This article focuses on the jubeat knit APPEND/REFLEC BEAT song, FLOWER. If you are looking for the DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA song, see 華爛漫 -Flowers-, or the Pop'n Music 2 CS character, see Flower (character).
FLOWER is a song that debuted in both jubeat knit APPEND and REFLEC BEAT. The song became one of the most popular songs in BEMANI, gaining so many remixes, rearrangements, and other video game appearances. FLOWER was first made playable in the pop'n music Sunny Park Location Tests as a hidden song, and shortly after, in pop'n music 20 fantasia as part of the Pop'n & REFLEC Douji Location Test Kinen Event (pop'n & REFLEC同時ロケテスト記念イベント?).
In the final release of pop'n music Sunny Park, FLOWER gained an all-new EASY chart, before it was re-rated in pop'n music éclale on March 22, 2016.
FLOWER received UPPER charts in pop'n music peace as the Soreyuke! Pop'n Quest (それゆけ！ポップンクエスト?) unlock of the Pop'n Event Archive (ポップンイベントアーカイブ?) event. It can be unlocked from April 1, 2020.[3] From April 28th, 2021 in pop'n music 解明リドルズ, it is available by default.
The song can be unlocked in pop'n music Lively from December 9th, 2020 as part of the Pop'n Quest (ポップンクエスト?) unlocking system.
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- A speed remix of FLOWER by Ryu☆, FLOWER (Ryu☆Remix), appears on the cyber beatnation 2 - Hi Speed conclusion- CD.
- A remix of FLOWER by REDALiCE, titled FLOWER REDALiCE Remix, can be found in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.
- A rock remix of FLOWER by TLION69, titled FLOWER -TLION69 Remix-, can be found in GuitarFreaksXG3 & DrumManiaXG3.
- Late into FLOWER, a screech sample can be heard. This screech is also used as the music selection sound from beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD, as well as a sound effect in ダダパラ!! from jubeat copious APPEND.
- The beatmania IIDX version of FLOWER sounds slightly different from the original jubeat and REFLEC BEAT versions.
- As of REFLEC BEAT colette -Winter-, REFLEC BEAT has adopted beatmania IIDX's version of FLOWER for its notecharts.
- A piano rearrangement of FLOWER, titled FLOWER ～live pf addition～, is playable in ノスタルジア FORTE.
- A DJ TOTTO remix called FLOWER (STARDOM Remix) can be played in DANCERUSH STARDOM.
- A short, 45 seconds version of FLOWER, titled FLOWER (45秒 ver.), appears on the Chaku★Uta♪ TGS Selection 2018 (着信★うた♪TGSセレクション2018?) album.
- This version is credited to BEMANI Sound Team "DJ YOSHITAKA", instead of just DJ YOSHITAKA like in the original version.
- The 4th, consisting of duo Ryutaro Nakahara and Kosuke Saito, remixed FLOWER into FLOWER (The 4th Remix), which can be found in the Force of The 4th album.
- A rock band version of FLOWER, titled Flower -Band ver.- is included in the beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE-exclusive album, BEMANI曲をバンドで演奏してみた.
- A game-size portion of that version is playable in コナステ GITADORA.
- Kennosuke Ono, also known as onoken, created a symphonic rearrangement of FLOWER, titled FLOWER (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.). This version can be listened in the BEMANI SYMPHONY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.
- A shortened version of FLOWER (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.) is playable in jubeat festo.
Trivia
General
- FLOWER is the first song to appear in some form in every active BEMANI series, and currently holds the record for the song which has officially appeared in the most music game series, including crossovers in music game series that are not from BEMANI and KONAMI.
- As a result, some players consider this an inside joke.
- The reason why FLOWER is labeled as an inside joke is that it upsets the gaming community for being an overused staple in any BEMANI game. This goes to the same criticism towards 凛として咲く花の如く. Remixes of these songs don't help either.
- As a result, some players consider this an inside joke.
- In pop'n music 20 fantasia's 6/18/2012 update, Knit's 3P color shows in her background the cover art of FLOWER.
- pop'n rhythmin uses the jubeat version of the song's visual jacket; it contains a blue flower and a piglet's rear end. The character in the jacket is named Charlie.
- FLOWER is the track used in the BEMANI TV Commercial aired in May 2013.
- FLOWER, along with 凛として咲く花の如く, were supposed to be transferred to a BEMANI-exclusive title called Otoiroha (おといろは?), but the game was unexpectedly cancelled for no given reason.
- pop'n music staff member Mameshiba mentions that since pop'n music didn't have hold notes, they had to change that part to a scale note pattern.
- The main pop'n music series would later implement hold notes (named Long Pop-kun) in pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢. FLOWER's UPPER charts (introduced in pop'n music peace) have Long Pop-kuns in said part.
- FLOWER UPPER's Battle NORMAL chart is exactly the same as its original one. However, it does not have a Battle HYPER chart.
- Despite Knit having a unique portrait for FLOWER, its UPPER charts used the generic 3P portrait for knit instead in pop'n music peace. This was fixed in pop'n music 解明リドルズ.
- The UPPER version of FLOWER didn't have a background, until the release of pop'n music UniLab, where it have one.
Cameos
- FLOWER's jubeat and REFLEC BEAT jackets appear in a question in the BEMANI Exam on KONAMI's arcade game QUIZ MAGIC ACADEMY Kenja no tobira (クイズマジックアカデミー 賢者の扉?).
- FLOWER was crossed over to GROOVE COASTER EX, maimai ORANGE and 太鼓の達人 キミドリVer. on October 29th, 2014 as part of the Template:Tenkaichi otogesai Zenkoku issei nintei taikai event.
- FLOWER and Scars of FAUNA were the two original KONAMI songs that crossover in maimai, another SEGA music/rhythm game, and GROOVE COASTER EX as part of the Tenkaichi otogesai Zenkoku issei nintei taikai.
- Coincidentally, they are both jubeat songs.
- FLOWER and ちくわパフェだよ☆CKP were the two KONAMI original songs included in SEGA's CHUNITHM music game.
- FLOWER was included in BEMANI Selection Vol.5 in Bombergirl as part of the BEMANI Life ♪♪ Stamp Vol.2 event.[4][5]
- FLOWER is one of the BEMANI cassette tape songs hidden in METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
- The song also appears as selectable background music in CHASE CHASE JOKERS (チェイスチェイスジョーカーズ?), where it uses its REFLEC BEAT jacket (the one with the red flower).
Song Production Information[1][2]
Everybody, today is a nice day for comments.
Every day is colder than before, what is your physical condition?
Please be careful not to catch a cold.
Well, "TRANCE CORE / FLOWER" is one of the link event unlockable songs of the pop'n music Sunny Park location test. The location test times of pop'n and REFLEC were close, so we prepared something like a celebration.
The theme of pop'n music Sunny Park is "park", and since the visual effect of the unlocking system at the location test was a flower blossoming with the number of plays, this song stood first and foremost.
Such a popular track which was crossed over to various BEMANI games, will it have a considerable impact once it's unlocked?
I'm glad I was able to add flowers to fantasia and Sunny Park alongside "TWINKLE POP / Twinkle Wonderland".
In summary, PON made this comment instead of DJ YOSHITAKA, who was busy.
I feel nervous when I give comments to someone else's music.
I feel tense and serious as I can only say ordinary things.
I love! pop'n music.
Staff Comments[1][2]
asaru
Yoshi-kun says "songs with flowers in the title are hits"
I see~
※His tone here is a bit delusional.
TAMA
Congratulations for dominating 8 BEMANI game series, along with NADESHIKO ROCK / Rin to shite saku hana no gotoku.
まめしば
PON, I was confused about what to do with the "deyu------un" part in the middle of this song.
pop'n doesn't have charge notes and I couldn't draw spirals, so as a result, I created scale note patterns. It's difficult.
ちっひ
Continuing from RASIS, Knit was also included in the FLOWER illustration!
I'm happy that the black 3P color, FLOWER's jacket, and looking down animations fit well together.
The flow builds up towards the climax in the song's beginning, and you'll get a nosebleed, right?
It seems like Yoshi-kun, isn't this enough~! There are also brilliant highlights, and I can convey these feelings for players to enjoy.
It's only a few minutes! This song's power is impressive, as expected!
eimy
To put it simply, you can't imagine a title like "FLOWER" for this kind of song, right~? It's cool!
The jacket has a great impact, and I love Knit's illustration in pop'n.
とっきー
I wonder why my chest tightens a lot when listening to this song?
shio
You want to unconsciously make a parody of FLOWER's jacket, right? I also love it. If you want to know why there are grapes on Knit's head, please play jubeat or REFLEC, and check out the large illustration.
Yoshi-kun's home game series is a serious DJ-like instrumental series. You've heard them again, and it's frustrating to hear these compliments, but it's definitely cool! It's packed with delicious parts such as the beautiful piano playing the melancholic melody as its key point. As expected of the exciting captain.
I previously wrote this on my blog, but to those who mainly play other game series and experienced "Yoshi-kun's works in pop'n" for the first time to unlock this song, what do you think of Yoshikunman and Fever Robo? It's exciting.
I just hope you'll experience brand-new attractions and become addicted to pop'n.
Missile launch~!
wac
Every musician has created music with the theme of "flowers".
I remember that before starting my current job, I composed a song exactly titled "Flower".
I like all these songs continuing from Yoshi-kun's HARD RENAISSANCE series, but I personally felt that this song completed it, or took it one step further.
It's my favorite song since I first heard it.
It's now doing well in each garden, and it seems to be individually blooming, as long as it's prosperous.
Yoshi-kun is blooming.
Using the example of "gyaon" in the middle section, now is the time to revive "Keep Pop-kun"! I thought of it, but I couldn't just introduce them for this song, so it looks more like an image of flowers spinning in a large rotation than jubeat.
Let's use Flower as the character! I put all my effort in this joke, but we eventually settled on black Knit.
Black Knit looks nice. A baker's wife also said that females look beautiful in black.
Difficulty & Notecounts[2]
pop'n music
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards.
Old Scale (1~43)
| Game | Standard | Battle | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | N | H | EX | N | H | |
| Notecounts | 237 | 522 | 940 | 1331 | 248 | 492 |
| pop'n music 20 fantasia | 13 | 22 | 36 | 41 | 11 | 22 |
New Scale (1~50)
| Game | Standard | Battle | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | N | H | EX | N | H | |
| Notecounts | 272 | 522 | 940 | 1331 | 248 | 492 |
| pop'n music Sunny Park location test | ※19 | 28 | 42 | 47 | - | - |
| Sunny Park→ラピストリア | 14 | 28 | 42 | 47 | 11 | 22 |
| éclale→Present | ↑17 | 28 | 42 | 47 | 11 | 22 |
| pop'n music Lively | 17 | 28 | 42 | 47 | - | - |
※ The notecount of this chart is different from the later EASY chart (total notes: 237).
UPPER Charts
| Game | Standard | Battle | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | N | H | EX | N | H | |
| Notecounts / Long pop-kun | 286 / 18 | 582 / 35 | 1019 / 46 | 1424 / 62 | 248 | - |
| pop'n music peace→Present | 18 | 30 | 43 | 48 | 11 | - |
pop'n rhythmin
ポップンリズミン difficulty rated from 1 to 10.
| Game | Difficulties | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | H | EX | ||
| Notecounts | 209 | 323 | 504 | |
| ポップンリズミン | 3 | 6 | 10 | |
| ポップンリズミン (7/18/14) | ↑4 | 6 | 10 | |
Gallery
Jacket
Sound Files
FLOWER (without keysounds)
FLOWER
FLOWER (Ryu☆Remix)
FLOWER REDALiCE Remix
FLOWER -TLION69 Remix-
FLOWER ～live pf addition～
FLOWER (STARDOM Remix)
Video
References
Citations
External Links
- FLOWER in the Jubeat Wiki
- FLOWER in the Reflec Beat Wiki
- FLOWER in the Beatmania Wiki
- FLOWER in the DanceDanceRevolution Wiki
- FLOWER in the Museca Wiki
- FLOWER in the Sound Voltex Wiki