Coffee break

coffee break

Song Information

coffee break's pop'n music banner.

Artist: そよもぎ
Composition/Arrangement: Soyomogi
BPM: 186
Length: 1:55
pop'n music Genre: SWING LATTE (スウィングラテ)
pop'n music Character: cup-kun [SP]
pop'n CG designer: shio
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music Sunny Park
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

None.

Trivia

• coffee break is one of the songs from the Boku mo watashi mo★ pop'n artist! (ボクもワタシも★ポップンアーティスト!) contest. It could be unlocked in pop'n music Sunny Park from January 16th to April 2nd, 2013.
  • As of April 3rd, 2013, it has been unlocked by default.
• coffee break marks the first song cup-kun is designed in mind as the rival character for. He had earlier appeared as a hidden character in pop'n music 9.
• Several pop'n music characters appear in cup-kun's portrait and animations:
  • Mimi and Nyami appear on cup-kun's portrait, idle and MISS animations.
  • SANAE♥chan and RIE♥chan make cameos on cup-kun's DANCE ojama.
  • IZUMI-san makes cameos on cup-kun's MISS animation and DANCE ojama.
  • Sugi-kun, Reo-kun, Nina and MZD make cameos on cup-kun's FEVER animation.
  • Jean makes a cameo on cup-kun's LOSE animation.
• cup-kun does not have a 2P color.
• When pop'n music Sunny Park was released, placeholder data for coffee break capitalized its title as Coffee Break.
• coffee break is available in pop'n music Lively as part of the pop'n music Lively Music Pack vol.14 (pop'n music Lively 楽曲パック vol.14).

Music Comment

The finest coffee time, with a slowly changing flow between bittersweet and sweet, is for you.

Song Production Information

Boku mo watashi mo★ pop'n artist! Official Website

wac

Congratulations!
Soyomogi has a great sound sense, right?
Each respective sound isn't emphasized, yet they're confident and harmoniously flow.
It felt like a flowing sense.
And it pretends to be comfortable and relaxing, but it actually sounds outrageous! So, this is a royal instrumental song in pop'n.
Please experience that outrageous, unbreakable coffee break in front of the cabinet!

PON

Even among the instrumental songs without vocals, this song noticeably shines with plenty of developments which fully use stillness and movement.
It's fully loaded with highlights such as game-like song composition and simulation of every instrument, which were key points in its selection.
An advantage of instrumental songs is that "instruments are the leading part", and you can compose songs without being drown by the vocal atmosphere, and I think this song fully used these strengths to create a unique space.

pop'n music Sunny Park

Soyomogi

Hello. I'm Soyomogi. I live by consuming caffeine. Recently, I learned the devilish taste of scones.
Thank you very much for choosing my child this time. Although this child has difficult rhythms, by all means, I'd be happy if you conquer it.
Some explanations about this song...
The BPM is constant. The different rhythmic feeling occurs when one measure is split into many parts. There are some parts mixed with nonuplet and quadruplets. The time signature is just odd in one part. (During the organ solo in the middle section)
This was my first attempt to create a song from a rhythm base, so I enjoyed its production. I particularly love the nonuplet phrases. However, my mind was constantly confused.
I usually relax and create songs by myself. Since I also have a website, by all means, please try to search for it if you're interested...!!

Character Information

Boku mo watashi mo★ pop'n artist! Official Website

shio

Soyomogi, congratulations! Thank you very much for this lovely song.

With a carefree sense like relaxing your shoulders, lose yourself to the various sounds repeatedly layered while the rhythms change round and round, and as the song title suggests, close your eyes and become enchanted to the finest, courteous brewed coffee~.
It's like the rhythm of light dripping water droplets, or a complicated drifting coffee scent.
But, although it's interesting during gameplay that this song suddenly has an intense atmosphere in the second half, it was very difficult to make a character when the song didn't end in a relaxing way.

However, when I came up with the idea of cup-kun and everyone gathering around in a café, I thought "that's it!", and I tried to make an animation of cup-kun's memories drift with fluffy steam using a different touch than usual.
Since many guest characters appear, by all means, please try watching them join in with the music in the game. Look forward to it!

pop'n music Sunny Park

The café inside the park is perfect for taking a break, and it's always very popular!
Today, there's a live show held in that café. cup-kun is smiling at the lovely music♪

shio

Hmmm, I see~ master Soyomogi, thank you very much for your explanation!
I honestly thought the speed was changing with the rhythms///
When I once again looked at the song introduction screen, I was shocked that it's indeed a constant BPM186.
Huh~, since I don't have a strong music sense, I'm really jealous of those who can create music... shionin sincerely respects not only the award winners, but everyone who applied for Mintsuku..

Besides, although they're animations, I basically explained this in the Mintsuku webpage...
I was happy to meet cup-kun after a long while. I'd be happy if all the guests also enjoy it. By the way, the lose animation was Chihi's request. (I wonder if morning coffee is OK?)

Songs with this kind of swaying rhythm is very fun to play in a game, and although it's slightly embarrassing to unconsciously sway left and right, I also had cup-kun swing a lot. I was happy to draw my favorite cakes and coffee. Thank you very much~.

Staff Comments

TAMA

This fashionable song is fun to play, and contains a lot of gameplay developments well suited in music games.

masaru

Among the instrumental songs, this song somehow has a pop'n-ish café feeling to it.
Although pop'n has many intense songs, it's nice to listen to a relaxing song in a café, right?

KC

I think this is a calm song with an adult atmosphere.
Although the players can't calm down.

tokky

It seems like cup-kun enjoys being around various people in this fashionable song!
I'm sure it's packed with various people's thoughts~.
I'm relieved to see that cup-kun is being loved.

Mameshiba

On a Saturday afternoon, at a fashionable café during a relaxing time.
.........
This song hurts when I imagine this.
Imagine a Saturday afternoon starting after a busy week, so let's have an image of welcoming a Saturday afternoon once again.
The coffee is bitter. Somewhat.
Well, but since I like that busy part and think it's cool, I don't know if I'm human.

Ga~su~

I was unprepared after the relaxing preview.

PON

Sound-wise, it sounds gentle, but this is a brutal difficulty level! Are many people relatively confused?
The middle section where the time signature changes without changing the BPM is tricky and interesting.
Since the piano's ornaments are also recreated in the game, I hope you won't give up until the end.

wac

The great interpretation of rhythms and intertwined phrases is very mathematical.
Music and math have been close since the Baroque period.

Although relaxing songs and demon notecharts are typical pop'n fare, by combining relaxing and demon in the EX chart, the number of notes results in something difficult, and recently became an unusual chart.

Even if you open other drawers from Soyomogi, it feels like these songs have potential, like a surprise box.
Personally, I'm looking forward to what kinds of songs they'll come up with next.

Chihi

Doesn't it feel slightly mature when you choose this fashionable and addictive café music?
When I gave her animation ideas, she ended up making more animations than I thought♪ I'm happy~
I wish I could always be in this position while holding a cup of coffee and saying things like "how about this kind of animation?"!
Fluffy memories~ spending a lovely coffee time with everyone!
The key point isn't just to drink, but also to enjoy the brewing time, isn't it?
The LOSE animation is my favorite~, being asked as Jean's morning coffee! Good luck!

eimy

If this kind of song has a drawing or video, I wonder if it'll be expressed in a calm, clear, and simple way, but I like how pop'n expresses "everyone gathering around in a café" in a lively way.
I wonder if they understood such thing and competed with a coffee song. I wonder if 9's image is strong.
And with the designer's aura of requesting the senior shio to make the animations as expected, the pencil touch was cute and wow! It turned out like that. I can't get enough of the LOSE punchline.

Difficulty & Notecounts

pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd and Pop'n Music Fever.)

Game	Normal Mode				Battle Mode
	EASY	NORMAL	HYPER	EX	NORMAL	HYPER
Notecounts	185	346	577	951	292	464
pop'n music Sunny Park	12	26	39	47	10	24
pop'n music ラピストリア→Present	12	26	↓34	↓46	10	24
pop'n music Lively	12	26	34	46	-	-