"Dreams" is the 10th single by High and Mighty Color

High and Mighty Color

High and Mighty Color was a Japanese metal band active from 2003 to 2010. They notably had two vocalists; a male and a female.- Formation and Anti-Nobunaga :...

, it was released on August 1, 2007.

Overview

"Dreams" is the first single from the band since January 2007 and their first since "Over" to contain more than one B-side

A-side and B-side

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. The title track of the single is used as the second ending theme for the anime Darker than Black

Darker than Black

is an anime television series, created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones. It premiered across Japan from April 5, 2007 on MBS, TBS, and its affiliated broadcast stations, with its satellite television premiere in Japan on Animax in May 2007. The music for the series is...

and has been described as a ballad and about the sadness of breaking up. The first pressing of the single came with four exclusive character stickers from Darker than Black. The single is unlike any other single in the fact that rather than crediting "High and Mighty Color" for writing the lyrics and composing the music, "Dreams" gives the specifics for who wrote the lyrics on some of the songs. The single charted the 18th place on Oricon

Oricon

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 during its first day and would go on to obtain the 24th spot on the weekly charts.

Music video

Released July 15, 2007, the music video for Dreams opens up to an unseen figure dropping a mass of broken crystal from her hands. Maki is then seen getting a hair cut as the song begins, with Yuusuke on a couch, singing in the background. Maki is then shown standing alone before showing up in a room with a large window. Yuusuke appears not too long after and he and Maki switch from standing in the background and foreground. As a myriad of bright hues cover the screen, Yuusuke and Maki are seen singing together in a white room, each facing away from the other. The girl dropping the broken crystals at the beginning of the video is then revealed to be Maki. During the bridge, other members of the band are seen playing their instruments in the room with one window, the edges of the screen are colored bright blue and yellow with shots of Maki's face interspersed. Yuusuke and Maki are then seen in the room once more before the screen returns to Maki singing by herself in the room with one window. Another quick shot of Makai and Yuusuke in the white room is shown for a few seconds before switching to Yuusuke singing alone in a room and the other members once again showing off their playing. Maki then returns to her hair cut and shots of her singing on a yellow tinted screen are interspersed at different times before the song and video ends on a close up of Maki.

Track list

1. "Dreams" – 5:22
   1. Lyrics: Maakii & Yuusuke
   2. Music: HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
2. "Feel Like Dance" – 4:19
   1. Lyrics: Maakii & Yuusuke
   2. Music: HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
3. – 3:41
   1. Lyrics: MEG, mACKAz, & Yuusuke
   2. Music: MEG
4. "Dreams (Instrumental)" – 5:22
   1. Music: MEG

Personnel

• Maakii & Yuusuke — vocals
  Singing
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• Kazuto — guitar
  Guitar
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• Meg — guitar
  Guitar
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• Mackaz — bass
  Bass guitar
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• Sassy — drums
  Drum kit
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Charting

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Week Rank	Sales
18	19	24	35	33	47	24	5,126
39	36	50	42	40	39	39	39	2,874
x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x,xxx