We're ending the month of April with a blast, coasting aside a couple of Nijiiro-exclusive Original tunes that were brought together by a returning musical project...
Metameta☆Universe! kyo (BNSI)×Mitsu (TRYTONELABO) feat. Zakuro Motokiめためた☆ゆにば～すっ！ kyo(BNSI)×Mitsu(TRYTONELABO) feat. 本木咲黒
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★4 (149) |
★5 (212) |
★6 (326) |
★8 (564/ 541) |
★10 (876/ 765) |
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metamt (Metameta)Normal notes (Ura Oni)
The ASOBINOTES-endorsed Taiko no Tatsujin digital soundtrack project is still going strong, with its 5th iteration going live earlier this week as the "Taiko no Tatsujin Original Soundtrack: Seishun Collection" (太鼓の達人 ナムコオリジナルサウンドトラック 「青春ソングコレクション」), getting like the other past ones a DJ Fua video mixtape to enjoy over the official YT Taiko no Tatsujin account (click here!). Only two of the 10 featured tracks have been left uncovered by us due to these not pertaining to any particular Song Series Showcase of ours, but that's going to change right this second!
The first song at hand barged into the Taiko family last month as part of the Spring Rewards Shop lineup for the Nijiiro Version update that marked the beginning of the 4th generation's ongoing third year, by the hands of names ranging from familiar to secretive and even Taiko-unheard-of! Alongside BNSI's kyo in his first non-'Zero' Namco Original song, we've also got the return of lyricist Mitsu from TRYTONELABO, a recurring Idolm@ster song contributor who was also the voice behind Miko-Chan from Taiko no Tatsujin Portable DX. Last in line is the singer Zakuro Motoki (本木咲黒; Twitter), adding to the overall Taiko song pantheon a singing talent who's well versed in voice acting, most notably in gaming territory for her role in the 'When They Cry' trilogy of visual novels- Higurashi, Umineko and Ciconia!
A peppy song sprung with 1/16 note clusters galore on its Oni setting also bears one of the more unique blends of a fixed note-branching path, diverging into two different points alone at note stanzas 47 and 60. In both instances, whether you use the drumroll markers or not determines which side of the charting lane you're landing into, but it's a fixed change of 1 lane per time instead of the usual jump from Normal to Master, so that players would branch from Normal to Advanced and then Master to get the Max Combo route, just like in the good ole Gen1 days! Whether path you're taking, however, will be uniformed to normal from note stanza 64 onward.
Hopping into the New Year 2023, Metameta☆Universe! was the first beneficiary of the Ranking Dojo Gaiden-debuting Ura Oni treatment, popping up as the final chart to face in the Extreme course variant of the 'Don-chan Gakuen's Extracurricular Class' course. It's also a branching-path treat with plenty more of 1/24 times to face, although this time it's closer to your regular accuracy-based branching criteria, with more branching points than the regular Oni's chart to boot and the same shared, forced-to-Advanced-route branch shift in the middle of the song, no matter how good or how bad you were with your performance.
Ai Nandaze
愛なんだぜ
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40-200 ai7ndz (Ai Nandaze, with 7=Nana in JP)Coming for last in both the 5th DJ Fua video mix and the Seishun Collection, this is one song where the one saying "It's Love" is not only the main composer with the song, but the very same Bandai Namco saying that to the artist in return!
Also a seasonal Rewards Shop debut, it was revealed shortly after on Twitter how this was the very last song composed and performed under the Pac-Man company by musician Taku Inoue, right before leaving Bandai Namco. As penned by Inoue himself in the span of two tweets, he only requested a live drums recording for the song, while he took care of everything else pertaining the song, from composition/performance to lyrics and vocals. While he's currently affiliated with TOY'S FACTORY, it's stories like this that make you realize how working for 10 years as part of a workgroup might be mutually appreciated by both the single worker and the group as a whole!
Charting-wise, we have a diet-case of G Ishiki Kajou with a slightly higher commonplace BPM and less notes overall for a similar challenge degree. The real killer for perfectionists lies at the very end, where a handful of notes and 13 BPM/scrolling shifts to emulate an end-song drum riff can become the true killer of a Donderful-Combo-aiming play...
