GRADUATION ~sorezore no ashita~

This page is for the BeForU song titled GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～. For the 星野音楽工房 song of a similar title, please see graduation.

GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～

Song Information

GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s jacket.

GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s pop'n music banner.

Artist: BeForU
Composition/Arrangement: NAOKI MAEDA
Lyrics: Riyu Kosaka
Vocals: BeForU
BPM: 125
Length: 1:44
pop'n music Genre: SOTSUGYOU (卒業)
pop'n music Character: おしゃれずきん [12]
pop'n CG designer: ちひ
Jacket design: RICE.C
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME
Other Music Game Appearances:

• pop'n music 12 いろは

Lyrics

Game Size

Japanese

キズついた時
あの泪もそっと 薄れていった
振り返ったらいつでも自分の居場所があったからかな?

歩いてゆこう
手を握ってそう
いつもそうだった 何があっても信じてた
まっすぐに 見つめてた
遠い場所を･･･

どんな時でも
必死になって
わからなくて
悩んで･･･

どれも大切なキオク･･･だ ・ か ・ ら

かけがえのない そんな日々を･･･
きっと忘れない
それぞれの未来 歩むとしても

歩いてゆこう
未来見つけよう
今から新しいスタート切って信じよう
まっすぐに いつかの遠い未来まで･･･

忘れないで･･･

Romaji

kizutsuita toki
ano namida mo sotto usurete itta
furikaettara itsu demo jibun no ibasho ga atta kara ka na?

aruite yukou
te wo nigitte sou
itsumo sou datta nani ga atte mo shinjiteta
massugu ni mitsumeteta
tooi basho wo...

donna toki demo
hisshi ni natte
wakaranakute
nayande...

dore mo taisetsu na kiwoku... da-ka-ra

kakegae no nai sonna hibi wo...
kitto wasurenai
sorezore no michi arumu to shite mo

aruite yukou
ashita mitsukeyou
ima kara atarashii START kitte shinjiyou
massugu ni itsuka no tooi basho made...

Long Version

Japanese

キズついた時 あの泪もそっと 薄れていった 振り返ったらいつでも自分の居場所があったからかな? 歩いてゆこう 手を握ってそう いつもそうだった 何があっても信じてた まっすぐに 見つめてた 遠い場所を･･･ 互いに思い合う心があって そして『信頼』を持った 知らず知らずに 助けられてた 深い絆だったから 何故か不思議なほど 隠れてゆくの 辛かった記憶だけ 目に映るのは 素直になれた 心から笑えた記憶 勇気持とう 手を差し出そう! いつもそう在りたい これらずっと 信じたい まっすぐに 見つめてる あの場所まで･･･ 何があっても 諦めなくて 肩よせ合って ひとつになって･･･ どんな時でも 必死になって わからなくて 悩んで･･･ どれも大切なキオク･･･だ ・ か ・ ら かけがえのない そんな日々を･･･ きっと忘れない それぞれの未来 歩むとしても 歩いてゆこう 未来見つけよう 今から新しいスタート切って信じよう まっすぐに いつかの遠い未来まで･･･ 忘れないで･･･

Song Connections / Remixes

• The full version of GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～, titled GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ (FULL VERSION), can be found in the DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK album.
  • A different long version, titled GRADUATION (New Vocal & Mix), can be found in BeForU's KI·SE·KI album.
• A different arrangement of GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～, titled GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ (unplugged version), can be found in BeForU's first album, BeForU.
  • An instrumental version of this arrangement appears in the video inside KI・SE・KI, also in the KI·SE·KI album.

Trivia

This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.

• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ was used as the credits song in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME.
• The DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK booklet does not list the game size lyrics for GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～. It does, however, list the full version's lyrics.
• In DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME, and in the pop'n music series since pop'n music Sunny Park, GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s artist is stylized as Be For U.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ is one of the crossovers part of pop'n music 12 いろは's pop'n hiden ninpouchou (ポップン秘伝忍法帖) event. It could be unlocked through the HARU (春) scroll from March 2nd to April 13th, 2005.
• According to pop'n music 12 いろは sound director wac, there were plans to make an original song for the game on high school graduation, until he remembered GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s pop'n music preview is the same as the one used in DanceDanceRevolution, only shorter.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s pop'n music songwheel genre is ソツギョウ.
  • "Sotsugyou" (卒業) is Japanese for graduation.
• おしゃれずきん does not have a 2P color.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ was performed on the RIYU KOSAKA FIRST LIVE at O-EAST 2005 and BeForU LIVE 2006 concerts.
• In 코나미 팝픈뮤직, GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s title was changed to 졸업 - 각자의 내일 ("jol-eob - gagjaui naeil").
  • However, the 코나미 팝픈뮤직 official site sorted it as graduation.
• 졸업 - 각자의 내일 was available on 코나미 팝픈뮤직 as downloadable content from January 29th, 2009.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ is one of the BeForU songs revived in pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET from their previous removal in pop'n music 17 THE MOVIE, along with ☆shining☆, CANDY♥, and BRE∀K DOWN!.
• On the American and European releases of the DanceDanceRevolution series before DanceDanceRevolution A, GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ was simply known as just GRADUATION, although the banner still retained the original Japanese title.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s video is absent from DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS (North America) and Dancing Stage SuperNOVA CS.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ was still present in the location test of DanceDanceRevolution X, with its new foot ratings.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ is one of the unlockable revivals in DanceDanceRevolution X2. It can be unlocked by reaching ENJOY LEVEL 86.
  • As of February 23rd, 2011, GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ has been unlocked for normal play.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ received a slightly modified version of its DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME movie in DanceDanceRevolution (2013). It can be unlocked by first unlocking Elemental Creation from the 私立BEMANI学園 event. This video is played full-screen and eliminates any on-screen dancers.
  • From DanceDanceRevolution A onwards, GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s video is available by default.
  • The ads in GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～'s video were changed: "Biker Mikoshiba" (バイクの みこしば) and "Instruments Maeda" (まえだ楽器) were changed to "Sorry to keep you waiting! Super TAG" (おまたせしません! スーパーたぐ) and "Cameraman Asami" (カメラのあさみ), respectively.
    • However, its original EXTREME video is shown when GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ is played from the DDR SELECTION folder.
• According to Riyu Kosaka, GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ is one of her favorite BEMANI songs.
• GRADUATION ～それぞれの明日～ was supposed to appear in the cancelled game カラオケレボリューション BEMANIシリーズセレクション.

Music Comment

Let's walk towards our respective futures with precious memories in our hearts. This sweet and sad graduation song is from DDR.

Song Production Information

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME Original Soundtrack

Untranslated.

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME Weekly Journal

NAOKI MAEDA

This is BeForU's first dramatic mid-tempo number.

People repeatedly experience meetings and partings, and live their lives with various overlapping thoughts. If there's a beginning, there's an end. But if there's an end, there's something that begins.

This song, named graduation, is not just about looking back at the past and ending a drama, but also about graduating from something and the future that starts tomorrow.

pop'n music

NAOKI MAEDA

There are 4 versions of GRADUATION, and the version used this time in pop'n 12 is the game-sized short version used in DDR.

During the time when I was making this song, it coincided with the time when the main vocalist, Kosaka, graduated from high school.
Her real feelings were seemingly reflected in this song's lyrics.

Several times in life when people repeatedly "graduate", what do they gain and lose?

A "graduation" may be there to guide us to the path we should advance, for the sake of our future.

Character Information

In this season when cherry blossoms bloom... I'm graduating!
After all, a new world awaits me!

Chihi

She was in a frog color last time, so this time I've selected white for spring.
Her ears look like cute kamaboko, don't they?
Graduation... speaking of graduation, in my case, I didn't really feel sad about the second button. My mood was more like "Yay~! I'm graduating~!", even if there were a lot of people unsure of what to do next.

Staff Comments

DanceDanceRevolution

RICE.C

During the movie scene where she's running down a slope, I initially thought of including EMI's family-run electronics store on a telephone pole sign, but the idea was rejected with the risk it used another company's name. With the "Shiba" connection, it became "Biker Mikoshiba" (note: pop'n team designer).

I thought about telling him, but forgot to do so, so I vigorously got consent after video production concluded. I'm sorry Mikoshiba.

PS: Congratulations to everyone who graduated this year!

pop'n music

amamon.

Graduation, that sounds nostalgic. Let's start walking forwards! It makes me feel like this.

masaru

It's been a long time~ since I graduated from school.
It's nostalgic, or rather it's fading from my memory.

tama

It's been a long time since I graduated while weighing 60 kilograms.
I'll do my best to enroll again.

wac

I wanted to have a graduation ceremony event, and thought about creating an original pop'n song for it, but there was already a signature graduation song in the BEMANI series, so I just crossed it over. At the end when Riyu's voice whispers "I'll never forget", it makes you feel more excited about graduation, but if it were a pop'n original song, I'll definitely assign this as a hidden button. But as I was thinking "I'll do it someday, I'll do it someday", I forgot to do this. So it might be assigned as a hidden button in the next game, so please search for Riyu's voice then. But it seems I'll somehow forget again. I'll never forget... to myself.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards.
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from Pop'n Music Fever and BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	90 / 0	110 / 0	192 / 11	274 / 1	- / - / -	116 / 0	181 / 10	245 / 5	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME→SuperNOVA2	1	2	5	7	-	2	5	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution X location test	2	3	6	9	-	4	6	8	-
DanceDanceRevolution X2→Present	2	3	↑7	9	-	↓3	↑7	↑9	-
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS JP	1	2	5	7	-	2	5	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution / Dancing Stage SuperNOVA CS NA/EU	1	2	5	7	-	2	5	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX	2	3	7	9	-	3	7	9	-

pop'n music

Game	Normal Mode				Battle Mode
	5-Buttons	NORMAL	HYPER	EX	NORMAL	HYPER
Notecounts	131	291	640	-	266	470
pop'n music 12 いろは→16 PARTY♪	5	13	26	-	10	18
pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET→20 fantasia	5	13	26	-	10	18
pop'n music Sunny Park→Present	-	19	32	-	10	18
pop'n music 12 いろは CS	5	13	26	-	10	18
pop'n music 13 カーニバル CS	5	13	26	-	10	18