So... he-heh, fun story.
Here for Taiko Time blog posts, I usually come up with multiple pen-and-paper drafts for posts before going live, sometimes even for things as short as First Video pages when there's more than "just a song getting released" to talk about. Concurrently with the Taiko series 20th Anniversary song Daisuki na Taiko no Ne's debut, there was one more track premiering at the very same time, one that I failed to pen about on the final draft for the blog post to go live.
Now, it's all fun and games, until I realized that I took notice of my mistake... roughly... a whole week after its debut... so, instead of sweeping the whole thing under the rug, here's that neglected song up here! Surely it'd be the same for you folks, r-right...?
Here for Taiko Time blog posts, I usually come up with multiple pen-and-paper drafts for posts before going live, sometimes even for things as short as First Video pages when there's more than "just a song getting released" to talk about. Concurrently with the Taiko series 20th Anniversary song Daisuki na Taiko no Ne's debut, there was one more track premiering at the very same time, one that I failed to pen about on the final draft for the blog post to go live.
Now, it's all fun and games, until I realized that I took notice of my mistake... roughly... a whole week after its debut... so, instead of sweeping the whole thing under the rug, here's that neglected song up here! Surely it'd be the same for you folks, r-right...?
Usatei Touhou Project Arrange - Amane + Beat Mario (COOL&CREATE)
ウサテイ / 東方Projectアレンジ あまね＋ビートまりお (COOL&CREATE)
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★3 (190) |
★5 (229) |
★7 (463) |
★9 (693) |
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190
???Can't spend the whole day bowing down in apology as I have to bow down to type for the latest Saturday feature, so here lies 2021's obligatory yearly Touhou Project arrange meme song getting the whole "Autumn Reitaisai preview first, public-arcades-playable later" treatment to go hand-to-hand with the returning collaboration campaign! This year is also the very first one when overseas Taiko players can join the fun at the same time, so that no one is left behind by the yearly curtain-fire cosmetics unlock campaign for once!
Being a punny way to reference both the arrange's main character and her nature as a bunny, Usatei is a dual-doujin-unit collaboration track that made its debut back in August 2007's Comiket edition (the 72nd), with the release of the IOSYS album Touhou SuiSuiSuuSuu (東方萃翠酒酔, lit. "Touhou Gathering Green Wine Drunkenness"), one devoted to joke around pop cultuure with Touhou Project arrangements just like many of their earliest album releases. In the scenario penned for this song, we find two unnamed people betting a meal on the loser's charge over a match on Phantasmagoria of Flower View, one of the few mainline danmaku games in the series to allow multiplayer. Things quickly take a turn to the zany once one of the two pick up Tewi Inaba (因幡てゐ) as his own character...
The Earth rabbit in question, said to be able to bring good luck to humans, has both of her themes arranged into one... well, 'hers' by association for one of the two: Cinderella Cage～Kagome-Kagome (シンデレラケージ ～ Kagome-Kagome), the Stage 5 BGM of Imperishable Night in which Tewi makes her debut as its mid-boss, as well as her proper character theme White Flag of Usa Shrine (お宇佐さまの素い幡), coming from the same Phantasmagoria of Flower View that's being talked about in the same arrange! Alongside the Taiko-credited COOL&CREATE couple Beat Mario and Amane -respectively one of the co-composers and the chorus singer- the original Usatei was co-created and lyricized respectively by the IOSYS members myu314 and Hikura (あまね).
Usatei's rhythm gaming journey has been a lucky one, flourishing in many a bemani series (SOUND VOLTEX; BeatStream; jubeat and Reflec Beat) while also inspiring (by admission of the same Beat Mario, no less!) the musical composition of the COOL&CREATE label owner's very first commissioned original song for Bemani gaming: BeatStream's BeaSt! (びいすと！). The song, of course, also found housing among foreign arcade music game makers' grace with time, with Sega highlighting the original tune some more (maimai; CHUNITHM; Ongeki) while other parties favoring one of Usatei's later versions where the vocalist Amane is more prominently featured, of which we nover Taito's Groove Coaster porting Usatei 2013 (ウサテイ2013) and the really-recent Touhou Danmaku Kagura premiering the equally-new Usatei 20xx (ウサテイ20xx).
Like Sega and the Konami subsidiary beforehand, Taiko no Tatsujin has given some love to the one Usatei that started them all, in a speedy chart where tons of 4-stanzas note sequences are repeated over and over with some minor note variations along the way, together with the steady increase of its scrolling speed going up to twice the regular value up until its Oni mode's lone 2-digits hitballoon.
