Song of the Week! 22 July 2023

 

It's easy to point and be in awe about custom Touhou Project music arranges starting to get the permanent boot from the Taiko franchise as of lately-known, but if there's one more sad story about perma-removals around here, it has to be anything around the Idolish7 franchise.

From an internal party having all sorts of in-house Bandai Namco collabs, down to being one to almost completely hit the drum gutter...

[ACN] - Goodbye From Lunatic World (Nijiiro Ver. Farewell Tracks, 2023/08/23)

Straight out of an earlier-in-the-day update to the Nijiiro-related Bandai Namco Amusement FAQ portal, we now know the next batch of songs to leave arcade Taiko (or anything Taiko altogether) in the next month, also covering for the first time a few Touhou Project arrangements.

	Title
2023/08/23 (all locales)
	WARNING×WARNING×WARNING Touhou Project Arrange/Akatsuki Records 　　東方Projectアレンジ 暁Records 　　Also in: NS1 (DLC), xBox (DLC)	★2	★4	★5	★9
	Futari no Kessho -INNOCENCE- Touhou Project Arrange/Akatsuki Records 二人の結晶-INNOCENCE-／東方Projectアレンジ 暁Records 　　AC0/ACN Exclusive	★3	★5	★6	★8	★7
	Mirai Connection Pokemon Sun&Moon 未来コネクション／テレビアニメ「ポケットモンスター サン＆ムーン」より 　　Also in: NS1 (DLC), NS2 (MP), Plus	★2	★3	★4	★7
2023/08/23 (Japan exclusive)
	THE POLiCY Idolish7 Third BEAT! 　　TVアニメ『アイドリッシュセブン Third BEAT!』より 　　ACN Exclusive	★2	★4	★6	★8

Farewell Timeline (all times are JST/UTC+9)

Addendum (2023/07/21): Updated with official blog

Time	Milestone
2023/08/04 00:00	Farewell Tracks unusable in Donder Hiroba tournaments and challenges
2023/08/23 02:00	Crowns and score ranks obtained from Farewell Tracks removed from totals in Donder Hiroba
2023/08/23 07:00	Farewell Tracks no longer playable  Scores and rankings of Farewell Tracks removed from view in Donder Hiroba Liked Tracks slot and Favourite Track reverted to none if Farewell Tracks was selected

Namco Taiko Blog (July 20th, 2023) - Refreshing Summer Hits of All Colors

 

A new update day is just about a week-ish away! Only four songs from different genres are in store, but there's many an arcade-shaped topic to talk about for the near future of everything Nijiiro...

Song of the Week! 15 July 2023

Tomorrow, a particular movie is turning 35 years old since its Japanese-only silver screen debut, one that is often brought up by both critics and general animation fans as one of the cyberpunk forntrunners that has done the heavy lifting in popularizing Eastern animation all around the world in the late 80ies.

Thanks to an exclusive-licenses-affine Taiko no Tatsujin game, even Donders all across the globe have their own way to revisit part of its legacy, which is also why I'm talking about it today!

[Plus/STH] Gakkyoku Tori Houdai New Songs (2023/08/01)

✨８月1日 追加予定✨

■楽曲取り放題
🎶ハルジオン
🎶テオ
🎶ゼビウス体操
🎶Spectral Rider
🎶ドドドドドンだフル！
🎶ドン・エンガスの笛吹き
🎶燃えよサファイア

8月の追加曲もお楽しみに～#太鼓の達人プラス pic.twitter.com/KObDCxrf64

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 スマートフォン (@taikosp) July 14, 2023

Back onto the regular schedule, August 2023's Gakkyoku Tori Houdai subscription update is an excellent mix of console debuts, recent hits and oldies-but-goodies as usual.

Gakkyoku Tori Houdai Adds

	Title
2023/08/01
	Halzion ハルジオン	★2	★3	★5	★7
	Teo Omoi feat. Hatsune Miku テオ／Omoi feat. 初音ミク	★2	★5	★6	★8
	Xevious Taisou ゼビウス体操	★4	★5	★6	★7	★9
	Spectral Rider Rio Hamamoto (BNSI) 　　濱本理央(BNSI)	★5	★6	★7	★10
	Dodododo-donderful! ドドドドドンだフル！	★3	★5	★6	★5	★10
	Dun Aonghasa no Fuefuki ドン・エンガスの笛吹き	★4	★6	★7	★8
	Moeyo Sapphire Niwashi 燃えよサファイア／庭師	★4	★6	★7	★9

Key: red = series debut; green = subscription debut

Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat Version 1.14.0 Update

╔═════════╗
　　Apple Arcade
太鼓の達人Pop Tap Beat
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✨本日配信✨
🎵マスカット
🎵夢をかなえてドラえもん
🎵ムーンライト伝説
🔰セサミストリートのテーマ
🔰燃えよドラゴンのテーマ
🎵まおぅ
🎵きたさいたま2000

📲https://t.co/Dcke2NsTG6#太鼓の達人PTB pic.twitter.com/LVjrMTwOWy

— 【公式】太鼓の達人 スマートフォン (@taikosp) July 13, 2023

Not sure if Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat is picking its series-debut quota for the batch in reference to the recent jam-packed week of hints on Nijiiro ver.'s expansion (to mainland China and the United States)...

	Title
	Muscat Crayon Shin-chan マスカット／「クレヨンしんちゃん」より	★1	★1	★1	★2
	Yume o Kanaete Doraemon 夢をかなえてドラえもん	★1	★1	★2	★4
	Moonlight Densetsu Pretty Guardian Sailor ムーンライト伝説／「美少女戦士セーラームーン」より	★2	★2	★5	★8
	Sesame Street Theme セサミストリートのテーマ	★2	★3	★4	★6
	Enter the Dragon Theme 燃えよドラゴンのテーマ	★3	★5	★6	★7
	Maow feat. Yuu (pLumsonic!) まおぅ／feat. 結羽 (プラムソニック)	★3	★5	★7	★8
	Kita Saitama 2000 きたさいたま2000	★5	★7	★8	★10

Key: red = series debut; green = subscription debut

Taiko WCS 2023 Song Contest - First Contest Entries Available!

Since yesterday, the latest Taiko no Tatsujin music contest hosted by Columbia Makes has started to feature the first of the participating music entries for it! Just jump in to the official website in order to have an early-bird view among some of the aspiring composers for it. It's also possible to have an English version of it, like in the past year!

We'd usually get you posted around here since the contest-hosting website's early sections opening (namely the participating Taiko Team judges and the song-submission rules), but this time around we opted to wait as the former section came out as 'incomplete' and still is as such with the first songs being published, so we'll just get to the chase with what we got so far.

In fact, beside knowing that Taiko Team leader Etou and SueP (as series planner/level designer rep) will be back at the incorporeal judges' desk, the Sound Director seat is still to be decided, so it's still up in the air who among any of the past judges will be back, or if someone else is appearing on its stead.

One thing that's unchanging, however, is the Song Submission criteria, that basically adopts 1-to-1 the application criteria from the last edition, up to (and including) the "First Recruitment Round" for songs whose makers have never had anything of their own to be available in the Taiko series thus far. Once again, at least one of the First-recruitment works will win one of the winning seats on this contest, but after seeing how basically EVERY winner from the 2022 contest but one were from newcoming artists, it's anyone's guess to see who's gonna get the lion's share between veterans and newbies!

There's also one last blurb in the website's "Apply" section, one that only appears on the website's Japanese version. Among the planned 8-to-10 winning tracks to make their debut in the upcoming World Championship 2024 arcade tournament, one of said winners will actually become the tournament's theme song!