Taiko no Tatsujin has had its plentiful share of heroes... even among its tracks, as you're about to see!
Hero Zoom In!! SUPER '09 Autumn Theme
ヒーロー／「ズームイン!! SUPER '09 秋のテーマ」
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| AC14 Wii3 |
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★3 (85) |
★4 (143) |
★4 (222) |
★7 (421) |
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120.36-122.05
funmon (FUNKY MONKEY BABYZ)Back from the numbered-arcade generation's tail end, here's a hero that greeted many Japanese people's mornings for a while! This song, in fact, was used for the Autumn broadcasts of a former early-morning newscasting Nippon TV program titled Zoom In!! SUPER, devoting to deliver the latest worldwide updates around the world in a friendly manner to start the day on the right foot. The program is the second in this peculiar line, preceeded by Zoom In!! Morning! (ズームイン!!朝!) which ran for 22 years straight from 1979 and the ongoing ZIP!, starting from SUPER's discontinuation in 2011.
As communicated via its SongID, we have to pay tribute to one hiphop unit for its creation: Hachioji's FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, with composition/arrangement duties fulfilled by Hayato Tankak (田中隼人). FMB itself starts as an act of three members with MC duo Funky Kato (ファンキー加藤)/Mon-kichi (モン吉) and DJ Chemical (DJケミカル), the latter of which had to leave the act in 2013 due to his preparation matters in order to become head chief of his family's Shinto temple. The act would become active once again from 2021, just with the two aforementioned MCs alone.
Save from some minor BPM fluctuations at the start, this is a regularly-flowing song journey where 2-4-hit clusters are just as prominent as the commonplace triplets. It's also one of the tracks where the Go-Go Time combined length outweighs the 'regular' portions, mind you!
Hero Namie Amuro
安室奈美恵
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| AC0 Blue |
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★2 (61) |
★3 (83) |
★3 (125) |
★7 (260) |
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| AC Nijiiro (Y3 Deleted) |
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★2 (61) |
★3 (83) |
★3 (125) |
★7 (260) |
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98-125 amhero (Amuro - Hero)Alas, heroes in this world don't exist exclusively as overly-victorious figures, as 'fallen heroes' of sorts are also a thing in both general media and Taiko. The fall around here, of course, is the oh-so-familiar permanent series deletion treatment from the sole official recordings on the Gen3-4 arcade families, and this is not even the first time that a similar fate befalsl on one of them!
Behind this particular hero is former Japanese pop star sensation Namie Amuro, one whose long-spanning career that managed to touch both an idol infancy and a more mature renaissance let many people draw parallels to the fame of other popular generational-gap-crossers from the West in the likes of Janet Jackson and Madonna. It's from these last years of activity that the song pops up, as an NHK-commissioned job for the Japanese broadcasts of the 2016 Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro (and the succeding Paralympics of the same year), with songwriting duties belonging to Rynnosuke Imai (今井了介) andf the nicknamed SUNNY BOY. Hero managed to receive six different music videos across the years, with its July 27th, 2016 single ultimately getting a Gold classification by the RIAJ.
As you can tell by the off-capture footage shown above (and the many funny-sounding audio alteration clips out there), the original song was the chosen version to be played on game center drums for the better part of 3 years, stretching as far to the 7th Oni star rating despite the shorter playtime and a more-regular charting even among other low-BPM picks of the genre, such as today's other Hero!
