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ban3ka (Bansanka, with '3'= San in JP)Well, ... it happened again. Much like last year with Daizerokan, I got songbaited by the people behind Taiko games into looking harder onto one of their latest licensed grabs, based solely on labeling ingame the adopted cover version with "Taiko Team cover ver.". After doing my usual digging, though, it's nice we have a decively-positive spin on the Pops realm, in contrast with the last time it hit these Saturday shores...
Bansanka (lit. 'Supper Song') is an original track that made the rounds of Tiktok in Japan since early July of last year, courtesy of one nicknamed 15-aged user named tuki. As told by the same artist for an interveiw, the push to perform song covers and making his own came from his own father telling him once that "you only have about 30.000 days to live"; having lived (at the time) about 5.000 of these himself, the push came in form of his drive not to waste the remaining approximate 5/6th of his lifespan and starting to perform and create right away. On September 13th of the same year, the song was uploaded on YouTube with original vocals, going on sale/streaming services by the end of the very same month and managing to ammass over 100 million hits (DL/streaming playbacks), the highest for such a young age too! Not only that, but it also managed to top Spotify playlists in Japan one month after debut and Billboard Japan Hot 100 in early January this year (it's still seated on 2nd place, as I'm typing this!), with literally double the stream hits being achieved by April 2024 on Tiktok alone.
Coordination-training-lacking donders with medium-cluster handswitching issues can rejoice for yet another Oni challeng at stable near-100 BPM values dip their toes in these metaphorical waters while only having to worry about the cover's generous length, with the relative stamina-tolling factor it brings in on a notechart-playing level.
