Beatmap Listing » kradness - Otsukimi Recital

Welcome to hands down of the most important maps in my mapping career and possibly for me on this game. It all started in the summer of 2016 about 7 months after I first started playing. I was rather happy at the time I was constantly gaining ranks and even dabbled in mapping from time to time. However once I heard this song for the first time my priorities completely flipped. So there I was one afternoon at around 6pm, I sat down and embarked on the journey for what would be one of my first maps ever to go for rank. As was my trademark at the time I decided to call my diff “Style” to this day I really don't understand why I used the same diff name on most of my sets but at the time I thought it was super neat. Now the first rendition of the diff was uhhh hm.. Rather unique? It was a complete mish mash of ideas and a bunch of things that I thought would be cool since other ranked maps had them! You know basically like a new mappers first map. Now weather or not the maps quality was dictated by the fact I was new or the fact I stayed up till 7am but it was probably just the mixture of both. At least I had fun right XD. Continuing to the actually spread of the map, I decided I would learn how guest difficulties work and started to asked around in #modhelp and #modreqs which at the time was super nice and helpful! I got some of my first mapper friends Shiratoi, Time Capsule, and Net0 to makes some lower diffs since they were much more experienced than me and tried to fill out the spread with some extras by Troll and Yuria-kun (now known as _xyliac) and then got some mods and then… gave up on the set as I came to the realization I just wasn’t ready to map a song like this and most of my diffs were not up to par Not all was bad however! After so much mapping and listening to the song I got very curious of where the song came from (since for some reason I thought all animated japanese music videos had an anime behind them) and searched for an anime that involved the song and was amazed when I found out about Mekakucity Actors. The next day was just me sitting around watching this anime making me finally open up to the world of anime since up to this point all I’ve seen was Fairy Tail, Dragon Ball Z, and Yu Gi Oh. What's even more awesome was me discovering that this song and Mekakucity Actors belonged to a song project called Kagerou Project and there was more songs with the characters from the music video and anime! My mind completely exploded but it was super cool to be learning all of these things.
Fall 2017 came and I decided to come back and give the song another shot I finally learned how spacing emphasis worked and how to structure maps properly so I decided it was time to tackle one of my original three maps for rank again! So I got food and water and once again mapped the whole song in one super long sitting (granted this time it was only 8 hours) truthfully afterword I was beyond proud at the time this was hands down my favorite map even Yubi Bouenkyou (which would go on to be my first ranked map) had nothing on it. I loved this map so much however I never pushed it for rank after getting one mod from my dear friend waku I just kinda let the map die again. Throughout 2018 I contemplated remapping it again and ranking it since I had finally established myself as a mapper who could rank a map and a bn who could actually mod and get other mods easily. I for the most part didn’t because while I could rank maps easily I didn’t want to just rank the song I wanted to rank a good set of the song. So the year went by and I didn’t make a remap sadly. I also felt deep down that If i ranked it and was left with one of my original 3 maps for rank I would completely lose motivation and quit mapping. I will one day remap this song and rank it and hopefully create a good mapset that lot’s of people love because to me if I never found this song my time on osu! Would have been much shorter and I wouldn’t have nearly as many friends as I do now.

Thank You Everyone!!!