Song of the Week! 12 August 2023

 

On top of renewing the portable Taiko landscape once more, the upcoming Rhythm Connect is already on the rise to share previously-arcade-exclusive tracks into the broader public of smartphone users.

Meet one of these today!

Namco Taiko Blog (August 9th, 2023) - A Million Ways To Drum in the Nijiiro

The next Anime adaptation out of the Idolm@ster anime is about to air, with the arcade Taiko fields already being prepped for the occasion! We've got all sorts of hints and bits we documented over our Twxtter, but today we're coming clean with an official rundown and a little something more to it.

Song of the Week! 5 August 2023

 

With the latest of the last-minute-weekend Taiko Team announcements over Twxtter, a couple of Ranking Dojo Gaiden courses have just been added for every Banapassport owner to enjoy, offering "Ura" variants of the 2023 Main Courses' 9th and 10th Dan Trial.

Among the three songs featured for the latter "Ura Main Course" is one tune we've yet to talk about, one from a massive multimedia Bandai Namco project I finally got the excuse to talk about too, and in greater lengths at that!

Taiko WCS 2023 Song Contest - Judges Board Complete + First Contestants Sampler!

The latest Nippon Columbia Taiko music contest's last judge seats have been filled, and so is our top header for this very post! Three days prior, in fact, the website was silently updated to welcome the return of a couple of Taiko Team veterans, alongside one more page of song previews to take a gander at.

First Video Portal: August 2023

2023/08/23

	Title
	Rat A Tat!!! From Anime "Idolm@ster Million Live!"           アニメ「アイドルマスター ミリオンライブ！」より	★3	★5	★5	★5 (251)	★9 (567)

2023/08/03

	Title
	Kawaikute Gomen 可愛くてごめん	★2	★4	★5	★7 (533)
	Jamboree Mickey! ジャンボリミッキー！	★2	★3	★4	★5 (400)
	Minna no Kakigoori 　　Bonjour Suzuki feat. Yuichiro Tsukagoshi (NanosizeMir) & GIW ミンナノカキゴオリ 　　ボンジュール鈴木 feat. 塚越雄一朗(NanosizeMir) ＆ 祇羽	★4	★6	★7	★9 (765)
	RHYTHM CONNECT 　　TRIANGLE	★2	★4	★6	★8 (645)

[Plus/STH] - Taiko Plus Shinkyoku Tori Houdai's App Termination

「太鼓の達人プラス」は、今後リリース予定の「太鼓の達人 RHYTHM CONNECT」に運営主体を移行します。
移行にともない「太鼓の達人プラス」は、2024年3月29日をもってサービス終了いたします。
詳細はアプリ内のお知らせをご確認ください。

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 スマートフォン (@taikosp) August 3, 2023

Together with the announcement of the just-unveiled Taiko no Tatsujin RHYTHM CONNECT mobile app, it was announced the gradual shutdown plan for the ongoing Taiko no Tatsujin Plus app, the last long-standing Taiko game from the second arcade generation with its earliest versions dating as far back as 2010.

A popup detailing how the end-of-service procedure will go has been spread both in-app and on the official website, culminating with the full service deactivation on March 29th, 2024.

• The final monthly song delivery updates for the Shinkyoku Tori Houdai subscripton service are scheduled for September 29th and near the end of October 2023; no more additional content is planned for the game afterwards.
• The 3-months and 6-months STH subscription plans are unavailable to be purchased, starting from August 29th this year. Subscription renewal and related autobilling will be automatically disabled, without any input from the users. The 7-days and 1-month subscription plans will still be active, with the related purchase-disabled day for each being revealed in the coming months.
• All song packs being purchased in the former versions of the Taiko Plus app on iOS are available to play until the app's end-of-service date.
  

[iOS/Android] - Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Connect!

太鼓の達人新スマートフォンアプリ「太鼓の達人 RHYTHM CONNECT」は台湾でアーリーアクセス実施中❕
アーリーアクセスでは600曲以上を配信中！
正式リリース後はさらに楽曲が追加されるのでお楽しみに🎵
公式サイトで楽曲リストを公開しました✨
楽曲リストはコチラ👉https://t.co/GTovcexDK5

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 スマートフォン (@taikosp) August 3, 2023

Today we've got quite the doozy of an announcement for mobile Donders, seeing how there's a new mobile title in the works! Going by the full-caps-friendly display of Taiko no Tatsujin RHYTHM CONNECT, this is going to be a follow-up to the currently-running Taiko Plus Shinkyoku Tori Houdai, in that it's a Taiko game loaded with hundreds of songs that are going to be available by different means than the base song list/DLC formula of console titles.

Since early May this year, it was known online that a trademark to the 'Rhythm Connect' name part was filed from Bandai Namco, but as there were not any elements directly tying it to the Taiko franchise since then, we opted to stay out of it... but now things are different as there's no more room for doubts- it IS something Taiko-related, so you bet your bachi drumsticks we're fully going to talk about it now!