History VideoGame / OsuTatakaeOuendan

[[caption-width-right:349:'''Male Cheerleaders:''' '''''"IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!!"'''''\\
'''Female Cheerleaders:''' '''''"IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!!"''''']]

* ExpositoryThemeTune: The tutorial theme basically translates to "Cheer, cheer, cheer! Put your fighting spirit into it! Cheer, cheer, cheer! We are the Ouendan!

'''Male Cheerleaders:''' '''''"OSU!"'''''\\
'''Female Cheerleaders:''' '''''"GO!"'''''

** Also, after completing the stage, the "Ouen! Dai seikou!" cry is much, much quieter -- and the cheer squad has tears on their eyes.

->'''''OUEN! DAI-SE-KOU!'''''

[[caption-width-right:349:'''Male Cheerleaders:''' ''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!!''\\
'''Female Cheerleaders:''' ''IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!!'']]

[[caption-width-right:349:''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!!''\\
''IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!!'']]

'''''"OSU!"'''''\\
'''''"GO!"'''''

From Creator/{{iNiS}}, the creators of ''VideoGame/GitarooMan'', comes this rather clever RhythmGame for the Nintendo DS. ''Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan'' ("Yo! Fight! Cheer Squad") revolves around a group of male cheerleaders who go around rooting on people all across Tokyo in a variety of tasks to a variety of Japanese pop and rock music.

'''"OSU!"'''\\
'''"GO!"'''

'''"OSU!"''' / '''"GO!"'''

[[caption-width-right:349:''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!!''\\''IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!!'']]

[[caption-width-right:349:''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!!'' / ''IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!!'']]

->'''''[[MemeticMutation OUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEENNDAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!]]'''''

[[caption-width-right:349:''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!'' / ''IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!'']]

[[caption-width-right:349:''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!''<br>''IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!'']]

[[caption-width-right:349:''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!'' / ''IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!'']]

[[caption-width-right:349:''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!'' / IKUWAYO!! THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!]]

[[caption-width-right:349:''IKUZEI! SAN-NI-ICHI-SURE!'']]

* BishieSparkle
* {{Bishonen}}: [=JIN2=] is this in [[BishieSparkle extra-sparkly]] flavour.
** Hayato Saionji could count as well, due to his [[LongHairedPrettyBoy waist-length hair]] and somewhat calmer-looking disposition. Shinta could also count if you don't think he looks ''[[ViewerGenderConfusion too]]'' girly.

* {{Abhorrent Admirer}}s: [=JIN2=]'s fangirls are this in the bad ending of "Music Hour".

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The mouse {{kaiju}} in one of the later levels, as well as Ichiro Tamura, the {{salaryman}} who shows up to fight it so it won't harm his daughter.
** Also in its equivalent stage from the second game, Nyaragon (a giant cat).

* BlankWhiteEyes

* {{Cap}}: The sequel, like the first game and ''Elite Beat Agents'', does not anticipate players to achieve scores of at least 10 million, but since the new "hidden mode" boosts scores by 50 percent, it can be possible to score more than that in the very final mission on expert mode...if you can ace it all the way through with a full combo, resulting in the score counter maxing out at '''9,999,999'''.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Shizuyama Kazebayashi is really fond of yelling "[[GratuitousEnglish BIG BANG]]!"

* DarkHorseVictory: Do well for the first section of "Guts da ze!" and your target, a racehorse, barrels to first place. But that's not the end goal -- it keeps going in pursuit of an escaped robber.

** Note that if you attempt this with the Cheer Girls, the only thing censoring their breasts is the gap between the two DS screens. In an interview with the developers, the original scene was actually ''more'' modest, with the sexier version thrown in just to see what they could get away with. [[{{Surprisingly Lenient Censor}} They admit even they were shocked that Nintendo let it slip through.]]

* FreakyIsCool: Thank God Kumi's a dog person.

* HumongousMecha: Fuji-One in the "Zoku" stage of OTO 2.

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: The official names for the difficulties: Rather than Easy, Normal, Hard and Insane), we have Light-Hearted Cheering, Bold Cheering, Fierce Cheering and Magnificent Cheering.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: As "Neraiuchi" goes on, you can see the pyramid getting more and more complete in the background where the Ouendan are.

* MegaNeko: Nyaragon, from one stage in OTO 2. Possibly created as a counter to the giant blue mouse in OTO 1, and ''likely'' as a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents''.

* OldSuperhero: Momotaro in the "Shonen Heart" stage of OTO 2.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the sequel, in which we learn that Tsuyoshi Hanada isn't the only character to have such given name. It's also the name of a backup dancer for the Asahi Town Ouendan...Tsuyoshi Moriyama.

* RivalsTeamUp: The last level of the sequel.

* {{Ronin}}: Tsuyoshi in the "Loop & Loop" stage of OTO 1.

** "Taiyō ga Moeteiru" has a main character who's powers are similar to Series/{{Ultraman}}'s.

* TrainStationGoodbye: "Glamorous Sky" in OTO 2.

* LoudspeakerTruck: These are featured prominently in the "Taisetsu na Mono" stage of the first game. It involves a good-hearted politician and his sleazy rival trying to win over the public. They even get into a loudspeaker truck [[CarFu demolition derby]] at one point.

* LoudspeakerTruck: One level in the first game has the squad backing up the driver of one against an afro-sporting rival.

* GagDub / GagSub: Tasian's {{Lets Play}}s of both games take these and run with them. For example, the first stage of the first game canonically focuses on a Japanese teenager studying for his university entrance exam. In the Lets Play, it’s changed to a guy named Feathers trying to become Japanese. It only goes downhill from there.

It's a weird game, but that's [[WidgetSeries part of the appeal]] -- it seemingly crams as many familiar anime, manga and UsefulNotes/JapaneseCulture tropes in as it can to make it as Japanese as possible. The game mechanics make good use of the DS stylus, as they involve tapping markers that appear on the screen in time to the music.

* WidgetSeries: The game relies heavily on humor that most non-Japanese folks won't get.

* AllJustADream: The bad ending of "Bang! Bang! Vacances".

The original game was a [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff hit]] with UsefulNotes/{{import gam|ing}}ers. It was such a hit, in fact, that it was followed by an Americanized counterpart, ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents''. In May of 2007, it also got a full-fledged sequel with the [[LongTitle unwieldy title]] of ''Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2'' ("Get Fired Up! HotBlooded Rhythm Spirit: Hey! Fight! Cheer Squad!"), which featured new music, new scenarios, and a team of friendly rival cheerleaders from the upscale side of town. In addition, there is also a free PC clone called [[http://osu.ppy.sh/ osu!]], featuring user-created stages.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: The target in the "VISTA" level, where he decides to sell shoes to aliens. He can also [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace go to Venus without a helmet.]]

See also ''VideoGame/{{osu}}'', a free to play web game based of of this game.

See also ''VideoGame/{{osu}}''.

From Creator/{{iNiS}}, the creators of ''VideoGame/GitarooMan'', comes this rather clever RhythmGame for the Nintendo DS. ''Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan'' ("Yo! Fight! Cheer Squad") revolves around a group of male cheerleaders who go around rooting on people all across Tokyo in a variety of tasks to a variety of Japanese pop and rock music. Their clients include Tsuyoshi Hanada, a ''ronin'' student trying to get into Tokyo University; Yasushi Tanaka, owner of a ramen shop trying to drum up more business; and Ichiro Tamura, a {{Salaryman}} who... grows to fifty feet tall in order to save his daughter (and the city) from [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a giant blue mouse on the rampage]].

[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Then there's the stage where they get pulled through time and space to cheer on Cleopatra's royal construction crew so she can lose weight via pyramid power...]]

And for the GrandFinale, they cheer on the whole world to create a CombinedEnergyAttack big enough to save the planet from impact with a giant asteroid.

* TheThingThatGoesDoink: In the intro to "Kokoro Odoru".