Song of the Week! 8 August 2020

 

We're at the 8th day of the 8th month... Time for a suiting 8* Oni song feature, pronto!

 Original Mirai (オリジナルミライ) feat. Mamoru (nhmbase)

Version
All	x3 (136)	x3 (182)	x5 (348)	x8 (618)

 Taiko PS4, CD CC-7
 130-150
 none
 omirai

We're back in Session de Dodon ga Don territory, with one of its Namco Originals that currently sits in as a single-game DLC exclusives. Original Mirai is a six-hands effort that stars Kawamoto 'Kawagen Kollagen' Yoshinori (川元義徳) as its lead composer, with Mamoru (マモル) from nhmbase being the singer of the lyrics that are penned by Satou-jin (在藤銀) for the first time in Taiko gaming outside of nearly all the Namco Original songs of the past that star Chata as the singer. While this may feel like one original song creation like many in the series, this is actually a re-arranged track by Kawagen Kollagen from a formerly-released Namco title in the past, as revealed on Twitter by the composer himself (link)! 

The game in question is February 9th, 2006's DS Machigai Museum (DSまちがいミュージアム), the first title in the Japan-exclusive series of Uno no Tatsujin (右脳の達人, lit. 'Master of the Right Brain') games. With the word 'Machigai' meaning 'mistake', this is a simple spot-the-difference kind of game, with players being asked to compare a series of pictures with the Nintendo handheld's dual screens and touch any alterations on the touch screen copy within 10 seconds before the image changes, while interacting on it in order to better compare the two pictures by -for example- scrubbing darkened corners of the screen or blowing on the ststem's microphone. This was also the only game in the Uno no Tatsujin series to receive its own sequel, which was released on the same system on March 1st of the subsequent year.

Original Mirai is a lyricized arrangement of the first Machigai Museum game's Result Screen BGM, sharing the name with said precursor BGM despite the game not having a dedicated soundtrack/in-menu labeling of the song with such name beforehand. With an average density of 5.31 hits/second and Kat-centric note triples being ever so abundant, its Oni mode is sure to keep up the pressure all throughout the play. Be mindful of the consecutive 1/24 cluster passages, too!