"Reunion" is a pop song by the Japanese duo and idol unit

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, written by Kz. It was released as the unit's seventh

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on April 17, 2013 by

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. The song was used as the opening theme to the 2013

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series '' Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai.''. A

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was produced for "Reunion", directed by Jungo. The single peaked at No. 2 on Japan's weekly

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singles chart.

Composition

"Reunion" is a synthpop song with

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from a synthesizer. It is set in

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and moves at a

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of 135 beats per minute in the

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throughout the song. The

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starts with the synthesized music accompanying ClariS' vocals, and uses a

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to transition into the first verse, followed by the

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. After another bridge, this pattern is repeated for the second verse and chorus featuring the same music with different lyrics. A

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is used to transition into the third verse, immediately followed by the fourth verse in the chorus melody. The chorus is used as the outro, and an instrumental coda is used to close the song.

Release and reception

"Reunion" was released in a regular edition and two limited editions on April 17, 2013 as a CD by SME Records in Japan. One of the limited edition versions was packaged with ''

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'' artwork and also contained a short version of "Reunion" instead of its instrumental version. The other limited edition version came bundled with a DVD containing the

for "Reunion". The song peaked at No. 2 on Japan's weekly

singles chart and charted for 12 weeks. "Reunion" debuted and peaked on the '' Billboard'' Japan Hot 100 at No. 3.

Music video

The

is entirely animated and is directed by Jungo. It begins with a set of metal gates that open up into a park where trees, flowers and a fountain sprout out of the ground. Semi-animated illustrations of ClariS by Hiro Kanzaki, the original character designer of ''Oreimo'', are introduced singing in front of the fountain. The park is soon replaced with an urban cityscape on a street lined with shops and streetlamps with skyscrapers in the background. A red

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and other smaller vehicles are also shown during this time. The landscape is once again converted into a

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view of the skyscrapers behind a large bridge, which soon dims to full

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. The scene is replaced with a public school courtyard featuring cherry blossom trees and petals all around Clara and Alice. Shots from the park and street scenes are again shown overlaid with the cherry blossom petals, and it concludes with a shot of the girls at the school.

Track listing

Personnel

;ClariS *Clara – vocals *Alice – vocals ;Production *Takashi Koiwa – mixer *Yuji Chinone – mastering *Tatsuo Murai – art direction, design

Charts

References

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