"" is the 17th single by Zard and released 8 January 1996. The single debuted at #1 rank first week. It charted for 21 weeks and sold over a million copies and became third highest-selling single in her career. When she died, it was elected as her third best song on the Oricon polls. The song is best known as the 4th Ending theme for ''
Slam Dunk
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'' anime.
Track list
All songs are written by
Izumi Sakai
, known professionally as , was a female Japanese pop singer, songwriter, and member of the group Zard. As Sakai was the only member who stayed in the group while others joined and left regularly, Zard and Sakai may be referred to interchangeably. ...
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Tetsurō Oda
is a Japanese composer, record producer, and singer-songwriter.
Oda gained prominence as a songwriter in Japan during the late 1980s. He composed over 50 top-ten hit singles on the Japanese Oricon chart during the 1990s, including 12 that have ...
/arrangement:
Takeshi Hayama
is a Japanese musical arranger and guitarist under Being Inc. records.
Biography
In 1978, he debuted with his own blues band under Trio Records. In 1990s he entered to Being recording agency. Takeshi becomes the main arranger of Japanese sing ...
#**the song is used as the fourth closing theme song of the
anime
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series ''
Slam Dunk
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#*composer: Mitsuyoshi Yonezawa/arrangement:
Daisuke Ikeda
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[Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/JBDJ-1011]
References
1996 singles
Zard songs
Songs written by Tetsurō Oda
Oricon Weekly number-one singles
Anime songs
Songs written by Izumi Sakai
1996 songs
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