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. It was released on March 14, 1998. This song was written and composed by

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. Some of this song was played in the film

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. They also sang a Chinese Mandarin version of it on their album The Very Best of Puffy/AmiYumi Jet Fever. Captain Funk also did a remix of it on their album

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. There was also a special version of the song sung for the

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game. This song was also featured on the live action movie Lovely Complex. A portion of the song was also featured in the

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Track listing

# Ai no Shirushi (Sign of Love) # Ai no Shirushi (Original Karaoke) # Sign Of Love (Captain Funk's Puffy De Samba Remix) # Ai no Shirushi (Chinese Version)

External links

Official Japanese site

Official English site

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Puffy AmiYumi songs 1998 singles 1998 songs {{1990s-pop-song-stub