Baby Shark Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat feat. Nonochan
太鼓の達人 Pop Tap Beat feat. ののちゃん
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bshar2 (Baby Shark 2)Before you ask, yes- this isn't our first shark-sighting session on our Taiko/SotW turf, as a cover of the original English version was made playable years prior (and throrughully digressed upon here, too!). What's worthy of a separate entry, however, is that the Taiko series caved in later on to have an exclusive deal to make a Japanese cover of the popular tune playable on Pop Tap Beat... and performed by quite the unique artist, at that!
Meet Nonoka Murakata (村方乃々佳), a peppy singer of nursery rhymes who goes by the art name of Nonochan. She's also the youngest-debuting Japanese singer to date, as she started her song-cover-performing carreer at the start of May 2021... or roughly a few days short of her third birthday! As you may guess from the young age, most of her early accolades go for performing children's songs, the first of which at the Japanese Nursery Rhyme Children’s Song Contest 2020 with a Silver-place-worthy singing of Inu no Omawari-san, another tune Children/Folk Taiko players might recall quite a bit!
Unlike with other songs who got significative notechart changes when it's being offered in different languages across Taiko gaming (paging Frozen's Let It Go as one of the more recent examples), the KFMO set for this Japanese cover of Baby Shark match one-on-one with the corresponding bits from the English cover, only now starring less notes overall due to the JP cover's shorter cut of the song. Gameplay-wise, it turns out that the song genre change from Kids to Variety was the greatest amount of variety between the two this entire time!
