Blue Rain

Blue Rain

Song Information

Blue Rain's jacket.

Artist: dj TAKA VS Ryu☆
Composition/Arrangement: dj TAKA, Ryu☆
Lyrics/Vocals: AiMEE
BPM: 144
Length: 1:52 (beatmania IIDX), 1:43 (DanceDanceRevolution)
Genre: TRANCE
VJ: F-FLY
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS
Other Music Game Appearances:

• DanceDanceRevolution X

Lyrics

Game Size

I am bound by my pain 
Tears fall down like the rain 
Can't you see it's a part of me?
My whole life is incomplete

All alone

I am bound by my pain 
Tears fall down like the rain 
Can't you see it's a part of me?
My whole life is incomplete

Am I wasting all my time 
Believing someone is waiting for me 
Is it a dream or lie? 
Sometimes life just passes by 
Oh why?

Long Version

I am bound by my pain Tears fall down like the rain Can't you see it's a part of me? My whole life is incomplete All alone... With no hope... I cry out... Make it all disappear I am bound by my pain Tears fall down like the rain Can't you see it's a part of me? My whole life is incomplete All alone in the night With no hope left in sight. I cry out, can you hear? Make it all disappear Am I wasting all my time Believing someone is waiting for me Is it a dream or lie? Sometimes life just passes by Oh why?

Song Connections / Remixes

• The full version of Blue Rain appears on dj TAKA's first album, milestone.
  • The full version of Blue Rain lacks the additional piano notes and has a different kick drum rhythm at the beginning and towards the end compared to the game cut.
  • A shorter cut of this full version appears on Ryu☆BEST -STARLiGHT-.
• A remix of Blue Rain by Dustboxxxx, titled Blue Rain Dustboxxxx RMX, appears in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.
• The DanceDanceRevolution series uses a shorter version of Blue Rain.

Trivia

• Blue Rain marks the first collaboration between Takayuki Ishikawa and Ryutaro Nakahara in BEMANI.
  • It is also Ryutaro Nakahara's first song with vocalist Aimee Blackschleger.
• Blue Rain was a preview song on dj TAKA's first album that confirmed the release of beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS (although it was not under that name at the time). A file of Blue Rain was temporarily included on KONAMI's website, which was known as Blue Rain (radio edit).
• Blue Rain received a Single Black ANOTHER chart in beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS.
  • This chart was later ported, alongside a brand-new Double chart, to beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS as LEGGENDARIA charts for Blue Rain. They can be unlocked from May 24th, 2018 by clearing the WEATHER EXPERT course.
    • As of beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage, these charts are available by default.
• Blue Rain was unlocked in DanceDanceRevolution X for normal play on July 9th, 2009.
• Blue Rain is used as background music in a mission on the KONAMI arcade game ROAD FIGHTERS (ロードファイターズ).
• Blue Rain is also used as a hidden BGM song in KONAMI's pachislot game, ROULETTE QUEEN.
• Blue Rain was added to beatmania IIDX INFINITAS on December 4th, 2019 as part of the December 2019 Basic Subscription Monthly Songs.
  • From August 5th, 2021 in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020), it can be purchased with BITs.

Song Production Information

Untranslated.

Video Production Information

None.

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	174	514	812	1149	1702	587	803	1037	1662
beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS	3	6	8	11	-	6	8	10	-
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS	3	6	8	11	-	6	↓7	10	-
beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS→18 Resort Anthem	-	6	8	11	-	6	7	10	-
beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle→24 SINOBUZ	3	6	8	11	-	6	7	10	-
beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS	3	6	8	11	12	6	7	10	12
beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage→Present	↓2	6	8	11	12	6	7	10	12
beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS	3	6	8	11	12	6	7	10	-
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST	3	6	8	11	12	6	7	10	-
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS	-	6	8	11	-	6	7	10	-
beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE	2	6	8	11	-	-	-	-	-
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020)	2	6	8	11	-	6	7	10	-

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	81 / 0	155 / 11	193 / 17	298 / 16	- / - / -	139 / 11	211 / 18	307 / 15	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution X	2	5	6	10	-	5	7	11	-
DanceDanceRevolution X2→Present	2	5	6	↑11	-	5	7	11	-
DanceDanceRevolution X CS JP	2	5	6	10	-	5	7	11	-
DanceDanceRevolution X2 CS	2	5	6	10	-	5	7	11	-
DanceDanceRevolution ULTIMATE MOBILE	2	5	6	11	-	-	-	-	-