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{{BEMANI Timeline}}
= 2005 =

2005, for the most part, saw things as usual for BEMANI. KONAMI continued to make arcade and home games as per the norm. There were four interesting things that happened in the year in BEMANI, though.

For the first time since 2001, KONAMI introduced two new arcade BEMANI games, both aimed at a younger audience than the other BEMANI games at the time. The first of these was [[Toy'sMarch Information|Toy'sMarch]], a simple drum-hitting game that looked like the set of drums one would play in a marching band. Up to two players could play at a time, and only had two sensors: one on the drum itself, and a cymbal. Two games in the series were released before it was quietly retired.

The second new BEMANI arcade game was [[AC DANCE 86.4|DANCE 86.4 FUNKY RADIO STATION]], a dancing game that involved you hitting three rectangular shaped arrows, all placed one beside the other. Like Toy'sMarch, it could be played with up to two people at a time. Unlike that series, though, it never had a sequel, and quietly faded away from arcades.

Third was an unusual collaboration between Nintendo and KONAMI, with the Mario-themed [[CS DDR MARIO|DanceDanceRevolution with MARIO]] on Nintendo GameCube. Made by Hudson Soft (even running on their ''Mario Party'' series' game engine), it combined Mario game remixes and classical remixes with a story mode, featuring interesting in-game gimmicks and even mini-games. It was the GameCube's sole DanceDanceRevolution title, though two years later KONAMI and Nintendo would collaborate a ''lot'' more with DanceDanceRevolution-themed games.

The fourth and final big shake-up was [[AC GFDM V|GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V]]. After six years of being on dated, archaic hardware, KONAMI finally moved the series to the far stronger PlayStation 2-based BEMANI Python 2 Hardware. The result was a then record 50 new songs, crisper movies, music videos added for the new licenses, and ''lots'' of revivals, with an overall song list over ''double'' that of [[AC GF11DM10|GUITARFREAKS 11thMIX & drummania 10thMIX]]. [[AC GFDM V2|GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2]] followed in November.

The fun for GuitarFreaks & DrumMania fans doesn't stop there, though, because in [[2006]] they'd have a '''lot''' more to celebrate.

== January ==
* January 26th: [[Sanae Shintani]]'s fourth album, [[Mitsugetsu ~honey moon~|蜜月 ～honey moon～]], is released.

== February ==
* February 2nd: [[beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED Original Soundtrack]] released.
* February 23rd: [[AC GFDM V|GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V]] are released to arcades.
** [[Shigeharu Saeki]], who has been contributing to licensed covers in the series as early as [[AC GF9DM8|GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX]], starts writing new music for BEMANI with this game.
* February 24th: [[AC TM|Toy'sMarch]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* February 25th: [[Tomosuke Funaki]]'s first album, [[marble]], is released.

== March ==
* March 5th: [[CS DDR ULTRAMIX|DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX]] is re-released in North America as part of the Xbox's ''Platinum Family Hits'' series.
* March 11th: [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]]'s first album, [[REVOLUTION (album)|RЁVOLUTIФN]], is released.
* March 24th:
** [[CS 9th style|beatmania IIDX 9th style CS]] is released in Japan for the PlayStation 2.
** [[beatmania IIDX visual emotions 2]] DVD released.

== April ==
* April 1st: Konami Media Entertainment, Inc., who had been handling the soundtracks of BEMANI games since October 2003, is absorbed into Konami Corporation. 
* April 13th: ''pop'n music 12 いろは AC ♥ CS pop'n music 10 original soundtrack'' released.

== May ==
* May 9th: KONAMI takes Roxor Games Inc., the creators of the arcade dancing game ''in the groove'', to court, because the game could be purchased as a kit that needed to be plugged into a DanceDanceRevolution arcade machine in order to be used.
* May 13th: [[CS DS Unleashed2|Dancing Stage Unleashed2]] is released in Europe for the Xbox.

== June ==
* June 23rd: [[AC DANCE 86.4|DANCE 86.4 FUNKY RADIO STATION]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* June 24th: [[Tatsuya Furukawa]]'s second album, [[good-cool ultra expander]], is released.

== July ==
* July 1st: KONAMI increases the scope of its lawsuit to encompass the home version of In the Groove as well as adding the publishers of the home version of ''in the groove'' as defendants.
* July 6th: ''GuitarFreaksV & DrumManiaV Soundtracks'' released.
* July 13th: [[AC HAPPY SKY|beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY]] is released to arcades.
** [[Takayuki Ishikawa]] steps down as head sound director, and his position is given to [[Tatsuya Shimizu]].
* July 14th: [[CS DDR MARIO|DanceDanceRevolution with MARIO]] is released in Japan for the Nintendo GameCube.
* July 20th: [[573]] album released. The first disc contains mostly new songs, while the second disc is a megamix of various beatmania and beatmania IIDX songs.
* July 21st: [[CS pnm 11|pop'n music 11 CS]] is released in Japan for the PlayStation 2.

== September ==
* September 7th: [[AC pnm 13|pop'n music 13 カーニバル]] is released to arcades.
** [[Tomosuke Funaki]] joins the pop'n music staff. He would continue to be a part of it for the following three games as well.
* September 22nd: [[Asaki]]'s first album, [[Shinkyoku (album)|神曲]], is released.
* September 28th: [[CS DDR EXTREME2|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2]] is released in North America for the PlayStation 2.

== October ==
* October 19th: [[beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK]] released.
* October 21st: [[Goli Matsumoto]]'s first art book, [[GOLIALIZZE GOLI MATSUMOTO ARCHIVES]], is released.
* October 24th: [[CS DDR MARIO|DanceDanceRevolution MARIO MIX]] is released in North America for the Nintendo GameCube.
* October 28th: [[CS DDR MARIO|Dancing Stage MARIO MIX]] is released in Europe for GameCube.

== November ==
* November 15th: [[CS DDR ULTRAMIX3|DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX3]] is released in North America for the Xbox.
* November 17th:
** [[CS 10th style|beatmania IIDX 10th style CS]] is released in Japan for the PlayStation 2.
** [[beatmania IIDX visual emotions 3]] DVD released.
* November 24th:
** [[AC GFDM V2|GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2]] are released to Japanese arcades.
** [[CS DDR MARIO|Dancing Stage MARIO MIX]] is released in Australasia for the Nintendo GameCube.
* November 25th: [[CS DS Max|Dancing Stage Max]] is released in Europe for the PlayStation 2.

== December ==
* December 15th: [[AC TM2|Toy'sMarch2]] is released to Japanese arcades.

== Unknown Date ==
* [[Hiroyuki Togo]], the BEMANI series' first ever CS sound director, and a composer for KONAMI for nearly a decade, leaves the company.

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