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is the second EP released by Chara, which was released on September 24, 2008〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.universal-music.co.jp/chara/disco/UMCK-1278.html )〕 (two months after her 12th original album, Honey). It was her first EP marketed as a ''mini-album'' as opposed to a single. It debuted at #30 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 300 for six weeks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/781947/1/ )〕 The EP comprises three covers and two versions of one original song. was used as the theme song for the film version of the novel . The song ''Kiss'' is a different version of ''Kieru'', featuring the same arrangement but different lyrics. The lyrics of both songs were written in collaboration with ''Snakes and Earrings'' author Hitomi Kanehara, with Kanehara primarily writing ''Kieru'' and Chara primarily writing ''Kiss''. The cover tracks are ''Tomorrow'', a cover of the song from the 1977 musical ''Annie'', ''Time After Time'', a cover of the hit 1984 single by Cyndi Lauper and , a cover of Japanese rock band Southern All Stars' 1982 single. ''Tomorrow'' was used in Astellas Pharma commercials. ''Time After Time'', a duet with Super Butter Dogs vocalist Hanaregumi, had already been released on the 2008 compilation album ''We Love Cyndi – Tribute to Cyndi Lauper'' released two months prior. ==Music video== A music video for the title track ''Kiss'' was created, and shot by Fumiko Hirano.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.spaceshowertv.com/search/detail.cgi?mu=0069387&ch=0 )〕 It is a grayscale film, depicting Chara with a lover at a windy beach. The couple embrace and lightly caress each other, through wide camera arcs. A minute and a half into the video, they slowly begin to kiss. The scene is interspersed with other scenes of the pair caressing. The pair watch an offshore tornado arrive, and are covered in written paper notes. Objects float by in the distance, such as a motorcycle and a house. A door floats down to them, showing a different sunlit beach through it. As of December 10, 2009 the music video for ''Kiss'' has been viewed 148,000 times at the two official Universal channels on popular video-sharing website YouTube.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNhSCFVB1dw )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfPzDRSKwmc )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kiss (Chara EP)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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