Bathroom romance

バスルーム ロマンス

Song Information

Artist: BEMANI Sound Team "Saori Watanabe"
Composition: Theodor Oesten
Arrangement: Konami Amusement (Saori Watanabe)
BPM: 155
Length: 1:59
Genre: CLASSIC MOTIF
Movie: yama_ko (overlays by BEMANI Designers)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• バスルーム ロマンス is a remix of Theodor Oesten's Dolly's Dreaming and Awakening.
  • A piano arrangement of Dolly's Dreaming and Awakening, titled 人形の夢と目覚め, appears in ノスタルジア Op.3.
  • Another arrangement of Dolly's Dreaming and Awakening by Waldeus von Dövjak can be found as part of Doll's sight, from pop'n music 10 CS.
  • Dolly's Dreaming and Awakening is also the source of the notification sound of the NORITZ gas water heater, which the title likely refers to.

Trivia

バスルーム ロマンス's title card.

• バスルーム ロマンス is one of the unlocks of beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS' Gekisou! Cannon racer (激走！キャノンレーサー) event. Each of its difficulties can be unlocked from March 1st, 2018 by reaching a checkpoint.
  • From February 7th, 2019, its charts can be purchased in beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage via Tenshi no madousho (天使の魔導書).
  • From beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE onwards, it is available by default.
• Saori Watanabe is speculated to be an alias of Takayuki Ishikawa, due to the synths sounding similar to the ones in his Risk Junk and Cuvelia songs.
  • Curiously, the Saori Watanabe name was first used on MEG's heritage album for the remix of 時のK-City [1].
• minoru is uncredited on the official CANNON BALLERS website page for バスルーム ロマンス's overlays.
  • It also marks their first contribution to beatmania IIDX.
• バスルーム ロマンス's charts were likely made by Tomoyuki Uchida, as Saori Watanabe mentions on the song comments that "○ッチー" made the charts.
• バスルーム ロマンス is available in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020) as part of the beatmania IIDX INFINITAS Music Pack vol.15 (beatmania IIDX INFINITAS 楽曲パック vol.15).

Song Production Information

BEMANI Sound Team "Saori Watanabe"

Nice to meet you, rookie Saori Watanabe here. Please, remember my name ＜(＿ ＿)＞
This time, I can use my arrangement of the famous "Dolly's Dreaming and Awakening" by Oesten in beatmania IIDX, then BEMANI Sound Team's senior L said "Think of the song title and artist name".
Although I decided that the name of the song would be "Bathroom romance" when I was working on it, the artist name was a bit ... At that time I was extremely shocked, worried a little, somehow, thinking about it now.
I cannot think about that now, so whatever the name is! I thought.
Because I'm myself, and a song I make is one I make. So, if you listen to the sounds, everybody will know.

So, I borrowed the name of a university classmate.
Saori is very cute, tall, and has a good style, I've been to a famous magazine for my introduction, and I was called the ○○ University's Harumi Inoue.
Talking about Harumi Inoue, that was a pretty good year for accomplishments.
Around that time, I noticed that there are many pretty girls with a Watanabe surname.
Nakamura and Takahashi are also pretty, but after all I think that Watanabe is the best.
"......!!"
I almost have no time to talk about the song while I was talking about other stories....
Please let me say one thing. When I was talking on LINE with ○cchie, who was charge of the charts, he "laughed out loud" early in New Year, so I was convinced that my aim wasn't wrong.
I'm sorry, I won't come back.
Please forgive me. To everyone, I'll guarantee you. From the bathroom, with love.

Video Production Information

BEMANI Designers

This is my first participation in IIDX.
It's a bright, fun, and familiar melody, but with a fresh take, making an exciting fun song.
I want to have a bathroom life like this... Bathing is nice, right...?
It would be great if you have a fun time with this song.
Have a good bath time~!

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	-	492	744	1228	-	494	752	1204	-
beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS→Present	-	5	8	10	-	5	8	10	-
beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE	-	5	8	10	-	-	-	-	-
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020)	-	5	8	10	-	5	8	10	-