Fight (Kanjani Eight album)

Production for Fight began with the announcement of a triple single release along the course of three months: "T.W.L/Yellow Pansy Street", "My Home", "365 Nichi Kazoku".

Kanjani Eight worked with several songwriters over the course of the album's production such as KenKen of RIZE, Yujin Kitagawa of Yuzu, and Sukimaswitch.

For Fight, several songs from the album were penned by top artists in the Japanese songwriting world, such as KenKen of RIZE, Yujin Kitagawa of Yuzu, Sukimaswitch and many others.

The title song and third track off of the album, "Fight for the Eight", begins with a rough guitar riff before being joined with a drum beat.

The fourth track and first single off the album, "T.W.L", is a high paced pop song that is carried by a horn section.

The song begins with a generic 80's hook with Ryo Nishikido, Tadayoshi Ohkura and Ryuhei Maruyama singing in English.

The song then picks up for the main verse, which is sung in Japanese by Shingo Murakami and Shota Yasuda, before switching back to English for the bridge and chorus, which is carried by Subaru Shibutani.

Yasuda continues into the second hook, which then Yokoyama starts the second verse in Japanese, and Nishikido and Ohkura leading into the instrumental in English.

The second half of the album breaks from the pop/rock theme and switches into a more generic, idol, sound with songs such as: "Water Drop", "Freedom Rion", and "Kagayakeru Butai e".

"[7] For the Oricon, Fight debuted at number one on the daily album ranking charts, with a total of 143,367 units sold dated November 15, 2011.

[20] The music videos for the release feature Kanjani Eight singing in front of a green-screened set, interacting with Crayon Shin-chan-inspired caricatures of themselves for "T.W.L" and the band performing in a Beatles-inspired get up for "Yellow Pansy Street".

The music video for "365 Nichi Kazoku" had the band sing on the stage of an auditorium in front of a string orchestra with interspersed scenes of a son fighting, and eventually, making up with his mother.

Two months later, on August 17, 2011, Kanjani Eight released their fourth single for the year titled "Tsubusa ni Koi".

For all the single releases this year, some of the members had either starring or supporting roles in productions that their music served as theme songs for.

Ryo Nishikido had the male lead in both Inu wo Kau to iu Koto and Zenkai Girl.

[27][28][29][30] To promote Fight, Kanjani Eight performed at several music variety programs in Japan as well as hold a concert tour.

On October 14, 2011, they had performed "T.W.L" and, album's support track, "Monjai Beat" on Music Station's 3 Hour Special.

[31] On October 30, they appeared on NTV's Music Lovers to promote the album as well as performed "Life (Me no Mae no Mukou e)" and "Monjai Beat" live.

"[32] The four singles off of the album were used as theme songs: "T.W.L/Yellow Pansy Street", "My Home", "365 Nichi Kazoku", and "Tsubusa ni Koi".