Party Time (ClariS album)

Party Time
Studio album by ClariS
Released	June 4, 2014
Genre	J-pop
Length	52:46
Label	SME
ClariS chronology
Second Story (2013) Party Time (2014) ClariS: Single Best 1st (2015)
Singles from Party Time
"Colorful" Released: October 30, 2013 "Click" Released: January 29, 2014 "Step" Released: April 16, 2014

Party Time is the third studio album of the Japanese pop music duo ClariS, released on June 4, 2014 by SME Records. The album contains 12 music tracks, three of which were previously released on three of ClariS' singles. Three different editions of the album were released: a regular CD version and two limited editions. Party Time was the last time Clara and Alice performed as ClariS, with Alice leaving the duo.^[1] Party Time peaked at No. 2 on the Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart.

Three of the songs were used as theme songs for anime: "Click" and "Step" were used as the opening theme songs to the 2014 anime television series Nisekoi;^[2][3] and "Colorful" was the opening theme to the film Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion.^[4]

Release and reception

Party Time was released on June 4, 2014 in three editions: a regular CD version and two limited editions.^[5][6][7] One of the limited edition versions was bundled with two Nendoroid figures of ClariS.^[7] The other limited edition version came with a DVD containing music videos of the songs "Click", "Step" and "Colorful", as well as non-credit opening videos for "Colorful", "Click" and "Reunion", and a collection of television commercials for each of ClariS' singles.^[6] For the week of June 2, 2014 on Oricon's weekly albums chart, Party Time was reported to have sold 43,146 copies in its first week of sales, peaking at No. 2,^[8] and charted for 12 weeks.^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Drawing"	Toshikazu Kadono	Toshikazu Kadono	Toshikazu Kadono	4:28
2.	"Click"	Kz	Kz	Kz	4:29
3.	"Nemurihime" (眠り姫 Sleeping Beauty)	Ryōsuke Shigenaga	Ryōsuke Shigenaga	Ryōsuke Shigenaga	4:00
4.	"Time"	Koh	Koh	Koh	4:14
5.	"Restart"	Mayuko Maruyama	Mayuko Maruyama	Mayuko Maruyama	4:07
6.	"Koinomi" (コイノミ)	Yoshie Isogai	Takamitsu Ono	Takamitsu Ono, Chihiro Tamaki	3:17
7.	"Step"	Kz	Kz	Kz	4:15
8.	"Dry Flower" (ドライフラワー Dorai Furawā)	Ion Okumura	Makoto Sakuma	Atsushi Yuasa	4:56
9.	"Topaz" (トパーズ Topāzu)	Shō Watanabe	Shō Watanabe	Atsushi Yuasa	3:54
10.	"Kakurenbo" (かくれんぼ Hide and Seek)	Manabu Ida	Manabu Ida	Ryōsuke Shigenaga	5:06
11.	"Colorful" (カラフル Karafuru)	Shō Watanabe	Shō Watanabe	Atsushi Yuasa	4:30
12.	"Orange"	Mayuko Maruyama	Mayuko Maruyama	Mayuko Maruyama	5:14
Total length:					52:46

Bonus DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Colorful (Music Video)" (カラフル Karafuru)
2.	"Click (Music Video)"
3.	"Step (Music Video)"
4.	"TV Anime Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai. Non-credit Opening Eizō" (TVアニメ「俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない。」ノンクレジットオープニング映像 TV Anime Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai. Non-credit Opening Video)
5.	"Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Non-credit Opening Eizō" (「劇場版 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ[新編]叛逆の物語」ノンクレジットオープニング映像 Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Non-credit Opening Video)
6.	"TV Anime Nisekoi First-half Non-credit Opening Eizō" (TVアニメ「ニセコイ」前期ノンクレジットオープニング映像 TV Anime Nisekoi First-half Non-credit Opening Video)
7.	"Tie-up Anime Shutsuen no Seiyū mo Sanka Shita Kaku Single no TV CM-shū" (タイアップアニメ出演の声優も参加した各シングルのTV CM集 TV CM Collection of Each Single with the Voice Actors from the Tie-up Anime Also Participating)

Personnel

ClariS Clara – vocals Alice – vocals Additional musicians Hiroomi Shitara – guitar Atsushi Yuasa – bass

Production Daisuke Katsurada – executive producer Chiemi Kominami – executive producer Shunsuke Muramatsu – executive producer Ken'ichi Nakata – executive producer Tadayuki Kominami – producer Dai Ishikawa – director Takashi Koiwa – mixer Yuji Chinone – mastering Shinobu Matsuoka – management Megumi Hirose – products coordination Tatsuo Murai – art direction, design

References

1. "Alice of Singing Duo ClariS Leaves Unit". Anime News Network. May 26, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
2. "Musical Duo Claris to Perform Nisekoi Anime's Opening Theme". Anime News Network. December 4, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
3. "Step" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
4. "カラフル" [Colorful]. Oricon. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
5. "PARTY TIME(通常盤)" [Party Time (regular edition)] (in Japanese). Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
6. "PARTY TIME【初回生産限定盤】" [Party Time (limited edition)] (in Japanese). Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
7. "PARTY TIME 【完全生産限定盤】CD+"ねんどろいどぷち reunion ver."付き" [Party Time (limited production edition) CD+"Nendoroid Puchi Reunion ver."] (in Japanese). HMV. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
8. "2014年06月02日～2014年06月08日のCDアルバム週間ランキング" [June 2, 2014—June 8, 2014 CD Album Weekly Ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
9. "Party Time" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved September 4, 2014.