One year ago, here's how one prolific Vocaloid producer has celebrated the coming of Miku Day!
Vampire DECO*27 feat. Hatsune Mikuヴァンパイア / DECO*27 feat.初音ミク
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★6 (394) |
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mikvam (Miku Vampire)Vocaloid works in Taiko from recurring producer DECO*27 have always received the Ura Oni treatment ever since their debut, but this is the very first song where the habit isn't actually being repeated to date! It's also something that grouchy Vocaloid-haters such as myself can appreciate for what it is for a change. (I mean come on, Miku and vampires do have something in common when it comes to sucking, don't they?!)
Premiering on YouTube on March 9th last year, Vampire is a Hall of Legend piece of music that currently counts over 40 million YT views in about a year since its release, while also reaching the former Hall of Fame status in less than a week from launch! It's also the second playable DECO*27 piece that is originated from the composer's Tokyo-based creative studio OTOIRO, whose mission since its inception in 2018 is to "paint out the invisible sounds (OTO) with audible colors (IRO)". The studio itself is divided into Sound and Visual divisions for the creation of the songs and the accompanying videos to them, which for Vampire were respectively handled by OTOIRO president DECO*27 himself and the nicknamed Rockwell. Early this year, Vampire has also been made available as a piece of DLC music for the Nintendo Switch entry in Taito's Groove Coaster series (link).
Being a song specifically made as a celebration of Miku in the Internet-coined day of March the 9th (3/9, as in Miku's goroawase), numberplay were also paid respect to by the Taiko Team with the song's playable porting, not only with the expected Max Combo quirks (Muzukashii's being 394) but also some of its partials, where an uninterrupted combo chain up to the chart's hitballoon would display 309 as a combo value! As for other DECO*27 Ura Oni Taiko charts, 4-stanza repetitions with minor variations are to be expected, with some slight 1/24 shift along the way.
