Friday, January 15, 2021

Namco Taiko Blog (January 15th, 2021) - The Heated Den'onbu Taiko-off

 

As foretold at the year's start, tomorrow is the day for more songs from Bandai Namco's multimedia electronic music Den'onbu project to come on Nijiiro Version, with a little something more to boot that warrants its dedicated blog entry one day before its implementation.

March 2020/Nijiiro ver. New Songs: January 16th, 2021

Title
Hand Over (Prod. TEMPLIME) Reina Hidaka (CV: Yuka Tatsumi), Kazune Shinonome (CV: Miho Amane), Futaba Chino (CV: Sena Horigoshi)/Den'onbu
  日高零奈(CV:蔀 祐佳), 東雲和音(CV:天音みほ), 茅野ふたば(CV:堀越せな) 「電音部」より
★?★?★?★?
Hyper Bass (feat. Yunomi) Mimi Sakuramo (CV: Yurie Kozakai), Hina Mizukami (Nichika Omori), Shian Inuzaki (CV: Rena Hasegawa)/Den'onbu
  桜乃美々兎(CV:小坂井祐莉絵), 水上 雛(CV:大森日雅), 犬吠埼紫杏(CV:長谷川玲奈) 「電音部」より
★?★?★?★?
Itadaki Babel (Prod. Kenmochi Hidefumi)
  Tama Kurogane (CV: Akina)/Den'onbu
いただきバベル (Prod. ケンモチヒデフミ)
  黒鉄たま (CV: 秋奈) 「電音部」より
★?★?★?★?
Shining Lights (feat. PSYQUI) Karin Houou (CV: Kana Sukoya)/Den'onbu
  鳳凰火凛(CV: 健屋花那) 「電音部」より
★?★?★?★?
Key: red = series debutblue = arcade debut

Alongside the official subtitle artist mentions you can see on the grid above, today's official blog entry is here to highlight how the four songs are going to be part of their own tie-in event called the Den'onbu Cultural Festival Tokyo Area Competition (文化祭 トーキョーエリア対抗戦). The fictional artists from four of the Japan capital's extra-curricular mjusic classes are duking it out to see which one is the most popular of the fray, and the victor will be picked out from whose of their songs is the most popular one!

From tomorrow until February 14th, the overall number of times any of the four newcoming songs will be counted across all arcade players, decreeing at the end of the competition which one of the four acts will be rising victorious! It's possible to read the prologue story to this event on the Den'onbu project's website (link), while only the winning act will have its epilogue story unveiled at a later date. During the competition's duration, Nijiiro Version will also have a custom song folder to easily get access to the four event-related songs.