Last week, I received word from my anime buddy that there was an explosion of activity online with the news that the one-and-only Miku Hatsune（初音ミク）made a cameo appearance on the third season of "Jashin-chan Dropkick"（邪神ちゃんドロップキック...Dropkick on my Devil） known as "Jashin-chan Dropkick X". Even the most famous Vocaloid of them all couldn't fail to be victimized by the naughty main character although Hatsune took it all in stride since she apparently made a 10-yen profit.
Actually before my buddy contacted me, I'd already seen the footage of the Hatsune and Jashin-chan encounter. I wasn't all that surprised by it since the franchise was already making hay of breaking the fourth wall and generously throwing around pop cultural references as often as Yurine vivisected her roommate.
Both singer halca and Jashin-chan's seiyuu Aina Suzuki（鈴木愛奈）have contributed songs to the franchise in the past, but here they are together providing the opening theme to "Dropkick X", the appropriately titled "Arekore Drastic" (Drastic This and That). Written by Tomoya Tabuchi（田淵智也）and composed by Tabuchi and Naohiro Hayashi（林直大）, it's the usual fun-and-hijinks hard rock anarchy that presages the episodes of this series.
But I have to admit that I have been especially drawn to the ending theme "Ryusenkei Mayday" (Streamline Mayday) because of the appealingly plinky keyboards involved and what sounds like a borrowing of the cuica riff from Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova" which was used as the theme song for "Austin Powers". I've never heard anything quite like that before.
And "Ryusenkei Streamline" is quite the catchy Ringo Shiina（椎名林檎）-with-some-Etsuko Yakushimaru（やくしまるえつこ）delight with the funk and groove along with the intriguing combination of VTuber KAF（花譜）and virtual singer Kafu（可不）from CeVIO behind the mike. The lyrics were written by Haneda Saijitsu（祭日ハネダ）and the music was by HiFi-P. This can be another earworm for this anime season.
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