Monday, July 22, 2019

Sonority Scouts: A Cranky Expansion Across Makers


Here's a mini feature to slot in the vacant time before the big update day later in the week. In a recent weekly song addition rally in Sound Voltex (Vividwave), composer Cranky prepared an entry to reveal on July 18 that has a title that you may recognize:


With etymological roots of "readership" in the title, LECTORIA follows similar compositional themes already seen in HISTORIA in Crossbeats and VICTORIA in Taiko no Tatsujin. The above tweet has Cranky confirming that the three are related and collectively named TORIA Series (TORIAシリーズ).

In addition to just referencing its own title in the vocals though, LECTORIA also called out to its sisters in the middle, and has one phrase highly resembling from VICTORIA towards the end. This is confirmed by lyricist and vocalist Pico: