Pop'n Tunes Intros: An Idea by Me and MamonStar761

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~UPDATED 10/14/16 TO BE MORE ACCURATE TO THE POP'N TUNES WIKIA ARTICLE~

Beep boop...HELLO DARLING!! My sweet friend :iconmamonstar761: and I came up with ideas for intros of Pop'n Tunes, a short cartoon showcase based on the Pop'n Music rhythm game series which we're obsessed with. Emoji08 

It all started when MamonStar761 posted a status update about his idea for the intro: it would be based on Pop'n Music 19 Tune Street, and feature all the Tune Street characters building the show's logo á la the intros of the shows Tom & Jerry Kids and Lalaloopsy. It would be set to the song "Tanken Note" [FRONTIER] with both the English and Japanese lyrics from the Street Style version of it. 

Then, I added on that I thought "Like a Pop'n Music" would be a better theme song, which caused MamonStar761 to share his idea with me of there being different intro variations based on the games, each having its own theme song too. (Like a Pop'n Music became the song for a "general" intro used for Pop'n Music 1-7-themed episodes and episodes themed after Pop'n Music 16 Party):

Pop'n 10: A re-arranged and extended version of the game's title screen music
Pop'n 11: Orange Air-Line
Iroha: Koisuru Tokyo (Tokyo I Love)
Carnival: Pop'n Carnival march
Disco Fever!: Da-Da-Dancing
Adventure: Pop'n Adventure Title Screen / Medley
Movie Theater/Cinema: Pop'n 17 Title Theme (Some kind of The Merrie Melodies Show intro of The 90s like re arrangement)
Sengoku retsuden: Shinkenger Ending-like Remix
Fantasia: Twinkle Wonderland

Sunny Park: (1st half of the month): Walk in the Sunny Park
Sunny Park (2nd half of the month): Pop'n Circulation (Renai Circulation Remix)
Lapistoria: HARMONIA
Eclale: Boku No Kimochi Wo Egaku (Draw My Feelings

That caused me to then come up with what the title sequences would be like:

Pop'n 10: Mimi and Nyami, in their witch hats, are depicted in a fairytale adventure where they perform magic and meet up with various characters.
Iroha: Pictures on an ancient Japanese-looking scroll, of Mimi, Nyami, and various other characters, are depicted moving to showcase Mimi and Nyami in various folk tale-like scenarios representing the 4 seasons, and celebrating various holidays (like the Tanabata Star Festival with Sarasa, Hinamatsuri/Children's Day with Mebae, and Halloween with Smile).
Carnival: It would feature characters setting up a circus tent and performing. It features Mimi and Nyami roaring in a spoof of the MGM logo with "Be-Toon Projects Presents:" at the beginning (based on their lose animation), and a section (which is similar to a Bandai ad) which has characters doing various stunts while Mimi juggles glowing balls. At one point, it even has Mimi cartwheeling halfway upside down and her dress going inside out to turn her into Nyami, just like in the Topsy Turvy song from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.
FEVER!: It would have characters all having a disco dance party, with different characters' dance moves being showcased.
Adventure: Mimi and Nyami would be going on a safari through a jungle, where they encounter different characters.
PARTY♪ (with an energetic, party-like novelty song remix of "Like a Pop'n Music" as its theme music): characters get ready for a party (e.g. putting up party decorations, putting snacks on tables, MZD coming and setting his DJ booth up), and Mimi and Nyami open the door at the end and everyone surprises them.
The Movie: Characters would be getting ready for a movie (e.g. Rehearsing lines, putting on costumes and makeup, rehearsing scenes). At the end, Mimi would use a movie clapper and Nyami would roll the camera.
Fantasia: Mimi and Nyami open the gates to a fantasy world and find themselves in different scenarios meeting different characters along the way.
Sunny Park: Mimi and Nyami take a walk through a sunny city park and interact with different characters (e.g. catching Pochiko's frisbee and throwing it back to her, petting some of Flora's animals, sharing sweets with Minit's)
Lapistoria: Basically the Harmonia music video that was in BeatStream.
Eclale: Mimi and Nyami are shown drawing in a journal at the beginning, and the rest of the title sequence consists of the drawings of Mimi and Nyami exploring a magical and musical world (based on the various areas of Pop'n Star Maker) moving and pages turning. (since the title of the song translates to "Draw my feelings")

Then, back to Mamon with two more ideas:
Pop'n 8 (with Linus intro): The Music video of Linus may be remixed with Pop'n twist. When Pop'n Computer grow at the start, Mimi and Nyami pops out of computer's screen. The title Pop'n Tunes is surrounded by a rocket flying around. In the city of Linus, Pop'n Laptop strolls on the road, taking Mimi and Nyami a ride, the screen at each buildings shows off characters. Mimi and Nyami riding a Pop'n Computer are being chased by a rocket, forms into an animated drawing, drawn by Shiroro, we see a lot of Shiroros animating at animation studio, then animations transfered into a film carried by Shiroro to the voice recording studio where characters talking at the screen while reading a script. In the screen, the film turns into a videotape carried Shiroro to the TV station, to the control room and put it in and release on air, the satellite dish transmits with laser beam shooting at the satelite up in space, reflects down to the satellite of the house, the tracks follows along the line right to the TV, the TV grows big and then Pop'n characters pop out of the screen, Mimi and Nyami drives with a bunch of characters settles as passengers (a la Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 Main Menu) in a jeep in the city.
Portable Picnic: Mimi and Nyami would be going to have a picnic in different scenerios around the park where they encounter different characters. (This one should have Ensamble Forecast 3/28 as its theme song!)

After, I came up with one for a Pop'n Music 9-based intro: Pop'n Music 9 could have an intro where Mimi and Nyami are waitresses at the Pop'n Café, serving delicious café treats for their customers, other characters. Rie-chan could be a cook in this intro, too!

Finally, Mamon surprised me with his ABSOLUTELY AMAZING idea for a music video for one of my favorite Pop'n Music songs ever, "Sanpo no Uta/The Walking Song" (A.I. KIDS), featuring the adorable Alt herself clad in her green dress with her ee'MALL 2P variant palette: At ALT's house, we see the sun shines after the rain clouds, ALT wears her boots (her usual white go-go boots become like socks which stick out of her tall yellow rainboots) and steps out of her house. She felt a little nervous but ok. She walks down, the camera pans up in the cloudy sky and ALT steps on the puddles that the sky forms into so we see she steps on the puddles on the sidewalk, on the other sidewalk, there's someone (who I think should just be a random silhouette) waving hello and ALT waves too and they laugh together. As ALT walking down the forest, She sings her song, encounters a butterfly and a squirrel. At the instrumental part, She goes on the adventure in different scenarios along the way (e.g. tree stumps, fungi mushrooms that she jump on, mountains, bridges and streaming river). At the sunset she sits on the tree stump taking a view, she see a shooting star. her stomach is rumbling so she has to leave. we see ALT gets closer to the face and goes back to another scene where ALT walks down the forest, continues to sing. ALT thinks of her parents that she didn't tell her secret she does. In the end, she walks, the camera pans, at the sunset to go home, the camera zooms out and the scene forms a picture in ALT's scrapbook along ALT's adventurous pictures and the scrapbook closes and we see ALT winks and so the song ends.

So, what do y'all think of these ideas we've come up with~? I also plan to do another journal featuring more imagined Pop'n Music music videos! Emoji32 
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Thnx 4 da request! And BTW, I thought the Pop'n 8 themed intro supposed to have Linus from IIDX 6 as theme song.
Another thing, I wondered Mimi cartwheels halfway upside down and her dress goes inside out to turn her into Nyami in one of CARNIVAL themed moments, just like Topsy Turvy song from one of Disney's Hunchback of Notee Dame songs.

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