Gekkou

This page is for the Tatsh feat.星野奏子 song titled 月光. For the licensed cover that appears in ノスタルジア FORTE, please see Gekkou (Chihiro Onitsuka).

Not to be confused with 月光蝶.

月光

Song Information

Artist: Tatsh feat.星野奏子
Composition: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Arrangement: Tatsh
Lyrics: Junko Hirata
Vocals: Kanako Hoshino
BPM: 155
Length: 2:15
Genre: J-EUROBEAT
Movie: matsushita@tksd / 東京食堂
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

Game Size

Japanese

夜空に浮かぶ月の光が
あなたの影を映し出してた

切ない夜の夢　儚く消えるだけ
空を見上げていても　何も変わらないのに・・・

もう二度と戻れない日々ばかりで
追いかけては募る思い出たち

もう一度　あの冬の夜のように
強く深く抱きしめあえたなら

逢いたいと願う気持ちが一つずつ
柔らかな光とともに沈んでゆく

Romaji

yozora ni ukabu tsuki no hikari ga
anata no kage wo utsushi dashiteta

setsunai yoru no yume hakanaku kieru dake
sora wo miagete ite mo nani mo kawaranai no ni

mou nido to modorenai hibi bakari de
oikakete wa tsunoru omoide tachi

mou ichido ano fuyuu no yoru no you ni
tsuyoku fukaku dakishime aeta nara

aitai to negau kimochi ga hitotsu zutsu
yawaraka na hikari to tomo ni shizunde yuku

English

The light of the moon floating on the night sky
Cast your shadow before me

My painful dreams at night only vanish momentarily
Even when I look up at the sky, nothing changes...

I can't help chasing after
The memories of days that won't ever return

If only you could hold me close, strongly, again
Like you did on that one winter night ...

Little by little, my longing for you
Sinks into the abyss with that gentle light

Long Version

Japanese

夜空に浮かぶ月の光が あなたの影を映し出してた 切ない夜の夢 儚く消えるだけ 空を見上げていても 何も変わらないのに もう二度と戻れない日々ばかりで 追いかけては募る思い出たち 会いたいと願う気持ちが一つずつ 柔らかな光とともに沈んでゆく どこにもいないあなたを探して 涙は行方見失ってる 悲しい言葉でお互いを傷つけて 孤独になるのなら 素直になればよかった もう一度あの冬の夜のように 強く深く抱きしめあえたなら 会いたいと願う気持ちが一つずつ 柔らかな光とともに沈んでゆく 動けない私の心は今でも 一人でいることが苦しくて... お互いに同じ気持ちでいたのなら 戻ることができたのかもしれない 積もっていた雪が溶け出し始めたら あなたとの出会った季節が訪れる

Song Connections / Remixes

• 月光 is a remix of the classic piece Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp minor Op.27-2, Moonlight, I - Adagio sostenuto (also known as The Moonlight Sonata) by Ludwig von Beethoven.
• The beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK album version of 月光 features an extended ending not included in the game version.
• An extended version of 月光, titled 月光(ver0.99) and credited to Tatsh feat. JunkoHirata, appears in the BEMANIトップランカー決定戦 2006 Sound Tracks CD.
• A long version of 月光 appears in Kanako Hoshino's first mini-album, EIGHT ELEMENTS OF THE STAR.
• A more instrumental remix of 月光 by Yasuhiro Abe, titled 月光(ANOTHER SENSE EDITION), appears in KONAMI♪MUSICフル service's exclusive album, EIGHT ELEMENTS OF THE STAR ANOTHER SENSE.
  • It later appeared in the KONAMI STYLE limited edition of Kanako Hoshino's first album, Prism.
• An acoustic version of 月光 by TAKKRATTS, titled 月光(Acoustic Ver), also appears in Prism.

Trivia

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• 月光 is a hidden song in beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY. To unlock it, you must clear ten songs revolving around moons, stars, light, or sung by Kanako Hoshino. The ten songs are as follows, in the following game folders:
  • substream: THE EARTH LIGHT
  • 5th style: RIDE ON THE LIGHT (HI GREAT MIX)
  • 8th style: STAR FIELD
  • 9th style: lights, moon_child
  • 10th style: Back Into The Light
  • IIDX RED: D.A.N.C.E.!, 太陽～T・A・I・Y・O～
  • HAPPY SKY: MOON RACE, SPARK !
    • 月光 will unlock after all ten songs have been cleared. (If a song already had clear status in your IIDX RED data, you will still need to play it again for it to count.)
    • As of September 7th, 2005, 月光 is unlocked for everyone to play.
• Gekkou (月光) means "moonlight" in Japanese.
• 月光 can be unlocked from April 12th, 2016 on beatmania IIDX INFINITAS' Akashic Explore event.
• 月光 also appears in GRANDCROSS, a KONAMI medal redemption game.

Song Production Information

Tatsh

I wondered about what to do with the interlude, so I tried to incorporate a classical song in it.
At that time, I linked "a broken heart fading in the moonlight" with "Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata", and that's how the title was born.
And it's a hidden song which appears in FREE MODE at the location tests, so doesn't it appear and disappear like the moon?

Kanako Hoshino

Tatsh wrote this sorrowful Eurobeat song, but Hoshino hasn't sung a sorrowful song yet, so I wanted to sing this song very much, even though it was difficult for me to express. When I used an accent and sang with too much emotion during the recording, Tatsh instructed me to "try to sing it smoothly", and I sounded more mature and not childish, so I think my voice suited "Gekkou" better by doing this.
I slightly changed how I sing before then, so it was quite difficult for me, but I saw some growth in this song. I was also able to appear in this song's movie, as they took and connected 360 degree individual photos of me in a tram, which isn't like flipping through manga, and I can't properly describe it, but it became quite cool!!! After that, they used handmade props to show an illusionary moonlight, and you can see Tokyo Tower in the background, which is worth seeing \ (~ o ~) /
This song and video are great, and it kills two birds with one stone. Don't miss it☆

Video Production Information

matsushita@tksd

Sorry to bother you again. My name is matsushita from TOKYO SYOKUDO.
I'm graciously honored to suddenly be asked by GOLI to direct a live-action Kanako Hoshino video.

This video was "difficult 'to' film".
... I won't say much.
A suspicious person was standing alone with a tripod somewhere in Tokyo on Christmas Eve at 8:00 p.m., which was crowded with couples and female celebrities.
While I was filming a demo video of the moon rising at a fixed position in a car park on a certain month at 5:00 a.m., some patrolling policemen cheered me on.
A month's worth of filming applications and prepared storyboards became wasted in less than 5 minutes due to various circumstances.
Now they're good memories.

This time, I'm impressed that the lead Hoshino didn't mind lip syncing during filming, and tried very hard to sing with all her heart in "every take".
I told her "you don't need to sing, since you'll be singing many times", but she replied "it feels better when I sing", which moved me to tears.
I felt her professionalism. I'm going to learn from Hoshino.
Thanks to their support, I created a full-size video from the large amount of materials gathered.
I've provided a condensed version of Hoshino's adult charm here.
We unexpectedly reserved a certain floor in Tokyo for 5 nights, and a 2 round-trip on the Tokyo tram for filming.
GOLI and VJ GYO were very helpful during the filming.

Also, it seems you can see examples of other songs where VJ GYO and I filmed while walking with a spinning camera in the front row at the secret LIVE 2 event for around 4 hours. Please try to find them.

The colored lights that illuminated Hoshino were bought at Don Quijote in Shibuya.

Difficulty & Notecounts

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

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	129	455	900	1246	-	440	922	1175	-
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→13 DistorteD	-	5	8	10	-	4	9	11	-
beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD→Present	-	5	8	10	-	4	9	↓10	-
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY CS	1	5	8	10	-	4	9	10	-
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST	1	5	8	10	-	4	9	10	-
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS	-	5	8	10	-	4	9	10	-
beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE	-	5	8	10	-	-	-	-	-