Sugar High

NOT YOUR GOD

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano / Wurlitzer: Takefumi Haketa
• Bass: Hitoshi Watanabe
• Drums: Hitoshi Kusunoki
• Violins: Chieko Kinbara, Yoshihiko Eida
• Viola: Hirohito Furugawara
• Cello: Masami Horisawa

This monotonous English-lyric song was made when Oni was a high school student. According to her, this is a song of "bloodstained Snow White".

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声 - Koe (Voice)

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano: Takefumi Haketa
• Percussion: Ikuo Kakehashi
• Harp: Tomoyuki Asakawa
• Violins: Chieko Kinbara, Haruko Yano, Joe Kuwata, Yukiko Iwato, Naoru Komiya, Nagisa Kiriyama, Noriyo Ohbayashi, Yukinori Murata, Osamu Iyoku, Motoko Fujiie
• Violas: Yuji Yamada, Sachie Ohnuma, Manami Tokutaka
• Cellos: Masami Horisawa, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Yohei Matsuoka
• Contrabass: Kazuki Chiba

This is a song after Oni's own heart. She says she hopes the audience won't fall asleep because this song is so agreeable to the ear.

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Rebel Luck

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano / Rhodes: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic guitar: Takashi Nishiumi
• Bass: Hitoshi Watanabe
• Drums: Hitoshi Kusunoki
• Conga: Ikuo Kakehashi

Words that sink deeply into listeners' mind. "I want people thinking about committing suicide to have a listen to this song. They may change their mind and put it off until tomorrow," says Oni.

"Whenever I lose sight of myself
Or get broken down by despair
All I should do is to recall
That I haven't lost anything"

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Tiger in my Love

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano: Takefumi Haketa
• Bass: Hitoshi Watanabe
• Drums: Toshiyuki Sugino

Made in the year 2000, somewhere between "Gekko" and "Cage". This number was once recorded during the INSOMNIA session but has long been given up for various reasons. Oni says she likes the quarrel-like fake towards the ending. She also believes this kind of aggressiveness is what characterizes her true self. Featured in a Kenwood's commercial.

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Castle · imitation

Extra CD version

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic / electric guitars: Nobuyasu Horikoshi
• Bass: Hitoshi Watanabe
• Drums: Yuichi Togashiki
• Percussion: Marie Ohishi
• Violins: NAOTO, Daisuke Kadowaki, Yu Sugino, Yoshiko Kaneko, Hiroki Mutoh, Shizuka Kawaguchi, Etsuko Hara, Mayumi Takebayashi
• Violas: Kiyo Kido, Keiko Shiga, Koichiro Muroya
• Cellos: Hiroki Kashiwagi, Masashi Abe, Akio Ueki

Album version

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic guitar: Takashi Nishiumi
• Percussion: Ikuo Kakehashi
• Violins: Chieko Kinbara, Yoshihiko Eida
• Viola: Hirohito Furugawara
• Cello: Masami Horisawa

A heroic extra CD version and a gentler ballade on the album, in different tonalities. Also known as the theme for Breath of Fire 5: Dragon Quarter for PlayStation 2.

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漂流の羽根 - Hyoryu no Hane (Drifting Feather)

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano: Takefumi Haketa
• Cello: Hiroki Kashiwagi

A dramatic work with very simple instrumentation. Used as an ending theme for a video drama series.

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砂の盾 - Suna no Tate (Sand Shield)

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano: Takefumi Haketa
• Electric guitar: Takashi Nishiumi
• Percussion: Ikuo Kakehashi

A counterpart to "Rebel Luck", according to Oni. This piece plays a pivotal role in Sugar High, just as "Rasen" did in INSOMNIA and "Shadow" in This Armor.

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King of Solitude

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano / Rhodes: Takefumi Haketa
• Oboe: Gaichi Ishibashi
• Violins: Chieko Kinbara, Haruko Yano, Joe Kuwata, Yukiko Iwato, Naoru Komiya, Nagisa Kiriyama, Noriyo Ohbayashi, Yukinori Murata, Osamu Iyoku, Motoko Fujiie
• Violas: Yuji Yamada, Sachie Ohnuma, Manami Tokutaka
• Cellos: Masami Horisawa, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Yohei Matsuoka

Loneliness sung in warm words. Oni wrote this song picturing to herself Christmas scenes in New York, 10 p.m.

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BORDERLINE

• Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
• Arrangement: Takefumi Haketa
• Acoustic piano / harpsichord: Takefumi Haketa
• Frame drums / tablas: Ikuo Kakehashi
• Violins: Hijiri Kuwano, Yukiko Iwato
• Viola: Haruko Yano
• Cello: Haruki Matsuba

This is a kind of song that has rarely been heard from the J-Pop world. "This is maniac but stays in the mainstream. I like my breathing felt in this work," says Oni.

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