Right before the spookiest of times hit the yearly scene once more, here's a little something that is gravely dreaded by media preservation-concerned people...
Machigai Sagashi Masaki Suda
まちがいさがし／菅田将暉
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machig (Machigai Sagashi)It's been a while, isn't it? For the past few years, I'm used to bring to the SotW limelight all those songs that were freshly revealed to be removed from the ongoing arcade line, especially if such removal would spell the unavailability for such tunes to be officially playable across other Taiko medias anymore (at least, at the point of writing for each). Have you ever felt the dread of coming across something after the fact, well sure it wouldn't be brought back afterwards? Such is the case of this one song removal from June this year, and while it's not some kind of dread to linger around one for life like a family member/loved one's passing, that scary feeling of helplessness might still work for some just as nicely as a dream stalker with razor-finger fingers or an hockey-mask-donning serial killer from popular media... even if the playable loss is about such a soothing tune as this!
Released in 2019, this was the theme song for Fuji TV's Perfect World (パーフェクトワールド), a live-action, 10-episodes drama of the eponymous josei manga by Rie Aruga (有賀リエ), telling the story of two former-crushes high school classmates meeting each other after a number of years, during which time one of the two became disabled after a weary accident. The song subtitle credits, however, go to the one who sang it: Osaka prefecture's Masaki Suda (no relation to either Taito-related Masakis nor Sudas of the 51st kind, mind you!), mainly known as a prominent actior since his Kamen Rider-signed debut in 2014 and the many "Best Actor" accolades he received from 2017 onward. Machigai Sagashi (lit. 'Searching for Mistakes') was one of the songs composed/lyricised by Kenshi Yonezu (米津玄師) as 'Hachi' like the console-exclusive Variety track Go-Go Yuureisen, with co-arranging duties for the nicknamed Toomiyo (トオミヨウ).
With the purging of this song from anything Nijiiro (and Taiko in general, really), it also leaves us what was the related Oni chart's curious milestone of being the 8* Oni chart with the lowest notecount ever recorded in Taiko history, dethroning the 2P Ura chart of Hare Hare Yukai (202 notes) after a whopping 13 years and 7 months. Elevating the star rank despite the notion is a shorter-than-average playtime with some of the safest 1/24 monocolor clusters you could use for basic speed-spike hit practice, rounding up the hit marker ratio at about 3 hits/second.
