A quick one for today, starring one of the yesterday's surprise drops no less!
My Little Pony Theme Song My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
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mlpony (My Little Pony)It's still quite amazing how even the Taiko no Tatsujin series is no stranger anymore to suddendly release a new title with no official announcements of sorts... even moreso the fact that it also brought along a brand new license from Western animated shows/dubs many a year since the infamous Taiko Drum Master! The related series at hand is not exactly a Mr. Nobody, too...
Hasbro's female-oriented My Little Pony franchise starts out as one of the American company's toy lines, starting out in 1981 with the release of the short-lived My Pretty Pony toys, originally creayed by illustrator Bonnie Zacherle and sculptor Charles Muenchinger. This one line's latter model would end up representing the succeeding brand's distinguishing feats across the years: pony figurines with colorful bodies, a mane and a unique symbol on their backside or flanks. Collectors tend to associate MLP toy releases in 'Generations' across the years, with the brand's 'Gen3' -ended in 2009- resulting in over 100 million pony toys sold worldwide since the brand's inception.
The franchise's status of the media juggernaut we know today came to be with the immediately-succeeding toy generation, whose toy line was plugged alongside its third (and currently longest) animated series to boot: 2010's My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, lasting all throughout 2019 with 9 different seasons, a feature-length movie and two TV specials. The series was devised by Cartoon Network veteran Lauren Faust who also was its executive producer for its first season, with two production companies behind its making in a joint American/Canadian animation effort: Allspark Animation and Studio B Production, who got renamed to DHX Media Vancouver shortly after Season 1's end. The Flash-based animated series managed not only to gather the young female audience of the brand's hay days, but also a surprising share of grown-ups of both genders, ultimately resulting into an Internet cultural phenomenon linking together the fan-dubbed bronies and pegasisters all over the world. With multiple spinoff series to boot, the My Little Pony brand has registered exceptionally high sales returns since Gen 4's inception, even registering global incomes of over a billion dollar in single years!
The opening theme to nearly every episode in the 2010 My Little Pony series, is based off the original opening theme to the earlier series composed by Clifford "Ford" Klinder, with the duo of Daniel Ingram and Anne Bryant being this one version's arrangers and Lauren Faust herself penning the lyrics for it. The version of the song that came to be playable in Taiko gaming is a cover of the 2010 opening theme's extended version, which was featured in assorted DVD releases of the show with a Karaoke base to boot. This one version features voice actress Rebecca Shoichet (voice of Twilight Sparkle in the series) as the lead singer, with backing by Shannon Chan-Kent (voice of Pinky Pie).
For whatever reason, the track in its sudden Taiko debut is titled as My Little Pony Main Theme instead of the canonical 'Frienship is Magic', something occurring to the game's Western song list nomenclature as well. It's also deceptively difficult for a modern 3* Oni, despite all the setbacks you could argue for it; sure, it's a really short song with full 1/16 charting and many a repeating note stanza quartet to boot, but we're still talking about a 200+ BPM song here, with plenty of quick, handswitching-heavy small cluster parts that would easily make your average Itsumo Nando Demo player tremble in fear!
