Taking a page out of Bandai Namco's goroawase playbook, today's theme has been decreed by a Japanese-reading numberplay! Head further and figure out what's about it for yourself...
NeGa／PoSi*Love/Call Touhou Project Arrange - Diao Ye ZongNeGa/PoSi*ラブ/コール 東方Projectアレンジ 凋叶棕
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thnegp (Touhou NeGa/PoSi)This ending day, May the 14th, can be put in numbers as '5/14' or just '514', which in the Japanese On-yomi reading rule can be read as "Ko(Go)-I-Shi". Wonder of all wonders, it just so happens to be the proper noun of one of the many many characters in the ever-growing Touhou Project series of games, one whose character theme has been featured in one of its many remixed forms as one of the Touhou songs to stay arcade-exclusive to this very day!
NeGa／PoSi*Love/Call is an arrangement of the Extra Stage boss theme Hartmann's Youkai Girl (ハルトマンの妖怪少女), belonging to an absent-minded-yet-powerful youkai dwelling from Gensokyo's underground places of interests. The girl is called Koishi Komeiji (古明地 こいし), living in the underground Palace of the Earth Spirits with her sister and palace retainer Satori; she herself is a satori -a mountain youkai with the power of reading people's minds at any time- but by her own volition she permanently sealed her throughts-revealing eye, gaining on the flipside the power of manipulating the unconscious thoughts and minds, often resulting in her coming next to people even for long periods of time without actually being noticed. After her debut as Subterranean Animism's Extra Stage boss, Koishi found herself a lot of playable outlets across partner developer Tasogare Frontier's fighting game spinoffs (last seen in Antimony of Common Flowers, among those), as well as the photo-based games of Double Spoiler and Violet Detector as one of its many bosses to face off against.
Delivering this arrangement is the instrumental-dominant doujin circle of Diao ye Zong (凋叶棕; lit. 'Withered Flower'), with its founder/composer/lyricist RD-Sounds and vocalist Meramipop (めらみぽっぷ) of Kero⑨destiny fame being its makers. While Diao ye Zong music is quite remarkable in other music gaming series (Groove Coaster in particular), this is the circle's only publicly-available song in official Taiko gaming, with one more track only being made available for playable Taiko cabinets of one Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai gathering alone. That, however, is a story for another time...
NeGa／PoSi*Love/Call made its debut at the doujin circle's 7th album release for the 80th Comiket edition -titled Haruka (遙, lit. 'Distant')- and since then it gathered quite the cold following in tributes and such, among which is also a fan-made unofficial music video from the same Optie who later on would go making videos for many of the most notorious songs from indie composer LeaF (namely Mopemope and Ka, on Taiko grounds!). Although no other major music game has housed this peculiar Koishi theme arrange, it was also made playable for Taiko's puzzle/rhythm game hybrid Touhou Spell Bubble (link).
Hailing from the times where Touhou arrangements in Taiko gaming meant more than one meme Autumn song release per year, this song's regular Oni mode coats very often across mono-color note passages that are repeated in stanza couples/quartets, particularly near the end; such a thread is also picked up by the Ura Oni alternative which, however, opts for a more aggressive Kat-leading charting all throughout. Aside for the final 1/24 Kat spike, however, it's still more of a chart reading challenge rather than a muscle-hardened-leading one.
NeGa／PoSi*Love/Call is an arrangement of the Extra Stage boss theme Hartmann's Youkai Girl (ハルトマンの妖怪少女), belonging to an absent-minded-yet-powerful youkai dwelling from Gensokyo's underground places of interests. The girl is called Koishi Komeiji (古明地 こいし), living in the underground Palace of the Earth Spirits with her sister and palace retainer Satori; she herself is a satori -a mountain youkai with the power of reading people's minds at any time- but by her own volition she permanently sealed her throughts-revealing eye, gaining on the flipside the power of manipulating the unconscious thoughts and minds, often resulting in her coming next to people even for long periods of time without actually being noticed. After her debut as Subterranean Animism's Extra Stage boss, Koishi found herself a lot of playable outlets across partner developer Tasogare Frontier's fighting game spinoffs (last seen in Antimony of Common Flowers, among those), as well as the photo-based games of Double Spoiler and Violet Detector as one of its many bosses to face off against.
Delivering this arrangement is the instrumental-dominant doujin circle of Diao ye Zong (凋叶棕; lit. 'Withered Flower'), with its founder/composer/lyricist RD-Sounds and vocalist Meramipop (めらみぽっぷ) of Kero⑨destiny fame being its makers. While Diao ye Zong music is quite remarkable in other music gaming series (Groove Coaster in particular), this is the circle's only publicly-available song in official Taiko gaming, with one more track only being made available for playable Taiko cabinets of one Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai gathering alone. That, however, is a story for another time...
NeGa／PoSi*Love/Call made its debut at the doujin circle's 7th album release for the 80th Comiket edition -titled Haruka (遙, lit. 'Distant')- and since then it gathered quite the cold following in tributes and such, among which is also a fan-made unofficial music video from the same Optie who later on would go making videos for many of the most notorious songs from indie composer LeaF (namely Mopemope and Ka, on Taiko grounds!). Although no other major music game has housed this peculiar Koishi theme arrange, it was also made playable for Taiko's puzzle/rhythm game hybrid Touhou Spell Bubble (link).
Hailing from the times where Touhou arrangements in Taiko gaming meant more than one meme Autumn song release per year, this song's regular Oni mode coats very often across mono-color note passages that are repeated in stanza couples/quartets, particularly near the end; such a thread is also picked up by the Ura Oni alternative which, however, opts for a more aggressive Kat-leading charting all throughout. Aside for the final 1/24 Kat spike, however, it's still more of a chart reading challenge rather than a muscle-hardened-leading one.
