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of the same title. The single was produced by

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, lead vocalist of the band

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, and the band's producer and longtime collaborator with Enomoto,

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. Bump of Chicken's song ''

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'' was used as the original game's theme song, as well as the opening theme song for the anime. The single was released in two versions: a limited edition featuring a DVD, plus a regular CD only version. The DVD features the music video for the song, along with an acoustic performance of it and a special animated video with clips from the anime. The CD+DVD limited edition featured a sticker with ''Abyss'' characters Luke and Asch, while the regular version featured a general themed ''Abyss'' sticker. The B-sides of the single were also written by Mor and Motoo Fujiwara. This is the first release by Enomoto where she has no song writing input into the lyrics/music of all of the songs. All three songs appear on Enomoto's second album, '' Notebook II: Bōken Note-chū''.

Track listing

Single

DVD

Chart rankings

Oricon charts (Japan)

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Various charts

References

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