
Just like a certain Dinosaur Story for the silverscreen, we're back! In order to pick up the (health-ridden) slack, here's a double header coming from this very Summer.
Game | Genre | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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AC Nijiiro (Y6) | ![]() | ★4 150 | ★6 274 | ★6 384 | ★8 557 | - |

Break Through The Dome Arknights
「アークナイツ -明日方舟-」より
「アークナイツ -明日方舟-」より
Game | Genre | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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AC Nijiiro (Y6) | ![]() | ★3 138 | ★6 228 | ★7 499 | ★9 913 | - |

Nijiiro Version has received a bunch of unexpected entries for the Game Music genre as a whole in 2025, counting among these the shared labors of the first bona-fide gacha gaming collaboration in years! Granted, the scope isn't the same as we've seen in the past for parties like Puzzle & Dragons and Chain Chronicle, but having one of the long-running players of the scene both sharing the Taiko love on their turf and be shared for arcade Donders sure is a change of pace from the more common licensed collaborations we're used to by now! The other party in question is the tower-defense/strategy game Arknights from Hypergryph, a Chinese gaming company famously co-founded by an ex-member from another gacha-oriented connational venture in Mica Team (Girls Frontline and related spinoffs/sequels).
The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world with a topology similar to Earth's (down to the planet's name, Terra, of the same meaning in Italian) but afflicted with a mysterious and highly-viral disease called Oripathy, contracted through other infected ones or the highly valuable Originium mineral. The disease is capable of giving the host magical powers -the 'Arts'- but at the same time leads the host body to death over time by rock crystallization, making of the Oripathy-infected populus a common target of persecution and ostracization. In the midst of the worldwide turmoil caused by the disease, the pharmaceutical company Rhodes Island stepped in to travel Terra and try dealing with the disease, with the recruitment of many a special agents -among infected and sane ones- to be deployed as on-field Operators as a self-defensive counterforce to hostile entities to the world balance and/or Rhodes Island itself, including the infected-lead Reunion militant movement and the mysterious Church of the Deep. As the cloak-covered Doctor, Rhodes Island's field commander, players are generally called to ward off enemy threats heading to a number of checkpoints on the field, by deploying both close-combat Melee Operators as well as Ranged ones, handling their skills from an upper advantage position.
The game was first released in Mainland China on May 2019, with worldwide and Taiwan-focused versions releasing the year after with mobile gaming company Yostar as their distributor. More than six years are gone since then, but the company-starting game is still going strong, both with plans of upcoming spinoff titles (Arknights: Endfield) as well as animated renditions of their earliest story arcs, three of which being animated by the same global distributor's animation studio, Yostar Pictures (Prelude to Dawn, Perish in Frost and this year's Rise from Ember). On the cross-media collaboration side, the Hypergryph cornerstone is used to lend the property for one-sided collaborations (for that matter, the latest of those is approaching its final days!) and that rings the most true for the rhythm gaming sphere, seeing how former beneficiaries of playable Arknights music and elements -Rayark's Cytus II and PeroPero's Muse Dash- were the only ones with new contents on stake, non-reflecting the source tower-defense game.
The attitude was definitely different for the Taiko no Tatsujin crossover, as in the Chinese 6th anniversary livestream of the game it was revealed how both parties will end up with elements of the neighbouring partner, this past Summer! The end results for both turfs were seen this past July: Arknights got a time-limited Taiko no Tatsujin skin for the Operator Myrtle to purchase, while Nijiiro Version arcades would get a couple of playable Arknights songs, a few days later.
Arknights's overall score has been collectively credited under the Monster Siren Record label, under which name a dedicated official website was created to host all currently-available music with a few remarks on either its making or the feel behind them; in one way or another, however, the true identites behind each song's makers have gradually come out, including of course the two Taiko-transplanted songs of today! Starting from Radiant, this is a vocal piece from composer Erik Castro and singer Mary Claire and is used as the theme song for the Kasimierz-originating Operator Nearl's "alternative" limited variant to be deployed, Nearl the Radiant Knight. Unnamed talents from the PMP Music production team, on the other hand, were behind the full-instrumental Break Through The Dome, which was used as stage background music for a Year 3 time-limited Summer event, Ideal City: Endless Carnival. Both songs were also crossed over to the aforementioned Muse Dash music game, across the two distinct collaboration rounds said game could bask in, up until now (Radiant; BTTD).
Both songs' Oni charts manage to stand out on their own in their repective star rating ballpark, both on the stamina side as well as for unique flavorful elements. Radiant's beginning portion is easily the biggest OK-hit magnet due to the charting's initial adeherence to the singer's voice, transitioning to the stable 176-BPM rest of the song in a mixture of escalating scrolling speed increments and cluttered barlines at a stable pace. While not giving nightmares at its upper echelons the Muse Dash way, Break Through The Dome also manages to be a weird in-between challenge degree ranging to both underplay and outpace another Game Music crossover darling in Zeami's Music Revolver: middle complex cluster action is back and even trickier than ever, but those who have the energy to clear out the additional notes afterwards might just be lucky enough to end up with a Clear result, if the more troubling section has left more than a dent to the performance...