Plan 8

Song Information

Plan 8's jacket.

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

DanceDanceRevolution (2014)
jubeat plus / jubeat plus (Android) beatmania IIDX pack 2
jubeat saucer

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

Plan 8's title is related to other non-BEMANI songs by Ryu☆, Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C.
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. It is also shorter, cutting part of the breakdown.
- The OST version of Plan 8 is used in the DanceDanceRevolution and jubeat series.
A long version of Plan 8, titled Plan 8 (Extended Mix), appears on Ryu☆'s fifth album of the same name. It is based on the beatmania IIDX version of the song.
- The second half of Plan 8 (Extended Mix) samples part of the melody from starmine.
A piano arrangement of Plan 8 by wac, titled Plan 8 の主題による8つの変奏曲, appears on the beatnation Records presents "We're so Happy" special remix album, which can be obtained by pre-ordering We're so Happy in KONAMISTYLE.

Trivia

Plan 8 is the ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song of the LEGEND CROSS event in beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro. To unlock it, you must EX-HARD Clear Thor's Hammer with a AAA rank to access this song.
- When Plan 8 is played as a boss stage in LEGEND CROSS, the arcade LED ticker displays "RED BOSS 12".
- 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.
Plan 8 is Ryu☆'s first ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song since 3y3s in beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS.
The boss in Plan 8's overlays is Red Ripika, one of the joker villains in the story of beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro.
- In the first half of the song, the boss appears as a chibi character like in the LEGEND CROSS cutscenes. Only in this form, its animations are played regardless of the player's performance.
- In the second half of the song, the boss evolves to its second, "magic blade" form. It appears as a huge, red mech which is based on the chibi version. The red Boss Crystals float around it. If the boss is not attacking or not being damaged, the bright shield that envolopes it becomes temporarily visible.
- When you miss a note, the real form of Red Ripika comes out from the mech and attacks the Q-pro avatar with the Boss Crystals.
- In the last cutscene of LEGEND CROSS, Red Ripika 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.
Plan 8 can be unlocked in DanceDanceRevolution (2014) from January 22nd, 2015 as part of the BOSS ON PARADE event.
- To access Plan 8, play any song in the beatmania IIDX folder (when sorting songs under BEMANI Series (BEMANIシリーズから選ぶ)) whose genre features the word "HAPPY" in it.

Song Production Information

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Video Production Information

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Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards.
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

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
Game	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	174 / 17	298 / 28	416 / 23	533 / 23	- / - / -	296 / 27	409 / 21	516 / 22	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution (2014)→Present	4	8	11	14	—	8	11	14	—

jubeat

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

LEGEND CROSS
CS Crossovers	Time to Empress - mnemoniq
Boss Songs	SYNC-ANTHEM - ΕΛΠΙΣ - S!ck - rumrum triplets - CONCEPTUAL - Thor's Hammer
ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE	Plan 8