2017

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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.

However, it also left far more lasting effects in the series than just an added moniker in front of in-house artist names, including:

  • BEMANI Namahousou (kari) (BEMANI生放送(仮)), the live show that showcased various BEMANI activities, had its host fired and replaced with Yuki Nakashima. No in-house BEMANI staff have since been appeared on the show following the June 28th, 2017 episode.
  • Otoca♥d'or (オトカ♥ドール), an arcade card game that was regularly updated since its debut in March 2015 and featured BEMANI artist Seiya Murai doing its soundtrack, ceased music updates completely after July 2017.
  • BEMANI artist Akhuta's interview page was taken off of the KONAMI employee interview page. His was the only one on the page that was from an in-house BEMANI musician; all other pages are still currently up.
  • In-house artists are no longer credited in live shows, only referred to as BEMANI Sound Team in scheduled listings.
  • BEMANI artist albums published by KONAMI have ceased completely; the only albums published by KONAMI since the change that are vaguely BEMANI related either involve HinaBitter♪ or Tokimeki Idol (ときめきアイドル), as both are Konami Digital Entertainment franchises (BEMANI games are by Konami Amusement instead).
    • BEMANI game OST production has also slowed down significantly.
      • BEMANI game OSTs no longer list staff credits.
  • The DJ YOSHITAKA Song Remix Contest, announced near the end of SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS on October 19th, 2016, was canned. The only remix contest in SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN was for commission artist Ryu☆'s launch of his Ryu☆BEST -STARLiGHT- album.
  • Most in-house BEMANI songs since October 2017 don't have their artist name on the song jacket (though this has occasionally been zigzagged).
  • Song comments on new songs in DanceDanceRevolution A and pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 stopped after early fall 2017.
    • In the case of pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢, virtually no new characters were illustrated for the game after summer 2017.
  • In-house artists on the beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS website are exclusively credited to BEMANI Designers. Unlike the BEMANI Sound Team incident, where the artists were eventually credited, this has not yet been reverted.

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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