Konami Arcade Games is weighing a reboot of the jubeat music game series under a strategy of revisiting past hit music games. It is also placing two NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE FiguCube figures into the amusement facility prize channel starting September 24, 2026.
Konami Arcade Games runs two lines of business in these stories: reviving its own music game catalog and making prize figures for arcades. In the Konami Group integrated report published on October 15, the company said it is considering a reboot of the jubeat series. Yoshitaka Nishimura, head of the arcade game business, said the aim is to involve people who have never played music games and to energize amusement facilities. The jubeat consideration is part of a reboot strategy for past hit music games; pop'n music was revisited in the previous fiscal year.
The merchandise side is already shipping. Konami Arcade Games published prize information for two NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE figures on its Konami Prize Collection site. The TV Anime 'NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE' FiguCube Ame-chan and FiguCube Choten-chan are amusement facility-exclusive prizes, each measuring W100mm x D100mm x H100mm and manufactured by Konami Arcade Games. Both are scheduled to appear sequentially starting Thursday, September 24, 2026.
The two items point in different directions. The jubeat reboot is still being weighed, with no format or date disclosed beyond the strategy language. The NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE figures have a fixed size, a fixed channel, and a start date. What the stories settle is that Konami Arcade Games is pursuing catalog reboots and license-based prize figures at the same time, and that the jubeat decision has not moved past the consideration stage in the record.
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Konami Arcade Games disclosed in the Konami Group integrated report published on October 15 that it is considering a reboot of the jubeat series, part of a reboot strategy to revisit past hit music games. Yoshitaka Nishimura, head of the arcade game business, said the aim is to involve people who have never played music games and energize amusement facilities.
Konami Arcade Games published prize information for two NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE figures on its Konami Prize Collection site. The TV Anime 'NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE' FiguCube Ame-chan and FiguCube Choten-chan are amusement facility-exclusive prizes, each measuring W100mm x D100mm x H100mm and manufactured by Konami Arcade Games. Both are scheduled to appear sequentially starting Thursday, September 24, 2026.