maimai LIVE 2014 ~sentakusai~
maimai LIVE 2014 ～洗濯祭～ was a live concert held on August 30th and 31st, 2014 from 13:00 to 19:00, as part of the "JAPAN GAMER’S LIVE" event in Tokyo Big Site TFT Hall. Regular tickets were sold for 3000 yen (tax included). Since 10:00 on August 9th, student tickets were available for 1800 yen (tax included), and require student IDs to be shown. Students who already bought the regular ticket were eligible for refund at the venue.
Performing artists include:
- Maya Ayahane (an idol that used to play maimai) (blog post)
- COOL&CREATE
- Takahito "Rute" Koshida (A-One)
- Takahashi Meijin
- D.watt (IOSYS)
- t+pazolite
- Butaotome (blog post)
- Masayoshi Minoshima
- YMCK
- SEGA Sound unit [H.]
Goods that were handed out to all attendees include:
- a set of 3 badges
- a towel
- a mask
- はっぴーでぃすく
In addition, about 40 randomly chosen players could play two new charts (Reach For The Stars and 脳漿炸裂ガール; both ended up as 蔵-attribute Utage charts years later) on the then-upcoming maimai ORANGE from 12:00 at the venue. Players interested need to register to enter the random selection process from 9:00 to 11:30.
welcome to maimai!! with マイマイマー was performed at the concert. A video recording of the venue, with the audience's interactions in the shot, was later used as the background movie of the song when it was added to the game in maimai ORANGE.
maimaiゴージャス★つめあわせBOX was announced at this event.
The event also saw SEGA's collaboration with SHARP and Pine, because the maimai cabinet looks like a washing machine, and the yellow simultaneous notes look like Pine's pineapple candies. Two SHARP washing machines with stickers that made them look like maimai cabinets were put on display at the event, and the maimai ORANGE cabinets available for play during the event had the simultaneous notes in-game changed to pineapple candies.
In February 2015, SEGA teased about a follow up of the collaboration with SHARP (Famitsu news article), with a new song made by Hiro, but it never happened.
In November 2015, SHARP released the imaginary "product catalogue" of the maimai lookalike washing-drying machine in digital form on its own ebook store, Galapagos Store. It was originally distributed physically at the 2014 Sentakusai event. (Excite news article)