Nagoya Division is reporting in! The upcoming interactive film installment of HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- has been releasing trailers for the six new “Second Stage” songs viewers will hear as the rap battle progresses. Today, we wrap things up with the boys from Bad Ass Temple.The new song, titled “SHINJIRU CHIKARA,” was composed by MICRO, KURO and DJ U-ICHI—better known collectively as Japanese hip-hop group Home Made Kazoku. The trio has performed theme songs for Naruto, BLEACH and Eureka Seven.
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”
Fling Posse: “Bara no Taba”
Matenrou: “BLESS YOU”
Dotsuitare Hompo: “Shomon Raifuku”
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: Official YouTube Channel
