Brand-new Japanesque is an instrumental track drawn from Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan! (龍が如く 見参!), a 2008 Japan-exclusive action-adventure spinoff of Sega's Yakuza series set in 17th-century Kyoto. The piece was composed by Hidenori Shoji (庄司英徳), the in-house composer responsible for the musical identity of the Yakuza franchise across multiple console generations. True to its title, Brand-new Japanesque blends driving modern percussion and synth textures with shamisen-like melodies and taiko accents, creating a hybrid sound that feels both contemporary and distinctly Japanese, an energetic battle theme that could score a sword duel as easily as a rhythm-game score chase. The full-length version appears on the official 龍が如く 見参! オリジナルサウンドトラック album. The song arrived in maimai as part of the GreeN PLUS update on June 17, 2014, classified at launch under the GAME genre. Over subsequent versions it was re-categorized multiple times, shifting to SEGA during the PiNK era, then VARIETY in early DX, and finally settling under GAME & VARIETY from DX PLUS onward. Brand-new Japanesque has also been rebalanced extensively across its lifespan: its Master chart, originally a Level 10, was elevated repeatedly as the game's difficulty ceiling expanded, reaching its current Level 12+ (constant 12.7) by the UNiVERSE PLUS revision. The Expert and Master charts were designed by mai-Star and はっぴー respectively, with the Master chart in particular noted for its dense Tap-heavy patterning and brisk 135 BPM stream sections.