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Taish Roman (song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Taish Roman
| cover = Yoasobi - Taisho Roman.jpeg
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| type = single
| artist = Yoasobi
| EP = The Book 2
| language = Japanese
| English_title = "Romance"
| released =
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre = J-pop
| length = 2:48
| label = Sony Japan
| writer = Ayase
| producer = Ayase
| prev_title = Loveletter
| prev_year = 2021
| next_title = Tsubame
| next_year = 2021
| misc =
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is a song recorded by Japanese duo Yoasobi. It was released as a stand-alone digital single on September 15, 2021, through Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Written by Ayase, a member of the duo, the song was based on Natsumi's novel 'Taish Romance', about a romance of two people who came from different periods that contact via pen pal. Commercially, the song peaked at number two on the 'Billboard' Japan Hot 100, and number five on the Oricon Combined Singles Chart.
Background and release
On July 20, 2020, Monogatary.com, a novel website operated by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, announced a novel contest , for selecting a novel to publish as a book by Futabasha and write a song by Yoasobi. A won novel was announced on October 30, titled , which was written by Natsumi, from the total of 2,086 novels. The story is about Tokito, a boy who live in Reiwa period accidentally received a letter from Chiyoko, a girl from Taish period, who later became a pen pal and developed a romance.
On August 9, 2021, at YouTube live streaming, 'Online Live Viewing Event "Yoasobi Hanseikai"', the duo announced to adapt the award-winning novel 'Taish Romance' to produce a new song titled "Taish Roman" with changing a word from in katakana to in kanji instead of the original on September 15, and publish the book of the same new title on the following day, September 16. The song was teased and featured as a main theme of Yoasobi's exhibition, titled Semiconductors Create New Realities, at Sony Park Exhibition, which was held at Ginza Sony Park. "Taish Roman" officially released on September 15 to digital music and streaming platforms. Later, the song was included on their second EP 'The Book 2', released on December 1.
Composition and lyrics
of the Taish era.
"Taish Roman" was written by Ayase, a member, and producer of Yoasobi, and composed in the key of C major, 130 beats per minute with a running time of 2 minutes and 48 seconds. It is described as a "bittersweet" song with "hooked" piano sound. Valerie Valdez from 'The Honey Pop' said the song is "produce[d] music that gives off the feeling of going through time."
Lyrically, like the based novel, "Taish Roman" tells a time-lapse romance of two people who span over a hundred years. A boy in present Reiwa period accidentally received a letter written by a girl in Taish period, 100 years ago. He fell in love with her and would like to meet her, but he could not because of the time difference. The boy learned that the girl was in a period of disaster (1923 Great Kant earthquake) and wrote to warn her, but she did not reply after that. The girl's letter was sent to him later, described by the boy as "the last love letter". He regarded the letters as proof that girls are alive in her time and are determined to one day convey to her the experience of their own time.
Commercial performance
In Japan's Oricon charts, "Taish Roman" debuted at number 7 and peaked at number 5 on the Combined Singles Chart. The song also debuted atop the Digital Singles (Single Track) Chart, selling 32,022 download units, becoming the eighth number-one song of the chart. For 'Billboard Japan', the song debuted at number two on the Japan Hot 100, behind only Kis-My-Ft2's "Fear", selling 28,042 download units (number one on the Download Songs), and with 4,045,151 steams (number 20 on the Streaming Songs) in first week. The song also entered number 105, and 42 on the 'Billboard' Global 200, and Global Excl. US charts of October 2, respectively.
Music video
An accompanying music video of "Taish Roman" was premiered on September 16, 2021. The duo released a teaser video of the song on September 13, showing Ikura's voice reading a passages from the based novel 'Taish Romance'. For the music video, the characters were designed by Eisaku Kubonouchi, artwork was handled by Shinji Kimura, and collaborated with NTT Docomo's new project Quadratic Playground. The virtual reality music video, created by Quadratic Playground, was released on October 26.
Synopsis
The "Taish Roman" music video begins with a vivid background, showing Tokito, a boy who wears contemporary clothes, and Chiyoko, a girl who wears Taish-era kimono, reading a letter with a showy background of kimono pattern, clocks, and household electric appliances flying past behind them. Then, they read it on the street in their era, Reiwa, and Taish. The background is changed between a modern railway carriage switch and a wood-paneled railway carriage, shown they read a letter in the end.
After that, Tokito turns around to see the giant clock pointing to 11:58 in the background, which is the time that the Great Kant earthquake occurred. Suddenly, he runs across the showy background and throws a letter into the door being close. Later, he walks crestfallenly, showing the black lyrics on white background. The door opened to show the letter is sent to Chiyoko. She read it and run to throw her reply letter sent to him. He reads the letter while standing on the hour hand of a clock and meet Chiyoko, which stands on the minute hand. Finally, the pair runs towards each other and embraces, but as quickly, the music video ended up with Chiyoko fading from an explosion of light.
Live performance
Yoasobi performed "Taish Roman" for the first time, alongside "Loveletter", and "Tsubame" at NHK's music show 'Songs' on December 2, 2021.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from 'The Book 2' liner notes and YouTube.
'Song'
* Ayase producer, songwriter
* Ikura vocals
* Natsumi based story writer
* Takayuki Sait vocal recording
* Masahiko Fukui mixing
'Music video'
* Yusuke Takase director, storyboard, worldview design
* Eisaku Kubonouchi character design
* Yasuhiro Nakura key animation director, key animation
* Shinji Kimura art director
* Yki Hirakawa worldview CG director
* Kohta Morie character CG director
* Rysuke Suzuki animation producer
* Toshihiko Sakata CG producer
* Shaft animation work
* Shin'ya Nishizawa key animation
* Kumiko Kawashima key animation
* Ygo hashi key animation
* Riku Honda key animation
* Yri Ichinose key animation
* Asami Ueno 2nd key animation
* Yichir tani 2nd key animation
* Ry Shimura 2nd key animation
* Daniella Padijika animator
* Shino Yamada animator
* Xu Jingyuan animator
* Xu Youzhen animator
* Momoka Uchida animator
* Sakura Funayama animator
* Yang Zhikai animator
* Yumena Tokutome animator
* Shintar Kawakami animator
* Moemi Sakurai animator
* Sachika Mori animator
* Huang Minchun animator
* Tsuguhisa Furukawa animator
* Tomoko Murakami animator
* Miki Matsudo animator
* Rina Takenawa animator
* Kaho Katsuya in-between animation inspection
* Yasuko Watanabe color design, colorist, inspection
* Fumi Hattori animation clean-up
* Yko Kawakami animation clean-up
* Onba Hayashi animation clean-up
* Michiko Kado animation clean-up
* Takayuki Aizu cell composite
* +Ring
** Kenta Katsuno worldview CG work
** Ayaka Yamaguchi worldview CG work
** Tsukasa Iwaki worldview CG work
** Daiki Miura worldview CG work
** Akiho Yamada worldview CG work
* Lipogram
** Miy Kimura worldview CG work
** Azuma Takuya worldview CG work
** Natsumi Kat worldview CG work
* Modeling Bros
** Shunsuke Imaizumi worldview CG work
** Y Minoura worldview CG work
** Shunsuke Nakaj worldview CG work
** Kaede Kurodo worldview CG work
** Kaho Naruo worldview CG work
* Freelance
** Yasuhito Matsuura worldview CG work
** Satoshi Mitobe worldview CG work
* Morie Inc.
** Takehiro Shibano character CG work
** Naoto Tomita character CG work
** Marie Shirai character CG work
** Masato Tajima character CG work
** Katsura Kidera character CG work
** Ketsu Ogawa character CG work
** Shin'ya Sugawara character CG work
** Ayko Kitaoka character CG work
** Kento Sakai character CG work
** Ry Tanbara character CG work
** Ktar Azuma character CG work
** Ysuke no character CG work
* Hayato Kanayama (Transistor Studio) character CG work
* Ken'ichi Sasaki online editing
* Takumi Kud online editing
* Hatch Inc.
** Ryichir Honma producer
** Seifu Kuroda producer
** Tatsuya Maekawa producer
* Sadanori Maeda text design
* Feng Hao production manager
* Kiwa Harada production manager
* Graphinica
** Nao Hirasawa animation work cooperation
** tsuka Miy animation work cooperation
* Ludens
** Akatsuki Watabe previs work
** Natsumi Ogino previs work
** Akihiro Sat previs work
** Masashi Ueno previs work
** Ry Shimizu previs work
** Satoshi Makita previs work
** Yoshiaki Ishigaya previs work
* Rytar Hidaka (Starbase Inc.) creative director
* Hiroki Aonuma (Starbase Inc.) creative producer
* Quadratic Playground by NTT Docomo, Inc. production
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
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References
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