BEMANI

Background

BEMANI logo since 1999.

Alternate logo.

BEMANI (ビーマニ) is the brand name of KONAMI's music simulation game series. The brand was originally named the Games & Music Division (G.M.D.) until it was changed in honor of its first successful game, beatmania in 1999. The name BEMANI is a Japanese syllabic abbreviation of beatmania. Following the success of beatmania, the line was expanded with other music-based games throughout the years.

A more colorful variation of the logo was created in 2004. This alternate logo is used only for some select series or games only:

• pop'n music 12 いろは to present, including CS releases and pop'n rhythmin.
• Toy's March
• DanceDanceRevolution Winx Club and DanceDanceRevolution MUSIC FIT
• ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom

Series

Active

Name	Activity
beatmania IIDX	1999→Present
pop'n music	1998→Present
DanceDanceRevolution	1998→Present
GITADORA (formally GuitarFreaks & DrumMania)	1998→Present
jubeat	2008→Present
REFLEC BEAT	2010→Present
SOUND VOLTEX	2012→Present
DanceEvolution ARCADE	2012→Present
ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom	2013→Present
BeatStream	2014→Present

Inactive / Cancelled

Name	Activity
beatmania	1997-2002
beatmania III	2000-2002
pop'n stage	1999 (arcade only)
DanceDanceRevolution Solo	1999-2000
RAP FREAKS	1999 (cancelled, arcade only)
KEYBOARDMANIA	2000-2001
ParaParaParadise	2000-2001
Dance Maniax	2000-2001
MAMBO A GO GO	2001 (arcade only)
Toy's March	2005
DANCE 86.4 FUNKY RADIO STATION	2005
マリンバ天国	September 15th, 2005

Events

BEMANI Events

KONAMI oftenly holds several events involving one or more of its BEMANI series. For a list of them, please see BEMANI Events.

KONAMI Arcade Championship (KAC)

Created in 2011, KONAMI Arcade Championship is an annual competition hosted by KONAMI for some of its games sweries including the following BEMANI arcade series: beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution, GITADORA (GuitarFreaks & DrumMania), jubeat, pop'n music, REFLEC BEAT, SOUND VOLTEX (since 2012), DanceEvolution ARCADE (since 2012), BeatStream (since 2014) and ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom (since 2014).

A second contest, KAC Asia, was also held in Asia using only BEMANI series in 2011. The following years, the second contest was merged with the original KAC.

Other Media

beatnation Records

beatnation Records is the in-house recording label of KONAMI's BEMANI music branch founded in 2006 by dj TAKA. A sub-label, beatnation RHYZE was founded in 2014 with upcoming artists mainly from the SOUND VOLTEX series and a few other BEMANI series.

External Link

• BEMANI Fan Site

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