Rhythm Tweezers 2

"どんどん生えてくる うっとうしい「毛」！ ぬいちゃえ、 ぬいちゃえ！" "(These annoying hairs keep growing! Pluck'em, pluck'em!)"

- Rhythm Tweezers Description (Rhythm Tengoku)

"Now some of the hairs are curling! Are your tweezers deft enough for this challenge?"

- Rhythm Tweezers 2 Description (Rhythm Heaven Megamix)

Rhythm Tweezers 2 (かえってきた リズム脱毛), simply called Rhythm Epilation (リズム脱毛) in Rhythm Tengoku, is the second minigame that appears in Rhythm Tengoku. It returns as the 38th minigame in Rhythm Heaven Megamix, as a sequel to Rhythm Tweezers.

The topic of this game is plucking the hairs off of vegetables, as well as dealing with the curly ones. In Rhythm Tengoku, this game has a sequel, Rhythm Tweezers 2, which is unlocked later in the game.

Gameplay
This minigame starts with an image of a vegetable. Several hairs, both straight and curly, appear in a rhythmic pattern. After the pattern ends, a pair of hair clippers will start to scroll around the vegetable, making the player repeat the rhythm it was given to pluck the hairs. Curly hairs also appear, which require the player to hold down the button for longer.

While the gameplay is identical in Rhythm Heaven Megamix, the background is now purple instead of white, and the turnips are replaced with potatoes.

Button Mode

 * A or D-Pad: Pluck regular hairs
 * Hold A or D-Pad: Pluck curly hairs

Simple Tap Mode

 * Tap: Pluck hairs
 * Hold Stylus: Pluck curly hairs

Timing Notes

 * Hit: The hair strand gets fully plucked out. If all of the hairs are plucked, The vegetable will smile at the end of the cycle.
 * Barely: Part of the hair gets plucked out, but some is left. A laughing sound can be heard. The vegetable won't smile at the end of the cycle. A barely counts as a miss.
 * Miss: The hair is not plucked.

Header

 * "ムダ毛　チェック" (Useless Hairs Check)

Try Again

 * "しっかり　ぬいてください. " (Please pluck them properly.)
 * "ながい毛が　処理できてません. " (The long hairs weren't taken care of.)
 * "多いところが　ぬきのこしすぎです. " (You left too many hairs where there's a lot of them.)

OK

 * "う~ん．．．" (Yeah...)
 * "まぁまぁ、　かな. " (OK, I guess?)
 * "とりあえず．．．" (Anyway...)
 * "よしと　します. " (You did your best.)

Superb

 * "ながい毛が　すっきりです！" (The long hairs are neatly cut!)
 * "多かったところ、ツルツルです！" (The parts with a lot of hairs are smooth!)

Header

 * "Word around the Onion Salon"

Try Again

 * "You missed a few."
 * "The curly ones were tough for you."

OK

 * "Eh. Passable."

Superb

 * "Precisely plucked!"
 * "Good work on the curly ones."

Skill Star
When the player is dealing with the potato with one hair at the beginning and the end, and a bunch of hairs between them, pluck the last hair at the right moment to collect the skill star.

Rhythm Tweezers Tempo Up!
"どんどん生えてくる うっとうしい「毛」！ 速いテンポにまどわされずに ぬいちゃえ、ぬいちゃえ！" "(These annoying hairs keep growing! Don't get misled by the fast tempo, pluck'em, pluck'em!)"

- Rhythm Tweezers Tempo Up! Description

Rhythm Tweezers Tempo Up! (リズム脱毛 TEMPO UP!) is a variation of this game and the second in the Extra stage in Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade). In this variant, the tempo is faster, there's a new arrangement of the song, and the vegetables are replaced with a pumpkin, a radish and a watermelon.

Rhythm Tweezers 2P
"どんどん生えてくる うっとうしい「毛」！ ぬいちゃえ、ぬいちゃえ！" "(These annoying hairs keep growing! Pluck'em, pluck'em!)"

- Rhythm Tweezers 2P Description

Rhythm Tweezers also appears in the 2P mode of the arcade version of Rhythm Tengoku, where it is referred to as Rhythm Tweezers 2P (リズム脱毛 2P). Each vegetable is done in turns, first by Player 1 and then by Player 2. As a result, the game is twice as long as the regular version.

Rhythm Tweezers 2P Tempo Up!
"どんどん生えてくる うっとうしい「毛」！ 速いテンポにまどわされずに ぬいちゃえ、ぬいちゃえ！" "(These annoying hairs keep growing! Don't get misled by the fast tempo, pluck'em, pluck'em!)"

- Rhythm Tweezers 2P Tempo Up! Description

Rhythm Tweezers Tempo Up! also appears in the 2P mode of Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade) where it is referred to as Rhythm Tweezers 2P Tempo Up! (リズム脱毛 2P TEMPO UP!). The same changes as the original apply here.

Trivia

 * The game was originally going to use a realistic photo of a human's face, but was replaced because the developers found it too creepy.
 * The vegetables in this game later appeared in Crop Stomp.
 * A picture of an onion can be seen in Cheer Readers. A picture of vegetables from Crop Stomp can also be seen in Cheer Readers 2.
 * In the endless game Wake-Up Caller, when a flower grows, on rare occasions it has a Harry Onion, a turnip or a green onion with flowers on its top for a flower head.
 * This game's music plays in the Hi-Hat Rhythm Toy, named "Hi-Hat (Arabic Theme)".
 * The second type of vegetable changed the most throughout each version.
 * Along with the rest of Stage 1, this game has a counterpart in the arcade version. The game runs 150% speed and features vibrant synth for orchestration and different graphics.
 * Rhythm Tweezers appears in WarioWare Gold as a microgame, with enhanced versions of the Rhythm Tengoku graphics.
 * In Rhythm Heaven Megamix, plucking a curly hair will always indicate perfect timing on the release.