"The Midnight Carnival" is the boss theme of Guilty Gear XX composed by Daisuke Ishiwatari, which plays during the battles against I-No in her boss version. Her normal theme is "Kagematsuri".
The Korean version of ♯Reload has a track with the same title and function as I-No's boss theme, but it was composed by the band N.EX.T.
Samples[]
- Guilty Gear XX
Lyrics[]
- Guilty Gear XX in N.Y Vocal Edition
- From the pit of the shadow
- comes my soul, fucking prepared to consume
- Ever thirsting for violence
- Spawn again, rising straight out of Hell's womb
- AHHH, fall down upon your knees
- crushed by mere despair!
- Come, lay down your head, sweet child
- or fool, fucking fight me if you dare!
- In your gods you seek guidance
- forgiveness, salvation, and release
- Fuck that shit, They're not here
- Sick religions will find you no peace
- Rage, destruction and death
- This true Trinity!
- Existence is futile
- so give your soul to me! Oh yeah!
- Rise up above the darkness, don't lose hope
- and never relinquish the light!
- you are the one, with all the power to
- endure to the end of the fight
- So raise your head, your heart up to the sky
- and search for the strength from within
- to find an end you must first begin!
- False illusions of grandeur
- bring you nothing but seething, pain
- In my shadow shall you die
- Leave this world to the terror of my reign
- AHHH, fall down upon your face
- crushed by mere despair!
- Down upon your belly worm
- or rise and fucking fight!
Trivia[]
- The Midnight Carnival's namesake may be drawn in anecdotal juxtaposition to Guilty Gear XX from the novel and animated film The Last Unicorn; in the Last Unicorn, the Midnight Carnival is an attraction of illusion by the miserly witch Mommy Fortuna, where the magic of the midnight witching hour is used to disguise captive animals into becoming mythical and legendary creatures. The only real beasts of legend of the attraction are the Unicorn and the hideous and dangerous harpy Celano, whom the latter later kills Fortuna in revenge for holding her captive. I-no can be hence seen as akin to Mommy Fortuna, who ensnares the cast into her plans and her own amusement; the real beasts of legend can refer to Dizzy and Sol, whom are the last known sentient Gears in the world at that point.
- Another possible namesake is the song Midnite Carnival by the band OUTRAGE. Years later, the band's vocalist Naoki Hashimoto would go on to sing songs for the series.
- The song's structure appears to be based off the song Kurenai by X-JAPAN.