is the thirtieth single of

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group

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. It was released on June 21, 2006. The

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was released on June 28, 2006.

Overview

There are regular and limited edition versions of this single. The regular version comes with a photocard in a poker card design. The limited edition comes with a DVD containing comments from the members and two performances from their

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concert tour, Aozora ga Itsumademo Tsuzuku You na Mirai de Are! and Sexy Boy (Soyokaze ni Yorisotte). It also came with 10 interchangeable covers, one featuring each member. This is the last single to feature 5th generation graduated members

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and

Makoto Ogawa is a Japanese singer and actress, best known as a former member of Japanese girl group Morning Musume. She joined the group in August 2001 along with fellow fifth generation members Ai Takahashi, Risa Niigaki, and Asami Konno. On March 31, 2 ...

, after which

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and

Risa Niigaki is a Japanese actress and singer. She was a fifth-generation member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined Morning Musume in 2001 along with 3 others- Ai Takahashi, Asami Konno and Makoto Ogawa. She grew up in Yokohama after movin ...

respectively took their solos in live performances of the song.

Track listings

CD

# # # "Ambitious! Yashinteki de Ii Jan" (Instrumental)

Limited Edition DVD

Performances from Morning Musume Concert Tour 2006 Haru ~Rainbow Seven~ # # #

Single V DVD

# "Ambitious! Yashinteki de Ii Jan" # "Ambitious! Yashinteki de Ii Jan (Dance Shot Ver.)" #

Members at time of single

* 4th generation:

Hitomi Yoshizawa is a Japanese former singer and actress. In 2000, Yoshizawa debuted as a 4th generation member of the idol girl group Morning Musume and became their leader in 2005 until leaving the group in 2007. Following her departure, Yoshizawa continued to ...

* 5th generation:

Ai Takahashi (born September 14, 1986) is a Japanese singer and actress formerly associated with the Hello! Project and is best known as the leader of Morning Musume and Hello! Project until 2011. She is also a former member of its popular subgroup Mini Mon ...

* 6th generation:

Miki Fujimoto (born February 26, 1985), professionally known by her birth name of , and nicknamed Mikitty, is a Japanese actress and former pop singer. After failing the audition to join girl group Morning Musume with the fourth generation members, Fujimoto d ...

Eri Kamei is a Japanese pop singer and model. She is a former member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined in late 2003 as a sixth generation member along with Miki Fujimoto, Sayumi Michishige, and Reina Tanaka. She graduated on December ...

Reina Tanaka is a Japanese singer and actress. She is the leader of the Japanese rock band Lovendor. From 2002 to 2013, she was one of the main vocalists of the girl group Morning Musume and participated in other music acts under the Hello! Project name. ...

* 7th generation:

Koharu Kusumi is a Japanese actress, model, television personality, singer, and voice actress. In 2005, she became the only seventh generation member of the Japanese girl group Morning Musume, a part of Hello! Project. While Kusumi was in Morning Musume, she p ...

External links

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