Who would have thought that a song about the last custom-dancer character from Touhou lore we have yet to talk about would have ended up being the bearer of what currently is the hardest playable Touhou arrange to date?!
Calamity Fortune Touhou Project Arrange - LeaF
東方Projectアレンジ LeaF
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| AC Green (Promo) AC Nijiiro PS4 Plus |
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★4 (201) |
★6 (294) |
★7 (509) |
★10 (1069) |
★10 (1217) |
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thclmt (Touhou Calamity)Diligent Taiko players of Touhou songs will eventually end up triggering the Fever dancers by filling up the top-screen performance gauge, and with that having an extra load of characters from the same series joining the fun with the main dancer quintet. Among those, on the far-left corner we happen to spot one green-haired miko-looking girl with a couple of curious head ornaments, whose stage BGM music in her debut game would ultimately result into the creation of this hectic piece!
The girl in question is the human Sanae Kochiya (東風谷早苗), a shine maiden who was first introduced as a Stage 5 Boss in the first of the "2nd-generation" Windows games, Mountain of Faith. Being a really distant descendant of the earth-manipulating goddess Suwako Moriya (洩矢諏訪子), she's the shrine maiden of the Moriya shrine in our regular modern-day world (referred to in the series as the 'outside world'), up until an allarmingly decreasing lack of faith in her shrine has led to her relocation in Gensokyo, alongside the shrine itself and its goddesses Suwako and Kanako Yasaka (八坂神奈子), the deity currently retaining ownership over the Moriya shrine. As a shrine maiden, Sanae herself can only tap unto the power of the Moriya shrine's godly patrons for her attacks, but being revered by the locals as a minor deity of her own has also granted her the power of causing miracles to happen -even outside the boundaries of her Shintoism-based roots- according to the time and dedication spent on each of them. Returning once again as a sub-boss character for the succeeding game's Extra stage (Subterranean Animism), Sanae is mostly found in modern-era Windows games as one of the available playable characters, be it for the Tasogare Frontier's series-canon fighting games or for the mainline danmaku games... including Unconnected Marketeers, the latest one in the series!
Based on Mountain of Faith's Stage 5 BGM, Shoujo ga Mita Nihon no Genfuukei (少女が見た日本の原風景, lit. 'The Primal Scene of Japan the Girl Saw'), the Sanae-inspired Calamity Fortune was composed by the nicknamed LeaF, already author of the infamous Mopemope that managed to trick unsuspecting viewers and YouTube's algorhythms, time and time again. A common trait with the flower-donning track is that this track was also created for a BMS contest: May 2013's Touhou-On-Dan Yuugi 5 (東方音弾遊戯5), where in its personal entry it was classed as an 'Emotional Hardcore Techno' piece and received a video animation from Optie., also a co-author of Mopemope's MV (and the sole MV maker for this year's April Fools Taiko darling, Ka). Being from an event without a score/playcount evaluation criteria, we can't say nothing than the fact of Calamity Fortune being that contest's ultimate winner... As expected from the contest's self-dubbed "Extra Stage"! Later on, LeaF herself would make a longer version out of Calamity Fortune for her solo album debut in 2018 (Doppelganger), while the original BMS cut would eventually enjoy some quality time in other commercial music games, between Marvelous (WACCA) and ESPECIALLY Sega's arcade family (maimai; CHUNITHM; Ongeki)!
By admission of the arcade Taiko branch/incognito official-blog-writer No.11 in one of 2019's blog entries (link), Calamity Fortune came to be due to popular user demand being collected for an anonymous Touhou-oriented song poll, leading also to the porting of Sakura Secred from the now-defunct Synchronica music game series. Both songs appeared in 2019's rendition of the Autumn Reitaisai at first, before having its Ura Oni-enhanced public debut on Green Version and later on as a piece of paid DLC/subscription song among Taiko games outside arcade game centers. Being the first Touhou arrange in Taiko song fully worded in English is not its one and only treat; behind Hoshikuzu Struck and Shippudotou, Calamity Fortune is also the 3rd song currently boasting a 10-star Oni for both its regular and Ura counterpart (and the 2nd non-Namco Original to do so after Hatsune Miku no Gekishou) as well as the 2nd song after Silent Jealousy to break the 3-digit limit on both's notecharts! Much like former arcade-first Touhou tracks, the related unlockable song titles on both regular and Ura Oni are both referencing the character of Sanae Kochiya in both games, having a 'Miracle-Causing Donder' (常識に囚われないドンだー) reference to her own powers alongside a 'Donder Who's Not Bound by Common Sense' (常識に囚われないドンだー), referencing a bit of her spoken lines when she's met as the sub-boss of Subterranean Animism's Extra stage.
No matter which fiendish flavor of Oni mode you're picking, you better pray for your inner miracle to manifest itself- these charts are definitely not for the faint of heart. The regular Oni's average note density already nears the same value of Gigantic O.T.N's Ura Oni chart, but when you're bound to unleash the compound cluster barrage and the increasingly-frightening scrolling speed alteration the harder Oni has in store, these Doom Noiz and Dangan Notes nightmare are sure to be creeping back at the speed of light!
The girl in question is the human Sanae Kochiya (東風谷早苗), a shine maiden who was first introduced as a Stage 5 Boss in the first of the "2nd-generation" Windows games, Mountain of Faith. Being a really distant descendant of the earth-manipulating goddess Suwako Moriya (洩矢諏訪子), she's the shrine maiden of the Moriya shrine in our regular modern-day world (referred to in the series as the 'outside world'), up until an allarmingly decreasing lack of faith in her shrine has led to her relocation in Gensokyo, alongside the shrine itself and its goddesses Suwako and Kanako Yasaka (八坂神奈子), the deity currently retaining ownership over the Moriya shrine. As a shrine maiden, Sanae herself can only tap unto the power of the Moriya shrine's godly patrons for her attacks, but being revered by the locals as a minor deity of her own has also granted her the power of causing miracles to happen -even outside the boundaries of her Shintoism-based roots- according to the time and dedication spent on each of them. Returning once again as a sub-boss character for the succeeding game's Extra stage (Subterranean Animism), Sanae is mostly found in modern-era Windows games as one of the available playable characters, be it for the Tasogare Frontier's series-canon fighting games or for the mainline danmaku games... including Unconnected Marketeers, the latest one in the series!
Based on Mountain of Faith's Stage 5 BGM, Shoujo ga Mita Nihon no Genfuukei (少女が見た日本の原風景, lit. 'The Primal Scene of Japan the Girl Saw'), the Sanae-inspired Calamity Fortune was composed by the nicknamed LeaF, already author of the infamous Mopemope that managed to trick unsuspecting viewers and YouTube's algorhythms, time and time again. A common trait with the flower-donning track is that this track was also created for a BMS contest: May 2013's Touhou-On-Dan Yuugi 5 (東方音弾遊戯5), where in its personal entry it was classed as an 'Emotional Hardcore Techno' piece and received a video animation from Optie., also a co-author of Mopemope's MV (and the sole MV maker for this year's April Fools Taiko darling, Ka). Being from an event without a score/playcount evaluation criteria, we can't say nothing than the fact of Calamity Fortune being that contest's ultimate winner... As expected from the contest's self-dubbed "Extra Stage"! Later on, LeaF herself would make a longer version out of Calamity Fortune for her solo album debut in 2018 (Doppelganger), while the original BMS cut would eventually enjoy some quality time in other commercial music games, between Marvelous (WACCA) and ESPECIALLY Sega's arcade family (maimai; CHUNITHM; Ongeki)!
By admission of the arcade Taiko branch/incognito official-blog-writer No.11 in one of 2019's blog entries (link), Calamity Fortune came to be due to popular user demand being collected for an anonymous Touhou-oriented song poll, leading also to the porting of Sakura Secred from the now-defunct Synchronica music game series. Both songs appeared in 2019's rendition of the Autumn Reitaisai at first, before having its Ura Oni-enhanced public debut on Green Version and later on as a piece of paid DLC/subscription song among Taiko games outside arcade game centers. Being the first Touhou arrange in Taiko song fully worded in English is not its one and only treat; behind Hoshikuzu Struck and Shippudotou, Calamity Fortune is also the 3rd song currently boasting a 10-star Oni for both its regular and Ura counterpart (and the 2nd non-Namco Original to do so after Hatsune Miku no Gekishou) as well as the 2nd song after Silent Jealousy to break the 3-digit limit on both's notecharts! Much like former arcade-first Touhou tracks, the related unlockable song titles on both regular and Ura Oni are both referencing the character of Sanae Kochiya in both games, having a 'Miracle-Causing Donder' (常識に囚われないドンだー) reference to her own powers alongside a 'Donder Who's Not Bound by Common Sense' (常識に囚われないドンだー), referencing a bit of her spoken lines when she's met as the sub-boss of Subterranean Animism's Extra stage.
No matter which fiendish flavor of Oni mode you're picking, you better pray for your inner miracle to manifest itself- these charts are definitely not for the faint of heart. The regular Oni's average note density already nears the same value of Gigantic O.T.N's Ura Oni chart, but when you're bound to unleash the compound cluster barrage and the increasingly-frightening scrolling speed alteration the harder Oni has in store, these Doom Noiz and Dangan Notes nightmare are sure to be creeping back at the speed of light!
