is the debut single by Kotori with Stitch Bird, a Japanese music group created by
Level-5 CEO
Akihiro Hino
(born July 20, 1968) is a Japanese video game designer and businessman. Starting his career as a programmer in the 1990s, he later took on roles in writing, design, directing and producing. He founded Level-5 (company), Level-5 in 1998 and rema ...
, formed of
Dream5
Dream5 was a Japanese co-ed group that was active from 2009 to 2016.
Summary
In March 2009, over 1,500 singers auditioned on the Japanese TV show " Tensai-TVkun-MAX(NHK
, also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism ...
member
Kotori Shigemoto, Yulia, and Yuka. Released on September 16, 2015, "Space Dance!" was the 5th ending theme to the 2014 ''
Yo-kai Watch
is a Japanese role-playing video game series and associated media franchise created and developed by Level-5. The first game in the series was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. Three main sequels and several spinoffs, on both Nintendo a ...
'' TV-series, succeeding "
Yo-kai Exercise No. 2".
Background and releases
"Space Dance!" is the debut single by Kotori with Stitch Bird, a Japanese music group formed to bring new direction to the music of the 2014 TV-series ''Yo-kai Watch'', which "Space Dance!" is the 5th ending theme for.
The song was choreographed by Lucky Ikeda,
who had previously choreographed multiple other ''Yo-kai Watch'' themes, such as "
Gera Gera Po" and "
Don-Don-Dooby-Zoo-Bah!".
"Space Dance!" started being used as the new ending theme to the ''Yo-kai Watch'' TV-series in the first episode of the series' second season, "Usapyon Is Here!" (aired July 10, 2015). The single was released digitally on
iTunes
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on July 11, 2014, and was later released as a CD and DVD on September 16, under the FRAME label.
The CD release was bundled with a physical
Yo-kai Medal of the character
Usapyon, in addition to a
QR code, that would give the scanner a digital coin to use in ''
Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble''.
The song has also appeared in other pieces of ''Yo-kai Watch'' media, including ''
Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!'', where it was one of the two ending themes,
and ''
Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Version'', where it was one of the game's 10 songs.
Chart performance
"Space Dance!" made a total of 12 appearances on the weekly
Oricon Singles Chart
The Oricon Singles Chart is the Japanese music industry-standard Single (music), singles popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Chart rankings are based on physical singles' sales. Until 2017, Oricon did not track down ...
, where it peaked at number five for the week of September 28, 2015.
The song also made one appearance on the
''Billboard'' Japan Hot 100 chart at number 58 during the week of October 3, 2015.
Track listing
Charts
References
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2014 songs
2014 singles
Anime songs
Yo-kai Watch songs