Reitaisai times are upon us, and the Taiko brigade will be here to join the fun with some "series-contributor" returning artists' picks making their Taiko debut.
One of the two's pick is not one for the faint of heart either, as you're about to see...
Mopemope (もぺもぺ) LeaF| Version |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | x4 (102) | x5 (154) | x7 (229) | x10 (501) |
Taiko 0 G
100-200
none
???Together with the ex-NAMCO SOUNDS musician Taku Inoue's Touhou arrangement getting into the drumming action is a song made by the nick-named LeaF (official website; Twitter and SoundCloud profiles), a prolific art-name-only BMS artist whose former contest tracks have been adopted into music gaming from time to time. Thanks to Taiko gaming (at first), he/she has added to this tally of official music game transplants... well... quite a pickle, here!
The song's title is the end result of a Mojibake process, garbling up the literal Google Translate result of the Japanese word for 'Depression' from English (twice) and then interpreting the resulting text -stored in the UTF-8 format- to Shift-JIS encoding. The same expedient was also used in the text description for the original BMS page of the song (link), only by using the 'Mopemope' English word instead (繧ゅ⊆繧ゅ⊆). This tidbit from the original submission has also been adopted for Taiko customization means as a custom title awarded to Banapassport Full Combo players of the song's Oni mode.
Of course, the most attention-polarizing factor of random listeners of the song is its official music video, created by the nick-named Optie for the same BMS OF FIGHTERS contest edition. Curiously enough, despite the video description specifically advising strong content for children to be seen, the inner works of the Youtube algorhythms has lead the video to pop up as a recommended choice in actual 'children's content' videos (and the other way around!), starting up in Japan and then ballooning to Western content later on. The incident has been discussed so much that it lead to the 'shadow-filering' of the video and the Mopemope word in order not to be re-directable to the BMS song in question in any form that is different from the Mojibake title, and thus was often misleadingly-reported on the Web as an overseas tangent to the Elsagate controversy.
Realized for 2017's BMS contest THE BMS OF FIGHTERS ULTIMATE 2017 -LEGENDA EST A MYTH-, Mopemope is a textbook case of having one thematic gimmick as the track's composing model and just running with it, making a strong choice for the most experimental BMS charters' fertile soil on that contest. This can be easily guessed by the abnormal score standings of the song that it managed to gather, being 3rd (out of 483) in the 'match score' category while also being one of the lowests tracks for the 'player median score' category at the same time, ranking 421st with the low low average value of 900 points per player! After its Taiko porting action under the Green Version operative period, Mopemope was also ported to Pigeon Games's mobile music game Phigros (link).
This vicious Variety pick's Oni mode plays out on the Kokorobo side of difficulty, in that the error quota to pass the song is very strict in relation to the really low number of notes. And for a rundown of the gimmicks that its hardest section can supply, I'm just copy-pasting this delightful list of features we penned in our former First Video impression post:
- your familiar "trippy bar-lines" and the brand new "what bar-lines" (both patent pending)
- ultra-slow dancers while normal speed notes march on
- Donkama-style large note popping in just in time when the crazy sets in
- speed-demon drumrolls and balloons to throw you off of the 24th-infused clusters
- high-volume complex clusters a la Joubutsu 2000
- expanding clusters like Thinking ~Must Mix~ Ura
- slither of 24th and 32nd stream of madness
- final, reverse-expanding cluster from 8OROCHI Ura
