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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Song of the Week! 14 July 2012


This Anime feature is a request from Yusri Khairi, and is a new licensed song from Taiko 0. Ready?

 1 Dream (1 ドリーム) Danbooru Senki/Little Battlers eXperience
Version
Allx2 (77)x3 (130)x3 (216)x5 (299)
 Taiko 0 to 0 K-D, Taiko PSP DX
 132
 none
 onedri


Directed by Naohito Takahashi (高橋 ナオヒト), Danbooru Senki (ダンボール戦機, also known as Little Battlers eXperience after the eponymous robots) is a 2011 action series based on the RPG videogame released for PSP and 3DS by Level-5, a software developer most known by Westerners for the Professor Layton and Inazuma Eleven games, as well as many niche games like Ninokuni. The Japan-exclusive videogame revolves around small plastic model robots known as LBXs (which stands for "Little Battler eXperience") that fight on dioramas made out of cardboard, with the main character setting out to battle against LBXs created by other characters (hence the English translation "Cardboard Troopers").

The anime tie-in uses the same mechanics as the game: Yamano Ban, a young boy who desires to become an LBX Fighter like his friends, is forbidden by his mother from owning an LBX as his father was taken from them in an accident relating to LBX years ago. One day a mysterious woman approaches Ban with a suitcase and tells him that the hopes and fears of humanity lie inside it, and when Ban opens it, he finds a strange new LBX Robot. He is soon attacked by organizations who want the data inside this robot, and Ban and his friends are dragged into a corporation war that spreads all the way up to the highest political positions of power in Japan, and the true origins behind LBX Battling which could change the entire political structure of Japan. The anime has also a second season, simply named Danball Senki W.

1 Dream is the opening theme of Danbooru Senki, is composed by a group called Little Blue boX, whose acronym matches the one used by the pint-sized robots in the series. The song's Oni mode is average 5* material with a low number of clusters matching with the music.