, also known as ''The Story of Town Where Cherry Blossoms Bloom'', is the debut album of Japanese
pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former descri ...
trio Ikimono-gakari
The romanization of the group's name does not have the hyphen according to Sony's websites for their albums. is a Japanese pop rock duo from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan consisting of Yoshiki Mizuno and Kiyoe Yoshioka. The group started in Februa ...
.
It was released in Japan on March 7, 2007 under the label
Epic.
The album peaked at number four on the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in ...
weekly charts and charted for nearly two years.
Tie-ups and theme songs
Many of the songs in this album were used as theme songs or in commercials. "Hanabi" was used the seventh ending theme song for the anime series ''
Bleach''.
"Ryūsei Miracle" was used as a theme song for the anime ''
Ghost Slayers Ayashi''.
"Seishun no Tobira" was used as the theme song to Japanese release of the movie ''
Monster House''.
The title song "Sakura" was used in a commercial advertisement promoting
NTT Denpo115.
"Uruwashiki Hito" was used in a commercial to promote
Coca-Cola
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.
Track listing
References
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Ikimono-gakari albums
2007 debut albums