Blue Version's latest update sure doesn't goof around with max-Oni difficulty contenders... Here's one of them for today's feature!
Coquette Jun Kuroda| Version |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | x5 (249) | x7 (369) | x8 (528) | x10 (1022) |
Taiko 0 B
200
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???The common thread that ties together (most of) the Namco Original-debuting artists from Blue Version's most recent firmware update is that some of their past works were adopted in mainstream music gaming thanks to a number of different contests. As you're about to read, you can tell that Coquette's artist is surely part of this peculiar group!
Coming from Osaka, Japan, Jun Kuroda is an independent composer who primarily makes original songs of different musical genres with the piano, a musical instrument whose use was partially self-taught since the age of 14. His first composing efforts with the Cubase software are dated around the year 2012, leading in the later years to become a doujin label holder for his works -JK Sound Lab- as well as becoming affiliated to a music-oriented talent studio: USAGI Production (official website). Jun Kuroda's music can also be appreciated on his Soundcloud and Bandcamp profile pages.
The artist's rhythm game career, as mentioned earlier, sprang out from music-submission contests concerning both the arcade and mobile gaming fields; for the former, we have the bemani series pop'n music and SOUND VOLTEX, which have respectively seen the coming of La Lumiere and dreamin' of u. In the latter field, C4Cat's Dynamix has hosted the collaboration track AKI-ZAKURA and Lily as contest winners, but Jun Kuroda's talent was later picked on for a couple more commissioned tracks in lowiro's Arcaea: Anökumene and The Message.
Flashforward to today and we have yet another commissioned work for the piano-focused artist, this time for Taiko gaming! Featuring the violin skills of the nick-named Husako (ウサコ), Coquette is the last track of Blue Version's Coujin Dojo Ranking course, being named, as the composer himself stated on Twitter (link), after a word that is translatable in Japanese as "small devilish lady". Its Oni mode chart surely matches the description of one of these three words, and I wager you already know which one is it!
Mixing both 1/16 charting with other timing signatures and a number of Soflan-friendly scrolling speed alterations, this Taiko challenge is a beast to properly read it firsthand as much as it is to properly perform it until the end. Some repeating stanzas at the beginning and in the end might help to regain that last few ticks needed to pass the song, though,... as long as the rest of the chart won't have drained any other chances of success by then!
