Namco Taiko Blog (15 January 2015): Huis Ten Bosch Cup photo album

The Taiko Team was kept busy last week with the 3D Projection Mapping Taiko no Tatsujin Huis Ten Bosch Cup (phew!) Taiko competition. Takemoto, Daifuku and Etou were on the scene to supervise the event and take some photos!

Across Japan/Twitter Snippets (Jan 14 2015): New Songs and Tourney Results

New song image from Asian ver. Facebook

And we have two Across Japan posts in one week. Jolly Asian Donder is jolly.

First: new songs! Again later to the party, but Asian Donders will soon be able to play  Du-Du-Wa DO IT!! ;  Hikaru Yami and  Pokemon ORAS Champion Medley on the arcade! In fact it is just tomorrow, January 15!

And then in tournament news: The Asian area and aggregated results for last year-end's Donder Festival tournament are in! Taking first in Asia and 27th overall is Hong Kong's Garnet, who is only a dozen thousand points away from the lead and maxed Yami no Mahou Shoujo. The rest of the Asian results can be seen at the Asian ver. Facebook.

さて、ちょっとオジャマしたのは、昨年末に行われたオンライン公式大会「ドンだー祭り'14冬の陣(おに)」について、同課題曲で行われたアジア版での大会結果との統合ランキングの発表なのです。 結果は添付画像を参照ください！(タケモト) pic.twitter.com/6N6UK9sWYQ
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) January 14, 2015

As a close to a series of tweets, Takemoto also hopes to see a time when Japanese and Asian Donders can meet and exchange sticks (Taiko skills) in reality instead of just online. This would be quite a sight to wait for!

タケモト個人的には、いつか、オンラインでなく、全国大会などの場で、日本のドンだーさんとアジアのドンだーさんが直接こぶし…ならぬバチを交わす機会を作れたら良いなー、と思っています。 実現に向けて、日本でもアジアでも、これからもドンドコ盛り上げて行きたいと思います。
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) January 14, 2015

Across Japan/Plurk Snippets: Thus Begin The Journey of The Depth

Sourced from this Plurk

We once again turn to veteran Taiwanese Taiko enthusiast Woolala for today's scope, who has just returned from a trip to Fukuoka, i.e. the same region with Huis Ten Bosch. In fact he also competed in the Huis Ten Bosch Cup, and can be seen in the group photo we mentioned last Sunday.

And surly enough, he of course has done the favor of Donders towards the greater Asia and brought back the seed of Yuugen no Ran. The photo heading this post was a play on the Asian version Kimidori with a friend. (Note the English warning label)

That's all exciting and all, but you might wonder: "What about regions other than Taiwan? Do we have to send a guy to Taiwan to get it?" According to an earlier conversation with him, the further transmission of Yuugen no Ran can actually be done via migrating Banapassport card data, thus eliminating the need of physical travel.

Contact/stay tuned to your local Donder community for when they get a copy!

Wrapping Up: Yuugen no Ran and Huis Ten Bosch

And the Donder that DFCed Yuugen no Ran from yesterday's tweet posted a video of his DFC play. Again 'nuff said, except to marvel at the excellent motor-like hand at work. How much longer after will we have the next exciting first DFC (Donkama I am looking at you)?

 

Group photos reposted from Huis Ten Bosch's official photo set on Facebook

Also as last night's Huis Ten Bosch Cup tournament with the 3D Projection Mapping Taiko no Tatsujin also wraps up, Huis Ten Bosch has released a photo set on Facebook, showing key moments of the event. Check them out!

Song of the Week! 10 January 2015

Today's feature has a special spin into it, as our blog has reached another important milestone: since we put the Visitor Counter add-on, this blog has been visited over a million times!

As a result, here's a Namco Original song that became infamous in recent times for a certain grinding task... possibly taking as long as reaching our first million-view goal!

[Breaking] Twitter Snippets (January 10 2015) - Yuugen no Ran, Donderful-Combo-ed

幽玄ノ乱 全良！！！！！！！！！！！ マジで頑張りました！ pic.twitter.com/edfAWLvZkp
— しゅがらぎ (@nise0616) January 10, 2015

'Nuff said, really. Though it's kinda nice it is achieved on the first (theoretical) day that Asian ver. Donders get to play Yuugen no Ran.

Across Japan: January Facebook Tournament

As with the rest of the Taiko Team crew, the Asian ver. Facebook page is also back and running! The first news of the year is the songs for January's Monthly Facebook Tournament: the AJURIKA duo Evidence of evil Oni (10★) and The Carnivorous Carnival Muzukashii (7★).

As it should have been obvious, Evidence of evil is already opened to Asian ver. players on January 1. And for the purposes of this tournament, The Carnivorous Carnival will be available free of unlocking (which is Full Combo-ing Taiko Time Ura Oni or any diff of Densetsu no Matsuri with Detarame on by the way) during the January 10~18 competing times.

Here's the January schedule again:

• Song candidates Announcement: January 7 (this!)
• Tourney Commences: January 10~18
• Results Announcement: January 21

And while we're at it, let's also check out the February schedule, which is pushed a bit later into the month than before:

• Song candidates Announcement: February 11
• Tourney Commences: February 14~22
• Results Announcement: February 25

By the way, the Team is thinking of songs along the theme of the Chinese New Year. If you have suggestions, you know where to put them! (hint: not here)

And don't you worry about last year-end's Donder Festival in Asia tournament: The results will be in soon. Stay tuned!