Lately Maya Takamura’s video DVD was released.

Maya Takamura is the only female in the IIDX staff. She works along other members of the graphics team on 2d and now 3d movies for IIDX games (Movie Designer). Her 2d drawings easy to recognize. Her lineart is not so strong and her coloring style reminds of water color use (no cel shading as most other artist do). She brings a bit of lightness to IIDX graphic.

She is most known for the illustration of Killer from Genocide. (from IIDX Red)

She has done videos for Xepher, Zenius-I-Vanisher, Blind Justice, Twelfth Style, Little Little Princess etc.

So, I have been tooling on bemanitube.com lately. For the case you don’t know bemanitube.com yet, it’s part of my bemani community and serves like a youtube clone but dedicated to music games! There is a new design and some new features. The video quality has gone up from 500kbps to 800kbps and it has a fresh new look!

Just take a look if you want! : D

Since today, I have started a cafepress shop with nice konami/573/bemani goodies : D Well, as for now I only have 1 design ready. Other designs will come later on :3 At the left side of this story you can find an example of a shirt [: There are other nice things to buy with this design on it, like mugs and clocks etc. You should visit our shop to see all of what we offer! I hope you all like it, and if you have any suggestions for any designs, just contact someone form the staff or post a comment here.

You can visit our cafreepress shop by clicking HERE

Oh, and also:

Hey. It’s Tsugaru, asking for a favor from the members of beatmaniaiidx.com! If anyone is really good at writing, I was wondering if someone would like to work on a 573/eurobeat inspired manga for the contest. If interested, details are written in my personal blog.

Enjoy~

Hello, this is AJmix. I was made a staff member of the main blog about three days ago, and the other staff members were doing it, so I might as well do an introduction.

I was a supporter of music games since a long time ago, and by a long time ago, I meant about six years ago. I started on DDR, and then I eventually got into every other part of the Bemani series. My favorite out of all of them? Pop’n Music. IIDX is awesome too, though.

I’m glad to be a part of the “573 fun”. Thank you.

Hi~ I’m Tsugaru and I’m new to the main blog updating crew! I’m 16, and I love MAYA and GOLI’s artwork very much! I live in Dayton, Ohio in the USA, and I’ve been playing BEMANI games for about 5 years. My friends and I, after learning about the Cardinal Gate set of songs have an art studio in honor of the set (and influence by Fushigi Yuugi).

I’m not sure what I’ll upload in the main blog, but I’ll try really hard not to waste any space!

Thanks so much for accepting me!

On 26/10/07 a new 20cm figure of Iroha was released. It is the first figurine from a 1/8 scale size series. Just see the figurine for yourself I think that we have more to expect and look forward to!

The price is about 5000 yen and you can order the figurine at konamistyle

But yeah, that is only if you live in Japan. For all of the other countries in the world, you can buy it by following this link here.

Also, if you are lazy you can also scan this QR code if you have a fancy phone:

Watch this awesome fan video of GOLD RUSH from IIDX GOLD lol. The video description

“We were really bored this morning, so… We were really bored this morning, so we decided to plan out a live-action video of “Gold Rush” that pokes fun at the singer’s poor English. We completed recording and editing in about three hours. Enjoy!

This video features Sema as Horatio Shields, the pit bull, and Taren as Zenius I. Vanisher the red and white husky.”

Oh yeah, and before you watch, ill tell you, these lyrics are FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE LOL!

Lyrics, SING ALONG!!!!! D:

Credit goes to Xythar for coming up with these lyrics for the song. Feel free to follow along with the music!

WOO YAY COME ON
I’M MICHAEL IN A BOAT
LET’S DO THE MENU MAKING OUT ME
READY?!?!
2D IS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD
MAKE A BIT OF MONEY
MAKE IT ON YOUR NATURAL
MAKE A BIT OF MONEY
MAKE IT TIME TO TURN AN AMPLIFY
MAKE A BIT OF MONEY
NOW YOU MAKING TO THE MAGIC DOOR
MAKE A BIT OF MONEY
NOW LET’S DO THE FDHDSFSDGFSGD
MAKE A BIT OF MONEY
WITH THE BASTARD THAT’S ROBIN HOOD
MAKE A BIT OF MONEY
IMAGINE HIS CRIMES ARE HEAD-IN
MAKE A BIT OF MONEY
NOW THE ANSWER IS OUT OF MY HEAD
MAKE A BIT OF MONEY
YES! I’M COMING HERE!
YEAH YEAH YEAH
MAKE IT! PASTA!
SERVE SOME!
SIR STYLE!
SUNSHINE!
POSTER!
BEACH TOWEL!
SEA SIDE!
SEVEN’S TIDE!
PIGSTY!
NICE TAN!
TEXTILE!
TUNIC IS RED!
HAPPY SKY!
DISCOTHEQUE!
2D IS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD
(repeat chorus)

IT’S MY  TWINKIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Music by: DJ Yoshitaka-G feat. Michael a la Mode
Video by: Taren and Sema
Date: 3/31/2007

I guess that all of you have played Piano Concerto No.1 Anti-Ares in Beatmania IIDX11 or other version of BM IIDX. It’s level of difficulty 8 on another may be to difficult to some and easy for others. But have you ever imagined that this score was actually composed for the piano? That’s not seven/fourteen keys and a turntable.See how this young Japanese pianist tried his best on this concerto.

Piano Concerto No.1 Anti-Ares

In the stats for this blog, I see many people come here searching for lyrics for “Blue Rain” from Milestone (DJ Taka’s album you know lol). Since there are so many people wholand here for that, I’ll post the unaccurate “by hear” lyrics :3 Until the official comes out [:

dj TAKA vs. Ryu☆

High above on my way
Tears fall down like the rain
Can’t you see you’re still part of me
My whole life set for free

High above on my way
Tears formed up like the rain
Can’t you see you’re still part of me
My whole life set for free

And I am wasting all my time
Feeling the summer is waiting for me
These are the dreams of a life
Sometimes life just passes by

Oh btw, if you want to buy the album…
Buy DJ Taka’s 1st Album: Milestone