A quick Game Music feature to round off this month... our first one for this year, too!
Himitsuki-tuber (ヒミツキチューバー) Ninja Box| Version |  |  |  |  |
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| All | x3 (99) | x4 (154) | x6 (260) | x8 (393) |
Taiko Switch, Taiko +
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nboxBetween the termination of the Tenkaichi Otogesai tourney series and no new console Taiko title in sight, 2019 has been a very moot year for the Game Music genre, with little to no new songs released for the genre outside of collaborative efforts. This is one of the few who made such a jump without major event pushes of sorts!
Himitsuki-tuber is the main theme of the Japan-exclusive Nintendo Switch game from Bandai Namco Ninja Box (ニンジャボックス), released on September 26th, 2019. The song's title relying on a wordplay that involves the Japanese word for 'Secret Base' (秘密基地 himitsu-kichi) ties in to the source game's motif, as the players will find themselves in the position of helping the ninja Tonkachi into building an infiltrator-proof secret base, full of floors and tricks of all sords to ward off any undesired guests. Leeching to the game's word are a manga series by the same name -serialized on CoroCoro Comics by Kotaro Yamauchi (山内コウタロ)- and an animated teries from Tatsunoko Productions, which is broadcast both on CoroCoro and Bandai Namco's official Youtube channels since August 8th, predating the game's launch by more than a month!
The Ninja Box theme song's main vocalists are the voice actors of the ninja Tonkachi and the game's human protagonist Hiroto -respectively voiced by Emiri Kato (加藤英美里) and Megumi Han (潘めぐみ)- with vocal backing from Yuichi Nakamura (中村悠一) and Ayumu Murase (村瀬歩) as another couple of Ninja Box characters, Megaphone and Pump. Natsumi Tadano (只野菜摘) penned its lyrics, while the song itself is composed by MONACA's Hidekazu Tanaka (田中秀和) of Idolm@ser series and Angel songs fame in TnT.
This song made its debut on the Nintendo Switch Taiko game nearing 2019's end, as a time-limited freebie to all players of the game (and part of a paid DLC afterwards). Falling on the easier side of the 8-star spectrum, its slow-flowing Oni mode's chart is a short and fine piece to test handswitching skills, thanks to the repeating bridge and its small clusters' composition variety.
