Hotaru no Hikari / IKIMONOGAKARI / ホタルノヒカリ / いきものがかり / Hotaru no Hikari / IKIMONOGAKARI

M-01 - TV Anime "Naruto Shippuden" 5th Opening Theme
Composer: Yoshiki Mizuno
Arranger: Ryo Eguchi
Lyricist: Yoshiki Mizuno
Strings Arranger: Crusher Kimura
sound produced & arranged by Ryo Eguchi (Stereo Fabrication of Youth)
drums: Yu-ya Ishii
bass: Hideaki Yamasaki (school food punishment)
acoustic & electric guitar: Ritsuo Mitsui (THE YOUTH)
piano & programming: Ryo Eguchi
strings: Crusher Kimura Strings
recorded & mixed by Toshiro Kai (BOND&Co.)
recorded at Sony Music Studios Tokyo, Bunkamura Studio, Epic Nogizaka Studio
mixed at Sony Music Studios Tokyo
assisted by Motohiro Noguchi, Yuta Yoneyama, Eisuke Kumon (Sony Music Studios Tokyo)
                 Masahito Komori (Bunkamura Studio)

Ritsuo Mitsui (THE YOUTH) by courtesy of BM tunes

M-02
Composer: Hotaka Yamashita
Arranger: Atsushi Yuasa
Lyricist: Hotaka Yamashita
sound produced & arranged by Atsushi Yuasa
drums: Yasuo Sano
bass: Nobuhiro Mitomo
acoustic & electric guitar: Kenji Fujii
piano: Toshiya Shibata
programming: Atsushi Yuasa
recorded by Takayuki Saito
                  Hiroaki Okuda (Sony Music Studios Tokyo)
mixed by Takayuki Saito
recorded & mixed at Sony Music Studios Tokyo
assisted by Koichi Harada, Masayuki Haru (Sony Music Studios Tokyo)


ikimono-gakari
Kiyoe Yoshioka (Vocal)
Yoshiki Mizuno (Electric Guitar & Background Vocal)
Hotaka Yamashita (Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocal & Harmonica)

mastered by Yuji Chinone (Sony Music Studios Tokyo)
mastered at Sony Music Studios Tokyo

directed by Hiromu Okada, Takaaki Taguchi (Epic Records Japan)

artist promotion: Junichiro Kurihara (Epic Records Japan)

artist manager: 加藤正朗, 宇佐美安奈 (cube)
management chief: Masayoshi Ikeda (cube)

sales promotion: Keitaro Hayashi, Akiko Kobayashi, 笠森麻矢 (Sony Music Distribution)
web promotion: Yojiro Nonaka, Miho Iwamura, 鈴木絵理奈 (Sony Music Network)

art direction: Toshiyuki Suzuki (united lounge tokyo)
design: Ryoko Kawagishi (united lounge tokyo)
photography: Hiroshi Nomura (野村写真)
styling: Masaaki Mitsuzono
hair & make-up: Eriko Ishida (AIR NOTES)
hair & make-up assistant: Masako Ide
production coordination: Chiho Sugiyama (Sony Music Communications)

executive producers: Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Yorio Isshi (Epic Records Japan)
                               Hiroyuki Kitamaki, Noriko Takahashi (cube)

special thanks
"Naruto Shippuden", Masashi Kishimoto, SHUEISHA, TV TOKYO, PIERROT
Ai Abe, Takamitsu Inoue (Aniplex), Yoshinobu Tanizawa (Sony Music Entertainment)
Takashi Yokoo, Ryosuke Mozumi (FACE MUSIC), Naohito Yasuda (BOND&Co.)
Sachiko Kodera, Yumiko Tanaka, 阿部一恵 (Bunkamura Studio)
Yumi Hanada, Akemi Goto (Sony Music Studios Tokyo)
Koichi Haruki (Epic Records Japan)