Overview
好き!雪!本気マジック ("Suki! Yuki! Honki Magic") is an official SNOW MIKU theme song produced by the Vocaloid creator Mitchie M, featuring Hatsune Miku. The title strings together three Japanese words, 好き (suki, "love"), 雪 (yuki, "snow"), and 本気マジック (honki majikku, "serious magic"), into a playful, rhyming phrase that captures the festive winter theme of the SNOW MIKU campaign, which promotes the Sapporo Snow Festival each year with a snow-themed version of Hatsune Miku.
Mitchie M is widely known in the Vocaloid community for his signature "super-realistic" tuning, which gives Hatsune Miku's vocals a natural, human-like quality with subtle pitch bends and dynamic expression. This track follows that style: an upbeat pop arrangement with a driving synth backbone, cheerful melody, and Miku's characteristically bright yet finely tuned voice carrying lyrics about winter romance and magical encounters.
The song was added to maimai on January 9, 2018, as part of the MiLK version under the niconico & Vocaloid genre. Across subsequent maimai updates, the difficulty levels of its charts were adjusted multiple times, reflecting both the game's evolving difficulty curve and the community's growing mastery of the track. The Expert and Master charts were both designed by はっぴー, with the Master chart notable for its high Slide-note density, 122 Slide notes out of 686 total, making up roughly 18% of the chart and giving the upper difficulty a distinctive, flowing hand movement pattern.
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Trivia
- 好き!雪!本気マジック was created as an official theme song for SNOW MIKU, a winter-themed variant of Hatsune Miku tied to the annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido, Japan.
- The song's title is structured as a Japanese word chain: 好き (suki, love) → 雪 (yuki, snow) → 本気マジック (honki majikku, serious magic), where each word's ending sound rhymes with the next word's beginning, creating a catchy rhythmic cadence.
- Mitchie M is a Vocaloid producer celebrated for his 'super-realistic' tuning technique, which uses carefully adjusted parameters to make Hatsune Miku's synthesized voice sound remarkably close to a human singer.
- The Master chart (level 12, constant 12.5) contains 122 Slide notes, the highest proportion of Slide notes among the chart's note types, giving the pattern a sweeping, hand-crossing feel that matches the song's energetic chorus.
- The chart difficulty levels for this song have been revised across multiple maimai versions: Expert started at level 9 in MiLK and rose to 11 by UNiVERSE+, while Master began at 11 in MiLK and reached 12 by UNiVERSE+. The Advanced chart also moved from 6 to 7 starting with FESTiVAL.
- Both the Expert and Master charts were designed by the notes designer はっぴー (Happy), who has contributed numerous Vocaloid-song charts across the maimai series.
- The song's official music video, uploaded as part of the SNOW MIKU campaign, features Hatsune Miku in her winter-themed outfit against snowy, festive backdrops.
FAQ
- Who composed 好き!雪!本気マジック?
- The song was produced by Mitchie M, a Vocaloid creator known for his realistic tuning of Hatsune Miku's voice. It was released as an official SNOW MIKU theme song featuring Hatsune Miku.
- What maimai version added 好き!雪!本気マジック?
- The song was added to maimai on January 9, 2018, as part of the MiLK version under the niconico & Vocaloid genre.
- What difficulty levels does 好き!雪!本気マジック have in maimai?
- The song has four standard difficulties: Basic at level 4, Advanced at level 7, Expert at level 11, and Master at level 12 (with a constant of 12.5). There is no Re:Master chart.
- Who designed the charts for 好き!雪!本気マジック?
- Both the Expert and Master charts were designed by the notes designer はっぴー (Happy).
- What is the BPM of 好き!雪!本気マジック?
- The song has a BPM of 167.
- Is 好き!雪!本気マジック a Vocaloid original or a cover?
- It is an original Vocaloid song, produced by Mitchie M as an official theme for the SNOW MIKU campaign, featuring Hatsune Miku's synthesized vocals.