You can never know everything about the people behind Taiko no Tatujin's collective original song pool... This here track being no exception to that line of thinking!
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mahosk (Mahoushiki Tousou Kitan)The nicknamed MOES has made quite a name for himself for being not only part of the batch of winners from the very first music recruitment contest from 2011, but also one of the winners to be picked up more often by Bandai Namco for commissioned original songs, from the Taiko World Championships Area Elimination song Princess of Donder to a couple of original releases for the first Nintendo Switch's DLC pool. This is the one of the two to get additional ports over time in comparison to the later-released Mr.Runner, which only got ported to a game that died after about a year to date...
What we never truly saw behind this composer was the surrounding presence of himself beyond the Taiko sphere, which in about 14 years since his Taiko debut is surely more than what we knew about since the Dokidoki Mune Kyun Omatsuri Time days. First of all, it turns out MOES is actually an art name acronym, standing for "Mirror of ES" as attested on the author's own Twxttxr profile and personal website. Secondly, we also came to know how this artist is now affiliated to a music production/music school activites company active in Japan -Recurrence Ltd.- and that he spends part of his spare time in making original music for his own YouTube channel (link), most of it falling over time into "free background music" pieces over time that can be used without asking for permission/rights, regardless of the intended use being of a commercial nature or not. Finally, said social media account usage from MOES showed up quite an... shall we say, attitude, that is mirrored on his own style of posting and such, up to declare himself at some point to have become a "Taiko-no-Tatsujin-approved pervert". What else can I say but "take it for what it's worth"!?
The first Namco Original to have a comet star as part of its title (and 3rd song in Taiko overall, after the Anime tracks Happy and Kirakira Kirara), Mahoushiki Tousou Kitan (lit. "Magical Escape Tale") pitches a cutecore-influenced fairytale scenario with the aid of a returning vocalist: Erika Kaiho (海保えりか; Twxttxr) of Da Capo III voice-acting fame, already a vocalist in Taiko for Taiko-contest winners like Shogo (☆しょーじ☆; for Netemo Netemo and Tabetemo Tabetemo) and the very same MOES, with lyrics and 2nd-interjection vocal contribution from the nicknamed Sagara (楽つき; Twxttxr). Much like the later-released Mr.Runner, its Oni mostly boasts 1/16 charting with some monocolor 1/24 small clusters spliced in and a frantic section where note couples and reoccurring small hitballoons go hand-to-hand, only here's at the beginning as opposed to Mr.Runner's bits, which are played near the end instead. The unique thing this song got at its end is the "medetashi medetasahi" line to bookend the fairytale motif of the song like an old-fashioned "and they lived happily ever after" would do for most English-speaking audiences!
