Jinsei×Boku= (人生×僕= Jinsei Kakete Boku wa, lit. Life Times Me Equals) is the sixth studio album by the Japanese rock band, One Ok Rock. It was released on March 6, 2013 and reached second place on the Oricon weekly chart. This album brought One Ok Rock to worldwide popularity, especially after the first single, "The Beginning", was selected as official soundtrack in the live action adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and stayed for 45 weeks. The next single, "Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps", was featured on the DmC: Devil May Cry ("Nothing Helps") game and used for Suzuki Swift TV commercials ("Deeper Deeper").
A DVD special bundled with the album released for limited pre-order only, consists of an acoustic performance in the studio of "The Beginning" and "The Same As...".
The song "The Beginning" can be heard in the 2012 film Rurouni Kenshin. "Clock Strikes" was featured in the PS3/PS4 Sega game Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin!. The song "Be The Light" was used in the animated film Space Pirate Captain Harlock, starring Shun Oguri and Haruma Miura.
Background and development After their first two nights live in Yokohama Arena, One Ok Rock stated that they "wanted to begin recording a new album." Songs like "The Beginning" and "Clock Strikes", had been made long before Zankyo Reference was released. In mid-2012, they were asked to make a song for a new live adaption of the popular manga Rurouni Kenshin. The single "The Beginning" was used for the live adaption movie.
Promotion One Ok Rock held their first national arena tour in 2013, engaged more than 100,000 audiences, six cities and 11 days, started from 11 May to 6 June 2013. They recorded 22 songs from their second day in Yokohama Arena released on Blu-ray and DVD, entitled Jinsei×Kimi= (人生×君=) Tour Live&Film, together with a one-hour documentation of the tour.
Later the band conducted their first world tour, consisting of concerts in 11 countries of Asia and Europe from October to December. Additional dates were added for Los Angeles and New York in early 2015. In the spring of 2014, they participated in Vans Warped Tour, successfully reaching new audiences abroad.
Track listing
Notes There are seven kinds of music videos uploaded on the band's Official YouTube including English subtitles, Japanese subtitles, French subtitles, Chinese subtitles, Spanish subtitles, Portuguese subtitles, and no subtitles. The contents are the same in all versions. The song was made for their friend, Kei Goto (also known as K), vocalist of Pay Money To My Pain who died in the morning of December 30, 2012 due to acute heart failure. Pronounced rokku (ロック, "Rock"), the track's name is an answer to the album title: "Life Times Me Equals Rock". The song title is a goroawase.
Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of Jinsei×Boku=.
One Ok Rock Takahiro "Taka" Moriuchi — lead vocals Toru Yamashita — guitar Ryota Kohama — bass guitar Tomoya Kanki — drums
Additional musicians Makoto Minagawa — piano (4, 6, 9, 10) Kiyohide Ura — piano (13) Mio Okamura — 1st violin (2) Shohei Yoshida — 2nd violin (2) Mikiyo Kikuchi — viola (2) Robin Dupuy — cello (2) Yoshinobu Takeshita — contrabass (2} Ayano Kasahara — cello (9) Mari Masumoto — cello (9) Design Kazuaki Seki — art direction Daichi Shiono — design
Production Akkin — programming (1), strings arrangement (2, 9) Kenichi Arai — recording, engineering Tomoki Kagami — recording, engineering John Feldmann — mixing (1–3, 5, 7, 8, 10–12) Tommy English — mixing (1–3, 5, 7, 8, 10–12) Tue Madsen — mixing (4, 9, 13) Chris Lord-Alge — mixing (6) Ryota Hattanda — assistant Yusuke Watanabe — assistant Yuji Nakamura — assistant Kimihiro Nakase — assistant Naoki Iwata — assistant Ted Jensen — mastering Kazutaka Minemori — guitar and bass technician Yoshiro "Masuo" Arimatsu — drum technician Jamil — English translations
Charts
Weekly charts + Weekly chart performance for Jinsei×Boku= Chart (2013) Peak positions Japanese Albums (Oricon) 2 Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan) 2
Year-end charts +Yearly chart performance for Jinsei×Boku= Chart (2013) Peak positions Japanese Albums (Oricon) 24 Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan) 19
Singles Title Year Peak positions JPNOricon JPNBillboard"The Beginning"2012 5 2"The Same As..." — 52"Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps"2013 2 3"Clock Strikes" — 27
Certifications
Accolades +Awards and nominations for Jinsei×Boku= Award ceremony Year Category Result CD Shop Awards 2014Finalist Award
References
External links
One Ok Rock discography