is the full-length debut album by

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trio led by former

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. Meant to commemorate the band's first anniversary as a unit, the release date actually came 13 months after the release of their first single. It contains all five of the band's single A-sides — "Koi no Nukegara", "Kacchoiize! JAPAN", "Ajisai Ai Ai Monogatari", "Hitorjime", and "Kurenai no Kisetsu" — plus several songs (and two opening and closing skits) centered on the "hotel room" concept of the album. The album caps a prolific year for Ishikawa, who in the 13 months between V-u-den's first single and the release of the album, had also recorded three final singles and one last studio album ( Ai no Dai 6 Kan) with Morning Musume, done one-off singles with fellow Morning Musume member

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''. This activity may have had something to do with the lengthy wait for V-u-den's first full-length album to see the light of day.

CD track listing

# チェックイン (Check In) # カッチョイイゼ！JAPAN (Kacchoiize! JAPAN) # 愛～スイートルーム～ (Ai ~Suite Room~) # 紫陽花アイ愛物語 (Ajisai Ai Ai Monogatari) # 恋のヌケガラ (Koi no Nukegara) # Tea Break # ひとりじめ (Hitorijime) # クラクラ　ディナータイム (Kurakura Dinnertime) # クレナイの季節 (Kurenai no Kisetsu) # 唇から愛をちょうだい (Kuchibiru Kara Ai wo Choudai) # パジャマな時間 (Pajama na Jikan) # まごころの道 (Magokoro no Michi) # チェックアウト (Check Out)

Personnel

- lead and backing vocals, spoken word *

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- lead and backing vocals, spoken word *

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- lead and backing vocals, spoken word *Kotaro Egami - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming *MIT Studio - sound effects on "Check In" and "Check Out" *Hideyuki "Daichi" Suzuki - guitar, bass, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming *Hiroaki Takeuchi - backing vocals *Shouichiro Hirata - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming, backing vocals *Takanori Tsunoda - guitar, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming * Atsuko Inaba - backing vocals *Ogu - backing vocals *Akira - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming, backing vocals *Jun Abe - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming *Kenji Suzuki - guitar *Nao Tanaka - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming *Yuichi Takahashi - guitar, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming *Shunsuke Suzuki] - guitar, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming *Chino - backing vocals *Ian Hartley - spoken word *Kenny Scott - spoken word *Isabelle Bruckert - spoken word *

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- composer, backing vocals

Recording personnel

*Nobuyasu Umemoto - recording coordination *Kansuke Yamamoto - recording coordination *Kazumi Matsui - recording engineer, mix engineer *Shinnosuke Kobayashi - recording engineer *Ryo Wakizawa - mix engineer *Takeshi Yanagisawa - mix engineer *Hironobu Kitajima - mix engineer *Youhei Horiuchi - 2nd engineer *Mitsuko Koike - mastering engineer {{Authority control V-u-den albums Piccolo Town-King Records albums 2005 debut albums