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Nana and hachi ❤️ Thanks to @juliternity for helping w the sketch <3

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All the Bust A Move (Groove) guidebooks have finally been uploaded to the BAG Wiki, thanks to the amazing fans who shared their scans! They're now fully available to read online!

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peach girl (miwa ueda, 1998)

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It just occurred to me that the track "ゲームな世界 -METRO Mix-" might have been remixed by Devi Kobayashi, since the title includes 'METRO' and he was working as a sound designer for METRO at the time the game was released.

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GusGus

This Is Normal (1999)

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Power Macintosh G3, 1997

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The other magazine finally came, but there wasn't much content about Dance Summit 2001😭😭

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Neighborhood Story illustrations drawn by Ai Yazawa

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Ahh that’s good news!!!

This is huge! Someone on Reddit won an auction for a never-before-seen CD of the arcade ROM of the first Bust A Groove, but they are currently lacking the funds needed for both the item plus shipping. They would greatly appreciate it if someone can help them out so they can rip out the contents of the game, and everyone is able to play this version of the game!

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This is huge! Someone on Reddit won an auction for a never-before-seen CD of the arcade ROM of the first Bust A Groove, but they are currently lacking the funds needed for both the item plus shipping. They would greatly appreciate it if someone can help them out so they can rip out the contents of the game, and everyone is able to play this version of the game!

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hello relatively new bust a groove/ds2001 fan here ^_^ノ i look through the bust a groove tag on here semi frequently and your posts and fanart(especially the fanart like holy shit it's god tier) really stand out to me lol, but in the best way possible!!! as a fellow obscure media/character enjoyer i know one when i see one...our passion is truly unmatched o7

ok so since this is an ask i'll (finally) get to my question lol: what drew you to cusu-cusu specifically?? i apologize if you've been asked this before but like, i am genuinely curious...even despite the fact they're based around rather harmful african stereotypes(which ik you touched on in a post), what about them keeps you interested enough to look past that, so to speak?? is it the character dynamics? the mystery surrounding them, namely me and kei and those cursed masks?? as for me personally i do enjoy playing as them, their dances are super cool and fun to watch and their CPUs are very cooperative so it's easy to get quartets ^_^ oh and their stage's song is catchy though not my most fav one overall

Oh my god thank you SO much for this !!!! I have also noticed that I stand out with other fan artists, likely due to how different my artstyle is from the series’ style but my opinion of myself is not important, thank YOU so much for the compliment.

So… nobody has asked me that before. I talk mostly about Cusu-Cusu with my friends in real life since nobody here seems to be interested at all. Probably because of the racist tropes they follow and people are too blindsided to realise that they are actually really sweet and emotional characters. Which when I joined the fandom, I understood but now, ugh guys please just listen to me already… so lots of thanks to you for actually asking me anything about them. As to why I’m interested in them so much, of course it’s the dynamics and the mystery, the masks, the dances, all the quartets and their song !!! [Red Star is all the way up top of my favourites, including the New Wave mix, I don’t care for the European mix much]. If I didn’t like all that then what would I like ??

I have been such a big defender of them because there’s such loving, interesting characters and downright terrifying realities behind those stereotypes. It’s so clear that the designers had no racist motivations for creating them at all, they were just incredibly misguided because it was Japan in the late 90’s, so I’m not going to judge them. And their designs are wonderful !!! I wouldn’t draw them so much if I didn’t love their look [I have a HUGE amount of drawings of them… so many wips… so little time…]. I feel like people want to compare them to Hamm whose whole character was intended to be a joke and design was actually racist, I think he’s adorable, but Cusu-Cusu aren’t like that at all.

Cindy and Sahara want to be doctors, Sahara wants to be a vet specifically because she can literally talk to animals, kinda questionable but *cough* Utan in Discos Estrus. She also likes to sleep in trees which is also questionable, maybe smells a bit of racist character tropes of wild tribes not even being able to make homes for themselves… but shut up because her sleeping in trees is actually adorable to me. So many kids grow up climbing trees but what is there to do once they’re up at the top ? Take a nap up there is Saharas answer and that’s amazing. Also, she just loves her friends so much. All the unabashed hope for Me and Kei’s safety and possibly their survival is on Sahara because her innocent love for everything is so strong. I AM crying and YOU are too !! Cindy is great, I’ve said before that she’d benefit from being more interesting but that’s what makes her still likeable; she feels so realistic. Her maturity compared to Sahara is a huge reason why I think the team is so well crafted. Also I really like drawing her, I love how much her hair contrasts with the rest of her. And what do I even say about Me and Kei that I haven’t already repeatedly said ? Well, there’s always something more otherwise I wouldn’t have made this account. The mystery of them and their curse is incredible. However, I’ve constantly gone back and forth between liking the mystery of the curse and really wishing we knew more about it. Yet no matter how much I dread the reality of Me and Kei’s state, it’s still so intriguing, is it not ? But I suppose the main loveable thing about them is their designs because there’s not much else if somebody didn’t care for the mystery. But the ripped up animal skin, the incredibly unfortunate design choice of Cusu-Cusu as a whole, is the most obvious with these two. That’s why I draw them wearing things that are completely different. But I love everything else. The colours are cool but holy shit those masks and horns !!!! Compared to actually racist depictions of tribal masks, there’s clearly no negative intent at all. Definitely stereotypical but clearly acceptable. Maybe I love them so much because I used to watch the Harry Belafonte episode of The Muppet Show religiously when I was really young and the last song would deeply comfort me and put me to sleep. It included African inspired masks which Me and Kei’s look nothing alike but maybe there’s an unconscious connection there…? Although I am incredibly aware that Cusu-Cusu have no connection to anything culturally African.

Yeah I wouldn’t have talked about and drawn them the most if I thought they were just offensive and ignored them. I’ll never understand people who do that. That is another huge reason why I love them so much. I love defending them. I love talking about them with people who don’t quite understand them which those conversations haven’t actually happened… until now !!!! Thank you so much for this ask !! I genuinely thought that I’d never actually be asked anything about Cusu-Cusu by another fan and what makes me like them so much !! Maybe this is more than you expected for me to say but trust me, I had to much more that I scrapped from this and have saved for another day…

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I just realized there’s a pop’s music arcade cabinet shown in the back of the advertisement😭😭

DANCE SUMMIT 2001 PRINT AD (2000)

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Scans of all Dance Summit 2001 content from Famitsu’s November 17, 2000 issue.

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Updated promotional images for Dance Summit 2001 showcasing the School Mates under the title 'Dance Hall' and the Data Be Bops under the title 'Hang-out'.

DANCE SUMMIT 2001 PRINT AD (2000)

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Holy shit we’re finally getting good scans of the promotional ads😭😭😭