My apologies for missing out last week; with some ongoing personal issues on the health side, my mind was somewhere else... to the point of losing the cognition of time.
But hey, at least this means I can indulge into something longer for a chance today- something out of this blog's background inner-workings, too!
Detective Conan Main Theme
名探偵コナン メイン・テーマ
名探偵コナン メイン・テーマ
| Game | Genre |
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| AC 10-14 / 11-12A PSP DX iOS/STH |
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★3 74 |
★2 112 |
★6 227 |
★6 386 |
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| DS1 | |
★3 74 |
★3 112 |
★6 227 |
★6 386 |
- |
| AC0 3DS2 (DLC) 3DS3 (DLC) NSI (DLC) NS2 (MP/DLC) PTB |
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★3 74 |
★1 112 |
★6 227 |
★6 386 |
- |
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konant (Conan Theme)Once upon a time, we were used to host dedicated pages for Anime series representation in Taiko gaming, grouping all features a-la Song Series Showcase. The very last draft of mine started for one of such pages was for the lucky and ongoing Detective Conan series, starting to get traction from the 2nd arcade generation's roots; problem is, that very same day I started drafting at home the whole thing, we were hit by copyright takedowns on the Naruto song serties pages, forcing our hand into removing the ones that were already up for good measure as well as to thrash the Conan page draft I only started in that same morning. But aye, this episodic detective show deserves some kind of limelight around here- we're talking about 13 ported songs's worth of lineage thus far, after all!
Known in its homelands as Meitantei Konan (lit. "Great Detective Conan") and in most English-speaking countries as Case Closed due to undisclosed naming legal hurdles (with most speculations pertaining another investigations-y Conan of the past), the series follows high-school student Shinichi Kudo, often helping the local police force on detective duty. On one night investigation under the trails of a mysterious organization of black-coated individuals, Shinichi got abducted by two of its members -codenames Gin and Vodka- and force-fed by the two a mysterious synthetic drug, with the intent of killing him. What happened, instead, is that his body was shrunk to the one of an elementary-school-aged kid, thus forcing him to relocate and start a new life, under the name of Conan Edogawa. With the help of his friend and gadget-savy doctor Hiroshi Agasa, he enrolled into school and got introduced to a private-eye household to live in, run by the detective Goro Mori and Shinichi's childhood friend Ran, being in a better position to find clues on the nameless organization who turned him into a child while also assisting on the same Goro's investigations, often times with the help of doctor Agasa's gadgets and his new-kid-self-found friends, including Teitan Elementary School's Detective Boys club and a fellow-age-regressed, organization researcher dropout.
Written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama (青山剛昌), the ongoing manga run has been serialized on Shogakugan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine on a weekly basis ever since January 1994, with over 100 dedicated tankobon housing its many, many chapters (did I mention this was the first series on WSS to get over 1000 chapters published?). The series's renaming hurdles in a few Western countries didn't hinder its success overseas as well as in its home soil, with Detective Conan volumes collectively selling over 270 million copies worldwide. To put it on perspective, only three other manga publications have fared better- Doraemon and the still-running Golgo 13/One Piece duo! Aoyama also penned three other spinoff mangas in the late 2010s, all getting the animated treatment on boot, no less.
Speaking of animation, the original manga's stories were starting to get an anime conversion thanks tothe joint-producing of talents from TMS Entertainment and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, also faring with over one thousand episodes to this day. No matter whichever of the 32 season you are picking, chances are you're still getting subjected to the Detective Conan main theme, composed by Katsuo Ohno (大野克夫) of Space Battleship Yamato fame. Given its first time of release across Taiko games, it's currently believed that the Taiko-playable version is a cover based of an unreleased rendition of the original theme, found in an official December-2006-dated album (Detective Conan Movie Version Theme Song Best THE BEST OF DETECTIVE CONAN ~The Movie Themes Collection~).
This pace-increasing Oni challenge based on monocolor couples is a staple to 6-star charting due to its technical nature under a more-than-welcoming speed and custom Kantan-Futsuu 2P charts, finding itself in a number of games and never missing an arcade firmware ever since its debut! Even to this day, the song is nearly-always found on more modern console entries, although it's always behind some DLC/subscription-related stipulation of sorts.
Glorious Mind Detective Conan
相思相愛／アニメ「名探偵コナン」より
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| AC 11 | |
★2 (95) |
★4 (134) |
★4 (234) |
★5 (351) |
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71.99 - 122.99 gmind (Glorious Mind)Detective Conan themes in Taiko are found in three kinds, with its Main Theme being a category on its own due to its games-overarching nature. What we're covering next is the most elusive of the three kinds with its opening themes, (almost) all stuck in the 2nd-gen of Taiko gaming and each appearing only once or twice overall, and never twice on the same arcade or console front. Since we're going for the hardest-to-find songs to date, how about we go with the one which has seen the least use across official Conan media to this day (barring reruns)?!
Glorious Mind is the 21st opening theme for the animated series, used only for episodes 487 to 490 as the show at the time was running hour-long episodes. This is also long-reputed to be the very last song from pop band ZARD, as shortly after its making was also the death of its lyricist and lead singer, Izumi Sakai (坂井泉水). This one is also a cover of the original, with music from Aika Ohno (大野愛果) and arrangment from Takeshi Hayama (葉山たけし).
One of the arcade-exclusive Detective Conan themes, this one lends itself more on the beginners' side with more repeating patterns and a milder pace to follow, culminating with a handful of gentle slow BPM shifts at the end.
Soushi Sou'ai From the Movie "Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram"
相思相愛／劇場版「名探偵コナン 100万ドルの五稜星」より
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| NS2 (MP) | |
★2 (60) |
★2 (122) |
★3 (210) |
★6 (329) |
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93 so4soi [Soushi Sou'ai]The third and final kind of Conan representation in Taiko -the one to hog most of the spotlight, these days- are the teme songs from one of its many, MANY movies. If you made it reading up here, you might start to easily track down the continuity pattern as exctended to the movies, and... well duh, you couldn't be more correct: since the year 1996 there has been at least one Conan movie per year airing in Japanese theathers, with a few getting international localized screenings and ALL of these getting their own two-chapters manga transposition a bit later. This kind of renewed continuity puts most to shame, and without even breaking a sweat!
Soushi Sou'ai (lit. 'Mutual Love') opens the 27th movie in the series, The Million-Dollar Pentagram, whose events spring from the declaration of thievery sent by the recurring white-garbed Kaito Kid to the current head of the Onoe Zaibatsu, declaring his intent to steal not jewelry as per personal modus operandi but a couple of wakizashi swords belonged to the Bakumatsu era's Toshizo Hijikata, vice-captain of the era's secret police force known as the Shinsengumi. What's noteable for this film from last year was only not becoming the highest-grossing Detective Conan movie ever with a grossing of over 15 billion Yen in earnings (judgement pending on earning for this year's flick, One-Eyed Flashback), it was also 2024's highest-grossing movie on toe, too! The theme is written and performed by aiko -art name for Keiko Kurubushi (踝蛍子)- who bolstered some kind of tangent music game joint-work notoriety with Vocaloid/beatnation Records artist OSTER project.
Nothing we've already said to the other two songs of today's charts can be discarded while describing thisOni's chart as well: Taiko Music Pass subscribers can enjoy a lulling tune with a more-than-welcoming pace and handswitch-y clusters action only happening near the end.
