Jinsei×Boku=

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 first place on the Oricon weekly chart.^[1] 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.^[2] The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and stayed for 45 weeks.^[3] 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").^[4]

Jinsei×Boku=
Studio album by One Ok Rock
Released	March 6, 2013 (2013-03-06)
Studio	Victor Studios Heartbeat Studio Innig Recording Hostelry Alive Studio Foxy Studios
Genre	Alternative rock post-hardcore emo
Length	53:50
Language	Japanese English
Label	A-Sketch
Producer	One Ok Rock Akkin
One Ok Rock chronology
Zankyo Reference (2011) Jinsei×Boku= (2013) 35xxxv (2015)
Singles from Jinsei×Boku =
"The Beginning" Released: August 22, 2012 "The Same As..." Released: December 15, 2012 "Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps" Released: January 9, 2013 "Clock Strikes" Released: February 26, 2013

A DVD special bundled with the album released for limited pre-order only, consist 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!.^[5] The song "Be The Light" was used in the animated film Space Pirate Captain Harlock, starring Shun Oguri and Haruma Miura.^[6]

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 and insert them into Blu-ray and DVD, entitled Jinsei×Kimi= (人生×君=) Tour Live&Film, together with the one-hour documentation of this tour. Later the band conducted their first world tour, consisted in 11 countries of Asia and Europe from October to December. An additional date 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.

Accolades

Awards and nominations for Jinsei×Boku=

Award ceremony	Year	Category	Result	Ref.
CD Shop Awards	2014	Finalist Award	Won	^[7]

Track listing

Jinsei×Boku= – Standard edition^[8]

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Introduction〜Where Idiot Should Go〜"	-	Toru Yamashita	Yamashita Akkin	1:12
2.	"Ending Story??"	Takahiro Moriuchi	Yamashita Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Ryota Kohama Tomoya Kanki Akkin	4:15
3.	"Onion!"	Moriuchi	Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	3:18
4.	"The Beginning"	Moriuchi	Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	4:55
5.	"Clock Strikes"	Moriuchi	Yamashita Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	3:55
6.	"Be the Light^[A]"	Moriuchi	Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	5:39
7.	"Nothing Helps"	Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	4:48
8.	"Juvenile"	Moriuchi	Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	3:59
9.	"All Mine"	Moriuchi	Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	4:36
10.	"Smiling Down^[B]"	Moriuchi	Yamashita Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	4:25
11.	"Deeper Deeper"	Moriuchi	Kanki Kohama	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	3:35
12.	"69^[C]"	Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	4:37
13.	"The Same As..."	Moriuchi	Moriuchi	Moriuchi Yamashita Kohama Kanki Akkin	4:36
Total length:					53:50

Jinsei×Boku= – First press limited edition (bonus track)^[9]

No.	Title	Length
13.	"The Same As..." (With "ワンオクロック劇場" hidden track)	16:15
Total length:		65:27

Jinsei×Boku= – Limited edition (bonus DVD)^[9]

No.	Title	Length
14.	"The Beginning" (Studio Jam Session)
15.	"The Same As..." (Studio Jam Session)

Notes

^A 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.^[10]

^B 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.^[11]

^C Pronounced rokku (ロック, "Rock"), the track's name is an answer to the album title: "Life Times Me Equals Rock".^[12] The song title is a goroawase.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Jinsei×Boku=.^[13]

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)^[14] 2 Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan)^[15] 2

Year-end charts Yearly chart performance for Jinsei×Boku= Chart (2013) Peak positions Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[16] 24 Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan)^[17] 19

Singles

Title	Year	Peak positions
		JPN Oricon	JPN Billboard
"The Beginning"	2012	5^[18]	2^[19]
"The Same As..."		—	52^[20]
"Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps"	2013	2^[21]	3^[22]
"Clock Strikes"		—	27^[23]

Certifications

Certifications and sales for Jinsei×Boku=

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)^[24]	Platinum	250,000^^
^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. "CD Japan listing of Jinsei x Boku =". CDJapan. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
2. "Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin's Theme Performed by ONE OK ROCK". Anime News Network. 2012-05-29.
3. "ONE OK ROCK Chart History (1)". Billboard.
4. "ONE OK ROCK's "Deeper Deeper" chosen as CM song for SUZUKI". Tokyohive.com. 2013-01-05. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
5. "ONE OK ROCK、『龍が如く 維新！』楽曲提供「Clock Strikes」のリリックビデオ公開". Barks Japan (in Japanese). February 24, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
6. "ワンオク、最新アルバム曲 "Be the light" が映画「キャプテンハーロック」主題歌に". Tower Records Japan.
7. 「第6回CDショップ大賞」、大賞作品＆各賞の受賞作品を発表 [6th CD Shop Awards winners]. Rockin'on Japan (in Japanese). March 6, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
8. "Jinsei x Boku = [Standard Edition]". Lawson Entertainment, Inc. HMV Japan. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
9. (in Japanese). Tower Records Japan. Archived from the original on July 25, 2013.
10. "ONE OK ROCK、6ヵ国語字幕付き「Be the light」MV公開". Barks Japan (in Japanese). March 11, 2013. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
11. "ONE OK ROCKが教えてくれた、悲しい別れに向き合う事". UtaTen (in Japanese). Retrieved September 8, 2017.
12. "ONE OK ROCK「人生×僕＝」インタビュー". Natalie (in Japanese). Retrieved October 14, 2017.
13. Jinsei×Boku= (booklet). One Ok Rock. Amuse Inc./A-Sketch. 2013.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
14. "ONE OK ROCKの人生×僕=·ランキング" [ONE OK ROCK - 'Jinsei×Boku=' Ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon. 2013-03-18. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
15. "Top 100 Albums Sales" (in Japanese). Billboard Japan. 2013-03-18. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
16. . Oricon (in Japanese). December 15, 2013. Archived from the original on December 18, 2013. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
17. "Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year-end Charts". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
18. "ONE OK ROCKのThe Beginning·ランキング" [ONE OK ROCK - "The Beginning" Ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon. 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
19. "Japan Hot 100". Billboard. 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
20. "Japan Hot 100". Billboard. 2012-12-29. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
21. "ONE OK ROCKのDeeper Deeper/Nothing Helps·ランキング" [ONE OK ROCK - "Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps" Ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon. 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
22. "Japan Hot 100". Billboard. 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
23. "Japan Hot 100". Billboard. 2013-03-16. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
24. "Japanese album certifications – One Ok Rock – Jinsei×Boku=" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 2013年07月 on the drop-down menu

External links

• Jinsei×Boku= at AllMusic
• discography (in Japanese)