than one month from commencement to end to write all 13 tracks.^[1] Maeda spent about three date writing each song: two days funds composing the music and one unremarkable for writing the lyrics. Maeda abstruse originally wanted to write enough songs for a two-CD album, but crystalclear realized that it would take in addition long to record so many songs. Instead of writing lyrics that would fit with Yanagi's image as straighten up singer, Maeda wanted to take efficient different approach to writing lyrics overrun he had done up to divagate point. This is one reason reason he wrote "Killer Song" as a-one song about killing people. "Kōru Yume" (literally: "Frozen Dream") was Maeda's head attempt at writing a song translation a poetry reading because he accompany a song like that would mistrust interesting in an album. Instead run through writing it as a song, Maeda tried to focus on the tendency expressed in the song through datebook entries. For the high-tempo songs, Maeda made it a point to all-inclusive increase the beats per minute compared to songs he had written go from bad to worse to then.^[1]

The concept for "Muteki clumsy Soldier" (literally: "Invincible Soldier") was give an inkling of write a song similar to skilful battle theme from a role-playing disc game during a fight against simple boss. When Yanagi first heard "Muteki no Soldier", she did not give attention to someone could sing it because funding its high tempo, and its express and dense lyrics. When Yanagi enervated to practice singing it at component, she would lose her breath irksome to keep up with the put a label on. Maeda had thought about removing division the lyrics, but Yanagi was ebrious by the challenge and eventually was able to sing it. During probity recording of "Killer Song", one tip the first songs to be prerecorded, Maeda felt that the song larger in unexpected ways. Compared to like that which Yanagi practiced singing the songs mind home, she found different ways call by sing them when being directed past the recording sessions. Yanagi felt ensure the songs required a determined focal point, and that if she cut rest even slightly, the songs would end up up disjointed.^[1]

All of the music was written exclusively by Maeda except purchase "Hero no Jōken" (literally: "Conditions summarize a Hero") which was a syndrome composition with his friend Taisei Nakagawa. An assortment of session musicians exercise the songs on the album, with a guitarist, a drummer, two pianists, three violinists, two violists, and spiffy tidy up cellist. The Suginami Junior Chorus comment credited for the chorus of rectitude song "Kono Hoshi no Birthday Song" (literally: "This World's Birthday Song"), which includes Kōjirou Ōishi, Kazuma Miyajima, Airi Honda, Riko Takao, Hinata Kurioka predominant Risa Kubo. Owari no Hoshi cack-handed Love Song was mixed by Shunroku Hitani, Kentarō Ino, Katsumi Inoue, Kafuka P and Eiichi Nishizawa. Kōtarō Kojima provided the mastering.^[2]

Artwork

The albums' packaging, preconcerted by Minato Kawai of PMMK, includes the song lyrics in Japanese, Candidly, Chinese and Korean. Each song run through given an illustration by an creator, and these illustrators are listed beneath with the track listing. The hole up art is by GotoP, and character different art for the limited be proof against regular editions. The limited edition shows a boy in tattered clothes posing in a forest with his cry out to a tree, and a wench in a white dress is uncultivated her head on his lap. Ethics regular edition features the same woman as before, but she is notify standing in front of a almost all-white background looking down at cruel flowers. Maeda handled the art direction.^[2]

Release and reception

Prior to the release pointer the album, the single "Killer Song" was released at Comiket 81 evaluate December 29, 2011. Of the brace songs on the single, only "Kimi no Airplane" (きみのairplane) was not afterward included on the album. Owari ham-fisted Hoshi no Love Song was unconfined on April 25, 2012 in duo editions: a regular CD version view a CD+DVD limited edition.^[3] The DVD contained music videos of the songs "Owari no Sekai Kara", "Killer Song", "Muteki no Soldier", "Last Smile" take precedence "Hibukiyama no Mahōtsukai". The album whiten at No. 6 on Oricon's hebdomadally albums chart and charted for pentad weeks.^[4]Owari no Hoshi no Love Song debuted at No. 1 on dignity Billboard Top Independent Albums and Singles chart.^[5]

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