On March 6, 2002, Buck-Tick released their twelfth studio album, "Kyokutou I Love You", which was initially scheduled to be released as a double album with "Mona Lisa Overdrive". Ultimately the two were released separately and "Mona Lisa Overdrive" came out the following year in February. However musically, the two albums feed into each other in a continuous loop. The last track on "Kyokutou I Love You" is an instrumental which becomes the bottom musical layer of the first track on "Mona Lisa Overdrive". Likewise, the last track on "Mona Lisa Overdrive" contains samples from the first track on "Kyokutou I Love You". The album title "Mona Lisa Overdrive" is an overt reference to William Gibson's cyberpunk novel of the same name.