Fly again! feat. Takayoshi Tanimoto| Version |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | x2 (114) | x3 (155) | x4 (334) | x7 (551) |
Taiko N
200
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???Codename KATSU-DON's Namco Original debut piece Fly away has been paid homage in a number of ways in the transition towards the current Taiko arcade generation, starting with part of its Oni tracks bein inherited by the "wrap-up" Taik-color as a representative of its birthing firmware. Not being deemed enough it also got its own continuation with the original performing artists behind it, all within the same year! Fly again! originally made its debut in the third same-name, 4th-gen arcade frontrunner as the earliest unlockable track for the AI Battle Performance mode from Blue Version, only to be subsequently lifted as a default inclusion for everyone after the occurrance of a bug that unlocked everything from said mode with little to no efforts.
Behind the composing blocks is Taiko Team and series veteran Yano Yoshito (矢野義人), in his first NO song for Taiko since V Version's theme song Kibou e no Melody, joined once again by the voice of Takayoshi Tanimoto (谷本貴義) of many 2nd-gen originals fame. While nowadays the latter artist has made a name for himself in Taiko as the singer of Dragon Soul and anything Dragon Ball Heroes-related, let it also be known that the artist himself had a very deep connection with the music-production process of the Digimon series' overall score, both as one of the members of the series-roots-linked Spirit of Adventure unit with the Ai Maeda (前田愛)-Koji Wada (和田光司) duo and as a solo performer regularly joining the production of songs for the latter series and solo/collaboration albums, just as the two aforementioned artists. From time to time, Takayoshi Tanimoto is also hired as a commissioned artist for songs outside of the Anime/Bandai spheres, leading to the creation of songs for other music games like the event-gated Force Your Way from CyGames/Nintendo's gacha game Dragalia Lost.
From the same speedy base BPM down to a similar difficulty range and Oni notechart approach/note count, the Fly again! Oni mode really feels like a continuation from Fly away all throughout the performance, only with the involvment of more drumroll-affine markers and the ending portion chaining multiple 3-note clusters altogether.
