BLUE STRAGGLER
BLUE STRAGGLER
Song Information
Artist: L.E.D.
Composition/Arrangement: L.E.D.
BPM: 160
Length: 1:54
Genre: HARD DANCE
VJ: ? (overlays by Fukutomi WAVE)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro
Other Music Game Appearances:
- jubeat saucer
- jubeat plus / jubeat plus (Android) saucer pack 04
- jukebeat KONAMI music pack 28
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
None.
Trivia
- Blue stragglers are main sequence stars in open or globular clusters that are more luminous and bluer than stars at the main sequence turn-off point for the cluster.
- A mermaid character appears in BLUE STRAGGLER's overlays.
- In BLUE STRAGGLER's movie, several Latin phrases are seen (in order of appearance):
- Verum cur non audimus? (Why do we not listen to the truth?)
- Veritas numquam perit. (Truth is never lost.)
- Veritas vos liberabit. (The truth will set you free.)
- Astra non mentiuntur. (The stars will not lie.)
- Ubi spiritus est cantus est. (Where there is a soul, there is a song.)
- Nil desperandum. (Do not despair.)
- Alea jacta est. (The die has been cast.)
- Suggestio veri, suggestio falsi. (A suggestion of truth, a suggestion of falsehood.)
- Exitus acta probat. (The outcome justifies the deed.)
- Age quod agis. (Do well what you do.)
- Quod erat demonstrandum. (That which was to be proved.)
- At the end of the video, this last sentence is abbreviated to "Q.E.D.". Afterwards, the letter "Q" is replaced with a "L", ultimately forming the word "L.E.D.".
- BLUE STRAGGLER was added to jubeat saucer on November 1st, 2012.
- The charts of BLUE STRAGGLER are known for their strange judgment timing for reasons currently unknown.
- In the U.S./EU iTunes version of the beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.1 album, BLUE STRAGGLER is spelled as Blue Straggler.
- BLUE STRAGGLER was removed from jubeat saucer on June 1st, 2013. It was later revived on July 22nd, 2013.
- It was removed again on October 1st, 2013. It was revived again on January 6th, 2013.
Song Production Information
Untranslated.
Video Production Information
Fukutomi WAVE
＜Q＞Suggestio veri, suggestio falsi
＜Ａ＞Sic itur ad astra
Q.E.D.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
jubeat difficulty rated from 1 to 10. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from jubeat@Wiki and BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania IIDX
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Normal | Hyper | Another | Normal | Hyper | Another | |
| Notecounts | — | 440 | 761 | 1328 | 442 | 843 | 1311 |
| beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro→Present | — | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 10 |
jubeat
| Game | Level | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Advanced | Extreme | |
| Notecounts | 321 | 605 | 780 |
| jubeat saucer→Present | 5 | 9 | 10 |
| jubeat plus | 5 | 9 | 10 |
| jubeat plus (Android) | 5 | 9 | 10 |
| jukebeat | 5 | 9 | 10 |