is the third single by American-born Japanese recording artist AKINO. It is the first single that also features her brothers Akashi and Aiki and sister Kanasa, backing her up as their band

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. It is used as the opening theme of the anime ''

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'', the sequel to ''

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'' for which AKINO also performed the theme songs. On her blog, AKINO described the song as having

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stylings. The single's B-side serves as ''Evol''s ending theme and is a duet between AKINO and her younger brother AIKI. AKINO described it as a love song, but she stated that it was embarrassing to do this as the first duet with her brother. Both songs were written by

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and composed and arranged by

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. "Kimi no Shinwa" peaked on the

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's weekly single charts at number 3, remaining on the charts for 3 weeks. It also charted at 13 on the Oricon's monthly charts in February 2012, peaked at number 8 on the ''

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, number 3 on ''Billboard'' Japan's Hot Singles Sales chart, and number 2 on ''Billboard'' Japan's Hot Animation chart. AKINO also noted that the song and its B-side filled the top two spots of the

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's anime theme song rankings.

Track listing

#"Kimi no Shinwa ~ Aquarion Dai 2 Shou" – 5:32 #"Gekkō Symphonia" – 3:55 #"Kimi no Shinwa ~ Aquarion Dai 2 Shou" (Instrumental) – 5:32 #"Gekkō Symphonia" (Instrumental) – 3:51

References

2012 singles Anime songs Genesis of Aquarion Songs written by Yoko Kanno 2012 songs {{2010s-Japan-single-stub