Moon Pride

"Moon Pride"

CD+Blu-Ray (Sailor Moon Edition) cover
Single by Momoiro Clover Z
A-side "Moon Pride"
B-side "Gekkō"
"Moon Revenge" (Momoclo Ed. only)
Released July 30, 2014
Format Maxi single
Genre J-pop
Length 16:10 (Sailor Moon Edition)
25:02 (Momoclo Edition)
Label Evil Line Records
Writer(s) Revo, Sumire Shirobara, Akiko Kosaka ("Moon Pride")
Momoiro Clover Z singles chronology
"Naite mo Iin Da yo"
(2014)		 "Moon Pride"
(2014)		 "Yume no Ukiyo ni Saitemina"
(2015)
Music video
Momoiro Clover Z "Moon Pride" on YouTube

"Moon Pride" (stylized as "MOON PRIDE") is the 12th single by the Japanese female idol group Momoiro Clover Z, released in Japan on July 30, 2014.[1]

Details

The single contains theme songs for the 2014 anime series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal. ("Moon Pride" is the opening song and "Gekkō" is the ending song.)[2][3]

"Moon Pride" was written, composed and arranged by Revo from the band Sound Horizon.[4] The guitar solos were performed by American rock musician Marty Friedman.[5]

The single was released in two versions: "Sailor Moon Edition" and "Momoclo Edition". The Sailor Moon Edition comes with a Blu-ray Disc featuring a music video. The Momoclo Edition is CD-only, but contains an additional song on it, a cover of "Moon Revenge" from Sailor Moon R: The Movie.[1][6][7]

The music video was directed by Yasushi Uemura, supervised by Crystal series director Munehisa Sakai and animated by Toei Animation. It consists of a montage of video clips from Crystal. In the video, viewers could see for the first time transformation sequences of three soldiers that hadn't yet appeared in the series (in the episodes that had already aired): Sailor Mars, Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter.[1]

The single debuted at number 3 in the Oricon Daily Singles Chart with the opening day sales in excess of 29,000 copies.

Track listing

Sailor Moon Edition (CD+Blu-ray)

CD
No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "Moon Pride" (MOON PRIDE)RevoRevo 3:43
2. "Gekkō" (月虹, "Moonbow")Sumire ShirobaraAkiko Kosaka 4:22
3. "Moon Pride" (off vocal ver.)   3:43
4. "Gekkō" (off vocal ver.)   4:22
Total length:
 16:10

Momoclo Edition (CD only)

CD
No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "Moon Pride"     3:43
2. "Gekkō"     4:22
3. "Moon Revenge"  Kayoko FuyumoriAkiko Kosaka 4:26
4. "Moon Pride" (off vocal ver.)   3:43
5. "Gekkō" (off vocal ver.)   4:22
6. "Moon Revenge" (off vocal ver.)   4:26
Total length:
 25:02

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Oricon Daily Singles Chart[8] 2
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart[9] 3
Billboard Japan Hot Animation[10] 1

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Komatsu, Mikikazu (July 20, 2014). "VIDEO: "Sailor Moon Crystal" Theme Song PV Introduces Sailor Mars, Jupiter, Venus Transformation". Crunchyroll.
  2. ↑ "ももクロ、過去最大規模のライブが大熱狂 新セーラームーン主題歌「MOON PRIDE」を披露". Ameba News (in Japanese). 2014-07-26.
  3. ↑ "「セーラームーン」主題歌 ももいろクローバーZ「MOON PRIDE」のジャケットデザインを公開". OK Music (in Japanese). 2014-07-05.
  4. ↑ "セーラー戦士が日替わり登場！ 新セーラームーンOP・ED視聴サイト公開". KAI-YOU (in Japanese). 2014-07-25.
  5. ↑ Sahota, Shalimar (July 19, 2014). "Full theme to Momoiro Clover Z’s Moon Pride from Sailor Moon Crystal". MCM Buzz. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ "ももクロ、新曲「MOON PRIDE」のMVは全編『美少女戦士セーラームーンCrystal』で構成". Barks (in Japanese). July 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ "ももクロ、美少女戦士セーラームーンCrystal主題歌の朝夜試聴サイト開設". My Navi (in Japanese). July 25, 2014.
  8. ↑ "2014年08月01日のCDシングルデイリーランキング（2014年08月01日付）". Oricon. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  9. ↑ "2014年07月28日～2014年08月03日のCDシングル週間ランキング（2014年08月11日付）". Oricon. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  10. ↑ "Billboard Japan Hot Animation│Charts│Billboard JAPAN (2014/08/11 付け)". Retrieved 2014-08-08.

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