Mobo Moga

Mobo★Moga

Song Information

MOBO★MOGA's pop'n music banner.

MOBO★MOGA's jacket.

Artist: Orange Lounge
Composition/Arrangement: Tomosuke Funaki
Lyrics/Vocals: Shizue
Acoustic Guitar: Toshio Sakurai
BPM: 172
Length: 1:23
Genre: FRENCH POP (フレンチポップ)
pop'n music Character: Tart&Toffee [8]
pop'n CG designer: shiro
Movie: shiro
First Music Game Appearance: Dance Maniax
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania IIDX 5th style
• DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME
• pop'n music 8

Lyrics

French

Par la fenêtre de ta Fiat 500
tu me regardais et je t'ai vu
tes goûts semblaient parfait

On s'est compris tout de suite à fond
et des rendez-vous de la nuit
parfois on s'attend sous la pluie
et tout, c'était miracle

La musique !
les yeux dans les yeux
nos histoires romantiques
on commence tous les deux

près de moi...

English

By the window of your Fiat 500
You looked at me and I saw you
Your taste seemed perfect

We understood each other right away
More than one rendez-vous at night
Sometimes we hear each other in the rain
And everything, was a miracle

The music!
Our eyes in a gaze
Our romantic stories
That we both start

close to me...

Song Connections / Remixes

• A longer, house version of Mobo★Moga remixed by Toshiya Arai appears in TOMOSUKE's first album, marble.
  • It was removed on the marble -Re Edition- album, where it was replaced by おもちゃばこのロンド ～ぬくもりの記憶.
• Mobo★Moga was later included in the Orange Lounge medley song pot-pourri d'orange in GUITARFREAKS 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX.

Trivia

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• "Mobo★Moga" stands for "Modern Boy★Modern Girl". The song was named after the cafe restaurant Mobo Moga (モボ・モガ, now known as MoGa Cafe) in Udagawa-cho, Shibuya [1].
  • According to shiro, she made Mobo★Moga's video with a twin girl theme, and only realized what the title meant while making it.
• Mobo★Moga's Dance Maniax charts were created by TOMOSUKE himself. [2]
• MOBO★MOGA is the fourth song unlock of Sugoroku de 8 (すごろく de 8) in pop'n music 8. It can be unlocked from July 17th, 2002 through August 28th, 2002 by directly landing on the city Kobe on your first trip around the board, or by passing it on your second trip around.
  • MOBO★MOGA's character rival, Tart&Toffee, can be unlocked by directly landing on Kobe on your fifth lap around the board, or by simply passing it on your sixth trip.
    • Tart&Toffee does not have a 2P color.
• Along with the other BEMANI songs crossed over to pop'n music 8, MOBO★MOGA shows ♪♪♪♪♪ as the artist. This never changed.
• Mobo★Moga, along with Gamelan de Couple, jane jana, and STAY (Organic house Version) being crossed over mark Tomosuke Funaki's debut in the mainline arcade DanceDanceRevolution series.
  • It it also his first song under his Orange Lounge alias to appear in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
  • It also marks vocalist Shizue Tokui's debut in that series.
• Mobo★Moga's title is capitalized as MOBO★MOGA in the DanceDanceRevolution and pop'n music series.
  • In DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX, Mobo★Moga is titled as Mobo☆Moga.
• MOBO★MOGA's DanceDanceRevolution arcade graphics were created by moroEX.
• MOBO★MOGA received new BEGINNER charts in DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3.
• In DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3, MOBO★MOGA can be unlocked in QUEST MODE by beating Natalie in Club Octans.
  • MOBO★MOGA and 100 Sec. Kitchen Battle!! are the only KONAMI original songs with vocals that do not have their lyrics on-screen in DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3.
• MOBO★MOGA's DanceDanceRevolution jacket is a modified screenshot of one of the generic background videos from DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE2.
• MOBO★MOGA was still present in the location test of DanceDanceRevolution X, with its new foot ratings.
• MOBO★MOGA was supposed to appear in the cancelled game カラオケレボリューション BEMANIシリーズセレクション.
• Despite being removed in beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS, DanceDanceRevolution X, and pop'n music 17 THE MOVIE, Mobo★Moga is included on the beatmania IIDX 5th style Original Soundtracks in the beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE MUSIC PLAYER.

Music Comment

That popular Dance Maniax song appears in pop'n!

Song Production Information

beatmania IIDX

TOMOSUKE

I like girls (laughs), so I tend to write songs which girls seem to like.
For this song, I tried to accumulate the piano line in the intro, quality vocals, bossa-like rhythm and acoustic guitar, and French items that girls would like.
It's so moody, isn't it?!
"Mobo★Moga" is an abbreviation of "Modern Boy・Modern Girl", but this song title is directly taken from a delicious restaurant in Shibuya called Mobo Moga that I used to visit.

Dance Maniax

This cute French pop song starts with piano playing and light percussion. The whispery female vocals perfectly match the polished melody. This fashionable song sounds like it was from a one scene cut of a French movie. By the way, the title "Mobo・Moga" stands for "Modern Boy・Modern Girl". If anything, won't you decide to dance while wearing French-styled fashion?

pop'n music

TOMOSUKE

To commemorate its inclusion in four game series, it's about time to tell the truth.

There's a "~ballroom dance" on the third floor of an old building barely outside the town center, isn't there?
When I was walking around town, for some reason I stared at middle-aged people dancing in grandiose outfits through the glass window, and they seemed to be moving at a high-speed.
It's just like fast-forwarding a video.
"This is it! This is the world!"
While thinking this, I immediately started writing this song the next day.
MOBO★MOGA is a ballroom dance song. The concept is a sped-up ballroom dance.
I created this song while thinking about what middle-aged people are doing in that unique and narrow world. It's passionate. And strong.
The orchestra was more heavy at first. It seemed to interact with the rhythms. It's so moody, isn't it?
Unfortunately, when I added the vocals, it became fashionable... damn it! (laughs)
But, I prefer fashionable girls like Toffee&Tart than middle-aged women, so that's great.

CS Information Data

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (North America)

"MOBO MOGA" by Orange Lounge is an enjoyable blend of bossa-styled sounds and vocals with drum'n'bass land lounge. "MOBO MOGA" is very fun to dance to and has timeless appeal with its very catchy melodies.

Video Production Information

shiro

It was a very cute song, so I made a video using twin girls with a theme of a "POP LIFE-like playing house" (because two things that are symmetrical form a cute image).
... However, during the latter half of production, I realized that the title meant "Modern Boy & Girl".... how disappointing.

Character Information

These twin girls are 19 years old and type B. Tart (blonde hair) is a pâtissier, and Toffee (brown hair) is studying to become a web designer.

shiro

These characters are from a certain beatmania IIDX 5thstyle song. Their animations are also based on the IIDX original.
These characters have also appeared in a certain Gitadora game, and before I knew it, they were on four different games including IIDX. Wow.
Best regards to the Orange Lounge festival, and please enjoy the other games too.

Staff Comments

moroEX

This song is adorable, so I drew a picture of a large eye. (It's a bit scary though..) The song's sequences are relatively difficult! That gap is probably great.

It's fairy tale-like~! I wanted to make the movie like that. A toy airplane is spinning in the background of the Ferris wheel movie. Did you notice it? It's a movie with a spinning person's silhouette dancing. I've never done ballroom dancing, but I tried to create a dance with that image.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 7+ from 5th through 9th style, 1 to 8 in 10th style, 1 to 8+ in 11 IIDX RED, and 1 to 12 from 12 HAPPY SKY onward. beatmania (2006) difficulty rated from 1 to 10.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards.
Dance Maniax difficulty rated from 1 to 8 in the first game, and up to 9 in 2ndMIX onwards.
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from Pop'n Music Fever.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	227	363	512	592	-	364	501	645	-
beatmania IIDX 5th style→11 IIDX RED	-	5	6	N/A	-	4	5	N/A	-
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→15 DJ TROOPERS	-	5	6	7	-	4	5	9	-
beatmania IIDX 5th style CS	2	5	6	6	-	4	5	5	-
beatmania IIDX 7th style CS	2	5	6	6	-	4	5	5	-
beatmania (2006)	2	5	6	7	-	4	5	7	-

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	75 / 0	107 / 3	190 / 9	233 / 16	- / - / -	107 / 3	190 / 9	233 / 16	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME→SuperNOVA2	1	3	6	7	-	3	6	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution X location test	2	4	7	8	-	4	7	8	-
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS JP/NA	1	3	6	7	-	3	6	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX / Dancing Stage Unleashed DLC	-	3	6	7	-	3	6	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2 / Dancing Stage Unleashed2 DLC	⁂N/A	3	6	7	-	3	6	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX3 / Dancing Stage Unleashed3 DLC	⁂N/A	3	6	7	-	3	6	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX4 DLC	⁂N/A	3	6	7	-	3	6	7	-
DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3	※N/A	3	6	7	-	3	6	7	-

※ Denotes chart is different from earlier/later appearances:

• DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3 Single BEGINNER chart: Total notes: 51 / 13.

⁂ Denotes that no proper chart data actually exists.

Other charts not shown on the above table:

• DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3 Double BEGINNER chart: Total notes: 51 / 13.

Dance Maniax

Game	Single		Double
	Mild	Wild	Mild	Wild
Notecounts	201	247	222	245
Dance Maniax→2ndMIX append JPARADISE	4	6	6	6

pop'n music

Game	Normal Mode				Battle Mode
	5-Buttons	NORMAL	HYPER	EX	NORMAL	HYPER
Notecounts	174	339	511	-	174	332
pop'n music 8	9	16	25	-	8	16
pop'n music 9	↓6	16	↑26	-	8	16
pop'n music 10→16 PARTY♪	6	↑18	↑27	-	8	16
pop'n music 8 CS	6	16	26	-	8	16

すごろく de ８
Lap 1-2	まっさら (Shizuoka) - Seal (Nagoya) - Lover's High (Osaka) - MOBO★MOGA (Kobe) - EL DIA FELIZ (Kochi) - Feux d'artifica (Hiroshima) beAchest beAch (Kagoshima) - 出会う時・・・下関。 (Shimonoseki) - A LOVE WE NEVER KNEW (Tottori) - Sci-Fi Girl (Kanazawa) cat's Scat (Niigata) - Wall Street Down-sizer (Aomori) - しりとり (Sapporo) - JET WORLD (Abashiri) - BoaBoaLady! (Hakodate) Cassandra (Sendai) - maritare! (Mito) - CANDY♥ (Tokyo)
Lap 3-4	321 STARS (Hachiojima) - Manhattan Sports Club (Okinawa) - Linus (Sado)
Expert course unlocks	INNOVATION (Des-ROW course STAGE 1) - 大見解 (Des-ROW course STAGE 2) - Shock of Love (kiddy course STAGE 1) Spell on me ～魅惑の呪文 (kiddy course STAGE 2) - BICYCLE (payapaya course STAGE 1) Cherry&Raquel (payapaya course STAGE 2) - Midnight Yoghurt（女SPY☆お色気ゴーゴー脱出大作戦） (Simon course STAGE 1) SLOW DOWN (Power course 2 STAGE 2)