magazine Aoharu, as well as a commercial for "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" and the anime Bakemonogatari. For the week of March 14, 2011 on Oricon's weekly albums chart, Today Is A Beautiful Day was reported to have sold over 34,000 copies in its first week of sales, peaking at No. 3, and charted for 42 weeks. In July 2011, Today Is A Beautiful Day was awarded a Gold Disc by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for having exceeded 100,000 copies shipped in a single year. Music video The DVD bundled with the album's limited edition included an anime music video of the song "Perfect Day" produced by Madhouse. It was directed by Ryōsuke Nakamura, with animation direction by Mieko Hosoi. The character design is based on original designs by Shirow Miwa. The video shows a girl with short, blue hair coming back to the town where she used to live. The girl reminisces about the time she spent with another girl with long, light brown hair years before when they were children. The two had fun around town, and during one day the wind blew the hat off the girl with brown hair. While walking around town, the two girls meet by chance, shocking both of them, but both are happy to each other again. The hat from years before lands in front of the blue-haired girl, much to her surprise, and she puts it on. Contrails are mentioned twice in the song as a part of the chorus and images of them are seen throughout the video. Nakamura says the video is about life and dreams, and he used the song as inspiration to make the video as a side story to the song's lyrics. He explains that the two girls are actually one person that chose different paths in life, and describes their chance meeting as a "somewhat magical winter day." Track listing Personnel Supercell Ryo – writer Shirow Miwa – cover illustration, illustrations Redjuice – cover illustration, illustrations Huke – illustrations Yoshiki Usa – art direction, design Additional musicians Nagi Yanagi – vocals, chorus Haruko Ohinata – chorus Masato Ishinari – guitar, acoustic guitar Yukio Nagoshi – guitar Susumu Nishikawa – guitar Okiya Okoshi – guitar Kenji "Jino" Hino – bass Chiharu Mikuzuki – bass Yuichi Takama – bass Hirō Yamaguchi – bass Noriyasu "Kaasuke" Kawamura – drums Masayuki Muraishi – drums, tambourine Masuke Nozaki –