Mei

冥

Song Information

Artist: Amuro vs Killer
Composition/Arrangement: Takayuki Ishikawa, Tatsuya Shimizu
BPM: 66-200
Length: 1:57
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 by kors k, titled 冥 -0720Daddy's tenderness mix-, appears on the CS HAPPY SKY Limited Edition bonus CD, "cyber beatnation 1st conclusion".
• Another remix by 164, titled 冥 Rockin' SWING REMIX, appears in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.

Trivia

• 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 song 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.

Song Production Information

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. (D.J.Amuro)

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". (dj Killer)

Video Production Information

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.

Game	SP Difficulty				DP Difficulty
	Beginner	Normal	Hyper	Another	Normal	Hyper	Another
Notecounts	302	555	1111	2000	555	1104	2000
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→Present	-	5	10	12	5	11	12
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY CS	3	5	10	12	5	11	12
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS	3	5	10	12	5	11	12
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST	3	5	10	12	5	11	12