Dai 2 Seichōki

Dai 2 Seichōki
Studio album by Berryz Kobo
Released	November 16, 2005
Recorded	June 2004–September 2005
Genre	J-pop
Length	43:12
Label	Piccolo Town
Producer	Tsunku
Berryz Kobo chronology
1st Chō Berryz (2004) Dai 2 Seichōki (2005) Special! Best Mini: 2.5 Maime no Kare (2005)

"Dai 2 Seichōki" (第②成長記, "Record of the Second Growing Season"^?) is the second full-length album by J-pop group Berryz Kobo, released on November 16, 2005. "Dai 2" (the second) is pronounced Dai ni. The first pressing of the album was enclosed in a cardboard slipcase and included four double-sided photocards of the band. The album peaked at #19 on the Oricon weekly charts, charting for 3 weeks.^[1]

This album was the last Berryz Kobo release to feature Maiha Ishimura, who graduated from Hello! Project in 2005 in order to focus on her education. Ishimura's vocals are featured on the singles within the album; she is, however, not credited anywhere and does not feature on the cover. The seven remaining members of the band are depicted in school uniforms and carrying bookbags.

Dai 2 Seichōki would be the first of an informal trilogy of three Berryz releases, each issued within one or two weeks of each other, to close out the group's second year of existence.

Track listing

1. "Special Opening" (スッペシャルOP^?)
2. "Special Generation" (スッペシャルジェネレーション^?)
3. "Nanchū Koi o Yatterū You Know?" (なんちゅう恋をやってる YOU KNOW？^?, "It's How Love Is, You Know?")
4. "Joshi Basket-Bu (Asaren Atta Hi no Kamigata)" (女子バスケット部～朝練あった日の髪型～^?, "Girls' Basketball (Hairdo for Morning Practice)")
5. Koi no Jubaku (恋の呪縛 Love's Curse)
6. "Ohiru no Kyūkeijikan." (お昼の休憩時間。^?, "Lunch Break.")
7. "Happiness (Kōfuku Kangei!)"
8. "Sabori" (さぼり^?)
9. "21ji Made no Cinderella" (21時までのシンデレラ^?, "Cinderella Until 9 PM")
10. "Aisuru Hito no Namae wo Nikki ni" (愛する人の名前を日記に^?, "Name of the One I Love Inside My Diary")
11. "Berryz Kobo Kōshinkyoku" (Berryz工房行進曲^?, "Berryz Kobo's March")
12. "Special Ending" (スッペシャルED^?)

Musical personnel

• Saki Shimizu - vocals
• Momoko Tsugunaga - vocals
• Chinami Tokunaga - vocals
• Miyabi Natsuyaki - vocals
• Maasa Sudou - vocals
• Yurina Kumai - vocals
• Risako Sugaya - vocals
• Maiha Ishimura - vocals (uncredited)
• Koichi Yuasa - keyboard, drum and MIDI programming
• Koji Makaino - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
• Shunsuke Suzuki - guitar, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
• Hideyuki Komatsu - bass
• Horishi Iida - percussion
• Masato Yamao - organ
• Shoichiro Hirata - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
• Nao Tanaka - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming, guitar
• Manao Doi - guitar
• Shunji Takenaka - guitar
• Takashi Morio - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
• Eiji Kawai - guitar
• Koji - guitar
• Takao Konishi - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
• Yasuo Asai - guitar
• Yasushi Sasamoto - bass
• Masanori Suzuki - trumpet
• Yoshinari Takegami - saxophone
• Satoshi Mizota - trombone
• Noriyoshi Matsushita - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
• Tsunku - backing vocals, composer
• Atsuko Inaba - backing vocals
• Hiroaki Takeuchi - backing vocals
• Amazons (Yuko Otaki, Kumi Saito, Tomoko Hada) - backing vocals

Recording personnel

• Nobuyasu Umemoto - recording coordination
• Kazumi Matsui - recording engineer, mix engineer
• Ryo Wakizawa - recording engineer, mix engineer
• Shinnosuke Kobayashi - recording engineer
• Takeshi Yanagisawa - 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

References

1. ^ "Dai 2 Seichōki - Oricon Style Music" (in Japanese). Oricon. http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/618282/1/. Retrieved 2010-04-04. 

External links

• Discography entry on the Up-Front Works site