Chirping Crumbles (October 5th, 2026) - Taiko no Tatsujin x Touhou Project 2026

【今年も開催決定！】 #東方Project × 太鼓の達人 2026 コラボ なんと今年は新曲が２つ収録されるドン!! 新規ぷちキャラなど、対象楽曲を遊んでもらえるごほうびも✨ 10/22(木)スタート！ 詳しくはこちら👇 https://t.co/o1vwVUN4Au #taiko765 #太鼓の達人 https://t.co/wyLqeEwL26

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 ゲームセンター版 (@taiko_team) October 5, 2026

It's (almost) that time of the year: the girls are preparing for another arcade collaboration tie-in that is set to bring in both old and new content alike! Best thing, you won't risk having to travel down through (Former) Hell to get your mittens on it, as once again this collaboration will affect every geographical area with Nijiiro Version arcades at the same time, even Mainland China and the Americas!

For an extended rundown of the event, see you after the jump.
To paraphrase some beer-lover, "As usual, it is best not to die (of drum misinputs)".

Namco Taiko Blog (October 2nd, 2026) - A Pota-tastic Collaboration

Before walking through all the All Hallows' Eve zaniness by the end of October, its very start is ripe in the collaboration-versed horizon!

The first of such outings is the now-active Nijiiro Version collaboration campaign with salty snacks company Calbee's Jagarico fries, with a month-long campaign that started this past Monday with a unique new tune and matching outfits for Banapassport-geared Donders. Up until January 11th, 2027, every credit play starring the newly-added Jagariko Remix (じゃがりこ りみっくす) from the Variety genre will unlock one of the four full-body Kigurumi outfits, cycling in the same unlocking order: Salad (green), Cheese (red), Potato (Blue) and the elusive Mentaiko Cheese Mocha Flavor (Black).

Both the collaboration ties and the song addition are slated to be Japan-exclusive, coupled with a lottery event mid-November which is also for Japanese applicants alone; please check the event's dedicated minisite (in Japanese) for further insights into the raffle.

Official Links

Taiko no Tatsujin Official Blog (2026/10/02)
Jagariko x Taiko no Tatsujin Collaboration Website

Namco Taiko Blog (July 10th, 2026) - WANted GANgly Collaboration Vibes at MIDNIGHT (feat. MAXIMUM TUNE Sharing)

It looks like 2026 has room for a second inhouse arcade racer starring drumming crossover-y scenanigans! In yesterday's official blog post, it was revealed how the latest installment of the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune series (6RR Plus) is having a Taiko-themed campaign, to go along with a parallel event on Japanese Nijiiro cabs running at the same time span: July 22nd to November 3rd.

Namco Taiko Blog (2026/05/14): Nijiiro ver. May Update Has Everyone Party Late into the Night

sorry we are late but in return we have the video links ready :3

Between the big guns of Dark DonChare and Ranking Dojo 2026, Taiko no Tatsujin Nijiiro ver.'s upcoming update on 2026/05/20 (Japan) and 2026/05/21 (worldwide except mainland China) may be lighter on content, but will be introducing a very important quality-of-life change.

From 2026/05/21, the daily server maintenance originally scheduled for 2am-7am JST will be shortened to 5am-7am JST, except when occasional maintenance is required on the authentication server and update distribution server. The period in which Donders can use Bandai Namco Passport (or equiv.) will be extended accordingly, which is especially great news for our friends in North America/United States where the maintenance would happen at daytime.

Taiko no Tatsujin Nijiiro ver. is also kickstarting a third That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime collab campaign only in Japan between 2026/05/20~07/20:

• Obtain Milim and Shion mini characters by winning in Battle! Milim Mode (Bandai Namco Passport required), a reskin of AI Battle Performance featuring the draconic demon lord
• Exchange for past collab mini characters from the in-game item ticket campaign (Bandai Namco Passport required), where one ticket is granted for every credit played including a TenSura track
• Bid for a chance to win collab design keychains in the merch campaign (Bandai Namco Passport not required)

Official Links
Taiko no Tatsujin official blog (2026/05/14)
Taiko no Tatsujin Asia ver. official Facebook Fan Page (2026/05/14)

Livestream Recap: 2026/02/20 Taiko no Tatsujin Official Livestream

Happy 25th series anniversary, everyone! The occasion has called for a streaming session that was not aired during a Sunday, like usual, pertaining a lot of Nijiiro-centric events and elements to both look back at the Taiko no Tatsujin's hiustory as well as to gaze onward to whatever 2026 holds in store for the immediate future.

Credit to Discord user jdrago for a handful of pictures featured in this post!

Taiko no Tatsujin x Project Sekai Collaboration Announcement!

 After a teaser tweet showing a bunch of blacked-out Petit Chara silouhettes this past Sunday, earlier today it was revealed how the next Vocaloid-related event to happen is none other than a music game collaboration joint! 

The news came from a Project Sekai live YT broadcast that was aired earlier today (clipped-out portion, courtesy of Discord user jorj), discussing the stretch of the Taiko-related content landing there.

Namco Taiko Blog (January 16th, 2026) - Nijiiro Version x Arknights Collaboration Reminder

Honestly, the title already says it all! There's nothing more to reiterate from the collaboration's original reveal from the last Taiko Team livestream, other that Chinese Donders will have to refer on region-exclusive schedule arragements via the official WeChat pages.

We'll toss one more reminder as an extra- don't forget that the same Arknights song duo will also become available next week on the Taiko Music Pass!

Official Links

Taiko no Tatsujin official blog (16/01/26)

Namco Taiko Blog (2025/07/24): Nijiiro ver. July 2025 Update and the Stream of Additions and Collabs

Coming in near the end of the month of July are news about the upcoming 2025/07/30 update to Taiko no Tatsujin Nijiiro ver., filled with new tracks and collaboration efforts.

Official Links

Taiko no Tatsujin official blog

Arknights x Taiko no Tatsujin Promo Video

The other end of the collaboration bargain between Bandai Namco's flagship music game series and Hypergryph's Arknights tower-defense game is now public knowiledge, with the reveal on Bilibili of a time-limited outfit for the players of the gacha game to acquire. This is for the 4-star Vanguard operator Myrtle, available for sale in the coming weeks.

Why this might be relevant on our end is how later on the same PV we also got brief art snippets of what appear to be more Taiko-affine cosmetics, and more specifically Petit Chara and full-body outfit combos pertaining the same Myrtle and another couple of operators, chibi-fied for the skin: Skadi the Corrupting Heart (not to be confused with Skadi the icecream-loving goddess) and Mizuki. Whether these will become unlockable for Nijiiro players or not, however, only time can tell...

Source
Arknights x Taiko no Tatsujin PV (Bilibili)

Namco Taiko Blog (June 2nd, 2025) / Livestream Recap: 2025/06/01 Taiko no Tatsujin Official Livestream / News-Flash Chirping Crumbles on Nijiiro's Next Update (2025/06/02)

...these livestream recap titles of ours sure are getting as stacked as a Jenga tower, are they?!

Until it crumbles, at least, we're once again here to regale you of what happened in yesterday's livestream, with the slides/recap shared today on today's official blog entry, a few extra shots on our side for anything else left uncovered there and an update shared via X right as I was in the middle of writing this very post. Let's just jump into it!

Taiko no Tatsujin x Arknights Collaboration Announcement

The Taiko no Tatsujin franchise is about to get ready for some collaborative action, and for the first time since the fabled Puzzle&Dragons and Chain Chronicle years, it's for an ongoing gacha game!

During today's livestream for the 6th anniversary of Hypergryph's tower-defense game Arknights, the teaser image above these lines was shown to make people aware of some of its elements bounding into Bandai Namco's drumming rhythm game franchise in the near future, with both execution and affected time frame/platforms to be revealed later on.

Coming out of collaboration talk from the external party in question, Arknights collaborative efforts are usually something that only affects the external franchise at hand, which -in the case of music games- it's about its music and related cosmetics. This, at least, was the case for both of the former music gaming beneficiaries of past Arknights collaboration events: Cytus II and Muse Dash (the latter getting two rounds of it, at that!)... how will this event roll out?

[ACN JP/Asia] - Taiko no Tatsujin x Touhou Project Campaign 2024!

One day prior to the yearly Autumn Reitaisai, here we are with this year's full-on details about the returning Touhou Project collaboration for Nijiiro players, available at the dedicated subpage of the ongoing arcade line's website.

This Banapassport-involving campaign will run from November 20th, 2024 to February 11th, 2025 and will be available for Nijiiro players from Japan and General Asia (please note that this campaign's edition is not extended to Mainland China Nijiiro arcades).

Twxttxr Snxppxts (August 29th, 2024) - Cosmic Radio 2024's Incoming Results Livestream

━━━━━━━━━ ✦ #CosmicRadio2024 ✦ ━━━━━━━━━
⋆★⋆ ══ 結果発表特番 ══ ⋆★⋆
✦・8 月 31 日 19:00 (UTC+8) ✦ bilibili & YouTube・✦
✦・配信シグナル、発射準備まもなく完成します．．．
━━━━━━━━━━- 99.99% pic.twitter.com/rVk2hZYzxc

— Cosmic Radio Official (@CosmicRadio_Evt) August 29, 2024

The quickfire-barrage of Taiko related scoops goes onto the 2024 of the Cosmic Radio contest, freshly revealed to have Bandai Namco's Taiko no Tatsujin series as one of its many music game partners.

The date for its Results livestream has been set at last to August 31st, 7pm (UTC+8), during which not only the phisical-goods awards will be bestowed to the best judge-approved picks, but it will also happen the simultaneous reveal of which songs are going to be picked up by each of the music game partners' series! See you then.

Twxttxr Snxppxts (August 27th, 2024) - The Outer-Space Collaboration Reveal from the Final Stretch

All rhythm games participating in the song inclusion of [#CosmicRadio2024] will announce their picks together in this special program!

Already guessed it? Well, have you also guessed that @taiko_team will come to include songs😏

Signal transmission progress ━━━━━─── 80% pic.twitter.com/qefJEmDAAz

— Cosmic Radio Official (@CosmicRadio_Evt) August 27, 2024

The presence of the Taiko franchise in the greater gaming landscape doesn't stop ar the multi-platform release reveal of Rhythm Festival, as word has just spread out of the franchise joining some more contest-mased music gaming action right as its end results are about to wind up: the 2024 edition of the Cosmic Radio. I swear to whatever deity our reading audience is revering the most that I have NOT planned my writing in any shape of form by briefly touching on it as part of the latest SotW piece, but seeing as Taiko no Tatsujin is now revealed to be a participating member of this project, we might as well fully commit to this and talk what's about this in a nutshell!

In short, this was the second in a music-game-aimed song contests line started by PeroPeroGames (of Muse Dash fame), calling its participants to produce an original song of theirs and share it online via the most popular video-sharing websites, always with a dedicated hashtags to be easily grouped together. Eligible submissions were gathered earlier this year from February 29th to April 29th, with the (soon-to-be-revealed) winners not only being awarded a number of physical goodies, but even being given the chance to have their song be featured in one (or more) of the participating otoge game-developing partners if found fitting to their respective game setting, regardless of being awarded any of the physical awards on display or not. Bandai Namco is the latest partner to join the ranks with Taiko no Tatsujin, enjoying on the project the unique company of... well, these companies to boot:

• PeroPeroGames (Muse Dash)
• Pigeon Games (Phigros; Rizline)
• Rayark Games (Cytus series; Deemo series; VOEZ)
• 7th Beat Games (Rhythm Doctor; A Dance of Fire and Ice)
  

Contest entries were uploaded on either bilibili or YouTube, with the latter platform's entries all having the #CosmicRadio2024 tag and the allegiance to the contest on their title, so you know what to look for if you want to dig in across contestant entries! The songs to be adopted inside the participating rhythm gaming families will all be revealed in a dedicated "Results Announcement Special Program" livestream, to go live on date and applicable platforms yet to be revealed. More information about the Cosmic Radio's 2024 run can be found on its dedicated website as well.

As you can read by the reveal tweet, some input from the now-joining Taiko Team's franchise was also fished for, to which its lead Etou gladly engaged with...

🌈👍✨ https://t.co/zWktuZfHnY

— ＴＴエトウ (@Yeto69) August 27, 2024

...well, let's make of this what you will, I suppose...

One Piece TV Anime 25th Anniversary x Taiko no Tatsujin Collaboration

TVアニメ『#ONEPIECE』25周年記念！
OPテーマ「あーーっす！」が
『太鼓の達人』各シリーズにて配信決定！

さらにコラボデザインの
カプセルラバーマスコットが
ガシャポンにて発売決定！

▼詳細はこちらhttps://t.co/ZHKpNZdKTV pic.twitter.com/RBWlaEpXhs

— ONE PIECE.com(ワンピース) (@OPcom_info) July 22, 2024

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the One Piece TV anime, the long running series is collaborating with Taiko no Tatsujin again, this time across three current titles!

One Piece TV Anime 25th Anniversary x Taiko no Tatsujin Collab

	Nintendo Switch Donderful Festival	Arcade Nijiiro ver.	iOS/Android RHYTHM CONNECT
Available from	2024/08/01	2024/08/07	2024/08/01 11:00
Format	Paid DLC (500 yen+tax) TV Anime One Piece 25th Anni. Collab Pack	Track Addition and Collab Campaign	Track Addition only
Link	NS2 main site	ACN main site	--
Contents
Collab Track UUUUUS!	✔	✔	✔
Petit-charas (10 kinds)	✔	✔	✘
Full-body Outfits (10 kinds)	✔	✘	✘
Title/Nameplate	Nameplate and Title (separate)	Special-plated title (together)	✘

	Title
	UUUUUS! One Piece あーーっす！／「ワンピース」より	★2	★3	★4	★6

In addition to the in-game appearances, a line of fourteen Capsule Rubber Mascot (カプセルラバーマスコット) featuring One Piece characters mingling with Don-chan and/or Kat-chan will be available from July 2024 through Bandai's Gashapon brand.

Nijiiro ver. Collab Campaign: 2024/08/07~09/29

• Special dancers in UUUUUS! during campaign
• Special-plated title Straw Hat Grand Fleet (麦わら大船団) from playing UUUUUS! with Bandai Namco Passport (or equivalent)
• In-game Item Campaign:
• Bandai Namco Passport (or equivalent) users get one ticket for every credit that played UUUUUS!, Saikou Toutatsuten or We Are!
• Exchange two tickets for one petit-chara (10 kinds) on Donder Hiroba

Namco Taiko Blog (2024/07/22~25): Nijiiro ver. August Update and Farewell Tracks

Between the peaks of World Championship 2024 and the imminent advent of Taiko arcade in North America/United States, the August update to Taiko no Tatsujin Nijiiro ver. (2024/07/31 in Japan and 2024/08/01 elsewhere) will sure to keep the hype going.

Official Links

Taiko no Tatsujin official blog (2024/07/22, 2024/07/25)

Nijiiro ver. New Tracks

	Title
2024/08/01 (Japan only)
	Bling-Bang-Bang-Born Mashle: Magic and Muscles S2 　TVアニメ「マッシュル-MASHLE- 神覚者候補選抜試験編」より	★3	★5	★6	★8
	Orange Haikyuu!! The Dumpster Battle オレンジ／「劇場版ハイキュー!! ゴミ捨て場の決戦」より	★?	★?	★?	★?
	Seishun Complex Bocchi the Rock! 青春コンプレックス／「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」より	★3	★5	★6	★8
	Tagatame TK from Ling Tosite Sigure/Boku no Hero Academia 誰我為／TK from 凛として時雨 「僕のヒーローアカデミア」より	★?	★?	★?	★?	★?

Key: red = series debut; blue = arcade debut

Boku no Hero Academia Collab Campaign: 2024/07/31~09/16

Just before the fourth movie, the popular anime series is collaborating with Taiko no Tatsujin with a two-faceted campaign:

• In-game Item Campaign: Play Tagatame while using a Bandai Namco Passport (or equivalent) to get petit-charas of Deku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo
  
  
• Merch Campaign: Two designs of collab keychain (50 each) are up for grabs via lucky draw. Set up your personal campaign page, then play Tagatame while using the QR Code generated on the page to earn points, and spend your points to redeem drawing chance for either design.

...as if we are not having another anime collab one week later, welp.

Rolling in Outfits Campaign Summer 2024: 2024/08/01~

30 outfit items can be yours as long as you play 60 credits of Taiko no Tatsujin Nijiiro ver. using a Bandai Namco Passport (or equivalent) this summer! Taiko Team knows how Donders want new outfit items to spruce up their wardrobes, so at least half of the campaign lineup are completely new to the arcade version.

The unlock requirements ramp up slowly across the lineup; you get one reward every one credit for the first ten, then one every two credits for 11th to 20th, and one every three credits for 21st to 30th.

That there is actually no concrete end date mentioned at this point makes us wonder whether North American/United States Donders can get the tail end when they get their hands on the new cabinets.

Title Fix: Namco's Own Edition

Donders outside of Japan who knows the early days of Nijiiro ver. may know what the state of localization is; not good to put it lightly. Taiko Team is gradually working to bring in more consistency in the English, trad. Chinese and Korean localizations, starting with the 2000 Series in this update.

Nijiiro ver. Farewell Tracks 

	Title
2024/08/23 07:00 (all locales)
	Paradisus-Paradoxum Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World 　　「Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活」より 　　Also in: 3DS3↓, PS4↓, NS1↓, NS2 (s), Xbox	★3	★5	★6	★8
	Walking with you 　　Also in: NS1↓, NS2 (s), RC	★2	★4	★5	★8

Farewell Timeline (all times are JST/UTC+9)

Time	Milestone
2024/08/06 00:00	Farewell Tracks unusable in Donder Hiroba tournaments and challenges
2024/08/23 02:00	Crowns and score ranks obtained from Farewell Tracks removed from totals in Donder Hiroba
2024/08/23 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

Livestream Recap: 2024/02/18 Taiko no Tatsujin Official Livestream

Happy 23rd Taiko no Tatsujin anniversary! Once again, the Taiko Team's big shots have anticipated its coming with a livestream session on YouTube, bearing news on anything current and near-future about arcade Taiko gaming's upbringing.

Up here you got the original broadcasting and even a recap of it from this past Monday's Namco Taiko blog entry (click here), but for our usual English-based roundup you already know where to look!

Namco Taiko Blog (February 9th, 2024) - The Vtuber Covers Cometh: Taiko no Tatsujin x FOCUS ON Collaboration

We've seen Taiko and Hololive going-on action between 2022 and 2023, but for the current year there's another party in town seeking for drumming collaborative gold!

For such a course of action, this quick surprise blog entry from yesterday was here to introduce a planned multi-parter project with vtuber talent agency Nijisanji's FOCUS ON music label, starting out sooner than you'd think...

Namco Taiko Blog (November 9th, 2023) - November 2023's Taik-ou Projects

It's rather easy to guess with such a title which kind of returning happenstance is going to show up in the next Nijiiro Version software update, but let it be known how there's something more from the series en large to come this month, starting with the planned update day on November 15th...

Namco Taiko Blog (October 12th, 2023) - Early Autumn's Nijiiro Perfect Licensem@ster Class

 

Rising from the ashes of the heated Year4 Ranking Dojo conclusion, Nijiiro Version's happenings for the next few weeks are sure to bring up some spice to this Autumn's arcade scene!