AA

Song Information

 
AA's jacket.

Artist: D.J.Amuro
Composition/Arrangement: D.J.Amuro
BPM: 154
Length: 1:58 (beatmania IIDX), 1:32 (DanceDanceRevolution)
Genre: RENAISSANCE
VJ: shiro (IIDX RED→HAPPY SKY); Ta-k(synesthesia) (CS IIDX RED, DistorteD→Present)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

  • AA is part of D.J.Amuro's RENAISSANCE series of songs.
  • A long version of AA can be found on dj TAKA's first album, milestone.
  • A remix of AA by BlackY, titled AA BlackY mix, appears in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.
  • Another remix of AA by OSTER project, titled AA (Renaissance Concertino Mix), appears on dj TAKA's second album, True Blue....
  • The DanceDanceRevolution series use a shorter version of AA.

Trivia

 
AA's title card.
 
AA's banner.
  • A common pronunciation of AA among players in Japan is "ダブルエース" (Double-Ace). KONAMI stresses that there is no "official" pronunciation, but notes that "Double-Ace" is a common one among players.
    • Notably, in the SOUND VOLTEX series, AA BlackY mix has "AA" rendered as "ダブルエース" for sorting purposes.
  • In the arcade version of beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED, a generic video was used. However, in the CS version, a new video/animation was produced for AA from Visual Emotions 3, which also includes The Hope of Tomorrow, Raspberry♡Heart (English version), and D.A.N.C.E.!.
  • At the time of its release, AA's Single ANOTHER chart had the most notes of any Single Play chart, at 1834 notes. This short-lived record would be toppled by one version later, with 2000 notes.
    • Its Double ANOTHER chart also had the most notes of any Double ANOTHER chart, at 1739 notes. This was also topped by 冥 in HAPPY SKY.
  • AA is available in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS' championship Mode from August 10th, 2016 to August 21st, 2016.

Song Production Information

D.J.Amuro

The theme of this song is the betrayal of a certain character by his closest, trusted associates, and the moments of his heroic death. It is rather difficult, but I hope you can bring flowers through your spectacular performance.

Video Production Information

Untranslated.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED difficulty rated from 1 to 8+, and 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X 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 269 642 1386 1834 659 997 1739 {{{8}}} {{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED - 5 8+ N/A 5 8 N/A {{{9}}} {{{10}}}
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→Present - 5 ↑10 12 5 ↑9 12 {{{9}}} {{{10}}}
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED CS 3 5 8+ 8+ 5 8 8+ {{{9}}} {{{10}}}
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS 3 5 10 12 5 9 12 {{{9}}} {{{10}}}
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST 3 5 10 12 5 9 12 {{{9}}} {{{10}}}
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS - 5 10 12 5 9 12 {{{9}}} {{{10}}}


DanceDanceRevolution

Game Single Double
Beginner Basic Difficult Expert Challenge Basic Difficult Expert Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows 108 / 0 186 / 2 274 / 2 386 / 2 - / - / - 186 / 2 273 / 2 366 / 2 - / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA→SuperNOVA2 1 4 7 9 - 4 7 9 -
DanceDanceRevolution X→Present 3 5 9 13 - 5 10 13 -
DanceDanceRevolution / Dancing Stage SuperNOVA CS 1 4 7 9 - 4 7 9 -
D.J.Amuro's RENAISSANCE song series
Main Songs A - AA - F - X
Remixes / Related Songs A - Astral Inner Flame ver. - - AA -rebuild- - - 少年A