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BEMANI Timeline
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2017

KONAMI officially launches a BEMANI series in with ノスタルジア (NOSTALGIA), which had made its debut the year prior in JAEPO 2016. ノスタルジア is a spiritual successor of the KEYBOARDMANIA series, as it focuses on piano-based gameplay, although it has several differences to its predecessor both in gameplay and in cabinet design.

Unfortunately, 2017 also marked the end of the BeatStream series. 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, and the series went offline permanently on September 1st. Instead, KONAMI offered arcade operators a conversion kit to change their BeatStream machines to ノスタルジア ones.

To add more sad news, in spring 2017, KONAMI removed all of the artist pages from the BEMANI Fan Page website, and also dropped the long-standing beatnation Records name that had been in use since 2006. In fall 2017, KONAMI also started listing its in-house BEMANI staff as BEMANI Sound Team, and for a few weeks in pop'n music even went so far as to uncredit in-house songs completely. Nearly all BEMANI songs done in-house since fall 2017 feature the BEMANI Sound Team name in front of the artist name. Individual artists are also now unlisted in live events, just called the collective name of BEMANI Sound Team.

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

  • June 28th: episode 178 of BEMANI Namahousou (kari) (BEMANI生放送(仮)), the last numbered episode of the show, is aired. The show would go on a month long hiatus, and the original host fired. Upon its return in July, it will be hosted by Yuki Nakashima alongside various other commissioned/contest artists, aired far less frequently, and no longer have any in-house BEMANI staff on the show.
  • June 30th: Jin Senbonmatsu leaves KONAMI after 11 years with the company.

July

September

October

November

December

  • December 13th: The change of "BEMANI Sound Team" was partially reverted, 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).
  • December 21st: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS is released to Japanese arcades.

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