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Esaka? What do you mean Esaka?????

I’m not sure why the song name is presented as a question. I never actually looked into it, but I always read it with a ‘wtf’ tone in my head.

I heard rumors that I don’t cover enough fighting game material (these rumors are true), so I thought I’d hit up an iconic fighting series that I get requests for quite a bit: Ballz 3D.

Then I thought to myself the world isn’t quite ready, plus we just did briefly did a B3d song in that last SNES Medley, so I went for the next best thing: The King of Fighters.

This is one of the most popular songs from the series, with a few different variants and 100 other songs with “Esaka” in the title (though a lot of these are completely different songs). I based this cover off of the “Arrange Sound Trax” arrangement, which includes a guitar solo and just fleshes out the track more as an actual “song”.

This one’s for you FGC!