osu!taiko
_Rise written by _yu68
_Rise written by _yu68
- _Rise is one of the mappers who came from « taiko-san jiro », which is similar to osu !taiko. He got his first ranked map in 2017 but you should definitely try his graveyarded ones too. His wide range of styles and difficulties should satisfy most of the players.
- Being the long-standing top player of the mode, _yu68 engaged in mapping for ranked starting from 2017 and focused on making harder maps like Necrophagiatoast and MANIERA. We could expect this highly skilled player to stay active in the mapping scene and bring us maps of wide variety!
- -Sh1n1- is a fantastic mapper with great knowledge of structure and an understanding of how to make said structure stay fun. His maps don't need to veer too much into being difficult to be fun in the end!
- -Tenshi-'s a mapper that has been lingering in the background for a long while now, so it's nice seeing him come out with maps even now.
- [R] was a mapper I personally remember making a bunch of lower difficulty GDs on other mapsets, so it's great seeing him push out sets of his own.
- Relatively new mapper in the scene but with a lot of potential and a clean mapping style. 'Okashi na Yume o Ohitotsu Douzo' is a pretty map for newer but also more experienced players but also 'Atlantico Blue' is recommendable.
- aabc271 is one of the 'oldies' but still one of the more memorable names in the Taiko scene. Has a very decent and smooth mapping style and definitely a good call to play their maps.
- His ranked map in the past was only one diff and it seemed to not be very famous as a mapper engaged in the ranking section. However, his ranked map in 2017 ""ZADAMGA"" gave us a great shock! Don't take your eyes off his future works.
- Longtime mapper that made with their comeback 'Sayonara Memories' and showed no signs of rust, yet showing some neat mapping.
- A very active taiko mapper this past couple of years providing less maps these last months, we hope to see more from him for 2018 !
- Recently joined the BNG and also around in the community for a fairly long time. Providing decent beatmaps but also good mods, you really should give his maps a try!
- Alwaysyukaz is fairly new to the taiko mapping scene, with Shiawase Iro being his first ranked set, having only one more guest difficulty ranked earlier in 2017 on Leprechaun. However, there is more to come and based on this map, it can only be a good thing.
- Founder of the tasuke cult, Arrival lost sight of anything that is not related to his god tasuke912. He reached a point where most of his own maps are filled with patterns copied from tasuke’s maps, may they fit the song or not… Apart from that Arrival became BN and ranked 7 maps in 2017. A notable map of those is BLACK or WHITE?, a five minute difficulty featuring some dank streams!
- Has your tutor ever had to do your homework for you out of frustration? That's Ascendance maps!
- Rather new to mapping, an aspiring mapper ASPIRIN (haha get it) appeared in 2017. With their first own ranked map, Saifu 'Kamiasobi no Uta', ASPIRIN delivers a well-structured patterns that represent the song brilliantly, and shows a lot of potential as a mapper.
- Backfire has been mapping for quite a long time now, providing us with interesting maps over the years. He is especially known for his Taikocalypse difficulties that used to be some of the hardest maps to be found in the past. He is back(fire) this year with some ranked maps including one from his brand new Taikoclysme series, Uta.
- Butter0414 registered only 2 years ago and managed to get his first two ranked maps this year, False Cross and Youkoso JAPARI PARK e, one marathon and one mapset respectively. He doesn’t seem very active right now, but he is still here preparing another map for the ranked section.
- chaica kind of disappeared in 2017 right after ranking his map “snow blind -after-“ from fripSide, a very simple and clean marathon. Luckily, he seems to be back now and ready to make some new maps for us!
- Charlotte is an active mapper that has been getting much better over the years. He has always been into the ranked section and he reached a point where he has more ranked than graveyarded maps. Charlotte used to mostly map anime songs, but he significantly increased his range of genres this year. We greet him as the mapper with the second-most ranked maps in 2017.
- With Weave Detonator as his debut appearance, Chocola_2287 put notable effort in mapping spreads last year and managed to get a few of them ranked such as Hitorigoto and Nawatobi. This demonstrated his ability of making decent sets apart from usual technical map creations.
- Well known as the man with most ranked taiko difficulties this year, Chromoxx offers a wide range of music styles to the ranked section, from Drum and Bass to Rock along with Anime or Novelty, following a very specific flowing mapping style
- Dargin kind of started to get more into mapping this year after reaching a decent amount of experience in the game mode as a player. His very first (and only) ranked map is BAMF. A kind of song we don’t see much in the taiko ranked section even though its maker Pegboard Nerds is quite a popular group. Dargin is still working on other maps as of today, so we might see more from him in the future.
- Already quite known with a lot of unranked maps, DarkVortex keeps providing enjoyable difficulties for everyone with a remarkable Shikou no Ran set in 2017, definetly a mapper to follow !
- Dellvangel, normally a mania mapper, mapped one good taiko set in form of anime TV size song Blow Out. You can stay here for 2018, our dons and kats are friendly.
- Definitely more experienced than what you might think, EdamaMe411 has been active in taiko mapping for several years with now more than 50 submitted maps. His pack contains a lot of medium difficulty maps with mainly anime, rhythm game and vocaloid songs. We congratulate him for his second ranked map this year.
- Probably not that known for the majority in the taiko community but they brought out a pretty decent taiko mapset with 'AIWAGUMA'. Let's see what they will us in the future!
- Known as one of the most impressive gimmick mappers this year with his spiritual brother katacheh, he recently managed to get his first ranked map. Though this is a single difficulty set it shows that he can make suitable maps for the ranked section too, we hope to see more from him.
- Faputa has a good start of his taiko mapping journey with ranking a bunch of easy, but relaxing taiko beatmaps for the community. Nice start, but it is still a far cry from ending!
- First rayman OST ever ranked, and also FlamingRok's first taiko set ranked. Congratulations!
- frukoyurdakul, who became a BN in 2017, worked on making hard maps of rock genre mainly, and he created a number of hard maps for players who are not satisfied with easy maps. His style of following the drum accurately can be said to be the optimal way of taiko mapping to make maps objectively good.
- An experienced standard mapper who gave a try to taiko and was rewarded a beatmap in the ranked section ! Check out his relaxing Interlude - teatime map if you haven't already.
- Another mapper that has a good sense for well-designed mapsets and mapping in general, 'Tsukinami' and 'The Pretender' are great examples.
- Gemu- is a mapper with a lot of effort to dole out. Having been assisted by me a few times in his early mapping career, it's fantastic to see him getting maps out on his own. With simple song choices and quality maps, Gemu- brings a pool of relaxation to an otherwise hectic mix of maps.
- Long time player, long time mapper, long time weird jokes maker, Gezoda is kind of the Jean-Claude Van Damme of osu!taiko. He registered more than 8 years ago, participated in 5 Taiko World Cup, held the BAT title for 2 years… and yet he was still here in 2017 adding some fresh maps to his huge collection. Even though his 2017 ranked maps might not be THAT memorable, Gezoda is probably one of the first who tried to push ranking criteria to their limits with maps such as Lawn Wake IV (Black).
- Made a pretty simple map recently, hoping to see more complex stuff from him later on!
- He got his second ranked map early in the year but don’t be fooled by this number: he is a very active mapper and he recently reached the 100 submitted maps milestone. His map list covers a wide range of music genres which shows how versatile he is. He might get his third ranked map soon and we are looking forward to it!
- After years of mapping in various modes, this mapper finally got first own ranked map, in collaboration with 2 other mappers. The outcome is a streamy map to nicely cover the song which is intense with 1/4 piano/guitar rhythms. The mapper and two friends, have sure delivered well!
- From the people who brought you ""Salchipapa,"" Hanjamon is a mapper who has consistently been able to make great maps for many years now. With great understanding of patterns and structure, we can only imagine what awaits us now that he has his hands on music making programs.
- HeatKai has always had a pretty taste for slower, simpler songs, and the sets made for them never fail to please!
- Gunshots and drums and dons. Finally another mapper who appreciates using finishers as much as I do. Additionally, their first ranked map overall. Congratulations, Hiicantpk!
- While this mapper may not get to finish too many maps, the ones they do finish are award winning. Despite being a one-handed player, hikikochan's maps provide great flow across playstyles and have impressively structured patterns to boot. Look forward to the three total maps they'll finish this 2018!
- iloveyou4ever is a fairly new mapper who managed to rank 5 marathons this year even though he didn’t have any ranked map before, which is quite impressive. A notable one of those is True Blue [DJ Command Mix] (Full Ver.), a 6 minutes map filled with short streams that represent the song in a respectful and enjoyable way!
- There are a lot of 'The Legend of the Black Shawarma' in our taco world, and Invective's takes a place. 2 years of effort made the shawarma become delicious. Unfortunately, we seldom see the chef keep producing good tacos now...
- One of the few non-Japanese players who managed to break into the top 30 of our mode, he is in fact also a great mapper! It took him more than one year to get his first map ranked but it probably was worth the wait for us players. Beware as he doesn’t seem to be done with the ranked section yet!
- JBH mapped one set that was ranked on January 2nd and it's 2.12*. After that he decided to abandon taiko again. Traitor. At least he gave OnosakiHito a good playground to bring jiro difficulties into 2017, with Acceleration.
- As one of my fellow taiko mapping community members, JessiChan puts extremely hardwork and effort on pushing his map 'O2i3 - TSLove' forward. You know what, he won't quit! His perseverant attitude is highly impressive and appreciated in the community. TaikoSuperLove!
- Jonawaga is known as a standard mapper more than a Taiko Nominator XD. His simple taiko mapping style remarks that taiko is an instrument, after all. I am looking forward to his new tries on mapping complicated music pieces!
- Quite the old and experienced mapper with over 100 submitted maps, JUDYDANNY has not been very active this year but still ranked one map. Even though he has been a BN for several years, he didn’t push many of his own sets to the ranked section but focused on helping others instead. We thank him for his great contribution.
- Known as one of the most impressive gimmick mappers this year with his spiritual brother Fantazy, he recently managed to get his first ranked map. A clean and simple set unlike some crazy maps we were used to, we hope to see more from him.
- Kazaze's first ranked set, and on a quite long pop song. Overall a nice map, and a welcome addition to 2017's ranked maps. Hopefully we will see more in 2018!
- Older than what you might think, Kin has been mapping and modding for years in osu!taiko while also being proficient in osu!catch and osu!standard. He recently joined the BNG and is now an active figure of the ranking process. If you are an experienced player, you should definitely try his Bassdrop Freaks (Long Ver.) map which contains impressive SV changes and complex patterns.
- Kisses- Kisses [Kisses] A standard mapper has just kissed the taiko community! His attempts in Taiko mapping are breakthroughs for himself. Hope he can leave his lips in Taiko longer!
- What a skyrocket in popularity and mapping skill this year! komasy marked 2017 with his incredible consistency at making great maps following a heavy Jiro style, with a proeminence of rhythm game songs.
- Kurai already existed when I first started playing taiko and it shows that they know how to deal with taiko mapping. A simple map that gives newer players a good entry level Oni, and that on a French song! Also there's a cow mooing at the end.
- A very well known standard mapper and BN that gave a try in ranking a taiko map this year. The rhythms are quite well made and he probably has a lot of potential, we can just hope for him to keep mapping drums!
- LZD is a very underrated mapper. He has those maps you find in the graveyard that really surprise you with their quality when you play them. If we can get this guy a few more tickets to the ranked section, that'd be nice.
- Simple taiko difficulties to the simple Pokemon OST Jitensha. A good map by mancuso, as every year.
- Strong player also known for holding several months the lowest user rating in osu!taiko history with his map Moment of Betrayal. It is his first and only ranked map even though this sad record wasn’t really deserved. However, he doesn’t seem done with mapping yet so we might see more from him.
- Brazil is a country that gained quite a lot of good players and mappers this year and Marm is one of them. He kept working hard on his maps and managed to get his first ranked one, Redshift Galaxy, near the end of 2017. This fast and unusual song sounds pretty hard to map yet Marm succeeded in making something interesting out of it.
- Even with relatively few ranked maps this year, he still marked the mode with his Nico Nico Douga songs and an amazing, TJBC winning and Spotlight featuring Din Don Dan remix that struck the month of August with an impeccable design and patterning choice.
- Known for being the strongest European player these past few years, Mew104 is actually also a very impressive mapper. His favorite music genre being metal, he got his first ranked map this years which is Scars of Yesterday from Dragonforce. Make sure to check out his other maps if you like the genre.
- If you're looking for weird and funny song choices with very good standards of mapping, then Midnaait is definitely your man. 'We Are Number One (Remix)' and 'sorry asap croissant' are great great beatmaps just to count up some examples.
- Even though he has not been very active those past years, MMzz is still very well known by the osu!taiko community as one of the most experienced player and mapper of this game mode. He used to be the only top player being part of the ranking process as he held the QAT title several years while also being in the top 50. He once again demonstrated his ability to map any sort of song in a cool way this year with some dank maps such as NEXT LEVEL and POWA OF DA WILDANES!
- The (in)famous triangle guy comes to create a map in another game mode then leaves, but the legacy is actually enjoyable. W-wait, do we count TRICKL4SH?
- Previously known as a top mania player, Nanatsu felt like trying out taiko mapping and ended up doing quite well. Unfortunately, he seems to be retired now, leaving us with a last ranked map this year. Make sure to check his maps though, you won’t be disappointed.
- Oh my god, Naotoshi knows songs other than Harumachi Clover?! While normally a standard mapper, Naotoshi has started mapping and ranking more difficulties of the only true gamemode - osu!taiko, ranging from anime TV size to 5 minute songs. What will we see in 2018?
- Long-time taiko mapper and joined the QAT last year, tirelessly producing beatmaps with decent spreads since years and also claiming the title for having the most ranked beatmaps in 2017 for taiko mode. Personal favorite: 'MY LIBERATION'.
- A standard mapper dabbling in taiko a bit.
- Neppu(Jerry) actually is one of the oldest active users in the taiko mapping scene as he registered back in 2010, though he wasn’t that active the whole time and thus he didn’t submit a large amount of maps. Nowadays he seems to be hesitating between either getting more into mapping or focusing on his memer career. His only ranked map in 2017 is the opening S.M.L* (TV size ver.), back from a 4 years sleep in the graveyard.
- While a bit new to the taiko scene, any step into it is welcome.
- Nifty is a newcomer who started to actively map in taiko this year. He is one of the few mappers who work on SV changes in order to give players a better experience. One of his notable maps from 2017 is fuego (sakuraburst remix) which provides some well-rounded SV speedups and slowdowns.
- Nishizumi gained a lot of attention in 2016 after ranking a particular 7 star map which was known for its high and probably not deserved star rating. It actually was his third ranked map, with the first one getting its ranked status in 2015. Nishizumi is still a very active mapper today and he managed to rank a total of 9 maps this year! Can he break his own record in 2018? Only time will tell.
- Made a Muzukashii, let's look forward to more.
- People are finally starting to notice he's using violent SVs to hide his highly deficient patterning skills
- Long time mapper and great community contributor, Nwolf is now the oldest member of the BNG with more than 3 years in! He has been doing various things for the community over the years such as TWC statistician, osu!taiko LMS mappool selector, beatmap spotlight selector etc. Thought he never did put mapping aside since he still ranked 3 maps in 2017. One of those is Perfect Free, a 5 minutes maps with fancy SV changes that will probably please players looking for some reading challenge.
- Even though his singing is not the best, he still tries as hard as he can and never gives up, just like his mapping I guess… On a serious note he was one of the most active mappers in the past and he significantly helped our mode to grow up, we are glad to still have him here.
- Another standard mapper who's entering the real mode. While their Jpop Drop set is decent, but not much, there's more Pachiru taiko difficulties in pending and entering ranked section in 2018. Can't wait!
- Faputa's easy beatmap partner, Poii still has a lot of potential waiting for being polished and discovered!
- Prophecy is very consistent with his maps, being able to make nice spreads and overall enjoyable maps for songs that need them!
- Raiden has been around for a while now, even becoming a QAT (poor guy). He's known for mapping a lot of metal songs, and being good at that and being featured with them in spotlights in several months. However, he also got his speedcore map Magical Sanctuary ranked this year, a huge change from his normally mapped songs.
- Raphalge is a dedicated player and mapper with probably more experience than what you might think. He started to map taiko 2 years ago already, and finally managed to get his first ranked map this year: Nobore! Susume! Takai Tou. This five minutes long map provides a cool experience for beginners and more experienced players as its low bpm favors the use of the Double Time mod.
- Just started in 2017 with Taiko mapping but already has some ranked maps, some cool maps too! Talking about 'Oriental Blossom' and 'Make Magic'.
- Regraz mapped Shakira. Good job!
- With 'Fall of Fall ~ The Door Into Summer' beatmap, (and recently ranked 'Ascension to Heaven') Remus shows great ability of creating drum-based beatmaps. You might think ""Demetori, drum-based, the combination is kinda stale.."", but the map delivers amazingly. Definitely play worthy!
- Mania BN that ranked three easy taiko difficulties this year and got it right.
- Desptie owning a single ranked mapest, Sanawieck shows his clean Japanese style in 'Yui Horie - PRESENTER'. When will this rare customer come back to our mapping family?
- Known for Galaxy Collapse, Sayaka- is a mapper that creates songs and creates maps himself. I hope for him to restart taiko mapping and to make the mapping community develop by his great songs.
- Senritsu is a very skilled mapper we don't get to see enough of. Being that most of his sets are of rather tame songs, I think there's a bit of untapped potential in him.
- Shinsekai- is a mapper I'm sad to admit I have let down pretty frequently as a BN. Lacking re-check patience, I started to miss out on what are actually pretty solid maps. I'm glad others were willing to give him a chance and support his never-give-up attitude.
- Sinnoh enters and ruins the taiko mapping scene with two lower difficulties and a Chromoxx Muzukashii on a meme song. Yeah, boy.
- Skull Kid is an active mapper and player who doesn’t try to get his maps ranked very often. He has more than 60 grave yarded maps for only 2 ranked maps as of today. The second one, Fast Paced Society, got ranked this year. It is a long and challenging map which provides some quite draining streams, you should definitely try it if you want to put your reading and stamina skills to test.
- Aside from 3/16 jokes, Skylish is a well established mapper and a helpful part of the community with his position as Beatmap Nominator. 'Precious You*', his latest ranked beatmap, shows a really smooth difficulty spread and is a really good beatmap for newer players. Meanwhile I heard someone in the world yelling 'Ishukan Communication' and I have no idea how to react.
- An inactive falling star with his resignation of BN, does not let these be barriers of his shining beatmaps. The greatest characteristic of snowball112 maps are well balanced difficult spread across the whole mapset, his 3 ranked mapsets are so telling!
- As one of the oldies in taiko mapping community, two times being a Taiko BN, with his new title osu alumni! now, Stefan performs consistently strong and active in taiko mapping. His contribution on the community has profound influence rather than his mapping style though X)
- Stingy put ridiculous amounts of effort into getting things ranked this year, so good on him for succeeding.
- strickluke entered the taiko mapping scene this year by ranking two marathons, both with high quality, having consistent and difficult pattern usage as well as many slider velocity changes. I'm excited to see more in 2018!
- Very discreet user that you had probably not heard of before this year. He showed off some incredible skills at making storyboards and managed to win the aspire 2017 contest, now having his entry as his first ranked map! Unluckily he doesn’t seem active for the moment, but we hope to see him back for the next contests.
- I think I have never enjoyed it so much before when someone creates beatmaps to wrestling men. Although I am not a fan of DragonForce maps: If you're one, then Surono can provide you very well with content, 'Cry Thunder' and 'Extraction Zone' are remarkable examples.
- Sylphi has talented taiko mapping sense and skills. I am so surprised that he has so few ranked mapset now! What a pity. I can't wait for seeing his new maps hitting on QF section!
- My former mentee from the Taiko Mentor program two years ago, he improved a lot since his 'Chik Habit' beatmap. 'Intro - the other Side' is maybe not the best of his works but 'MilK' and 'TRICKL4SH 220' are really good creations by him and I am really proud of him that he's today part of the Beatmap Nomination Group.
- Is it still needed to present him? Former captain of the TWC winning Japanese taiko team, tasuke912 has been for a long while a proficient taiko player, his playing skill only rivaled by his mapping skill. Although 2015 is the year when he started to really shine with incredible creations such as Anima or Tiger Rampage, 2017 saw from him a lot of very high quality unranked maps while still being on top of the charts in terms of ranked difficulties! No doubt 2018 will be the theatre of even more awesome creations from him.
- ♪....I heard you like to chill....♩....Don't let the SR fool you btw....♬
- Haven't seen much yet but their 'UP UP MT. CAKE' beatmap was really impressive and got my attention to this mapper. I am excited to see more of them!
- Big figure of osu!taiko, TKS has always been known for his high quality maps and was also a top player at some point (#1 in 2014). He was BN for a while and did a lot in general for our gamemode, he retired in 2015 which is why he is now titled alumni. Luckily for us he came back this year with some fresh ranked maps such as AsiaN distractive and Sky of Twilight.
- toara_fict hasn't done much in 2017 but they're still mentionable for their mapset for '[1/5] Short ver.' which is pretty smooth and enjoyable to play. Hopefully we see more of them in 2018!
- Old standard player that also gave attention to taiko, one great ranked map this year!
- After becoming BN in 2016, Volta became particularly proficient in taiko mapping, he even managed to rank more than 10 maps in 2017. Though most of those are either rhythm game or anime songs, Volta also seems to be into cleaning as he mapped a song about vacuum cleaners, Pylesos.
- Well on his way to becoming a multi-mode superstar.
- After more than 4 years of absence from the Ranked section, but still mapping, whosthebox (now known as YUGAMI NEE NA) comes back with a tech-oriented approval-length map. The song is furioso melodia which has tons of 1/6 through and through and even a fully 1/3 gabba part, leaving big room for mappers to create a tech map. The result is a total joy for tech map enthusiasts! Mmm spicy dkdkdkd's.
- After a lot of graving, World Fraction finally got first own ranked beatmap, 'S.O.S.'. A rather generic anime map, but done right, and appeals to a good amount of player base.
- I think xfraczynho had a really hard start: Producing so much content but no sight of getting anything ranked. However, 2017 was his year joining the BNG and getting a total of three maps ranked within three months. His first map 'DioSynth' which had some problems at the begin also has some good approaches and I am excited to see what he'll release and how to excite us.
- A Harumachi Clover map that's not mapped by Naotoshi?! After several taiko GDs, Xinely finally a ranked a full taiko set!
- xtrem3x' performance in taiko mapping does not go as extreme as his name indicates, that's a pity. Hope he will achieve more in polishing his mapping style in 2k18!
- Strong player and active mapper even though he appeared only two years ago, yassu- made his way into the ranked section and he got several sets of his ranked this year again. If you are looking for fast maps you should probably check his ""DJ MOKOJI"" series.
- Experienced mapper with over 50 submitted maps, yuzu__rinrin managed to rank 4 maps in 2017. A notable one of those is eastward, a cool ginkiha song which provides a great mapping variety since several guest mappers are part of the set. Most of yuzu__rinrin maps are either anime or rhythm game songs and they cover a decent range of difficulty so if you like the genre you should check them out!
- Multimode and very experienced mapper, he ranked two quite interesting marathons this year. If you try them you will notice that Zetera often works on SV changes to support the song in a cool way. If you are looking for challenging and well-rounded maps you should definitely check his “Majin Oni” series.
- His maps are hard but they also always makes players pleasant with abundance in playability. Why don't you become a drummer on his DragonForce map?
- Though not necessary for getting the map ranked, ZiRoX mapped Kantan and Futsuu for 'A Bella!' mapset for wider range of Taiko players.