Love Romance | |
Type: | EP |
Artist: | Koda Kumi |
Border: | yes |
Released: | March 2012 (JP) |
Recorded: | 2008–2012 |
Genre: | Japanese pop/R&B |
Length: | 16:00 |
Label: | Rhythm Zone |
Prev Title: | Love Me Back |
Prev Year: | 2011 |
Next Title: | Go To The Top |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Love Romance (stylized as Koda Kumi Love Romance Pachinko CR) is a special EP by Japanese artist Kumi Koda. The album was released as a promotional campaign for Sankyo's pachinko game, Love Romance, which is Koda Kumi's third installment (priors were Fever Live in Hall (2007) and Fever Live In Hall II (2009)).[1] She would collaborate with SANKYO again for the 2014 released of . Koda Kumi released a promo for its official release on available pachinko games throughout Japan.[2]
The EP was only sold at promotional events. It only consisted of three previously released songs, but carried a new version for the music video of "Brave", which was originally on her Japonesque album.[3]
For the DVD, an alternate version of "Brave" was utilized, which was only featured in the Pachinko game.[4] The music video told the story of a mermaid, who fell in love with a human. Given a potion by a witch, she lives different lives with the man she fell in love with. The lives include an assassin who takes revenge on the ones who injured her lover, a genie who saves him from a possible execution and a fairy who meets him underneath the glow of moonlight.
During the gameplay, each song had differing videos: