Saturday, July 30, 2022

Song of the Week! 30 July 2022


Time for a return to the Anime genre... and one with the latest licensed additions to boot, too!

Mixed Nuts
Official Hige DanDISM/SPY×FAMILY Opening Theme Song
ミックスナッツ
Official髭男dism
  「SPY×FAMILY」オープニング主題歌

Game Genre
AC Nijiiro (Y3) *no Ura
NS2 (MP)
/ ★2
(81)
★4
(124)
★5
(209)
★7
(412)
★9
(600)
149.2-153.2
[NS2] ohdmi2 (Official DanDism Mixed Nuts)


The fourth indirect drumming contribution to the series by the Shimane-spawn pop band Official Hige DanDISM happens to be one of the most recent Anime sensations of this year, originating from the eponymous manga series that started in 2019 for Shonen Jump+ by mangaka Tatsuya Endo (遠藤達哉). Started out as a web manga and currently ongoing with 9 tankobons to boot, Spy x Family is about the precarious balance of a household whose upbringing was brought up by necessity and unawareness towards each others' backgrounds.

In a fictional version of Germany, the code-named agent "Twilight" from the western-side 'Westania' has been tasked to spy on the leader of the eastern portion ('Ostania') Donovan Desmond, a remarkably reclusive person who plays his cards close to all outsiders. In order to assess his task, Twilight figures that the best way to keep an eye on him is to take part in the same private school of Desmond's son as a fellow parent/guardian, and to that end he forms a family with Yor Briar as his wife and adopts a young orphan named Anya. "Twilight", now known as Loid Forger, is not the only one to bear an ominous secret to his newly-forged family, as her spouse is a professional assassin and their adoptive daughter has telekinetic powers that allow her to read other people's minds, causing a greater friction from the three to act as family ouside of their respective upbringings. Currently the manga run bolsters 15 million copies sold worldwide, with side project spanning far beyond Wit Studio and CloverWorks' ongoing Anime run, with a light nover and a dedicated musical just to name a few!

The Taiko porting of Spy x Family's first opening theme is filled to the brim with 5-note clusters, something that only Gen2's licensed pool truly thrived on. With little to no time to rest on, it's the prime ground for newbies to train for similar-range trials for the Anime genre at highter BPM values, like Guren no Yumiya. Despite making its console debut in form of a cover version (hence the '2' in its SongID), it does bring on the table an exclusive Ura Oni a-la Odoru Pompokolin before it on Nintendo Switch/Drum 'n' Fun! The harder chart is also served with a general x1.5 scrolling speed enhancement, which is the very same treatment that was already reserved to former Ura Onis in the likes of Namco Original White rose Insanity.