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Floods of Tears

1992 single by L'Arc-en-Ciel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2062192 ↗
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"Floods of Tears"/"Yasouka" (夜想花) is the debut single by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on November 25, 1992. It was a limited release and only 1,000 copies were produced.

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“Floods of Tears” enters the record as 1992 single by L'Arc-en-Ciel. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Floods, Tears and single can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-11-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Floods, Tears and single.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2062192. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Floods of Tears” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.