While we don't have any more of such period-linked tunes to fester one's memories, we're surely not lacking in the earworm-worthy popular songs in the general Japanese scene to talk about, either!
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| AC Nijiiro (Y4) |
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★3 (110) |
★4 (174) |
★5 (282) |
★6 (422) |
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???That's right- while we don't have something like Mariah Carey's yearly money-making glitch to talk about while staying Taiko-topical, there's many a popular pool to draw from if we wanna got the earworm-y way, even in late 2024! Among such sources is this ending year's Anime transposition of mangaka Oshioshio (おしおしお)'s Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan, with the Internet's meme works surrounding its opening theme.
Being serialized since 2019 between Kodansha's magazines -Shōnen Magazine Edge and the ongoing Magazine Pocket- is the story of 2nd-year high school student Torako Koshi, a former delinquent student who's trying to leave her past behind by building up the image of a perfectly honorable student. Such status quo is challenged when Torako has to welcome and tout around Noko Shikanoko, a transfer student who is actually a humanized deer that behaves as such, leading to the foundation of the shool's "Deer Club" as a way to deal with Noko's randomly-popping-out antlers. Such a club also includes Torako's little sister Anko and the illeism-donning freshman Meme Bashame, the four of which also singe the Anime's theme song (their VAs, of course). The 12-episodes series by Wit Studio was localized in multiple languages within its release year, with the Japanese cast most notably relegating the voice-acting duties for Torako Koshi to Saki Fujita (藤田咲) ...yep, that's Hatsune Miku's voice provider!
The 'Deer-colored Days' sung by her, Megumi Han (潘めぐみ), Ryoti Tanabe (田辺留依) and Izumi Fuka (和泉風花) have employed four more people for the base melody's cration: drummer Maoki Yamamoto (山本真央樹) from TRYTONELABO, brass/sax/overall arranging from Righttracks Inc.'s Yasuhisa Inoue (井上泰久) and the duo of independent musicians Motoi Murakami (村上基) and Masanobu "OTG" Otagaki (大田垣 "OTG" 正信) for the wind intruments (trumpet and trombone respectively). Considering the vast cast for the song as a whole, it's the more amusing how the song's online popularity lies entirely on its very beginning, with the silly dance and the consecutive looping of its opening bridge's first half and many an edit of those across the Web on the anime's opening weeks!
If you go beyond the first five second and into the usual Taiko action, however, you'd soon realize to be facing one of the speedier songs across the modern 6* Oni pool, something that diespite the average amount of notes can still be weary for those getting a grasp on arcade titles' bachis for just a few days overall. Even without clusters longer than 3 notes at a time, that's a handswitch not to be undervalued if you're just starting out!
