Reception
The single proved to be very popular. It hit #1 on Oricon charts for a lengthy three weeks, selling 270,370 in its debut week. By August 2002, it had sold over 598,130 copies in Japan. In 2008, Guinness World Records listed it as the best-selling video game theme song in Japan.
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“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
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