Namco Taiko Blog (11 July 2013)- Taiko no Tatsujin Tournament 2013

Or, as the official name says: "Taiko no Tatsujin Japan No. 1 Donder! Decisive Battle 2013" A mouthful, so we'll just stick to calling it the Taiko Tournament 2013 then.

Before we begin the blog post proper, a side note: Version 4.03 is out now for Sorairo! Stay tuned for chart videos and updates!

Notechart Analysis: Music Revolver (Ura)

One of you requested that I do a feature on clearing the streams of Music Revolver (Ura) so I'm doing exactly that today!

Song of the Week! 6 July 2013

Well, guys... it finally happened. After so many consecutive months of successful Group challenges in the DonChare, June 2013's collective trial ultimately resulted in a failure, with 8,730 plays for the chosen songs against the required 10,000.

In order to ease this disappointing result, today I'm going to cover one of the two Namco Originals involved for last June's Group challenge. And since we already covered the other song last month, there's just one more to go.

Taiko Team's Fifth UStream: Let's Make Music Together!

As Taiko Team's newest UStream/Nicovideo session wraps up, here is our usual summary post for those who have missed the broadcast. With the live notecharting project and a bunch of random announcements in the mix, there's a lot to talk about, isn't it? (Credit to tetsutaro for the pictures!)

Namco Taiko Blog (4 July 2013) - Taiko Team live session

This Thursday's blog entry is exactly as the title says! It's about tomorrow's UStream session with the Taiko Team.

Of course, the focus will be Etou's live-charting project of the provisional version of Ryuwitty's Eternal bond, but other stuff will be discussed as well, such as:

• First details about the Taiko summer tourney and how to join it
• Next Thursday's Sorairo software update (GV 4.03) and Shin-uchi talk
• Dojo Ranking talk, mostly about the final courses and the related unlocks
• "Other confidential information" (possibly something new)

Since the live modding will probably consume a lot of time, this presentation will be a little bit longer than the previous ones, lasting for two and a half hours, 7pm to 9.30pm (Japan time). As already said, it can be watched from Taiko Team's Nicovideo or UStream channels.

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The awakening of a demon

In case you haven't caught wind of the news yet, the 10 Dan course, once completed, unlocks a special surprise at the end. We've never shown what is actually unlocked on the front page of the blog before so here it is! The demon that is Joubutsu 2000!

As for the conditions of unlocking, we're in the midst of preparing an article for Sorairo's Dojo Ranking mode so stay tuned for that!

Namco Taiko Blog (2 July 2013) - Taiko Sorairo July firmware update

*New information added on July 3, 2013*

Once again, an ordinary Tuesday becomes a surprise day as the team announces yet another update for this month! What's new this time?