BEMANI Sound Team: Difference between revisions

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 speculated that KONAMI's clash with Kojima was the genesis of what was to follow in BEMANI two years later.

In early 2017, out of the blue, KONAMI suddenly removed ''all'' of its BEMANI artist names from the [https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/bemani/fansite/p/artist/index.html BEMANI Fan Site artist page], with the sole exception of top beatmania IIDX player [[DOLCE.]]. At the time, this wasn't really noticed by the BEMANI community, but later that year the first cracks began to show.

Episode 173 of the ''BEMANI Namahousou (kari)'' (BEMANI生放送(仮)) stream show, which used to feature in-house staff talking about the latest upcoming news in BEMANI, was the final one to feature in-house staff, as well as its original host, on-screen. Following this episode, which aired on April 19th, 2017, the next few episodes afterwards featured the camera near exclusively pointed to a table with black cloth, with a card for BEMANI生放送(仮) and its bunny mascot visible; any announcers would only be heard talking off-screen. Only outside artists, like [[Yuki Nakashima]] or [[MAD CHILD]], or top players like DOLCE., appeared in-person afterwards. Following the last numbered episode in the series - episode 178 - the show went on a month long hiatus. When the show resumed, Nakashima took over hosting duties, with a rotating set of guest hosts outside of KONAMI tied to BEMANI appearing, most notably MAD CHILD. No in-house BEMANI staff have appeared on the show since Nakashima took over hosting duties.