Fun Facts regarding "Galaxias" (11/2-3/12):

* This song isn't "from" anywhere particularly that I know of.

* However, the video's pretty nice-looking, and features new Vocaloid
  Ia as the centerpiece (that's Teto on the left, by the way, and, of
  course, Miku on the right).
-> "I'm gleaming, sparkling," indeed; Ia has a sparkle trail coming
   from her hands (part of the video's appeal).
-> Be wary that the cameraman is a perv.  There are several panty shots
   in the video.

* This song is one of my best recent works, I believe.

* A *lot* of work went into the tempo stutter and slowdown segments.
-> Expert had to be charted first for this reason.

* Work also went into synchronizing certain parts of the stepchart with
  the video on Expert, Hard, and Medium.  (Easy to a far lesser degree.)

* Expert has a bunch of handplants during the two verse slowdowns,
  and exemplifies all the short 24th bursts, plus has a decent amount
  of jumps on 16th notes in the chorus.  For all these reasons, Expert
  is rated a 10-footer.

* Hard is a really fun 9; it basically removes all of the hands and some
  of the tech bursts the Expert chart had, but is still very much its
  own chart.

* Medium is a technical 7.  If you've played ITG2's "Clockwork Genesis,"
  you'll have some idea how this chart goes.

* Easy is a difficult 5 that asks you to hit yellow notes.  However,
  if you can follow the melody well, this will not be an issue.

* Novice is a relatively tame 2.  Not much to say here.