{"id":631619,"date":"2022-04-22T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/631619\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:00:14","slug":"boy-ousama-ranking-op1-piano-king-gnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/631619\/","title":{"rendered":"BOY &#8211; Ousama Ranking OP1 [Piano] \/ King Gnu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YEKPS45PDLA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSheet music \u2192 https:\/\/mymusic.st\/animenzzz\/62088<\/p>\n<p>Ousama Ranking was one of my favorite anime series in 2021 and the Opening Song BOY from King Gnu was simply a perfect song to capture the cheery mood from our favorite Prince Bojji. I was really inspired by Bojji\u2019s never-ending optimism and his courage could literally move mountains. I really hope we will see a second season very soon because I already miss Bojji and his trusted friend Kage already.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, arranging this song was outside of my comfort zone again, because I couldn\u2019t make full use of my usual orchestral arrangement style with its many layers of sound. Instead, I thought a more minimalistic approach is more suitable for an upbeat song like BOY and this arrangement should be played as light-hearted as possible with only minimum pedal use.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I still &#8220;sneaked&#8221; in some secondary melodies into the arrangement. Just imagine Kage is secretly following Bojji who is playing the main melody (\u7b11). A good example would be the upper voice in the right hand in 0:39 or the fast middle voice in 1:12 and 1:22. Aside from that, I also included a few techniques I rarely use nowadays, for example the \u201coctave sniping\u201d in 3:29 or the chromatic octave run in 4:06.<\/p>\n<p>But my favorite part was actually playing the key change in 3:32 because this is the moment where I was finally \u201creleased\u201d from the C-major key. I don\u2019t know whether other pianists would agree with me but playing only white keys (aka C-major) feels really \u201cunnatural\u201d to me. I literally couldn\u2019t wait to play all the black keys again and the key change to Db-major felt like heaven to me. Maybe it\u2019s just me, who loves playing on black keys, haha. <\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s it everyone! Thank you for listening to my piano arrangement of BOY!<br \/>\nMy next arrangement is going to be from King Gnu again and it\u2019s a theme song from an Anime movie. <\/p>\n<p>See you next time again!<br \/>\nAnimenz<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*<br \/>\n\ud83d\udce3My Social Media<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on Twitter!<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"770\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Animenzzz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweets by Animenzzz<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nI am using Instagram as well!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/animenz_official\/<br \/>\nMy Facebook page:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Animenz<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfb9Piano arrangement by Animenz<\/p>\n<p>Original Song: BOY<br \/>\nAnime: Ousama Ranking \/ \u738b\u69d8\u30e9\u30f3\u30ad\u30f3\u30b0<br \/>\nPublished by: Sony Music Labels Inc. (2021)<br \/>\nComposed by: Daiki Tsuneta \/ \u5e38\u7530 \u5927\u5e0c<br \/>\nPerformed by: King Gnu<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*&#8212;&#8212;*<br \/>\n#ousamaranking #boy #kinggnu #rankingofkings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheet music \u2192 https:\/\/mymusic.st\/animenzzz\/62088 Ousama Ranking was one of my favorite anime series in 2021 an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":631620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,12668,3012,3009,9,4130,3766,207,52375],"class_list":{"0":"post-631619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-anime","9":"tag-arrangement","10":"tag-cover","11":"tag-piano","12":"tag-9","13":"tag-4130","14":"tag-3766","15":"tag-207","16":"tag-52375"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}