Kind of Love

The album debuted on the Japanese Oricon music charts at #13 and sold 1,179,780 copies during its run on the chart.^[1] The album contains only one single released on December 1, 1992, titled "Dakishimetai" (抱きしめたい). The first track on the album, "Niji no kanata e" (虹の彼方へ), was also used as the theme song to Japanese animation Shonan Bakusozoku9 Omae to ore no Good Luck! (湘南爆走族9・お前と俺のGOOD LUCK!).^[2] Kind of Love also marks the debut of drummer Hideya Suzuki as one of the vocalist for the album and the use of U.S productions for an album.

Track listing

All songs arranged by Takeshi Kobayashi and Mr.Children

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Niji no kanata e (虹の彼方へ)"	Kazutoshi Sakurai	3:35
2.	"All by Myself"	Sakurai, Takeshi Kobayashi	4:34
3.	"Blue"	Sakurai, Kobayashi	4:56
4.	"Dakishimetai (抱きしめたい)"	Sakurai	5:27
5.	"Good-Bye My Gloomy Days (グッバイ・マイ・グルーミーデイズ)"	Sakurai, Kobayashi	4:14
6.	"Distance"	Sakurai, Kobayashi	5:12
7.	"Kuruma no Naka de Kakurete Kiss wo Shiyou (車の中でかくれてキスをしよう)"	Sakurai	5:21
8.	"Shishunki no Natsu ~Kimi to no Koi ga Ima mo Makiba ni~ (思春期の夏～君との恋が今も牧場に～)"	Kobayashi, Hideya Suzuki, Sakurai	3:39
9.	"Hoshi ni Naretara (星になれたら)"	Sakurai, Yohito Teraoka	5:03
10.	"Teenage Dream (I~II) (ティーンエイジ・ドリーム（I～II）)"	Sakurai	6:08
11.	"Itsu no Hi ni ka Futari de (いつの日にか二人で）)"	Sakurai	4:13

Personnel

Kazutoshi Sakurai – vocals, guitar
Kenichi Tahara – guitar
Keisuke Nakagawa – bass
Hideya Suzuki – drums, vocals
Takuo Yamamoto - baritone, soprano, tenor sax^[3]
Yoichi Murata - trombone^[3]
Toshio Araki - trumpet, flugelhorn^[3]
Hirokazu Ogura - acoustic guitar^[3]
Shozo Kimura - acoustic guitar^[3]
Shoko Suzuki - chorus^[3]
Tomoko - chorus^[3]
Hijiri Kuwano Group - strings^[3]

Production

Production credits for album:^[3]

Producer - Takeshi Kobyashi
Executive producer - Takamitsu Ide, Mitsunori Kadoike
Recording and Mixing engineering - Kunihiko Imai, Hiroshi Hiranuma, and Tsuyoshi Inoue
A&R producer - Koichi Inaba
Directed - Makoto Nakanishi
Computer programming - Ken Matsumoto
Recording - Sound Sky Studio, Power House, Victor Studio, and more^[a]
Mixed at - West Side Studio, Studio Somewhere
Assistant engineering - Hiroshi Tanigawa, Hideyuki Arima, Kenichi Hayashi, Tatsuya Kawakami, and Masatatsu Tsubuki
Mastering - Masterdisk
Mastering engineer - Bob Lubwing
U.S production supervision - Hero Associates Inc.
Recording co-coordination - Hiroe Takeshima
Promotion - Naoki Imoto
Sales promotion - Masayuki Nakagawa
Artist management - Isao Tanuma and Kazushiro Miura
Desk management - Tomoko Okada
Production management - Tetsuhiko /nono
Production co-ordination - Harumi Oshima
P.R management - Chikane Kumagai
Art Director - Mitsuo Shindo
Designer - Kumiko Tezuka
Photographer - Hiroyuki Ishiee
Stylist - Hiroko Umeyama
Hair and make-up - Akemi Nakano

Chart positions

Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)^[4]	13	159	1,179,780

Certification

Country	Organization	Certification	Shipments
Japan	RIAJ	Million<ref name=overalllist">RIAJ Certified Million Seller Albums - "List of the albums certified "Million" by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (1989-2009)". September 13, 2009. Retrieved November 30, 2009. </ref>	1,000,000+

Footnotes

a.^{^} The album booklet names Sound Sky Studio, Power House, and Victor Studio as studios in which the album was recorded in addition to adding and more to the list, but does not state other studio locations.

References

↑ "ミスチル、ニューアルバム完成！(Mr.Children and new album completion!)". oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2007-06-17.
↑ The distance to "HOME". 別冊カドカワ総力特集 Mr.Children (Separate volume Kadokawa special issue Mr.Children) (in Japanese). Kadokawa television. 2007. pp. 167–170. ISBN 978-4-04-894488-5.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 "Kind of Love" album booklet, Toy's Factory (1992)
↑ Mr.Children-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks of Kind of Love by Mr.Children)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved November 30, 2009.

v t e Mr. Children

Kazutoshi Sakurai Kenichi Tahara Keisuke Nakagawa Hideya Suzuki

Studio albums	Everything Kind of Love Versus Atomic Heart Shinkai Bolero Discovery Q It's a Wonderful World Shifuku no Oto I Love U Home Supermarket Fantasy Sense (An Imitation) Blood Orange

Compilations	Land in Asia Mr. Children 1992–1995 Mr. Children 1996–2000 B-Side Mr. Children 2001–2005 ＜micro＞ Mr. Children 2005–2010 ＜macro＞

Live albums	1/42

Singles	"Kimi ga Ita Natsu" "Dakishimetai" "Replay" "Cross Road" "Innocent World" "Tomorrow Never Knows" "Everybody Goes (Chitsujo no Nai Gendai ni Drop Kick)" "Kiseki no Hoshi" (with Keisuke Kuwata) "Es (Theme of Es)" "See-Saw Game (Yūkan na Koi no Uta)" "Namonaki Uta" "Hana (Mémento Mori)" "Machine Gun o Buppanase (Mr. Children Bootleg)" "Everything (It's You)" "Nishi e Higashi e" "Owarinaki Tabi" "Hikari no Sasu Hō e" "I'll Be" "Kuchibue" "Not Found" "Yasashii Uta" "Youthful Days" "Kimi ga Suki" "Any" "Hero" "Tenohira"/"Kurumi" "Sign" "Yonjigen: Four Dimensions" "Hōkiboshi" "Shirushi" "Fake" "Tabidachi no Uta" "Hanabi" "Gift" "Hana no Nioi" (Download only) "Fanfare" (Download only) "Kazoe Uta" (Download only) "Inori ~Namida no Kidou/End of the Day/Pieces"

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