Sanba Garasu Otoko-Uta
三羽烏漢唄
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★3 (68) |
★6 (232) |
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Remember Oira! Granblue Fantasy (オイラ! グランブルーファンタジー), the 2018 Taiko-based minigame inspired by the world and characters of the eponymous, long-running gacha from developer CyGames itself? This oddity of a companion app/minigame was run and made operative only for the duration of April Fools Day in 2018 (and once again the year after, on the same day), with many a mention of Bandai Namco behind its development. If that isn't enough to count its collective tracklist as 'honorary members' for the series in general, I don't know what it is!
Much like with the proper Taiko game's twin release of the PsVita's Idolm@ster Must Songs games, the greater bulk of Oira's songlist was made up by some of the earliest and more memorable image songs from the gacha game's characters, in many a different ensemble, The first two of such image songs (in order of release/commercial printing) actually made it to official arcade Taiko gaming beforehand (Kimi to Boku no Mirai and Sora no Michishirube), while today's pick is the third one to follow the duo of female-lead pieces... a song about how fundoshi-only-clothing and proud singing are the marks of real men. Talk about a masculine whiplash!
Commercially available since June 22, 2016 as a single release, Sanba Garasu Otoko-uta (lit. 'Song of the Three Man') gives life to the powerful words of Soyataru Sonoda (園田ソイヤ太郎) to life thanks to the combined composing work of Hidenori 'picnic' Maezawa (前澤ヒデノリ) and the legendary Square-related composer Nobuo Uematsu (植松伸夫). I know it sounds absurd, but it really is, straight out of the song's official MV no less! The three vocalists, of course, are the voice actors behind the three muscle-flexing Granblue characters from the MV: Hiroki Yatsumoto (安元洋貴) as Jin, Rikiya Koyama (小山力也) as Soriz and Keiji Fujiwara (藤原啓治) as Eugen. This trio of real men in fundoshi proudly prints into Oira as their song's custom dancers as well!
Sanba Garasu Otoko-uta is only available with Normal and Hard notechartss (Oira's equals for Futsuu and Muzukashii modes); as you can see, however, the rating standard is not to be aligned 1:1 with the 3rd-gen/current-gen rating standards, as its plain 1/16 note charting mostly follows the music's base beats all throughout the performance.
