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Aki no Nikushoku Matsuri 2014 D.watt (IOSYS) feat. Np Hiko Inuta & Hakase
イオシス秋の肉食祭2014／D.watt(IOSYS) feat.Np 犬田彦 ＆ はかせ
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29shok (Aki no Nikushoku, with 2='Ni' and 9='Ku' in Kanji notation)The IOSYS doujin circle, grandfather of popularizing Touhou games online via parody songs/videos, has a history of Taiko no Tatsujin partnership that spans more than a decade at this point, with this coming October 29th marking the 10th anniversary simultaneous-release of their first couple of Namco Originals: Yamatai Night Party (which we have already covered ages ago) and this here song, the fabled "Autumn Meat-Eating" of 2014. It's quite a novel event to have a song being titled after the year of release, but looking back now it sure doesn't help about avoiding people to feel old, with time...
The people behind this song are most of the same ensemble we'd be seeing years later for the creation of God Collection song Shiritsu Takama-ga-hara Gakuen Koukou Kouka: composer D.watt and co-singers NP Hiko Inuta and Hakase (only for this song), with lyrics by Shichijo Lettuce (七条レタス). Retroactively, we can tell the reason for this being the same IOSYS talents trying their mettle years later to make a sooner sequel out of this song for Taiko shores, which instead has ultimately produced the aforementioned Izanagi-flavored tune, as also told for a post in the past-times official Taiko blog (link, archived). Both this song and Yamatai Night Party also received single releases for 2014's M3 music convention, each with their regular playable cut, an extended version and lyricless karaoke versions for both cuts. As years went by, these long versions have eventually been ported on the doujin circle's official YouTube channel, so if you want to enjoy the fabled "Great Value Men's Dinner Edit" (お得なメンズディナーEdit) of Aki no Nikushoku Matsuri 2014 without scouting a 10ish-years-old doujin release or sailing the digital piracy seas, now you can!
For the longest time, the Oni mode for this meat-eating festival of a decade-ish ago has been labeled as a "fake 9*" among arcade goers, a sentiment that only grew stronger ever since its appearance in Nijiiro's 2021 9-Dan course on Main Ranking Dojo as its first pick. If you need the reasons, look no further: backbeat-based 1/16 cluster stanzas that leave little to no room for resting, combpound 1/24-into-1/16 longer clusters action and to top it all off, a killer finale with singles-into-7-note-clusters that segues into one last consecutive cluster to handle... that STILL finishes off with a few more 1/24 solo spikes just for the sake of it! Starting with something of the likes will surely be enough skill to take the other two songs in 2021's 9-Dan (regular Oni for Heaven's Rder and 8OROCHI), so imagine what it feels to get served this dish first!
Aki no Bakushoku Matsuri 2024 Yuya Kobayashi (IOSYS) feat. Marumoko
イオシス秋の爆食祭2024／コバヤシユウヤ(IOSYS) feat. まるもこ
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110-178 ???Ten years is a time span not to be slouching around for anyone- a lot of dreary events like dearly beloved ones' departing or a global, multi-year-spanning pandemic can disencourage a single person but a multitude of smaller and gratifying events across the same time may fulfill one's drive to keep on with those still sticking around. I even got myself a stable job in this past decade!
Despite the fruitless attempts of (most of) Aki no Nikushoku Matsuri 2014's creators to make a sequel song to it, the torch was handed down to a radically-different set of artists and a new festival is born... a "Binge-Eating Festival", this time! We owe it to longtime circle contributor Yuya 'void' Kobayashi (コバヤシユウヤ) as the composer, with guitar backing from Miura Kiminori (三浦公紀). On the "wordy" side, on the other hand, we got long-time support lyricist john=hive for the first time since his official joining of IOSYS last July (and on Taiko in general!), whose words were sung by Marumoko (まるもこ) of †Bachi!Muchi!?Muscle Kingdom† fame.
Echoes from 2014's carnivorous carnival of sorts chime in more than a way on this song, besides literally starting with a line stating how "it has been 10 years since that festival"... Everyone's favorite modern "fake 9*" charting comes back as an actual top-starred Oni for modern audiences' latest Weekend Warrior to explore, not only by bringing back frantic-yet-familiar cluster formations but also by playing with some visual flairs that have been adopted across Taiko charting long past 2014 (paging first and foremost the repeating trippy barlines© bits at the start). KFM star ratings haven't changed after the ten-year jump (and so did Kantan and Muzukashii's Max Combo values, too!), but each mode's Max Combo value from the males-only past festival have now become their respective "2024 chart update"'s unbreakable-hitbaloon value that cannot be mastered at the very end, making of Aki no Bakushoku Matsuri 2024 the second song after Waraeru 2000 with unbreakable balloons on all difficulty settings. Don't forget the final giant note after it, so don't strain yourselves from hitting it too much, unless you're in a hi-score-hunting quest!
