''Side Line'' is the fourth

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by the

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group

Onyanko Club was a large all-girl Japanese pop idol group in the 1980s. Some members of the group participated in spin-off groups, such as Nyangilas, Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi and Ushirogami Hikaretai. Many of the latter two groups' songs were used as theme so ...

. It was released on February 21, 1987, through

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in LP and CD format. It peaked at number one on the

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charts and sold a total of 69,000 copies.

Overview

This is the first Onyanko Club album to not contain any single A-sides. However, the B-side for " NO MORE Ren'aigokko", "Anata dake Oyasuminasai", was included. It is also the first album to feature numbers 38, 40, 41, 42, and 47, the first and last to feature numbers 43 through 46, and the last to feature numbers 6, 8, 13, 15 & 16 until the next album, ''

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'', was released. (Two members were not in ''Circle''.)

Participating members

* Aki Kihara (#6) *

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(#8) *

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(#13) * Harumi Tomikawa (#14) *

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(#15) *

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(#16) *

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(#17) * Ruriko Nagata (#18) *

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(#19) * Mako Shiraishi (#22) * Mutsumi Yokota (#28) *

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(#29) * Tomoko Fukawa (#33) *

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(#36) * Shizuka Kudō (#38) *

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(#40) * Noriko Kaise (#41) * Makiko Saitō (#42) * Toshie Moriya (#43) * Naoko Takada (#44) * Yumiko Yoshida (#45) * Sanae Nakajima (#46) * Yuriko Yamamori (#47)

Track listings

All songs written by

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, except "Shin Shin Kaiin Bangō no Uta" written by Satsuo Endō.

LP version

CD version

Personnel

* Fumio Miyata – recording coordinator * Hiroshi Saisu – recording engineer * Tatsuya Sawada – recording engineer, remixing engineer * Keizoh Suzuki – recording engineer * Hiroshi Watanabe – recording director * Kazuya Yoshida – recording engineer, remixing engineer {{Authority control Onyanko Club albums 1987 albums Japanese-language albums