Overview
Dead Red Girls (デッドレッドガールズ) is a high-tempo original song by producer MARUDARUMA featuring the VOCALOID voicebank GUMI. Originally released on the 2013 album 異端School BAND (Heretical School BAND), the track runs at a relentless 230 BPM and blends an energetic rock arrangement with GUMI's agile vocal delivery. The song's title is a play on words, juxtaposing "Red Girl" (alive, burning) with "Dead Girl" (finished, ended), a duality echoed in the lyrics' cyclical themes of exhaustion, defiance, and pretense.
In maimai, Dead Red Girls was added during the ORANGE PLUS edition on September 17, 2015, as part of the niconico & VOCALOID genre. The song's charts span a steep difficulty curve: the Expert chart, designed by rioN, sits at a level 10+ with a constant of 10.6 and 636 notes, while the Master chart, designed by はっぴー (Happy), ranks at 13+ and packs 917 notes, including 136 Slide notes that demand precise finger tracking at the song's breakneck tempo. Over the course of maimai's version updates, the Master chart's displayed level has risen substantially (from an initial 11 in ORANGE PLUS to the current 13+), reflecting the game's evolving difficulty standards as much as the chart's intrinsic challenge.
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Trivia
- Dead Red Girls is a human-produced cover of a VOCALOID original song; MARUDARUMA composed, arranged, and wrote the lyrics, while tomoboP handled mixing and Shino directed the music video with illustrations by Akomoto.
- The song originally appeared on MARUDARUMA's 2013 album 異端School BAND (Heretical School BAND).
- In Asian English releases of maimai, the song's title is romanized as DEAD RED GIRLS.
- The Master chart has undergone several level revisions across maimai versions: it debuted at level 11 in ORANGE PLUS, rose to 12 in MURASAKi, reached 13 in でらっくす PLUS, and settled at 13+ from Splash onward.
- The Master chart's 136 Slide notes are unusually numerous for a 13+ chart of this era, accounting for roughly 15% of the total 917 notes.
- The Expert chart was designed by rioN, a frequent maimai contributor known for balanced note layouts, while the Master chart was designed by はっぴー (Happy), a charter recognized for dense patterns and Slide-heavy arrangements.
FAQ
- Who composed Dead Red Girls?
- Dead Red Girls was composed, arranged, and written by MARUDARUMA. The vocals feature GUMI (a VOCALOID voicebank), with mixing by tomoboP and a music video by Shino featuring illustrations by Akomoto.
- What maimai version introduced Dead Red Girls?
- Dead Red Girls was added to maimai in the ORANGE PLUS edition, released on September 17, 2015.
- What is the BPM of Dead Red Girls?
- The song runs at 230 BPM, making it one of the faster tracks in the niconico & VOCALOID genre of maimai.
- What difficulty levels do the Dead Red Girls charts have in maimai?
- The standard charts are Basic (level 4), Advanced (level 8+, constant 8.6), Expert (level 10+, constant 10.6), and Master (level 13+, constant 13.8).
- Who designed the Dead Red Girls charts in maimai?
- The Expert chart was designed by rioN, and the Master chart was designed by はっぴー (Happy).
- What is the song Dead Red Girls about?
- The lyrics describe a cyclical emotional struggle, a 'Red Girl' who keeps burning and dancing despite exhaustion, and a 'Dead Girl' who has already given up but continues to tell lies like 'see you later.' The title and lyrics play on the contrast between being alive (red / burning) and dead (finished / empty).
