Howling

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Howling

Song Information

 
Howling's jacket.
 
Howling's pop'n music banner.

Artist: PON
Composition/Arrangement/Vocals: PON
BPM: 155
Length: 1:54
Genre: NU RAVE
pop'n music Character: Ash [13-2P]
VJ: NAGI (overlays by VJ GYO)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

Screams and yells can be heard. A sample saying "What can you do when the sky falls in on you?" is used toward the end of the song.

Song Connections / Remixes

  • A remix of Howling by Ryu☆, titled Howling(Ryu☆Remix), appears on PON's first album, Power Of Nature.
  • The pop'n music ラピストリア original soundtrack Vol.2 album version of Howling sounds different, with much more distorted bass.
    • This version is also used as its preview music in pop'n music.

Trivia

  • Howling marks the first musical appearance of PON in the beatmania IIDX series. He earlier worked as a sound designer for beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS and beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS.
  • PON himself is featured in Howling's overlays.
  • According to PON, the lyrics in Howling are all yells and screams, with no actual lyrics.
  • Howling can be unlocked in pop'n music ラピストリア from December 24th, 2014 as part of the PON no unmei jouka keikaku (PONの運命浄化計画) event, by obtaining the Wind Purification (風の浄化) power.
    • It also received a jacket in the event site, but it has not yet been used in a BEMANI game.
  • In pop'n music, instead of displaying its character's portrait, Howling displays its jacket (with the PONの運命浄化計画 logo) when selected.
  • Howling using the 2P palette of pop'n music 13 カーニバル's Ash marks the first new song featuring him as a rival character since NEW PEOPLE.

Music Comment

None.

Song Production Information

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Video Production Information

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Character Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game SP Difficulty DP Difficulty
BEGINNER NORMAL HYPER ANOTHER LEGGENDARIA NORMAL HYPER ANOTHER LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts - 280 695 1066 321 710 1060 {{{8}}} {{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro→Present - 4 7 9 4 7 10 {{{9}}} {{{10}}}

pop'n music

Game Standard Battle
Easy Normal Hyper EX Normal Hyper
Notecounts 155 395 694 1066 ? ?
pop'n music ラピストリア→Present 9 24 37 44 ? ?
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