Going Hard Rock

The third nimi album, Mars was released on May 29, 1991. The fifth album, In the Life, was released on November 27. With this album, B'z veered away from their advanced-digitally sounds and moved more towards rock. Their first live video, Just Another Life was out on December 11 The B'z tour, IN THE LIFE '91-'92, with 66 performances, started in the same month and lasted into the next year. The total number of LIVE-GYM they did during this year exceeded 100. 1991 was a year with many shows and a year of displaying their new musical direction.

In the summer of 1992, the Pleasure '92-TIME tour took place with 12 performances in 3 major cities. The arena-class tour had amazing featured such as a huge lighting set, called the Starfish, and has seats that were able to rotate 360 degrees. October 28 marks the release of their sixth album, Run, and proved to be more hard rock oriented than the previous. On December 9, they released a slightly different mini album titled Friends. Different from Run, its concept is somewhat similar to that of a movie soundtrack.