#does prima doll count as an idol anime?

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

why are the premises of the idol animes that started coming out this month so wild. like obviously i mentioned extreme hearts, which is essentially a sports anime where everyone’s an idol, and then there’s kami kuzu idol, where the ghost of an idol & a very unmotivated man work together to become the strangest and most popular idol in japan thanks to her constantly possessing him. luminous witches asks the important question of “what if we had an idol group where all the members had magical powers that occasionally gave them animal ears and they were all enlisted in the army in 1945?”

also, of course, there’s shine post, which just started this week, and has the relatively normal premise of “underperforming group is given an ultimatum of becoming popular or disbanding” except for some reason, in this normal ass human world, their new manager can physically see people glowing when they lie