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BEMANI Timeline
1997 - 1998 - 1999
2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009
2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019
2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024

2017

Daisuke Kurosawa, also known as 96, left KONAMI in early 2017 and joined a newly formed music company named INSPION, alongside Takeshi Kuramochi, Masanori Akita, and Yuichi Tsuchiya.

2017 marks the end of the BeatStream series. However, unlike the DanceEvolution and ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom series, no offline patch was released for BeatStream アニムトライヴ, making the cabinets unable to boot once eAMUSEMENT support for the game ended on September 1st. Instead, KONAMI offered arcade operators a conversion kit of the BeatStream machines to a new BEMANI series.

The new BEMANI series introduced in 2017 is ノスタルジア (NOSTALGIA), which made its first debut in JAEPO 2016. ノスタルジア is a spiritual successor of the KEYBOARDMANIA series, as it focuses on a piano-based gameplay, although it has several differences to its predecessor both in gameplay and in cabinet design.

January

  • January 11th:
    • jubeat prop ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
    • jubeat Qubell ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.

February

March

April

  • April 12th: REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア+VOLZZA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
  • April 20th: ノスタルジア is released to Korean arcades.

June

July

September

October

November

  • November 1st: All in-house BEMANI songs start being credited to BEMANI Sound Team. The reason for this is unknown, and the change was partially reverted during the following months, with the in-house artists now being credited as BEMANI Sound Team "artist".
    • OST booklets from 2018 forward also list in-house BEMANI artists as Konami Amusement(artist name).
  • November 15th: Hinatabi Bitter Sweets♪ and Coconatsu's album, SWEET SMILE♡HEROES, is released.

December

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