BEMANI

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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 be>atmania. 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:

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
Marimba Tengoku (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, the KAC 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(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.

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