One day after its original posting date, but technical/schedule issues in our real-life commitments are not able to stop us! Especially when a certain anthro drum meme has just clawed its way into having its own Namco Original song, ... at long last!!
Nijiiro Version New Song: September 18th, 2021
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Daibouken Tatsudon Taiko de Time Travel 60's/Katsuro Tajima with Sixties Choirs 大冒険タツドン／太鼓deタイムトラベル60's 田島勝朗 feat. シックスティーズ・クワイヤーズ |
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The last of the decade-numbered songs in the Taiko de Time Travel project is set in the time period which (as Etou also reminds us in this blog entry's opening lines) has hosted the last edition of the Olympic games before the postponed 2020 ones, back in 1964. BNSI's own Katsuro Tajima (田島勝朗) of many-a-modern-Classic-arrange-in-Taiko fame was chosen to fill the quota for the then-beginning Showa period's beginnings tune with a donder-centric spin on it.
Being set in the historical period that has seen the rise of a national sentiment of hope for a bright future due to the time frame's economical recovery climate, Tajima has soon opted to have an Anime OP-sounding song to be a product of its times, singing boldly about courage and power against whatever threat comes to rain down on the commonfolk's everyday lives. To such ends, he devised the whole setting together with the Taiko Team staffers around a beginning pitch idea that was all of his own: a fictitious OP from an Anime series starring Tatsudon himself as the protagonist!
The finalized product came to be due to the help of another trio of artists who are collectively credited for the song as the 'Sixties Choir' unit: tenor Odawara 'ODY' Tomohiro (小田原 ODY 友洋), baritone Naoki Takao (高尾直樹) and Shinichiro Imayama (今山慎一郎) as the bass. According to ODY himself from the excerpt he left for today's entry, it's a 'harmony of three men' that it's performed so energetically that you would swear the singers were waving their arms up in the air as they performed their job! Despite the song-recording experience being a short one, he and the guest backing singers were really glad of the friendly atmosphere with the Team during such process, hoping that part of its energy can be conveyed to people listening to Daibouken Tatsudon in return.
The notecharter in charge is one of the latest recrutees among the Notecharting Sentai gang: the nicknamed Chihara (ちはら). It also allows us to correct the record on one mishap we had last year, as we mistakently attributed his charting job on Jun Kuroda's waitin' for you to another charter due to a nickname similarity with the one of Nocchi, so... yeah, sorry for that. Chihara's endeavor on carrying out the Showa Anime spirit lies on the decade's nature of structuring Anime themes in an easy-to-digest and simpler manner just like nursery rhymes, as animation back then was primarily seen nothing more but a children's affair. This is easily reflected on the song being structured around the plain 1/16 signature for charting means, alongside punctuating your giant-robot hero's flashy moves presentation with looks and means as bombastic as they're declared...
When performing or just spectating a hearing of Daibouken Tatsudon, watch out as the human-articulations-donning drum hero declares his signature deathblow, the '120-Frames Hit'... and how is it translated in Taiko charting form! Chihara's original idea for it was to make a continous, unhittable drumroll that would flow at every 1/120th of a beat all throughout the move chanting, but technical limitations and a bit of failed trial-and-error arcade mishaps led this idea to be settled down to what it's going to be displayed on arcade gameplay (while reassuring that future home releases of the song will come closer to the original idea!).
Going away from the numeral format, the Taiko de Time Travel series is about to go further back to the past with the Edo period, this coming October. Stay around if you want to spectate the triumphant return of a certain Namco Original song series for such an occasion...
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