花瓣之舞

“

Petals fall, and dance.

” ——Flavor text while battling Aqua, Chapter 5

Petal Dance is the 17th track of the DELTARUNE Chapter 5 OST. It plays during the battles against the 7 Colored Flowers, except against Flowery.

Trivia

• Petal Dance's filename is unusually generic, likely being retained from a point in Chapter 5's development when the context surrounding this track was not yet finalized. The filename also includes a "work-in-progress" label, making Petal Dance one of five Deltarune tracks to be erroneously labeled this way, alongside BIG SHOT, Gingerbread House, Dark Sanctuary, and Rakuichi Buster.
• The song heavily features a particular trumpet sample popularized by and frequently associated with Touhou Project series composer ZUN, who Toby Fox has worked with.
  • The trumpet section additionally contains a melodic similarity to several tracks from the 7th Touhou game, Perfect Cherry Blossom, namely ブクレシュティの人形師 ("The Doll Maker of București").
• The following week of its release, Petal Dance's official YouTube upload reached the top 30 of the platform's music trends chart in the United States.