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Curtain Call (Kis-My-Ft2 single)

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"Curtain Call"
Single by Kis-My-Ft2
A-side"Curtain Call"
B-side"Meramera", "Shindo" (Regular),
"Yummy, lovely night" (Regular)
ReleasedJanuary 8, 2025 (2025-01-08) (Japan)
GenreJ-Pop
LabelMENT Recording
Kis-My-Ft2 singles chronology
"Heartbreaker / C'monova"
(2024) 		"Curtain Call"
(2025)
Music video
"Curtain Call" on YouTube
"Meramera" on YouTube

Curtain Call (カーテンコール) is the 32st single by Japanese boy band Kis-My-Ft2. It was released on January 8, 2025.

Overview

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The title track, "Curtain Call," is about the sex appeal of adults as the members of Kis-My-Ft2 transport the audience into an unrealistic world like a scene from a movie.[1] The music video features intense dance scenes as well as sexy scenes that only their thirties can express, and has received more than 6.5 million views on YouTube within a week of its release.[2] Since one of the members, Takashi Nikaido, had been on medical leave since September of the previous year, this song was recorded by the five members except Nikaido. However, in the music video, they performed with a space left open for one person to indicate Nikaido's place. Also, in the TV music show they appeared in for promotion, the vacant space was illuminated by a green spotlight, Nikaido's member color, suggesting Nikaido's presence.

The song "Meramera" on the B-Side is the theme song for the anime Cardfight!! Vanguard Divines Deluxe Arc (2025) in which Miyata is the lead voice actor, and in the music video Miyata plays the center role in the dance performance.[3] The music video for this song was decided to be a dance performance at Miyata's request, "because I want the kids who know Kis-My-Ft2 from the anime to think it's cool too."[4] The music video also features a dynamic dance scene in which 24 dancers and Kis-My-Ft2's performance are fused together. The music video, too, has received more than 4.2 million views on YouTube in just one month since its release.[1]

The world view of "Curtain Call"

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Is this reality or a dream? It is as if Kiss Mai is leading listeners into a scene from a movie.[5][6] Avexnet describes the world of this song as follows. You ride an elevator to the basement of a building in the metropolis, where you find the members of Kis-My-Ft2 dressed in chic suits. There, their secret shows are held on a purple stage. They captivate with their daring and graceful dance. Waiting beyond is an apartment divided into six glass-walled rooms, where you can peek into their off-screen lives. Yuta Tamamori's room has a bathtub and a vase of flowers, revealing the muscles in Tamamori's back that he worked out for the TV series (I Wanna Punch That Scumbag!) he was filming at this time. Toshiya Miyata lounges on the bed in his bare shirt, while Taisuke Fujigaya plays with fruit, takes a shower, and does not hide his sexiness. Kento Senga, dressed in a black sleeveless shirt, looks provocatively at the camera in the pink lighting, while Wataru Yokoo sits on the sofa with a glass of rocks in his hand and a melancholy expression on his face. The room with the single-seat sofa in the upper left corner is Takashi Nikaido's room, and the fact that Nikaido's place is vacated at the end of the dance indicates that Kis-My-Ft2 is a six-member group.[4]

Commercial performance

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On January 9, 2025, Billboard Japan reported that Curtain Call sold 91,395 copies on the daily charts and was currently at the top.[7]

Package specification

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Four versions were released .

  • First edition A (JWCD-98671/B)
  • First edition B (JWCD-98672/B)
  • Regular edition (JWCD-98673)
  • Family club limited edition (JWC1-98674/B)[8]

The pre-order bonus for this single included an A4 size clear poster for the first pressing A, a B5 size 2025 sticker sheet for the first pressing B, and three types of other jackets for the standard pressing.[9] In addition, a card with a serial number will be enclosed in the first-run discs A, B and the standard disc, and a special website will allow users to view videos from the previous year's live documentaries and recording videos of “Shindo” and “Yummy, lovely night” for a limited time.[10]

Track listing

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CD

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  • Included only on Regular edition after "Shindo"
  1. "Curtain Call" [3:20].
  2. "Meramera" [3:08].
  3. "Shindo" (Tamamori and Miyata) [3:42] (Regular ver. only)
  4. "Yummy, lovely night" (Fujigaya, Senga and Yokoo) [3:12] (Regular ver. only)
  5. "Curtain Call -Instrumental-" (Regular ver. only)
  6. "Meramera -Instrumental-" (Regular ver. only)
  7. "Shindo -Instrumental-" (Regular ver. only)
  8. "Yummy, lovely night -Instrumental-" (Regular ver. only)

DVD

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  • First Edition A
  1. "Curtain Call” Music Video
  2. "Curtain Call” Music Video & Jacket Filming Making Documentary
  3. "Meramera” Music Video Filming Making Documentary
  • First Edition B
  1. "Meramera" Music Video
  2. New year Kis-My-Challenge 2025
  • Family club limited edition
  1. "The Witch and the Six Sleeping Princes” Digest
  2. Loved One (Kis-My-Ft2 Dome Tour 2024 Synopsis / July 7, 2024 at Tokyo Dome)
  3. Connecting! (Kis-My-Ft2 Dome Tour 2024 Synopsis / July 7, 2024 at Tokyo Dome)
  4. Curtain Call solo angle Room short ver.
  5. Curtain Call solo angle Elevator short ver.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Kis-My-Ft2、32枚目のシングル「Curtain Call」本日発売". barks (in Japanese). 2025-01-08. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  2. ^ "【Kis-My-Ft2】通算32枚目となるニューシングル「Curtain Call」本日発売！！". avexnet (in Japanese). 2025-01-08. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  3. ^ "Kis-My-Ft2新曲がアニメ「ヴァンガード」オープニングテーマに決定、MV公開". natalie (in Japanese). 2024-12-17. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  4. ^ a b "Kis-My-Ft2の2025年は「Curtain Call」で幕開け！". avexnet (in Japanese). 2025-01-08. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  5. ^ "Kis-My-Ft2 ニューシングル『Curtain Call』2025年1月8日発売！". tower record (in Japanese). 2024-11-07. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  6. ^ "【通常盤(CD)】Curtain Call". mu-mu shop (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  7. ^ "【先ヨミ】Kis-My-Ft2『Curtain call』9.1万枚で現在シングル1位走行中". billboard-japan (in Japanese). 2025-01-09. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  8. ^ "Curtain Call". Family Club (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  9. ^ "32nd Single「Curtain call」各種特典&収録内容公開！". MENT Recording Inc. (in Japanese). 2024-12-03. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  10. ^ "【通常盤(CD)】Curtain call". mumo (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-01-10.
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