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AKB48 And BoA Performing For Just Dance Japan

By Spencer . September 2, 2011 . 12:27am

AKB48 And BoA Performing For Just Dance JapanUbisoft’s most popular Wii game Just Dance is coming to Japan with Nintendo as the publisher. Instead of slapping Japanese text on the menus, Nintendo is localizing Just Dance with Japanese music. "Happy Rotation" from AKB48 is one of the songs players can pick. Nintendo also licensed "Choo Choo Train" from EXILE, "Sexy Girl" from Namie Amuro, "One Night Carnival" from Kishidan, and "Love Revolution 21" from Morning Musume.

 

 

A few Korean pop artists who are also famous in Japan made it into the mix including "Jumpin" & "Mister" from KARA, "Valenti" from BoA, and "Why?" from Tohoshinki. The only Western song on the list is a cover of "Mickey" from a Japanese comedian.

 

It’s a fairly diverse list and a strong West to East localization effort from Nintendo. Just Dance comes out on October 13 in Japan.


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  • Kibbitz

    Is it sad that the song/group that actually got me excited about this is Kishidan’s One Night Carnival? =P

  • M’iau M’iaut

    Damn that’s a better lineup than anything they ever put in the games here.

  • Eddie

    akb48……… The root of all evil……

    • theworldofnoboundries

      AKB48 the source of happiness for Otaku.

  • 4shiki

    It’s Heavy Rotation, not Happy Rotation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ironshounen Nauj Ibarra

    HAPPY ROTATION? Maji de? It’s Heavy Rotation. That was a good laugh. =))

  • http://www.jb2x.com/wordpress/ JB2X

    Needs Love Circulation as a song.

  • http://twitter.com/manasteel88 Mana

    Sorry, I just keep reading BoA as Bank of America.  I was confused as to why a bank would invest in a Ubisoft game.

  • shion16

    Just when i thought that Viva Las Vegas or Its not Unusual were embarasing to dance ^^U

  • http://www.youtube.com/B4ULoveShine Tim_at_where

    I hope these songs would be DLC for the Japanese audience:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQAKRw6mToA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ljGzu6LgQI

  • http://twitter.com/Luisen12 Luis Enrique

    I find it funny that this is getting such a throughout localization, but not those other games.

  • Sakurazaki

    Man, I love BoA…

    And WOW, Tohoshinki too!?

    Even MoMuSu.

    I should get this game.

  • http://twitter.com/Megawarrior345 Elle

    I want BoA in JUST DANCE (NA VERSION) put some of her english songs on it. >_<

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=685220688 Vince Vazquez

    Jeez laweez – it’s official. NOA completely sucks balls.

    Remember when they were localizing Donkey Konga, and they stuck mostly with public domain sh*t because it was free? And now Reggie’s stepped up his sh*t to the point where he’s just shooting down localizing games entirely. NOA pisses me off SOOO MUCH….

    But NCL? Man – *stands and applauds*. First off, they actually localize games over there for Japan (they also stepped up, localized and published Epic Mickey for Disney over there), but they do stuff like this. Spend some money, make it different (and imo better – I’d MUCH rather listen to BOA than Lady Gaga). Seriously, bravo NCL.

    F*** NOA though. I’m serious. I’m done buying their consoles and games – Mario and Zelda included – until Reggie is fired and we get an NOA president who actually cares about awesome games, instead of merely the ones deemed “most marketable”. AT LEAST as good as Nintendo of Europe, whose kicking a lot of a** these days too. 

  • inori_risingsun

    great,…now someone can please localise rock band/guitar hero to japan so i can rock out japanese song with fake plastic guitar,drum,mic,keyboard,….YEEEHHAAAWWW!!!!!!!

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