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This Armor

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Released
  
March 6, 2002

Language
  
Japanese, English

Artist
  
Chihiro Onitsuka

Producer
  
Takefumi Haketa

Genres
  
J-pop, Alternative rock

Length
  
51:00

This Armor (2002)
  
Sugar High (2002)

Release date
  
6 March 2002

Label
  
MSR

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Recorded
  
at Melody Star, Landmark, and Artworks Mouri Studios in 2001 - 2002

Similar
  
Chihiro Onitsuka albums, J-pop albums

This Armor is the second studio album recorded by Japanese singer-songwriter Chihiro Onitsuka, released in March 2002. It features two lead singles "infection", "Ryūseigun", and remake versions of "Arrow of Pain" (B-Side of a single "Gekko" in 2000) and "Little Beat Rifle" (double A-Side to "infection").

Contents

Onitsuka described the album as "a sequel to Insomnia", her chart-topping debut which came out in 2001. Like its predecessor, the title of the album was named by the artist, simply because she liked the sound of the phrase. Cover art was taken by photographer Mika Ninagawa in Miyako-jima, Okinawa prefecture.

This Armor debuted and peaked at the number-three on the Japanese Oricon albums chart and remained the top-300 for 25 weeks, with estimated sales of over half a million copies. The album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan upon its release, for shipments of over 400,000 units.

Track listing

All songs arranged and produced by Takefumi Haketa.

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes of the album

Songs

1ROLLIN’5:08
2Ibara No Umi5:07
3Shadow5:43

References

This Armor Wikipedia