#Aikatsu reboot

[precure-stuff]

Meet the boys of Aikatsu S!

When I started this project, I was determined to have male idols wearing the same brands as the girls. Now it's time to meet them

The first male idol we meet is Leo. Leo is a hot-headed rockstar with cat like mannerisms. He is a student at Apollo Academy and wears the brand Shadow Gaia. He is pictured above in the Black Cat coord.

He is a rival and friend to Chiaki. While the two argue a lot, they have mutual respect for each other's craft.

The second male idol we meet is Omari. He is a chill surfer boy with a kind heart. He enjoys teasing his little sister Emiri. He is also a fan of Maki.

Omari’s preferred brand is Sleepy Meadow. He is pictured above wearing the Blue Prince Coord.

[aikatsureboot]

The full poster is here!!!

Let's take a look! At the top, we've got Haruka, our seasonal top idol! Below her are the three leads, Maki, Chiaki and Emiri. Maki's in the middle, right below Haruka for spoiler reasons...To her left is Chiaki, her main rival and the seasonal goth girl. To her right is Emiri, a close friend with a tropical style.

Which character are you excited to meet?

[pretty-idol-hell]

Well the new series feels like a sorta sequel to pripara since they have a similar cyalume change aspect. But it also feels similar to aikatsu planet with Hana and some of the characters keeping it a secret. It sucks that aikatsu went the route it went as it felt like aikatsu planet should've went mobile because the gameplay is mostly tapping. Can't believe it's been a year since aikatsu ended with the movie. I kinda wish we had a second season of primaji or at least made a web anime for studio.

It's ironic that one of my big takeaways from the AiPri announcement was "Wow, Aikatsu is really over for good, isn't it..."

Also, despite all the evidence to to contrary, I was half expecting PriMagi to continue in a reboot like they did with DMF -> Rainbow Live.

The thing about Aikatsu is, I felt like they were always committed to bringing us a polished product. They never really rushed anything out or released anything that felt incomplete. They had to make that big impressive new arcade cabinet for Planet and all that...

With Pretty Series, I feel like they just throw everything at the wall to see what sticks in order to keep feeding us content. Release a broken mobile game? OK. Rush out an arcade game that red screens and/or jams on the freaking livestream hahaha... Sure why not. And yet, they won. The whole incomplete/scrappy/underdog aspect of Pretty Series just adds to the charm for me.

Because of that, I'm not digging how they're sort of borrowing Aikatsu's aesthetic for this series. But it is what it is. Clearly they want to target Aikatsu loyalists to play this series too, which makes a lot of sense. Aikatsu (especially Aikatsu Planet) and PriMagi were about as different as it gets.

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

BRACKET REVEAL

Alright. At long last, I present to you the bracket...or should I say...*BRACKETS* for the Virtual Character Tournament!

Given the scale, the first round is going to be one bracket per week, 4 a day, with each lasting 24 hours. I know that this is still tight, but given how many contestants there are, along with the necessary inclusions of images and propaganda (oh and I guess also my job), it's what I can do to keep this semi-manageable. There's also no redemption round this time. It's gonna be a single elimination tournament. Be kind to your peers. This is not but a drop in the infinite ocean of the internet.

...oh yeah the brackets themselves. We'll be going in order over the course of 4 weeks. I'll make proper announcements for them as they commence. Given how many there are and what I want to get done beforehand, Bracket 1 will likely begin some time this week. But for the matchups...

Bracket 1:

Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid) vs. Elohim (The Talos Principle)

Flame (Yu-Gi-Oh! VRains) vs. The Supervisor/Mouthless (Tenkuu Shinpan)

XANA (Code Lyoko) vs. MetalMan.EXE (Mega Man Battle Network)

9-Jack-9 (Zot!) vs Poppy Pipopapo (Kamen Rider Ex Aid)

Sage (Sonic Frontiers) vs Mektryllis (Fate/Extra CCC)

Dot Matrix (Reboot) vs V Flower (Vocaloid)

Wizardmon (Digimon) vs Delta (Red Vs. Blue)

Sora (Ever17) vs Kasane Teto (UTAU)

The Doctor/EMH (Star Trek Voyager) vs Crash (Awful Hospital)

Burroughs (Shin Megami Tensei IV) vs Quorra (Tron Legacy)

The Machine (Person of Interest) vs The Rocket Dex (Pokemon)

P03 (Inscription) vs. M.X.E.S (FNAF Security Breach: Ruins)

Hakuno Kishinami (Fate/EXTRA) vs Data Riku (Kingdom Hearts)

Samaritan (Person of Interest) vs ART (The Murderbot Diaries)

Cortana (Halo) vs M-Bot (Skyward)

Mitsuko Miyazumi (Archer) vs Ritsu (Assassination Classroom)

Bracket B:

Ene (Kagerou Project) vs The Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe)

Amadeus (Steins; Gate 0) vs D.O.M (The Adventure Zone)

AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) vs Theo (Meta Runner)

Colonel.EXE (Mega Man Battle Network) vs Daia (Kiratto PriChan)

Agumon (Digimon) vs The Bobbiedots (FNAF Fazbear Frights)

Felix the Desktop Cat (Real Life) vs SHODAN (System Shock)

MegaMan.EXE (Mega Man Battle Network) vs Church (Red vs. Blue)

Shepherd (ENA) vs Dr. Coomer (Half Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware)

Sophie/Sophia (Persona 5 Strikers) vs Dizzy (Beyblade)

Miss J/SCP 5094 (SCP) vs Ultraman X (Ultraman X)

SAYU (No Straight Roads) vs Falulu (Pripara)

Incarceron (Incarceron) vs Benry (Half Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware)

Lea (Crosscode) vs Kiracchu (Kiratto PriChan)

Dragon (Prahumans) vs Murder-Bot 2.0 (The Murderbot Diaries)

Ai (Yu-Gi-Oh! VRains) vs Glitch Slime (Slime Rancher)

Eris (Wolf 359) vs Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Bracket III:

Hera (Wolf 359) vs Shin AI (Your Turn to Die)

Alba (Star Twinkle Pretty Cure) vs The Denpa Men (The Denpa Men)

Guy (Free Guy) vs EDI (Mass Effect)

Aetna (Lore Olympus) vs Yui (Sword Art Online)

Nicole the Holo-Lynx (Archie Sonic) vs Gabumon (Digimon)

Jacqueline Box (Pripara) vs Mamechi (Tamagotchi)

Vanellope von Shweetz (Wreck-It Ralph) vs Cleverbot (Real Life)

The Phantom Virus (Scooby-Doo) vs Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa)

Alter Ego (Danganronpa) vs Digit (Cyberchase)

Simulcast (Reflection TTRPG) vs SARA (Toonami)

Lumina Ichihoshi (Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ) vs The World Machine (OneShot)

Rumble McSkirmish (Gravity Falls) vs Holly (Red Dwarf)

HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey) vs Samantha (Her)

PAMA (Minecraft Story Mode) vs Noah Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Agent Smith (The Matrix) vs O.R.C.A (Splatoon)

Spunc (Alpha Betas) vs Porygon (Pokemon)

Bracket Delta:

GIFanny (Gravity Falls) vs Coco (Aikatsu Friends)

Vic Fontaine (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) vs Red One (The Last Angel)

Glitchtrap (FNAF Help Wanted) vs Holo (My Holo Love)

Avina (Mass Effect) vs Light Hope (She-Ra)

Motherboard (Cyberchase) vs Aya (Green Lantern: The Animated Series)

Bonzi Buddy (Real Life) vs Tama (AI The Somnium Files)

Dragon (Worm) vs Bip (Runway to the Stars)

Failsafe (Destiny) vs J.A.R.V.I.S (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Aiba (AI: The Somnium Files) vs CanHaz (DC Comics)

SAYER (SAYER) vs Fey (Welcome to Night Vale)

Buddy (Buddy Simulator 1984) vs Ziggy (Quantum Leap)

Maggy (Hellspark) vs The Squip (Be More Chill)

Lyla (Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse) vs Durandal (Marathon)

Beta Jay 137 (Ninjago) vs Zero III (Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward)

Sergey Ushanka (The Magnus Archines) vs Demetra (Spy Kids 3: GAME OVER)

Alie (The 100) vs Lil' Hal (Homestuck)

As always, thank you for bearing with me during this long and arduous process. Sorry for the hassle, and be prepared, as it is almost upon us.

[perryhedge]

Why Digimon Ghost Game is Episodic

Background

Note: a lot of this is sourced from @RavelMonte on Twitter, who has a lot of great translations and threads about Digimon production across the franchise.

Recently, there was a soundbite going around where the lead writer of Digimon Ghost Game explained that one reason for the episodic structure of the show is to adapt to the shorter attention spans of children these days. While I don't think that's true (well, attention spans may actually be getting shorter, I do believe that -- but at least, anecdotally it seems that people are more hungry for serialized stories, not less, and that is one of the reasons why anime is getting so popular worldwide). But as Ravel points out, there's another goal here, which is part of the Digimon Reboot project (thread linked below):

I'm no expert when it comes to these things, but one thing that's important in the media mix business model (which Digimon has always been a part of) is the term 世界観 (sekaikan = worldview). You may have heard this term used in interviews from various Japanese creators. In a media mix structure, the central element is not necessarily a fixed plot or even necessarily characters (characters can be part of a worldview, but not necessarily a specific iteration of a character -- we can see this in the 2020 Digimon Adventure series, where the 8 chosen children remain but their personalities and arcs change drastically). Contrast with something like Star Wars which is continually forced to fit everything into one consistent universe and timeline. Obviously there must be more to media mixes and I'm not an expert on the topic, but I think this video is really well presented and informative:

So anyway, to summarize Ravel's thread and its implications for Ghost Game, one of the main purposes of this show is to unite the disparate elements of the franchise (and everyone knows Digimon is all over the place, especially after the flagship game series known in the west as Digimon World vacillated between raising simulator, dungeon crawler, and musou-style action RPG in just 4 entries). The purpose of the Digimon reboot, brought on by a producer on the (formerly?) successful Aikatsu media mix empire, is not really to "reboot" the franchise and create a new worldview, but rather to slowly incorporate all the existing branches of the franchise as much as possible into one worldview.

Monsters of the Week

One more or less obvious way that this is reflected in Ghost Game (and even more so in the 2020 Adventure reboot) is the choice of monster of the week. There are a few new mons altogether, but also a lot of mons that never appeared in an anime. Of course, every few weeks there is a public update to the newly curated reference book:

I'm only 27 episodes in but let's take a look at the roster of monsters of the week.

There are a few "fan favorite" Digimon like Digitamamon, Arukenimon, Mummymon, and Vamdemon that were villains in former series.

A Deva Digimon from Tamers (Majiramon)

Bokomon from Frontier

Splashmon and Pilomon from Xros Wars

Morphomon from the epilogue film Digimon Last Adventure Kizuna

Some armored evolutions (a concept introduced in Adventure 02, though there are many mons that had never appeared in the anime). For example, Quetzalmon is an armored evolution of Wormmon (a partner in 02) that had previously only appeared in a V-Pet, the original TCG, and some video games. Fans probably do know a lot of these mons from seeing them around.

Mons like Ginkakumon and Sirenmon that were introduced in an online version of the original TCG.

Black variants like BlackTailmon and BlackAgumon.

There are still a few elements of the franchise missing, for example X Antibody Digimon from the CG film Digimon X Evolution and Spirit Digimon from Frontier (though the pre-evolutions to Spirit Digimon did appear in Adventure 2020). There's some lore like the Royal Knights, Three Archangels, Olympus Twelve, Seven Demon Lords, or Four Holy Beasts that may or may not be referenced as well. It's not likely, but it would be cool if they added in Appmon too. But for the most part, these last two anime have really drawn from the entire franchise and made an effort to feature a diversity of mons.

Themes

Despite Ghost Game being episodic, even at 27 episodes I can already see an overarching narrative emerging. I don't mean the hints that appear once every few episodes about GulusGamamon and Hiro's dad. There's another story, about all the Digimon that game to the human world and the ways in which they interact and try (and sometimes fail) to fit in. This sort of worldbuilding again draws from all across the franchise thematically.

One major element that we may worry about is, what are Digimon even, and what is the Digital World? Whereas previous series went into depth about the creation of Digimon (notably 02 and Tamers) or the structure of the world (Frontier), Ghost Game notably does not. It's entirely possible, though unlikely in my opinion, that the main trio never go to the Digital World at all. What's more important is that Digimon already exist, they're in the real world now, and though they were trapped there by some malevolent (?) force, this does not seem to be part of some coordinated assault on the human world. They're just there, living their lives. And already we see some interesting implications of this.

For one, there's our main cast, the symbol of harmony between Digimon and humans (as noted by Bokomon, this may make the main trio very important in the future). But there are also more general ideas of a "Digimon partner" (though, since it is shown that Ruri can team up with Jellymon, that concept may be more flexible than in past seasons). Take for example Ajatarmon in episode 24, who loved a particular human so badly it wanted to become one, or Koemon in episode 14, who is grieving over the loss of a human friend. There's also the scientist who we briefly see experimenting Morphomon, in a reference to Last Evolution Kizuna. These storylines usually end with some kind of compromise, though in the case of Ajatarmon we see that sometimes the alienation is too strong to overcome. This is reminiscent of the early, episodic parts of Digimon Savers which saw Digimon integrating into the real world, often as allies but not necessarily partners (my favorite is Piyomon).

Then there's Digimon that are only interested in using humans to meet their own needs, like Sistermon (need for speed), Digitamamon (sees humans as food), Arukenimon (ditto but more horrifying), Kinkakumon (desires a strong opponent), Splashmon (desires moisturizer), or Zassoumon (Gremlins from the movie Gremlins). These can sometimes be reasoned with, but more often than not this kind of encounter ends in violence. This reminds me of the early parts of Adventure, where the concern for the main protagonists was basically surviving this strange world as just another link in the food chain.

There's plenty of Digimon who want nothing to do with humans, notably Angoramon's friends and the ice Digimon from episode 17, but don't have any particular ill will towards them either, possibly unless provoked.

Plenty of Digimon try to help humans only for it to backfire, like Mummymon (wants to be a doctor), Sirenmon (cheer humans with songs), Petermon (save the children), Piximon (chaotic neutral), or DarkLizamon and Seadramon who end up desperate for a way home. Some of them can find a way to fit in, some of them can be convinced to go do something less harmful, but this category tends to be the most unpredictable.

And then there's a handful of malicious Digimon, though notably only one (Vamdemon) has expressed any interest in conquering or destroying the world as far as I can tell. The rest just want to cause mayhem or hurt humans for fun. Rarely they can be reasoned with, but mostly this ends in violence. There are lots of these types of encounters in Tamers and Savers.

Notably, all the previous series were heavily serialized, so eventually this variety of monster of the week conflicts gave way sooner or later to a big bad. Sometimes, it's revealed that all the bad guys were controlled by one super bad guy all along. Other times, like in Frontier, the stakes are clear from the start and the villains remain consistent. But Ghost Game, at least so far, doesn't seem interested in that kind of plot. Instead, it focuses on coming up with often pretty creative ways for Digimon and humans to interact, not schemed up by some genius villain but just as a result of their own desires. Notably, the one Digimon who did seem to be sent on orders by a villain (Sealsdramon), turns out to just enjoy killing for fun. This is an interesting twist on the usual structure, and I think it definitely gives this one series more room to explore those kinds of dynamics.

I've been watching a lot of episodic shows lately, such as another long-running Toei series, Precure. Compared to a lot of episodic and formulaic shows of this sort, Ghost Game really is pretty unique. There's not just one solution to every problem. When I'm watching Precure, sometimes I'm frustrated that a particular fight just seems like an excuse to show the transformation, instead of another vehicle for increasing our understanding of the characters. But I rarely feel that way about Ghost Game, even though it is true that most episodic conflicts don't have any implications for the characters really. Instead, the episodic structure is used to flesh out the world itself.

[curejiraiya]

So my current running theory is that Waccha PriMagi didn't hit anywhere near the sales figures they wanted, but they weren't exactly ready to launch into full PriPara 2 mode for the main pretty series, so they're stalling for time by using all the ideas they had for the second season that got cut because of the lack of sales in the arcade game and the upcoming script read.

Sales for this kind of show are down across the board, and I think they and basically every other company around the world are coming to this conclusion that focusing on bringing back titles that are nostalgic for people who are now in their early twenties and hold lots of buying power is a better financial investment than making new shows for kids. Which on one hand I don't exactly mind because I do like being catered to, but on the other hand Waccha PriMagi was an amazing show, and it not getting renewed for a second season feels like a true stiffle of innovation for the magical girl / idol genre.

I don't know all the facts, but it feels like we saw the same thing with Aikatsu, They cut its newest show because of lack of sales, pivoted to doing an anniversary movie for the first and most popular season, and then canceled it outright. The target audience of Aikatsu is too young to have seen the original series when it aired, so why did it end this way?

Another example of this is the Sailor Moon reboot pivoting from being a one-to-one rework of the manga as its own new standalone anime, to being heavily referential of the original '90s anime because that was higher selling and more popular. The target audience of magical girl anime shows wouldn't know about the 90s anime, so why do we keep seeing this happening?

I could bring up many many examples of this happening in Western media. To be honest I complain about this all the time, we are in an era where studios aren't allowed to make new work, they're required to work with existing IP because it brings in more money, and the anime that I watch are not in a different world, they're facing the exact same dilemma.

And sometimes it can be endearing, I like that we're getting another season of PriPara years later because I think it's a good show and with the right team good can be done with it. But I don't like how the Sailor Moon anime is changing to be against what it originally stood for. And the target audience of both of these shows wouldn't understand the significance of any of this because they didn't grow up with the original.

Sorry for how long this rant got, but basically I think there's a place in the world for both shows, there's time to pander and there's time to make shows for the target audience, and it feels frustrating that one type of show is being killed off for another for the sake of profits, and it's equally frustrating that this is an around the board issue. I want PriMagi season two, I think the show is genuinely good and the best work that studio has put out in years. It stomps on the entirety of PriChan. And in our current post COVID media landscape it feels like we'll never see a show like it again.

[hikaruhoshina]

are there any pieces of media without any problematic elements in them whatsoever that you’d recommend

I guess it depends what your tastes are but if you’re not picky, I do have a good few though sorry for the long list lol (though some of these I haven’t finished yet or finished years ago so it’s possible I’ve forgotten or didn’t know about possible problematic elements)

For anime:

Any Precure series (maybe not yes! or happiness charge tho if you’re looking for stuff with no iffy elements)

Mewkledreamy

The Apothecary Diaries

Frieren

Tokyo Mew Mew

Buddy Daddies

Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury

Revue Starlight

Waccha PriMagi

Kiratto PriChan

Healer Girl

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Aikatsu (Though Aikatsu Stars does have a weird colorist episode so maybe not that one)

Blue Exorcist

Cells at Work

Death Parade

Erased

Kemono Friends (Season 1 only, Season 2 sucks for behind the scenes reasons)

Laid Back Camp

Land of the Lustrous

Little Witch Academia

Mirai Movie

Nichijou

Pop in Q

Pretear

Scryed

Samurai Flamenco

School Live

Honda San

Snow White with the Red Hair

Fushigiboshi no Futagohime (sequel not fully subbed)

Yuri on Ice

Zombieland Saga

Welcome to the Space Show

Youkoso Yoko (not fully subbed but in process of being subbed)

Games:

The World Ends With You

Pokemon series

Kirby series

Mario Series

Warioware series

Animal Crossing series

Undertale and Deltarune

Untitled Goose Game

Forgotton Anne

Splatoon series

Tomodachi Life

Kid Icarus Uprising

Another Code series

New Style Boutique/Style Savvy series

What Remains of Edith Finch

Nights into Dreams

Stardew Valley

The Stanley Parable

Amanda the Adventurer

Inside

Soma

Ib

Non Anime Shows:

Kipo

Infinity Train

Dead End Paranormal Park

Video Game High School

Centaurworld

Lolirock

Ducktales reboot

Bee & Puppycat

The Owl House

Bigtop Burger

Jellystone

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared

Raised by Zombies

Emara

Over the Garden Wall

Books:

Haunting of Hill House

Ghost Wall

The End We Start From

The Road

The Giver

Persepolis

Yotsuba& manga

Chi’s Sweet Home manga

Films:

Mary & Max

Spider verse films

Freaks

The Little Prince

War of the Worlds

Arlo the Alligator Boy

9

The Bread Winner

When the Wind Blows

Venom

Moonlight

Room

The Last Unicorn

Vivarium

The Dark Crystal

Coraline

[cerinelle-stellarium]

The Quinssential Shoujo Beginner's Guide

General

Aishiteruze Baby

Baby and Me

Chibi Maruko-chan

Claudine

Dennou Coil

The Fox and Little Tanuki

Gakuen Babysitters

Haikara-san ga Tooru

Happy Happy Clover

Kageki Shoujo!!

Laughing Under the Clouds

My Roommate is a Cat

Nana

Natsume's Book of Friends

Not Your Idol (Perfect Blue but shoujo)

Nukoduke!

Paradise Kiss

Psychic Detective Yakumo

Raven of the Inner Palace

Shounen Maid

Spirited Away

Sukeban Deka

Unico (+ the reboot manga; Awakening)

Romance

Ame Nochi Hare

Ao Haru Ride

Beauty Pop

Boys Over Flowers

The Cherry Project

A Condition Called Love

La Corda d'Oro

Dawn of the Arcana

Dengeki Daisy

Dreamin' Sun

Earl and Fairy

Faster Than a Kiss

Hakuoki

Hana-Kimi

Hana no Kishi

Here is Greenwood

Hibi Chouchou

High School Debut

Hiiro no Kakera

His and Her Circumstances

HoukagoXPonytail

I Am Here!

Itazura na Kiss

Kamisama Kiss

Kimi ni Todoke

Kitchen Princess

Lovely Complex

Maria Watchess Over Us

My Happy Marriage

My Love Story!!

Only Yesterday

Orange

Ore-sama Teacher

Otomen

Ouran High School Host Club

Pochamani

QQ Sweeper (and its' sequel Queen's Quality)

Red River (1995)

The Rose of Versailles

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts

Skip Beat

Snow White With the Red Hair6

Special A

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

UFO Baby

The Wallflower

Whisper of the Heart

Yona of the Dawn

Yumeiro Patisserie

Introduction to the Magical Girl Genre

Aikatsu franchise

Akazukin Chacha

Artiswitch

Bee and Puppycat (Just be aware that tthe story isn't really up to snuff)

Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine

Corrector Yui (Just be aware that the transformations in the anime are full of fanservice)

Creamy Mami, The Magic Angel (and her fellow 80’s and 90's Studio Pierrot magical girls)

Full Moon

Girls x Heroine franchise

Hime-chan's Ribbon

Himitsu no Akko-chan

Jewelpet franchise

Kaitou Saint Tail

Kiki's Delivery Service

Magic Knight Rayearth

Magical Angel Sweet Mint

Mewkledreamy

Nurse Angel Ririka SOS

Ojamajo Doremi

Phantom Thief Jeanne

Pretty Cure (Just avoid tthe 2 seasons between Splash Star and Fresh plus the 15th anniversary season if you don't want to get jumpscared by p*dophillia showing up in a kids' cartoon)

Pretty Series

Princess Knight

Princess Tutu

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Sailor Moon (Manga and reboot anime series)

Sally the Witch (The capstone of all magical girl media to exist)

Sugar Sugar Rune

Super Pig

Tokyo Mew Mew (Personally rec reading the manga first, then watching New then the first anime)

Tweeny Witches

Ultra Maniac

Umi Monogatari

Urahara

[your-dead-european-ancestor]

Ive decided to make one of these introduction posts bc i feel left out ;((

Hello!!!

Welcome to my slow descend into madness, im ghost, he/they, and this is my main blog!! English is not my first language so if theres any spelling mistakes. no there isnt<333

Im very annoying both in my tags and on my own posts so if im talking too much or bothering you feel free to tell me (or just block me thats fine too lmao)

My brother's acc :@game-ghoul

The fandoms im in are:

Dc (mainly young just us<3 but youll see other characters pop up too sometimes) ((very vocal n52 hater n52 my absolute beloathed))

Supa strikas

Lucids

Hybrid heroes

Iron widow

Tgcf

Rottmnt

Dt 2017

The owl house

Amphibia

Gravity falls

Craig of the creek

Wtnv

Studio c (just og cast really)

Jk studios (freelancers, loving lyfe, all that good stuff)

Aikatsu (ripppp)

Ninjago

Ramshackle

17776 and 20020

Ever after high and monster high

Haikyuu

Animaniacs (og and reboot)

Im not very active on mcyt anymore?? But i watch the occasional ldshadowlady and scar videos

Historical fashion and other unorthodox pieces of history (e.g. historical cooking, historical make up, etc.)

[hikaru-hoshina]

Sooo I watched the very last Aikatsu "movie" (because they are more like 3 episodes screened on fancy movie theaters).

As aspected, everything revolves around the main trio (Ichigo, Ran and Aoi) figuring out what they want to do in life after their graduation, so there are maaaany "grow-up" motivational speeches and nostalgic throw-backs. I wonder if Ichigo will always be the top idol or if some youngster will ever dare to beat her (… kind of an interesting starting point for a future reboot ngl). Showing them as adults in the middle doesn't really sets the hype for me, but I guess they really wanted to have all the graduation performance at the very end. Also it's kind of weird how they have to remind you they are adults by showing them always sipping some kind of alcohol lol. Yurika is clearly “suffering” the Cure Marine fate here by being the big meme and fan service of the show the whole time. Raichi being a grown-up men but still having the voice of a kid is pretty weird. Also, the fact that appeals aren't a thing in this movie is probably a sign that they were there exclusively for promoting the arcade game at the time it was still a thing??

But at the end of the day it's a cute ending, I appreciated that they had realistic goals for their careers after graduation and the adult designs and songs are pretty good. I miss Aikatsu a lot, I've watched it since 2012 and it was one anime that made me grow-up in a way Ichigo and the others does in these final episodes. It's sad the franchise died out quickly (and so its competitors) but it'll always have a special place in my heart.

AND KAYOKO IS ALWAYS TOP TEAR DESIGN IN THESE ENDINGS I LOVE HER A LOT!! It was cool to see that they fully animated the ending instead of using some types of transitions like in the past!

[precure-stuff]

Aikatsu S! Part Two is finally here! This was a labour of love as I learnt a lot to improve the art and editing of these videos.

[prismunicorndestroy]

Aikatsu ending, Pretty Series going on an indefinite hiatus, Sanrio not making a new girls’ anime, reboots of older girls’ anime airing at midnight, Precure selling like shit, it looks like the entire genre is on its way out.

[aikatsureboot]

Welcome to the official Aikatsu Star Story Account. This is an art based reboot of the franchise that will share updates from time to time. Look forward to it!

[scolek]

hey scolek do you like aikatsu?

also. do you have any favorite pretty rhythm/pripara songs?

ofc!!!! i love aikatsu!!!

favorite songs. hmmm. pretty rhythm i really like shuwa shuwa baby. brand new world. cherry picking days. reboot. doshaburi happy.

pripara? like all pripara songs are my favorite its not fair. i guess. make it. sugarlessxfriend. no d&d code. amazing castle. red flash revolution. gost coaster. rainbow melody. theres so many!!!!

[no-brand-gays]

in season two of love live! nijigasaki gakuen idol doukoukai they find out their school is about to shut down