A double-header for today, tying one up-and-rising trend for the Variety song genre across the ages to something one wouldn't necessarily see the mutual connection for...
| Game | Genre |  |  |  |  |  |
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| Plus/STH |  | ★2 54 | ★2 96 | ★5 144 | ★7 496 | - |
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tana84 (Hiroshi Tanahashi, with '8'=Hachi and '4'= Shi)Taiko no Tatsujin and random wrestler theme cameos come hand-to-hand ever since the 2nd arcade generation, with peculiar dropins for both arcade and console players. The one we have here, however, has only landed in the now-discontinued Taiko Plus Shinkyoku Tori Houdai app, and with it being a subscription-exclusive treat, not even post-EoS players clinging onto their apps can enjoy this track anymore (in a legit way, at least...)
LOVE&ENERGY is the entrance theme for the 49-aged wrestler Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋弘至), acting at the NJPW league not only as a performer, but also as president and representative PR director. Boasting 27 championship reigns across all leagues since his wrestler debut in mid-October 1999, he's reguarded nowadays as both one of the most-known in the figure and one of the best promoters for the sport in Japan. His entrance theme is composed by a veteran on the sector as well: Yonosuke Kitamura (北村陽之介), maker of literal dozens of individual wrestlers' entrance themes (including RAINMAKER, also available in Taiko gaming) who also penned 'anniversary versions of LOVE&ENERGY across the years: LOVE&ENERGY DRIVE-20th- for the 20th anniversary of the stage debut of the so-dubbed 'Masked Devilock' and the '2020Ver.' , starring the nicknamed EIKI at the guitar.
The speed might be scary at first sight, but it's one of those "incremental notechart" stories on Oni mode where the hardest you're going to see is a 5-note cluster in a sea of incremental stanza repetitions with Don triplets to clear. The three short hitballoons might catch 1st-timers offguard for the hit/length ratio, so mind your hit barrage if you care(d) about scoring here!
Untaka Dance "Doraemon The Movie: Nobita and the Birth of Japan" Special Support Song
「映画ドラえもん 新・のび太の日本誕生」スペシャル応援ソング
「映画ドラえもん 新・のび太の日本誕生」スペシャル応援ソング
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| 3DS 3 NS2 (MP) |  | ★2 47 | ★2 82 | ★4 200 | ★6 284 | - |
142 untaka (Untaka Dance)Another console exclusive for today, we've got a 'support song' made for the 2016 remake of a pre-2000s Doraemon movie, Nobita and the Birth of Japan.
The story is the same as the original flick from March 11th, 1989: Nobita and his friends, each for their own reasons, are fed up with their parents' increasing demands and are willing to go somewhere 'before humans ever existed', by suggestion of the same Nobita. Doraemon, who is also running away from the responsability of taking temporary care of a hamster -looking similar to a mouse, an animal he hates- welcomes their request and the lot travels to 70.000 BC thanks to the robot-cat from the future's gadgets and with a trio of fantastical animals made by the same Doraemon, playing around the ancient times grounds by setting up a mini-civilization for fun. Such fun is stopped when a mysterious boy attacks the party and, later on, are aware by the same of an ongoing feud between a Light and Dark tribe, with the former causing suspition as its leader, the "King of the Spirits" Gigazombie seems to bear unwieldy and unusual powers to get things his way. Fearing some other time-traveling shenanigan has to do with the situation, the kids' party are now set to quell the fires on both sides. The 2016 movie remake, in particular, got a few assets the original release didn't get, barring the series-record-breaking (for the time) box office grossing difference (58.4M Yen against the original's 31.4M); namely, a videogame adaptation for Nintendo 3DS, released on March 3rd of the same year.
Now, thims might be the point to ask what has one of Japan's children manga/animation staples to do with the wresting scene, or even why this one movie remake in particular. Well, look no further than the Untaka Dance's performers ensemble! Under the collective name of Untaka! DoraDoraDan (ウンタカ！ドラドラ団), in fact, we find a few of the voice actors for both Light and Dark tribe members: Togi Makabe (真壁刀義), Yoshio Kojima (小島よしお), the nick-named Eva (エヴァ) and... wonder of wonders, the professional wrestler Hiroshi Tanahashi we've just finished talking about! All other duties for the song's creation, on the other hand (composition, lyrics, arrangement), are owed to longtime Doraemon series music contributor Wataru Hirano (平野航).
The approach adopted by Taiko Team notecharter Kirakira☆Sakamoto (きらきら☆さかもと) on this short tune is more handswitch-y in nature than the former tune, although small clusters and breakless single notes follow one after another for its ending Go-Go Time portion. This is still a 140-ish BPM affair, though, so nothing to overly worry about!
