Unmei no Roulette Mawashite

"Unmei no Roulette Mawashite"
Single by Zard
from the album Eien
Released	September 17, 1998
Genre	J-pop, pop rock
Label	B-Gram Records
Zard singles chronology
Iki mo Dekinai (1998) Unmei no Roulette Mawashite (1998) Atarashii Door ~Fuyu no Himawari~ (1998) Good Day (1998)

"Unmei no Roulette Mawashite" (運命のルーレット廻して Spinning the Roulette of Destiny) is Zard's 25th single released on September 17, 1998 under B-Gram Records label. The single reached #1 rank first week. It charted for 9 weeks and sold 247,000 copies.^[1] When Izumi Sakai died, it was elected as her fourth best song on the Oricon polls.^[2]

Track list

All songs are written by Izumi Sakai and arranged by Daisuke Ikeda

1. Unmei no Roulette Mawashite (運命のルーレット廻して)
   • composer: Seiichirou Kuribayashi
   • OA(on air), single and album version have different arrangements
     • the song was used as 4th opening theme for anime Detective Conan
       • OA version of this song was fixed weekly during airings many times before its official release of single
       • OA ver. wasn't released until 2012 in Zard Album Collection in Premium Disc
     • In 2016, the pop girl group La PomPon covered this song to celebrate ZARD's 25th anniversary of debut and it became the 50th ending theme for anime Detective Conan^[3]
2. Shoujo no Koro ni Modotta Mitai ni (少女の頃に戻ったみたいに)
   • composer: Aika Ohno
   • for first time Aika Ohno composed song for ZARD
     • the song was used for Detective Conan Movie The Fourteenth Target as theme song
3. Unmei no Roulette Mawashite (運命のルーレット廻して) (Original karaoke) ^[4]

References

1. Official rankings (in Japanese) http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/26939/products/123594/1/
2. "心に残るZARDの名曲、1位は「負けないで」" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
3. News about La Pompon covering ZARD song (in Japanese) http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2015/11/16/kiji/K20151116011518900.html
4. Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/JBDJ-1041