It's time for us to quote that one BlizzCon dude for some more "out-of-season April Fools Joke" shenanigans, this time being dictated by what has been the worldwide-spread phenomenon that has forced Sega to halt their silly shenanigans.
As also reported in one of our last Sonority Scouts features, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it so that all arcade-toting music game series had to either downplay the day-exclusive jokes on the offline front or downright skip them for the year. Sega was part of the former camp with their Twitter/website-related jokes staying up while their joke-y content not being playable on the actual games, but now that the pandemic's grasp is slightly less impactful than it was back in April, their planned stunts make their triumphant (and time-limited) debut between this ending month and the next one!
【6/18(木)～7/15(水) 期間限定「WORLD'S END」追加！】— チュウニズム公式@6/25(木)グッズプレゼントキャンペーン開始！ (@chunithm) June 17, 2020
エイプリルフールで出す予定だった期間限定「WORLD'S END」を、なんと！このタイミングで登場させちゃうよ！！毎年恒例のジョーク譜面を、4月1日になった気分でチャレンジしてみてね！？https://t.co/uANRoGv6qm pic.twitter.com/tZ4XV2LM0p
For CHUNITHM, the website's joke-y article for the last April Fools was about experimenting the latest world-wrecking feature on how to split a watermelon, and the same setup has also inspired the first playable "3D Sound" song for the arcade yet! Four of the Irorimidori girls take the center stage in Ono-chan ga Manasu no Beach de Suika o Tatakiwaru-banashi (小野ちゃんが真夏のビーチで
スイカを叩き割る話), as its WORLD'S END chat plays out on the girls' voice as they go through the process of cutting a watermelon in half. Watch out for the back area!
For a more... shall we say, "regular take" on the AF chart trope, the Iromidori girls have also released a chorus version of siromaru and Cranky's always-popular conflict. Notechart spaz beware!
【6/11(木)「すずしまさんちの夜ごはん」イベント開始＆楽曲追加！】実施を延期していたエイプリルフールイベント「すずしまさんちの夜ごはん」を開催！さらに、過去のエイプリルフールで音ゲー界を賑わせたあの楽曲が追加されます！ https://t.co/AbBsOMVz3Q pic.twitter.com/eaZHp1uucI— オンゲキ公式＠6/25 Re:ステージ！&初音ミク 楽曲・イベント追加！！ (@ongeki_official) June 9, 2020
The website-invading idol from last April's Ongeki website takeover has now her image song Pakupaku☆Girl (ぱくぱく☆がーる) finally getting its playable release, alongside an oldie-but-goldie AF Sega Saturn BGM remix that was the topic of maimai's very first prank. It even got an extension for this peculiar joke-porting action!
