Colorful Party HIMAWARI Channel
カラフル・パーティ／HIMAWARIちゃんねる
カラフル・パーティ／HIMAWARIちゃんねる
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| AC Nijiiro |
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★1 (47) |
★2 (71) |
★4 (128) |
★5 (225) |
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???We've been getting quite a lot of requests lately for us to cover some Tamagotchi songs, but the sad reality for us is that, as the original Variety-rooted Tamagotchi song series in our blog has started to branch out to the related Anime series' tunes like Rocking Heart, we had to remove it after the oh-so-fun copyright strikes we got for Anime song series in general a few years back, starting with the Naruto ones... that said, however, no one is stopping us for another of Yoshiko Yips's requested tunes to pop up here!
Colorful Party is another original song coming from the UUUM network's kids-oriented HIMAWARI Channel, one we've already had the opportunity to talk about earlier this year (link). Originally uploaded on December 20th in 2019, this song only features the channel's hosts as the singers: the young Ma-chan (まーちゃん) and O-chan (おーちゃん). The lyricist for the piece is the nicknamed KASHI, while the composer is the Tokyo-rooted Kenichi Nagahashi (長橋健一), an artist with several Anime commissions on his portfolio, most notably for the Aikatsu! series as one of the many members of the series-focused unit onetrap.
Colorful Party's freshly-minted Oni mode is truly the modern notechart equal to Anime/Kids darling Yume o Kanae te Doraemon, being another averagely-paced song for beginner-to-rookie donder levels that is entirely charted under the 1/12 tempo signature. Some curve balls in form of unusual clusters from the singles/couples formations are still in place (namely, the two 7-note monocolor clusters near the start), so that completely-mindless drumming is not rewarded with a clear, either!
Caribbean Knight Taiji
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★5 (167) |
★7 (245) |
★7 (486) |
★10 (806) |
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135-300 caribb (Caribbean Knight)For today's second user pick, here's another artist we've already heard of in the past under these lines (link)! As of kathy's request, I've been tasked to talk about a 'particularly hard, non-Oni chart' among those left out to digress on, but as no game mode in particular was mentioned in such a request, it leaves out a little bit of room for my choosing criteria...
This is the second Namco Original after λ7708 from the nicknamed Taiji, getting released under the Green Version operational period on February 1st in 2020, exactly 3000 days after the public debut of the very first 3rd-gen arcade cabinate/firmware combo! Little else is known about the artist's whereabouts from our last SotW meeting with him to now, aside from the lyrics-powered piece Mooη Daγ Believeγ☆ which was realized for the most recent Faith Creation song contest. Unfortunately for him and vocalist Amae Shiro (天江しろ), however, what their tag work has accomplished to do on that instance is just to be worthy of figuring among the 'Bronze winners' category as part of contest judge Yuji Masubuchi's semi-honorable mentions.
When we discuss about how difficult or trick a notechart is around here, it usually boils down to us on pondering how taxing can it be on the physical side with note density/cluster intricacy/execution speed and such, but for the most technical and irregular-sounding rhythms out there, it's mainly a matter of how much can the performing Donder grasp the song's rhythms at hand and how to convert it into an accurate chart performance rather than brute-force it by hitting at random, with Caribbean Knight's lower modes being a notable example of that. Take a gander, if you will, at the song's Kantan notechart and you'll see how physical prowess can't solve any and all performance problems: with so few notes popping out of the screen overall (and generally flowing at such high BPM values, mind you!), one must truly take a hold on how certain songs play out in a process that mere stamina or mnemonics can't carry out by themselves. In situations like this one, keeping an eye on the stanza-limit-marking white ticks that more than often are also marked by a note can help newbies follow a song's groove, as these appear at a more constant ratio and can be used on the fly as "note locators" of sorts to read incoming patterns as a result. It's a process that may take some time in specific instances, but it can pay out well!
Of course, as harder difficulty settings for such a song are being selecte3d, the rising amound of notes makes such a "rhythm-locating" task a much easier one to do as it's easier how to generally go along with more "notes to read" at all times to understand how to go on, but this comes at the price of the physical-performance-focused components of it... Namely, now you have more notes to hit and under varying tempo signatures mid-cluster to tackle! The greatest offenders are located smack-on the middle with the Oni Hayabusa-reminiscing 1/16 cluster sped up to x2 scrolling that is immediately followed up by a continuing smaller portion at x1 the scrolling speed, starring many a cluster combo in the process. The slow-down ending section a-la Marionette Pure is another part not to be underestimated for the final scrolling thriil at the very end!
