NOTES: * You could split the first era of taiko into 2, technically. So you'd have 4 in total. I covered only 3 because they're the ones with the most differences and also because... video length. * Nobody actually knows for sure how the kanji character for Ka came about. The scribble story *COULD* be correct, but that story isn't verified afaik. * I just realized I forgot to include the second conversation between don-chan and ka-chan for the second QR code (WHOOPS IM SORRY). It was almost the same as the first conversation, but here it is. Ka-chan: Another mysterious code?! Don-chan: It looks like it can be used all over the world from today onwards Don. Ka-chan: "Just hold it over the [code reader] on the game console, Kacchan!" Don-chan: “I’ll try using it right away, Don!” Don & Ka-chan "This is...!" After that, who saw the two of them? * The definition of polyrhythms in this video is simplified because... this isn't a music theory video. im not adam neely :( But for all intents and purposes that simplified definition will do for this video. Thank you guys for watching, put a lot of sweat and tears into trying to figure premiere out for this video. thank u guys for watching i need to go sleep i have a fever I LOVE YOU GUYS
Fun fact: the MV at the end has a hidden QR code too. By fixing the QR Code and scanning the Code it goes to the twitter website asking you to deactivate your account. Due to twitter changes though, it doesn't seem to work anymore.
@@Kirbyfan45 My theory is that due to the fact that there is a very overwhelming amount of time signatures and noise in the Song, the Girl in the MV could very much trying to escape yet is unable to due to a broken exit being a corrupted QR Code essentially being stuck forever as corrupted data since QR Codes could be considered a door or a gate to another place.
Just want to point out that "ka" is also the german shortform for "Keine Ahnung" which gets translated to "no idea" or "no clue" which is pretty fitting for that ghost kanji
This reminds me a lot of the crazy stunts the Muse Dash developers pull in their game. The crazy, weird and glitched charts are the ones I love the most by far.
I often think that Muse Dash and Taiko are the same kind of games, just read differently. I even think that Muse Dash is inspired by Taiko. > Taiko uses 2 type of notes, but shown on the same lane, meanwhile Muse Dash shows them on different lanes. > The charting also makes use of different notes appearing on different scroll speeds at the same time in higher difficulties as a gimmick. The only main difference in Muse Dash compared to Taiko, is that Muse Dash mostly treats it's gameplay as a platformer by having obstacles you need to avoid and things to collect. Meanwhile Taiko is basically a drumming rhythm game.
Yeah there's a few charts in Muse dash that have polyrhythms. On top of that it's been double layered in one of the recent previous april fools songs where the lanes had notes of different scroll speeds and had different rhythms to the bottom and upper lanes.
@@MasterYoshitaka Yeah, and there's a lot more that they do to keep the charts interesting. Rapidly flipping between visual themes, distorting the visuals, pausing and repeating the background scroll, replacing enemies, turning the screen black... Sometimes they even replace the gameplay mechanics themselves like with the secret Touhou danmaku mode. I've never seen so many surprises and Easter eggs in one rhythm game.
KA's Ura really reminded me of Donkama 2000, where players had a hard time hitting the notes due to them being at different speeds, sometimes even flying off the screen. KA is really one of the hardest songs ever that can take Donkama 2000 a run for its arcade points. And great video!👍
man, if this was made for the original gen of cabinets, it would definitely be a creepypasta. the different difficulty switch animation, the erratic and overlapping beats, even the lack of a name.
Imagine if some unknowing person was like “oh yeah this seems like fun!” and jumps back out of fear because of the effect from switching and jumps even farther from fear from the charting
No wonder it was so popular. I dont play Taiko no that much but loved LeaF so when it came out i thought it was a normal LeaF song, (beside the QR code at the end). Cool to see this!
As someone who knew nearly nothing about Taiko no Tatsujin before watching this video, *what did I just witness and how is this even possible* I'm so confused on how skilled Taiko players are. If you handed me a Taiko drum I'd probably only be decent on some of the easy songs 😕
5:48 complement It is said that this character was born from the lack of technology of printing newspapers I love your videos and TAIKO-no-TATSUJIN! from JAPAN
You don't have to apologize for corrections or what you feel is subpar narration or whatever else you think of. You're a great video essayist! Have confidence in your work!
I know this is a Taiko no Tatsujin video but I wanted to thank you anyway for helping me play Patapon 2 better. I haven't played a lot of different rhythm games so I was struggling with the minigames in Patapon 2 that don't have a lot of visual cues to play off of but after watching your video I remembered the "Dissecting the Difficulty" part, where you explained how Taiko players see notes, and with that tip on how to break down notes I was finally able to start perfecting the minigames that gave me the most trouble. Unrelated game, but I couldn't have done it without your rhythm game insight so once again: I sincerely thank you!
LeaF makes chaotic bangers. It's what she does. Mope Mope and Marenol are already mentioned and while they are nightmare fuel (Please do not watch Marenol's music video if you are at all sensitive to gore/graphic imagery. Like, there's plot reasons for the gore but it's also very graphic) but they also Slap Hard. Other Examples of LeaF's stuff that isn't as horrifying is Aleph 0, Doppelganger, and Calamity Fortune, though a lot of the music videos have fast, glitchy graphics that warrant a Flashing Lights warning)
i've been looking for a video of this being played since I first heard about ka! i've never been into taiko so i had no idea about all of the little quirks, so this is super cool to see!!
The April Fool’s 2021 QR Code is now expired (or at least it doesn’t work for me) but the April Fool’s 2022 QR Code still works. So to unlock it you need to scan the April Fool’s 2022 QR code which unlocks Ka in all difficulty including Ura Oni.
Thanks for making this video about explaining this mysterious and most weirdest song I ever played, I wouldn't know about this without you, Keep up the good work for making more taiko contents
It really felt like this was building up to something really creepy, or a really cool, like it had a story to tell, and the it just... doesn't. And that makes it even more of an enigma to me.
im not 100% sure either, but that might be the chinese pronunciation of 彁 (possibly. either that or google translate is being dum) 哥 in chinese is gē, so it might be related... maybe
Wait… this guy made a taiko song AND a song used in one of the most if not the most infamous horror level in all of geometry dash? HOLY SHIT IM INTERESTED
Thanks for reminding me yet again that arcades don't exist in my home country, as they were illegal until 2003 and nobody here wants to go outside and meet other people who enjoy skill-based videogames as well as music.
@@CoffeeBnuuy I have no clue. Why did the ministry of transport decide to turn the nationalized railway agency into a profit-driven company with assets 100% owned by the state and no competition? This place is full of mysteries.
nice vid! but just for future notes, please pay attention to the sound levels between your voice and the song itself. i found myself having to adjust the volume multiple times throughout the video. i think your vocal isnt loud enough? but the vid itself is nice! ❤
This is one of the most bizarre things ive ever seen, with nonsensical notions of rhythm, a chaotic, fragmented and disjointed song seemingly made by an ai that has no idea what music theory is, let alone structure
"upgraded" CRT's are better than every LCD screen and are comparable to modern OLEDS while still having HIGH refresh rates just due to the analog display. For example 60hz on a CRT looks like 80hz and you can easily overclock the displays with no extra ghosting.
one chart that gives me nightmares cause of polyrhythms from a rhythm game is Chronostasis from Phigros. (istg that short section single handedly stopped me from getting rrhar'il IN for like 6 months)
4:3 polyrhythm (4 dons vs 3 kas) is actually a pretty dominant part of Donkama 2000, if you can play that polyrhythm you basically can clear Donkama 2000 on Hard.
I know jack shit about taiko no tatsujin but the song fits in the experimental form and how the drums are structured can fit into drum jazz like Caravan and The Century Project.
6:19 This is the conversation. Kacchan: “Another mysterious code!?” Don-chan: “From today onwards, Don can be used all over the world forever. …And it looks like this year is a little different, Don.” Kacchan: “I’ll try holding it over the game console’s [code reader] right away!” Don & Katsu: “T-This is...!” After that, who saw the two of them together? uh i used google translate so
The vid ends abruptly, like there's no conclusion Was ka just a April fools joke? Does the MV or the vocals tell a story? What's leafs statement on the song?
I don't know if anyone kind of understands this but I think some rhythm games know LeaF because of particular songs. Project Sekai knows LeaF by MopeMope and Taiko knows LeaF by Ka lol
NOTES:
* You could split the first era of taiko into 2, technically. So you'd have 4 in total. I covered only 3 because they're the ones with the most differences and also because... video length.
* Nobody actually knows for sure how the kanji character for Ka came about. The scribble story *COULD* be correct, but that story isn't verified afaik.
* I just realized I forgot to include the second conversation between don-chan and ka-chan for the second QR code (WHOOPS IM SORRY). It was almost the same as the first conversation, but here it is.
Ka-chan: Another mysterious code?!
Don-chan: It looks like it can be used all over the world from today onwards Don.
Ka-chan: "Just hold it over the [code reader] on the game console, Kacchan!"
Don-chan: “I’ll try using it right away, Don!”
Don & Ka-chan "This is...!"
After that, who saw the two of them?
* The definition of polyrhythms in this video is simplified because... this isn't a music theory video. im not adam neely :(
But for all intents and purposes that simplified definition will do for this video.
Thank you guys for watching, put a lot of sweat and tears into trying to figure premiere out for this video. thank u guys for watching i need to go sleep i have a fever I LOVE YOU GUYS
how do you even edit this
personally apart from the taiko gens (i thought there was 4 of them...) you did a solid job!!
Omg theres a story for yuurei moji ka!?
Fun fact: the MV at the end has a hidden QR code too. By fixing the QR Code and scanning the Code it goes to the twitter website asking you to deactivate your account. Due to twitter changes though, it doesn't seem to work anymore.
WAIT WHAT. WHY!?
LeaF here be giving humanity a favor by making them leave twitter lol
@@Kirbyfan45technically they would be doing everyone a favor by killing off Twitter.
@@huh0123 TRULY THE COMEDIC MOVE
@@Kirbyfan45 My theory is that due to the fact that there is a very overwhelming amount of time signatures and noise in the Song, the Girl in the MV could very much trying to escape yet is unable to due to a broken exit being a corrupted QR Code essentially being stuck forever as corrupted data since QR Codes could be considered a door or a gate to another place.
Seeing leaF alone already explains its difficulty
aleph zero ptsd
@@ZesTofthelemon i knew i had seen that name before
@@ZesTofthelemonlook at the level in gd, the song is always impossibly hard
@@ZesTofthelemon heavensdoor for me
Just want to point out that "ka" is also the german shortform for "Keine Ahnung" which gets translated to "no idea" or "no clue" which is pretty fitting for that ghost kanji
i wish we had an english abbreviation for no idea that people wouldn't say "what does ni mean" to every time
@@jordy9606 "idk" exist
@@janmagtoast UR RIGHT oh my god!
@@jordy9606 XD
And just like that, I am no longer a german failure to my father. :DDDDDD
"what if an entire song was a polyrhythm?"
FEAR. TERROR EVEN.
Right?!
This reminds me a lot of the crazy stunts the Muse Dash developers pull in their game. The crazy, weird and glitched charts are the ones I love the most by far.
I often think that Muse Dash and Taiko are the same kind of games, just read differently. I even think that Muse Dash is inspired by Taiko.
> Taiko uses 2 type of notes, but shown on the same lane, meanwhile Muse Dash shows them on different lanes.
> The charting also makes use of different notes appearing on different scroll speeds at the same time in higher difficulties as a gimmick.
The only main difference in Muse Dash compared to Taiko, is that Muse Dash mostly treats it's gameplay as a platformer by having obstacles you need to avoid and things to collect. Meanwhile Taiko is basically a drumming rhythm game.
@@RenShinomiya121 Yeah, there's definitely an overlap in how they're played, aside from the long notes.
Yeah there's a few charts in Muse dash that have polyrhythms. On top of that it's been double layered in one of the recent previous april fools songs where the lanes had notes of different scroll speeds and had different rhythms to the bottom and upper lanes.
@@MasterYoshitaka Yeah, and there's a lot more that they do to keep the charts interesting. Rapidly flipping between visual themes, distorting the visuals, pausing and repeating the background scroll, replacing enemies, turning the screen black... Sometimes they even replace the gameplay mechanics themselves like with the secret Touhou danmaku mode. I've never seen so many surprises and Easter eggs in one rhythm game.
Which chart is that you talking about?
KA's Ura really reminded me of Donkama 2000, where players had a hard time hitting the notes due to them being at different speeds, sometimes even flying off the screen. KA is really one of the hardest songs ever that can take Donkama 2000 a run for its arcade points. And great video!👍
It reminded me of waraeru 2000 a lot, really random and an April fools song, also the insane freaking chart
man, if this was made for the original gen of cabinets, it would definitely be a creepypasta. the different difficulty switch animation, the erratic and overlapping beats, even the lack of a name.
Oh absolutely. I unironically love it when there's stuff in games that feel like irl creepypastas so this is more than up my alley.
but then don-chan appeared with hyper reallistic blood and then he chased me through the arcade to try and kill me.
Finally, now I can use this to explain to my friends why I'm so obsessed with this song.
It's a perfectly healthy obsession, trust me :')
That hidden demon effect is fucking terrifying to listen to
Imagine if some unknowing person was like “oh yeah this seems like fun!” and jumps back out of fear because of the effect from switching and jumps even farther from fear from the charting
No wonder it was so popular. I dont play Taiko no that much but loved LeaF so when it came out i thought it was a normal LeaF song, (beside the QR code at the end). Cool to see this!
the dons at the final drum hell part of the song is hella spot on. ear-piercing but rly satisfying
As someone who knew nearly nothing about Taiko no Tatsujin before watching this video, *what did I just witness and how is this even possible*
I'm so confused on how skilled Taiko players are. If you handed me a Taiko drum I'd probably only be decent on some of the easy songs 😕
Same :(
well that's Japan for you.
@@adameightynineeightynine Fair, I don't know what I expected
The international ports in question:
welcome to the world of rhythm games
Man this is why I love LeaF, such an incredible artist.
Also great video! super informative and entertaining.
the editing is truly chefs kiss :D. I need to start looking into crazy rhythm game stuff like this, they are getting more and more interesting.
5:48 complement It is said that this character was born from the lack of technology of printing newspapers
I love your videos and TAIKO-no-TATSUJIN! from JAPAN
Frums and LeaF could make good friends, and this proves it.
i think frums is the one that translated the marenol description when it came out
You don't have to apologize for corrections or what you feel is subpar narration or whatever else you think of. You're a great video essayist! Have confidence in your work!
I know this is a Taiko no Tatsujin video but I wanted to thank you anyway for helping me play Patapon 2 better. I haven't played a lot of different rhythm games so I was struggling with the minigames in Patapon 2 that don't have a lot of visual cues to play off of but after watching your video I remembered the "Dissecting the Difficulty" part, where you explained how Taiko players see notes, and with that tip on how to break down notes I was finally able to start perfecting the minigames that gave me the most trouble.
Unrelated game, but I couldn't have done it without your rhythm game insight so once again: I sincerely thank you!
I love this type of informative content, great video
why is it actually a banger tho. I'd unironically listen to this in my study playlist
Real, it slaps hard
@AkaneSakurai fr
LeaF makes chaotic bangers.
It's what she does.
Mope Mope and Marenol are already mentioned and while they are nightmare fuel (Please do not watch Marenol's music video if you are at all sensitive to gore/graphic imagery. Like, there's plot reasons for the gore but it's also very graphic) but they also Slap Hard.
Other Examples of LeaF's stuff that isn't as horrifying is Aleph 0, Doppelganger, and Calamity Fortune, though a lot of the music videos have fast, glitchy graphics that warrant a Flashing Lights warning)
good lord the hidden demon chart though-
That demon effect is crazy.
Also, the song kinda reminds me of something I’d hear on an oneohtrix point never album.
I just love how Taiko no Tatsujin on the surface is a fun, cheerful kids' rhythm game but then you dive a little deeper and you find THIS.
the 2000s song lyrics are DARK.
i've been looking for a video of this being played since I first heard about ka! i've never been into taiko so i had no idea about all of the little quirks, so this is super cool to see!!
4:03 the moment he mention LeaF, I knew this is song will be up to no good
「the language that 彊 or apparently ‘ka’ is in is either not on Apple devices or Apple doesnt even let you type ghost characters」
iirc the QR codes expired a while back and to unlock it now, you have to play with someone else who has already unlocked the song/chart
nah, you have to scan it before putting your banapass on the machine (for some strange reason)
The April Fool’s 2021 QR Code is now expired (or at least it doesn’t work for me) but the April Fool’s 2022 QR Code still works. So to unlock it you need to scan the April Fool’s 2022 QR code which unlocks Ka in all difficulty including Ura Oni.
always love me rhythm game video essays like this
Man , that hidden demon Effect is so fucking Terrifying to listen to ☠️
Charter: "Okay hidden demon, how much doom percussion do you want"
Hidden demon: "YES"
If “Ka” doesn’t mean anything and also doesn’t have a proper reason to why it exists, then it technically means “unknown nothing”
Thanks for making this video about explaining this mysterious and most weirdest song I ever played, I wouldn't know about this without you, Keep up the good work for making more taiko contents
omg ka lets go???
(edit) latios lets go?????
as a whole this video explained the song pretty well! good work as always
God syncopation in a rhythm game like in that hidden demon chart is actually evil what the hell
Fantastic analysis. Super interesting video.
I love this type of content. Thank you for your great video.!
i didnt know there were humans outside of japan talking about this song lol
It really felt like this was building up to something really creepy, or a really cool, like it had a story to tell, and the it just... doesn't.
And that makes it even more of an enigma to me.
As someone who’s only Taiko talent is from pop tap beat and rhythmic adventure, I can confirm Donkama2000 is the hardest.song.ever
The TRUE nightmare of every rhythm game player, even japanese ones.
For some reason, whenever I put 彁 into Google Translate, it pronounces it as "ge".
im not 100% sure either, but that might be the chinese pronunciation of 彁 (possibly. either that or google translate is being dum)
哥 in chinese is gē, so it might be related... maybe
@@tzechiyup, 彁 is pronounced gē in simplified Chinese
i dont know much of anything about taiko but these vids r a fun watch lol
Wait… this guy made a taiko song AND a song used in one of the most if not the most infamous horror level in all of geometry dash? HOLY SHIT IM INTERESTED
Level?
You mean Muse Dash?
@@PriffyViole no
@@PriffyViole no dude wtf is muse dash
@@PriffyViole You meant preaty much all Rythm games?
Thanks for reminding me yet again that arcades don't exist in my home country, as they were illegal until 2003 and nobody here wants to go outside and meet other people who enjoy skill-based videogames as well as music.
Why were arcades illegal???????
@@CoffeeBnuuy I have no clue. Why did the ministry of transport decide to turn the nationalized railway agency into a profit-driven company with assets 100% owned by the state and no competition? This place is full of mysteries.
the music video gives me strong madoka magica witch labyrinth vibes, especially stacey’s labyrinth
I saw you💅
I adore this song and all of LeaF’s songs, great video
nice vid! but just for future notes, please pay attention to the sound levels between your voice and the song itself. i found myself having to adjust the volume multiple times throughout the video. i think your vocal isnt loud enough? but the vid itself is nice! ❤
This is one of the most bizarre things ive ever seen, with nonsensical notions of rhythm, a chaotic, fragmented and disjointed song seemingly made by an ai that has no idea what music theory is, let alone structure
well its LeaF and hes well known of chaotic songs i think
its not ai, its experimental
@@wtf-why-do-we-have-handles-nowyep
To put it in the simplest way,
you're a one man band but you have to read all your notes on a single staff.
"upgraded" CRT's are better than every LCD screen and are comparable to modern OLEDS while still having HIGH refresh rates just due to the analog display. For example 60hz on a CRT looks like 80hz and you can easily overclock the displays with no extra ghosting.
3:26 "I don't know how to find voice a-"
I mean I could try, uh
2:19 that's the girl from koushin koinu idk the rest of the manga title, right? I really like this manga
one chart that gives me nightmares cause of polyrhythms from a rhythm game is Chronostasis from Phigros. (istg that short section single handedly stopped me from getting rrhar'il IN for like 6 months)
same
These taiko vids are so interesting. Best taiko channel out there
literally have never played this game but my jaw DROPPED when i saw the chart....
8:12 hits hard!
7:08 this is what my music sounds like when i listen to it the next day after falling asleep at 3 in the morning
13:07 my friend trying to sing something
Me with the drums
6:33 Jumpscare warning. 👻👻
Fun fact: if you play hidden demon on “ka” your hands and wrists will absolutly get destroyed
2:08 correction march 2020 to april 2027
4:3 polyrhythm (4 dons vs 3 kas) is actually a pretty dominant part of Donkama 2000, if you can play that polyrhythm you basically can clear Donkama 2000 on Hard.
I know jack shit about taiko no tatsujin but the song fits in the experimental form and how the drums are structured can fit into drum jazz like Caravan and The Century Project.
ahhh i love this style of video you do! 🩵
I SAW THIS AT A ARCADE PLACE YESTERDAY-
did the guy do good
@@Wack910 i think he broke the drumbs lol
finally someone talking about this song
1:38 YOU CAN MAKE REIMU IN TAIKO NO TATSUJIN?! :)
I play freaking the ensemble stars rhythm game on expert difficulty and i think i have like seven different panic attacks watching that gameplay
This song is fascinating, and really fun to listen to in a weird way.
6:19 This is the conversation.
Kacchan: “Another mysterious code!?”
Don-chan: “From today onwards, Don can be used all over the world forever.
…And it looks like this year is a little different, Don.”
Kacchan: “I’ll try holding it over the game console’s [code reader] right away!”
Don & Katsu: “T-This is...!”
After that, who saw the two of them together?
uh i used google translate so
I finally found your channel again 😭😭😭😭
ぼつでーた feels more like "scrapped/bad data" than "hidden data"
mannn i dont know what ka is this but. good video
私は彁が大好きなので彁について細かく解説してもらえてとても嬉しいです！
That hidden demon chart is absolutely insanely unsightreadable
1K likes!! well deserved, very complete vid
i see tzechi post i click
Don't you first plug your taiko drums, bind drum to click and then drum on the video like any normal tzechi viewer?
im broke
new tzechi video i wake
The vid ends abruptly, like there's no conclusion
Was ka just a April fools joke? Does the MV or the vocals tell a story?
What's leafs statement on the song?
If you see a tailo player with two hard objects, Run. Someone full combo’d this song on their first day.
"Wow, I just started playing taiko, I wonder what some of the harder maps look like"
OH GOD PLEASE MAKE IT STOP
0:09 how USA teaches music:
how is this even humanly possible to PLAY at that speed
6:34 Holy Shit.
NOW IMAGINE WAVETAPPER BY FRUMS IN TAIKO
there is "Yes'" in the link for this youtube video
Oh, you're the guy Tokaku talks about
Cool
YAAAAY VIDEO ESSAY ON KA
My eyes can't keep up 9:06
11:26 Holy f(ドン)king s(カッ)t.
I don't know if anyone kind of understands this but I think some rhythm games know LeaF because of particular songs. Project Sekai knows LeaF by MopeMope and Taiko knows LeaF by Ka lol
Yea I’m pretty sure that project sekai leaF by mopemope
not gonna lie i needed a taiko video rn
Too much crazy songs in taiko no tatsujin 😰
You should make a video about the 2023 visual novel prank
zechi da god with another banger
4:16
stay away from this creature.
Did tze have -jin named dan now
very cool video
May I ask if the QR codes still work?