Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari

"Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari"
Single by Supercell
from the album Today Is A Beautiful Day
ReleasedAugust 12, 2009 (2009-08-12)
Recorded2009
Genre
Length5:40
LabelSony Music
Songwriter(s)Ryo
Producer(s)Ryo
Supercell singles chronology
"Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari"
(2009)
"Sayonara Memories"
(2010)

"Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" (君の知らない物語, lit. "The Story You Don't Know") is a J-pop song by the Japanese band Supercell, written by Ryo. Supercell released it as their debut single in August 2009 by Sony Music.[1] The title track was the ending theme song to the 2009 Bakemonogatari anime series, and the B-side track "Love & Roll" was the theme song for the 2009 Cencoroll anime film.[1] A music video was produced for "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari", directed by Hirohisa Sasaki. Lyrically, the song deals with an unrequited love.

This single was the first release by Supercell which did not use the Vocaloid singing synthesizer Hatsune Miku as the vocalist, as they had done for their debut album Supercell (2009). Instead, Supercell employed the singer Nagi Yanagi, a vocalist who had previously submitted cover versions of songs to the Nico Nico Douga video sharing website under the name Gazelle. The single peaked at No. 5 on Japan's weekly Oricon singles chart, and in February 2010 was awarded a Gold Disc by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for having exceeded 100,000 copies shipped in a single year.

  1. ^ a b "Supercell 1st single 「君の知らない物語」" [Supercell 1st single "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari"] (in Japanese). Supercell. Retrieved July 11, 2010.