The reason for it, as you're about to read, possibly goes beyond the usual "original version featured in the game" reasoning, unfortunately...
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tuykrb (TUYU - Kuraberarekko)Doro no Bunzai de Watashi Dake no Taisetsu o Ubaouda Nante TUYU
泥の分際で私だけの大切を奪おうだなんて／ツユ
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112.5-225 tuydo6 [TUYU - Doro(Do + 6/Ro in JP)]What we have here are a couple of third-year Nijiiro picks from the same up-and-rising pop unit TUYU, made out of Vocaloid-versed talents banding together for several collaboration acts, most notably 2012's Heisei Project. The band was founded by its guitarist/lead composer Yano Asaya (矢野麻也) under the Pusu (ぷす) alias to distance himself from his former works being signed as Zips (じっぷす) between Vocaloid and Utaite creations. Joining him for the TUYU act's foundation in 2019 are lead singer Rei (礼衣) and pianist Miro, followed by a couple of visuals-related collaborators who left it shortly after: illustrator omutatsu (おむたつ) and video maker AzyuN.
Both TUYU songs that have managed to snuck into Taiko territory are from the unit's earlier years as a self-published-label in TUYU Records, respectively released in 2019 and 2020. The earlier Kuraberarekko (lit. 'Compared Child') was TUYU's 4th-released song, eventually getting a different digital-only version as the (TUYU Remix) halfaway the year 2020 and making its physical debut with the act's very first album: February 2020's Yappari Ame wa Furunda Ne (やっぱり雨は降るんだね). The second song, going instead with the English translation of "Being low as dirt, taking what's important from me", was released on August of the same year of the band's album debut, being mostly noteable to also become the base of a novel and manga series by the same name, the former being supervised by the very same composer Pusu. It would eventually get its physical release with TUYU's second indie album release: Anata o Fukō ni Sasoimasu Ne (貴方を不幸に誘いますね) from July 2021.
Both songs have garnered quite the traction in other music games, with the greatest beneficiaries being Konami's SOUND VOLTEX for both songs (Kurabe/Doro), jubeat, Nostalgia and GITADORA. Double-dipping also happened in Sega county with the two songs appearing in both maimai (Kurabe/Doro) and CHUNITHM (Kurabe/Doro), whereas only the dirt-in-title-donning tuned managed to cross bountaries into Ongeki and Taito's Groove Coaster.
At this point, you might ask what's so outrageous of a factor for me to get into doom-and-gloom mode for these two songs, all of a sudden. The answer lies in a rather-recent news report from Japan (Source: Yahoo News), involving TUYU's lead composer Pusu being indicted for... an attempted murder. No really, there's no way to sugarcoat this- on the morning of May 31st last week, the nicknamed Pusu got arrested for stabbing once his teen-aged girlfriend, going on record upon arrest by stating how he was actually willing to perform a homicide-suicide to end it all. Following the news, not only the TUYU act was disbanded as a result, but several parties have been quite hasty on removing any traces of the band's records in digital storefronts online. Even on music gaming field we got quite the proactive reaction to the story, with all ongoing Konami/bemani games announcing all the featured songs from the act to be removed across each active music series. Given the current-news climate, it would be no surprise if Bandai Namco decided to follow the same footsteps as an all-ages-friendly franchise like Taiko no Tatsujin is also involved on the licensing spectrum...
While we wait for both songs for either permanent judgement to be passed (or not), what we're left here is to look at quite the speedy couple among modern playable licenses. Kuraberarekko has its own interesting blend of 1/12 charting a-la Egao ni Kanpai! on both choruses/begginning and 1/16 clusters to face, whereas the dirt-related song with the lengthier title can surely keep people busier on the stamina side of things, Don-dominating clusters trend or not!
