''Ultimate Diamond'' is the seventh

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

released by Japanese

voice actress Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...

and pop singer

Nana Mizuki is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator from Niihama, Ehime. She is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name, Nana Kondō, in 1993 and made her debut as a voice ...

on June 3, 2009. It was released in two editions: a CD only edition and a limited CD+DVD edition. The first press of the album has a 44-page booklet. A limited CD+DVD edition of the album included a DVD of a concert at the Shinjuku Koma Theater on October 11, 2008. At the concert, she covered two

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songs:

Fuyumi Sakamoto is a Japanese female enka singer under EMI Music Japan. Career Having won a singing contest in early 1986, and after receiving about 11 months of vocal training, Sakamoto debuted as an enka recording singer with the single "Abare Daiko" in March ...

's "Yozakura Oshichi" and

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's "Kawachi Otoko Bushi". The limited DVD included the two songs. The album reached number 1 in Japan's

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weekly albums charts for the week of June 15, 2009, and became the first album from a voice actress to accomplish that feat since the creation of Oricon.

Track listing

#Maria & Joker #*Lyrics: Hibiki #*Composition, arrangement:

Noriyasu Agematsu is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer, as well as founding member of the musical group Elements Garden. He composed and arranged tracks on Nana Mizuki's singles ''Massive Wonders'' and '' Eternal Blaze'', ''"Brave Phoenix"'' ...

(

Elements Garden Elements Garden is a Japanese group of music composers, or a "music production brand" as they call themselves. They generally produce music for video games, anime and recording artists. They are attached to Aria Entertainment. The group was form ...

) # #*Lyrics: Nana Mizuki #*Composition, arrangement: Shogo Ohnishi #Perfect Smile #*Lyrics, composition, arrangement: Hiroyuki Ito #Trickster #*Lyrics: Nana Mizuki #*Composition, arrangement:

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) #Mr.Bunny! #*Lyrics: Sayuri #*Composition: Mitsuru Wakabayashi #*Arrangement: Shinya Saitou # #*Lyrics, composition: Shihori #*Arrangement: Renka Amou #Brand New Tops #*Lyrics:

Yūmao is a female Japanese singer-songwriter from Tokyo, Japan. She is a graduate of Kunitachi College of Music. She sometimes performs as an indie singer under the stage name Mayuko. Her music is produced by FlagShip and Lantis. Yūmao is a pseudonym ...

#*Composition, arrangement: Tomoya Miyabi # #*Lyrics, composition: Toshirou Yabuki #*Arrangement: Toshirou Yabuki, Tsutomu Ouhira #Gimmick Game #*Lyrics: Hibiki #*Composition, arrangement:

Junpei Fujita is a Japanese arranger and composer, and a founding member of Elements Garden. His work includes composition and arrangement of some tracks of singles and albums of Nana Mizuki including albums '' Hybrid Universe'', '' Ultimate Diamond'' and ''Imp ...

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) #Dancing in the Velvet Moon #*Lyrics: Nana Mizuki #*Composition:

(Elements Garden) #*Arrangement: Noriyasu Agematsu, Masato Nakayama (Elements Garden) #Ray of change #*Lyrics, composition: Kazunori Saita #*Arrangement: Kouichiro Takahashi # #*Lyrics: Nana Mizuki #*Composition: Noriyasu Agematsu (Elements Garden) #*Arrangement: Hitoshi Fujima (Elements Garden) # #*Lyrics: Junko Tsuji #*Composition: Shunsuke Matsui #*Arrangement: Hitoshi Fujima (Elements Garden) #Astrogation #*Lyrics: Hibiki #*Composition, arrangement: Jun Suyama # #*Lyrics, composition: Nana Mizuki #*Arrangement: Junpei Fujita (Elements Garden)

Charts

References

External links

Information on official website
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