It's the last Song of the Week for this year, the last Ura Oni slot to fulfill and one last occasion to pick-up the slack on some missed-out intel from past livestream broadcastings.
What proverbial stone shall I use to kill these three birds at once? Well, ...
vs.VIGVANGS
MisoilePunch♪
| Game | Genre |  |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC Nijiiro (Y6) |  | ★5 374 | ★7 516 | ★8 779 | ★10 1055 | ★10 1438 |
150-360
???Right at the end, we're bringing the heat! vs.VIGVANGS (pronounced as 'versus Big Bangs', according to one of its makers) was this year's final hurdle to overcome in the Tatsujin Ranking Dojo course, one whose coming was foredold in advance by this year's April Fools song Dark Ex Makina by having Stanzas 5 and 6 of its Ura Oni chart being 'spoiled' at the end of the section where fragments of all past Tatsujin boss songs were partly played back. This is also the first song from the MisoilePunch♪ unit, consisting of two already-heard-in-Taiko artists: MisomyL (Stick Trick Show Time!!) and Ponchi♪ (Connect Colors; Unlimited Games among many).
Back when this song was first revealed on the September '25 Taiko Team livestream (our coverage here), impressions from both artists were left about this fiendish creation, although back then we only covered up MisomyL's due to the song's "background story" provided by him of the false-heroines VIGVANGS duo breaking havoc in the city, whose 'canon looks' are also shown in the jacket art for the song's digital single release (see here!). The impressions from Ponchi♪ for that livestream are not to be ignored either, with him recounting his youth as a Taiko player and his desire-driven music production to be featured in the series as a composer one day, a dream fulfilled six years ago with the release of the aforementioned Connect Colors. Another dream had sprung from there -to have a song signed by the MisoilePunch♪ duo- which at last was realized in this very year, and as the final demon to overcome at that! His final remark of "Leave it to Ponchi!" (ぽんちさんにおまかせ！) in the comments card shown on stream is a self-referene of the same artist in his drum-hitting Donder days, first recorded on his own YT channel with a Music Revolver Ura Oni camcording session.
Some time after vs.VIGVANGS was released, people online have paid heed to a tweet from Ponchi♪ that was posted three months prior, simply going "I'm making a music game song; if you make me angry right now, all 24th notes will become 32th notes". I guess someone managed to piss him off real good, if this was the song in question! One of the few in Taiko to check more than 1000 notes for both Oni charts, it was advertised at first as a song running at an "average pace", but the high-BPM and changeling-pace marks of your top-dog difficulty contender are here and accounted the same, with trippy bar lines scrolling speed moments after each mode's hitballoon (x7.65 multiplier for the very first speedy one in both cases) and right before the longest (combined) Go-Go Time area. Even when a leash is put on the difficulty degree, the 10* Oni's 1/16-leading chart is sure to whittle down the competition with its longer clusters, never mind the 1/24 occasional note spikes. One good hint, however, looms around those who are trying to just survive its Ura Oni counterpart's more intricate chart: other than memorization, try to hit most of the longer cluster hybrids in the song all in arow, as if it's part of a giant cluster of notes; lack of accuracy is expected, but if you can keep up the pace, so may be the misses count in return!
