Plan 8

Song Information

Artist: Ryu☆
Composition/Arrangement: Ryu☆
BPM: 212
Length: 2:05
Genre: HAPPY GABBA
VJ: Unknown (overlays by GOLI)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro
Other Music Game Appearances:

jubeat saucer

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

Plan 8's title is similar to other earlier Ryu☆ non-BEMANI songs, Plan A and Plan B.
According to Ryu☆, Plan 8's second half comes from an earlier song of his called Theme of Plan 8, a song he produced back in 1997 under his Plan 8 unit in school (see trivia).
The second half of Plan 8 is of a lower key on the beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.1 album, compared with the game version.
- The OST version of Plan 8 is used in jubeat saucer.

Trivia

Plan 8 is the ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song of LEGEND CROSS in beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro. To unlock it, you must EX-HARD Clear Thor's Hammer with an AAA rank to access this song.
- As of 11/07/2012, Plan 8 is accessed by clearing Thor's Hammer with any type of gauge, under specific rank conditions depending on the difficulty chosen. All the charts are accessible.
When Plan 8 is played as a boss stage in LEGEND CROSS, the arcade LED ticker displays "RED BOSS 12".
Plan 8 is Ryu☆'s first ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song since 3y3s in beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS.
The design of the boss in the BGA of Plan 8 is based on the clown from the overlays of A. The red Boss Crystals float around it.
- In the first half of the song, the clown appears as a chibi character like in the LEGEND CROSS cutscenes. The transformation into the red joker mech occurs afterwards.
- When you miss a note, the joker mech reveals itself as a girl dressed in red and black, who attacks the Q-pro avatar with the Boss Crystals.
  - The girl's name is Ripika. In the final cutscene of LEGEND CROSS, she retreats.
The name Plan 8 was used by Ryu☆'s unit with a friend back when he was a student in high school in 1997. (1997 is also the year he started to write music.)
- He notes in the song production information for Plan 8 that the name itself comes from the infamous Ed Wood movie Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Plan 8 was added to jubeat saucer as part of the Café de Tran unlock system. It is the 6th unlockable song for that game.
In the U.S./EU iTunes version of the beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.1 album, the star in Ryu's name is omitted.

Song Production Information

Untranslated.

Video Production Information

Untranslated.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
jubeat difficulty rated from 1 to 10. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty				DP Difficulty
Game	Beginner	Normal	Hyper	Another	Normal	Hyper	Another
Notecounts	-	600	1145	1690	627	1077	1577
beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro→Present	-	6	10	12	6	10	12

jubeat

Game	Level
Game	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	444	666	888
jubeat saucer→Present	5	8	10