Space Dance!

"Space Dance!"
Official cover art, showing the three members of Kotori with Stitch Bird (top) and the Yo-kai Watch characters Jibanyan and Usapyon (bottom left and bottom right, respectively)
Single by Kotori with Stitch Bird
from the album Yo-kai Watch Music Best - Second Season
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2015 (2015-09-16)
Length4:37
LabelFRAME
Kotori with Stitch Bird singles chronology
"Space Dance!"
(2015) 		"Earthling"
(2016)
Music video
"Space Dance!" on YouTube

"Space Dance!" (Japanese: 宇宙ダンス!, Hepburn: Uchū Dance!) is the debut single by Kotori with Stitch Bird, a Japanese music group created by Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino, formed of Dream5 member Kotori Shigemoto, Yulia, and Yuka. Released on September 16, 2015, "Space Dance!" was the 5th ending theme to the 2014 Yo-kai Watch 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.[1] The song was choreographed by Lucky Ikeda,[2] who had previously choreographed multiple other Yo-kai Watch themes, such as "Gera Gera Po" and "Don-Don-Dooby-Zoo-Bah!".[3]

"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 on July 11, 2014, and was later released as a CD and DVD on September 16, under the FRAME label.[2][4] 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.[5]

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,[6] and Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Version, where it was one of the game's 10 songs.[7]

Chart performance

"Space Dance!" made a total of 12 appearances on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart, where it peaked at number five for the week of September 28, 2015.[8] The song also made one appearance on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart at number 58 during the week of October 3, 2015.[9]

Track listing

CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Space Dance!"4:37
2."Flapping -Theme of Stitch Bird-"4:27
3."Space Dance!" (Karaoke)4:37
4."Flapping -Theme of Stitch Bird-" (Karaoke)4:27

Charts

Chart performance for "Space Dance!"
Chart (2014) Peak
position
Japan (Oricon)[8] 5
Japan Hot 100 (Billboard)[9] 58

References

  1. ^ "アニメ『妖怪ウォッチ』新ED曲「宇宙ダンス！」オンエア開始". Barks (in Japanese). Japan Music Network. July 10, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "コトリwithステッチバードによる「妖怪ウォッチ」新エンディングテーマが9月リリース" (in Japanese). Tokyo Pop Line. September 7, 2015. Archived from the original on May 14, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  3. ^ "『妖怪ウォッチ』大ヒットの裏にある、ラッキィ池田の"存在感"" (in Japanese). Oricon. December 24, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  4. ^ "宇宙ダンス!(DVD付)" [Space Dance! (DVD edition)] (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
  5. ^ "コトリ with ステッチバードの『妖怪ウォッチ』新ED曲「宇宙ダンス！」、初回特典発表". Barks (in Japanese). Japan Music Network. August 12, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  6. ^ "『映画 妖怪ウォッチ』エンディングテーマは2曲" (in Japanese). Oricon. December 4, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  7. ^ Romano, Sal (October 18, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Dance will only have 10 songs". Gematsu. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  8. ^ a b "宇宙ダンス!" [Space Dance!] (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  9. ^ a b "Japan Hot 100: The Week of October 3, 2015". Billboard. Retrieved March 18, 2021.