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[[File:mendes-blackanother_5248.png|frame|The over 2000 notes in under 2 minutes. That's beatmania IIDX, [[Gratuitous English|It's too cool!]] ]]
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** Songs sung or rapped by Paula Terry, Aaron G and other such Western vocalists make for [[Surprisingly Good English]].
*** And we can't forget about Michael [[Misheard Lyrics|in a boat]], now can we? In reality, he was played by an American, Michael Stillwind (from Konami's Hawaii studio), and voiced by DJ Yoshitaka. Stillwind was notably responsible for his work on the ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' Ultramix and Universe games, and for getting DM Ashura (who won a contest to get onto Universe 2, and then made some later contributions for Universe 3, which later crossed onto X2) a spot on ''EMPRESS''.
* [[Harder Than Hard]]:
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*** Black Anothers are slightly [[Older Than They Think]]. The final two stages in Gold CS's Kaiden course, Vanessa and Kamaitachi, have special charts then exclusive to that course. When/if you get to these stages, you'll notice that where the difficulty should be shown, there is ''[[Nothing Is Scarier|blank space]]''. Later console installments give them proper Black Another designations.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZqezK48ro&feature=related Here's a video of Mendes played on piano].
** Oh and then there's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR7jIk3wZ84 Doubles Black Another version] at 2603 notes.
** Mendes Black Another has been FC'd on a Dual Shock controller... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUspR3mKtA&feature=related on half speed in training mode].
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** ''IIDX'' Resort Anthem's extra stage ANTHEM LANDING also counts as this despite having no long version to play.
* [[Mini Game Credits]]: DistorteD's credits roll lets the player spin around the camera angle on the monotonous 3D backdrop soaring through the background with the turntable, it's not a "game" per say, but still.
** Subverted by ''EMPRESS'', while the credits are not a minigame, the ending theme itself became a playable track ("THANK YOU FOR PLAYING") as part of the final set of timed unlocks, with the credits roll as its background video. Ironically, the song has been revived past ''EMPRESS'', and it ''still'' has ''EMPRESS''{{'}} credit roll attached to it. The ending for Resort Anthem, "Everlasting Resort", also does the same thing.
** The subversion is averted for "Vermillion" (Sirius ending theme, debuting on Resort anthem) and "The Last Striker" (DJ Troopers ending theme, debuting on the [[PlayStation]] 2 version), which have their own dedicated videos.
* [[Mission Pack Sequel]] ''IIDX'' has about 19 installments to its name, each with different art/song themes. Not exactly [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation]] though, since every mix has new songs, new features, and often remove or bring back older songs,
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: ''IIDX'' is regarded by many [[Rhythm Game]] conoisseurs as one of the most hardcore rhythm games in existence, if not ''the'' most hardcore.
** The groove meter 80% passing grade for all songs greatly contributes to this.
* [[No Fair Cheating]]: Scores achieved with the "Auto-Scratch" modifier don't get saved. In ''IIDX'', this applies to the "5 keys" modifier as well. With the introduction of continuous notes in ''IIDX 17'', the Legacy Note modifier which removes these has the same effect. Clearing a song with any of these won't save the score, but it is marked as an "[[Easy Mode Mockery|Assist Clear]]". This backfires on people who use the 5key modifier on classic ''Beatmania'' songs. Using the modifier on them will load up the old 5key chart from beatmaina, but will still count it as an Assist Clear.
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: The song "AA". [[Word of God]] has confirmed that ''there is no official pronunciation''.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Xepher, and perhaps ''any'' Zektbach song actually.
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* [[Rage Quit]]: Seeing "78%" (2% lower than the required gauge to pass the song) tends to cause this.
* [[Rank Inflation]]: Grades go from F to AAA. Similarly, in Class mode, you have the 7th through 1st ''kyu'' grades, then 1st through 10th ''dan'', and finally, ''kaiden''.
* [[Recurring Riff]]: Every Suzaku song has a distorted guitar screech in it, appropriately dubbed by many fans as the ''[[Memetic Mutation|Suzaku Scream]]''. All Dj MASS Mad Izm* songs have a ''lot'' of scratching in them, and his boss song for Resort Anthem takes it up to eleven. You thought the Turntable was [[The Artifact]]? Think again!
* [[Recycled Soundtrack]]: Songs will often be continually "revived" (remaining alongside new songs on a newer version of the game, or appearing alongside older songs on console versions) quite a few versions, especially if they're fan favorites.
** "V" is notorious for this. It debuted on ''5th Style'', and got revived on almost ''every'' console version after that until ''IIDX 1''). Fans suspected Konami of "ruining [[Memetic Mutation|the joke]]" that [[You Put the X In XY|"you can't spell 'revival' without 'V'"]].
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* [[Stellar Name]]: [http://vjarmy.com/wiki/index.php/Jun_Wakita Jun Wakita's] trademark. "Regulus", "Spica" and "Scorpion Fire" are all named after stars (SF is an allusion to Alpha Scorpii/Antares), "moon_child" and "Ganymede" refer to moons, and "Waltz of the Big Dogs" refers to a constellation.
* [[Take That]]: When Ryutaro Nakahara stopped using an asterisk and started to use a star for his Ryu☆ alias, his brother kept asking his "What's with that?" The song "Be quiet" is his answer.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Since the 11th main installment of the ''IIDX'' series, every installment has had some sort of color theme to it, with a subtitle relating to the colors, such as "RED" ([[Fun with Acronyms|Revolutionary Energetic Diversification]]), "Gold,", "DJ Troopers", "Empress", "Sirius", "Resort Anthem", "Lincle" and now "Tricoro". The theme of 19, "Lincle", raised a few eyebrows: either for sounding like [[Gratuitous English]] or for breaking the "dark/light" cycle that had begun on 11th (by having a blue and orange logo). However, it began to make sense more when it was revealed that it would integrate with Konami's new "e-Amusement Gate" community, and have linking events with Jubeat Copious (which was released the same day). There's actually a bit of a [[Memetic Mutation|running joke]] amongst certain ''IIDX'' communities in both Japan and the west that Bemani and Pepsi (and occasionally other soft drink manufacturers) conspire to create new color-coded flavors for each installment. Every subtitled style has a flavor of Pepsi (or Mountain Dew in some cases) that seems literally made for each other; it has extended to other Bemani franchises on occasion, such as Pop'n Music with ''Carnival''-flavored Pepsi...
** Also, the Extra Stage songs often have some kind of theme to them. See [[The Four Gods]] above. ''IIDX 16: Empress'' also has a set of regular One More Extra Stage songs with a sweets theme and an alternative Extra Stage called EMPRESS PLACE that centered around former "empresses" like Cleopatra and Marie Antionette.
** Similarly, in ''15th Style: DJ TROOPERS'', there is a new version of Cardinal Gate called ''Military Splash'' that has 4 Bemani artists hiding their identities behind battle formation aliases.
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