Time for our monthly Ura Oni showcase... for a song that has two top-starred variants to boot, too!
Hakanaki wa Gensho ni Mau
儚姫は原初に舞う／Se-U-Ra
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8ka7ki (Hakanaki wa Gensho ni Nau, where 8= Hachi and 7=Nana)To talk about today's intrumental treat on the carnet is to delve into the world of yet another music game renowned composer whose first foot into Taiko gaming was lead by a successful participation in one of the most recent music contests! Meet Se-U-Ra, an artist whose craft is not limited to music alone...
Also going online by the SeURa_Nue handle (せゆーら; Twitter, SoundCloud), this is a composer whose original works mare most easily found in the mubile music gaming field, with many a track popping up on Dynamix (The Endless for Traveler; Necroxus among many), OverRapid (Melusia, with composer seatrus), Lanota (Nobo -overflowing heart), RAVON (abhory) and most notably Phigros, for which was made the infamous Igallta, its very first hidden boss song. That, however, is to tell half the story as Se-U-Ra has a knack for drawing as well! The composer, in fact, has personal profiles on both pixiv and Skeb for personal drawings and commission/subscription works, with some of these actually ending up as the official album jacket for many a personally-made music gaming track... Igallta included!
Hakanaki wa Gensho ni Mau is Se-U-Ra's first foray into arcade music gaming with an original song, third overall with a couple of remixed tracks appearing in Konami's SOUND VOLTEX series, years prior (Nostos -ark remix- and Tic Exe). According to the same artist over Twitter (link), the reading on the song's intricate name is a matter of personal interpretation to whoever reads it, although official Taiko sources starting from its title listing on the 2nd unique Nintendo Switch game's song list page displays its own 'series-canon' reading as 'はかなきはげんしょにまう' in Hiragana, officially localized as "The Ephemeral Dances in the Primordial" which is also quoted in the Full Combo song unlocks of this song on arcades.
The song's name is the first to pop up among the Faith Creation 2020 contest's winning set and to congratulate for the adoption among the contest judges is steμ, lauding it for the unique atmosphere it suggests to its dreamers like a "soft dream" where every single moment is perfectly recollected into the mind. It's common for the so-called "honey rhythm" song composition model to base it entirely on triplets, but rarely does it get this good with trickier rhythms like 6-beats and still sound this good to Taiko Drum Monster's creator! Se-U-Ra tried once more the Taiko music contest competition tides in 2022 with the song Awaku Mabayui Yumezakai (淡く眩いユメザカイ), but all it could muster there was a no-comment Bronze Honorable Mention from Yuji Masubuchi.
The easiest way to explaing this song's latter-end charting gauntlets is to compare them with the Oni and Ura Oni with another "honey rhythm" darling hailing from the Ghost of Past Music Game Collab Past, Got more raves? from Groove Coaster, with the key difference being the heavier reliance on more intricate handswitching inbetween hybrid clusters rather than stamina finesse getting the upper-hand for a perfect execution.
