As we get into the autumn mood, let's dive into another Taiko theme song, which is focused around this season exactly!
Kyou no Gohan wa Taiko-mori! (今日のご飯は太鼓盛り！)| Version |  |  |  |  |
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Taiko PS2 5, CD Anime
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cs5opThe perfect fall season for a Taiko no Tatsujin fan? According to this song, it's about lots of drumming and eating tons of sweet potatoes and chestnuts! The console-exclusive Kyou no Gohan wa Taiko-mori (literally, Today's Meal is Lots of Taiko!) is the theme song of Taiko no Tatsujin Go! Go! Godaime, the 5th PlayStation 2 Taiko game which introduced, among other things, the Go-Go Time and the now-defunct Yam Note on console Taiko, as well as the speed modifiers for note scrolling. The roasted Japanese sweet potato ('yaki-imo', '焼きイモ') is a popular snack food in autumn, and is well-known to produce a lot of gas when eaten, hence all the fart references.
Composed by Yuri Misumi (みすみゆり), the song is sung by Don-chan's voice actress: Narahashi Miki (ならはしみき). Though the song has never been featured in any other songlist, Kyou no Gohan wa Taiko-mori! appears in one of the oldest Taiko CD soundtracks, as well as a brief easter egg in one of the Happy Meal toys from McDonalds (given out in 2009). If tapped, the Happy Meal toy named 'Don-chan Potato' (さつまいもどん) plays a brief extract of Godaime's theme song and unlocks the exact same costume on Taiko DS 3.
Kyou no Gohan wa Taiko-mori's Oni notechart has one of the lowest star ratings for a Taiko theme song. The majority of the chart has a simple march beat with 1/12 note clusters and 1/24 note clusters, and is actually quite tough for a 4* Oni, even now. The song is quite long too, and has a slowdown in the middle with a change in pattern to the more familiar 1/16 beats, making for some variety.
