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so..........

am I reading this post wrong, or is that one of the coords they're using for Garuru's birthday? In the past they've used this style of image to show new birthday gacha coords,,,,,,, but this is a coord that's already in the game!

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I think next Idol Land update is going to be announced next week. It was rumored that Gaaruru has a bday exclusive dress and her birthday falls on a Wednesday this year (April 17th). They might just have taken two weeks off. Who knows! Either way I'm hopeful

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Saw someone mention that Hidive has a content request thing so maybe people could suggest Himitsu no Aipri for an English subbed release. There’s no guarantee but it’s worth a shot. (Also could suggest Idol Land Pripara too)

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Didn't get any new coords

nor updates on Gaaruru's birthday

but at least eos wasn't announced!

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I think in a year we'll look back at our time with Idol Land and think of it like a weird dream. A time when there wasn't a Pretty Series show announced and everything was in limbo. A time where King of Prism was a dead franchise. A time when songs were performed at Pretty Series live shows that wouldn't premier in the anime for years. The game teaser in every single Pretty Series announcement only for it to be delayed again. The YEARS long gap between episodes 2 and 3. The DISASTROUS launch. When we realized it was just a reskinned version of the switch game. Or when we discovered that it was mostly made by some unrelated dev who had only made one failed mobile otome game before Idol Land.

The Pretty Series' pivot to focusing on AiPri & KinPri instead of Idol Land & DanPri makes the past few years of Idol Land content, and the past less than a year of Idol Land actually being out, feel like an illusion.

It's frustrating because the concept of a PriPara mobile game sounds fantastic! When I play games like SIF2 or Idolish7 or whatever I think about what could have been. Was it money problems? or time problems? Or some combination of both. Regardless I can't help but yearn for a game with a budget that this franchise deserves.

And the web anime was great! But only 12 episodes, and its own budget problems, plus the games delay keeping it finished and in limbo for 2 years! (+ the lack of any western fansubs picking it up, seriously how is do we still only have subs for up to episode 6) meant that it never got the place in the spotlight it deserved. Some people speculated that it was meant to air on TV because the episodes are formatted as such, but with AiPri starting in that slot the same month the show is ending that doesn't seem to be true.

It's hard to say where PriPara is going from here. It's the series 10th anniversary and the arcade game is being shuttered to push players towards AiPri Verse instead. Idol Land's anime finale is going to air to little applause because it's stuck on an app with less than 20,000 active users, and in the same month as the launch of the new series that's slated to be a real PreCure competitor.

Idol Land's EOS hasn't been announced yet, but the missing Nino birthday coord, the April monthly update with entirely rerun coords, and the fact that Idol Land is getting very VERY close to running out of content from the switch game. Well, if not EOS I expect this game to go into maintenance mode pretty soon.

Yeah idk what my point here was exactly, but man Idol Land really was a blur. Sometimes I think we understate exactly how inexperienced the devs really were. The game doesn't have any type of Google Play integration, and when the game launched the account recovery only lasted 15 minutes. I have a newer phone and the game isn't compatible with my hole punch front camera. There's just a black bar there. I only have this problem with older games, anything made in the last 4 years doesn't have this problem except for Idol Land. I honestly think the lack of region locking is because the dev doesn't know how to turn it on. Someone on discord reported that they've been buying gold, and then contacting Google and asking for a Play Store refund. It's worked multiple times and they are not banned. How is a ban for chargebacks not something they implemented day one. Also this game doesn't have any deals or discounts, ever. It's hard to believe that, like every game I've ever played has a buy two and get 50% off the second one bundle. But it's like the devs don't know how to implement anything past basic gacha mechanics. I could also ramble about how expensive the prices are, but I've done it before I won't do it again. Also the photo room, it's implemented pretty badly. You upload a photo for the background and it crops it weird and squishes it and makes it blurry. I didn't know this at launch because it was a paid feature for like six months. The pass itself was a horrible value unless you were buying it specifically to get the episodes early, you got exactly how the amount of gold you paid for. Why not just buy the gold then. But they either realized that, or were preparing for end of service; because they took it down. I'm rambling about things the devs messed up but I haven't even mentioned the first three months of the game. There's been so many points in this game's history where playing a promise was borderline impossible for one reason or another. This game didn't feel finished until that November update that included immediate promises. God there's so much more. The photo competitions just being about editing for some reason. Also they went away, so clearly those didn't work. The amount of coords they've implemented that were broken in some way. Sometimes it was the wrong coord entirely, sometimes the cylume didn't work. It's like the dev team is so small that there's no QA people. Also on that note, Open Dream Land was just fixed in the mid March update. The game went more than 6 months where one of its two unique charts was off sync. Also remember the voice bug, that lasted forever.

I'm sorry I just started rambling lmao. This is the problem when I write posts with speech to text, I say way too much. Ultimately I enjoyed my time with Idol Land, but it's existence feels surreal. Especially because 80% of the features from this game I can turn on my switch after end of service and play, and it's free because I already paid once and never have to pay again. I even have Waku Waku O'Clock on Switch. One day, probably soon from the way things are going, I'm going to wake up and not be able to play Idol Land on my phone ever again. But instead of reminiscing of this game, I will think about the game that could have been if Idol Land got as much love as Prism Rush did.

KASHIKOMA ✌️

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AHHHHH!!!!

I’m not sure when this happened but the VIP Kami coord FINALLY has the correct Cyalume change!!!!

(It used to change into the VIP Fantasy Time Dream coord for cyalume change)

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I'll post this here too, me and a friend want to start a discord server where we can hang-out and discuss things positively and make new friends ❤️ We wanna talk about AiPri when it airs or KinPri or any of our interests in a chill atmosphere. Would anyone be anyone interested in joining? ✨

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😞

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How's everyone doing 😅

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New coords just added.

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The last three pulls I've done on this gacha now have been all dupes 😭 I think fate is telling me to stop, especially cuz I got all my must haves. Damn not getting that Ito outfit though 😔

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OMG THAT'S RIGHT

Everyone can use the photo studio now.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Although no new coords were added to Prism Stone today, 3/13, a very important and long-time coming update was added.

COORD RARITIES ARE NO LONGER SECRET

You can now easily see them in Prism Stone before buying the coords, or on the screen with the tags.

FREAKIN

FINALLY

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:( Ito's coord illudes me

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Made Pretty Rhythm OCs

Sexy!

Lovely!

Feminine

Ethnic

Pop

Star

Cool

I tried to focus on the theme of rainbow!

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Some of the new stickers!

Story time. I've been sending stickers back and forth with someone in game for MONTHS now and 😅 I have no idea what any of them say 😭 A lot of them use kanji which I don't know at all, and the ones I can read I often dont recognize the word lol. I hope I haven't said anything mean on accident!

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Awakened and unawakened Falulu will be selectable in Instant Promises soon!