Talk:BEMANI Sound Team

Source

I'm curious about the "It is rumored that KONAMI merged with a pachinko company that has very strict policies on public appearances of its personnel and staff" quote, since this is my first time reading about it. Is there any source for the rumors? --FinalOffset (talk) 18:56, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

• https://twitter.com/hkmtsk_enishi/status/1089429488813785089 --UBerserker (talk) 19:01, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
• Thanks! Made a quick search and found that KPE and Takasago Sales Division were indeed merged with Konami Amusement (former Takasago Electric Industry) back in April 2017 [1]. --FinalOffset (talk) 19:13, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Designers

Don't know if there should be a page for designers too or if the rules can be merged in this article but one thing I noticed is Kaito is "BEMANI Designers" in Initiation yet he's explicitly credited in Cloud Crasher, which debuted 3 months later. The same goes for a lot of 蒼弐's stuff given she's the art director for SDVX (I'm assuming she's in-house, correct me if I'm wrong). Guess they're just BEMANI Designers "<name>" in movies but can still get away with it in jackets? --t7r (talk) 20:06, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• I'm not sure about this, but I think that they have to be credited as BEMANI Designers (name) in official websites and such (i.e. Rootage website, and how pedigree's jacket is credited on the jubeat anniversary site), while in-game they don't appear to have those restrictions. This is just my theory though. --FinalOffset (talk) 20:15, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Reasoning

• Found a tweet (I think this was an conference with shareholders?) regarding why this was done. What I'm getting at is more on "focusing on content" rather than the staff now which may explain the reduction of public appearances. [2] --t7r (talk) 14:20, 6 July 2020 (UTC)