is the debut

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by Japanese singer

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. It was released on January 21, 1988, through

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. ''Mysterious'' was re-issued in

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on March 21, 1991, and later in APO-CD format on December 1, 1995.

Commercial performance

''Mysterious'' debuted at number three on the

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, with 62,000 units sold in its first week. It stayed at number three the following week. The album charted in the top 100 for seventeen weeks, of which seven where spent in the top twenty, selling a reported total of 233,000 copies during its run. ''Mysterious'' was ranked number 40 on the year-end Oricon Albums Chart.

Commercial performance

Track listing

Charts

Release history

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