| Outerlimits | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Show-Ya |
| Cover: | Show ya outerlimits.jpg |
| Released: | 6 September 1989 |
| Recorded: | June–July 1989 |
| Studio: | Music Inn Yamanakano, Freedom Studio, Tokyo, Japan |
| Genre: | Hard rock, heavy metal |
| Length: | 47:31 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Label: | Eastworld / EMI |
| Producer: | Show-Ya |
| Prev Title: | White |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Hard Way |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
Outerlimits is the seventh album of the Japanese female hard rock group Show-Ya. The album was released on 6 September 1989, in Japan. The album was mixed at the famous Cherokee Studios in California and was arranged by Masanori Sasaji and Show-Ya. Lyricist Yoshihiko Andō wrote most of the lyrics for the songs of the album. This is the band's best selling album, with more than 100,000 copies sold in Japan.[1] The first single "Genkai Lovers" (限界 Lovers) sold more than 30,000 copies in Japan, being used for a commercial campaign.[2]
Alex Henderson in his review for AllMusic defined the Japanese album "well worth searching for" for every metalhead, comparing the songs of Show-Ya to the works of Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Heart and Lita Ford.
The album was a huge success in Japan, reaching number three in the national charts (Oricon chart).[3] The first single "Genkai Lovers" (限界 Lovers) sold more than 30,000 copies in Japan, while the second single "Watashi wa Arashi" (私は嵐) was the best-selling CD single of the band, reaching position No. 12 in the Oricon single chart.[4]