Himiko
卑弥呼
Song Information
Artist: 朱雀 VS 玄武 (Suzaku VS Genbu)
Composition/Arrangement: Yoshitaka Nishimura, Jun Wakita
BPM: 83-185
Length: 2:12
Genre: ESOTERIC SPEEDCORE
VJ: GOLI
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
None
Song Connections/Remixes
- 卑弥呼 marks the first time when two Cardinal Gate artists collaborate with each other.
- 卑弥呼 is the One More Extra Stage of EMPRESS PLACE.
Trivia
- 卑弥呼 marks the first collaboration between Yoshitaka Nishimura and Jun Wakita in BEMANI.
- As it was the case with the One More Extra Stage songs since beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY, the LED marquee displays a different message when the song is played as One More Extra Stage: "WELCOME TO MY CONTRY 'YAMATAIKOKU'".
- 卑弥呼 has the most notes of any Single Player another chart to date, with 2119 notes.
- 卑弥呼's genre, ESOTERIC SPEEDCORE, is a play on Ganymede's genre, ESOTERIC SLOWCORE.
- Like every 朱雀 song, 卑弥呼 also has the characteristic 朱雀 loud guitar sound.
- 卑弥呼 is the first song under the 朱雀 alias that is not linked to the story of Vanessa de Verdet since CONTRACT.
- The comments of videos featuring this song was considered an inside joke.
- 卑弥呼 received a black Another chart on beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST.
- According to the game files, the name of the golden creature appearing in the overlays is Orochi. In Japanese mythology, Orochi is a 8-headed and 8-tailed dragon slain by the Shinto god Susanoo.
Song Production Information
(Sound / 玄武)
Because I am just a turtle...
(Sound / 朱雀)
PIGYAPIPIGYAPIPIGYAA?
PIGYAPIGYAPIGYA! GYAPPIGYAPIGYAPI!
(Hey, do you know?)
(Birds can take flight! I CAN FLY!)
Video Production Information
Himiko. The witch of the sun. (Partial translation)
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BemaniWIKI and Textage.cc.)
Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Beginner | Normal | Hyper | Another | Normal | Hyper | Another | |
Notecounts | - | 643 | 1442 | 2119 | 640 | 1396 | 2194 |
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS→Present | - | 6 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 12 |