| Sekai | |
| Cover: | Chara_Sekai.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Chara |
| Album: | Union |
| Genre: | J-pop |
| Length: | 3:11 |
| Label: | Universal Music |
| Producer: | Chara, Tatsuki Hashimoto |
| Prev Title: | 'Sapphire no Hoshi' |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | 'Crazy for You' |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
is a song by Chara. It was released as the first single from her album Union on .[1] It debuted at #24 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted for five weeks.[2] The song was used in commercials for the NEC brand 'Foma N702iS' cellphone.
Chara wrote the song in 2005.[1] The main guitar chords in the song were recycled from the song from her 2005 independently released album Something Blue.
She wrote in the style of Stevie Nicks.[1] The B-side is a cover of Akiko Kosaka's 1973 debut single.
The music video was shot by director .[3] It begins with an animated/CGI image of an egg that cracks becomes a bird. This bird flies off past several doors, and enters one into a space scene. The scene switches to Chara in an almost completely white room with a white dress. She wears her hair half-straight and half in an afro (with the division being vertically down the centre of her head). The scene switches to a drawing a Chara falling through a dark, psychedelic scene, followed by a white-backed scene depicting different drawings. Chara returns to the white room, however with a different hair-style and now drawn animals floating around her. Occasionally the originally dressed Chara appears behind her. The video ends with more psychedelic scenes and the bird flying away into space/clouds.
| Release | Chart | Peak Position | First Week Sales | Sales Total | Chart Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oricon Daily Singles Chart | 15 | ||||
| Oricon Weekly Singles Chart | 24 | 4,838 | 9,607 | 5 weeks | |
| Oricon Yearly Singles Chart |