Iai Giri

ゐあひ斬り そこのけ そこのけ 奴らが通る。 おぬしは サムライ、 斬り捨て 御免！ Rhythm Tengoku	Iai Giri Make way, they're coming through! You are a samurai, slice them all! (Translation)

ゐあひ斬り そこのけ　そこのけ 奴らが通る。 おぬしは サムライ、 斬り捨て 御免！ Rhythm Tengoku	Iai Giri Make way, they're coming through! You are a samurai, slice them all! (Translation)

ゐあひ斬り

Image

File:Iai Giri GBA Prologue.png

File:Sammy slice.PNG

Number

8

Gift

"アジアなドラム" (Asia Drum)

Iai Giri (ゐあひ斬り^?, Iai Giri) is the 8th Rhythm Game in Rhythm Tengoku. In this game, The Wandering Samurai is protecting a town from yokai wearing tengu masks by slicing them.

Gameplay

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The player uses Ⓐ to quickly unsheathe, slice, and re-sheathe their sword in order to cut down enemies moving to the beat of the music. Fog eventually creeps in to obscure the player's vision of the enemies 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.

Controls

• Ⓐ: Slice

Timing Display

• Perfect!/Ace!^?:
• Early!/Late!^?:
• Miss...^?:

Results

	見物人のはなし (The Spectator's Tale)	見物人のはなし (The Spectator's Tale)
	きほんが　できてませんな。(Focus on the basics.) てきが見えないと　ダメっぽい．．．(No good when you can't see them...) 速いのが　ニガテみたい．．．(Not good at the fast parts...)	きほんが　できてませんな。(Focus on the basics.) てきが見えないと　ダメっぽい．．．(No good when you can't see them...) 速いのが　ニガテみたい．．．(Not good at the fast parts...)
	う～ん．．． まぁまぁ、　かな。 とりあえず．．． よしと　します。	(Hmm...) (Well, I wonder.) (For now...) (All right.)
	てきが見えなくても　イイカンジ！(Even when you can't see them, you did it!) 速いテンポが　うまくとれてる！(You got the fast tempo well!) スローが　おみごと！(The slow parts were perfect!)	てきが見えなくても　イイカンジ！(Even when you can't see them, you did it!) 速いテンポが　うまくとれてる！(You got the fast tempo well!) スローが　おみごと！(The slow parts were perfect!)

Epilogue

• Sammy getting bested.PNG

  "刃こぼれしちまった！" (My blade is broken!)

• Sammy did ok.PNG

  "さらに精進（しょうじん）すべし！" (Must devote myself more!)

• Samurai Slice GBA Superb.PNG

  "切れあじ、 サイコーだ！！" (How sharp, awesome!!)

Appearances

• Samurai Slice Arcade.png

  Iai Giri
  Remix 2
  Remix 6
  Remix 7
  Remix 8

Trivia

• The name of the game uses an old character, ゐ (wi^?), which is rarely used in modern Japanese, where the game's name would be written as "いあい斬り", meaning "Iai Slash". "Iai" is a complicated word, describing the "art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards". If read with the old spelling, it would be pronounced "Wiahi Giri".
  • This game lacks an official English name due to Rhythm Tengoku not being released outside of Japan. The closest would be the name of Samurai Slice in Rhythm Heaven, which is named Iai Giri Gaiden in Japanese.
• This is one of a few games in Rhythm Tengoku that doesn’t have a Practice.
  • However, a tutorial was added in the arcade version.
• The Wandering Samurai has returned in other games in the series.

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ゐあひ斬り	Iai Slash