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Flower (L'Arc-en-Ciel song)

single by L'Arc-en-Ciel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ307145 ↗
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"Flower" is the sixth single by Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on October 17, 1996. It reached number 5 on the Oricon chart. The single was re-released on August 30, 2006.

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“Flower (L'Arc-en-Ciel song)” enters the record as single by L'Arc-en-Ciel. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Flower, L'Arc-en-Ciel and song can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Flower (L'Arc-en-Ciel song)” 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.