AC pnm 2

pop'n music 2

Release Information

• Release date: March 19th, 1999

General Information / Changes

• First arcade pop'n music game with HIDDEN, RANDOM, and MIRROR as play options.
• First pop'n music game with PARTY MODE.
• Successfully completing a song now gives you a "You are winner!" message. This message would continue to appear up to pop'n music 5.
• This was the only pop'n music arcade game prior to pop'n music 20 fantasia where Sanae Shintani is not giving her own individual, new song to sing. She instead appears as a back-up singer in one song, and collaborates on another.
• e-motion and すれちがう二人 have been knocked down from Hidden Final Stage to Second Stage songs. The returning songs from pop'n music are otherwise in the same stage numbers.
• Total number of songs: 33

Staff Information

• Producer: Koji Okamoto
• Director: Seiji Higurashi
• Sound Director: Hiroshi Takeyasu
• Composer: Yasuhiko Fukuda, Masakazu Takeda, Tomonori Ikeda, Hiroshi Takeyasu, Kiyotaka Sugimoto
• Sound Data Analyzer: Hiroki Koga
• Programmer: Hiroshi Naraoka
• Mechanical Engineer: Takashi Mutou
• CG Designer: P-CAT, shio
• Graphic Designer: SHIMA-Q
• Guest Vocalist: Sanae Shintani (KCEJ West), Hiroyuki Togo (KCEJ West), Sachiyo Ogawa
• Guitarist: Tomonori Ideka
• Special Thanks To: BeMani Departament all staffs!, MZD, Ryo Komatsu

Game Modes

• Beginner
• Normal
• Excite
• Party (New)

Non-Rival Playable Characters

These characters don't belong to any specific song and are all playable from the get-go.

• Nyami [2]
• Mimi [2]
• Mary [2]
• the KING [2]
• NAKAJIMA san [2-NEW CHARACTER]

New Songs

See the pop'n music 2 complete songlist for a complete list of songs by stage number. Information of the complete stage select provided by this informative pop'n music site.

Genre (English)	Genre (Japanese)	Song Name	Artist	Character	Diff. Lv.
First Stage
MASARA	マサラ	すてきなタブーラ	TABAN KING	KARLI [2-DEBUT]	5
MELLOW	メロウ	光の季節	ANNA	SANAE♥chan [2]	9
IDOL GIRL	アイドルガール	LOVE FIRE	長沢ゆりか	JUDY [2]	12
NEO ACO	ネオアコ	(fly higher than) the stars	sugi&reo	Sugi★kun [2-DEBUT]	16
Second Stage
VISUAL	ヴィジュアル	WHITE BIRDS	violent age	Yuli [2-DEBUT]	13
EURO QUEEN	ユーロクィーン	what i want (EURO MIX)	T.R.S	KoKo	15
DIGI ROCK	デジロック	ROSE~恋人よ、薔薇色に染まれ	BROKE	Timer [2-DEBUT]	16
ENKA	エンカ	お江戸花吹雪	高田香里	S.8.TARO [2-DEBUT]	18
Final Stage
ANIME HERO R	アニメヒーローＲ	はばたけ、ザ・グレートギャンブラー	さくし:RYO うた:水木一郎	HIROSHI JINGU	16
POP RAP	ポップラップ	Smile The Night Away	Scotty D	KRAFT?	20
GIRLY	ガーリィ	Love Is Strong To The Sky	SAORI	RIE♥chan [2]	22
HEAVY METAL	ヘビーメタル	I'm on fire	AD/DA	Dami-yan	23
Hidden Songs
J-R&B	Ｊ−リズム＆ブルース	SAYONARA	ANNA	tourmaline [2-DEBUT]	13
LOUNGE	ラウンジ	Cherry & Raquel	The Ebisu Singers	Reo★kun [2-DEBUT]	14
pop'n music PS/DC transplants
AFRICA	アフリカ	Con te sabi 2119	Hamba un Aa	pretty [1-CS]	14
J-POP	Ｊ−ポップ	Life	Haya-P & Maru	pretty [1-CS]	14
FUSION	フュージョン	CROSSOVER 12	319	pretty [1-CS]	16
TECHNO'80	テクノ'80	Water Melon Woman	NAKATEK	pretty [1-CS]	19
CLASSIC	クラシック	Chaos Age	Waldeus von dovjak	pretty [1-CS]	22

Misc.

Due to limited space in the early pop'n music games, none of the original backgrounds or sprites from pop'n music are re-used in this game, although all the songs from the original game are in this one. Characters returning from the previous installment have their new sprites replace their pop'n 1 character sprites, or are replaced by another pop'n music 2 character. Characters who don't have match-ups with pop'n music 2 characters (such as CHARLY from spicy piece) are replaced by MZD, who made his debut in this game. Additionally, all the pop'n music PS/DC pop'n music songs are represented exclusively by pretty, who comes in 5 different colors - one for each CS song.

Also, none of the hidden HYPER charts for the CS songs are playable in 2 AC.

Rejected designs

The pop'n music series has a long history of rejected characters. Some never saw the light of day, and some would later be used many years or mixes later. For the second game, these include

• A girl wearing a hat with dog flaps, as well as a jacket, shorts, and big boots (later retooled as White-Merry in pop'n music 13 カーニバル)
• FAT BOY, who later came into the series with pop'n stage
• SMOKE, who was redesigned nine years later and put in pop'n music 16 PARTY♪
• An early-looking W.B.ROSE, who later came into the series with pop'n music 6
• A girl in blue overalls, with a multi-colored, long sleeve shirt and red shoes with white stripes. Her hair consists of brown pigtails with a rainbow hat on top, and has a giant pink bear behind her
• A human, male samurai (possibly redesigned as S.8.TARO)
• Early-looking YOSHIO, who was later put in pop'n music 7
• A see-through Mimi (possibly used as the concept of hone nyami in pop'n music 9), which was later used on the LOSE animation of Torte&Parfait from pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET
• A panda bear with a microphone, wearing a yellow sweater with green stripes, brown pants, and light blue shoes (Nyami would later don this wardrobe in pop'n music 11 license おれはジャイアンさまだ!)
• A happy man with purple hair in a yellow space suit, a red star on his knees, shoulder, and shirt, and wears purple shoes / skates (early Ryusei*Honey??)
• Stereotypical Chinese girl with brown, braided hair (possibly model of LingLing in pop'n music 3)
• A woman in a long, blue dress with butterflies on it, with long blue hair that covers up one of her eyes. A flower also dons her head (possibly retooled as Honey in pop'n music 8)
• A frog with yellow gloves and looks vaguely like Kermit the Frog
• A girl in a yellow bee costume (early hina??)
• A nun in purple garb (possibly retooled as Jessica in pop'n music 6)
• A girl with blonde hair (with three flowers on top of it), star eyes, and wears a red dress and a blue t-shirt underneath it. She's also holding a wand in her hand and is accompanied by a little cat and rabbit (early SPACE MACO??)

Related Links

• pop'n music 1&2 Official Site
• Rejected pop'n music 2 designs