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** In [[AC NST Op.3|ノスタルジア Op.3]], it can be unlocked from June 11th, 2020 from the [[AC NST Op.3/Old Hidden Songs|ノスタルジアFORTE&Op.2 イベント]] section at the Episode selection screen.
** In [[AC NST Op.3|ノスタルジア Op.3]], it can be unlocked from June 11th, 2020 from the [[AC NST Op.3/Old Hidden Songs|ノスタルジアFORTE&Op.2 イベント]] section at the Episode selection screen.
* Upon its addition to ノスタルジア Op.2, garden was included in the ''NOSTALGIA Original'' (ノスタルジアオリジナル) genre in-game. This was corrected on December 13th, 2018.
* Upon its addition to ノスタルジア Op.2, garden was included in the ''NOSTALGIA Original'' (ノスタルジアオリジナル) genre in-game. This was corrected on December 13th, 2018.
* garden is unlockable in [[CS INFINITAS|beatmania IIDX INFINITAS]] from November 6th, 2019, after purchasing its NORMAL, HYPER, and ANOTHER charts with [[CS INFINITAS/BIT unlocks|BITs]].
* garden is unlockable in [[CS INFINITAS|beatmania IIDX INFINITAS]] from November 6th, 2019, after purchasing its charts with [[CS INFINITAS/BIT unlocks|BITs]].


== Music Comment ==
== Music Comment ==
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== Song Production Information ==
== Song Production Information ==
=== wac ===
=== wac ===
Yes, yes. It's a garden. Thank you. It's a garden. Garden. The lyrics are in English so it's probably hard to understand, but as Miss Aono explains below, it's basically a little gardener girl talking about how she prunes bushes into the shape of rabbits and flamingos. After all, it is "garden".
Yeah, yeah. It's a garden. Hello. It's a garden. Garden.<br>
The lyrics are in English, so I think it's difficult to understand, but as Aono explains right down below, it's about a middle-aged gardener lecturing about how he prunes Niwaki in the shape of rabbits and flamingos. Therefore, it's a garden.


When I write songs for IIDX ... a lot of things go through my mind, like what kind of song I should be writing, or what kind of response it will receive. However, this time the IIDX sound directory basically said, "Well, I guess it'd be alright if this time y'all just wrote whatever kind of song you wanted! Hehe!" So I definitely took advantage of it, and I got to write the kind of song I wanted to hear, and get the kind of note chart I thought would be fun. The hyper chart is just about the right difficulty for me to enjoy. The another is just about the right difficulty for someone much better than me to enjoy.
When I write songs for IIDX, I think about various things when creating them, like my role, or the response it'll receive.<br>
However, this time the [[Tatsuya Shimizu|IIDX sound director]] said in general, "let's try making what you like without caring about various things, gahaha", and since a pre-Chinese movement occurred, I simply took advantage of this, and created a song I liked, with notecharts which are fun to play.<br>
Those who enjoy playing it on HYPER are probably just as skilled as me.<br>
ANOTHER is probably for someone much more skilled than me.


You might think that Miss Aono Rie, the singer for this song, is just another talent we picked up this time around, but actually we go back to college. Even then, everybody knew one simple thing about her: she was really naturally good at singing. Even so, she'd get relegated to the backing chorus a lot. We'd always sit together in big groups in the living room and watch the performances and eat soba.
About the singer Rie Aono, in case that you were wondering, she's from my same university circle at that time.<br>
Even back then, she was a natural vocalist who was best known for simply being "good at singing".<br>
She was a background chorus singer for Kohaku from her student days.<br>
We watched it with many others in the living room while eating soba.


Oh, yes, since the designers tried so hard this time around it looks like the whole song has a video to go with it; even though they came out with a demo earlier on, as usual it was down to the wire to get the whole video finished, so I'm really grateful for their efforts. I figured, since it is "garden", maybe the gardener girl would show up in the video and start pruning trees into flamingos and rabbits, and I was really excited to see if that would come about, but it looks like instead of a gardener they figured a girl in a school uniform would suit the song better, and that's all right. The first time I saw it running on the arcade cabinet, I couldn't help but slip out a, "Whoa, that's cool!" GOLI's movies just really do it for me.
That's right, thanks to the designers' efforts, all the songs have movies and animations, so I'm grateful that this song was included, which was barely created on time as a demo, as per usual.<br>
Anyways, since it's a garden, I was excited to see the movie about a middle-aged gardener pruning Niwaki in the shape of rabbits and flamingos, but it feels like the uniformed girl fits the song better than the middle-aged gardener, so the result is alright.<br>
When I first saw it in the cabinet, I basically said "wow, that's amazing".<br>
I really surrender to GOLI.


=== Rie Aono ===
=== Rie Aono ===
The first time I sang along to this captivating melody and rhythm,
When I first heard this captivating melody and rhythm, I immediately thought of an Oscar Wilde fairy tale.
I was reminded of an Oscar Wilde fairy tale.


The Nightingale and the Rose
The Nightingale and the Rose<br>
A thorn and a drop before dawn
A thorn and a drop of blood before dawn<br>
And a dog lays down to sleep
A dog lying down


I hope you can see that mysterious garden.
Please try to imagine this mysterious garden.


== Video Production Information ==
== Video Production Information ==
=== GOLI ===
=== GOLI ===
Two men were together, exhausted, the night before the uploads.
Two tired men on the night before uploading it.


G: "I'm sorry, but I can't do anything since there's no time ... "<BR>
G "I'm sorry, I didn't have time to do anything...."<br>
W: " ........, huh, that's too bad" *angry*<BR>
W "........., huh, that's ridiculous (angry)"<br>
G: " ........, well, I can do something if anything would be good enough."<BR>
G "........., if you have an idea, I'll make it."<br>
W: " ........, well, if you could do something with a rose in the moonlight, that would be fine."<BR>
W "........., as long as there's a moon and a rose, I'll leave it up to you."<br>
G: " ........, hmhm ... ... ... "<BR>
G "........., hoho.........."


The day of the data file reviews
On the day of the data deadline


G: " ........ hm."<BR>
G "......... phew."<br>
W: " ........ hm."<BR>
W "......... phew."<br>


(Part of this is dramatised, but the conversation was mostly like that.)
(Some parts were dramatized, but the exchange was roughly like that.)


Y'know, doing roses right is a big deal, it really is. That one picture took longer than some songs did.
No, roses are difficult, seriously. The drawings take more time than other songs.<br>
The data files were so big it made Jony cry.
The data files were so big that they made [[Takeshi Jonishi|JONY]] cry.


By the way, I think this is the best song wac's written so far.
By the way, I think this is quite the best song among those composed by wac.<br>
I like it a lot. No, even as much as he likes cats.
I like it very much. No, as a fellow cat lover.<br>
I've always wanted to have the time to do a nice, quiet piece like this.
If I have time, I'd like to also try and create a quiet movie.


== Difficulty & Notecounts==
== Difficulty & Notecounts==