Waxing and wanding

waxing and wanding

Song Information

waxing and wanding's jacket.

Artist: 青龍
Composition/Arrangement: Seiryu
BPM: 191
Length: 2:05
Genre: DANCE SPEED
VJ: GOLI
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD
Other Music Game Appearances:

• REFLEC BEAT limelight
• REFLEC BEAT plus MUSIC PACK 46
• REFLEC BEAT + KONAMI MUSIC PACK 34

Lyrics

Some pitched up vocal samples can be heard, including "Are you ready?", "Bass from outer s-", and "Brain power!".

Song Connections / Remixes

• A long version of waxing and wanding appears on the CARDINAL GATE conclusion album, included with beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS's special edition.
  • Another long version of waxing and wanding appears on starmine 青龍 DISC, the bonus disc of Ryu☆'s first album, starmine.
  • Yet another long version of waxing and wanding, titled waxing and wanding (BD MIX), appears on 青龍's first album, BLUE DRAGON. This version of the song has the whole intro removed.
• A remix of waxing and wanding by kors k, titled waxing and wanding (kors k mix), also appears on Ryu☆'s first album, starmine.
• Another remix of waxing and wanding by JAKAZiD, titled waxing and wanding (JAKAZiD's 新月 Remix), appears on the cyber beatnation 2 -Hi Speed conclusion- album.

Trivia

青龍's CARDINAL GATE title card.

• waxing and wanding is one of the four CARDINAL GATE EXTRA STAGE songs.
• waxing and wanding's title refers to two phases of the moon, "waxing" (when it changes from new moon to full moon) and "waning" (from full moon to new moon).
  • The song was intended to be called "waxing and waning", but was accidentally submitted as "waxing and wanding", according to this interview.
• Seiryu (青龍) is the Japanese name of Qinglong, a Chinese god that represents the east and the spring season.
• The video features two embodiments of Seiryu, one being a blue dragon, and the other being a woman in kimono, resembling the woman in the video of 雪月花 (another Ryutaro Nakahara song with a GOLI video).
• waxing and wanding is the second song of Lincle LINK 5 to be unlocked in REFLEC BEAT limelight. It becomes available once Glass Level 25 has been reached.
  • In REFLEC BEAT colette -All Seasons-, it has been automatically unlocked as of May 14th, 2014 by using an eAMUSEMENT PASS.
• waxing and wanding's jacket illustration is taken from the starmine 青龍 DISC CD.
• In REFLEC BEAT +, waxing and wanding's artist was romanized as SEIRYU.
• waxing and wanding is unlockable in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS from November 2nd, 2017, after purchasing its NORMAL, HYPER, and ANOTHER charts for 7000, 10000, and 11000 BITs respectively.
• After being removed from the initial release of REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア, waxing and wanding was revived on December 28th, 2017.
• waxing and wanding received LEGGENDARIA charts in beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS. These charts can be unlocked from September 13th, 2018 by clearing the CARDINAL EXPERT course.
  • As of beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage, these charts are available by default.

Song Production Information

Seiryu

I love the moon.

Once when I was travelling to Europe, when we were flying over Siberia, the only thing floating up in an empty, and I mean truly empty, sky was a perfectly round moon.
It looked just like a shimmering, perfectly round pearl.
The nature of the air high in the atmosphere lent to the effect, and it traced out an arc in extremely high resolution.
As I was watching this gem of the heavens and bathed in its almost mystical light, I fell into the impression that all of my everyday cares were being healed.

This image is burned deep into my retinas.

This wonderful voyage occurred four months after I finished this song.
What!? Yes, that's right. Four months after. Almost exactly.
The passage before was just making up an image. Sorry. I'll reflect on what I've done.
As I made this song, I was thinking lots of exuberant thoughts like "Oh~, the moon. It's awesome~! So fabulous!"

Yes. That's right! It was four months after. I just grew a little bit, is all.
Don't make me say it over and over again.

Well, thank you so very much for having a look again today. This has been Seiryuu, and now everything is exposed.

For some reason, T called this song "wowow".
Maybe it doesn't abbreviate very well, I just don't get it, it's just one thing after another ...

And so, with everything exposed, this is Sei ... huh? Hey, I told you, it was four months later!
Four months later, and not a centimeter more! Get serious, I'm gonna get mad!

Video Production Information

Untranslated.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
REFLEC BEAT to groovin'!! Upper difficulty rated from 1 to 10+, 1 to 13 in VOLZZA/VOLZZA 2, and 1 to 15 in 悠久のリフレシア. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	281	658	997	1457	2000	647	966	1399	2000
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD→14 GOLD	-	7	10	11	-	7	10	12	-
beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS→24 SINOBUZ	-	7	10	11	-	7	10	↓11	-
beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS→Present	-	7	10	11	12	7	10	11	12
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS	3	7	10	11	-	7	10	11	-
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST	3	7	10	11	-	7	10	11	-
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS	-	7	10	11	-	7	10	11	-

REFLEC BEAT

Old Charts

Game	Level
	Basic	Medium	Hard	Special
Notecounts	144	381	678	-
REFLEC BEAT limelight→VOLZZA 2	3	7	10	-
REFLEC BEAT plus	3	7	10	-
REFLEC BEAT +	3	7	10	-

New Charts

Game	Level
	Basic	Medium	Hard	White Hard
Notecounts	158	409	706	-
REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア	5	9	12	-

CARDINAL GATE
EXTRA STAGEs	CONTRACT - Ganymede - waxing and wanding - 華蝶風雪
ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE	嘆きの樹

Lincle LINK #5
beatmania IIDX songs	ビューティフル レシート - Flip Flap - Castle on the Moon - TITANS RETURN - quaver♪
REFLEC BEAT songs	The Sampling Paradise - waxing and wanding - EXUSIA - 灼熱Beach Side Bunny - 天空の夜明け
Both games	HAERETICUS