Pop'n music/Characters

pop'n music has Loads and Loads of Characters, which has made the pop'n series the subject of plenty of Bemani-related fanart and cosplay.

This page is under construction; if you have a character or tropes for a character to add, please feel free to edit.


 * Alphonse Michel
 * Feather Motif
 * Hot Librarian
 * Mismatched Eyes
 * One Zero Winged Angel
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: In angel form.
 * Alt
 * Mind Rape/Demonic Possession: By Zizz in DOES NOT COMPUTE. To see "HELP ME" for her FEVER animation is pretty unnerving for pop'n music.
 * Video Game Caring Potential
 * Robot Girl
 * TV Head Robot
 * Ash
 * All Drummers Are Animals
 * Blinding Bangs
 * Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
 * Our Werewolves Are Different
 * Verbal Tic: According to the Popper's Lounge, he tends to add "Tsu" to most of his sentences
 * Baum
 * Amazing Technicolor Population: Purple skin.
 * Meaningful Name: His name means "tree" and goes well with his song Der Wald/The Forest.
 * Our Gnomes Are Weirder: He's some kind of kobold, a german sprite.
 * Sinister Scythe
 * The Fair Folk
 * Ugly Cute
 * Edda
 * Blinding Bangs
 * Flow-Flow
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Hologram
 * Monochromatic Eyes
 * Goemon
 * Big Ol' Eyebrows
 * Facial Markings
 * Improbable Weapon User
 * Transplant: From Ganbare Goemon.
 * Goku-Sotsu-Kun
 * Meaningful Name: His name means, "Hells Guard."
 * Perpetual Smiler
 * Send in The Clones: His Fever win.
 * You Cloned Hitler: Getting a full combo on his song gives you the digits of Hitler's birthday.
 * Hayato
 * Cool Helmet
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * Hugh
 * Badass Biker: When he's the character for Tequila Dance.
 * Darker and Edgier: In Tequila Dance.
 * Hoshi No Hito
 * Cosmic Horror
 * Nightmare Fuel: In purest form.
 * Ice
 * Bishounen
 * Badass Longcoat: His design for Get Wild
 * Inari
 * Badass Cape
 * BFS
 * Funny Animal: He's actually a fox anthropomorphisation of the player avatar of Konami's obscure Dating Sim Mitsumete Knight, a sword-wielding travelling Asian mercenary.
 * Shout Out: The song he appears in, "Warrior - The Man From Far East", is a remixed version of the Holy Knight Ending of Mitsumete Knight, a game Seiya Murai, the song's composer, was heavily involved in as one of the game's main soundtrack composers.
 * Walking the Earth
 * Jack
 * Beautiful All Along: When he takes off his Gas mask it turns out he's actually a White-Haired Pretty Boy.
 * Facial Markings
 * Ki Attacks
 * Playing With Fire
 * Tricked Out Gloves
 * Kagome
 * Despair Event Horizon
 * Emo Teen: With actual emo song in the game.
 * The Voiceless
 * Liddell
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita
 * Our Zombies Are Different
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * Lotte and Ratte
 * Always Identical Twins
 * Cute Witch
 * Palette Swap
 * Theme Twin Naming
 * Masamune
 * Bishounen
 * Transplant: From Sengoku Basara
 * Matin
 * Transplant: From the Epic of Zektbach
 * Miku
 * Stripperiffic: And may or may not be a stripper.
 * Milk
 * Hospital Hottie
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Sweet Tooth: According to her profile.
 * Minit's
 * Bunny Ears
 * The Woobie: She cries in her miss animation. If you're playing her song, you'll see it a lot.
 * Mutsuki
 * Cat Boy: A rare male variation.
 * Cat Up a Tree: he loves to climb on trees.
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Heavy Sleeper: He's a CAT boy after all.
 * Significant Sketchbook: Well, he seems to be always carrying one.
 * MZD
 * Cool Shades
 * Living Shadow: Referring to ?, also known as Shadow and Hatena. In an interview from Popper's Lounge, MZD chooses to keep it a secret.
 * Physical God: Would you believe it by looking at him?
 * Remixed Level
 * Nakaji
 * Henohenomoheji: Nanashi is really Nakaji with a piece of paper on his face.
 * Megane: Even his song's genre is "Megane Rock."
 * Memetic Mutation: "NO MEGANE NO LIFE"
 * IN MAI RAIFU
 * Nickey
 * Nosebleed
 * Ninomaru
 * Demonic Possession
 * Nyami and Mimi
 * Art Evolution: They noticeably have a slightly different style in each new installment of the game.
 * Cosplay: As the mascots of the series, they reappear in every new release with different outfits. Additionally, they're the characters for many songs under the "TV and Anime" category, where they cosplay as the characters from the anime that the current song is used in.
 * Funny Animal
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Though some might not say it's exactly heterosexual.
 * Ryu and Ken
 * Shipping: These two characters (especially Nyami,) are frequently coupled with other Pop'n characters, the most common ships being those with MZD, or each-other.
 * Shout Out: See Cosplay.
 * Unlimited Wardrobe
 * Photon
 * Blinding Bangs
 * Celestial Body
 * Multicolored Hair
 * Poet
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Hair of Gold
 * Happy Holidays Dress
 * Our Angels Are Different
 * Super Drowning Skills
 * Winged Humanoid
 * Roki
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Woman in White
 * Roku
 * Everything's Better With Samurai
 * One-Letter Name: His name is actually spelled with a single kanji.
 * Power Tattoo
 * Smug Smiler
 * You Are Number Six: Not necessarily a trope namer, but the trope literally explains the name.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Rosa
 * Cool Mask
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * The Tragic Rose
 * Σ (Sigma)
 * The Chessmaster: Literally.
 * Gratuitous Greek
 * Hot Amazon
 * Multicolored Hair
 * One-Letter Name
 * Physical God
 * Yellow Lightning Blue Lightning
 * Transplant: From The Epic of Zektbach
 * SigSig
 * Cheerful Child
 * Transplant: From Beatmania IIDX.
 * Smile
 * Chemistry Can Do Anything
 * Cheshire Cat Grin: Literally, when he becomes invisible the only thing you can see is his smile.
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Invisibility
 * Perpetual Smiler
 * Sarashi
 * Trickster Archetype
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Space*Mako
 * Love Transcends Spacetime
 * Magical Girlfriend: from SPACE
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Smitten Teenage Girl
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Sumire
 * Custom Uniform
 * Million Mook March: Most of her animations.
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Timer
 * Bunny Ears
 * Cross Player: In his adult form, some of the cosplays he dons aren't exactly stuff that men would wear.
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Detached Sleeves
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: A number of fans have had to ask whether he's a guy or a girl. His Detached Sleeves, Zettai Ryouiki, and Cross Playing certainly doesn't help.
 * The Woobie: In his fail animation, he sulks while Minit's comes up to him and pats him on the back.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Tsuyoshi
 * Split Personality: Quite literally, since half of his body is dressed as a Dj, while the other one is dressed like a flamboyant prince.
 * Vic Viper
 * Palette Swap: The 2P version is labeled Lord British after the ship from the spin-off Salamander, although Lord British has never appeared in Gradius proper.
 * Retraux: It uses its sprites from the NES port of Gradius.
 * Transplant: Take a really wild guess.
 * Wilhelm
 * Badass Cape
 * Beautiful All Along: His Fever and win animations have him taking his mask off to reveal a pink-haired Bishonen underneath.
 * Ki Attacks: His Fever animation.
 * Yima
 * Dance If You Believe
 * Magic Dance
 * Nice Hat
 * Noodle People
 * Scarf of Asskicking
 * Yoshio
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja
 * Scarf of Asskicking
 * Yuli
 * Creepy Cool Crosses
 * Monster Mash: He forms a band with a werewolf (Ash) and some sort of Invisible Man (Smile).
 * Our Vampires Are Different
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: He's described as a vampire that "awoke from a 200-years sleep", despiste looking like he's in his sixteens. Who knows how old he really is.
 * Something About a Rose: He tends to pull out roses out from thin air in most of his animations.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Winged Humanoid
 * Red Armband of Leadership: Actually all the members of his band wear one.
 * One Head Taller: He's portrayed as being the shortest in his band in fan art.
 * Zizz
 * Marionette Master
 * Our Ghosts Are Different
 * White Mask of Doom
 * ? (yes, that is his name):
 * Cosmic Horror
 * Nightmare Fuel: His eye! HIS EYE!
 * The Nothing After Death: Pretty much explanation of his song, neu; even the song's genre is named niente, which means nothing.
 * One-Letter Name
 * Voluntary Shapeshifter: He changes his shape into some of the other characters in his Fever animation.