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Saturday, August 31, 2019

Song of the Week! 31 August 2019


A quick one for today; something from the past... that is titled after the future!

 Mirai (ミライ) 164 feat.Mirai Komachi
Version
Allx3 (206)x5 (265)x5 (431)x8 (700)
 Taiko Switch
 183
 none
 mk3rai


The Nintendo Switch Taiko title's DLC catalog has been the debut stage in franchise history of one peculiar Vocaloid voice bank: Bandai Namco's proprietary Vocaloid, no less!

Mirai (lit. 'Future') has been the first image song of Mirai Komachi (ミライ小町) that was made by Bandai Namco musicians, unveiled during one of the company's sound team livestreams as a token to celebrate her commercial release back in May of last year. As later follow-up courses of action, Mirai got an official song release on the NAMCO SOUNDS team's Youtube page (link) and a few months later, it even got an official music video.

Sato Takafumi (佐藤貴文) is the song's composer/arranger/lyricist, strong of his former Vocaloid-powered works of the past, among which some Taiko-launched songs also figure (Wanya World and EDY -Electric Dance Yoga-). Truly, given this kind of history, no better in-house artist could have been picked out for this job!

The whole song is played on halved scrolling speed on all modes, culminating into its Oni mode's 1/16-centric notechart. Both stamina management and cluster variety are taxing factors over first-FC completion attempts, but the large rest gap shoul supply enough time to charge on to the end.