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Follows the Sub Pop remix on WINK TOGETHER (Pitchfork lists Miracle (Scoobert Doobert Remix) on the EP tracklist). @wavyawards nominated WHOLE for Collaboration of the Year at The Wavys 2022 (July 28, 2022). NME names Walton as producer on WHOLE and the NHK series Koi-senu Futari. Qetic (Jan 12, 2022) documents サウンドプロデュース by California-based Scoobert Doobert on the 恋せぬふたり theme 「まるごと」. SPICE (Jan 13, 2022) is Spotify’s New Music Wednesday companion for that week: 「まるごと」 is in the January 12 selection, and the same piece says it was the cover of Edge!. That is companion editorial, not a Spotify for Artists email. Paste and FLOOD cover the single in the same release window; Sony Music Japan documents 「まるごと」 as the drama theme with Scoobert Doobert on sound production. Sub Pop Mega Mart names Scoobert Doobert as producer. Tower Records Japan credits 編曲 on the 『ジャジャーン』 cut to CHAI and Scoobert Doobert (lyrics ユウキ; composition マナ and カナ). SoundBetter lists producer, arranger, and mixing engineer credits on WHOLE; YouTube’s official audio and MV uploads carry the public release metadata. Studio BTS: CHAI drummer Yuna posted a drum-recording reel for 「まるごと」 on January 12, 2022 (the day before release), #yunadrum #drumrecording; screenshot on Photos. Anthony Fantano (The Needle Drop) reacted to WHOLE in a fan-captured clip. See Anthony Fantano. Also on Selected Videos and Videos.

The series, not the theme song, later received major Japanese television prizes: the 59th Galaxy Award Television Division Special Prize (the jury called it a groundbreaking work in drama history) and an Excellence Award at the 77th Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival. Writer Erika Yoshida won the 40th Kuniko Mukōda Prize for the script. Those awards are the drama’s and Yoshida’s; Walton produced the theme. Hosted transcripts: Sony Music Japan, Sub Pop Mega Mart, Tower Records, Galaxy Award.

Final live: CHAI disbanded after their March 12, 2024 show at EX THEATER ROPPONGI. Sony Music Japan documents the first Blu-ray 『We The CHAI Tour! FINAL ～NEO KAWAII IS FOREVER♡～』 (July 3, 2024 · SIXL-3): full last-show video (~106 min, 22 songs) plus documentary. Track 11: まるごと (WHOLE), Walton production. Track 3: ラブじゃん (also Walton). Full setlist on Final Live.

Official setlist (Mar 12, 2024 · Sony MJ):

1. MATCHA
2. IN PINK (feat. Mndsgn)
3. ラブじゃん (Walton)
4. アイム・ミー
5. Sound & Stomach
6. ボーイズ・セコ・メン
7. We The Female!
8. PING PONG! (feat. YMCK)
9. ACTION
10. PARA PARA
11. まるごと (WHOLE) (Walton)
12. NEO KAWAII, K?
13. クールクールビジョン
14. ハイハイあかちゃん
15. END
16. N.E.O.
17. Donuts Mind If I Do
18. フューチャー
19. ほれちゃった
20. sayonara complex
21. ぎゃらんぶー
22. N.E.O.

See also: 夢のはなし (MY DREAM) (CHAI · さかなのこ / The Fish Tale) · Catalog: CHAI, in order of credits · Press · Music