AC pnm 5

General Information

• Released: October 2000.
• First appearance of Challenge Mode.
• First appearance of 5-Line.
• First appearance of Free Mode 2, which keeps track of the number of greats, goods, and bads you have. Pop'n Music 7 onward, however, show the number of greats, goods, and bads you have in a song in almost every mode.
• First game in the series to let you set mods before each song.
• First game in the series to have EX notecharts. Much like when Hypers were introduced, few songs have them.
• Takayuki Ishikawa (dj TAKA) makes his debut, as does Osamu Migitera (Des-ROW) and Kida Shunsuke.
• Sugimoto Kiyotaka starts writing his own music for the series. He would write multiple songs a game until Pop'n Music 8.
• First actually known appearance of CG designer shio in the series. The Pop'n characters over time would develop a cleaner, cuter look under her direction, as Pop'n Music 6 and Pop'n Music 7 would later show.
• First appearance of MZD as a rival character, though his role in Pop'n Music dates as far back as Pop'n Music 2.
• Total number of songs: 54

Staff Information

• Director: RYO YOMATSU
• Sound director: Seiya Murai, Sugimoto Kiyotaka (as secret-5)
• Musical director: Nazo^2 Suzuki
• Program: HKSP, TAMA
• CG: p-cat
• Character design and CG design: shio, Chiyo
• Product design: Shima Q
• Hardware engineer: MG-YORI
• Software engineer: TOBE

New Songs

• BICYCLE / sugi