Saturday, June 3, 2023

Song of the Week! 3 June 2023

 

Back to business as usual... it's good to be back with the scripted schedule at hand!

Jun Bride
      
MOSHIMO

Game Genre
AC Nijiiro (Y3)
★3
(110)
★5
(194)
★5
(314)
★7
(539)
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130-168
???


For ages to come, the concept of 'June Bride' has been a renowned one across the ages, starting from European countries adopting the tradition to get married at June's start for a number of reasons. For the ancient Romans, it a way to swear loyalty to the marriage and childbirth pagan deity Juno, spouse of Jupiter upon which the original month of June was named after; for the Celts and -later on- Medieval times in general, it was the prime window to have lushous ceremonies with the scent of nature and also perfect to have women work on farming labours for a little more before the harvest times' end by the end of the same months. Even today, the tradition is shared for a number of reasons (among which are less romantic-in-nature ones like excuses for gachas to have unit alts), and some parties are celebrating the tradition in quite unconventional ways, such as this song's inception may tell!

Jun Bride is the 6th single to have warranted a digital timed distribution from Fukuoka Prefecture's MOSHIMO rock band, active since 2006 and until April Fools 2015 under the act name of CHEESE CAKE. The unit's current members were all invited for the May 12th, 2022 wedding ceremony of gaming-related YouTube content creator Junichi Kato (加藤純一), an aquaintance hold dear to MOSHIMO's founding members. As a wedding gift to the Japanese e-celebrity, MOSHIMO members Saki 'Pochi' Iwanuki (岩淵紗貴) and Takayuki 'Itchy' Ichinose (一瀬貴之) have announced and performed an original song for his wedding, performed right here and there for the festive celebration! Being a wordplay between 'Jun Bride' and the broom's own name, the song was originally intended as a one-off "best wishes!" kind of stunt for the event, but as the wedding ceremony being streamed on YouTube was flooded by fans asking for an official release, the song was digitally made available later on the same day, getting a physical release shortly after on the same year with the mini-album GENKI!!.

The playable release of Jun Bride has happened just as suddendly as its reveal, a mere three (3!) days after the Junichi Kato wedding in question! The happestance was also chronicled online by the same content creator, playing the song in a video of his own where the Taiko Team's own SueP made a cameo for the newly-wed online gamer. Suffice to say, you bet your bachi drumsticks we've got the original version playable, after such cameo lengths! After Wagner's familiar Wedding Chorus from Lohengrin starting up the song on the more irregular side of charting, it's your usual 1/16 business until the end, with a couple minor BPM shifts to mind in your final steps for a new Donderful-Combo play's road.