Drumroll Me Up When September Ends (30/09/16)

How is that the Taiko Team after-livestream Twitter snapshots like the one above look so hectic? What grueling events have made the Taiko girls and Etou feel so tired?!? The answers to these questions (and more) lie in our usual broadcast recap, for the pleasure of our English-speaking audience.

Namco Taiko Blog (October 4 2016): Mayday in October: Red ver. Version Update (V4.05)

Following yesterday's special livestream on Tenkaichi Otogesai, you might wonder there must have been some update to actually add the song. Well today's surprise blog post answers that question with a October 13 update.

New Songs: October 13 (Red ver. V4.05)
 あんずのうた Anzu no Uta NEW!
　　　「アイドルマスター シンデレラガールズ」より The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls
 合唱スタボーフェ！ Gasshou Stabofe! NEW!
　　　with たま☆たい feat. 団地ノ宮 with Tama☆tai feat. Danchinomiya

New Songs: October 14 (participating AOU stores only)
 毒L0CANdy♡ Doku L0CANdy♡ NEW!
　　　 t+pazolite

Other Changes

• Red ver. Title Part Gacha Part 2 adds 4-dimensional (四次元) / In Short (要するに) / Thick (太い) / French Braid (みつあみ) / Magical Girl (魔法少女) / Emperor (帝王)
• Shortened afternoon break for Tokkun Mode, now resuming for the night at 17:00 instead of 19:00.

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Tenkaichi Otogesai 3 Postcards

While we're redacting our recap of the proper past Taiko Team livestream run, here's a fresh feature about the one that was broadcasted a few hours ago, concerning the returning Tenkaichi Otogesai cross-over tournament and the songs that will be involved.

As usual, we're going to focus more on the Taiko no Tatsujin part while also including some tidbits about the other rhythm game families!

Kokihi no Shinzou -SCARLET HEART- Lyrics

Arrangement: kyo
Lyrics: Lettuce Shichijou (七条レタス)
Vocal: Asana (あさな) of IOSYS

[RANDOM] - Crushing White/Red Version's Tatsujin Dojo Ranking

Thanks to a heads-up by chatbox user Faiz Danyal, we've been made aware of a skilled Taiko player's recorded performance on the Dojo Ranking's hardest trial yet, scoring an impressive Tatsujin Gold clear (=all Great hits, no misses) in the dreadful Souryuu no Ran/≠MM/Yuugen no Ran trial. Congratulations!

(now, if only I can keep up the pace with 200+ BPM songs...)

Song of the Week! 1 October 2016

This week's feature comes from a suggestion in the chatbox, highlighting a pretty big kid's anime which we actually haven't talked about much until now.

Across Japan: Plus One and Minus Eleven: Early October Song List Changes

 

Consider it the equivalency exchange for having so many Same day as Japan additions or whatever, but the October 13 AC0 Red ver. removals, dubbed the "Red Purge" by us, will also happen in the greater Asian regions. Given not all of the 20 removals in Japan have got out to Asia in the first place, so we only have 11 songs be removed. Yay...? The list is after the jump.

Well, at least Shining 65 hits the greater Asian arcades on schedule today (October 1) too, as the after-DonChare general unlocking.

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