With the official arcade Taiko Twitter feed novering over 300 entries for its latest song contest, it's now safe to assume how the silent submission update of this Monday is most likely going to be the final one! Three more pages' worth of entries have been added for everyone's listening pleasure.
With that, of course, comes our quick skirming of some of the more prominent entries! I wager some of their artists might be familiar to our audience as well. Some, perhaps, in more than a way...
- Player's High, by K.key of Gloria fame. In a similar fashion to the last contest, here we have someone who also tried to best the competition but failed to do so, with the song Quest. Let's see if this one will be enough to break the conditioning once more...
- Tenkyuu no Arcanabeat (天穹のアルカナビット), one of the contest's six-hands-crafted instrumental tracks. Each of the involved artists already had some pregress experience in Taiko lore as well, with the couple of D-D-Dice/Tanchiky being fresh contest winners and siromaru for the infamous conflict!
- Shin-boshi to Nue (晨星ト鵺),
by Silentroom. After his former contest entry not getting a single award, he's back with a vengeance for another full-instrumental piece!
- Party Monster by Getty, aka Mamoru Hirano. A UK hardcore composer, he's been spotted thrice on the SOUND VOLTEX series as a collab-affine BOOTH contest winner, starting with Fox4-Raize-. This time around, however, he's on its own to best the competition!
- Breaking Point (ブレーキングポイント) by Yonokid (ヨノキッド) with a fresh future bass-styled composition. I swear I've already seen that nick and avatar combo somewhere else... but maybe I'm imagining things.
That's Mama Luigi to you, da-don! - It's a Juicy Stew., one of three songs submitted in the contest by ACTRock and Miyui (みゅい). Followers of the Touhou Project arrangement scene might recognize the former name as a former affiliate of Akatsuki Records, makers of the infamous WARNINGxWARNINGxWARNING that's also available in Taiko gaming!
- Mooη Daγ Believeγ☆, by λ7708 and Caribbean Knight composer Taiji in his first vocal-powered tentative piece for Taiko grounds! The nicknamed Amae Shiro (天江しろ; Twitter) lends her voice for a cutesy song delivery.
- Day after the rain by Noah, a prolific indie artist whose music already touched multiple rhythm gaming series, from bemani's MUSECA (Ereshkigal) and SOUND VOLTEX (Deadly force, among many) to mobile gaming series such as Tapsonic Top (Heraven's vengeance) and Arcaea (Astral tale). He's also been one of the discarded contest participants from the last competition, for which he brought along the song Metsu (滅).
- Aquamarine, by the indie visual rock unit Princess's Rose Garden. One noteworthy thing about the act is that the fresh Taiko-winning artist Dokuwaki is its main composer, too! Rumor tells this is not the only song he's been involved with, for this event...
- Deus Judicium, a vs. track starring a couple of Western artists into the mix! On one side we have Kurokotei (黒皇帝), the BMS artist behind the rhythm-gaming-ported Chronostasis as well as a handful of YouTube-viral Touhou Project arrangements; on the other we have MIssionary, whose Impure Bird (不浄な白い鳥) made it into lowiro's Arcaea. Something about the former artist tells me that could be a fine moderator on some online Taiko chatroom of sorts, but I can't point my finger on what makes me believe so. Weird...
