Koujou melancholy

荒城メランコリー

Song Information

荒城メランコリー's pop'n music banner.

Artist: 劇団レコード feat.Mille Face
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics/Guitar/Charango/Mandolin: Tomoaki Hirono
Vocals: mikarin
Quena: Yasuyuki Shimizu
BPM: 150
Length: 2:04
pop'n music Genre: TRADITIONAL ROOTS (トラディショナルルーツ)
pop'n music Character: Castle [20]
pop'n CG design: Cheloniidae (design), ちっひ (animations)
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music 20 fantasia
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

Japanese

砂の海に浮かぶ朽ちた荒城
最後の灯火さえ　虚空の彼方

憶えば幾つもの季節があった
残された城壁は　何も語らない

森源郷は戦火へと
神話は藻屑となり
誰がために・・・
眩き瞳は何処へ

眠れ　帰らぬ日々よ　幾千の歴史超えて
廻れ　生命の息吹　いつか出会う暁まで

Song Connections / Remixes

None.

Trivia

• 荒城メランコリー was available in pop'n music 20 fantasia's INTERNET RANKING category during Week 3 of INTERNET RANKING #1 (January 18th to 25th, 2012).
  • As of February 15th, 2012, it is available by default.
• 荒城メランコリー is one of the songs part of the Kimi mo★ pop'n character designer! (キミも★ポップンキャラクターデザイナー！) contest.
  • The winner was announced on December 21st, 2011; Castle, designed by Cheloniidae. Their pop'n music animations were done by ちっひ.
• Cheloniidae's character comments is one of the few that is written on both Japanese and Korean.
• Mimi and Nyami make cameos on Castle's Lose animation.
• A 3P palette for Castle is available for inputting the code found at the back of the pop'n music card PF20R002/016. The code must be inputted at the final e-AMUSEMENT screen, where your already unlocked Secret Characters are shown.
  • From pop'n music éclale onwards, this 3P palette is available by default.
• 荒城メランコリー marks the first song composed by Tomoaki Hirono that he wrote the lyrics for himself.
• 荒城メランコリー received an EASY chart in pop'n music Sunny Park, replacing its old 5-Buttons chart. This chart has the same notecount as the 5-Buttons chart, but it uses seven buttons instead of five.

Music Comment

Untranslated.

Song Production Information

Untranslated.

Character Information

Name: Castle.
Birthday: June 9th.
Birthplace: Sand country.
Hobby: Building sand castles. Enjoying everyday life.
Likes: Peace. Wood. Sand castles.
Dislikes: War. Water. Tears.

Difficulty & Notecounts

pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards. (Ratings obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

Game	Normal Mode				Battle Mode
	EASY	NORMAL	HYPER	EX	NORMAL	HYPER
Notecounts	199	324	637	1020	198	324
pop'n music 20 fantasia	14	18	30	37	18	22
pop'n music Sunny Park→Present	※12	24	36	43	18	22

※ The notecount of this chart is different from the old 5-Buttons chart (total notes: 199).