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Nageki no ki

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Not to be confused with 嘆きノ森.

嘆きの樹

Song Information

 
嘆きの樹's jacket.

Artist: 金獅子
Composition/Arrangement: Kinjishi
BPM: 160
Length: 2:06
Genre: CONTEMPORARY
Movie: ? (overlays by GOLI)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

Trivia

 
嘆きの樹's CARDINAL GATE title card.
  • 嘆きの樹 is the ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE for beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD, and is playable after clearing the final CARDINAL GATE song.
    • When 嘆きの樹 is played as an ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE, the arcade LED marquee does not display the song title, but repeats a series of words: "GRIEVES DESTRUCTION MUTATION COLLAPSES SOLITUDE DEATH EVIL REGRET FRAGILE NIRVANA LAZINESS MIRAGE DESIRE IMPULSE INKING STAGNATION WHISPER CURSE DESPAIR RUIN SACRIFICE WORLD CONVICT SUFFERING SNEERS ADMONITION MAD DEGENERATION".
    • Alongside the other CARDINAL GATE songs, 嘆きの樹 has a different color skin. It features a gold colored skin.
  • "Nageki no ki" (嘆きの樹) can be translated as "Tree of Lamentation".
    • It is translated in French as "Arbre triste" in 嘆きの樹 Arbre triste -a la viennoise-.
  • Kinjishi (金獅子) translates to "Golden Lion".
  • At the time of its release, 嘆きの樹's Single NORMAL chart had the most notes of any Single NORMAL chart in beatmania IIDX, with 902 notes.
    • This was topped by G59 in beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS, with 906 notes.
  • 嘆きの樹 is one of the unlockable crossover songs for DanceDanceRevolution (2014) on the 発見！よみがえったBEMANI遺跡 event.
  • In DanceDanceRevolution (2014), 嘆きの樹 received CHALLENGE charts on August 1st, 2014. These charts can be unlocked via EXTRA ATTACK.
    • 嘆きの樹's CHALLENGE charts are the first charts in the DanceDanceRevolution series to be originally rated Level 18 and not have BPM changes, stops, or Shock Arrows.
    • Since July 23rd, 2015, 嘆きの樹 could be unlocked via EXTRA ATTACK, along with its CHALLENGE charts.
    • In DanceDanceRevolution A, it can be unlocked through EXTRA SAVIOR.
    • As of DanceDanceRevolution A20, it is available by default.
  • Keeping with the theme of 嘆きの樹's dark undertones, its Single EXPERT and Double CHALLENGE charts in DanceDanceRevolution have a max combo of 666.
  • 嘆きの樹 was added to beatmania IIDX INFINITAS on May 2nd, 2018 as part of the May 2018 Basic Subscription Monthly Songs.
    • From June 2020, it can be purchased with BITs.
  • 嘆きの樹 is available in DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX's GRAND PRIX mode from March 20th, 2023, by purchasing the GRAND PRIX music pack vol.17 (グランプリ楽曲パック vol.17).

Song Production Information

Kinjishi

Nageki no ki

This song has never had such a difficult birth than those before it.
No, I'm wrong. It wasn't that it was a difficult birth. I didn't know what kind of song I should create.
I've created many ONE MORE songs so far. I wasn't worried about it until now.
However, this time, this is a king of kings song, which appears after defeating the four kings.
Furthermore, these Four Heavenly Kings are all recognized as talented people.

With all that in mind, what should I create?
Drum'n'bass? Should I go with happy hardcore? Or Baroque mixture? No matter what image it has, it's still only a king. Time merely passed without being connected to the king of kings.

Existing styles won't work. It needs to be something unprecedented in the IIDX series.

--- Something unprecedented.

From those words, I remembered a certain music.

Atonal music.
Around the 1900s, some musicians who were tired of existing music concepts such as do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do, started studying to create completely new music which fundamentally overturned preconceived music until then. Although this "attempt" received praise from a minority of music fans and continues to exist in various forms, many people's sensibilities made it difficult for them to accept, and it's extremely rare for it to be part of major music scenes.
By the way, there's a theory that minimal techno was developed from one of those techniques, the twelve-tone technique, but I'm going off-topic, so let's discuss this when I have another opportunity.

I attempted atonal music from 100 years ago. Isn't this perfect for my current mental state?
Having said that, I just vaguely remember these stories from music class, and I don't have any knowledge of contemporary music. However, I don't have time to learn this in the future.
Relying on just my own senses, I created a barely unclear and uncomfortable sound. There are no chords or scales that you can think of when creating a normal song, which feels like adding pieces to a jigsaw puzzle.

However, the middle section became so difficult to figure out, that I couldn't understand it myself as a maniac, and since it clearly wasn't going to be accepted by many people, I added a Baroque-style development in the middle section, which completely incorporates the essence of video game music.
I made this song like this, named it "Nageki no ki" together with GOLI, and that's how it was born.

Come to think of it, this song probably wouldn't have been born if I didn't make a king of kings song.
While I simultaneously had a mysterious sense, I'm grateful to beatmania IIDX for giving me this kind of opportunity.

Video Production Information

GOLI

That lamentation fuels me.

It was quite difficult. This video might've been the most difficult to create its animations for....
A big boss which surpasses the Four Heavenly Kings. This song's contents are simply large in scale, so I needed to make them according to these contents. And I needed them to appear throughout this song for a long time without ruining its atmosphere. This was quite difficult.

If it's already like this, even though this abstract image doesn't have a name like God, I thought about trying to pick up mentally ill humans with troubling emotions.
Such related words flow underneath the cabinet's monitor. Let's say them to everyone with free time. They're all just tiring words.

These clustered emotions seem to be gathered as evil things in the present day. I tried to layer the animations with a "tree" image. That's spinning round and round in the depths.
Those shapeshifting gods surrounding it... they're the respective Four Heavenly Kings that were defeated at least once, and they have the image of a spirit revived by the "tree" of "lamentation" surrounding the present day.
I also tried to make "Nageki no ki"'s exclusive frame appear gold to match Kinjishi's name (Golden Lion).
It has the image of useless, disgusting, and ominous debris left behind by greed.

The Four Heavenly Kings planned to incorporate fantasy elements in that way, so how was it?

I think it was difficult to make in various ways, but good job to all the main staff involved in the Four Heavenly Kings project!

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 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 400 902 1281 2000 - 875 1281 2000 -
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD→Present - 8 11 12 - 7 11 12 -
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS 3 8 11 12 - 7 11 12 -
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST 3 8 11 12 - 7 11 12 -
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS - 8 11 12 - 7 11 12 -
beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE - 8 11 12 - - - - -

DanceDanceRevolution

Game Single Double
Beginner Basic Difficult Expert Challenge Basic Difficult Expert Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows 138 / 3 285 / 37 444 / 24 666 / 16 763 / 27 / 0 274 / 40 429 / 25 611 / 24 666 / 30 / 0
DanceDanceRevolution (2014)→Present 4 8 12 16 18 8 12 16 18
DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX 4 8 12 16 18 8 12 16 18
CARDINAL GATE
EXTRA STAGEs CONTRACT - Ganymede - waxing and wanding - 華蝶風雪
ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE 嘆きの樹
発見！よみがえったBEMANI遺跡
Statue's Awakening Cleopatrysm - KHAMEN BREAK - 御千手メディテーション
Pyramid Building beatmania IIDX: KAISER PHOENIX - SCHWARZSCHILD FIELD - 海神
DanceDanceRevolution: Adularia - Follow Tomorrow - FUJIMORI -祭- FESTIVAL - JOMANDA - Nostalgia Is Lost - 嘆きの樹
GuitarFreaks & DrumMania: HYDRA - rage against usual - Re:GENERATION - 水鏡 - ポップミュージック論
魚氷に上り 耀よひて
jubeat: passionate fate - Resurrection - 猫侍の逆襲 - ポチコの幸せな日常
pop'n music: 532nm - Element of SPADA - 龍と少女とデコヒーレンス - つぼみ - 海神
REFLEC BEAT: Stand Alone Beat Masta - 情操ディストピア - 見習い天使と星降りの丘 - 旋律のドグマ～Misérables～
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