Song of the Week! 22 March 2025

 

It's about time we start covering some of the winning entries from the latest Taiko no Tatsujin music contest!

Taiko no Tatsujin (Mainland China 4th-gen) Spring 2025 Updates

For those who have been keeping track of our previous update post (singular) on the mainland China 4th-generation arcade of Taiko no Tatsujin, you might have started to wonder when the "Summer 2024" season will end as the colder months come and go.

That question has finally been answered yesterday (2025/01/03), when the promotional video for the "Spring 2025" season released on Bilibili, dating the large-scale update for 2025/01/15. Main additions of the new update (and beyond) include:

• 32 tracks added including both mainland China exclusives and catch-up with the rest of the world in the main update. See below jump for the teased tracks and Ura Oni notecharts
  
• New players using the Player ID to set up their Donder profile can play their first credit for free
• Rolling in Rewards Campaign Spring 2025 coming soon (no date listed) (2025/01/15~04/22)
• Ranking Dojo 2024 coming soon in February 2025 2025/02/19 (2023 trials will retire on 2025/01/28)
• Drummers' Square mini-program updates coming soon in February 2025 2025/02/19, including the overall result panel, Ranking Dojo data and player search

While there is no full update notes from the WeChat official account as of this writing, we will continually update this post as further information arise.

Addendum (2025/01/10 onwards): Updated with full initial update notes, and we will continue to do so with any future supplementary updates. Check our Region Lock Checklist (published on Google Drive) for comparison between all regions.

Addendum (2025/02/16): Supplementary update dates Ranking Dojo 2024 release and Drummers' Square mini-program updates for 2025/02/19. In addition to the above additions, you may wish to note these changes that will take effect as well:

• Cooldown between Donder name changes will become 90 days
  PS: While not a new change, you might also wish to note that each name change is subject to approval before taking effect, taking 1-2 working days
• The login QR code will no longer be accessible directly from the chatlog in the WeChat official account, but will still be accessible from the mini-program

Taiko Team's Morikawa (producer for mainland China 4th-gen) and Etou also spoke about the update in a video letter on Bilibili, including development on a certain previous contest...?

Namco Taiko Blog (2025/03/19): Nijiiro ver. March 2025 Update

While the 4th-generation arcade Taiko no Tatsujin is officially ran as one perpetual version, players (including the Japanese wiki) generally recognize annual "seasons" as spearheaded by the March update and the Spring Don Medal Shop update. In that connection, the "2025 season" will kick-start with the 2025/03/26 update (2025/03/27 elsewhere).

Aside from the usual slew of track updates, points to note with this update include —

• Kamen Rider Gavv collab campaign (2025/03/26~2026/02/28, 📕Japan only)
  Play  Got Boost? with Bandai Namco Passport (or equivalent) to unlock the "Kamen Rider Gavv" outfit
  
• Don Medal Shop Spring 2025 (2025/03/27)
  
• New Clear/Full Combo/Donderful Combo title plate design, and the associated reordering of title list on the Donder Hiroba (maintenance 2025/03/26 02:00~09:00)
  
• Preview: Ranking Dojo 2024 ending in late-May 2025

Official Links

Taiko no Tatsujin official blog (2025/03/19)

Donder Hiroba Maintenance Notice

Asia ver. Facebook announcement (1, 2, 3, 4)

Taiko no Tatsujin Nijiiro ver. Track Updates

	Title
2025/03/26 (📕Japan only)
	Bansanka 晩餐歌／tuki.	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Kawaii Dake Ja Dame Desuka? かわいいだけじゃだめですか？／CUTIE STREET	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Aipai Dance Hall 愛包ダンスホール／HIMEHINA	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Shinako World Shinako しなこワールド／しなこ	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Otonoke Dandadan オトノケ／TVアニメ「ダンダダン」より	★?	★?	★?	★?
2025/03/26 (mainland China exclusive → 📕Japan only) 2025/03/27 (→ 📗Asia/Oceania only)
	Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies 海闊天空	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Miss You 3000 (想見你想見你想見你 Miss You 3000) 　　Someday or One Day 　　ドラマ「時をかける愛」より	★?	★?	★?	★?
2025/03/27 (all regions, unlockable)
	Toro-ika 2000 トロいか2000	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Aosagi no Hi 蒼鷺之火／BlackY	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Argent Memories	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Takara no Oka 宝の丘	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Tower of Druaga Medley ドルアーガの塔メドレー	★?	★?	★?	★?
2025/03/27 (all regions, moved to default)
	Yumeutstsu Catharsis Kanoya Ooki (BNSI) feat. Kaori Aihara 夢うつつカタルシス／大木奏弥(BNSI) feat. 愛原圭織	★4	★5	★6	★8
	Warera Muteki no Dokon Dan われら無敵のドコン団	★3	★4	★5	★8
	Dodododo-donderful! ドドドドドンだフル！	★3	★5	★6	★5	★10
	Metameta☆Universe! kyo (BNSI)×Mitsu (TRYTONELABO) feat. Zakuro Motoki めためた☆ゆにば～すっ！ 　　kyo(BNSI) × Mitsu(TRYTONELABO) feat. 本木咲黒					★10
2025/03/28 (all regions)
	High-tension☆Anki SHOW! ハイテンション☆暗記SHOW!	★?	★?	★?	★?

Key: red = series debut; blue = arcade debut

Chirping Crumbles (March 16th, 2025) - Blue-chiming Academy Antics at the WADIVERSE

【#WADIVERSE エピソード4の公開スケジュール】
漫画：3/18～公開
ミュージックビデオ：3/27公開予定
エピソード4はあの「青春の達人」が舞台に✨
漫画も楽曲も、ぜひ最後までお楽しみください♪
※スケジュールの内容や日程は予告なく変更されることがございます。 pic.twitter.com/GpaoVHOiDD

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 総合 (@taiko_All) March 16, 2025

This Sunday update from the taiko_all Twitter handle brings us an official reveal to the upcoming development of the WADIVERSE project that started last year, with Chapter 4 spanning throughout the next couple of weeks in many a media facet. The theme, this time around, is the fabled Aoharu no Tatsujin academy that was quite the riot on April Fools grounds circa 2023!

We're also going to get a brand-new playable song in two Fridays from now, with its MV releasing the day prior! My gut feeling is that we're about to hear more Hige Driver in Taiko after many years since the 8-bit port of his Tokyo Soda, considering the peculiar grounds on which I could make such an educated guess...

Song of the Week! 15 March 2025

 

A segway from the year's first Anim SotW, let's have the first Variety-themed one, while we're at it... as a double feature and, why not- both from the same core artist ensemble!

[DF] March '25 Taiko Music Pass Update (2/2) and Crown Point System

／#太鼓の達人ドンダフルフェスティバル
太鼓ミュージックパス楽曲追加のお知らせ📢
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3月20日(木)に #太鼓ミュージックパス へ楽曲を追加！ぜひプレイしてください！

↓楽曲リストはコチラからhttps://t.co/bymxsS5ktc pic.twitter.com/YObxhOsH3Z

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 家庭用シリーズ (@taiko_kateiyou) March 13, 2025

The promised delivery for March's latter half has come, revealing two brand new Pops tunes (including the final Strawberry Prince console Taiko tie-in) as well as the lucky revival (for the time being, at least) of the Girls×Heroine tunes of arcade perma-deletion fame, now relocated to the Variety genre. For once, Donderful/Rhythm Festival players will also nab a console-port-first among modern music contests' Namco Originals that was not ported to any of the i-device/mobile games, too!

Taiko Music Pass New Tracks/Notecharts

	Title
2025/03/20
	Bunny Girl	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Strawberry Prince Forever Strawberry Prince 　　すとぷり	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Fun!Fun!Fun! ～Yume Mugendai～ Bittomo×Heroine Kirameki Powers! Fun!Fun!Fun! ～夢∞～／「ビッ友×戦士 キラメキパワーズ！」より	★2	★3	★5	★6
	Chuwapane! Secret×Heroine Phantomirage! チュワパネ！／    「ひみつ×戦士 ファントミラージュ！」より	★1	★1	★3	★5
	Mirumiru ～Mirai Mieru～ Magical×Heroine Magimajo Pures! ミルミル ～未来ミエル～／「魔法×戦士 マジマジョピュアーズ！」より	★1	★2	★4	★5
	Unlimited Games Ponchi♪ feat. Hachi アンリミテッドゲームズ／Ponchi♪ feat. はぁち	★5	★7	★7	★10	★10

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

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新要素「王冠ポイント」
本日3月13日(木)に登場📢
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演奏ゲームを上手にプレイして王冠をゲットしたときに、王冠ポイントがもらえるように​✨
王冠ポイントをためて、特別なきせかえをゲット​！

色んな楽曲を遊んで、たくさんの王冠を獲得しよう♪​

詳細はこちら！​https://t.co/d9r6aPZ0zs pic.twitter.com/0oXI52Uapv

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 家庭用シリーズ (@taiko_kateiyou) March 13, 2025

Together with the Music Pass reveals, yesterday also saw the implementation on all DF/RF versions of a crown-count-based feature, one that also got added on the game's official website.

From yesterday's update onward, every unique song clear on any mode that would award a crown of any kind for completion will also award players a variable amount of Crown Points, which in turn will unlock a series of customizable headgear for your Taiko avatar to bask in its glory! The scoring goes by 1 point for Silver crowns (=Normal Clear), 2 points for Gold ones (=Full Combo Clear) and 3 points for the Rainbow ones (=Donder-Full Combo Clear), with crown improvements on a specific song's difficulty performance awarding players the resulting rank difference in points. For those who are already seasoned Donderful/Rhythm Festival players (especially the Switch players), the system will retroactively add every Crown Point for every pre-existing achieved crown play after playing any song once, after the update's implementation... including crowns on the deleted songs from the Taiko Music Pass!

Actually, there's... something else to talk about for the day, but we'll see you after the jump for that course of action!

Song of the Week! 8 March 2025

 

2025's first Anime-coded Song of the Week sure was one held in high-regards from the people at the helm of the Taiko franchise, considering its source material went to have two different collaboration campaigns with the arcade branch... and both in the same year, mind you!!