Mushroom/Bamboo Battle on Kimidori

Together with today's song update, Kimidori also adds the Meiji collaboration a la the battle between chocolate mushrooms and bamboo shoots with players' credit scores.

This video shows the bits on the Kimidori arcade build added for the battle. You can directly go and choose the team you want, or use the camera feature to unlock the collab outfit(s) (not shown). Your total scores across all songs are put into the team scores, plus different bonuses that is active at that time. Then we are also shown the cabinet leader of the day. The overall national tally and regional leaders can be checked at the special collaboration site, on a yellow-green colored Japan map.

First videos of Kimidori V7.10 songs!

Loads and loads of songs in this update, it's quite hard to catch em all! So the video list is not complete for now, but we'll show what Japanese players have gathered so far.

Now, for some vids! Placed after the jump, of course.

Song of the Week! 6 December 2014

Our earliest readers may probably remember that we had some song series features about Anime-related songs, with one of the first ones being about themes from worldwide-known animation film studio Studio Ghibli. However, we sadly had to crop all of the Anime song series last year after a copyright infringement claim, with the fear of the lock-out possibilities for the rest of the blog.

However, while we mostly have our hands tied on our backs regarding the gradual re-introduction of all these lost song features, I think we have to go across some unfinished business and feature at least the most recent song on Taiko from Studio Ghibli movies, incidentially about said studio's very first movie-length animated feature. Take a sight to the sky!

Namco Taiko Blog (4 December 2014) - Updates on December 12th's livestream

The schedule for next week's Taiko Team livestream has been updated with some new exciting stuff! After we caught up with the content being revealed last month, let's see what's new.

Across Japan: Vroooom! Kimidori Asia December Facebook Tournament

Another month, another tournament for Asian Kimidori! Without any further ado, the songs for the December 2014 tournament are BLUE TOPAZ Oni (8★, forked) and Angel Halo Muzukashii (8★). Race to the first across December 6~14 (pun very much intended), and we will see the Asian ver. Team again on December 17 for the results.

And just for the sake of completeness of reporting, BLUE TOPAZ is already on Asian Kimidori from December 1, as regular unlock after DonChare.

Yet another Meiji x Taiko no Tatsujin Collaboration!

After two Taiko 3DS-related collaborations, sweet snacks company Meiji teams up once again with the Taiko no Tatsujin franchise, and this time the arcades are the main focus!

Taiko Kimidori: First video of Evidence of evil

Presenting, song number 2 in the 'names-of-seafood-in-its-abbreviations' Namco Original series!

Its predecessor, The Carnivorous Carnival, has gone down to 9* Oni, so Evidence of evil steps up to the plate, featuring a max star difficulty set of 5/7/8/10! The musical style is generally the same as before, but with even more complex streams and 1/24 notes than before, exactly like an evolution of Carnival. The ending is particularly nasty, with many technical 2-note, 4-note and 16-note streams that really challenge the player to think of the song's backbeats a lot more.

It reaches a total of 814 notes on Oni.