#Kiki*Lala Bust a groove

[sparky-kasane]

Anyway happy pride month to them

[6ayonetta]

Recently came across an amazing rhythm game called Bust a Groove ( & Dance Summit 2001) and wanted to imagine Retro in these games.

Age 27

Gender Female

Occupation Store Vender, "Journalist", and alien believer

Blood Type O

Star Sign Taurus

Dance Style Old School Hip-Hop Example of her style

Jammer Attack She takes out her camera and blinds her opponent with a bright flash.

Retro is a firm believer in extraterrestrials and is constantly looking forward to be the first person to interview one. She's trying to retrieve the groovetron to contact more alien life (Kiki & Lala actively avoid her). When she's not on the hunt for aliens she runs her shop selling clothes and trinkets she makes hoping one day she'll make her big break becoming a well-known blogger journalist.

[marsnicolasliwiak]

Research: Aliens/Robots/UFOs

Alien Moodboard

Design:

Capoeira: The Capoeira are an alien duo from Bust a Groove who came to Earth to collect old metal signboards. Unlike the other dancers in the games, the Capoeira work together in their dances as they are named after an Afro-Brazilian martial art and game that heavily uses dance and music, with their theme music also being capoeira. The two aliens do have names: Kiki and Lala, like the Sanrio characters.

Novi Stars: Novi Stars were a 2012 fashion doll line made by MGA that had of the concept of alien girls with different gimmicks, such as clear legs filled with various things, from colourful liquids to plastic sweets, and light up features. While not popular in their initial run due to the popularity of Mattel’s Monster High line, Novi Stars are now loved by older doll collectors due to their unique designs and concepts.

Mars: Mars is a character from Lauren Faust’s portfolio project Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls (If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Faust also made My Little Pony Friendship is Magic). In Milky Way, the planets are personalised into teenage girls who roller skate across the galaxy, with a variety of styles and personalities for the team. In Mars’ case, she is the kookiest member of the Galaxy Girls as she’s an alien with a heavy passion for the arts who likes standing out.

Robot Moodboard

Design:

Mimi + O’Chunks: Mimi and O’Chunks are characters in Super Paper Mario who works alongside Count Bleck and his team to “Recreate the world in their vision” (I say in quotes because it’s a lie. And these two are the only ones who don’t know that until the climax.). These two are grouped together because they’re both robots; O’Chunks is a military robot while Mimi is a dysfunctional Pixl (Pixls are small robotic creatures who are created by Ancients and can embody the souls of people close to death so they can continue living). These two are extreme opposites, with Mimi being a self-serving and sassy fashionista who coordinates everything and can mimic other's appearances and O’Chunks being a short-circuited brute who’ll attack anyone the moment he finds out they’re a threat to Bleck’s plan (He’s also Scottish. This is import to mention.).

Wall.E + Eve: Speaking of opposites, Wall.E and Eve from the movie Wall.E are both great robots. While Wall.E is stuck on a destroyed Earth and was made to clean up trash, Eve was made to keep the last sapling to revive the Earth and is sent to Earth. The movie mostly focuses on their relationship and the life that humans currently live, and despite their lack of dialogue, their actions speak so clear. Also the contrast in their designs, especially in terms of shape usage, is really good.

Chibi-Robo: Chibi-Robo is the name of the character and 2005 Gamecube game. In the game, you play as a tiny robot named Chibi-robo and are tasked to help clean the house of your new owners, the Sanderson family, to gain happiness points and be the very best robot while also helping out sentient toys. Chibi-Robo's design, while extremely basic, is cute and sleek, with the plug on his back giving him a more unique appearance as well as being an important mechanic.

Spaceships Moodboard

Design:

UFO Houses: UFO houses, known officially as Futuro Pods, are small scale and round house with a colourful and alien-like exterior. Designed initially by Finnish Architect Matti Suuronen in the 1960’s, these houses were meant to be the future but were protested against due to their over the top look and due to having zoning issues. These houses are now treated as tourist attractions, and are well known for inspiring an abandoned war officer retreat in Taiwan called the Sanzhi UFO Houses.

Halberd: The Battleship Halberd is a large and dark spaceship that appears throughout the Kirby Franchise. The ship is operated and owned by Meta Knight, a renowned warrior within Dreamland, who uses it to trap Kirby in Meta Knight’s Revenge to get rid of Dreamland’s peaceful vibe and as a status symbol. The Halberd stands out so much even compared to other slightly more dark things in the franchise, but that's what makes it super unique.

Lot Starcutter: The Lor Starcutter is a spaceship (Literally) that appears in Kirby’s Return to Dreamland and is operated by the game’s twist antagonist, Magolor. The ship might not belong to Magolor however, as it might instead have belonged to some other Ancient within Halcandra, the world where Magolor is from and the possible birthplace of most Ancients.

[rockmace]

CAPOEIRA (because not many people know their names, Kiki and Lala)

[futur3juli3]

So I found a list of who the Bust-A-Groove characters were inspired by and most of them are obvious but some were new to me.

Heat - Akira Fudo from Devil Man (Or works of Go Nagai)

Frida - Frida Khalo

Strike is based of a musician but I'm not sure who (Possibly The Notorious B.I.G hence the name that strike has for his group.)

Comet - Princess Comet

Kiki and Lala (otherwise Capoeira) are based of from a sanrio character also named Kiki and lala

Hiro - Tony from Saturday Night Fever.

Banbi - Bambi

Candy - Candy Candy

Betty - Betty Boop

Olive - Olive Oyl from Popeye

Suzuki and Honda - Car Manufacturers

3D - Hermie Hopperhead

G-pan - Jiipan from Taiyo Ni Hoero

Sahara - Pebbles from The Flintstones

Me and Kei - Pink Lady (I kinda figured they were based of them since Pink lady's members Mitsuyo and Keiko had nicknames Mie and Kei. Also Mitsuyo sang Flower Dancing Team's song!)

Jason - Jason Voorhees - Friday the 13th

[sparky-kasane]

BUST A GROOVE HEADCANONS

-Gas-O is like a 3rd sibling to Shorty and Heat. Gas-O would go over to their place to get away from his dad. (Just look up Bi-o's ending in Groove 2 and you'll see why I think this)

-Kitty-N's full name isn't even Kitty Nakajima, but rather Kokoro Nakajima. Calling her Kitty Nakajima is bad enough, but those who have called her Kokoro Nakajima without her expressed permission has never lived to tell the tale.

-Comet was a former Officer Jenny who gave Kelly her cop costume in a desperate attempt to throw Brock off her trail. This is why Kelly is a cop in 2. Frida, being Comet's sister, was also meant to be an Officer Jenny but changed her name so that she could pursue art instead.

-Strike once tried to get a gig as a math tutor. It did NOT end well.

-Heat is very often annoyed by Shorty's antics, but he sure as hell won't let anybody hurt her.

-Kiki*Lala (Capoeira) are gay lovers. (Look at some of their dances and one of their victory poses in 2 and you'll see what I mean)

-James Suneoka is like the Squidward of BAG. He can get beaten up (Capoeira), set on fire (Heat), partially eaten (Columbo), crushed (Robo-Z Gold), and even shot with a FREAKIN' BAZOOKA (Strike) and still somehow walk away alive.

-Gas-O is a younger verson of Pyro from TF2.