Wonder (Mamoru Miyano album)

"JS"
Wonder
	CD-only version
Studio album by Mamoru Miyano
Released	August 4, 2010
Genre	Pop, swing, rock
Length	56:18
Label	King Records
Mamoru Miyano chronology
Singles from Wonder
	"JS"; Released: July 29, 2009; "Refrain"; Released: October 21, 2009;

Last updated February 24, 2019

Wonder is Japanese voice actor Mamoru Miyano's second studio album. It was released on August 4, 2010 by King Records. Two singles were released to promote the album, "JS" and "Refrain".

Voice acting in Japan is acting as a narrator or as an actor in radio plays or as a character actor in anime and video games. It also involves performing voice-overs for non-Japanese movies and television programs. Because Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world, voice acting in Japan has a far greater prominence than voice acting in most other countries.

Mamoru Miyano is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer from Saitama Prefecture. He is best known for his roles on Steins;Gate, Durarara!!, Death Note, Soul Eater, Wolf's Rain, Ouran High School Host Club, Ajin: Demi-Human, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Tokyo Ghoul, Free!, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Hunter x Hunter, Chihayafuru, Bungo Stray Dogs, Uta no Prince-sama and Zombieland Saga. At the 2007 Seiyuu Awards he was nominated for two awards for his role as Light Yagami in Death Note and in 2008, he won the "Best Voice Actor" award at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair. At the 2008 Seiyuu Awards, Miyano won "Best Lead Actor Award" for his role as Setsuna F. Seiei in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and as Hakugen Rikuson in Kōtetsu Sangokushi.

King Record Co., Ltd. is a Japanese record company founded in 1931 as a division of the Japanese publisher Kodansha. It initially began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s. It later became part of the Otowa Group. Today, King Records is one of Japan's largest record companies which is owned by a multinational entity. The headquarters for this record label are in Tokyo.

Album information

The album was released in two formats; the regular CD format and a CD+DVD format.^[1] The latter contained the promotional videos of "JS", "Refrain", and the album's opening track "Wonder Love", as well as the making of "Wonder Love".^[1]

DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including MJJ Productions Inc, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It featured an audio layer intended to be compatible with CD players on one side and a standard DVD layer on the other. In this respect it was similar to, but distinct from, the DVDplus developed in Europe by Dieter Dierks and covered by European patents.

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie-in marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song. Tie-ins and merchandising can be used for toys or for food or other products. Although the origins of the music video date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they again came into prominence in the 1980s when the channel MTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these kinds of videos were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip".

Singles

The first single released was "JS" (stylized as "J☆S"), on July 29, 2009.^[2] The single peaked at No. 22 on the Oricon single charts and charted for two weeks.^[2]

"JS" is Japanese voice actor Mamoru Miyano's fourth single, released on July 29, 2009. It peaked at #24 on the Oricon charts.

Oricon Inc., established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as Original Confidence Inc., which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.

Track listing

CD
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Wonder Love"	Mamoru Miyano	Jin Nakamura	4:34
2.	"Steal!!"	Juli Shono	Eiji Kawai	4:56
3.	"Sea Tide"	Shoichiro Hirata	Shoichiro Hirata	4:54
4.	"Ao no Tsubasa" (蒼ノ翼 "Blue Wings")	Noriyasu Agematsu (Elements Garden)	Junpei Fujita (Elements Garden)	4:07
5.	"Refrain"	Mamoru Miyano	Jin Nakamura	4:48
6.	"Body Rock"	STY	STY	3:50
7.	"Sakasama Chikyū" (逆さま地球 "Inverted Earth")	Ryoca	Jun Ichikawa	4:52
8.	"JS" (Stylized as "J☆S". Stands for "Just Smile")	0 Soul 7	0 Soul 7	4:35
9.	"Splash Blue (Wondering Lil Mix)"	Ucio	Tsuge	4:28
10.	"Hakuchūmu" (白昼夢 "Daydream")	Yūsuke Toriumi	Kōsuke Noma	4:27
11.	"My World"	Tomomi Narimoto	Koutaro Egami	4:47
12.	"Not Alone"	Ucio	Tsuge	5:56
Total length:				56:18^[3]

Source:^[3]^[4]

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