"Gift" was used as the second ending theme on the 1997 anime
Clamp School Detectives, and is Sakamoto's second song contributed to this series after "Bokura no Rekishi," which was used as theme song for the
Clamp School Detectives radio drama. The song was first included on the album
Clamp School Detectives Original Soundtrack 2, released on October 22, 1997. Both "Gift" and its b-side, "Kimi ni Ai ni Ikō," were included on Sakamoto's compilation album
Single Collection+ Hotchpotch, released on December 16, 1999. During the concert, Sakamoto herself appeared in a costume designed to represent herself as a gift, featuring a skirt composed of ribbon-wrapped gift boxes and a bow on the back. "Gift" was also included on Sakamoto's 2010 greatest hits album
Everywhere. Commenting about it, Sakamoto noted that despite having recorded the song many years earlier, it did not feel dated to her. She explained that it had hearing the track evoked memories of her long-running radio show
Sakamoto Maaya I.D., for which she had great affection. == Commercial performance ==