Namco Taiko Blog (30 November 2017) - Blog/Twitter Updates Schedule Change

We end this November on a low note, with the latest official blog entry foreshadowing a lower new-post ratio from now on, due to an internal change of social media management. In today's notice, in fact, we're being told that there's not going to be a weekly blog update guarantee from now on: as opposed to before where Thursdays are the usual new-post day, the Taiko Team blog will now be updated only when the staff is ready to share the latest news. The same goes for the Twitter handle, which will be only active if there's going to be a new notice to be shared.

If the posting schedule is going to change again in the future, there's going to be another official blog entry to address later changes.

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Twitter Snippets (29 November 2017) - New iDOLM@STER SideM Song for Taiko Arcades

ゲームセンター版太鼓の達人に「Reason!!」が収録。 pic.twitter.com/sIJ5cieZmb

— アイマスDB (@imas_DB) 29 novembre 2017

Thanks to Bankslammer from the Taiko no Tatsujin Discord group for the find!

With the main Taiko Twitter feed being dormant, new cross-over-y song inclusion notices are properly chronicled elsewhere on the Internet, with the latest find involving the SideM spin-off of the iDOLM@STER series.

As a result of livestream-fueled notices, it has been made public that another song from the male-oriented series is going to appear to Taiko arcades soon: Reason!!, from the recently-debuting SideM Anime series. Its release date, however, is still unknown...

UPDATE (30 November 2017) - This song inclusion has also been addressed by the Taiko Team as well (link)! We also come to know that the Twitter handle's name has been changed into a 'Taiko no Tatsujin' label...

Taiko no Tatsujin Blue Version (AC0B)

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We've been treated with 8/9-long life cycles for modern Taiko arcade firmwares thus far, but it seems that Yellow Version is going to be lasting a little longer than the former firmware releases, as a sneak peek into the one arcade vendor we've been checking for a while is telling us today!

Indeed, it appears that the next color in modern Taiko gaming's firmware canvas is coming out next year during March, this time around being labeled as the Blue Version. There's nothing else noteworthy to mention besides the obvious, so we're back playing the waiting game...

Song of the Week! 25 November 2017

Once again, I landed on our Discord group looking for song suggestions to be featured for this Saturday, with the early replies generally asking from something spicy in the Classic genre...

...it hardly gets spicier than today's featured track, trust me!

Namco Taiko Blog (24 November 2017) - Playstation 4's End-of-November Content Delivery

With yesterday being a national holiday in Japan, the weekly blog entry has come one day later to inform Taiko fans about the next Taiko-themed content's coming for PlayStation 4's users.

Across Japan (November 22 2017): The Follow-suit Removal, December 2017 edition

By this time all of us should have expected that song removals in Japan will be mirrored in greater Asia in due course because of license expiry and whatnot. Here is the confirming piece for the latest of those removals on December 6 2017, for instance. If you forget where else you could have found these songs after the removal, we have copy-pasted the list below the jump again for your reference.

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Twitter Snippets (November 21 2017) - IDOLiSH7 Collab Drumming Up Heated Support

アイドリッシュセブンと太鼓の達人のコラボ緊急続報★
コラボを盛り上げてくれる「太鼓の達人応援団」のシルエットが公開！！
さらに！今後、ある条件を満たすとあのグループからも…！？
次回の情報公開は…12月上旬ごろお楽しみに♪#taiko765 #アイナナ pic.twitter.com/W0v4Njnnvi

— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) November 21, 2017

Surprise additional scope for the Taiko no Tatsujin x IDOLiSH7 Collaboration!

Participating idols from the game are forming a Taiko no Tatsujin Cheering Squad (太鼓の達人応援団) (NB.: no relation to a certain pink game) being ambassadors for the collaboration. See the teaser silhouettes from the tweet above. Plus, if Donders clear the upcoming IDOLiSH7 song on arcade Taiko no Tatsujin for a designated number of times, the cheering squad will be graced with the addition of a certain idol from that certain group!

Further news to be expected in early December, so stay tuned.