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The ''Beatmania'' franchise provides examples of:
* [[Akashic Records]]: The "genre" for the song Almagest. It makes some sense, given the the title of the song, but still...
* [[The Artifact]]: Remember back in the day? When this game actually ''did'' primarily have hip-hop, and as such an actual justification for having scratching in its controls? Yet, it remains, even though most of the songs are now either hardcore electronica or pop. The ''IIDX'' series ''did'' start with mostly J-pop and R&B, but then began to diversify, to the point where on most songs, the turntable is just another trigger for sounds that aren't scratching.
** That hasn't stopped songs with legitimate scratching from showing up in the modern era though. The OMES on Resort Anthem had gratuitous scratching as its main gimmick.
* [[Artifact Title]]: Inverted for IIDX: the game was originally produced in two different styles of arcade cabinets, the now rare "standard" cabinet, and a "deluxe" cabinet. On the standard cabinet, the game was known as
* [[Ascended Glitch]]: The song "GAMBOL" was notorious for an infamous bug that gave it [[Hitbox Dissonance|unusually small timing windows]]. It was fixed for the arcade version of Happy Sky (with a fixed version on the Normal difficulty, and the glitched version on the Hyper difficulty). But, when the song was revived on the home version of RED, Konami decided to troll players by adding a new [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giiNrvgclX4 Another] chart ... which was simply the Hyper chart with even ''stricter'' timing. It gets worse on the home versions of DJ Troopers and Empress, where hidden codes (spelling out "G-J-H" or "G-J-A" by scrolling to songs starting with those letters, and pressing Select on each one) lets the player use those timing windows on ''any'' song.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: Some ''Beatmania'' DJs themselves use the term "Nidera (弐寺)" instead of Two-D-X when talking about the ''IIDX'' series, and Ryu☆ described himself in the [http://www.konami.jp/bemani/popn/music17/mc/song14/handz..html comments] for ''Second Heaven'' as "That 'Somebody Scream!'guy" as a result of [[Misheard Lyrics]].
* [[Audio Adaptation]]: The <nowiki>ROOTS26S[uite]</nowiki> drama CDs centered around the DJ characters.
* [[Bonus Boss]]: Beginning on Distorted, versions have featured new extra stage systems integrating with e-Amusement, where meeting certain conditions in-game unlocks additional boss songs in a themed area; usually only accessible on the Extra Stage, and always under themed aliases. Beating all the songs in the area will either lead to the [[True Final Boss]] as the One More Extra Stage ... or just lead to yet ''another'' tier of boss songs (Sirius kinda went overboard with this part, but seeing some new tracks from previous boss aliases was a treat for many)
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** Lincle returns to the previous style, the first three bosses involve playing sets with the EX-HARD modifier that are either of the same genre, from the same version, or by the same artist.
* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: In Resort Anthem, the song "灼熱Beach-Side Bunny" strangely inverts and then subverts this. While it's the One More Extra Stage song, if one listens to it without knowing that, they'd hear... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attbUNnY5-8 this.] Not too intimidating, is it? Tell that to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOG9ARfriM&feature=related 667 scratches.] Of course, this is a Dj MASS Mad Izm* song, and having a metric ton of scratching is his [[Recurring Riff]].
** Go all the way back to 10th and you'll find the boss song "One More Lovely", it sounds like it came straight out of a
* [[Boss Rush]]: Since the implementation of the extra stage systems (which typically contain the harder bonus songs of a style), there will always end up being an Expert mode course which contains said songs. Class mode also provides the infamous ''Kaiden'' course, which usually consists of the 4 hardest songs available on that particular game.
* [[Bullet Hell]]: It almost feels like that sometimes ... except you have to ''hit'' all the bullets!
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** Sirius has hold notes and a related note for the turntable where you have to continuously spin it one direction for the duration of the hold note and then snap it back the other way at the very end of the note. Fittingly, [[True Final Boss]] "Almagest" used them a lot.
* [[Fan Service]]: Getting good grades on songs will also put different character art backgrounds on the result screen. Some of this may indeed qualify. No wonder the console versions have gallery modes.
* [[Fetish Fuel]]: The three ''IIDX'' girls, among other things.
* [[The Four Gods]]: Cardinal Gate, the [[Perfect Run Final Boss|Extra Stages]] from DistorteD (''IIDX 13'').
** To be specific, the names of the four gods are aliases of popular Bemani artists. They are, as follows...
*** Byakko = {{spoiler|Tatsuya Shimizu, AKA Tatsh}}
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** 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.
*** Lion = {{spoiler|dj TAKA}}
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