Indeed, this happened at long last. With yesterday's tweet on the just-released Weekend Warrior, the official Taiko Team crew is hogging a bit of the familiar Song of the Week spotlight, not only with a Saturday song release on arcade grounds, but with an accompaning written trivia piece on the song's whereabouts (from its remixing author, no less)!
It's not going to be an easy feat to match the effort, so how about this: I'll try coming up with a "sister feature" of sorts to link the just-released, just-analized song to something even-slightly-tangentially-related things about either the original, the remix or both
Halo Pokémon Horizons: The Series
ハロ／アニメ「ポケットモンスター（2023）」より
| Game | Genre |  |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC Nijiiro (Y5) NS2 (MP) |   / (ACN) | ★1 61 | ★3 112 | ★3 192 | ★7 386 | - |
153-170
pkmhal (Pokemon - Halo)Jumping from SUPERNOVA to HYPERNOVA is no small feat, but what other link the change from the 'Super' to the 'Hyper' prefixes might be shared, across medias? ...why of course, the effectiveness progression of potions in the Pokémon games! Sure it's a pity for me we're not in the alternate universe where this was a Sega-oriented otoge blog and this situation had given me an excuse to talk about the greatest maimai pre-Deluxe song, but as you can see we're in no risk of quirky connections to make, if we look harder for those!
Halo is the 2nd opening theme from the ongoing direction in the Game Freak/Nintendo-heralded multimedia franchise, the first season to feature a different Pokemon trainer protagonist than the iconic Ash Ketchum. While both 'generations' of the Anime in question share the same Pocket Monsters nomenclature in Japan, Western audiences eventually got their separated labels, with Pokemon Journeys: The Series for all seasons starring the Pallet Town trainer and Pokemon Horizons: The Series for everything after, starting with the two-arcs show from Tv Tokyo that spanned 45 episodes between March 2023 and April 2024. The plot of Horizons follows a radically-different structure from the shows of yesteryears: instead of the protagonist taking on the series-staple Gym Challenge with all the zany encounters with new friends and scheming organizations, Horizons's protagonist -the Paldea region trainer Lico- joins a guild of Pokemon trainers known as the Rising Volteccers (Rising Volt Tacklers in English-speaking regions) being drawn together by the legend of a mythical Pokemon paradise (Laqua), with the key to reach it lying on assembling a team with the so-called "Six Heroes", the same Pokemon that belonged to an ancient trainer from 100 years prior.
Co-composed by Bocchi Boromaru (ぼっちぼろまる) and the nick-named yama (already in Taiko with the Pops piece Haru o Tsugeru), Halo has been used for the first Horizions season's latter 20 episodes, notably making of it the (barring remixes) least-engaged-as-opening-theme tune across the entire animation history of the series, despite generous usage of it as an (instrumental) insert song. An extended version of the song was digitally distributed on October 27th in 2023, the same day that it was used as a Horizon episode's opening theme (テラパゴスの冒険, 'Terapagos's Adventure').
This was one of the many Anime themes where Donderful/Rhythm Festival's subscription service could call dibs on it over the elder Nijiiro Version brother, who got it one week later. Mono-color clusters as the eye can see, sure, but the full-accuracy stunt might be obstructed by the slow-down ending still, so be careful on it!
