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Final Fantasy: Love Will Grow is the second album of the Vocal Collections series. It is an album of a selection of tracks from the original Final Fantasy to Final Fantasy VI "arranged" for vocals. The songs are sung in Japanese, English, French, and Portuguese, and are preformed by Risa Ohki and Ikuko Noguchi.

The liner notes contain lyrics, messages from composer Nobuo Uematsu and singer Risa Ohki, and each song has a paragraph dedicated to the song.

Track list[]

  1. Long Distance — 3:52
    Main Theme from Final Fantasy IV
    • Voice by Risa Ohki
    • Arranged by Masatsugu Shinozaki / Lyrics by Ririko Yamabuki
  2. Eternal Wind — 3:26
    (悠久の風, Yuukyuu no Kaze?)
    Eternal Wind from Final Fantasy III
    • Voice by Risa Ohki
    • Arranged by Yoshiro Nakamura / Lyrics by Claudio Ramos
  3. Have You Ever Seen Me? — 2:46
    Tozas, the Dwarves Village from Final Fantasy III
    • Performed by Yuichiro Goto & THE DYNAMITES / Voice by Risa Ohki & Ikuko Noguchi
    • Arranged by Yuichiro Goto / Lyrics by Katsuhiko Kinoshita
  4. Valse des Amoureux — 3:23
    (Lover's Waltz)
    • Performed by Bistro Tempo / Voice by Ikuko Noguchi
    • Arranged by Patrick Nugier / Lyrics by YU-PA
  5. GAIA — 4:23
    Main Theme from Final Fantasy
    • Voice by Ikuko Noguchi
    • Arranged by Haruki Mino / Lyrics by 睦月薫
  6. Remnants of Distant Days — 6:05
    (遠い日々の名残り, Tooi Hibi no Nagori?)
    Sorrows of Parting from Final Fantasy V
    • Performed by
    • Arranged by Haruki Mino / Lyrics by Ririko Yamabuki
  7. Distant Hometown — 2:38
    (はるかなる故郷, Harukanaru Kokyou?)
    Home, Sweet Home from Final Fantasy V
    • Performed by Yuichiro Goto & THE DYNAMITES / Voice by Risa Ohki & Ikuko Noguchi
    • Arranged by Yuichiro Goto / Lyrics by 睦月薫
  8. Estrelas — 3:02
    (Stars)
    Melody of Lute from Final Fantasy IV
    • Voice by Risa Ohki
    • Arranged by Yoshiro Nakamura / Lyrics by Claudio Ramos
  9. God's Cradle — 4:02
    (神の揺り籠, Kami no Yurikago?)
    Relm's Theme from Final Fantasy VI
    • Voice by Risa Ohki
    • Arranged by Risa Ohki / Lyrics by Ririko Yamabuki
  10. Love Will Grow — 5:32
    Finale from Final Fantasy II
    • Voice by Risa Ohki
    • Arranged by Masatsugu Shinozaki / Lyrics by Katsuhiko Kinoshita
  11. The Prelude — 3:38
    • Voice by: Risa Ohki & Ikuko Noguchi
    • Arranged by Kiyoshi Kobayashi / Lyrics by Kazuko Sancha

Liner Notes (translated from the original Japanese)[]

Message from Nobuo Uematsu[]

Even Tchaikovsky's musics are just random symbols on a piece of paper, without musicians to play them. Likewise, a violin is just a wooden block without a player. An unused computer is just a box. Things come alive when humans use them, find something out of them, and think about them. In that instant, a "thing" becomes an "instrument" for the first time. This silver colored disc is not complete yet. This disc is complete only if you listen and find something out of it. Yes, you are one of the last staffs involved in the making of this album, too. Thank you for completing this CD with me.

Message from Risa Ohki[]

During the development of this album, China and France continued testing nuclear weapons. Earth is becoming a Swiss cheese full of holes after over 2,000 nuclear bomb tests. If every effect has a reasonable cause, how can this be explained? Will animals morphed due to radiation conquer humans? Then, would the job of humans be done (the job to create such a world), leading them into extinction like the dinosaurs?

I hear that the Earth is a single life form and that the universe, too, is a huge life form. Lives grow and evolve. Both are in some form of changing. We change, learn something out of the change, and change again; with Earth and the Universe. Is Earth, the many-holed cheese, a result of our learned change, and a milestone indicating that we are heading toward something? As skin cells replace themselves, many humans die as others are being born rapidly. Is there a guide that would show us the way, maybe in our DNA?

Cells. If everything in the universe is contained in me as if every cell of me contains information all about me, I want to know more. I want to see the "guide" in me. I want to know the answer to this question: "Who am I ?"

Nobody can or would answer. It seems that I must follow the "guide" in my body, and walk with it, facing all the questions coming up to me.

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