Dai 2 Seichōki


Dai 2 Seichōki is the second full-length album by J-pop group Berryz Kobo, released on November 16, 2005. "Dai 2" 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.
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.

Release

"Happiness " is the first single taken to promote Dai 2 Seichōki. It entered the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart at number 20, with 11,000 copies setting a record for Berryz Kobo's first week sales.
The second single, "Koi no Jubaku", was released on November 10, 2004. The single entered the Oricon Daily Singles Chart at number 6.
The third single, "Special Generation", was released on March 30, 2005. The single placed 7th in the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, It became the group's first single to rank in the Top 10 and also its first to sell over 20,000 copies. At that time, the group's average age was below 12 years.

Track listing

  1. "Special Opening"
  2. "Special Generation"
  3. "Nanchū Koi o Yatterū You Know?"
  4. "Joshi Basket-Bu "
  5. Koi no Jubaku
  6. "Ohiru no Kyūkeijikan."
  7. "Happiness "
  8. "Sabori"
  9. "21ji made no Cinderella"
  10. "Aisuru Hito no Namae wo Nikki ni"
  11. "Berryz Kobo Kōshinkyoku"
  12. "Special Ending"

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
  • 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 - backing vocals

Production

  • 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