The latest Taiko WCS@Gaiden competition is drawing to an end! Let's jump right into it with a song feature from someone just missing the contest-approval mark of inclusion by a really small margin...
Uta Utau U Tayuta-u Rish feat. Choco
詩謳兎揺蕩兎／立秋 feat. ちょこ
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| AC Nijiiro (Y3) |
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★4 (156) |
★6 (222) |
★8 (393) |
★10 (680) |
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37.5-150
???We've almost seen it all when it comes to contest-powered portfolio artist, but never something in the likes of such a scenario: first a joint Namco Original-commissioned debut, then 3rd-Gen music contest winners with a cat-centric tune, then commissioned artists again, then twice-in-a-row contest defeats... and back to commissioned artists again!
Literally no one ever had such a unique track record as the one shares by composer Rissyu/Rish and singer Choco, which we last heard the both of them with a SotW feature on their joint Taiko debut (link). After winning the Faith Creation music contest with their Nyanyanya and getting contacted for their own commissioned Hiyoko Kanteishi-san, the two tried again their best on both Taiko contests currently for the Columbia Makes platform, with two tracks for the former edition (Shimeji Panic and A Extremely Far Distant Star) and one entry for the latter in Hidari Kulikku ga Osenai, ending up with just a Bronze-graded honorable mention on each venue. Apparently, their consistence was worthy of being awarded a third commission job from the Taiko Team, and as the Year-of-the-Rabbit-opener piece of all things! The allitterating title juggling with the Japanese translation of 'Uta' as in 'song' with the Kanji characters for 'Usa' as in 'Rabbit', you couldn't find a hoppingly-better way to follow the Chinese Zodiac leitmotif opened last year with Kaneko Chiharu's Ex TORA Trap!!
Of course, pursuing the Taiko glory wasn't the only otoge-oriented jig the couple has been trying, with their more recent BMS hits becoming fan-favorites despite not breaking the overall-popularity mold on their respective debut contest. Just these past 3 years, for example, we got BOF XVI's Take (竹) which managed to get featured in several commercial music games soon after (among these: Arcaea, SOUND VOLTEX and CHUNITHM), its follow-up of sorts Tanaka (田中) for BOF XVII and one third track for last year's BMS of Fighters foray. As this one's title is literally made entirely of emojis and Blogger as a platform behaves in wonky ways with those, from time to time... just take a gander at it yourself!
Jumping back into Taiko molds, the notechart's formations per-se are nothing shying away from a mid-tier 9* challenge in terms of execution, but its really scarce number of notes combines with all the colorful scrolling gimmickry it employs makes it a hurdle for first-timers to clear, setting it to the very top of the ingame-difficulty-marked food chain. While harmless content like the drumroll clusters and the ending have the same-ish scrolling variations on the whole KFMO set, the Oni mode deviates with some devious work on its Kat notes at different x*.2 scrolling increments/multiples, making it easy to miss due to reading issues or just peer pressure in general. Don't forget the slow-flowing giant Kat note, from the likes of Dual Moon and the more recent Doppelgangers (Ura)!
