Special! Best Mini: 2.5 Maime no Kare
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The EP contains five previously released tracks in the aforementioned ninth single's A-side, plus four earlier single sides. Only one track, "Arigatō! Tomodachi", is exclusive to the EP.
Former band member Maiha Ishimura appears, but is not credited, on tracks 3 to 6.
Release
The album debuted at number 45 in the Oricon Weekly Album chart,[2] remaining in the list for 2 weeks.[1]
The 9th single, Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., was released on November 23, 2005, by Up-Front Works' Piccolo Town label, as well as a version by Marvelous Entertainment, which featured a slightly different track listing. Abbreviated as "Gag100". It was later added on Special! Best Mini: 2.5 Maime no Kare. The song is used as the ending theme of Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart Movie 2: Friends of the Snow-Laden Sky. Due to Maiha Ishimura's graduation, this was the first Berryz Kobo single to feature only seven members.
The song charted at number 19 on the Oricon Singles Chart.[3]
Track listing
- Gag 100kaibun Aishite Kudasai
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- Piriri to Yukō!
- Anata Nashi de wa Ikite Yukenai
Personnel
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- Saki Shimizu - vocals and band leader
- Momoko Tsugunaga - vocals
- Chinami Tokunaga - vocals
- Miyabi Natsuyaki - vocals
- Maasa Sudo - vocals
- Yurina Kumai - vocals
- Risako Sugaya - vocals
- Maiha Ishimura - vocals (Tracks 3-6, uncredited)
- Yuichi Takahasi - keyboard and MIDI programming, guitar
- Kaoru Kubota - backing vocals
- Hideyuki "Daichi" Suzuki - keyboard and MIDI programming, guitar
- Hiroaki Takeuchi - chorus
- Koji Makaino - keyboard and MIDI programming
- Shinsuke Suzuki - guitar
- Hideyuki Komatsu - bass
- Horishi Iida - percussion
- Masato Yamao - organ
- Tsunku - backing vocals
- Amazons - backing vocals
- Takao Konishi - keyboard and MIDI programming
- Yasuo Asai - guitar
- Yasushi Sasamoto - bass
- Masanori Suzuki - trumpet
- Yoshinari Takegami - saxophone
- Satoshi Mizota - trombone
- Shoichiro Hirata - keyboard and MIDI programming
- Keiko "Chibi" Furuya - backing vocals
- Akira - guitar, bass, keyboards, MIDI programming, backing vocals
- Nobuyasu Umemoto - recording coordination
- Kazumi Matsui - recording engineer, mix engineer
- Ryo Wakizawa - recording engineer, mix engineer
- Shinnosuke Kobayashi - recording engineer
- Masakazu Kimura - mix engineer
- Naoki Yamada - mix engineer
- Yuji Yamashita - mix engineer
- Tsunku - mix engineer
- Yuichi Ohtsubo - 2nd engineer
- Hirofumi Hiraki - 2nd engineer
- Yōhei Horiuchi - 2nd engineer
- Mitsuko Koike - mastering engineer
Charts
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
Sales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First week |
Total | ||
| Japan (Oricon Daily Albums Chart) | 14 | ||
| Japan (Oricon Weekly Albums Chart) | 45[4] | 6,071[2] | 7,072 |
References
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