Para Para Paradise for boys or girls?

JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

AHAHAHAHA I just realized how wrong that sounded XD I mean videos with guys doing parapara.

gs68 · Trick Member Joined: 06 Apr 2002 Location: on a plane

I play PPP even though I'm a straight male, and no one has openly labeled me as being gay/bisexual.

Lately I've been finding more fun in PPP than IIDX; too bad Nickel City in San Jose has a crappy 1st Mix.

If anyone does label me as gay, well, fuck them. It's their problem for being homophobic and following the philosophy that "girly" = gay.

ddr654 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Location: New Britain

Ok....we've finally decided what to do. We've bought a copy of the game, so we're gonna have a booth dedicated to it. Also we're getting the canettes or majorettes(they're the girls that dance in in front of the marching band, kinda like cheerleeders' hand movements). Some of the dances the Canettes/majorettes do look alot like para para already, so I don't think they'll want to miss out on flaunting their stuff in front of everyone(trust me, it's what they do best). so we're gonna ask them to learn some dances to display on an actual stage. We're also gonna try to promote the game and get alot of people to al least try it out. I'm sure we'll find someone cause everyone form town is invited so I'm hoping alot of people give para para a shot. Thing is, there's DDR which has gotten alot of attention lately there but I'm hoping Para Para won't pass as too strange casue people are used to moving around more due to the American eye toy so I'm hoping they wonn't be shy to step up and wave their arms for Para Para. Here's hoping

Anyone can tell me their comments on my decision, K?
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L. · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Location: Chicago

OMG... i need to suggest culture fest to my school
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Tsuri · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject:

Umm I didn't think you had to mimick the on screen dancers... I was under the impression that to play the game you just have to activate the sensors that correspond to the arrows or whatver... like wave your hand in that area... therefore any dance should be possible on it right?

fighter965 · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Location: So. Cal.

Short Answer: Yes, play however you want.

JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

On Freestyle the adjective is to play to hit the arrows, in ParaPara Mode the goal is to mimic the real dances.

ddr654 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Location: New Britain

yeah I'm getting the game like tuesday or wednesday so i'mma see if i can freestyle in expert mode and give the game an edge. That'll get pple to the floor!
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cigy41987 · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject:

Just a note:

Someone recently went to Velfarre in Tokyo on SEF Gold night, the parapara / eurobeat night.

They said it was almost all guys.

So it's safe to say it isn't JUST for girls. The crowd was mostly gal/ganguro/yamanba girls and guys during the last boom, but now It's mostly dedicated people. Also, it was a fad thing last time so tons of people weren't very into it. They just went with the crowd. Now, it's a bit more mianstream and matured I guess you could say.

So yeah. Not just a girls thing.

DJLazyPanda · Basic Member Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: Milpitas CA

hey all

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well.. im from milpitas California, the closest PPP machine to me is at MGL aka milpitas golfland which i love..... lol.. ive been playing PPP for more than 2 years i think probably more? i prob got atleast 80-90% of all the para para moves down...... lol insane huh? ne ways the thing about how popular it was when it was 1998-2002? well.. that was really true... now and days...... u barly see anyone playing PPP at MGL T_T;;; and MGL isnt as packed as b4..... i dnno what happened to it..... ne ways btw.. im a guy... =P yes an asian guy that knoes how to dance....... ppp..... Pump it up... ddr.... etc XD ne ways..... if i has this fest at my school... and did that..... it would be wicked kool XD but sadly enough... my school dn have a festival like that....... if we did though..... MGL would prob have alot more people going there XD... when my friends see me dancing.. sure they question about my sexuality.. but i just ignore them lol.. they are just jealous cuz all the girls love the guy that knoes how to dance lol... ne ways yeah.... some comments...

btw............ links to the videos?

cigy41987 · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject:

Go to Paraparastage.com. They have some vids up, with club choreos, fan choreos, etc.

Phantom_R32 · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject:

i havent played para para yet...i dont think its a girls only game..but some of the dance moves are more "girly" but i 2 videos of guys playing it to burning desire and they're pretty good.

but para para music....just plain pwns!

Eurobeat

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JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

Ok I was just at Anime Boston this past weekend and I had a parapara panel and there was definitely a lot of male interest in parapara, even at the yoko ishida concert where fans were allowed to dance in front of the stage it was like a 4 to 3 ratio of boys to girls so maybe boys are more into parapara than people wish to believe

phae · Trick Member Joined: 11 Aug 2002 Location: . . .

Boys that para para are cool (Hi Jayveemon~!).. some of the routines look great if a guy does them.

But yeah, I guess it is marketed toward girls.
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

Para Para is a style of dance that was popular for quite some time in Japan. The game ParaParaParadise was just to market off of that popularity. Yet, when the dance craze died off, so did ParaParaParadise.

I like the game and I still see some people playing PPP at MGL. Yet, those are more of the hardcore players and most of them are in fact males. Yet, a lot of the game seems more towards females though.
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ddr654 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Location: New Britain

i couldn't get anyone to do the dances for the culture day performance, and so it's up to my friends o perform. But, as a trade, they're making me do a dance too

not that i don't love para para, but my school is so homo phobic it makes me wanna kill them

I have a girlfriend so who care

I'mma definitely dance to Valfaree 2000...I love that routine!!!!!

TOKYO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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-Take me anyways you please boy you're making me scream
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-where you can find pleasure, search the world for treasure
-all the hoochie mamas throw your hands up!!
-DDR654

JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

I live like 25 minutes away >_> you never asked me.. and it's spelled velfarre not valfaree :-p

ddr654 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Location: New Britain

haha, yeah, i suck at typing.
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-Keep on dreaming of this toy, you can use my little boy
-Take me anyways you please boy you're making me scream
-See us making love all through the night
-where you can find pleasure, search the world for treasure
-all the hoochie mamas throw your hands up!!
-DDR654