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= Xepher =

== Song Information ==
[[Image:Xepher.png|thumb|Xepher's jacket.]]
Artist: Tatsh<br>
Composition/Arrangement: [[Tatsuya Shimizu|Tatsh]]<br>
Lyrics: Tatsh, [[Maya Takamura|MAYA]]<br>
Vocals: [[Junko Hirata]], Yumi Natori<br>
Length: 2:03 (beatmania IIDX), 1:48 (DanceDanceRevolution)<br>
BPM: 170<br>
Genre: MEDIEVAL CHOIR<br>
VJ: MAYA<br>
First Music Game Appearance: [[AC HAPPY SKY|beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY]]<br>
Other Music Game Appearances:
* [[AC DDR SuperNOVA|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA]]
* Toy's March 2

== Lyrics ==
=== Game Size ===
<pre>Existing in this place now are uncleanable lies
I wonder when it has begun...
How far do I have to go to see the light?

Stars in your eyes
Stars in your heart

You will live in shadow of shade and commit the eighth sin
Unrequited existence will turn everything into nothing</pre>

=== Long Version ===
{{hide text|<pre>Existing in this place now are uncleanable lies
I wonder when it has begun...
How far do I have to go to see the light?

Existing in this place now are uncleanable lies
I wonder when it has begun...
How far do I have to go to see the light?

You will live in shadow of shade and commit the eighth sin
I wonder when it has begun...
How far do I have to go to see the light?

Stars in your eyes
Stars in your heart
Stars in your eyes
Stars in your heart

Existing in this place now are uncleanable lies
I wonder when it has begun...
How far do I have to go to see the light?

You will live in shadow of shade and commit the eighth sin
Unrequited existence will turn everything into nothing

You will live in shadow of shade and commit the eighth sin
I wonder when it has begun...
How far do I have to go to see the light?</pre>}}

== Song Connections / Remixes ==
* The DanceDanceRevolution series use a shorter version of Xepher, cutting most of the intro.
* A long version of Xepher, titled ''Xepher <Platinum Long Version>'', appears on Tatsh's [[MATERIAL]] album.
* A remix of Xepher by [[DeadballP|デッドボールP]], titled [[Xepher Light and Darkness Dragon REMIX]], can be found in [[SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH]].

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Xepher title card.png|thumb|Xepher's title card.]]
[[Image:Xepher banner.png|thumb|256px|Xepher's banner.]]
[[Image:Xepher unused.png|thumb|256px|Xepher's unused banner.]]
* There is an "X" "drawn" in Xepher's notecharts on the Single and Double HYPER and ANOTHER charts, at measure 38.
* Xepher, as indicated in the video, is an acronym for many sets of six words, three of which include
{| class="wikitable" style="width:160px" border="0"

|-

| X
Expense
Punishment
Hocuspocus
Ecstasy
Reality

| X
End
Prayer
Hesitation
Existence
Regret

| X
Everlasting
Pain
Horrible
Evening
Recurrence

|}

* The movie for Xepher features the characters [[Killer]] and [[Licht]].
* Xepher had a different banner in the DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA location test, which uses different fonts for its text.
* Xepher features its beatmania IIDX video in DanceDanceRevolution, eliminating any on-screen dancers.
* The following words appear in the middle of Xepher's video:
<center>Until now<br>what you know does exist

With your fingertips<br>follow the path of the dirty dark sky

At the end of the bright road,<br>what is waiting for you?

take you to harmony<br>but you don't know

The hatred that was given birth to in<br>you has taken stars

and it turned it into poison<br>which is killing you silently</center>

== Song Production Information ==
=== Tatsh ===
The music that was born from my own world has expanded even farther thanks to the movies of our designer, Maya. I hope that the world of "Xepher" expands again thanks to your play next. In that spirit, I gave the song a title beginning with the letter signifying the unknown, "X".

For the choir in this song, we decided on Junko Hirata from [[platoniX]] as well as Natori Yumi from the gospel world. I certainly hope you will pay close attention to the singing as well.

== Video Production Information ==
=== MAYA ===
I've been fighting to expand the world of Tatsh's "Xepher" even further since the demo stage. "It's not this", "it's not that" ...

Xepher really began to take its hold on me when I was entrusted with the lyrics. There isn't very much singing in the song, but there was actually a very long rough draft of the lyrics. Tatsh took parts of it and came up with the actual lyrics for the song. If possible, I don't want to hang "Xepher" to death with concrete words. I believe you can get an interpretation of my Xepher through the lyrics on the G2ARTS works, which were one of the candidates for the final lyrics.

You who have issued forth your love,<br>
Look to the sky in this world of madness<br>
Now, your eyes should be here, eyes that never fade away<br>
But you don't know anything

I wonder when it began?<br>
I wonder where we may go to visit with the end?

We trace the black sky that was dirtied beneath our feet<br>
With the whiteness at our fingertips

The stars that you sheltered invite you towards their repose, but<br>
You don't know anything about how<br>
The stars that tear and devour in this newly-birthed hatred<br>
Will become your poison, and scorch your body

The sins of the morning spill over into the evening and dirty the night<br>
Where are you, whom we called the sky?

That girl is the key to washing away the sin<br>
Walking together, you can discover the weight of that sin

The girl who knows nothing of time became a curse herself<br>
An incredible power must be eating away at her heart at last

Scorched by the hatred of the past, you released the fire<br>
Your own screams invited the sin, sneering<br>
You cannot return to where you were anymore

Your heart begins to fade away under the influence of the serpent that wanders the sky;<br>
It collected your light and made it unclear<br>
The battle continues, dancing in and between the sky<br>
And the pain continues as well

The endless sky...

You melted me in the morning, we spoke in the evening, you loved me in the night<br>
You came close to me in the night, when we called you the sky<br>
And committed a great sin<br>
Your unrewarded existence will turn everything into nothing

== Difficulty & Notecounts ==
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.<br>
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from [http://bemaniwiki.com/ BEMANIWiki 2nd].)

=== beatmania IIDX ===
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{{IIDX Chart|beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST|2|5|10|11|5|10|11}}
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=== DanceDanceRevolution ===
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{{DDR Chart|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA&rarr;SuperNOVA2|1|5|7|9|10|5|6|9|10}}
{{DDR Chart|DanceDanceRevolution X&rarr;Present|4|7|10|13|15|7|10|13|15}}
{{DDR Chart|DanceDanceRevolution / Dancing Stage SuperNOVA CS|1|5|7|9|10|5|6|9|10}}
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