Music has always been a key element within the vibrant universe of Splatoon. For the franchise’s latest expansion, Side Order, the Splatoon team looked to music theory to name the game’s newest enemies and establish a cohesive theme with some hidden meaning. In this video essay, I dive into the musical names of each Jelleton and explore some potential reasons that they earned their names.
Please note that I have decided to simplify some musical terms for the purpose of this video, but there is still enough detail for viewers with any amount of musical experience to understand.
This is my first video essay! Please let me know how you liked it in the comments!
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:12 Musical Context
03:09 Marching Andante
04:22 Battering Lento
05:38 Whirling Accelerando
06:48 Homing Arpeggio
08:37 Spawning Accordo
09:56 Towering Nobilmente
11:16 Drizzling Capriccioso
12:02 Swarming Languendo
14:40 Gushing Trionfale
16:01 Springing Spiccato
17:06 Panicking Alla Mambo
18:34 Portal
20:57 Asynchronous Rondo
22:47 Pinging Marciale
24:46 Marina Agitando
26:32 Parallel Canon
29:14 Extra thoughts
30:26 Conclusions
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This is noce good job fives. Here take this gold star ⭐️
this is the type of video essay that you eat bagel bites to
I WATCHED THIS SO FAST I JUST FINISHED IT AND AND AND AND
OK
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THIS IS SO GOOD????? YOU EXPLAINED EVERYTHING SO WELL WITHOUT TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE DETAIL, AND IT SEEMS EASY TO UNDERSTAND FOR ANYONE WITH LITTLE TO NO MUSIC KNOWLEDGE!!
THANK YOU FOR RESEARCHING THIS !!!!! IT TURNED OUT SO COOL
( also will you be adding captions )
I think Pinging Marciale could also tie into the fact that it sends enemies into the battlefield that hunt the player down, like a how military marshal would send out soldiers. The pegs it runs into also causes it to let out an attack similar to the wave breaker, which I would consider a ping based on how it functions it turf and ranked. Whether or not the Jelletons literally ping Eight using echolocation I'm not sure about.
Regardless, I've been wondering about a lot of these names but never got around to looking them up. Hopefully this reaches a few others who were wondering too.
This is such a high quality video, presenting info in a really fun way on a topic that I didn't think much on before. Springing Spiccato probably has my favorite reasoning behind it's name, bouncy fellas.
Wow, didnt know you liked Splatoon too (2). Also great video and amazing dedication lol
Regarding the controllers on Marina's visor: It's specifically a Virtual Boy controller, aka Nintendo's early form of not-a-headset VR headset.
"Spectrum Obligato" sounds like an orderly twist on "Anarchy Rainbow" in terms of titling.
Parallel Canon also has to do with the whole concept of a world of order if marina had won splatoon 2 final fest.
I was hoping to come across a video like this. Love the attention to detail! Thanks for your work, I've learned a lot!
That ending did pull it all together. The three pillars of splatoon really are gameplay, theme, and music. And this expansion is like a love letter to the chaotic nature that has somehow organized itself into the music of splatoon.
Throughout its entire history the entirety of the splatoon world has been influenced by music. And this expansion is no different
fascinating and so well done! thank you for posting this <3
beautiful battering lento clip at 5:07
I want to mention that the little text above Parallel Canon's name is "Intensifying Harmony", which i believe is a very obvious nod to the fact that the canons come in waves! They intensify each wave due to each wave having more canon's than the last wave and the harmony part could tie into how they're working in unison to try and beat you! y'know like how a team would need harmony in order to win (which is something i hardly ever find in solo queue LOL)
Spoilers for the bosses ahead ‼️
Another fun fact about their naming is that their musical term appears in each boss’s own song! I’m actually not too sure about Asynchronous Rondos one, but parallel canon has a repeating motif of three notes all throughout its song. This one might be kind of a stretch but Pinging Marciale has a heavy focus on drums and breakcore, even featuring the amen break; and marches are similarly rhythmic and very beat focused. If anyone can find if a rondo is used in its bosses song, please let me know, I only just learned that from this video lol
7:28 speaking of ascending, the homing arpeggio actually ascends in pitch as it gets closer to you
Omg I didn't even think about their names being based on music but that's literally so cool!!! This was a great video!
19:54 since literally every jellton have a English word at the front, I would call it: Spawning Ostinato instead
21:17 fun fact! If you look at the sections, the curves look like arrows, which actually points to what direction it’s gonna spin to! So it’s kinda like “hey heads up! This sections gonna spin that way”
how do you only have 86 subs!?
23:53 that’s because in the splatoon franchise, they make every boss at least have three stages. (If your gonna say asynchronous rondo is not one, the layers with lights are the stages)
30:17 ohm my god! This explains why it it’s named that! In the second half of the song, it changes to a faster tempo.
Very insightful video, as a musician of over 11 years I had only recognized a few of the musical terms off the top of my head I nee there was a theme they were going for glad to see somene take thr time to reasearch and explain these specific details
epic👍👍👍
I actually thought, myself, that Parallel Canon's name was a reference to Pachelbel's Canon, but that's just me.