Himiko

Song Connections/Remixes

卑弥呼 is the sole ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song from beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS's Empress Place section.
As it was the case with the ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE songs since beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY, the arcade LED marquee displays a special message when 卑弥呼 is played as ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE: **"WELCOME TO MY COUNTRY 'YAMATAIKOKU'". This is a reference to Himiko's origin.

Originally, this was misspelled as "WELCOME TO MY CONTRY 'YAMATAIKOKU'". This was fixed in the January 6th, 2009 update.

According to the game files, the name of the golden creature appearing in 卑弥呼's overlays is Orochi. In Japanese mythology, Orochi is an 8-headed and 8-tailed dragon slain by the Shinto god Susanoo.
卑弥呼's genre, ESOTERIC SPEEDCORE, has no connections with the speedcore genre. Instead, it is a play on Ganymede's genre, ESOTERIC SLOWCORE.
This song is Yoshitaka Nishimura and Jun Wakita's first collaboration in the entirety of BEMANI.
- It is also the first and only collaboration between two CARDINAL GATE artists from beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD.
- It is also the first song under Yoshitaka's 朱雀 alias that is not linked to the story of Vanessa de Verdet.
Comments relating to the gameplay video featuring 卑弥呼, mostly saying "Himiko? F**K THAT S**T! PABST BLUE RIBBON!", are an offensive inside joke. This quote after Himiko is a reference to a scene from Blue Velvet.

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