365 Nichi no Kami-hitouki (365日の紙飛行機)
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| AC Red~Green |
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★3 (99) |
★3 (131) |
★4 (212) |
★5 (251) |
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| AC Nijiiro (Year 2 Removal) |
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akb365 (AKB48 - 365 Nichi)Those of you who are sticking with us for more than a year might be already aware that the ongoing arcade line has been running around quite the noticeable "cancel culture" trend since the third-generation arcades, referring by that phrase not to social-media-fueled assorted hysteria but to licensed songs only getting a playable arcade version that gets axed off before it could get ported anywhere else, effectively erasing them from the officially-active Taiko lineage. We've already seen how not even recurring licensing giants like the PreCure series are immune to this trend, and now we're adding one more notable name to the licensed table...
The 13th song in Taiko coming from the everlasting AKB48, 365 Nichi no Kami-hitouki (lit. '365-Days Paper Airplane') made its debut as a coupling song to the act's 42nd major single release (44th overall) for the song Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby (唇にBe My Baby), released on December 9th, 2015. Garnering fame of its own as the theme song for the NHK drama series Asa ga Kita (あさが来た), the song not only boaster a full album release in 2017 (for AKB48's 8th album Thumbnail of January 25th), but also many a rendition by the sister act of NMB48, whose song cover of theirs warranted both a coupling single debut (on Amagami-Hime, the act's 14th single) and an album feature for their third release, Namba Ai ~Ima, Omou Koto~. The original single from AKB48, while topping sales charts for 6 weeks in a row with over a million reported sales, was also notable for being the very last sales push that the pluri-idol act needed in order to finally dethrone the Japanese rock duo B'z as the best-selling Japanese act, with the Day 1's over-800k copies pushing the overall-copies-sold total to a whopping 36.158 millions!
By the time of 365 Nichi no Kami-hitouki becoming a Taiko-playable hit, two and a half years have passed since the previous release of both an AKB48 arcade debut and an NHK show-related arcade debut, bridging the two worlds together with a tune bearing a straightforward Oni chart for just-starting donders all over game centers to enjoy. At the time of its deletion from Nijiiro arcades, it also was the 5* Oni track with the lowest amount of notes inside (4th lowest if we also include already-removed songs from Gen3 onward), a feat adding to this also being the most note-light track among Taiko-ported AKB48 tunes, dethroning Flying Get from KATSU-DON and the earliest Nintendo 3DS videogame.
