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= waxing and wanding =

== Song Information ==
[[Image:waxing and wanding.png|thumb|waxing and wanding's jacket.]]
Artist: 青龍<br>
Composition/Arrangement: [[Ryutaro Nakahara|Seiryu]]<br>
BPM: 191<br>
Length: 2:05<br>
Genre: DANCE SPEED<br>
VJ: [[Goli Matsumoto|GOLI]]<br>
First Music Game Appearance: [[AC DistorteD|beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD]]<br>
Other Music Game Appearances:
* [[AC RB limelight|REFLEC BEAT limelight]]
* [[CS RB plus|REFLEC BEAT plus]] MUSIC PACK 46
* [[CS RB +|REFLEC BEAT +]] KONAMI MUSIC PACK 34

== Lyrics ==
Some pitched up vocal samples can be heard, including "Are you ready?", "Bass from outer s-", and "Brain power!".

== Song Connections / Remixes ==
* A long version of waxing and wanding appears on the [[CARDINAL GATE conclusion]] album, included with [[CS DistorteD|beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS]]'s special edition.
** Another long version of waxing and wanding appears on ''starmine 青龍 DISC'', the bonus disc of Ryu☆'s first album, [[starmine (album)|starmine]].
** Yet another long version of waxing and wanding, titled ''waxing and wanding (BD MIX)'', appears on 青龍's first album, [[BLUE DRAGON (album)|BLUE DRAGON]]. This version of the song has the whole intro removed.
* A remix of waxing and wanding by [[Kosuke Saito|kors k]], titled ''waxing and wanding (kors k mix)'', also appears on Ryu☆'s first album, starmine.
* Another remix of waxing and wanding by [[Josh McInnes|JAKAZiD]], titled ''waxing and wanding (JAKAZiD's 新月 Remix)'', appears on the [[cyber beatnation 2 -Hi Speed conclusion-]] album.

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Seiryu cardinal gate title card.png|thumb|青龍's CARDINAL GATE title card.]]
* waxing and wanding is one of the four ''CARDINAL GATE'' EXTRA STAGE songs.
* waxing and wanding's title refers to two phases of the moon, "waxing" (when it changes from new moon to full moon) and "waning" (from full moon to new moon).
** The song was intended to be called "waxing and waning", but was accidentally submitted as "waxing and wanding", according to this [https://web.archive.org/web/20150514053737/http://theinterviews.jp/ryutaronakahara/638879 interview].
* Seiryu (青龍) is the Japanese name of Qinglong, a Chinese god that represents the east and the spring season.
* The video features two embodiments of Seiryu, one being a blue dragon, and the other being a woman in kimono, resembling the woman in the video of [[Setsugekka|雪月花]] (another Ryutaro Nakahara song with a [[GOLI]] video). 
* waxing and wanding is the second song of [[Lincle LINK]] 5 to be unlocked in REFLEC BEAT limelight. It becomes available once Glass Level 25 has been reached.
** In [[AC RB colette All Seasons|REFLEC BEAT colette -All Seasons-]], it has been automatically unlocked as of May 14th, 2014 by using an [[eAMUSEMENT]] PASS.
* waxing and wanding's jacket illustration is taken from the ''starmine 青龍 DISC'' CD.
* In REFLEC BEAT +, waxing and wanding's artist was romanized as '''SEIRYU'''.
* waxing and wanding is unlockable in [[CS INFINITAS|beatmania IIDX INFINITAS]] from November 2nd, 2017, after purchasing its NORMAL, HYPER, and ANOTHER charts for 7000, 10000, and 11000 BITs respectively.
* After being removed from the initial release of [[AC RB Reflesia|REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア]], waxing and wanding was revived on December 28th, 2017.

== Song Production Information ==
=== Seiryu ===
I love the moon.

Once when I was travelling to Europe, when we were flying over Siberia, the only thing floating up in an empty, and I mean truly empty, sky was a perfectly round moon.<br>
It looked just like a shimmering, perfectly round pearl.<br>
The nature of the air high in the atmosphere lent to the effect, and it traced out an arc in extremely high resolution.<br>
As I was watching this gem of the heavens and bathed in its almost mystical light, I fell into the impression that all of my everyday cares were being healed.

This image is burned deep into my retinas.

This wonderful voyage occurred four months after I finished this song.<br>
What!? Yes, that's right. Four months after. Almost exactly.<br>
The passage before was just making up an image. Sorry. I'll reflect on what I've done.<br>
As I made this song, I was thinking lots of exuberant thoughts like "Oh~, the moon. It's awesome~! So fabulous!"

Yes. That's right! It was four months after. I just grew a little bit, is all.<br>
Don't make me say it over and over again.


Well, thank you so very much for having a look again today. This has been Seiryuu, and now everything is exposed.

For some reason, T called this song "wowow".<br>
Maybe it doesn't abbreviate very well, I just don't get it, it's just one thing after another ...

And so, with everything exposed, this is Sei ... huh? Hey, I told you, it was four months later!<br>
Four months later, and not a centimeter more! Get serious, I'm gonna get mad!

== Video Production Information ==
Untranslated.

== Difficulty & Notecounts==
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.<br>
REFLEC BEAT to groovin'!! Upper difficulty rated from 1 to 10+, 1 to 13 in VOLZZA/VOLZZA 2, and 1 to 15 from 悠久のリフレシア onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from [http://bemaniwiki.com/ BEMANIWiki 2nd].)

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