Iiko Shinkaron (feat. O-LuHA) Ecchan
イイコ進化論 (feat. O-LuHA)／ えっちゃん
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★3 (138) |
★6 (253) |
★7 (460) |
★9 (677) |
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???Beyond the current 6-Dan barrier, you're not going to find any licensed song to face the most daring of arcade donders after dealing with today's pick as the course's first song. It's a track from ex-UUUM YouTuber Ecchan (えっちゃん) that has been out for four years since last March and has been the first among Pops/Anime tunes to fare this high on the Banapassport-exclusive arcade treat. We're approaching the first all-courses Real Ranking Dojo events and, for some incredibly coincidental occurrence with my SotW planning sheets, it's also ongoing with an unrelated event for English-based gacha players getting to meet another kind of Ecchan, so what better time to talk about this song than now!?
Iiko Shinkaron (lit. 'Good Girl Evolution Theory') was released on YT on March 27th in 2019, totaling a hefty 1 million views and marking the first collaboration work of the self-broadcasting talent with Haruo 'O-LuHA' Amano (Twitter). About Ecchan [real name: Etsuko Ogawa (小河悦子 )], she's a nearly-30-aged artist with a knack for drawing and modeling/video production in general, for which she studied at the Digital Hollywood University. During these years, she found a job at the then-rising UUUM as an intern, up to become one of their exclusive de-facto content creators with the Bonbon TV (ボンボンTV) channel since 2015. Three years later, she left the network in order to have her own separate YT channel and since October 2020, she started the ongoing partnership with the BitStar talent agency.
The official Iiko Shinkaron MV upload on YouTube sheds many a light behind its creation on the video description, including the other co-composers (the nicknamed MEG and Naoki Itai) and co-lyricist chi4, with the bulk on the song's work being done by Ecchan herself. After penning the BonBon Dream song for the aforementioned Bonbon TV the year prior to her parting from the UUUM network, she worked hard to make "a song she'd want to listed to, again and again", which is why her listening music genre of choice was picked for it!
This energetic tune sits nicely on the difficulty next to another fast-sped, slow-scrolling darling from the Anime genre (Feed A), thanks to the more-approachable note stanza repetitions that makes the trial more of a physical test to clear and less on a mild-scrolling adaptability endurance trial like the aforementioned God Eater Anime's harder Oni mode.
