Scarlet Police On Ghetto Patrol 24Pm Dance

2022Dance trend / TikTok soundsemi-active

Published March 30, 2026

Also known as: #あたいの足技みさらせやー (I'll Show You That My Footwork) · スカーレット警察のゲットーパトロール24時

The Scarlet Police on Ghetto Patrol 24PM Dance is a TikTok dance trend built around a 2015 Touhou Project fan arrangement by the doujin music circle IOSYS. Originally released at a Touhou convention and uploaded to YouTube in May 2015, the song sat relatively quietly for nearly seven years before Japanese TikTok users turned it into a viral dance craze in January 2022. The trend blew up fast enough to attract J-pop stars, the creator of Touhou himself, and eventually land the song in three major arcade rhythm games.

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Overview

The Scarlet Police on Ghetto Patrol 24PM Dance centers on a high-energy denpa-style track arranged from *Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil* themes by the Japanese doujin music group IOSYS1. The song features vocals by miko from Alternative Ending and includes a memorable line at the 0:20 mark where the character Cirno declares "I'll Show You That My Footwork" (あたいの足技みさらせやー)4. That phrase became the hashtag and rallying cry for the entire dance trend on TikTok, where users perform fast, energetic footwork routines set to the track's driving beat.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (music video), TikTok (dance trend)
Key People
IOSYS, miko of Alternative Ending, @o_kai0701
Date
2022 (dance trend); 2015 (song release)

IOSYS released "Scarlet Police on Ghetto Patrol 24PM" (スカーレット警察のゲットーパトロール24時) on the album *Gensokyo Dempa Expo*, their 23rd Touhou compilation1. The album dropped at Reitaisai 12, a Touhou Project-only convention, on May 10, 20154. Three days earlier, on May 7, IOSYS published an animated music video for the song on YouTube4. The video slowly accumulated nearly 5 million views over the following years, known mainly within the Touhou fan community.

The jump to dance trend happened in early January 2022. IOSYS member Malon (まろん) later documented the shift in a February 2022 writeup, noting that TikTok users had begun re-uploading the YouTube video and using the song in their posts starting around the beginning of the month4. On January 17, 2022, TikTok user @o_kai0701 posted videos showing high school boys performing original choreography to the track4. Those posts racked up roughly 7.4 million combined views by October 2022.

How It Spread

The dance caught fire almost immediately. Other TikTok users started copying the choreography on the same day @o_kai0701 posted it4. Four days later, on January 21, Japanese pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu posted her own version of the dance alongside actor Ryō Katō4. Kyary, already one of Japan's biggest pop culture exports thanks to hits like "PonPonPon"2, brought massive visibility to the trend. Her video alone pulled in over 10 million views by October 20224.

Ryō Katō, who had been acting since his debut on the variety show *Appare Sanma Dai Sensei* at age ten3, added celebrity crossover appeal. The trend snowballed from there, drawing in other celebrities and influencers across Japanese TikTok.

The two people most closely tied to the original song also jumped in. ZUN, the solo creator of the entire Touhou Project franchise, posted his own version of the dance. So did miko, the vocalist who sang the track4. By November 2022, the song had been featured in over 100,000 TikTok videos, and the "footwork" hashtag (#あたいの足技みさらせやー) had racked up more than 600 million views4.

The trend was significant enough that it became a candidate for TikTok's best trend award for the first half of 20224. The official YouTube music video added over 8 million new views in 2022 alone, more than doubling its previous lifetime total.

How to Use This Meme

The Scarlet Police on Ghetto Patrol 24PM Dance typically follows a loose format:

1

Use the song (or a clip of it, often starting around the "footwork" line at 0:20) as your TikTok audio

2

Perform fast, energetic footwork, either copying the original choreography from @o_kai0701's video or freestyling your own moves

3

Tag with #あたいの足技みさらせやー

Cultural Impact

The TikTok explosion turned a seven-year-old convention track into a mainstream hit in Japan. Three major arcade rhythm game franchises added the song to their libraries in 2022: Groove Coaster in June5, Maimai in September6, and Taiko no Tatsujin in October7. For a doujin arrangement, getting picked up by all three of Japan's biggest rhythm game series in the same year is unusual and speaks to how far beyond the Touhou community the song had traveled.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's participation was particularly notable. As a singer whose career was built partly on viral internet moments (her 2011 "PonPonPon" video was one of Japan's earliest YouTube mega-hits)2, her endorsement of the dance gave it legitimacy outside the otaku sphere. The fact that ZUN himself participated was also remarkable for the normally reclusive game developer4.

Fun Facts

The song is an arrangement of themes from *Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil*, the sixth game in the Touhou series, released in 20021.

Cirno, the character whose "footwork" line became the trend's hashtag, is a fairy ice boss from Touhou who has been a fan-favorite meme character in her own right for years4.

The album *Gensokyo Dempa Expo* was IOSYS's 23rd Touhou compilation, part of a catalog that includes dozens of Touhou arrangement albums1.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's dance video with Ryō Katō outperformed the original music video's entire seven-year view count in under a year4.

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