The upcoming interactive anime film based on the HYPNOSISMIC rap battle franchise continues to offer tastes of its new “second stage” songs. Every other day, a new trailer is released for one of the new tracks appearing in the film. Today, we lighten things up a bit with a new offering from Shibuya’s Fling Posse.The track is titled “Bara no Taba” (“Bunch of Roses”) and is paired with retro video game imagery and classic city pop vibes. The three members of hip-hop group Kick the Can Crew—Kreva, MCU and Little—composed the new rap.
Only three of the “second stage” tracks will be heard at any given screening of the interactive film, and will be shown based on who clears the first round of rap battles according to a live audience vote. Other second stage tracks previewed so far include:
Buster Bros!!!: “Three Kings”
MAD TRIGGER CREW: “Choice Is Yours”
Adding to the multimedia franchise developed by King Records and Idea Factory since 2017, Takanori Tsujimoto (Resident Evil: Vendetta) directs the HYPNOSISMIC -Divison Rap Battle- anime film at studio Polygon Pictures (Kaina of the Great Snow Sea), with a script by Yuichiro Momose (The Witch and the Beast) and character designs by Kazui.The first anime season, which premiered in October 2020 with a simulcast on Funimation, was directed by Katsumi Ono at studio A-1 Pictures. Crunchyroll streams the series and its 2023 sequel, describing the overall story like so:
Legendary rap group The Dirty Dawg could have taken Japan by storm, but then they broke up. Now each member fights in one of the four rival groups. Battles for turf are fought with rap and the Hypnosis Mic, a microphone that can affect the human spirit.
Source: HYPNOSISMIC YouTube Channel
