Male starter protagonists behind: Schubert Jr. and Chopin Jr. (left to right). Female starter protagonists in front: Mozart Jr. and Beethoven Jr. (left to right).
Rhythm Star (“리듬스타” in Korean) is a rhythm game made by ANB Games, a South Korean game company.The gameplay consists of touching falling notes perfectly.
Games in the series:
- Rhythm Star for cellular phones (2008)
- Party Heaven (a Minigame Game spin-off) for cellular phone (2009)
- Rhythm Star 2 for cellular phones (2010)
- Rhythm Star T for cellular phones (2011)
- Rhythm Star Social for cellular phones (2011)
- Rhythm Star Catch for iPhone (2012)
- Rhythm Star 3 for cellular phones (2013)
- Rhythm Star K for Android smartphones (2014)
- Rhythm Star for smartphones (2016)
- Rhythm Star for smartphones (2018)
This series provides examples of:
- Aerith and Bob: Some characters have names like Rhythmy, Nana, Didi and Ppwarou while others have exotic but still recognizable real-person names like Beethoven, Clara, Liszt, etc. that are taken from Classic era composers.
- Allegedly Free Game: Diamonds and special items (Matta’s Lamp, etc.) can be obtained from using real money.
- Blackface-Style Caricature: Boogie was one until he was redesigned for the international release.
- Culture Chop Suey:
- Puccini is a samurai and Puccini Planet is Japanese-inspired, despite the real-life Puccini being Italian.
- Glinka and Ludmilla also fall into this trope, since they are wearing Chinese clothing despite being Russian.
- George Sand is a fox spirit, which are from East Asian mythology. However, she is based on a real-life French woman.
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink: There is Debussy, Paganini, Glinka, Psycheker, Mozza, the Four Archangels note , George Sand, Rimsky-Korsakov (who is mutated into a human bee), Bumbee, Brahms (an adorkable scientist boy with mouse ears) and even more!
- "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: Final stages in every planet allow players to defeat allies who got Brainwashed and Crazy by cute but nasty creatures called Dusts and snap them out of it.
- Ms. Fanservice: There are a few characters like the Giro sisters, who has sexy appearances.
- Only Six Faces: All human (or humanoid) characters can only be differentiated by attire, eye color and hairstyle.
- Series Mascot: Rhythmy, the quaver note alien clone created by Dr. R, is in this trope.
- Super-Deformed: All characters have adorable chibi designs.
