The thoughts, reviews and analysis of Comedy, Romance, Drama and Slice of Life Anime of a College Student
Artist: だーす
For a while now, idols have become popular in Japan. While I enjoy Idolmaster 2 and One for All on the Playstation 3, Bandai Namco decides to make the jump to the Playstation 4. They announced The Idolmaster Platinum Stars on the franchise’s 10th anniversary live concert and released in July of 2016. It improves on the graphics drastically while introducing new gameplay. The question is, does it live up to the hype.
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Artist: dan·evan
Now that a fourth of the year have passed, it’s time to share my anime and video game confessions. I know it’s embarrassing, but I think it’s going to be fun too.
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(Artist: Ichinose Yukino)
Kai of Deluscar here reporting for duty. I’m here to wage idol war against Chikorita since I know he’s an idolm@ster guy. As I’m on the Love Live camp, unfortunately we will always be in opposition. Here’s my mission today, to infiltrate Chikorita’s blog and to spread the influence of Love Live from within an enemy base. Guerrilla warfare 101.
(Artist: Yana Mori)
Before I go on though, I will admit I like both im@s and Love Live a lot. However it took me a rewatch for the former to appreciate it more, which I think was poor timing on my part. When I was watching im@s, I was still in the process of opening up to more genres, and marathoning it didn’t help either. The idol anime genre was definitely one genre I was pretty lukewarm to when I first came across it. As much as I love im@s now, it didn’t springboard me into an idol anime fan when I first watched it. So what did? Well, Love Live.
Watching Love Live allow me to see the bigger picture in idol anime, something which im@s never accomplished. So with this alone, Love Live pretty much won a lot of points for me. But additionally, despite being the same genre, both just have incredibly different settings with different appeals.
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Artist; ちくわ。
It has been a few years since I shared my thoughts on idol anime and why they are popular. While looking at some discussions on Love Live! Sunshine!! on anime forums, I realized how similar idol anime is to sports anime. With that, I will share some thoughts on what aspects makes these genres feel similar.
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Artist: amy30535
People might be wondering, who will actually save anime? Sure, Yamamoto Yutaka tried to save anime several times, but failed. Now, people believe that Donald J. Trump will save anime or rather in his own words, “make anime great again.” However, people who believe that are wrong since cute and capable female characters will in fact save anime and I will tell you why.
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Artist: 能義 たか好
Now that Christmas is over, it’s time to take a look at the top 5 anime I enjoyed and completed during 2015.
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Artist: don
It is that time of year again, it’s time to share my 12 anime moments for this year, a tradition I do every year. Since I am busy with work, I decide to do it in one shot.
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Artist: 龍牙翔
Back in 2011, Namco Bandai decided to make an anime of a popular idol video game called The Idolmaster. It is basically an idol raising game where the player manages and produce idols for a talent agency named 765 Productions. The show was well received although it had some flaws.
Since then, Namco has been expanding the franchise by expanding in the mobile space with Cinderella Girls and the other being Million Live, which has yet to receive an adaptation. Cinderella Girls features a new and growing cast of idols with a small percentage of those receiving voices from idol elections. When an anime adaptation has been announced, it makes me wonder how they will make a show with such a huge cast aside from the thirteen girls in the main group. Let’s find out.
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They are truly shining.
The time has finally come as the girls have their dream become come true at the Cinderella Ball.
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One star and one wish. Will it become a reality?
Now that Uzuki got herself out of her depression, with the help of Rin and Mio, it’s time for the Producer to lend his support too.
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