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Wily Beast and Weakest Creature (2019)

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I made this a while while back and i just had the sudden urge to actually upload this, anyways i'll talk about this song


So once upon a time i got bored and thought i'd browse through more touhou songs since i was really into it at the time and found this. Cinderella Cage is a song commonly associated with Tewi Inaba from Imperishable Night, it's a stage theme. When i heard this song originally it was something special. The intro sequence sounds like you entering the bamboo forest for the first time and since it's your first time you're most likely going to be scared or feel something amiss. That's probably why the intro sounds like that. When you get to the main bit the song becomes faster and it feels like a chase. From there it's that usual arpeggio stuff ZUN likes to use as it slowly takes over and everything feels in place, good setup for the main melody.


Alright, the main melody here is so good i absolutely love it. It sounds very traditional and it has that pinch of darkness. It feels so happy but something feels wrong. That ending part before it repeats the melody with that tremolo placed right at the end bit but for a short period of time so it gives that trumpet some space to breath before looping adds so much. That entire bit at the end sounds so good it's like a fanfare for an already good melody. My god.


Overall i think the structure of the song fits really well with the melody used, it just works.


Also thank you to kal for making this illustration, even though he doesn't drw anymore you should just check out his work since it's amazing. Also he is just a cool dude (i want to put in inside joke here but im too busy sexting since it's the next best thing)



Song: Cinderella Cage
Game: Touhou ~ Imperishable Night (Stage 5 Theme)
Original Composer: ZUN
Arrangement: Salted
Illustration: @kal_is_trying (Instagram)

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