Mei

冥

Song Information

冥's jacket.

Artist: Amuro vs Killer
Composition/Arrangement: Amuro & Killer
BPM: 66-200
Length: 2:15
Genre: HUMAN SEQUENCER
VJ: Ta-k
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY
Other Music Game Appearances:

• DanceDanceRevolution X2
• Toy's March 2

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• A remix of 冥 by kors k, titled 冥 -0720Daddy's tenderness mix-, appears on the cyber beatnation 1st conclusion album.
• A rock remix of 冥 by 164, titled 冥 Rockin' SWING REMIX, can be found in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.

Trivia

冥's banner.

MEI's jacket.

• The kanji used for the title (冥) is associated with darkness and is most commonly used in the word 冥王星 (meiousei), the Japanese word for the planet Pluto ("planet of the lord of darkness").
• The arcade beatmania IIDX LED ticker displays the song as "MEI(TAKASH)", a portmanteau of "dj TAKA" and "Tatsh".
• 冥 is arguably one of the hardest single songs to play, with 2000 notes occurring over two minutes (over 17 notes per second at some points), and it took over two years for a ranking of AAA to be obtained.
• In DanceDanceRevolution X2, 冥 is one of the unlockable songs of the Ganbare PiX Kirakira Douchou (がんばれPiX キラキラ道中) event. It can be unlocked by having destroyed 800 planets, and launching PiX to a total distance of 490,000-520,000 light-years.
  • As of February 23rd, 2011, 冥 has been unlocked for normal play.
  • Also, as of April 1st, 2011, 冥's CHALLENGE charts have been unlocked for normal play.
  • In the arcade DanceDanceRevolution titles, 冥 features its beatmania IIDX video. However, it plays in the background of roppongi EVOLVED ver.D's background dance stage and is not full-screen.
    • In DanceDanceRevolution II/DanceDanceRevolution hottest party5, 冥's video removes any on-screen dancers and is played in a tiny monitor on the opposite side of the player on Single and in the center on Double/Versus, due to Nintendo Wii memory limitations.
• On the American and European releases of DanceDanceRevolution, 冥's title is romanized as MEI.
• 冥 appears as downloadable content for DanceDanceRevolution S+, in the beatmania IIDX Song Pack 3.

Song Production Information

D.J.Amuro

The theme of this song is the sorrowful fate of a single man. Cursed with eternal separation from his family, he boards a shuttle alone in silence. I'll leave the story from here on to your imagination. I hope you can draw the story from the sound of the music.

dj Killer

I, Killer, have teamed up with D.J.Amuro to prepare the song with the highest number of notes so far. I hope you, too, can experience the "Solitary journey to Pluto, from which there is no return".

Video Production Information

Ta-k

I composed this video from the simplification of a certain object and used tantalizingly slow movement. It'd be neat if you saw the character 冥 looking at it from a different angle.

Movie Produced by KAZUYA TAKAHASHI (IMAGICA DC21)

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	302	555	1111	2000	555	1104	2000	{{{8}}}	{{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→Present	-	5	10	12	5	11	12	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY CS	3	5	10	12	5	11	12	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST	3	5	10	12	5	11	12	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	137 / 1	255 / 7	443 / 8	616 / 12	730 / 10 / 0	280 / 7	415 / 12	585 / 7	684 / 14 / 0
DanceDanceRevolution X2	3	7	11	16	18	7	11	15	18
DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX→Present	3	7	11	16	18	7	↑12	15	18
DanceDanceRevolution II / hottest party 5	3	7	11	16	18	7	11	15	18
DanceDanceRevolution S+	3	7	11	16	-	-	-	-	-