KIRETSU ULT 10: every judgment logged, frame by frame

Pre-dive: read the card

1. 1

   Open the difficulty ladder: ULT 10 is the third rung

   KIRETSU's selector lays out all four tiers — 4, 7, 10, 13 — with the shattered-glass jacket art between them and the PLAY button bottom right. The run this page logs takes the ULTIMATE 10 rung; the same screen credits the illustration to Fritz (フリッツ).

   

2. 2

   Check the contract: ULTIMATE 10, a blank HIGH SCORE, Assist Mode

   The pre-dive card pins DIFFICULTY to ULTIMATE and — tellingly — leaves HIGH SCORE empty: a first entry. Two more details matter for reading this log. The partner panel sits on CONNECT, and the Assist Mode Enabled tag is live below it. Every score on this page is an assist-mode baseline, said up front.

   

3. 3

   Count the lanes before the first note lands

   The dive opens on an empty six-lane field with the score pegged at 000'000'000 — four key lanes A S D F plus two wide side lanes labelled Umschalt and Leer on this HUD. Top right, the contract stays pinned for the whole run: KIRETSU / Laur, ULT 10, SPEED 7.00.

   

Opening: holds and slabs

1. 4

   Bank the opening on a cyan hold slab

   The chart's first stretch leans on holds: a wide cyan slab fills the right lanes and pays an EXACT while the chain ticks to 21. With 584 Hold notes in this chart — more than a third of it — settling into a comfortable grip on these long presses is the first skill KIRETSU asks for.

   

2. 5

   Ride the field-wide purple slab

   KIRETSU's signature: a slab wide enough to cover the whole field, purple-edged and slow enough to read. Two EXACT judgments land while it drains. Slabs like this are why the wiki splits the chart into 382 Field notes — traffic you steer with both hands at once rather than tap.

   

3. 6

   Read the gold hexagons on the key line

   When Field notes hit, golden hexagons flare across the bottom of the key lanes — four EXACTs at once here, chain 27. The hexagon burst is your confirmation that a wide input registered; if a beat passes without one, you dropped a Field note even though the lane lit.

   

Mid-chart: breaks and rebuilds

1. 7

   Hold the triangle, watch the chain restart

   A long violet triangle slab rides the left lanes — and the chain reads 14. The low number is the story: the mid-chart has already taken its first BREAK, and this hold is where the rebuild starts. Triangles hold like slabs but taper to a point, so the release timing reads later than it feels.

   

2. 8

   LATE NEAR means pull your hits earlier

   Two LATE NEAR stamps at chain 220 — the chart is rushing past your hands, not the other way round. NEAR still credits the note but bleeds score; at 84 NEARs on this card, trimming even a handful is worth a rank tier. When the stamps pile up, drop your timing a beat earlier rather than mashing faster.

   

3. 9

   Twin holds punish early releases with EARLY BREAK

   The cruelest pairing in the chart: two cyan hold slabs side by side. The right press rides to EXACT; the left one releases a hair soon and takes an EARLY BREAK — a full note lost plus the chain. In twin holds, anchor the later hand first and let the earlier key release on the sound, not the shape.

   

The last stretch and the result

1. 10

   Close it out on both side lanes at once

   The finale asks for both outer lanes simultaneously — purple left, pink right — two long holds glowing while the key lanes scatter EXACTs between them, chain 70 and climbing. It is the chart's last real trap: hands that drifted inward all run get caught reaching back out here.

   

2. 11

   Read the result: 1,573 notes, confirmed on the card

   DIVE RESULT settles it: KIRETSU / Laur, ULT 10 badge, EXACT 1310 + 136, NEAR 84, BREAK 43 — a sum of 1,573, matching the community wiki's note count exactly. MAX LINK 372, Miss Gauge 13, rank A at 094'597'623, DIVE CLEARED, with the Assist Mode box printed on the card itself. This is the first time the chart's judgments have been written out in full.

   

3. 12

   The ceremony closes: Song Unlocked

   Right after the result, the game presents the Song Unlocked card — jacket front and centre, KIRETSU / Laur beneath — confirming what the blank HIGH SCORE implied: this filmed run was the account's first entry, and the ceremony seals it. The chart you just read stays in the rotation from here on.