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Chihiro Onitsuka (born October 30, 1980) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. In 2000, Onitsuka released her debut single "Shine" and gained recognition when its follow-up "Gekkou" became a hit. ''Insomnia'', her first studio album, released in the following yea ...

from her debut album ''

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'' (2000). It was released on August 9, 2000 as the album's second single. The song is mostly known for serving as a theme song to the Japanese television drama series ''

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''. The single peaked at number eleven on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart and remains as Onitsuka's best-selling single.

Commercial performance

"Gekkō" debuted at number thirty on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart and peaked at number eleven, due to the unexpected hit of the television drama series ''

''. The single spent thirty-seven weeks within top 100 on the chart and have sold than 561,000 physical copies and 500,000 digital copies in Japan alone. In January 2014, the song charted at number fifty-eight on the

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chart, as the song was used in television commercial for the Japanese film '' Trick The Movie: Last Stage'', the last installment of the ''Trick'' series.

Music video

The music video was released on June 24, 2011 via Onitsuka's

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account. It was directed by Tsuyoshi Inoue and primarily features Onitsuka singing in front of a Christian cross. As of August 2018, it has received over 40 million views.

In popular culture

"Gekkō" served as the theme song to the Japanese comedy

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television series ''

'' and later used in the two films based on the series, '' Trick: the Movie'' (2002) and '' Trick The Movie: Last Stage'' (2014). Also, the song was used as the Japanese theme song to the American science-fiction romance television series ''

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'' and used in some Japanese Variety shows. The song was later covered by the Japanese singer-songwriter

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, on his fourth cover album ''Vocalist 4'', which has sold over 250,000 copies. "Arrow of Pain" served as the theme song to the Japanese

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''Glowing Glowing'' (2002).

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certification and sales

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Release history

References

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