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's second album, released on . The album was released in two versions: a regular version and a limited edition CD+DVD version.

Recording

The album consists of songs Abe wrote in her second and third years of high school. There are three exceptions: "Salaryman no Uta", "

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" and . "15 no Kotoba" was written just after Abe's first album was released in early 2009, and "Itsu no Hi mo" in September. Abe has not written any songs since then, blaming personal stress though finding live performance easy in this time, due to its passive nature and the lack of a need to quietly concentrate. Abe started creating the album in June 2008. Unlike her first album, she made it without a specific theme or concept in mind. Some songs Abe had made a conscious effort to leave until her second album, such as (which is influenced by the

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electro-pop sound of

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). Abe found they clashed with the image she created of herself for the first album, instead wanting to focus on songs that would solidify her sound.

Promotion

The album was preceded by three singles. " Tsutaetai Koto/I Wanna See You", Abe's first physically released single, featured tie-ups for both A-sides: "Tsutaetai Koto" was the music variety show ''

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s ending theme song, while "I Wanna See You" was used in

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commercials. "I Wanna See You", along with her next single " Anata no Koibito ni Naritai no Desu", were originally released in 2008 on iTunes as acoustic demos. The third single, "

", was used as the ending theme song for the

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documentary variety talk show . "

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" was used as a radio single to coincide with the album's release. It reached #23 on the ''

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. An album track, "15 no Kotoba", was used as the theme song to the film ''

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'', starring

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Recording

Promotion

Track listing

CD track list

DVD track list

Singles (subscription only)

Japan sales rankings

References