Song of the Week! 12 October 2024

 

I roughly got less than an hour to pen this weekly appointment out of IRL pressing committment, so... Pop Tap Beat quirkiness, grant me your help once more!!!

Taiko no Tatsujin Music Recruitment 2024 - General Public Voting Phase 1 Winners!

With the month of September come and gone (plus a week's worth of recouping the results), the first round of General Public Voting results are out! In no order of ranking, the top 10 most voted songs have been listed on a dedicated section of this year's music contest and will be the tracks Nijiiro Version players will be able to vote for in Phase 2:

• Fete of Fate / MYUKKE.
• EUPHORiC ENERZY -XD- / Reku Mochizuki
• Miss Me Marionette / Halv
• Overblaze / Mihile (ミハイル)
• So laggy! / Goto Ryusuke, Hachi, Uzumaki are Having a Conversation (後藤涼輔、はぁち、Uzumakiが会話中)
• siren's eye / Katagiri + Frums (かたぎり + Frums)
• It's a Dangerous Art! / Ini Manami (井荷麻奈実)
• Koyoi wa Majo-sama no Showtime (今宵は魔女様のショータイム) / yuudo + Tsudu (yuudo + つぐ)
• Tor / 7Mai
• Senko Tenbu (閃光天舞) / Juggernaut.

Picking one of the past livestream recap post's snapshots, here are the rules for Phase 2 once again: playing arcade Taiko no Tatsujin with a Banapassport will hand out one voting ticket; up to a maximum of 5 tickets can be ever earned for this voting. Each ticket can ve used to vote once for any of the 10 songs above in the contest's dedicated ares in the Donder Hiroba website. Vote-fetching via Banapassport and vote-casting both run from next Monday (October 14th) to November 25th.

Song of the Week! 5 October 2024

 

Rarely does following this series make one take note of the passage of time in general, but when it does...
Oh, man...

[ACN China] - Mainland China's Nijiiro Ver. 1-Year Anniversary Greeting!

One year ago, the ongoing arcade Taiko no Tatsujin line made its debut in mainland China for the first time since the Taiko 11/12 days, an event which has been welcomed with special greetings both from the arcade line producer and from Taiko Team leader Etou! The latter of the two also caught the timely occasion to unveil an upcoming project holding the Chinese Donders' feedback in high reguard.

The Kikyoku song series was made at the same time the franchise was starting to get more actively advertised in Asia as a whole with the launch of Chinese-exclusive versions for the aforementioned Taiko 11 and 12 arcades; there currently are plans of making a brand new addition to the series since the last one (from 10 years ago!) and the Taiko Team is open to suggestions on how to call it! More specifically, they're looking after its title and the two Chinese characters embodying the name theory of the long-running Namco Original song series' tradition. Get in touch with the Team on Bilibili, if you want to chime in with your own naming idea!

Source
Taiko no Tatsujin (China) Official Bilibili Page

[ACN] - 2024's New Touhou Arrange Revealed!

Contrary to what previously told on stream by the Taiko Team last month, October's start also marked a slight update to the upcoming Autumn Reitaisai with the title of this year's new playable Touhou Project arrange.

Once again, it's going to be a mashup project with a Namco Original... and it's with Saitama 2000, of all things!!! All we have to do now, as usual, is just wait for its public release, after its venue-limited debut this upcoming October 20th.

	Title
	Help me, Saitama 2000!! Touhou Project Arrange - Beat Mario respects LindaAI-CUE Help me, さいたま2000!! ／ 東方Projectアレンジ ビートまりお respects LindaAI-CUE	★?	★?	★?	★?

Source
Taiko no Tatsujin x Touhou Project @ Autumn Reitaisai 2024 promo page

Song of the Week! 28 September 2024

 

Another "forever-gone" kind of feature for today, this time focused on something bound outside the game centers. Who would have thought the Taiko no Tatsujin series also had ties with the football gaming sphere, across the years!?

[NS2] - TnT Donderful/Rhythm Festival Sept./Oct 2024 Taiko Music Pass/DLC Updates

Next month's Music Pass update -the last one prior to the game's upcoming multiplatform release- brings up a few brand-new licensed picks as well as more appreciation for the Vocaloid fans, getting one new Hatsune Miku tune next week as well as a surprise Ura debut that got released alongside the latest batch of song removals. Particularly interesting are also the returning Classic and Namco Original ports from the more-recent RHYTHM CONNECT updates since, you know, that ship is about to sink soon...

Another downloadable music pack also shows up its face in the SPY×FAMILY pack, grouping each of the currently-released tracks from the popular show minus Mixed Nuts, considering how that song is already available as standalone DLC for Switch players (not to mention it's also becoming a default addition for the aforementioned PC/console ports coming out in two months).

Taiko Music Pass New Tracks/Notecharts

	Title
2024/09/26
	Goodbye Sengen グッバイ宣言／Chinozo feat. flower					★9
2024/10/03
	Misenai Namida wa, Kitto Itsu Ka ミセナイナミダハ、きっといつか	★1	★3	★4	★6
	Lilac From TV Anime "Oblivion Battery" ライラック／TVアニメ「忘却バッテリー」より	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Soushi Sou'ai From the Movie "Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram" 相思相愛／劇場版「名探偵コナン 100万ドルの五稜星」より	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Konton Boogie jon-YAKITORY feat. Hatsune Miku 混沌ブギ／jon-YAKITORY feat. 初音ミク	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Ouverture "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart 序曲「フィガロの結婚」／モーツァルト	★4	★5	★5	★7
	Hopes and Dreams UNDERTALE 夢と希望／「UNDERTALE」より	★3	★5	★6	★8
	Destintion 2F29 Ini Manami 　　井荷麻奈実	★4	★6	★7	★10
	Space-Time Emergency 　　GARIN	★3	★5	★7	★9

Key: red = series debut; green = subscription/freemium debut

SPY×FAMILY Pack (150 yen+tax)

	Title
2024/10/03
	SOUVENIR BUMP OF CHICKEN / TV Anime "SPY×FAMILY" 2nd Opening Song 　　BUMP OF CHICKEN TVアニメ『SPY×FAMILY』第2クールオープニング主題歌	★3	★4	★5	★6
	Kurakura TV Anime "SPY×FAMILY" Season 2 Opening Song 夢と希望／TVアニメ『SPY×FAMILY』Season 2 オープニング主題歌	★2	★4	★4	★7
	WISE-BONDMAN-STRIX From TV Anime "SPY×FAMILY" 　　TVアニメ『SPY×FAMILY』より	★3	★5	★5	★8

Key: red = series debut; blue = console debut