BabeL ~Grand Story~

BabeL ～Grand Story～

Song Information

BabeL ～Grand Story～'s pop'n music banner.

Artist: Ako Atak
Composition/Arrangement: Tsugumi Kataoka
Guitars: PON, 96
BPM: 163
Length: 2:06
pop'n music Genre: SPIRAL STAIRS (スパイラルステアーズ)
pop'n music Character: the TOWER [19-1P]
pop'n CG design: shio
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET
Other Music Game Appearances:

• ポップンリズミン ポップンチュンストパック1

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• BabeL ～Grand Story～ is part of the BabeL song trilogy.
• All three BabeL songs are combined together into BabeL ～Stairway to Heaven～, a 10:22 extension of the song by BPO featured on the pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET original soundtrack.
• A rearrangement of BabeL ～Grand Story～ by Ako Atak Quintet, titled Downward Spiral Stairs 下降螺旋階段, can be found as a bonus track on the remasterized version of Tsugumi Kataoka's Princess Piccolo Original Soundtrack album.

Trivia

• BabeL ～Grand Story～ marks the first time that Tsugumi Kataoka composes a purely instrumental song which has its EX chart rated 42 (or 48 on the 1 to 50 difficulty scale).
• BabeL ～Grand Story～'s artist, Ako Atak, is reverse for "kata oka", or "Kataoka", referencing Tsugumi Kataoka.
• BabeL ～Grand Story～ can be unlocked in Town Mode for 100 TP, but only after all 29 songs in Town Mode before it are unlocked.
• After the removal of all backgrounds in pop'n music ラピストリア, BabeL ～Grand Story～'s background was added to the TOWER in pop'n music ラピストリア on August 2014.

Music Comment

Untranslated.

Song Production Information

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Character Information

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Difficulty & Notecounts

pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards.
ポップンリズミン difficulty rated from 1 to 10. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

pop'n music

Game	Standard				Battle
	5 Button	Normal	Hyper	EX	Normal	Hyper
Notecounts	284	324	823	1536	284	324
pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET→20 fantasia	15	17	33	42	11	13
pop'n music Sunny Park→Present	-	23	39	48	11	13

ポップンリズミン

Game	Difficulties
	Normal	Hyper	EX
Notecounts	182	303	486
ポップンリズミン	3	7	10

BabeL series of songs
～Grand Story～ - ～Next Story～ - ～roof garden～ - ～MODEL DD101～

HELL course songs
HELL 1-5	I'm on Fire - すれちがう2人 Millennium mix - R.C. - 西新宿清掃曲
HELL 1-5 ReNew	すてきなタブーラ - 水中家族のテーマ - お江戸花吹雪 TEYAN-day MIX - Concertare
HELL 6	Midnight Yoghurt（女SPY☆お色気ゴーゴー脱出大作戦） - 작은행복 - H@ppy Choice - 大見解
HELL 7	Denpasar - SA-DA-ME - 夜間行 - Ending theme of pop'n music 6
HELL 6-7 ReNew	Maritare! - The tyro's reverie - 悲しいね - 夜間行
HELL the EIGHT	♥LOVE² シュガ→♥ - Over the night - pure - 釈迦
HELL 9	Dynamic! Atomic! S.C.B.G. ~ver.1~ - デパ地下のお話 - 男々道 - ブタパンチのテーマ
HELL 10	明鏡止水 - Jack - Holy Forest - ULTRA BUTTERFLY(坤剛力)
HELL-11	烏 - 怒れる大きな白い馬 - カゲロウ - でんがなマンガナ
HELL 12	雫 - Vairocana - 進め！爺ちゃん！ - 雪上断火
HELL 13	BAROQUE HOEDOWN - HypArcSin(x) - 文明開化 - ƒƒƒƒƒ
真HELL 13	フリーパス - KING of the SEA - Sanctum Crusade - 真超深ＴＩＯＮ
HELL 14	hora de verdad - BBLLAASSTT!! - 猿の経 - Übertreffen
HELL 1~14	Vairocana - ULTRA BUTTERFLY(坤剛力) - ブタパンチのテーマ - Übertreffen
HELL 15	Votum stellarum -forest #25 RMX- - 天庭 - ZETA〜素数の世界と超越者〜 - neu
HELL 16	バイキングマン - CHIP'N'RIDDIM - 万物快楽理論 - シュレーディンガーの猫
HELL 17	ƒƒƒƒƒ op.2 - 突然ゴルゴンゾーラ - Geiselhaus - 音楽
せんごく地獄	蛇神 - 西軍||∴⊂SEKIGAHARA⊃∴||東軍 - NOBUNAGA - 序
HELL TUNE STREET	Remain - BabeL ～Grand Story～ - BabeL ～Next Story～ - BabeL ～roof garden～
HELL fantasia	Southern Cross - カラルの月 - Eine Haube ～聖地の果てにあるもの～ - 少年は空を辿る
HELL Sunny Park	コドモライブ - 背徳と邪悪のエピタフ - 生命の焔纏いて - 生命の環を紡いで