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{{BEMANI Timeline}}
= 2018 =

KONAMI celebrated the 20th anniversaries of DanceDanceRevolution and pop'n music in September with little events and new songs, even making anniversary pages for both games. On September 28th, KONAMI also started location testing a new BEMANI game, Rizminance.

In addition, KONAMI announced a new spin-off project of [[HinaBitter|HinaBitter♪]], titled [[BandMeshi|BandMeshi♪]] (バンめし♪).

Unfortunately, 2018 saw KONAMI continuing their practices at the end of 2017 well into 2018 as well, which again can be viewed on the [[BEMANI Sound Team]] page.

== February ==
* February 10th: The 7th [[KONAMI Arcade Championship]] and [[Tenkaichi otogesai|第四回天下一音ゲ祭]] finals were held at JAEPO 2018.
* February 11th: After months of rumors, KONAMI officially announces the endings of [[REFLEC BEAT Information|REFLEC BEAT]] and [[MUSECA Information|MÚSECA]] via ''BEMANI Pia'', a 20th anniversary BEMANI book sold at JAEPO 2018.
* February 12th: [[AC CANNON BALLERS|beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS]] is released to Korean arcades.
* February 14th:
** ''jubeat clan ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK'' released.
** ''GITADORA Tri-Boost Original Soundtrack Volume.03'' released.
** ''GITADORA Tri-Boost Re:EVOLVE Original Soundtrack'' released.

== March ==
* March 7th: ''beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK'' released.
* March 23rd: [[AC DRS|DANCERUSH STARDOM]] is released to Japanese arcades.
** It is the first BEMANI arcade game with in-game language selection options.

== April ==
* April 1st: [[Yuya Yokoyama]] joins KONAMI.

== May ==
* May 9th: [[Hinatabi Bitter Sweets BEST|日向美ビタースイーツ♪ BEST]], a 2-CD best hits collection of various [[HinaBitter|HinaBitter♪]] songs, was released.

== June ==
* June 26th: Offline kits for [[AC MSC 1+1/2|MÚSECA 1+1/2]] were released, as well as conversion kits to change MÚSECA to ''Bishi Bashi CHANNEL'' (ビシバシCHANNEL) are available from this date as well.

== July ==
* July 24th: [[AC SDVX IV|SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN]] gets heavily censored in the South Korean version of the game. Due to interference from South Korea's video games board, Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC), '''all''' songs added after November 16th, 2017 were temporarily removed from the game (except for BLASTER GATE charts for older songs).
** Song updates were paused as well until August 23rd, 2018, when all missing songs were restored. However, the censorship of the jackets remained.
*** On August 2nd, 2018, a similar censorship happened with [[AC DDR A|DanceDanceRevolution A]], with EXTRA SAVIOR song [[ALGORITHM]] temporarily absent from the Korean release of the game.
*** The [[BEMANI SUMMER GREETINGS]] event, which started on August 10th, cannot be accessed in the Korean version of [[AC GD Matixx|GITADORA Matixx]], unfortunately suggesting the censorship issues with GRAC have not yet been fully resolved.
* July 31st:
** support (though not online) for [[AC MSC 1+1/2|MÚSECA 1+1/2]] ends, marking the official end of the series.
** Patent no. 2922509, which mainly covered elements of the [[beatmania Information|original beatmania series]] such as keysounded notes and vertical note scrolling, reaches the end of its term.

== September ==
* September 5th: [[AC jb festo|jubeat festo]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* September 7th: [[AC DRS|DANCERUSH STARDOM]] is released to Korean arcades.
* September 10th: [[AC jb festo|jubeat festo]] is released to Korean arcades.
* September 12th:
** [[AC GD EXCHAIN|GITADORA EXCHAIN]] is released to arcades.
** ''ひなビタ♪ライブSSP～待っててね東京さんっ！～'' released.
* September 26th: [[AC NST Op.2|ノスタルジア Op.2]] is released to Japanese arcades.

== October ==
* October 10th: ''pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 Original Soundtrack'' and ''pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition'' released.
* October 11th: [[AC NST Op.2|ノスタルジア Op.2]] is released to Korean arcades.
* October 17th: [[AC pnm peace|pop'n music peace]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* October 25th: ''Amusement IC'' service is implemented for a selection of arcade games released by KONAMI, SEGA, and BANDAI NAMCO.

== November ==
* November 7th: 
** [[AC Rootage|beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage]] is released to Japanese arcades.
** ''EDP presents ここなつワンマンライブ2018 ミライコウシン'' is released.
* November 8th: [[AC pnm peace|pop'n music peace]] is released to Korean arcades.
* November 12th: [[AC Rootage|beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage]] is released to Korean arcades.
* November 15th: KONAMI announces on their official ''Tokimeki Idol'' (ときめきアイドル) [https://twitter.com/tokimekiidol573 twitter] that the game will be taken offline on January 15th, 2019, and will include an offline patch.

== December ==
* December 5th: [[BandMeshi|BandMeshi♪]] single [[Bitter escape (single)|ビター・エスケープ]] is released.

== Unknown ==
* [[HARDCORE TANO*C]] severs all ties with KONAMI. With the sole exception of [[Shohei Uno]] (RoughSketch), no members of the group wrote BEMANI original compositions after [[F4SH10N]]'s debut in [[AC DDR A20|DanceDanceRevolution A20]].

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