Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Hakurei Shrine~ => Touhou Addict Recovery Center => Topic started by: gilde on October 07, 2016, 04:28:51 AM
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Kuroha (aka Crystalwings), the composer for the fangame Marine Benefit, released a series of songs (http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/crystalwings6/48913082.html) last year in the style of a game soundtrack. There's over a dozen songs total (some original, some unique remixes of songs from MB), as well as a short fanfic called "Servants of the Feast" that they wrote to accompany the music series. Both the music and the story were released in parts; the first and last sections were separated by about 6 months in total.
Track list:
1. Servants of the Feast (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc111385)
2. Dragon Palace's Entrance (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc111422)
3. Dancing Girls of Water ~ Innocent fort (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc111524)
4. Little Havfrue (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc111618)
5. An Awkward Honoured Welcome ~ Childish service (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc111753)
6. The Front & Back Maidens at the Gate (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc111761)
7. Niger Tempestus (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc111827)
8. Beyond the Curtain of the Dragon Palace Reception (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc116284)
9. The "Misty Karen"-esque Deep Sea Girl (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc116477)
10. The Room of Otohime and Maihime ~ 1 (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc116551)
11. Dance With the Deep Sea's Rain ~ Dance of fascination (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc116668)
12. The Room of Otohime and Maihime ~ 2 (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc116825)
13. Ten-Colored Flowers of Hana-nishiki ~ Submarine Benefit (http://commons.nicovideo.jp/material/nc116916)
It's A Pretty Good Music if you ask me!! And I wanted more people to know about it so I made this thread, and also, translated the accompanying story, because.
The first 3 stages' worth of tracks were released in May 2015, and the following 3 stages' worth were released in August 2015. Each track can be downloaded from its individual Nicovideo Commons page as long as you have a Nicovideo account to log in with. Getting them all one by one might be awkward, though, so I also made a batch download on OneDrive (https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ap-8B8IIYBjNcVHIcUnft4gttPQ). Hope it works!
Links to the accompanying story in Japanese:
Part 1-1 (Stage 1) (http://ch.nicovideo.jp/crystalwings_Arts/blomaga/ar783108) - Part 1-2 (Stage 2) (http://ch.nicovideo.jp/crystalwings_Arts/blomaga/ar784190) - Part 1-3 (Stage 3) (http://ch.nicovideo.jp/crystalwings_Arts/blomaga/ar787671) - Part 2-1 (Stage 4) (http://ch.nicovideo.jp/crystalwings_Arts/blomaga/ar790970) - Part 2-2 (Stage 5) (http://ch.nicovideo.jp/crystalwings_Arts/blomaga/ar844615) - Part 2-3 (Stage 6) (http://ch.nicovideo.jp/crystalwings_Arts/blomaga/ar849106) - Ending (Exc.) (http://ch.nicovideo.jp/crystalwings_Arts/blomaga/ar849228)
Link to Tumblr blog where I posted my English translation of the story. (http://kaikeidou-backstage.tumblr.com/) (I feel like it's still kind of unpolished compared to other translations I've been doing lately, but whatever I want people to hear them musics already)
edit: Also, Kuroha's Soundcloud account (https://soundcloud.com/cystalwings_arts) has a lot of cool music on it, both Touhou-style and various other genres. This (https://soundcloud.com/cystalwings_arts/bizarre-mirage) is the theme song for a story they posted on Twitter, where Kasumi fights a... particular character from Servants of the Feast, and this (https://soundcloud.com/cystalwings_arts/sea-of-stratagem) is one of the songs from another MB spinoff album that they have planned for summer 2017. So that's cool too.
edit 2 a month later: Fixed the dumb boner mistake I made putting Kuroha's name as "Kurohane" even though it says Kuroha right there in the Soundcloud profile. Files have been re-uploaded and links have been updated accordingly.
also it's been a month so i may as well explicitly mention that there is............ An Secret.............. hidden in the story........,,, perhaps something Extra??
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They this is all pretty great! Can't wait to listen to all of them and read the translation, thanks for sharing Gilde!
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It is a bit sad that there is no new game from him but new songs are always welcome :3