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=== pop'n music === | === pop'n music === | ||
==== DJ TAKA ==== | |||
I personally like "Foundation Of Our Love" very much, as it's a song which fused club track trance elements with the cute world of pop'n music.<br> | |||
Due to circumstances, this time, I created the long size version first, then edited it to game size after, but two minutes really ended quickly, which was a bit disappointing.<br> | |||
Well, my first long mix, born from such circumstances, was created for DJs to easily play and connect songs with, so to every HOUSE DJ, excite the floor with this song!! | |||
==== ASAKO ==== | |||
When I first heard this song, it was very majestic and romantic, and I felt that the detailed daily-life styled lyrics didn't fit this at all.<br> | |||
The starry sky is a blue and beautiful earth. It's the joy of living as a human, not as a man or woman.<br> | |||
It's not valuable matter, but the flow of time. I wanted to paint such world. | |||
And when I sung this, these emotions weren't caught by anything, so I was naturally able to confront my soul surprisingly. | |||
I'm very grateful to this song now, for being able to encounter such moments. | |||
== Character Information == | == Character Information == | ||
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=== VJ GYO === | === VJ GYO === | ||
To all poppers, it's nice to meet you! My name is VJ GYO (aka, the long section guy).<br> | |||
Similar to dj TAKA, beatmaniaIIDX is my home ground... please get to know me! | |||
Well, I was dancing wildly when I received the offer for TRAN to appear, but for her to actually appear, tera, shio, and everyone on the pop'n team forced themselves to work very hard to make this happen. | |||
Problem 1) TRAN is a 3DCG character.<br> | |||
Problem 2) She doesn't have a mouth and black eyes. Her nose only looks a bit sharp~, and she has no facial expressions.<br> | |||
Problem 3) She has a strange shape, with a strangely large head, and strangely thin limbs.<br> | |||
(She's a brilliantly retro-futuristic and stereotypical alien...) | |||
To summarize, this was a difficult problem to solve, where I asked how to do this, "can we include her as a resident of the pop'n world without feeling out of place?". | |||
Solution 1) With the reason that it's TRAN from another world, I was fascinated by tera's friendly, cheerful, and cute arrangement, like an anime character catered to toddlers these days!<br> | |||
Solution 2) Retaining her unnatural image, I was fascinated by shio's atmospheric and contemporary interpretation by reshaping her to be simple & modern, like an anime character from the 60's!<br> | |||
They're both wonderfully good!! And VJ GYO, who's just a carefree and useless human, is absolutely impressed...<br> | |||
After that, the entire team had a full blown heated discussion...<br> | |||
(Although it was just before the production was up... I'm very grateful, no, I'm sorry for this story) | |||
Then, after the character was decided, shio did the image illustrations, and tera drew each of the animations based on the 3DCG animations that I created.<br> | |||
Even though it became a super forced schedule, I admired their efforts!<br> | |||
This song is difficult, and I couldn't clear it at all, but these days, I'm smiling while playing and watching at various arcades. | |||
Although she caused a bit of an uproar, TRAN was treated as a super V.I.P "stranger".<br> | |||
However, her true intention is to be treated as a casual and normal friend, filled with feelings that she wants to enter the portal to the pop'n world.<br> | |||
...As drawn on the pop'n music6 poster...<br> | |||
(When I first saw this poster at a certain arcade, it sincerely moved me. ... I want it!). | |||
To all poppers, to all the pop'n team, thank you very much from now on. | |||
=== tera === | === tera === | ||
This character was still able to appear. I would like to take this opportunity to thank VJ GYO as the creator who readily consented, & all the 2DX team!<br> | |||
About the animation production, I tried a bit of an interesting process, where all the actions were created by GYO as a 3D movie, and I traced the flat drawings on a frame, which was naturally the first attempt in pop'n. Despite my prediction that it would be easy, it was quite hard work, so I intended to create her by fixing her proportions and interruptions, while being directed to remove much of her unnaturalness, but..., I was showered with "boo-hoo" and ridiculed by the team saying "it looks a bit different" until the end, and as a naïve and unexpected animator, this was my limit.... | |||
=== shio === | === shio === | ||
I heard that dj TAKA will provide us with a trance song this time, so I nervously approached the IIDX team and said, "if, if that's the case, we'll have TRAN", but tera also requested this, so I'm really grateful for their consent! In particular, I'm repeatedly thankful to VJ GYO for his huge cooperation! I'm sorry for ending your valuable holiday after completing it. And thanks for your contribution! | |||
Well, TRAN is already a popular character in IIDX, so I didn't want to destroy the IIDX fan's image of her, but it didn't make sense to not do a pop'n remix! So I thought with tera about various directions to take this. So from IIDX to pop'n, from 3D to 2D, how do you feel about TRAN crossing over to a different dimension? tera and I are happy that TRAN's charm remains while feeling that she's from another world. I retouched her illustration with a pop'n styled-touch, and I was surprised that TRAN's body proportions were taller than I thought. I thought she was somehow a bit smaller. | |||
And to those who knew about TRAN for the first time in pop'n, by all means, [https://web.archive.org/web/20161106232849/http://www.konami.jp/am/bm2dx/bm2dx5/ check her out here!] | |||
== Video Production Information == | == Video Production Information == | ||
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The past dj TAKA produced a heartbreaking, beautiful, and inspiring song, while ASAKO's singing voice doubled its powerful and kind emotions.<br> | The past dj TAKA produced a heartbreaking, beautiful, and inspiring song, while ASAKO's singing voice doubled its powerful and kind emotions.<br> | ||
Those who heard this after a long time... or those who heard this for the first time... what kinds of thoughts does this song bring to your mind? | Those who heard this after a long time... or those who heard this for the first time... what kinds of thoughts does this song bring to your mind? | ||
== Staff Comments == | |||
=== [[Hajime Saito|saito]] === | |||
This is dj TAKA's second participation in pop'n following [[ULTRA HIGH-HEELS~I JUST WANNA TELL YOU|PARA PARA]].<br> | |||
Please participate more in the future, yes, ok, thank you>a monolog. | |||
=== tama === | |||
In [[AC pnm 5|pop'n 5]], I was assigned with the HYPER chart for [[Nishishinjuku seisou kyoku|PERCUSSIVE]], and this time, I was assigned with the HYPER chart for this song until development finished. When I first played this, I had two left to clear, so I felt that I could do it, but for some reason, the more I played, the less gauge I had, so now I only have three gauges remaining. While I wondered why, [[Jun Wakita|wac]] calmly cleared it. It's frustrating. | |||
=== [[Kiyotaka Sugimoto|Simonman]] === | |||
I actually had dj TAKA prepare another song before this, but due to the difference in direction this time, I was crying to death. But TRANCE was quite tough and deep, so perhaps you can hear it in the next series? | |||
=== wac === | |||
[[AC 5th style|IIDX5thstyle]] was barely completed, and a languid, exhausted, and completely Saipan-filled TAKA created this "calm", "quiet", "flattering", and "exciting" song. Eventually, if we combined the songs we didn't use in popn6, the total length will be over 12 minutes, which is awkward. Ehehe. Sorry. It's not good to say that it's cute. That's why this song was recorded last out of the original songs. The vocal recording was delayed and it was included in the cabinet really close the time limit.<br> | |||
I felt paranoid and thought about getting revenge on another certain game. | |||
=== ShimaQ === | |||
There are a lot of strange characters this time, right (?) | |||
=== tera === | |||
Kyukokyuko, pop'n has become 2DX.<br> | |||
What is with djTAKA. | |||
=== [[Megumi Kohayakawa|Piu:KOHA]] === | |||
I really like the PARA PARA song (Oh, it was originally in IIDX), but this song here is also nice~! It's really beautiful.<br> | |||
I feel like I properly saw TRAN again this time. I also thought her body proportions were a bit smaller. | |||
=== shio === | |||
While creating cutting edge club music in a friendly pop'n music style, I'm even more impressed by dj TAKA's ability to make a fun game. The NORMAL chart changed from the difficult HYPER chart as expected.... But it's still exquisite and difficult to maintain the illusion that it can be cleared in a bit halfway through playing. I'm a TRANCE H member too. | |||
== Difficulty & Notecounts == | == Difficulty & Notecounts == | ||