To top off the ending month, another song request and a track that has been
added at the proverbial 11th hour, in lieu of some recent developments. Off we
go!
Kerakera Janken
ケラケラじゃんけん
| Game | Genre |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC Murasaki~Yellow Taiko Wii U2 Taiko + |
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★2 (46) |
★2 (118) |
★5 (250) |
★7 (376) |
- |
163
keraj
Here's another song request from Yoshiko Yips, one that apparently slipped off
our radars when first addressed a few months ago... but nevcertheless, it's
finally here! It's also the first contribution to the Taiko series from the
Tokyo-forged act known as Kerakera (ケラケラ), in activity since 2013 under
the Universal Sigma label.
The act started off from two musicians and childhood friends from the Osaka
prececture's Izumi city -bassist/future band leader Furoppe (ふるっぺ) and
drummer Mori (森さん)- already strong together in musical contest victories
that led both to take part in the early '00s punk rock band HUNGRY DAYS. Said
act, however, was dispanded after a few years and the friends started running
public auctions since February 2010 for a singer capable of supplying "cool
and cute vocals" for their next band project. The auctions were posted over
bullettin board mixi and karaoke singing sessions, ultimately resulting in
Furoppe and Mori getting captivated by the singing talent of the nicknamed
MEME from Tokyo's Chofu city, to the point of not only enrolling her for the
project, but to also name the act after her general cheerful as Kerakera (the
onomatopoeia for smiling) as a medium to better convey the aim of the act's
music.
To this day, Kerakera has released two studio albums and se4ven singles, the
5th of which -from October 8th, 2014- being the one that marked the debut of
Kerakera Janken, a song which -as the title leads to suggest- ties in the
act's cheerful antics with the generation-crossing game of Janken, or
rock-paper-scissors if you will. On Oricon charts, it peaked at the 33rd place
and in the same debut month it was also published in the band's second studio
album, Kerakeland (ケラケラランド).
It's a short and sweet song, but the handswitching skills required to clear it
with flying colors is nothing to snooze around for the Oni difficulty range,
albeit the repeating Go-Go Time stanzas might aid the memorization side.
Futari no Kessho -INNOCENCE- Touhou Project Arrange - Akatsuki Records
二人の結晶‐INNOCENCE‐／東方Projectアレンジ 暁Records
| Game | Genre |
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| AC Yellow~Green |
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★2 (96) 2P (95/95) |
★5 (176) 2P (172/172) |
★7 (315) 2P (309/306) |
★8 (581) |
★7 (554/553) |
| AC Nijiiro |
|
★7 (315) 2P (309/309) |
★7 (554/554) |
167 th2ksh
With the announcement of a brand new Touhou Project game being pread online
today, it's a good thing we still have some spare Touhou arrangements to talk
about under these lines... seeing as we didn't have our monthly Ura pick yet,
that doubly works in our cause, too!
Futari no Kessho (lit. 'Our Crystal') -INNOCENCE- makes its debut on the 12th
Reitaisai's doujin album release of the same name, the third one in the 'to
the beginning' series of albums coming from WARNINGxWARNINGxWARNING makers
Akatsuki Records (暁Records), a circle which we already had a window to talk
about a few years back (link). Much like with the infamous Clownpiece arrangement, this track mainly
stars the act's lead singer Stack alongside the circle's former main
composer/arranger ACTRock, who left Akatsuki Records in 2018 to join the
neo-forget doujin circle Inorai (イノライ).
Together with Butaotome's Gensou no Satellite, this is currently the only
playable Touhou Project arrangement in Taiko gaming to draw inspiration and
musical nods to ZUN's doujin musical album production, picking up a handful of
tracks from album releases that occurred between 2003 and 2006. Below is a
simple list of the involved albums, the related arranged original tracks and
their placement in the Akatsuki Records arrangement, with the underlined songs
not being part of the Taiko-playable cut:
- Rendaino Yakou～Ghostly Field Club - Girl's Secret Sealing Club (少女秘封倶楽部); Merry the Magician (魔術師メリー); Ancient Temple of the Netherworld (古の冥界寺) [Tracks 1; 2; 7]
- Yumetagae Kagaku Seiki ~ Changeability of Strange Dream - Boys and Girls of the Age of Science (科学世紀の少年少女) [Track 5]
- Bouyu Toukaidou ~ Retrospective 53 minutes - Hiroshige No.36～Neo Super-Express (ヒロシゲ36号～Neo Super-Express) [Track 6]
- Oozora Majutsu ~ Magical Astronomy - Celestial Wizardry～Magical Astronomy (大空魔術～Magical Astronomy); Greenwich in the Sky (天空のグリニッジ) [Tracks 4; 5]
Among all the Touhou-related antics in Taiko gaming, this track stands tall as
the first from the trope to feature Sou-Uchi gameplay as its original Ura Oni
track, a feature that was further highlighted on Nijiiro Version by separating
said Ura into its dedicated mode set with a newly-added Sou-Uchi-friendly KFM
set to boot! Whether you're going for a double-drum gorilla performance or the
regular Oni course, a barrage of handswitch-prone small clusters await friends
of all ages, with no special note density/scrolling trickery of sorts.
