Iai Giri

Iai Giri (ゐあひ斬り) is the 2nd Rhythm Game of Stage 2 (8th overall) in Rhythm Tengoku.

Gameplay
In this game, The Wandering Samurai is protecting a town from yokai wearing tengu masks by slicing them. The player uses Ⓐ to quickly unsheathe, slice, and re-sheathe their sword in order to cut down the enemies moving to the beat of the music. Fog eventually creeps in to obscure the player's vision and forces them to use their sense of rhythm to best them. The more times the samurai succeeds in felling his enemies, the more intense his stance and hairstyle become.

Trivia

 * The name of this game uses a nearly obsolete Japanese kana, ゐ (wi), which is rarely used in modern Japanese. The modern spelling would be いあい斬り (Iai Slash). "Iai" refers to the "art of quickly drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards". In short, a quick-draw sword technique.
 * This is one of a few games in Rhythm Tengoku that doesn't have a Practice.
 * However, a "How to Play" demonstration was added in the arcade version.
 * The sprite for the lower half of the largest yokai mask after being sliced erroneously has a part of it shifted to the left.