BOY - Ousama Ranking OP1 [Piano] / King Gnu

Sheet music → https://mymusic.st/animenzzz/62088

Ousama Ranking was one of my favorite anime series in 2021 and the Opening Song BOY from King Gnu was simply a perfect song to capture the cheery mood from our favorite Prince Bojji. I was really inspired by Bojji’s never-ending optimism and his courage could literally move mountains. I really hope we will see a second season very soon because I already miss Bojji and his trusted friend Kage already.

To be honest, arranging this song was outside of my comfort zone again, because I couldn’t make full use of my usual orchestral arrangement style with its many layers of sound. Instead, I thought a more minimalistic approach is more suitable for an upbeat song like BOY and this arrangement should be played as light-hearted as possible with only minimum pedal use.

Having said that, I still "sneaked" in some secondary melodies into the arrangement. Just imagine Kage is secretly following Bojji who is playing the main melody (笑). A good example would be the upper voice in the right hand in 0:39 or the fast middle voice in 1:12 and 1:22. Aside from that, I also included a few techniques I rarely use nowadays, for example the “octave sniping” in 3:29 or the chromatic octave run in 4:06.

But my favorite part was actually playing the key change in 3:32 because this is the moment where I was finally “released” from the C-major key. I don’t know whether other pianists would agree with me but playing only white keys (aka C-major) feels really “unnatural” to me. I literally couldn’t wait to play all the black keys again and the key change to Db-major felt like heaven to me. Maybe it’s just me, who loves playing on black keys, haha.

Well, that’s it everyone! Thank you for listening to my piano arrangement of BOY!
My next arrangement is going to be from King Gnu again and it’s a theme song from an Anime movie.

See you next time again!
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🎹Piano arrangement by Animenz

Original Song: BOY
Anime: Ousama Ranking / 王様ランキング
Published by: Sony Music Labels Inc. (2021)
Composed by: Daiki Tsuneta / 常田 大希
Performed by: King Gnu
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