Wednesday, September 4, 2019

First Video: Taiko no Tatsujin Green ver. 8.07 Update



Good Green ver. update day! Spoiler alert beforehand that there will be song titles that you haven't heard before, but we will ease everyone into this with the more typical picks first.

First Videos: September 4 2019

Title
Gudetama Theme Song
ぐでたまテーマソング
★1
★1★1★3
(217)

Puputto Fumutto Kaiketsu Dance Butt Detective
ププッとフムッとかいけつダンス/「おしりたんてい」より
★1
★1★3★4
(382)

Muscat Crayon Shin-chan
マスカット/「クレヨンしんちゃん」より
★1
★1★1★2
(151)

Kien Banjou Kagura Penoreri
気焔万丈神楽/ぺのれり
★5★7★8★10
(1141)

Connect Colors Ponchi♪ feat. Haxchi
コネクトカラーズ/Ponchi♪ feat. はぁち
★4★6★7★10
(872)

Hoshikuzu Struck
星屑ストラック/t+pazolite
★5★6★7★10★10
(1044)
Shippuudotou
疾風怒濤/xi
★5★7★8★10★10
(1083)
poxei♦︎DOON Kaneko Chiharu
  かねこちはる



★10
(1210)

Key: red = series debutblue = arcade debut



And by "easing into" we mean actually really easy. All three of today's brand new Anime picks have no 16th notes on Oni; Gudetama Theme Song (top) stops at 12th doubles, while Puputto Fumutto Kaiketsu Dance (above left) and Muscat (above right) only has short 8th-separation streams up to 7 hits. The Butt Detective track may be the hardest of the trio, with decent length and twice switching into uncommon time signatures, but still a low ★4 nonetheless.

Being the first spotlight of the collaboration, Gudetama Theme Song also features custom "dancers"... emphasis on the quotes on "dancers" because it is just a train of Gudetama egg-dishes (and a sushi Don-chan and rice bowl Don-chan) that is too lazy to respond to your performance.



Next onto the Rewards Shop debuts: like its title should hint, Kien Banjou Kagura ("Kien Banjou" means highly in spirit, and "Kagura" is a Shinto ritual dance form) is an energetic wafuu-rock composition, and its hefty Oni notechart with high-speed clusters and streams mixing 16th, 12th and 24th follows the traditional strings' progressive bout.

Kien Banjou Kagura is swiftly used as the 3rd song for Kurouto of the Green ver. Ranking Dojo, also released today.



Connect Colors, as a fellow ★10, spots a even higher basic BPM and scroll speed. While the notechart consists mainly of 16ths mixing in 12ths, and 24th or up is way less common here (a double during the bridge and one stream before final chorus), it is arguably harder than Kien Banjou Kagura.

Besides being the 3rd song for Meijin of the Green ver. Ranking Dojo, Connect Colors is also included in the Rank 10+ song list in AI Battle Performance.



Now that the announced additions are done, we'll move on to the unannounced additions, first with two new Ura notecharts making debut with the Ranking Dojo conclusion. These two notecharts are also available in normal performance modes if you already unlocked the song(s).

The new Ura Oni notechart for t+pazolite's Hoshikuzu Struck is immediately used as the 3rd song for Choujin in the Ranking Dojo. The patterns takes a different route to follow different focuses than the regular Oni. This move also introduces 24ths to the mix that did not appear in regular Oni (which only has 16ths squished into apparent 32nds by half scroll speed). Although this flip should not be stranger if you remember the song's older brother of Kawatare-doki no Yuuwaku.

Note for title hunters: Full Combo for this difficulty is "Dancer Among the Raining Stardust" (星屑の雨を舞いし者)



If you can hold firm against the barrage of stardust, your next enemy is raging storms in the form of debuting Ura Oni for xi's Shippudotou as Tatsujin's 1st song. Sadly, this Ura Oni should have been obvious, when the regular Oni did not really chart as close as possible to the cruising piano melody and synth percussion of the song; the Ura Oni does, that's all I'll say here.

Note for title hunters: Full Combo for this difficulty is "Sturm und Drang", German for "storm and drive/stress". That name also refers to a 18th-century German literary movement that is usually put in Japanese as "shippudotou".



For the grand finale, imagine the Donder community this morning: even top-tier Donders have trouble keeping the number of OKs and misses down across Shippudotou Ura and Souryuu no Ran, that this 3rd song for Tatsujin was kept a secret until about 17:00.

Despite the "x" and the two "O"s, the title "poxei♦︎DOON" is still read as "Poseidon" as composer Kaneko Chiharu confirms in a tweet just after Donders found the song, tying nicely into the God Collection and especially as the sequel/companion to Amphit♢rite (diamond symbol in the middle, and Amphitrite is Poseidon's wife in Greek mythology).