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Friday, September 25, 2026

Chirping Crumbles (September 25th, 2026) - Season-turning Music Polls



Now that everyone has been enthralled by the thrilling conclusion of this year's Ranking Dojo main course set, the turn of the season is ushering in a couple of Nijiiro-oriented polls for players of any region (on the tweet, the JP side of the reveal).

The first poll is something the likes of which were already asked about in the past: everyone can suggest up to 5 songs to be added on Nijiiro Version, together with the reason behind each song's arcade proposal. The other poll, however, is something more unique as the polled population is invited to list up to 5 artists they'd like new Namco Originals from, coupled with what kind of song the polled ones would like the most for their picked talents. A few personal general details are asked before the two polls' crux (gender/age and Taiko-related play preferences), but only the artist-focused polls will ask you your current skill level at the Ranking Dojo, on top!

Below are the links for each language to join the Quesant polls with; the entries deadline for both is set on October 12th.

Nijiiro Version Song Suggestion Poll
Japanese
English
Traditional Chinese
Korean

New Namco Original Artists Suggestion Poll
Japanese
English
Traditional Chinese
Korean
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Friday, September 4, 2026

Chirping Crumbles (Septemeber 4th, 2026) - Weekend Remixed Warriors, 3/3


The last of the upcoming Ranking Dojo upper floors' remixed weekend warriors diverges from the established(ish) rule of remixing artists from former Ranking Dojo outings from the past. And unlike like last we got a song with vocals rearranged as a full-instrumental, here's a vocal arrangement of a chiptunes-only track!

BlackY and Risa Yuzuki, the couple who brought to us Rasen Shuukai Kidou and Emma via triumphal Taiko music recruitment contests at the wake of the arcade 3rd generation, is back as the commissioned duo behind resume:story. The shared sentiment of "delivering this emotional song with their own colors", as penned by the pluri-awarded otoge contest winner is enriched by the vocalist's higher-than-usual involvment for her first commissioned Taiko no Tatsujin job, from the lyrics body's making/delivery to adjustments to the arranged work's flow as a whole.

Only a weeks stands before us, and whatever delightful surprises this year's upper Ranking Dojo courses have in store for us...
Posted by Lokamp at 4:49 PM
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Saturday, August 29, 2026

Chirping Crumbles (August 28th, 2026) - Weekend Remixed Warriors, 2/3


Right on cue, yestrday it was the turn of the second Ranking Dojo 2026's remixed contender to get the full-reveal+impressions treatment, this time by the hands of HARDCORE TANO°C-affiliated composer Laur. Indeed, the man behind GIGALODOON among many was up to the task of remixing Seifuumeigetsu's Nosferatu!

In the most straightforward way possible, Laur wanted to express his own style via this remix, hence the choice to walk the full-instrumental route on the newly-released Vrykolakas. If you happen to have a game center at arm's reach, be like Laur and secure your launch-day FC bragging rights!
Posted by Lokamp at 10:02 AM
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Friday, August 21, 2026

Chirping Crumbles (August 21st, 2026) - Weekend Remixed Warriors, 1/3


After last Saturday's reveal, the foreshadowed Ranking Dojo original remixes are getting an early debut as Weekend Warriors each, with an accompaning slide with the remixing author's thoughts like we've seen in past like broadcasts from the Taiko Team. It also appears we're back at having music remixes with their own unique title on toe!

Tackling USAO's recently-extended SUPERNOVA is Morimori Atsushi, already author of the Chojin-course-darling CUT! into the FUTURE. It's also interesting to see the inner-working on music implementation, since Morimori novers to be told for the longest time that due to scheduling convenience in the latest years, there were periods of time in which no new music submissions were accepted. That is, until the project of Namco Original remixes is brought on the table for this year's Ranking Dojo, which got the Seiga Kaku enthusiast welcomed back with open arms as one of the featured artists!

This goes without saying, but expect the resulting HYPERNOVA to drop on Nijiiro cabs tomorrow!


Posted by Lokamp at 7:58 PM
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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Chirping Crumbles (June 17th, 2026) - I am not Ali(v)e.


Another year since Bandai Namco's Synchronica arcade rhythm game was discontinued, another of its original songs crossing the Taiko no Tatsujin waters!

For the 11th anniversary, Nijiiro Version arcades are being greeted with Morimori Atsushi's I am not Alice. It's playable since today, at that!
Posted by Lokamp at 7:33 AM
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Friday, May 22, 2026

Chirping Crumbles (May 21st, 2026) - The End of a Rough Chaos


After taking more than a month to complete the time-limited Dark Don Challenge mode's group task (for those not keeping the score at home, the one asking the worldwide arcade fanbase to play 876.000 songs), Taiko no Tatsujin's first take at the alternate-reality-game shenanigans comes to a close, with one final narration slide for the epilogue (click here for the English version).

Following that, there's also another brief tweet in order to profile a few deadlines for non-Chinese Nijiiro builds, both for late-riser applications on the Group Challenge clear title and for the April-sprung events' closure en large:
  • Banapassport players who didn't contribute on the Group Challenge can still claim the event-limited title by playing any song with either the Group Challenge or one of the EX Dark Don Challenge QR codes; late-riser applications will be accepted until May 25th, 5am JP time. All applicable players will receive the Group Challenge title on June 1st;
  • The event's final hidden unlockable song, the newcoming  Rough: CHA0Z, will be unlocked as a default song list entry on May 30th, 7am JP time;
  • Both the Don Challenge 2026 and the Dark Don Challenge events will remain active until September 1st, 9am JP time.
If you're still racking up your brains on how to clear those hidden tasks, keep an eye onto us in the coming days...
Posted by Lokamp at 7:19 PM
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Chirping Crumbles (April 6th-11th, 2026) - Traces of an Ominous Encounter

 
While we've already indulged on this ongoing mystery via our SNS feeds, we've come to a point where it's safe to have a recap on the blog about what's going on since April 1st, considering the current state of matters.
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Posted by Lokamp at 2:02 PM
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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Chirping Crumbles (April 4th, 2026) - Real-(i)LiFE Footage of Upcoming Nijiiro Version Licensing




Credit to Discord server user arcaeusgreen for the find!

For today's live event at the Tokyo Kabuchicho Tower, in celebration of the ongoing 'Kabuchicho Game Festival', members of idol unit iLiFE! have revealed the upcoming release of one of their songs to the ongoing Taiko no Tatsujin arcade line!

See you in 2-ish weeks for the playable debut of Idol Life Starter Pack (アイドルライフスターターパック), currently slated for an April 15th release (worldwide, mainland China later) as shown in the pictures.
Posted by Lokamp at 3:31 PM
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Chirping Crumbles (December 2nd, 2025) - DF/RF Kids Pack Vol.4 and a WADIVERSE New Year


Donderful/Rhythm Festival-versed news are being drip-fed not only on the song-reveal front this month, but also for their song pack release! The latest Kids Pack release will come in 2 days -same as the month's first Taiko Music Pass batch- with four songs, also considering the one-track Tamagotchi DLC that was released for last month's end.

Kids Pack Vol.4: 2025/12/04 (400 yen+tax)

 Title
Yuuki 100% Nintama Rantaro
勇気100%／「忍たま乱太郎」より		 ★3 ★2 ★4 ★6
Hamtaro Tottoko Uta Tottoko Hamtaro
ハム太郎とっとこうた／「とっとこハム太郎」より		 ★2 ★3 ★6 ★6
Gegege no Kitaro TV Anime 6th Season Opening Theme Song
ゲゲゲの鬼太郎／TVアニメ 第6期 オープニング主題歌		 ★1 ★1 ★1 ★2 ★10
Doraemon
ドラえもん		 ★1 ★2 ★3 ★5
Key: red = series debut; blue = console debut

 
In a quick segue from that, the taiko_all X feed has released the key art for the upcoming WADIVERSE chapter, slated to release this December! Marine ambiance is on the table, from the looks of it.

Not only that, two follow-up tweets have unveiled what's in store for the project in the near future:
  • WADIVERSE chapters (and songs) are currently planned for three months in a row, with their key songs getting released on active Taiko titles this upcoming December 17th, on January and February 2026 (link);
  • Off-vocal (instrumental) versions of all WADIVE RECORD songs -both past and upcoming- are currently in the works, with release date/distribution channels still pending (link).
Posted by Lokamp at 2:08 PM
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Friday, October 17, 2025

Chirping Crumbles (October 6-17, 2025) - TnT World Score Attack @ Online 2025: Ruleset and Songs

 

From the start of this month, details have been gradually released for the World Score Attack @2025, the upcoming worldwide arcade event that was first announced during last month's official livestream. Now that everything has been laid out, one tidy post is here to sum it all up!
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Posted by Lokamp at 4:19 PM
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Monday, June 2, 2025

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!
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Posted by Lokamp at 1:42 PM
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Chirping Crumbles (May 25th, 2025) - WADIVERSE Episode 5 Reveal and Release Timetable


Episode 5 of WADIVE RECORD's side project is about to start soon! Under the premise of an adventure based on Kat-chan (who got separated from his sibling for some reason), this WADIVERSE iteration will kicks things off tomorrow with the first of its 4-parter online manga release, to be followed later with character art and the titular MV's release on June 4th, with its song becoming playable in currently-active Taiko games from the day later.

June 5th also happens to be the Nintendo Switch 2's launch day as well, a factoid that makes us want to remember how we keep a tab on the system's retrocompatibility issues web page, from Nintendo's Japanese website. Since we've looked at it last time, we've got about a dozen less games showing off startup issues (122 games still with issues, as of today) but alas, Donderful/Rhythm Festival still appears to be in the no-no zone. Let's see if things will change on that front, moving on...
Posted by Lokamp at 8:15 PM
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Chirping Crumbles (April 22nd, 2025) - Cosmic Radio 2025 Involvment Confirmed for TnT

Say, remember this short bit right at the end of the most-recent livestream? Turns out it actually was a tease for the returning partnership endeavors on this year's edition of the Cosmic Radio music contest! Unlike with the 2024 edition where Taiko's involvment was only revealed a few days prior to the overal winners' reveal, this year it happens a few days before song submissions for the event in question can be accepted (April 25th).

In comparison from from last year, on the collaborating-parties side we got one dropped music game's involvment (Rhythm Doctor) and the addition of three more on its stead: X.D. Network's Rotaeno, the upcoming Yunyun Syndrome Internet Psychosis from the Needy Streamer Overload developers and lowiro's Arcaea. These too, alongside the 8 returning music game franchises, will be able to pick one or more songs for licensing rights into their respective games, once the 2025 contest's "regular" winners have been decided!
Posted by Lokamp at 6:11 AM
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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Chirping Crumbles (March 16th, 2025) - Blue-chiming Academy Antics at the WADIVERSE


This Sunday update from the taiko_all Twitter handle brings us an official reveal to the upcoming development of the WADIVERSE project that started last year, with Chapter 4 spanning throughout the next couple of weeks in many a media facet. The theme, this time around, is the fabled Aoharu no Tatsujin academy that was quite the riot on April Fools grounds circa 2023!

We're also going to get a brand-new playable song in two Fridays from now, with its MV releasing the day prior! My gut feeling is that we're about to hear more Hige Driver in Taiko after many years since the 8-bit port of his Tokyo Soda, considering the peculiar grounds on which I could make such an educated guess...
Posted by Lokamp at 12:59 PM
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Friday, January 17, 2025

Namco Taiko Blog (January 17th, 2025) - Taiko no Tatujin's 24th Anniversary Livestream

It's a really quick entry for a really brief notice: the first Taiko no Tatsujin livestream of the year is going to be aired next month on February 16th, in anticipation of the franchise's 24th aniversary!

For this occasion, the usual pre-livestream poll will be different fron the usual arcade-oriented inquiries! Everyone's invited to send their overall memories with Taiko no Tatsujin, some of which will be read live during the broadcast. The Quesant link is available on the original Taiko blog post (and right here) and will accept new entries up until the end of this month.

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Posted by Lokamp at 11:07 PM
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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Chirping Crumbles (January 1st, 2025) - New-Year Farewells from steμ


...yep, we're retiring the "Twitter Snippets" naming brand for the world of instant SNS findings! After all, we got more than a tentative social media website to scout these kinds of news from (Mastodon and BlueSky, mainly) and chances are it would have let the title degrade itself into "Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx", at some point. Now, where was I...

Right at the turn of a new year, we're hit with the departure news from Bandai Namco of another renowned BNSI inhouse composer, one that has been behind several Namco Originals and a few of the modern original music contests as a judge.

Yu Sugimoto, better known under the steμ alias, has left Bandai Namco during last month's end, publicly announcing the news with the opening of a proprietary X account at this year's start. The Taiko Drum Monster-famed artist has not quit the music-making scene altogether, but he's taking 5 sabbatical months in order to recover his strengths for his future endeavors.
Posted by Lokamp at 10:03 AM
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[ACN] - A Slithering New Year at Taiko's



The latest Year of the Snake has been kickstarted with a handful of new content pertaining the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the first of which being the customary January 1st Namco Original following the same trend. Until this month's First Video Portal is out, enjoy the latest original composition from Daisuke Kurosawa above these very lines!

After the jump are a couple of Taiko-related contents releasing quite soon, in conjuntion with a TV-broadcast New Year special airing a few hours from now.
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Posted by Lokamp at 9:48 AM
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Friday, December 13, 2024

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


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

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Twxttxr Snxppxts (October 27th, 2024) - WADIVERSE Episode 3's Release Schedule


It took almost half a year since the last incursion of the WADIVE RECORDS-inspired side project, but it's back at last! The SNS-shared sidestories of Taiko no Tatsujin characters into parallel realities continues with this turn-of-a-month, with the third episode of the WADIVERSE series' schedule setting up content from today up until November 7th next month. This episode's comic-structured story is set in the "Picopico Arcade" (ピコピコアーケード), with the first part being released today alongside the character description of its starring heroines: human-gamer versions of Ms. Cat and Ladle!

Like for the two WADIVERSE episodes before it, the story's climax will be brought home with a dedicated music video, with original music soon to be distributed across the active Taiko titles of the time the day after (again, on November 7th). No specific titles mentioned, but given the precedents we can assume that both Nijiiro Version and Donderful/Rhythm Festival's Taiko Music Pass are bound to get it!
Posted by Lokamp at 12:30 PM
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Thursday, August 29, 2024

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


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.
Posted by Lokamp at 1:56 PM
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