Yoake no Mariko

Yoake no Mariko (夜明けのマリコ) is a rhythm video game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.

It is a collaboration between Sony and Spümcø, an American animation studio best known for producing Nickelodeon's The Ren & Stimpy Show, with founder John Kricfalusi serving as a character designer.

Following this, a sequel titled Yoake no Mariko 2nd Act was released on 24 January 2002, also on the PlayStation 2.

[citation needed] Yoake no Mariko is a rhythm game where players must provide voice acting to correspond with a movie scene that unfolds before them.

As the background film clip plays, on-screen cues inform players when to deliver their lines and how to modulate their vocal intonations in a manner similar to the PaRappa the Rapper series (also published by Sony).