Mysterious (album)

Mysterious (ミステリアス, Misuteriasu) is the debut studio album by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo. It was released on January 21, 1988, through Pony Canyon. Mysterious was re-issued in gold CD on March 21, 1991, and later in APO-CD format on December 1, 1995.

Mysterious
Studio album by Shizuka Kudo
Released	January 21, 1988 (1988-01-21)
Genre	Pop
Length	37:15
Label	Pony Canyon
Producer	Yūzō Watanabe
Shizuka Kudo chronology
Mysterious (1988) Shizuka (1988)
Singles from Mysterious
"Kindan no Telepathy" Released: August 31, 1987 "Again" Released: December 2, 1987

Commercial performance

Mysterious debuted at number three on the Oricon Albums Chart, with 62,000 units sold in its first week. It stayed at number three the following week. The album charted in the top 100 for seventeen weeks, of which seven where spent in the top twenty, selling a reported total of 233,000 copies during its run. Mysterious was ranked number 40 on the year-end Oricon Albums Chart.

Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by Tsugutoshi Gotō.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Length
1.	"Kanashimi no Etranger" (哀しみのエトランゼ), Kanashimi no Etoranze, "Sad Stranger")	Jun Taguchi	5:16
2.	"Mysterious" (ミステリアス, Misuteriasu)	Yoshiko Miura	4:55
3.	"Kindan no Telepathy"	Yasushi Akimoto	3:47
4.	"Arashi no Yoru no Serenade" (嵐の夜のセレナーデ, Arashi no Yoru no Serenāde, "Stormy Night Serenade")	Taguchi	5:14
5.	"Passage" (パッセージ, Passēji)	Miura	4:16
6.	"Wine Hitokuchi no Uso" (ワインひとくちの嘘, Wain Hitokuchi no Uso, "Lying After One Sip of Wine")	Gorō Matsui	4:49
7.	"Again"	Akimoto	4:14
8.	"Subete wa Sore Kara" (すべてはそれから, "Everything Began With That")	Akimoto	4:44
Total length:			37:15

Charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position	Sales
Japan Weekly Albums (Oricon)	3	233,000
Japan Yearly Albums (Oricon)	40

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label	Ref.
Japan	January 21, 1988 (1988-01-21)	Vinyl CD cassette	Pony Canyon
	March 21, 1989 (1989-03-21)	Gold CD
	December 1, 1993 (1993-12-01)	APO-CD
Various	March 9, 2016 (2016-03-09)	Digital download