Song of the Week! 6 September 2025

 

Today's entry is here to state how selected Pops entries from the Taiko Team aren't pushed around in rather sketchy ways, as the slight scouting on yesterday's official blog entry on our part has seen...

Song of the Week! 30 August 2025

 

Ending the month of August for us is a rather unusual way to tie down BNSI/BNEI alumnis to a still-Bandai-Namco-related project, away from the games of the video kind and into the games of orange balls, hanging hoops and burning shoe soles...

Song of the Week! 23 August 2025

 

It's the first Classic pick in quite a while! This ought to be familair to long-date Taiko players to hear, despite it being increasingly hard to scout in official titles...

Song of the Week! 16 August 2025

 

This is a monumental day for Touhou Project fans all over the world, as this weekend's Comic Market 106 venue houses the doujin launch of the 20th-numbered mainline Touhou Project game!

Let's have some danmaku fun with it, for old time's sake.

Song of the Week! 9 August 2025

 

Among other things, this ending week has seen the first steps of official Taiko SNS towards the release of the 2025 main Ranking Dojo's final steps, with the usual multi-song teaser grid for potential candidates on the pre-Tatsujin courses.

Let's welcome this course of action with one of the songs from last year's final stretch! This one was the final hurdle to overcome 2024's Meijin course.

Song of the Week! 2 August 2025

It's time, once again, to bring up yet another live example of how getting geared with an Ura Oni chart isn't a licensed cover song's way to dodge perma-deletion action in Taiko grounds.

This time around, it's arguably a greater loss for those looking for an easy arcade medal grind...

Song of the Week! 26 July 2025

 

We can't have a Summer-y season around here without some traditional Japanese festival music to it, can we?

Song of the Week! 19 July 2025

 

This July's Ura Oni slot is owed to one of the most-represented franchises in Taiko among Bandai Namco's many IPs! Although, one might not look at it that way, as of late...

Song of the Week! 12 July 2025

 

Today's SotW topic has made a drastic pivot halfaway this week due to the fortuitous circumstances surrounding the target song's composer at hand! It also doubles as one of the lucky parables in life where diligent assiduity and tenacity are rewarded, at least in music gaming...

Song of the Week! 5 July 2025

 

The circle is closing on last year's Taiko music contest winners! As a testament to that sentiment, here's one of those, debuting on Nijiiro cabs on this very day.

Song of the Week! 28 June 2025

 

It's surely a novel feeling for console players to be regaled with an April Fools-spawn in Taiko from the arcades, especially when you consider how this never happened before! Clearly a cause for us to delve a bit further into it.

Song of the Week! 21 June 2025

 

This heated Summer-starter is all for the freshly-revealed BNSI music talent to have left the company, with his lone playable entry for the Variety genre across Taiko games.

Song of the Week! 14 June 2025

 

Right at the just-passed May's tail end, we've got one more series-debut thanks to Pop Tap Beat's erratic song distribution antics! Let's have a listen of it for ourselves.

Song of the Week! 7 June 2025

 

Right at the just-passed May's tail end, we've got one more series-debut thanks to Pop Tap Beat's erratic song distribution antics! Let's have a listen of it for ourselves.

Song of the Week! 31 May 2025

 

This is one of the many stories behind the maintenance of long-standing pages on this blog, one that -for a reason or another- has been pushed back up until today.

Hopefully, I'll be persuasive enough for you to be receptive of why the pushback for this song in particular has occurred to begin with...

Song of the Week! 24 May 2025

 

We have a hero for this month's Ura Oni pick! Just, not the kind of Hero you might have read around here beforehand...

Song of the Week! 17 May 2025

 

We're always eager to jump at what new content is delivered to the Taiko musical lore as a whole, but lest we forget how songs can still make their debut on home console videogames' launch, without the support of later-distributed additional contents of sorts!

Song of the Week! 10 May 2025

 

Back in the land of long-gone games outside the game center, here's one of the many iOS-songpack-exclusive songs for the long-standing Taiko Plus...

Song of the Week! 3 May 2025

 

Last year at around this time, we've had a Song of the Week "revisit featurette" of sorts in order to showcase with an already-heard-of track how hard it can be to play certain official Taiko games that -for a reason or another- are far away from the general knowledge, even among seasoned franchise fans.

Well, I'm doing that thing again today, but for the opposite side of the difficulty spectrum!

Song of the Week! 26 April 2025

 

The Song of the Week is... the song of the day, once more! What has publicly joined the Taiko family today also got quite the novel commentary approach from its own creator, as you're about to see...