Thursday, October 24, 2024

Namco Taiko Blog (October 24th, 2024) - Nijiiro's End-Year Anime Collabs and Events



The title says it all, but there's a lot more words to spare to fully digress what this 'all' entails, for this round! Let's start after the jump with the songs that Japanese locales are to expect, come next week (October 30th, to be exact) with Nijiiro Version's latest update...

Nijiiro Ver. New Songs/Collaboration Event

Title
2024/10/30 (JP only)
Deer Color Days from TV Anime "My Deer Friend Nokonoko"
シカ色デイズ
/TVアニメ「しかのこのこのここしたんたん」より
★?
★? ★? ★?
Storyteller That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime
 「転生したらスライムだった件」より
★? ★? ★? ★?
PEACEKEEPER That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime
 「転生したらスライムだった件」より
★? ★? ★? ★?

Three non-cover Anime hits are about to hit the arcade shores, one more on the memey-side from the deer-centric anime starring Hatsune Miku's real-life voice provider and another couple from the nicknamed TenSura anime series which already got a Taiko collaboration earlier this year.

Little do we know, not even a full year in and we're having a collaborative encore on that, too!
From the update day up until December 15th this year, Banapassport Donders will once again be able to snag an array of Petit Charas from the ever-popular Anime show by playing one of its songs (including the already-available  Nameless Story). Together with the returning Rimuru Tempest and Shura, it's possible to get in the same way the chibi-drum-companion versions of Benimaru, Souhei and Hakurou. By scanning a promotional QR code appearing after a TenSura-friendly credit play (just playing one of the songs will do) will be valid to enter a raffle for one of 30 Benimaru acrylic keychains!

The campaign is exclusive to the Japansese arcade goers and its full details can be recounted on the revised official side-page of the Nijiiro website.



Taiko no Tatsujin @ Amusement Expo 2024
Our drumming franchise is a welcomed returning guest at the upcoming edition of the Amusement Expo, running November 15-16. Etou and Kimizu will be attending the venue and people can enjoy some Taiko action and photo shoots at the expo's price of admission!

This is an also-notable venue as it will be the first one to put out on the public a slightly-different arcade drum build, geared with a differently-built rim section for a similar drum-hitting feel and... something No.11 doesn't want to disclose on this here blog entry, so you can go meet tham there to try it and tell your experience with it (and maybe some item giveaway, too!)

Just like last year, Bandai Namco will be also attending the joint-company-shared Amusement Expo MusicFes, a live music event with both stage performances and DJ sets for the expo's 2nd day (November 16th)! Once again, Bandai Namco will send in one of the school from their cross-media Denonbu project (the Sotokanda Literature High School members' VAs, to be specific) and the duo of Licht Tsuboi and Linda AI-CUE for the DJ Set, but expect to see performers from other musicgame-renowned shores, including Hardcore TANO*C members and inhouse musicians VAs from Sega/Konami/Taito music game series to boot!

Taiko no Tatsujin Official Livestream - December 2024
This year's final livestream session appointment with the Taiko Team has also been revealed and set in stone to December 8th! Judging by the timing of things, on top of all the not-disclosed topics at hand we might also see which song/s will ultimately come on top of the ongoing General Public Voting phase of this year's music recruitment contest (more on that here!).

As usual, Etou and Kimizu are also open to arcade-related questions to answer live, so if you got one of your own you can use this here Quesant form, valid from today up until November 7th.

We leave you today with the latest round of Nijiiro song removals, which has also been reposted at the end of today's official blog entry.

Nijiiro Ver. Farewell Songs

Title
2024/11/22 (all locales)
/ / Himawari no Yakusoku
ひまわりの約束

  Also in: Wii U2 (DLC), 3DS3/NS RPG, PS4,  NS1 (DLC), NS2 (MP) (1*)
★3
★4 ★5 ★7
Synchronicity
シンクロニシティ

Nijiiro Ver. Exclusive (1*)
★2
★3 ★5 ★7
/ / Akeboshi
明け星

  Also in: NS2 (MP)
★1
★2 ★5 ★6
Fun!Fun!Fun! ~Yume Mugendai~ from "Bittomo x Senshi Kirameki Powers!"
Fun!Fun!Fun! ~夢∞~
/「ビッ友×戦士 キラメキパワーズ!」より
Nijiiro Ver. Exclusive
★2
★3 ★5 ★6
liveDevil
      
「仮面ライダーリバイス」より
  Also in: NS2 (DLC/MP)
★2
★3 ★5 ★6
(1*) - available on Taiko no Tatsujin RHYTHM CONNECT until End of Service (Dec. 2nd, 2024)

Farewell Timeline (all times are JST/UTC+9)
Time Milestone
2024/11/05 00:00
  • Farewell Tracks unusable in Donder Hiroba tournaments and challenges
2024/11/22 02:00
  • Crowns and score ranks obtained from Farewell Tracks removed from totals in Donder Hiroba
2024/11/22 07:00
  • Farewell Tracks no longer playable 
  • Scores and rankings of Farewell Tracks removed from view in Donder Hiroba
  • Liked Tracks slot and Favourite Track reverted to none if Farewell Tracks was selected

Official Link
Taiko no Tatsujin official blog (2024/10/24)