Taiko Time's Drumvent Calendar the 3rd!

The final month of the year is here once more. Just like in recent years, it doesn't matter what one wants to celebrate along its lines -Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, the ever-elusive December birthdays and anything inbetween- as we're tiding the wait around here with a returning side-actuvity of ours: the Drumvent Calendar!

Once per day, this page will be updated with one 'dream pick' among songs suggested by the kind residents in our Discord server, songs that are deemed to be Taiko-worthy by each of their respective requesters that will have some of its secrets unfolded, in the style of our Song of the Week/Song Series Showcase articles. There's gonna be a new daily pick up until December 24th, but who knows if there's room for something more at the end...

For the time being, sit back with refreshments of your choice at hand and let us delve once again inside many a Donder's Taiko-aimed lucid dreams...

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6
Day 7	Day 8	Day 9	Day 10	Day 11	Day 12
Day 13	Day 14	Day 15	Day 16	Day 17	Day 18
Day 19	Day 20	Day 21	Day 22	Day 23	Day 24

Song of the Week! 14 December 2024

 

Seeing as last December we already got a Saturday feature in conjunction with a related request for our ongoing Drumvent Calendar blog event (see here) and that we might occur a similar scenario this year, I tried to do a cheeky thing and write in advance a piece about a song based on one of Namco's oldest arcades among the 16-bit era models, in anticipation of an eventual Saturday draw of the wheel for it.

Problem is, that particular Drumvent song was already drawn (and yesterday, at that!). At this point, we might as well talk about the song inspired from the same game that actually made it into Taiko gaming...

Twxttxr Snxppxts (December 13th, 2024) - 2024's Final Polling Round for Upcoming Songs

#太鼓の達人 (ゲームセンター版)に収録してほしい楽曲のアンケートを実施します🎉

収録楽曲検討の参考にさせていただきますので、下記リンクよりぜひご参加ください！！

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アンケート期間：12/13(金)～12/27(金)https://t.co/boROUBxfof
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たくさんのご参加お待ちしてます♪#taiko765 pic.twitter.com/4zWpwGevfj

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 ゲームセンター版 (@taiko_team) December 13, 2024

Often times across the Nijiiro Version firmware line's tenure, game center-affine Donders were polled by the Taiko Team via anonymous questionairs as a reference for eventual future song inclusions. We've got another of these online, but this time around everyone's invited to vote!

From today until December 27th, you can hop onto one of the following language-affine Quesant forms to write down the name of one/more song/s per genre you'd like to see on Nijiiro Version arcades in the future! As usual, these questionairs are made just as a way to gauge a "general-idea" reference pool and as such, votes are not binding to the final outcomes nor they'll be subject to public reveals of sorts.

Below are all the relevant Quesant poll links, with the latter three taken from an entry from the official General Asia ver. Facebook page:

Japanese: https://questant.jp/q/Q7VU24GR
English: https://questant.jp/q/ZVQYNKI3
Trad. Chinese: https://questant.jp/q/WZN8FJX9
Korean: https://questant.jp/q/02VZN97N

Namco Taiko Blog - Pre-Anni Preparation from the Taiko Team's Livestream Recap

A quick catch-up post to the latest Namco Taiko Blog about last week's livestream is in order, not only for blog coverage per-se but also for a tidbit we forgot to parse in our image-based coverage.

In a nutshell, the Taiko no Tatsujin franchise's upcoming 24th anniversary will be welcomed by a number of features, first and foremost including three new Ranking Dojo Gaiden courses which are based on Nijiiro Version's second tenure year. Expect to see these three in the coming months!

Official Link
Taiko no Tatsujin official blog (2024/12/09)

[DF] - Taiko Music Pass Update for December '24, Part 2

／#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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12月19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/bymxsS4MDE pic.twitter.com/A5r0AQYA5k

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 家庭用シリーズ (@taiko_kateiyou) December 12, 2024

The final Taiko Music Pass update for 2024 is bound to come next Thursday, with all versions getting five more tracks in the subscription plan, including a prized Classic revival among fans of the lovable Pachinko games for children and three overall series debuts.

Among those, we find the 2nd promised Kasane Teto song delivery from the last month, alongside a brand-new inhouse Namco Original from the composer who brought up Bubble Lips Rave Machine from earlier this year. We even have the full song up on the usual BNSI YT channel (link), alongside the batch's announcement via SNS!

Taiko Music Pass New Tracks

	Title
2024/12/19
	I wonder From the Drama "Kukuri-Who Fell in Love with Me?"        ドラマ「くるり～誰が私と恋をした？～」より	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Koi From the Drama "The Full-Time Wife Escapist" 恋／ドラマ「逃げるは恥だが役に立つ」より	★2	★3	★3	★6	★1
	Override Yoshiyo Yoshida feat. Kasane Teto オーバーライド／吉田夜世 feat. 重音テト	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Ninth Symphony Ludwig Van Beethoven 第九交響曲／ベートーヴェン	★3	★3	★3	★6
	Stepping On The Accel ステッピン・オン・ジ・アクセル／valknee × Sho Okada (BNSI)	★?	★?	★?	★?

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

Livestream Recap: 2024/12/08 Taiko no Tatsujin Official Livestream

The final Taiko no Tatsujin livestream of the year is here, at long last! Behind the jump lies all the English-commentary walkthrough to what you can see on the video above these lines, sporting a particular titling format that may or may not be related to what's been unveiled inside...

Song of the Week! 7 December 2024

 

So it's December, bringing along the reoccurring trend of seasonal festive tunes being repeatedly etched into many people's head with varying degrees of 'acceptance' according to its listeners.

While we don't have any more of such period-linked tunes to fester one's memories, we're surely not lacking in the earworm-worthy popular songs in the general Japanese scene to talk about, either!