With the next firmware color for Blue Version's Taiko arcade successor being revealed, here are a couple of songs that are green-related. Hop aboard!
Misenai Namida wa, Kitto Itsu Ka (ミセナイナミダハ、きっといつか) GReeeeN| Version |  |  |  |  |
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| All | x1 (67) | x3 (97) | x4 (153) | x6 (205) |
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misenaGreen Version is the name of the (next) game, so it only makes sense to call in action a song from a Japanese band that is also called after the color! We've already talked about the pop band GReeeeN in the past for our SotW feature about Kiseki (link), so here we'll only be listing the trivia related to the band's latest song release featured in the Taiko franchise.
Misenai Namida wa, Kitto Itsu Ka (lit. 'Someday, Surely Someday') is GReeeeN's 15th single, released on February 29th, 2012 under the NAYUTAWAVE RECORDS label. Created by band member JIN, this song was used as the theme song for the Fuji TV drama series Strawberry Night (ストロベリーナイト), with the single release charting high in both the digital outlets (6th at Oricon charts, among others) and physical paid release, peaking 1st-place in the RIAJ paid music distribution charts.
Bridging the gap between the PSP and current-gen console gaming, this song in Taiko is one of the slow ballads like many other in the music game series' origins in the song-licensing field, with a constantly-low BPM value that undergoes minor shifts for the song's drumrolls. The Go-Go Time's 1/16 long clusters, however, are a fantastic way to introduce series newbies to simple handswitching in longer clusters!
Zassou (雑草) HIKAKIN & SEIKIN| Version | | | | |
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| All | x3 (138) | x3 (179) | x5 (286) | x6 (400) |
Taiko Switch 128 none umzasoTalking of green, here's another song from another non-green song genre...but you know what else is green? WeEeEeEeD! ... no seriously, our second song's title can be translated as such! The weed-related Zassou is the third song in Taiko gaming coming from the composing work of a couple of brothers quite known in the Japanese Internet scene: the nicknamed HIKAKIN and SEIKIN.
Coming from the Niigata prefecture, the two are popular Japanese Youtube personalities, starting their content-creation drive from different situations at different points in their life; the first of the two to begin was the kick boxer HIKAKIN around 2010, with his older brother SEIKIN starting out his own channel two years later. Covering from original content to commentary and videogameplay-related uploads, the two brothers' popularity would eventually lead them to pursuit dijital projects that range beyond a mere Youtube partnership, with HIKAKIN founding the content creator network UUUM on June 2013 and starting to make more diversified content with his brother as the newborne network's first two pillars, eventually leading to the song-making department.
Released on October 19th, 2017, Zasshou is HIKAKIN and SEIKIN's second solo-distributed single release, with the older brother being the main composer and its sound direction being supervides by the younger sibling, in collaboration with Japanese DJ TeddyLoid. Gathering over 4 million views on Youtube in the first three days, Zasshou would eventually prove itself to be a big seller as well, ranking 19th in the Billboard Japan Hot 100 charts and peaking the top spot in the Japanese iTunes' overall ranking!
This modern take on the 6-star Oni difficulty range for the J-Pop/Pops category is jam-packed with notes and repeating note formations of cluster couples and triples to go along the modern disco rhythms, as to etch better the repeating patterns in the players' memory.
