Ai no shirushi

愛のしるし

Song Information

愛のしるし's jacket.

Composition/Lyrics: Masamune Kusano
Vocals/Chorus: Junko Terashima, Yuka Saito
Guitar: Mutsuhiko Izumi
Bass: Yoshihiko Koezuka
Keyboard/Other Instruments & Drum Programming: Hideyuki Ono, Kazuhiro Senoo
Recording Engineer: Yuei Uematsu
Original Artist: PUFFY
Album: 愛のしるし (1998)
BPM: 130
Length: 1:26
Movie: Unknown
First Music Game Appearance: GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:

• GuitarFreaksXG & DrumManiaXG

Lyrics

Japanese

ヤワなハートがしびれる ここちよい針のシゲキ
理由もないのに輝く それだけが愛のしるし
いつか あなたには
すべて 打ち明けよう

少し強くなるために
壊れたボートで 一人 漕いで行く

夢の中でもわかる めくるめく夜の不思議

Romaji

yawana HEART ga shibireru kokochi yoi hari no shigeki
wake mo nai no ni kagayaku sore dake ga ai no shirushi

itsuka anata ni wa
subete uchi akeyou
sukoshi tsuyoku naru tame ni
kowareta BOAT de hitori koide yuku

yume no naka demo wakaru mekuru meku yoru no fushigi

English

A soft heart goes numb
Comfortable stimulus of the needles
It shines without reason
That's the only sign of love

Some day
I will open my mind to you

In order to become a little stronger
I row a broken boat alone

I can tell even in my dreams about the dazzling mysterious night

Song Connections / Remixes

• An instrumental version of 愛のしるし can be found in Percussion Freaks.

Trivia

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• 愛のしるし later appeared in PUFFY's second album, JET CD, a few weeks later.
• 愛のしるし was used as the commercial song for Shiseido's TISS cleansing oil.
• 愛のしるし holds the record for most consecutive song appearances of a license in the classic GuitarFreaks & DrumMania franchise, being in 16 consecutive games (22 if the XG and GITADORA series are counted).
  • 愛のしるし was eventually removed from GITADORA Tri-Boost on February 12th, 2016.
• 愛のしるし had the lowest difficulty level of any GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX-beyond song on the Drum BASIC difficulty at 10. It still holds the lowest-rated Guitar BASIC chart at 10.
• 愛のしるし translates out to "Sign of Love" in English.
• On the Asian releases of Percussion Freaks prior to Percussion Freaks 8thMIX, 愛のしるし's title was romanized as AI NO SHIRUSHI.
• 愛のしるし received Challenge (チャレンジ) charts in GuitarFreaksXG3 & DrumManiaXG3 on March 13th, 2012.
• 愛のしるし received new Drum and Guitar BASIC charts in GITADORA, replacing its old charts.
• 愛のしるし was added to コナステ GITADORA on July 19th, 2022.

Song Production Information

None.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania difficulty from the original games to GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX rated from 1 to 10, and 1 to 99 from GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX onwards.
GF/DM XG and GITADORA difficulty rated from 1.00 to 9.99. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd, Zygo the drummaniacs and the GF/DM XG2 official website.)

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

Original Series

Game	Drum			Guitar			Bass			Open
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	227	396	-	186	186	186	257	257	-	-	-	-
GF4/dm3	2	3	-	2	4	6	N/A	N/A	-	-	-	-
GF5/dm4→GF6/dm5	13	23	-	14	27	39	N/A	N/A	-	-	-	-
GF7/dm6	↑16	↑26	-	↓10	↓16	↓36	N/A	N/A	-	-	-	-
GF8/dm7	↓10	↓21	-	↑11	↑18	↑40	24	27	-	-	-	-
GF8/dm7 power-up ver.→GF/DM V2	10	↓20	-	↓10	↓17	↓39	↓22	↓26	-	-	-	-
GF/DM V3→V8	↑11	20	-	10	17	↓29	22	26	-	-	-	-
ギタドラ! GF4/dm3	2	3	-	2	4	6	N/A	N/A	-	-	-	-

Other charts not shown on the above table:

• GF8/dm7 Drum EASY chart: Total notes: 178.
• GF8/dm7 Guitar EASY chart: Total notes: 122.

XG & GITADORA Series

Old Charts

Game	Drum				Guitar				Bass
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master
Notecounts	194	227	396	-	116	186	186	-	128	226	257	-
GF/DM XG→XG3	1.20	1.50	3.00	-	1.20	2.10	3.55	-	1.40	2.70	3.50	-

Challenge Charts

Game	Drum				Guitar				Bass
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master
Notecounts	159	-	-	-	100	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
GF/DM XG3	0.70	-	-	-	0.70	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

New Charts

Game	Drum				Guitar				Bass
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Master
Notecounts	159	227	396	-	98	186	186	-	128	226	257	-
GITADORA→Tri-Boost	1.70	↑2.30	↑3.75	-	1.05	↑3.00	↑4.30	-	↑2.20	↑3.65	↑4.25	-
コナステ GITADORA	1.35	1.85	3.50	-	1.05	2.50	3.80	-	1.50	3.25	3.75	-