Question: Which was released first, Meru or The City?

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Onimusha: Warlords: Onimusha: Warlords, released in Japan as "Onimusha" (鬼武者 ) , is an action-adventure video game and the first entry of the "Onimusha" series, released first for the PlayStation 2 in 2001.  Later it was released in an updated form as Genma Onimusha (幻魔 鬼武者 ) for the Xbox in 2002.  The original "Onimusha: Warlords" version was also ported to Microsoft Windows, although this version was only released in Asia and Russia.

Hard to Explain: "Hard to Explain" is the first single from New York garage rock band The Strokes (their only previously released material was "The Modern Age" EP).  It was released first in the UK and was later released in the US with different album artwork.  (The UK version has a photo of two chairs, one red and one black, facing the camera.  The chairs appear to be in a diner or restaurant of some sort.)  Because this single is the first from their debut LP "Is This It", "Hard to Explain" made the anticipation for the album proper very high, and when "Is This It" did come out it was widely hailed as one of the best of the year.  The B-side of this single, "New York City Cops" was omitted from the US version of the album in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center (the chorus to the song contains the lines "New York City cops/They ain't too smart").

1950s in jazz: By the end of the 1940s, the nervous energy and tension of bebop was replaced with a tendency towards calm and smoothness, with the sounds of cool jazz, which favoured long, linear melodic lines.  It emerged in New York City, as a result of the mixture of the styles of predominantly white swing jazz musicians and predominantly black bebop musicians, and it dominated jazz in the first half of the 1950s.  The starting point were a series of singles on Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950 of a nonet led by trumpeter Miles Davis, collected and released first on a ten-inch and later a twelve-inch as the "Birth of the Cool".  Cool jazz recordings by Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quartet usually have a "lighter" sound which avoided the aggressive tempos and harmonic abstraction of bebop.  Cool jazz later became strongly identified with the West Coast jazz scene, but also had a particular resonance in Europe, especially Scandinavia, with emergence of such major figures as baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin and pianist Bengt Hallberg.  The theoretical underpinnings of cool jazz were set out by the blind Chicago pianist Lennie Tristano, and its influence stretches into such later developments as Bossa nova, modal jazz, and even free jazz.  See also the list of cool jazz and West Coast musicians for further detail.

Xeko: Xeko is a collectible card game revolving around endangered species.  It was launched on Earthday 2006.  It won the "Creative Child Magazine" 2006 Toy of the Year Award and the National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval in its first year.  Four "Mission" sets have been released.  "Mission: Costa Rica" and "Mission: Madagascar", based on biodiversity hotspots were released first.  "Mission: Indonesia", was released in 2007, with the final release, "Mission: China", was released July 19, 2008.  A total of thirty more missions were planned but never developed.

Meru (film): Meru is a 2015 documentary film chronicling the first ascent of the "Shark's Fin" route on Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayas.  It was co-directed by married couple Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and won the U.S. Audience Documentary Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Clannad (visual novel): Clannad (クラナド , Kuranado ) is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key and released on April 28, 2004 for Windows PCs.  While both of Key's first two previous works, "Kanon" and "Air", had been released first as adult games and then censored for the younger market, "Clannad" was released with a rating for all ages.  It was later ported to the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita consoles.  An English version for Windows was released on Steam by Sekai Project in 2015.  The story follows the life of Tomoya Okazaki, a high school delinquent who meets many people in his last year at school, including five girls, and helps resolve their individual problems.

Meru local elections, 2013: Local elections were held in Meru County to elect a Governor and County Assembly on 4 March 2013.  Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010 referendum, the 2013 general elections were the first in which Governors and members of the County Assemblies for the newly created counties were elected.  They will also be the first general elections run by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) which has released the official list of candidates.

Seoulite (album): Seoulite is the second album by South Korean singer Lee Hi.  The album marked her comeback to the Korean music scene after a three-year hiatus following the release of her debut studio album, "First Love", in 2013.  The album was released first in a half album format, the first half being released on March 9, 2016 and the full album released digitally in April 20, 2016, and physically a week later.

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma: BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, released in Japan as BlazBlue: Chronophantasma (ブレイブルー クロノファンタズマ , BureiBurū Kuronofantazuma ) , is a 2-D fighting game developed by Arc System Works.  It is the third game of the Blazblue series, set after the events of "".  The game was originally to be released first as an arcade game in the early fourth quarter of 2012, which was later pushed forward to November 2012.  A PlayStation 3 version of the game was released in Japan on October 24, 2013, while it was released in the United States on March 25, 2014.  Due to limited hardware and disc space the game was not released on the Xbox 360.  An updated version of the game titled BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend (ブレイブルー クロノファンタズマ エクステンド , BureiBurū: Kuronofantazuma Ekusutendo , BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend) , dubbed as BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma 2.0 (ブレイブルー クロノファンタズマ ２.０ , BureiBurū: Kuronofantazuma 2.0 , BlazBlue: Chronophantasma 2.0) in the Arcade version, was originally released for Arcades in October 2014, and for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in April 2015.  It was released on June 30, 2015 in North America, with the European region version releasing on October 23, 2015.

The City (1939 film): The City is a pioneering short documentary film from 1939 that contrasts the problems of the contemporary urban environment with the superior social and physical conditions that can be provided in a planned community.  It was directed and photographed by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke based on a treatment by Lewis Mumford based on an outline by Pare Lorentz.  Aaron Copland wrote the musical score and Morris Carnovsky provided the narration.

Supporting paragraphs: Meru (film) The City (1939 film)
Answer: The City