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Saturday, April 4, 2020

Song of the Week! 4 April 2020


For an artist/unit that makes it on Taiko gaming by contest means like for last week's pick, many other artists have experienced fame in such similar contests outside of Bandai Namco gaming, before making their grand debut as commissioned Namco Original makers.

Meet another one of them today, straight from the freshly-discontinued Green Version!

 Tenkyuu no Ritsu (天泣の律) Capchii
Version
Allx4 (161)x6 (267)x7 (438)x10 (821)
 Taiko 0 G
 100-200
 none
 ???


Tenkyuu no Ritsu (lit. 'Law of the Weather Rain') comes from the capable hands of the nick-named Capchii (Twitter; SoundCloud), allegedly named so after one of the artist's drinks of choice, the cappuccino. From his profile description the artist left on his website (link), we know that he values making songs in many different genres as in 'giving his own take' about them, resulting into a 9k+ amount for his SoundCloud page as well as several songwriting commissions for singers and V-tubers alike!

Capchii struck gold in the music gaming field at first thanks with his collaborative pieces with the composer Crawk, with the songs Suiren no Shirabe (水簾ノ調), Wings of Glory and Barbatos all making into Bemani's SOUND VOLTEX series as music contest winners. Not only that, in 2019 he managed to top the competition in a music contest for lowiro's Arcaea, thanks to a song made in collaboration with other four artists: songwriter KaratoP(からとP), pianist pan, drum arranger Takenoko Shounen (タケノコ少年) and vocalist Haruno (はるの). As the sole Grand Prize winner, the resulting song -A Wandering Melody of Love (迷える音色は恋の唄)- was made playable in one of the game's song packs and the girl depicted in the song's jacket art became an unlockable partner.

With a road paved by good intentions and past collaboration hits, Capchii made his debut into the Taiko fore as the sole composer of his original debut piece, one he's particularly fond of as it's been revealed on Twitter to be one of his Top 5 tracks ever created (link). With many a speed bump and multiple tempo signatures a-la Hoshikuzu Struck and a merciless note stream that call not that far into Coquette's Oni charting, Tenkyuu no Ritsu's Oni mode is a technical notechart performance for the up-to-date arcade donder, testing both readability and execution skills in equal and strict proportions. Be sure not to be thrown off by the very last scrolling speed-up portion's 3-note footboard, if you make it unscathed through its Go-Go Time segments!