Suzukake Nanchara

"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de 'Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru' to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono"
"Type A" release. Rina HIrata, Jurina Matsui & Emika Kamieda (l. to r.)
Single by AKB48
from the album Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe!
Released	December 11, 2013
Genre	J-pop
Length	5:29
Label	You, Be Cool! / King
Songwriter(s)	Tetsurō Oda (music)
Producer(s)	Yasushi Akimoto
AKB48 singles chronology
"Heart Electric" (2013) "Suzukake no Ki no Michi de 'Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru' to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" (2013) "Mae shika Mukanee" (2014)
Music videos
"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de... Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" on YouTube

"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de 'Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru' to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" (鈴懸の木の道で「君の微笑みを夢に見る」と言ってしまったら僕たちの関係はどう変わってしまうのか、僕なりに何日か考えた上でのやや気恥ずかしい結論のようなもの, or literally "Sort of a little bit embarrassing conclusion I came to after thinking for days about how our relationship would change if while walking along a road of plane trees I said to you, 'I dream of your smile'") – also commonly abridged/known as "Kimi no Hohoemi wo Yume ni Miru" (君の微笑みを夢に見る, "I See Your Smile in My Dream") or "Suzukake Nanchara" (鈴懸なんちゃら, "Plane Tree Something...") – is the 34th single by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It was released in Japan on December 11, 2013.

The single placed fourth on the Japanese Oricon year-end chart for 2014, with 1,086,491 copies sold in Japan as of December 20, 2014.

Title

The Japanese title of the single is 76 characters long. Due to the length of the title, its name was orally shortened to "Suzukake Nanchara" (鈴懸なんちゃら, "Plane Tree Something...") at the group's performance at the NHK Hall, aired on their weekly show on NHK and in other instances to "Suzukake no Ki no Michi de ... Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" (鈴懸の木の道で...（略）やや気恥ずかしい結論のようなもの, where "Ryaku" (略) is a Japanese marker for an abbreviation or omission).

Composition and recording

The track was composed by Tetsurō Oda. The 16 members to participate in the recording of the title track were selected in a rock–paper–scissors tournament, held among the members of AKB48 and its sister groups on September 18, 2013, at Nippon Budokan.

Release and reception

The song was premiered live at the Best Hit Song Festival 2013 on November 21, 2013. The single was released on 11 December 2013 in five versions: Type A, Type S, Type N, Type H, and a "theater edition".

According to Oricon, in the first week of release the single sold 1,033,336 copies in Japan, which placed it first on the Oricon Weekly CD Singles chart. The single placed fourth on the Oricon year-end chart for 2014, with 1,086,491 copies sold in the country as of December 20. In 2015, the song placed 1st at the Request Hour Setlist 1035, a series of concerts held in Tokyo Dome City Hall between January 21 and 25 of that year.

Track listings

The CD tracks 1–2, 4–5 and the DVD tracks 1–3 are the same for all editions. The Theater Edition does not include a DVD.

Type A

Type S

Type N

Type H

Theater Edition

Personnel

Suzukake no Ki no Michi de ... Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono

The members who are participated in the recording were determined by the 2013 AKB48 Rock-paper-scissors Tournament. Each participant is listed with her placement result.

Center: Jurina Matsui

• Team A: Ayaka Kikuchi (8), Yukari Sasaki (14), Yūka Tano (7)
• Team K: Maria Abe (5), Rie Kitahara (10), Rina Hirata (3)
• Team B: Shizuka Oya (9), Wakana Natori (6), Reina Fujie (11)
• Kenkyūsei: Mizuki Tsuchiyasu (13), Ami Yumoto (16)
• Team B / SKE48 Team KII: Mina Ōba (4)
• SKE48 Team S / AKB48 Team K: Jurina Matsui (1)
• SKE48 Team E / AKB48 Team K: Nao Furuhata (15)
• NMB48 Team BII: Emika Kamieda (2)
• NMB48 Kenkyūsei: Mizuki Uno (12)

Mosh & Dive

Source: King Records

• Team A: Anna Iriyama, Rina Kawaei, Minami Takahashi, Yui Yokoyama, Mayu Watanabe
• Team K: Yūko Ōshima, Asuka Kuramochi, Mariya Nagao, Tomu Mutō
• Team B: Ayaka Umeda, Yuki Kashiwagi, Rena Katō, Haruna Kojima, Haruka Shimazaki
• Team 4: Saho Iwatate, Minami Minegishi, Yuiri Murayama
• Team B / NMB48 Team N: Miori Ichikawa, Miyuki Watanabe
• SKE48 Team KII: Akari Suda
• SKE48 Team E: Rena Matsui
• NMB48 Team N: Sayaka Yamamoto
• HKT48 Team H / AKB48 Team A: Haruka Kodama
• HKT48 Team H: Rino Sashihara
• JKT48 Team J / AKB48 Team B: Aki Takajō

Party is over

Sung by AKB48.

Center: Nana Owada

• Team A: Anna Iriyama, Rina Kawaei, Minami Takahashi, Yui Yokoyama, Mayu Watanabe
• Team K: Yūko Ōshima, Mariya Nagao
• Team B: Yuki Kashiwagi, Rena Katō, Haruna Kojima, Haruka Shimazaki
• Team 4: Nana Okada, Mako Kojima, Miki Nishino, Minami Minegishi
• AKB48 Kenkyūsei: Nana Owada

Escape

Sung by SKE48.

Center: Mizuho Yamada

• SKE48 Team S: Anna Ishida, Masana Ōya, Yuria Kizaki, Yūka Nakanishi, Manatsu Mukaida
• SKE48 Team S / AKB48 Team K: Jurina Matsui
• SKE48 Team KII: Aya Shibata, Akari Suda, Akane Takayanagi, Airi Furukawa, Mizuho Yamada
• SKE48 Team KII / AKB48 Team B: Mina Ōba
• SKE48 Team E: Rion Azuma, Kanon Kimoto, Nanako Suga, Rena Matsui
• SKE48 Team E / AKB48 Team K: Nao Furuhata
• SKE48 Kenkyūsei: Ryōha Kitagawa

Kimi to Deatte Boku wa Kawatta

Sung by NMB48.

The center for this song was Nagisa Shibuya.

• Team B / NMB48 Team N: Miori Ichikawa, Miyuki Watanabe
• NMB48 Team N: Mayu Ogasawara, Riho Kotani, Kei Jonishi, Miru Shiroma, Sayaka Yamamoto, Akari Yoshida
• NMB48 Team M: Yui Takano, Sae Murase, Nana Yamada
• NMB48 Team M / AKB48 Team A: Fūko Yagura
• NMB48 Team BII: Yūka Kato, Emika Kamieda, Shu Yabushita
• NMB48 Kenkyūsei: Nagisa Shibuya

Wink wa Sankai

Sung by HKT48

Center: Nako Yabuki

• Team A / HKT48 Team H: Haruka Kodama
• HKT48 Team H: Chihiro Anai, Aika Ōta, Serina Kumazawa, Rino Sashihara, Natsumi Tanaka, Natsumi Matsuoka, Sakura Miyawaki, Anna Murashige, Aoi Motomura, Madoka Moriyasu
• HKT48 Kenkyūsei: Kanna Okada, Meru Tashima, Mio Tomonaga, Mai Fuchigami, Nako Yabuki

Charts

Billboard charts

Oricon charts

Release history