''Stories'' (released on July 23, 2008) is

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artist Mayumi Iizuka's 12th

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Exposition

* This is a

concept album A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. This is typically achieved through a single central narrative or theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, or lyrical. Som ...

centering on the theme of "Stories," literally. This album, with an

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and ten

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s, expresses serial stories in turn, that is to say; ''

prologue A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ...

'', ''meeting'', ''

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'', ''both love'', ''daily'', ''lost'', ''

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'', ''meeting again'', ''growing'', ''happy end'' and ''

story Story or stories may refer to: Common uses * Story, a narrative (an account of imaginary or real people and events) ** Short story, a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting * Story (American English), or storey (British ...

.'' * This album also has an additional

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with promoting movies of three songs, "Sincerely" (#2), "Wasurenai." (#6), and "Kitto Zutto" (#8).

Track listing

# Stories 〜prologue〜 #* Composition: Shinichi Asada #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Sincerely #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Shinichi Asada #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Ashita Hareta nara (明日晴れたなら / If it is Fine Tomorrow) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Hajimete no Ichi-page (初めての1ページ / The First Page) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Always... Forever... #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Sora Izumikawa and marhy # Wasurenai. (忘れない。 / I Shall Never Forget.) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Kohei Dojima #* Arrangement: Tomofumi Suzuki # Starry Night #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Kitto Zutto (きっとずっと / Assuredly Forever) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: cota #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Love Knot #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Tomofumi Suzuki # Polaris #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Kimi eto Tsuzuku Story (君へと続くストーリー / Story that Leads to You) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition:

Tomoki Hasegawa is a Japanese composer and arranger of music from Osaka Prefecture, Japan, best known for his work on anime soundtracks. He has also done sound production work on albums for Mayumi Iizuka. Works Anime *''Pygmalio'' (opening and ending themes arra ...

#* Arrangement: Tomoki Hasegawa

External links

12th Album of Mayumi Iizuka "Stories" released on July 23! From August 3, Live Tour "Strawberry Summer Stories 2008" is beginning!!
- August 2008 2008 albums Mayumi Iizuka albums {{2000s-pop-album-stub