mizuki began planning the release of her sixth studio album in 2010. the theme for the album being bonds, mizuki invited her musician friends and favorite artists to collaborate with her on the record. miwa yoshida and masato nakamura of dreams come true, whose music has in the past been used in movies and commercials starring mizuki, wrote "anata ga waraeba," one of the album's lead tracks. nakamura commented, "we wanted the song to have that obvious dorikamu sound that even we haven't done in a while." frequent collaborator tetsuya komuro, who wrote mizuki's greatest hit "too shy shy boy!," and amii ozaki, who penned mizuki's debut single "densetsu no shōjo," also composed songs for the album.