BEMANI Sound Team: Difference between revisions

Back in 2015, during the production schedule of '''Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain''', tension was going on in the last months of the game's development. Earlier that year, KONAMI announced that it would be restructuring its video game department, and with that change came backlash from internally within. One anonymous employee told GameSpot [https://www.gamespot.com/articles/kojima-expected-to-leave-konami-after-mgs5-inside-/1100-6426024/ here] that KONAMI had restricted access to corporate internet, emails, and phone calls. He/she also stated that senior staff at the studio, including Hideo Kojima himself, were now essentially working as contractors, not permanent employees.

Later that year, KONAMI announced a new Metal Gear twitter account, removing any reference to series' creator Hideo Kojima. During The Game Awards 2015 show, where Kojima Productions was nominated for Developer of the Year, Kojima was reportedly blocked from attending the event by KONAMI's lawyers. As a result, voice actor Kiefer Sutherland [https://www.polygon.com/2015/12/3/9847206/konami-prevented-kojima-attending-game-awards-2015 had to accept awards for The Phantom Pain on his behalf.]

In December 2015, after months of speculation and rumors, Hideo Kojima officially left KONAMI. But this was far from the last time KONAMI and its employees would clash, and it's occasionally suggested that KONAMI's clash with Kojima was the genesis of what was to follow in BEMANI.

The infamous moniker came when the songs later debuted in the game.

When the songs were finally added on October 13th, 2017, only the vocalists were credited on the jackets and in-game. To this day KONAMI has not officially revealed any of the musicians for the songs; it wasn't until HDD ripping months later that any artists were confirmed. The [https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/sdvx/iv/p/music/detail.html?list_id=27 SOUND VOLTEX website] however, makes the first known mention of an entity simply known as '''BEMANI Sound Team''', crediting the composition of the contest songs to them.

On November 2nd, 2017, three new songs were added to [[AC pnm Usaneko|pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢]]. [[Monkshood]] was done by a commission artist, while two others - [[Dance to Blue (Respect Style)]] and [[Mychronicle]] - were credited to BEMANI Sound Team. [[GERBERA]], a SOUND VOLTEX song added for the [[Tenkaichi otogesai Zenkoku issei nintei taikai]] 2017 (天下一音ゲ祭 全国一斉認定大会 2017) event, also had its artist name - [[Yasuhiro Taguchi|TAG]] - removed and replaced with simple BEMANI Sound Team on the official website, with only its song name listed on the final jacket. KONAMI wouldn't credit the artists for these songs until late into December, now listed as '''BEMANI Sound Team (artist name)'''.