this will be my last public release in a while. i have been very addicted to work and have been sleeping very late the past few weeks. burnout is also getting to me from having no sense of direction, so i will not be posting in a month.

anyways,

if you haven't caught on already, i have been dipping my toes into umamusume pretty derby. that gacha game/ anime series with anthropomorphized horse girls. i found out about it around a month ago when the global release of the gacha game released. it gained traction very quickly upon release and was picked up by big gaming streamers.

personally i found out through my friends playing the game (one who doesn't typically even enjoy anime, let alone gacha games, which surprised me). i passively played the game and thought it was pretty neat. i liked the characters; i knew of the "communal daughter" haru urara, redeemed tokai teio with my ssr voucher for her title [peak joy], i got lucky and pulled a 3-star oguri cap who is my favorite uma to date! ^_^ with super creek and silence suzuka close behind.

what i didn't think i would get into was the irl history of the horses themselves. though only passively gaining information from yt shorts (with all kinds of misinformation, but i managed to figure out which was real and which wasn't), i started having genuine interest in the actual horses, their jockeys, their groomers... and how much their lives, their achievements, and their failures have impacted japanese peoples' lives. the supplementary media engages the viewer so well with its drama and character-focused-stories, which not only kept me guessing, but got me more invested into the series as well. i've only watched season 1 of the anime but i hope that season 2 blows me away (aside from the admittedly lifeless mixed cgi animation). s2 ep1 seems to be setting up amazing things for future arcs.

i was upset knowing about grass wonder, who was an american-born stallion that passed away from old age and organ failure (on the 8th of aug 2025, at 30 y/o). a lot of people (incl. uma fans) were mourning his passing. i didn't know much about the horse but i understood his impact in his 4-year-long racing career, and figured i could write a piano piece as a tribute. grass wonder in the umamusume anime is known to be a soft-spoken, yet aggressively competitive runner of team sirius, and notably one of special week's rivals (which afaik is true irl as well). she notably sings chatsumi in a yt short - a japanese folk song from 1912 (with an unknown composer), so i used it towards the end of the song and reharmonized it with a pop progression. i haven't fully verified if it is actually playable or not and only written initially impossible hand movements and key presses, so please do inform me if there are any weird movements that will be removed in rearranging this song for an 88-key piano.

it's certainly not my best song up to date, but i think it's a good enough sendoff to the legendary grass wonder. a goodbye to an era. forever living in horse racing lovers' hearts, and immortalized with umamusume.

as much as both things are designed to make our money (and as much as i don't like the typical anime culture surrounding umamusume)... i think even in the most unexpected pieces of media or recreational activities are we able to find meaning and fundamental values that we all can potentially live by.

soar high, grass wonder.
soar high.

Song name: grass wonder
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Chatsumi (Tea-picking song, 1912) borrowed from the Japanese Ministry of Education
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

downloads
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/156NI7gfaxpFA-xEft74yMqW6rjActtPq?usp=drive_link

discord
https://discord.gg/WvNP6cr

bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/johntayjinf.bsky.social

tumblr
https://johntayjinf.tumblr.com/

ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/johntayjinf

bandcamp
https://johntayjinf.bandcamp.com/

grass wonder [s-smp]

*so, you finally made it to the end
*are you proud of yourself?
*honestly, that expresion doesn't really show
*. . .
*listen, i don't know what you're thinking
*but you're not winning this fight
*even if you keep trying till' the end of time

YouTube upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OkhxmmZgwk

*Credits*
Undertale and MEGALOVANIA by Toby Fox
Music and Artwork by Jemdotpng (that guy who thinks he's an Undertale character just because he made himself 8-bit)

MEGALOVANIA: till' the end of time.

When this song dropped it hit me hard, I've had a similar experience in life, and on top of that, they just had to hit home with the PvZ childhood, haha

I've been practicing the PvZ 2 style, and saw this as good practice to get used to the many different instruments, i wanted to keep the essence of the song more than the essence of PvZ 2, so im sure this could be done better.

Only posting since some friends enjoyed the Remix, and i hope others will too!

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Original Video + Music by Melody Sardo
‪@ExclaimInc‬ (On YT)
https://bsky.app/profile/exclaim.bsky...

Leeku art + animation, as well as PvZ animation rips by ‪@RawZebra‬ (On YT)

PvZ 2 Cover done by Me :3

(Midi and Stems from original are also used, provided by Melody)

PvZ 2 Cover: Glad I Met You, Glad You're Gone (feat. Hatsune Miku)

PvZ 2 Cover (INST): Glad I Met You, Glad You're Gone (feat. Hatsune Miku)

Im..uh.....not sure i did the song justice..

Probably not. this one was a little bit rushed, but when I was working on it i closed the FL studio window, so i couldnt save it..

oh well.

Black Knife - Chiptune Remake [Deltarune Chapter 3+4]

BIG SHOT (Chiptune Remake) {Deltarune Chapter 2}

FAINT COURAGE MY BELOVED!!!!  'o'

but in all seriousness though, the fangamer livestream was pretty dang cool, we got to see some new stuff for undertale, possibly an update later down the line. the hotland segment was hilarious to be honest.

anyways enjoy!

Old Home (Chiptune Arrangement) {New Undertale Area Theme; 10th Anniversary Live Stream}

Team Credits
    Wulsy - Director / Coder / Artist
    Kookie - Coder
    Ultimate Dan - Musician / Concept
    Lucid Music - Musician
    Fede P - Artist
    Haruka - Musician
    Vancey Pants - Artist
    Bladz - Artist
    Fidget - Artist
    Astran - Charter
    LazerShadow - Chromatic Scaler

03 - Settings of Missfortune (Unused) - DELTATUNE

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE PVZ2 MOD

(Remade Zombotany composed by Whisperjas, Zombotany composed by Laura Shigihara)

Visualizer Version:

Remade Zombotany (for Altverz's Anniversary)

This is a small portion of some of my work.  To hear more please reach out to me at r.doggett@icloud.com or check out my website at www.rorydoggett.com

4. Home Depot TV Theme Song

FRENZ2019 「Midnight Trickster」
Youtube ▷ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6XHOcVZhk0

Midnight Trickster

Rando who likes makin remixes and try to make original music (but fails)

03 - Settings of Missfortune (Unused) - DELTATUNE

Haruka Studios