Right at the just-passed May's tail end, we've got one more series-debut thanks to Pop Tap Beat's erratic song distribution antics! Let's have a listen of it for ourselves.
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| AC Nijiiro NS1 (DLC) NS2 (MP) Xbox (DLC) RC |
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★4 105 |
★4 218 |
★7 431 |
★8 629 |
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reiwad (Rei-wadaiko)While last week we got a song coming out of the preceeding Heisei era -the one marked by the governance of emperor Akihito in Japan- here's a tune inspired by the succeeding (and ongoing) time-defining period in Japan: the Reiwa era, whose beginning was marked by the ascension to Akihito's eldest song Naruhito to the Chrysanthemum Throne as the country's current emperor. This is also reflected in the first straight-to-Taiko original work for the era by longtime contributor and countertenor Hisui (翡翠), by titling this work with a simple wordplay between Reiwa and Wadaiko, the drum-hitting act that by this point each of us reading this page should have become second-nature as per affiliation with this series!
Aside for its year-1 Nijiiro port, all distribution platforms for this song have always relied upon additional content banks between DLCs, subscription-based inclusion and one dead smartphone service. It's also been included as the second 7-Dan song across last year's Ranking Dojo main courses, the fifth time for a 8* Oni song to accomplish so. More notable than this, of course, is what made it so in terms of difficulty means, bringing to the table yet another erratic-rhythm tune made entirely by 3/4-beat and 6/8-beat stanzas. Kawagen Kollagen's charting for it doesn't play it with with scrolling shenanigans either, letting its steady array of clusters do the talking with a few hard-to-clear small hitballoons inbetween.
