Massive Wonders
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"Massive Wonders" is the sixteenth single by Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese singer Nana Mizuki
Nana Mizuki
is a popular Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress. She was born and raised in Niihama, Ehime, Japan, Mizuki was trained as an enka singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1998; however, she released her debut single "Omoi", under the King Records label on December 6, 2000...

. It was released on 22 August 2007. "Massive Wonders" contains the second opening theme and insert song for the anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers
is the third season of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series. The Nanoha anime was, in turn, a spin-off of the Triangle Heart series of games and OVAs, specifically Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever...

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Music video

Like her previous single, "Secret Ambition
Secret Ambition
Secret Ambition is the fifteenth single from Japanese songstress Nana Mizuki. Secret Ambition saw a massive change in Nana Mizuki's music style, dramatically changing from pop and powerpop to an explosive rock sound....

", the video features two Nana egos, one being an inactive, innocent one, dressed in white clothing. The other ego, dressed in red clothing, dances and sings. In a high-tech setting, the white-clothed one is held captive and/or hostage by masked uniformed people as her hands are bound together and she is constantly followed and supervised by them. The uniformed people also seem to be monitoring both Nana Mizuki egos on video cameras, but the red-clothed ego seems to dance and sing freely in a separate room by herself(In the edit version the red-clothed ego is wearing sunglasses).

Track listing

  1. MASSIVE WONDERS
    • Lyrics: Nana Mizuki
    • Composition, arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki
      Toshiro Yabuki
      , born on December 22, 1961 is a Japanese music composer, record producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is also the director of music production company P.M CREATORS.-Career outline:* Yabuki was J-Pop singer Masami Okui's executive producer from 1995 to 2001...

    • Second opening theme for TV anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
      Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers
      is the third season of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series. The Nanoha anime was, in turn, a spin-off of the Triangle Heart series of games and OVAs, specifically Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever...

      .
    • Ending theme in August for Nippon TV show .
  2. Happy Dive
    • Lyrics: Bee'
    • Composition, arrangement: Noriyasu Agematsu
      Noriyasu Agematsu
      is a Japanese composer and founding member of group Elements Garden.He composed and arranged tracks on Nana Mizuki's singles Massive Wonders and Eternal Blaze, "Brave Phoenix" on the single Super Generation and the track "Tears' Night" on the album Alive & Kicking, composed the track Shin'ai and...

       (Elements Garden
      Elements Garden
      Elements Garden is a Japanese group of music composers, or a "music production brand" as they call themselves. They generally produce music for video games, anime and recording artists...

      )
    • Ending theme in August for Nippon TV show .
  3. Pray
    • Lyrics: Hibiki
    • Composition, arrangement: Noriyasu Agematsu
      Noriyasu Agematsu
      is a Japanese composer and founding member of group Elements Garden.He composed and arranged tracks on Nana Mizuki's singles Massive Wonders and Eternal Blaze, "Brave Phoenix" on the single Super Generation and the track "Tears' Night" on the album Alive & Kicking, composed the track Shin'ai and...

       (Elements Garden
      Elements Garden
      Elements Garden is a Japanese group of music composers, or a "music production brand" as they call themselves. They generally produce music for video games, anime and recording artists...

      )
    • Insert song for TV anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
      Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers
      is the third season of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series. The Nanoha anime was, in turn, a spin-off of the Triangle Heart series of games and OVAs, specifically Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever...

  4. MASSIVE WONDERS (without NANA)
  5. Happy Dive (without NANA)
  6. Pray (without NANA)

Charts

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Oricon
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

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