*-Zukin
by Kim McFarland
Negaduck9@aol.com
November 2007


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Dance Dance Revolution!  The perfect combination of mindless video gaming and grueling, pulse-pounding exercise.  I've been dancing for several years now.  Most of the dancer characters don't do much for me, but I'll admit to a fondness for two: Baby-Lon, because who can resist a baby boogieing in his jammies, and Zukin. Maid-Zukin, Kaeru-Zukin, Robo-Zukin, et cetera - they may be different people or they may all be the same individual, just in a different change of clothes.

("Zukin," by the way, is Japanese for "hood." The character is never seen without a hood.)

I've made the various outfits in this set as faithful as I could while keeping a consistent art style.  When one outfit has multiple variations (as with Devil-Zukin) I drew the one I liked best. The Zukins in this set are:
* Oshare-Zukin (rabbit hood)
* Kaeru-Zukin (frog hood)
* Princess Zukin (long-eared hood)
* Maid Zukin (blue, cat-eared hood)
* Devil Zukin (cat-eared hood and bat wings)
* Robo-Zukin (looks like she's been eaten by Consento, the robot character from previous DDR games)
* Angel Zukin (For which I could find no reference material, so I used my imagination)


FKiss Info:
The controls are all up top in the form of the infamous arrows:
* Left turns the color change option on and off. More on that below.
* Down toggles the snapto on and off.  Default is on.
* Up makes the background disappear and reappear.
* Right opens up a music menu, because what would DDR be without music?
Many of the items change color when you enable color change (default is off). Some items go through the entire spectrum, some have a more limited range. If I have duplicates of an item, for example, plaid skirts - both Devil and Kaeru need them - I only made one change color, as making both do so would add nothing.

MIDI info:
"321Stars" is by DJ Simon.
"Freckles" is by Tiggy.
"Max 300" is by Omega, AKA Naoki Maeda. This is the hardest 10-footer I have ever passed, I barely squeaked by with a C, and I am *proud* of accomplishing even that.
"Sync" is by OutPhase.
"Waka Laka" is by Jenny Rom vs. Zippers.
"Dueling Banjos," AKA "Feuding Banjos," is by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith and Don Reno.
"The Masochism Tango" is by Tom Lehrer. It ought to be in DDR if only for the title.
"Music Box Dancer" is by Frank Mills.
"Saltimbanco" is from the "Cirque du Soleil" soundtrack of the same name.
"The Vatican Rag" is by Tom Lehrer. Why does DDR have no ragtime?
Y'know what else would be a great DDR song? Weird Al Yankovic's "Hardware Store." I can see the inventory list in the middle raising it into 10-footer territory. But, alas, I couldn't find a MIDI.

Set info:
Set 0: Title and credits.
Set 1: Seven Zukins from the game: Princess, Kaeru, Devil, Robo, Maid, Angel, and Oshare.
Set 2: The same clothing as Set 1, but not grouped into costumes.
Set 3: Some other costumes: Popcorn Pix (DDR Supernova), Sandy (Final Fantasy X), Black Waltz #2 (Final Fantasy IX), a moogle (Just about any Final Fantasy), The Prince of all Cosmos (the Katamari Damacy series), Ichigo (ditto), Floorshow outfit (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and Minnie Mouse.
Set 4: The same clothing as Set 3, but not grouped into costumes.
Set 5: Everything in the previous sets, plus a few more thingies. Little Goth Riding Hood.
Set 6: As above. Not Carmen Miranda.
Set 7: As above. Trying for "Butterfly."
Set 8: As above. Workout Usagi.
Set 9: As above, with a totally *naked* doll. Oh, the shame.

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Want to see more of my KiSS dolls? They're all in Slack & Hash's Domain:
http://www.c4vct.com/kym/slachash
And, why not, here's my main website. It has Darkwing Duck, ReBoot, Brak, He-Man (well, Orko, anyway), Final Fantasy 9, bento, and plenty of other stuff:
http://members.aol.com/negaduck9/negapage.htm

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All versions of Zukin are copyright and trademark Konami, and are used without permission but with respect and affection.  This doll is copyright (c) 2007 Kim McFarland.  It is not to be altered, rearchived on the internet, or charged for (on websites or otherwise) without the permission of the creator.  However, should anyone wish to make an expansion set, feel free.