is the debut studio album of Japanese singer-songwriter

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. It was released on 3 December 1997 in Amemura-O-Town Record.

Background

The album includes two previously released singles, Nazo and Kagayakeru Hoshi. Several of her songs were originally written for other bands: "Sabitsuita Machine Gun De Ima Wo Uchinukou" for

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, "Aoi Sora Ni Deaeta" for Arisa Tsujio as the ''

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'' anime theme song, "Kono Machi De Kimi to Kurishitai" for

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, and "Kimi ga Inai Natsu" for Deen.

Charting performance

The album reached number 5 in its first week, with 89,810 copies sold. The album charted for 40 weeks and it sold 400,000 copies altogether.http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/217885/products/40788/1/ , title = 謎 / 小松未歩 , newspaper =

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Track listing

All songs were arranged by

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(#1,#2,#7~#10) and

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) (#3~#6,#11)

Usage in media

* Nazo was used as 3rd opening theme for Anime television series

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Kagayakeru Hoshi is the second single by Miho Komatsu and her first single released under the Amemura-O-Town Record label. The single reached #20 on the charts in its first week and sold 19,380 copies. It charted for five weeks total and sold 47,850 copies. Track ...

was used as ending theme for anime television series

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*Dream'n Love was used as theme song for

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radio's program ''Sport Dom'' *Alive was used as image song for "Astel Kansai Corporation" CF

References

{{Authority control 1997 debut albums Amemura-O-Town Record albums Songs written by Miho Komatsu Being Inc. albums Albums produced by Daiko Nagato