SPICY PIECE
SPICY PIECE
Song Information
Artist: ORIGINAL SOUND TRACKS
Composition/Arrangement: Tomonori Ikeda
BPM: 156
Length: 1:31
pop'n music Genre: SPY (スパイ)
pop'n music Character: CHARLY [1]
pop'n stage Character: Secret D [pns]
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music
Other Music Game Appearances:
- Beat'n Groovy
- pop'n stage
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- An extended version of SPICY PIECE, titled SPICY PIECE pop'n music-DA!! Special Version, can be found in pop'n music-DA!!.
- A remix of SPICY PIECE by Ryu☆, titled SPICY PIECE (Ryu☆Remix), appears in pop'n music 16 PARTY♪.
- The gunshots heard on SPICY PIECE can also be heard at the end of pop'n music 10's テキサスのガンマン.
Trivia
- SPICY PIECE is Tomonori Ikeda's only instrumental song to date in BEMANI.
- SPICY PIECE received a HYPER chart in pop'n music 3. This HYPER chart is notorious for being very difficult to time.
- It also received 5-Buttons and Battle NORMAL/HYPER charts in pop'n music 9.
- In pop'n music 2, SPICY PIECE's character was MZD [2-7P].
- In pop'n music 3, SPICY PIECE's character was SHOLLKEE [3-3P].
- In pop'n music 3 CS, SPICY PIECE's character was replaced to CHARLY [1-2P].
- In pop'n stage, SPICY PIECE's character was changed from CHARLY to Secret D. Secret D also appears in pop'n music 6 CS as the rival character for SPICY PIECE.
- Secret D is based off of DICK, the rival character of Girl from the Portrait, but with some new and modified animations.
- SPICY PIECE was spelled in lower-case letters as spicy piece in the official pop'n stage website, and also in Beat'n Groovy.
Music Comment
Untranslated.
Song Production Information
Untranslated.
Character Information
Character bio translations done by narukamikun and enigmaopoeia, and posted by madamluna on bemanistyle, from this thread: [1]
He appears to be a veeery nice Papa at his home. But, as a matter of fact, he is in the UK as a member of a shady spy organization, and he's being called the #1 marksman!
Birthplace: England
Hobbies: Watching spy movies. Is he studying for work?
Difficulty & Notecounts
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 through Sunny Park. (Ratings from 9 onward obtained from the official Konami pop'n music pages. Battle notecount obtained from Pop'n Music Fever.)
| Game | Standard | Battle | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Button | Normal | Hyper | EX | Normal | Hyper | |
| Notecounts | 174 | 226 | 351 | - | 226 | 351 |
| pop'n music→2 | - | 23 | - | - | - | - |
| pop'n music 3 | - | - | ※H | - | - | - |
| pop'n music 4 | - | 23 | ※23 | - | - | - |
| pop'n music 9 | 6 | ↓17 | ↓22 | - | 11 | 17 |
| pop'n music 10→20 fantasia | ↑8 | 17 | ↑23 | - | 11 | 17 |
| pop'n music Sunny Park→Present | - | ↑23 | ↑29 | - | 11 | 17 |
| pop'n music CS | - | 23 | - | - | - | - |
| pop'n music 2 CS | - | 23 | - | - | - | - |
| pop'n music 3 CS | - | - | ※23 | - | - | - |
| pop'n music 6 CS | - | 11 | 17 | - | - | - |
※ The notecount of this HYPER chart is different from its later appearances. (total notes: 350)