"Moon Pride" (stylized as "MOON PRIDE") is the 12th

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by the Japanese female

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Momoiro Clover Z is a Japanese idol girl group, commonly abbreviated as MCZ or . The four members of MCZ are known for energetic performances, incorporating elements of ballet, gymnastics, and action movies. MCZ is notable for being the first female group to ho ...

, released in Japan on July 30, 2014.

Details

The single contains theme songs for the 2014 anime series ''

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''. ("Moon Pride" is the opening song and "Gekkō" is the ending song.) "Moon Pride" was written, composed and arranged by Revo from the band

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. The guitar solos were performed by American rock musician

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. The single was released in two versions: "Sailor Moon Edition" and "Momoclo Edition". The Sailor Moon Edition comes with a Blu-ray Disc featuring a music video. The Momoclo Edition is CD-only, but contains an additional song on it, a cover of "Moon Revenge" from '' Sailor Moon R: The Movie''. The music video was directed by Yasushi Uemura, supervised by ''Crystal'' series director

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and animated by

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. It consists of a montage of video clips from ''Crystal''. In the video, viewers could see for the first time transformation sequences of three soldiers that hadn't yet appeared in the series (in the episodes that had already aired): Sailor Mars, Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter. The single debuted at number 3 in the

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Daily Singles Chart with the opening day sales in excess of 29,000 copies.

Track listing

Sailor Moon Edition (CD+Blu-ray)

Momoclo Edition (CD only)

Personnel

Momoiro Clover Z

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– lead and backing vocals *

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– lead and backing vocals * Ayaka Sasaki – lead and backing vocals *

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– lead and backing vocals *

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– lead and backing vocals

Additional musicians

*Nozomu Furukawa – electric guitar ("Gekkō") *

– electric guitar ("Moon Pride") *Kenshō Hagiwara – French horn ("Gekkō") *Jonathan Hammill – French horn ("Gekkō") *Atsushi Hasegawa – bass guitar ("Moon Pride") *Yukari Hashimoto – synthesizer programmer ("Moon Revenge") *Kōji Igarashi – piano and electric organ ("Moon Pride") *Hana Inoue – French horn ("Gekkō") *Gen Ittetsu Strings – string section ("Moon Pride" and "Gekkō") *Jun-ji – drums ("Moon Pride") *Akiko Kosaka – synthesizer programmer ("Gekkō") *Matarō Misawa – timpani ("Moon Pride") *Susumu Nishikawa – guitar ("Moon Revenge") *Revo – synthesizer programmer ("Moon Pride") *Yoshiyuki Uema – French horn ("Gekkō") *Sachiko Watanabe – backing vocals ("Moon Revenge")

Chart performance

Other versions

The Cantonese pop group Super Girls released a cover of "Moon Pride" on May 3, 2016. The band Pastel＊Palettes from the anime franchise ''

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'' did a shortened cover of "Moon Pride". Arranged by

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's Ryota Tomaru, the cover was included in the game ''BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!''.

References

External links

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