Saturday, June 21, 2025

Chirpring Crumbles (June 17th, 2025) - Decade-Old Departures of a Time-Gap-Separated Manner


Our pre-SotW recap showing from social media of the soon-ending week have all occurred near its very beginning, starting off with the Summer-opening tradition from Bandai Namco's past.

It's been 10 years since the long-discontinued Synchronica was launched and this year we only got one (yet iconic) song transplant to show up for it: Minna no Uta, the de-facto 'theme song' of sorts for the major firmware update that the game has experienced a few years on! The song was made playable since the day after on Japanese Nijiro cabs.


Also under the same "farewell" tones but of a different nature, we also came to know how longtime Namco musician Sato Takafumi has departed from the company this past March. The career coming-out reveal comes from the same artist a few months after the fact, as a way to introduce the social media side to the next working endeavor as the executive producer of a proprietary, just-launched music talent agency by the name of 2nd STAR PRODUCTION. Sato Takafumi will still work on the few Namco-related projects with collaborative contractual residues on, including the Gakuen Idolm@ster spinoff as its lead music producer.