Suzukake Nanchara

"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de 'Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru' to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono"
"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de 'Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru' to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono"
	"Type A" release. Rina HIrata, Jurina Matsui & Emika Kamieda (l. to r.)
Single by AKB48
from the album Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe!
Released	December 11, 2013
Genre	J-pop
Length	5:29
Label	You, Be Cool! / King
Songwriter(s)	Tetsurō Oda (music)
Producer(s)	Yasushi Akimoto
AKB48 singles chronology
Music videos
	"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de... Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono"; on YouTube

"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de 'Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru' to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" (鈴懸の木の道で「君の微笑みを夢に見る」と言ってしまったら僕たちの関係はどう変わってしまうのか、僕なりに何日か考えた上でのやや気恥ずかしい結論のようなもの, or literally "Sort of a little bit embarrassing conclusion I came to after thinking for days about how our relationship would change if while walking along a road of plane trees I said to you, 'I dream of your smile'") – also commonly abridged/known as "Kimi no Hohoemi wo Yume ni Miru" (君の微笑みを夢に見る, "I See Your Smile in My Dream") or "Suzukake Nanchara" (鈴懸なんちゃら, "Plane Tree Something...") – is the 34th single by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It was released in Japan on December 11, 2013.^[1]

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The single placed fourth on the Japanese Oricon year-end chart for 2014, with 1,086,491 copies sold in Japan as of December 20, 2014.^[2]

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The Japanese title of the single is 76 characters long.^[1] Due to the length of the title, its name was orally shortened to "Suzukake Nanchara" (鈴懸なんちゃら, "Plane Tree Something...") at the group's performance at the NHK Hall, aired on their weekly show on NHK^[3] and in other instances to "Suzukake no Ki no Michi de ... Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" (鈴懸の木の道で...（略）やや気恥ずかしい結論のようなもの, where "Ryaku" (略) is a Japanese marker for an abbreviation or omission).^[4]

The track was composed by Tetsurō Oda. The 16 members to participate in the recording of the title track were selected in a rock–paper–scissors tournament, held among the members of AKB48 and its sister groups on September 18, 2013, at Nippon Budokan.

The song was premiered live at the Best Hit Song Festival 2013 on November 21, 2013. The single was released on 11 December 2013 in five versions: Type A, Type S, Type N, Type H, and a "theater edition".

According to Oricon, in the first week of release the single sold 1,033,336 copies in Japan, which placed it first on the Oricon Weekly CD Singles chart.^[5] The single placed fourth on the Oricon year-end chart for 2014, with 1,086,491 copies sold in the country as of December 20.^[2] In 2015, the song placed 1st at the Request Hour Setlist 1035, a series of concerts held in Tokyo Dome City Hall between January 21 and 25 of that year.

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The CD tracks 1–2, 4–5 and the DVD tracks 1–3 are the same for all editions. The Theater Edition does not include a DVD.