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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Song of the Week! 19 April 2014


It's sneak peek week! Here's one of the licensed songs to debut in the upcoming Taiko 3DS2 (unless Momoiro beats it to the punch).

 RPG Sekai no Owari
Version
Allx3 (89)x3 (127)x4 (216)x6 (345)
 Taiko 0 K, Taiko 3DS 2, Taiko PS Vita
 135
 none
 skorpg


The 4-man Japanese rock band known as Sekai no Owari (世界の終わり, lit. 'End of the World') has had the honor of being the end of Sorairo Version, and is back for another go at Taiko (without being the end of anything this time!) with one of their latest and greatest hits!

Sekai no Owari is a relatively new name to the Japanese music industry, and was formed in Tokyo a mere seven years ago (in 2007). The name for the band was chosen by its singer and leader, Satoshi Fukase. The reason of the name according to Fukase, is because of the hardships he faced in life, and he hopes the band will have the strength to perform well even in bad times. Their first demo song was also titled Sekai no Owari. The other members of Sekai no Owari are pianist Saori Fujisaki, guitarist Shinichi "Nakajin" Nakajima and someone who only wants to be known as DJ Love, as the band's DJ. In late 2011, the band changed it's name's wording in full-capital English wording (SEKAI NO OWARI).

As of today, the band has released three studio albums and eight different singles, with RPG being a song in their 5th release. Don't let the title mislead you; there's no role-playing game reference in there! RPG has also been used as the theme song for a Crayon Shin-Chan theatrical film release (Crayon Shin-chan: Very Tasty! B-class Gourmet Survival!!); as such, the album came out in two different limited editions, and was included as a playable song very recently in Maimai GreeN Plus.

Not many surprises lie inside RPG's Oni mode notechart, which relies on many staples for the 6-star tier licensed genre, with the addition of a final hitballoon for good measure.