is a song by the Japanese rock band

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, released in 1997. The song was first released as their sixth single on November 27, 1997, and also featured on their fourth studio album ''Siam Shade IV - Zero'', released on January 21, 1998. It is the band's best known work and best-selling single, reaching number three on the Oricon Singles Chart, and was the 31st best-selling single of 1998 with 698,520 copies sold. By 2016, this number had grown to over 800,000 copies. The title song was used as the sixth ending theme of the ''

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series. The single was reissued in the standard 12 cm CD format on November 14, 2007.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by

. Arranged by Masao Akashi. * Originally the title track's lyrics were written by Hideki, while the music was written by Daita.

Flow version

Flow recorded a cover version of "1/3 no Junjō na Kanjō" for release as their twenty first single on March 9, 2011. The recording features Siam Shade's lead guitarist Daita and was included on their 2011 compilation album '' Anime Best''. The single reached number 20 on the Oricon chart and charted for 4 weeks. Written and composed by Siam Shade. Arranged by Flow and Daita.

Other cover versions

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covered it for his ''Super Anime Song Legend of the 1990s'' album in October. That same month it was covered by both

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and

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for the tribute album ''Siam Shade Tribute'', the former being an English-language version. In 2011, it was covered by

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on the compilation ''Crush! -90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs-'', which was released on January 26 and features current

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covered it for their album '' Partenza'' in August 2011. A cover by Venus appears in the November 2011

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singer Inzargi for their respective cover albums. It was also covered that year by Fest Vainqueur for the compilation album ''Counteraction - V-Rock covered Visual Anime songs Compilation-'', which was released on May 23, 2012, and features covers of songs by visual kei bands that were used in anime. Japanese American singer

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recorded an English-language version for her 2013 Japan-only ''Crazy for You EP''. Fantôme Iris, a fictional visual kei band from multimedia franchise ''

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'', covered the song in 2021.

References

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