ASCENDEAD MASTER

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Versailles 1st major single: ASCENDEAD MASTER
Release date: 2009.06.24
Label: WARNER MUSIC JAPAN
Catalog number: WPCL-10692, WPZL-30130, WPZL-30132, WPZL-30134
Price: 1,000 yen, 1,300 yen (limited editions)
Length: 13 minutes (regular edition)
Chart positions: 8→12→18→15→25→3 (daily chart)
  
Versailles major debut single. Each limited edition features a piece of a 15-minute short movie featuring Versailles. The regular edition features the B-side "Gekkakou", which is the first Versailles song with lyrics penned by HIZAKI.
 
People who bought all the three limited editions of the single could attend the secret events commemorating Versailles major debut on June 27th in Osaka and on June 28th in Tokyo.

tracklist

CREDITS

Vocals: KAMIJO
Guitar: HIZAKI
Guitar: TERU
Bass: Jasmine You
Drums: YUKI
 
[DVD]
Directed by Yusuke Kinoshita & Assassin
 
Cast:
Kateryna Sostanovskaya
Lyena Yonekura
Nikol Koledenkova
Gaetano Totaro
 
Jonathan Sherr, Leila Ali, Ian Gibb, Atsushi Oda, Nozomi, Ryo Isaka, Sabrina Surovec, Eric Agnew, Maya Berkelman, Arno Le Gall, James Blumer, Damon Mackey, Stefano Russiani, Ricardo Balzarini
 
Warner Music Japan:
Sales Planning: Kenichi Tokoro
A&R: Masanori Hirokawa
Supervising Producer: Kyoshi Yoshihara
Executive Producer: Takashi Yoshida
 
Delacroix: Hiroki Yamashita, Hirotsugu Imanaka, Ayaka Yamazaki, Hironobu Kashima
Crew: Tomonari Nakane, Kazuaki Mutoh
Costumes: ID-JAPAN
Stills Photographer: Takaaki Henmi
Executive Producer: Mayumi Kojima
 
Production Management: Maximage Inc.
Producer: Assassin
Production Manager: Yumiko Matsuoka
Production Assistants: Yohei Yukimoto, Kumiko Asada
 
Assistant Directors: Ogaway, Sumito Munekata, Mikiya Hirate, Kanako Matsuzaki
Story Board Artist: Assassin
 
Graphic Art: Ayako Nakamura
Costume: Ogaway, Versailles, Takashi Natori
 
Casting Director: Ryo Isaka
Casting Associates: OS CREATION
Extra Casting: Group Echo, Geiyu
 
Cinematographers: Norishige Arizumi, Hideo Oishi, Fumimasa Miyazawa, Assassin, Ogaway
Lighting Director:  Mitsuru Sasaki
Digital Image Technician:  Hiroyuki Yoshimura
Sound Recording: Norihisa Kashiyama
Assistant Cinematographers: Hirotaka Koide, Junnosuke Matsuyama, Mikiya Hirate
Chief Grip: Kaoru Sasaki
Second Grip: Ryota Ide
Lighting Assistants: Koutarou Tamada, Junko Aono, Taiji Kawashima, Naoya Imaoka, Yusuke Eguchi, Yuki Ootani, Yasushi Nishimura
 
Art Designer: Reiko Goto
Assistant Art Designer: Akiko Saegusa
 
Chief Make-up Artist: Eriko Matsumoto
Assistant Make-up Artist: Mihoko Hatanaka, Junko Irikura
Nailist: Megu
 
Special Make-up by
Chief Make-up Artist: Tomo Hyakutake
Assistant Make-up Artists: Keiko Nakanishi, Manabu Namikaya
 
Editor & Sound Designer: Assassin
Assistant Editors: Sumito Munetaka, Ogaway, Mikiya Hirate, Yohei Yukimoto
 
Visual Effects: MAXIMAGE INC.
VFX Director: Assassin
3DCG & Compisite Artist: Mikiya Hirate
Motion Graphic Artist: Yohei Yukimoto
 
Special Thanks: Yutaka Ohashi, Natsuki Kunimoto, Satomi Watanabe, Hiroshi Otani, Mitomo, Azabu Leasing Corporation, Linda & Assassin & Vivaldi, Minako Yoshiwara
 
Locations: Gakushikaikan, Mediage, Pranear, Regus Japan K.K., St. Timothy's Church (Tokyo), Warner Music Japan

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editions

OFFICIAL STORE BONUSES

Jishuban Club: original photo set and comment DVD*, original photo

Brand-X: comment DVD (2 editions)

Like an Edison: original photo card set^, original photo card set and comment DVD*

disk union: comment CD-R*

GURUGURU: comment CD^

Puresound: poster

CDJapan/NeoWing: poster (limited edition), trading card (regular edition)

*Purchase of all 4 editions needed.
^Puchase of all 3 limited editions needed.