Idol Sing, Monkey Do

Not too long ago, I showed almost all my students a game called Rhythm Tengoku Gold for the DS. I made a blog post about it last year.

A refresher. It's a music game that doesn't involve bars or arrows, it's all about testing your pure sense of rhythm in a situational manner, kinda like how you tap your feet to a song.

One of my favourite mini-game was the Idol. You control an audience monkey. All idol fans are monkeys, no? You have to tap 4 times if the idol sings the same word 3 times, and a special action if she ends the lyrics with "kamo ne" or "ii na". Here's a little video of the game in action:



The voice for the girl is an actual junior idol named Eri~na, quite popular among Tokyo idol fans. Even the character design is based on her. But what happens when she sings it live?



You get a live hall full of monkeys.

(Special thanks to Zhi Soon for the video!)

EDIT: Oh just to clarify, this is not a concert for Rhythm Tengoku. It's a concert for the Nice Girls Project, featuring a few idols performing on stage. In fact, the dancers on stage are 2 idol groups that performed before Eri~na.