Happy New Year! Let's hear about something which couldn't make it to 2022's start, though...
Lemon Kenshi Yonezu (米津玄師) | Game | Genre |
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| AC Green AC Nijiiro (Y1 Deleted) |
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★2 (62) |
★3 (88) |
★5 (124) |
★7 (223) |
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ynzlmn (Yonezu Lemon)Things come and go in this world, perhaps it might even happen right after oneself's lifespan gets boasted loud and proud to the world, but for this one track its disappearance -and a franchise-permanent one at that- has happened as silently as its debut. Really, no official Taiko no Tatsujin media channel, be it the official blog/Twitter accounts/other means of communication, has officially introduced Lemon's coming into Green Version; the best lip service it ever got post-release was through one of the many bug-favored datamining actions of the past!
Released as a single on March 14th, 2018, Lemon is a song from the pop/rock musician Kenshi Yonezu (米津玄師), the same artist behing former SotW darlings Go-Go Yuureisen and Donut Hole as well as Matryoshka under his Hachi (ハチ) alias. The song was originally going to be named 'Memento', but right when it was penning some of its final lyric lines "Like one half of a fruit sliced in two, even now, you are my light", the title was changed as Lemon and its overall theme became the freshness of the fruit being described with a tone similar the the one talking about death-related imagery instead.
This "hybrid ballad" of his comes with a skipping beat to contrast it with the usual, purely gloomy mood of the music genre, managing to climb to the top of both weekly and yearly Japan Hot 100 charts for the year of release, with high peaks registered by Oricon the same (2nd weekly; 18th yearly for 2018). Lemon became the theme song for the TBS drama show Unnatural (アンナチュラル), while also getting re-released 2 years ago as part of Kenshi Yonezu's fifth album Stray Sheep. It even set foot into another couple of rhythm gaming franchises with time: Sega's CHUNITHM and Taito's Groove Coaster!
This is one of the Kenshi Yonezu songs to appear in its pristine no-cover glory, which makes it even more strange how unadvertised it got for its inclusion in Taiko gaming, considering all the accolades it got! Still, there are three major ways in there to his a note couple, so it's up to the player to listen up the rhythm and it accordingly!
