#aikatsu planet the movie

[hothotmiso]

[pastel-tyranny]

OH WE ARE SO BACK!!!

(My thoughts on the new "Aikatsu Academy" Teaser Trailers and the future of Aikatsu)

First of all, YIPPEE!!!! THIS LOOKS AMAZING!!!

Just some quick thoughts on Planet before diving into Academy. Aikatsu Planet, while a great experiment did not keep me interested or invested. And no, it wasn't the fact it had live action acting a la the Girls x Heroine series. They had stripped what made the original Aikatsu so special, which was the focus of different types of idols journeying together. Idol Activities, the whole namesake of the series. In turn, they were trying so hard to beat and become their competition in the idol anime sphere, Pripara. They focused too hard on the "virtual idol secret", making it too difficult for themselves in trying to juggle the new Dressia system lore on top of Mao's idol journey.

Now this new Aikatsu series seems to be taking us back to our roots, idols going to school and training to become the top. They brought back the old idol types as seen from one scene in the trailer, the girls' idol school life, and the most interesting thing I've seen yet, no sign of the aikatsu card system. There was a scene where the girls were on a stage in, what I assume is their school dress coords, with cardboard sunflowers. If Aikatsu is a linear time-line, this is the start. On top of that we see the girls are setting up to be streamers in one scene, a great way to tie modern day virtual idol content rather making a magical vtuber excuse.

Now the girls themselves. Oh my gosh, this Bun is hopping up and down. While we do get an Aikatsu with our typical main Pink Cute type lead, we have a Gothic cool type and Pop Type as part of the main cast. It really takes me back to the Akari Gen set up in the original Aikatsu. Season 3 and 4 were some of my favorite seasons of the whole franchise. I don't know what's to come, but I am very hopeful.

There doesn't seem to be an Aikatsu arcade or app game on the horizon, I might be wrong and they could go 180 and surprise me. But as far as I'm concerned, this series seems to be targeting the people who grew up with Aikatsu. After all, Aikatsu is a decade old franchise as of writing this post. People really loved the Aikatsu 10th anniversary movie, so to me, I think Bandai Namco are listening to what their aikatsu consumers are wanting out of this franchise.

All in all, I have very high expectations on this new series. I'm ready to see what Aikatsu Acadmy has in store. 🩷♦️♣️🐇

[curestardust]

Tamako Ruli / Ogura Rio in Aikatsu Planet! Movie

[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.

[tsunflowers]

If you remembera while ago I mentioned that time traveling influencer boy project where the character designs were very obviously done by the aikatsu planet designer, she also designed the girl with the very unique glasses in the wanpre movie trailer! I was thinking it while watching the trailer and sure enough, saw the announcement an hour ago lol

we need to keep her working bc I love her ideas

wanpre glasses girl - hero or villain, what do you think? I'm hoping for a sympathetic villain like the girl from the hachapre movie

[rebelwhodoesntknow]

Tbh it sucks because Friends is so special to me but it tanked, actually got canceled unlike the other gens, the arcade game and merch sales weren't doing it so they tried to rework the series for the next gen

Aikatsu on Parade and all it's merchandise was partly an attempt to scrape up more money for Planet's release but??? I don't think it worked??? the first couple episodes mention all these really cool ideas about their idol world and then nothing came of it, it was a cute concept but I really think they just fell reaaally under budget and tried to skate by hoping nobody noticed

ever since Stars things have just been kind of mismanaged 😭 like why is the majority of their merch acrylic character stands?? you are a trading card rhythm game for 8 year olds 😭

I LOVE how diverse the music is!!!!! all the "standard idol stuff" really stands out too imo. Signalize was one of my favorites from the start, it just hits so different, most idol anime start with that extra sparkly guitar happy type of song but the instrumental for signalize was so unique, I always thought it was a bold choice for a show like that their rock music is so good. like so so gooddddd

I swear out of the like 700 songs of this series there are maybe 6 I don't enjoy?? ALSO WOW THATS A LOT

Same about the animation, OG s2-onward & Friends was great!!! I also love in the movie when Ichigo performs Kagayaki no Etude, there's a slow spinning scene when she's talking on stage about what the song means to her and every couple seconds it switches from 2d to cg angles and it's so seamless, I love it 😭💗

I think Planet's cg was also beautiful, I don't have much of an attatchment to the season but the character designs look really nice, good fluffy hair physics, and they've TOTALLY perfected the in-the-dark glowy look by then!!

another thing most of the fandom agreed on, Stars feeling kind of uncanny.. and the auras kept covering idols art certain parts so that's why they changed all the arches early on, they ACTUALLY got written complaints from kids 😭😂

I always wanted to see an idol with no type or a couple!!! Before Kaguya was introduced there was a huge theory going around that she was actually a Sexy/Cool type and since pairs were the point of Friends, we thought we were finally getting double type girls

I also wished the concept of my coords was used in more than that one ichigo gen ep, where you mix up brandless pieces, one of my favorite things to do is mix and match outfits in the ds games so I was hoping to see like idk maybe soleil could split their PR coords together one time or something??? idk would have been cool though!!

Ugh I do agree with you on the merchandise. Like I can’t play any of the card-based games because America so the cards would basically be glorified trading cards. This might be my doll collector brain talking, but why didn’t they make fashion dolls? I know they did for Friends but they didn’t expand on the concept at all, they just made two dolls. I want to see the girls in their basic coords and then fashion packs for each brand, like a set of multiple Futuring Girl rares or just one PR. I would have gone absolutely apeshit for that. It would also allow for mixing and matching, so maybe it could have tied into the show a lot more like with the concept of PR mixing you brought up! I feel like most PRs in units work pretty well together so I’d like to see the mix ups.

Yeah, I really do not care for planet. I think it really didn’t work, and was an awful lot like PriPara when it didn’t need to be! While the cg is admittedly gorgeous, I also feel like it tried to be so ✨aesthetic✨ all of a sudden instead of being bright and colorful like it’s always been! But maybe I just hate change.

I’ve heard that a lot of people find Raki to be a Mary Sue and hate the way she copied the designs of others. I don’t know enough about her to form an opinion, really, but what do you think?

I love the fact that the kids complained during Stars. They may be kids, but they have standards!!

I think double type idols would be super cool and really flesh out the world. Tbh I think there could be a few idols that could be double typed with only a few minor tweaks (I always thought Mikuru was a pop/sexy idol tbh). One thing I think would be interesting is to see how brands would react to it. Brands appreciate dedication, so would dual type idols have a hard time getting PRs because the pure-type brands would worry about being thrown aside? Cool conflict imo.

Now I have to ask, are the ds games any good? Are they able to be played as someone who speaks absolutely no Japanese? I’ve never really thought about getting one of the games before because I have no clue how they work

[lunawings]

https://twitter.com/aikatsu_anime/status/1633031597011386368?t=Qr8ZkPMahQO1edfGNgL3bA&s=19

So.

Super out of the loop.

As usual.

I thought the Aikatsu 10th Stairway thing was just a short that aired with the Planet movie.

But I guess they made a full version which came out in theaters in January. And apparently it's still in theaters and I stumbled upon this Tweet announcing they are doing a cheering version for Ichigo's birthday.

(It says cheering without voices tho, which I guess just means pen lights? But still.)

I guess that means it's doing really well.

So Aikatsu is not dead.

For the adult fandom, I mean. Because let's be honest. This is for them. The kids who grew up on the Ichigo generation are no longer in the target demographic.

[maestrozaverick]

I watched the Sonic 2 movie yesterday and it was… okay but I used to be a Sonic fan when I was younger and now I’m an adult and former fan, I almost dropped the film about 45 minutes in though after that it does get better.

Hey, at least you’re not Aikatsu Planet…

[moonieamv]

It's time to get funky with a brand new AMV release, Dance Intermission 3! I'm sure fans of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will recognize this song very quickly.

If you see this video at an anime convention, the version used there has 2 curse words removed. The 2 words aren't really strong, but I decided to be safe and remove them since some contests have more strict rules than others. This version uses the original unedited version of the song.

AMV Title: Dance Intermission 3

- Song: “It's Funky Enough” by The D.O.C.

- Anime:

Aikatsu

Anima Yell!

Beelzebub

Build Divide - Code Black

Clockwork Planet

D4DJ First Mix

Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

Dog Days

Flying Witch

Girlish Number

Golden Time

Hamefura

High School DxD

Hanayamata

Healin' Good Precure The Movie

How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift

Idoly Pride

Kakegurui

Kin`iro Mosaic - Pretty Days

Himouto! Umaru-cha

Love Live!

Love Live! Sunshine!!

Hayate no Gotoku! - Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Meikyuu Black Company

Mushoku Tensei - Jobless Reincarnation

Muteking the Dancing Hero

Nobunaga-sensei no Osanazuma

Precure All-Stars the Movie ~ Everybody Sing! Miraculous Magic! Puraore! Pride of Orange

Precure Miracle Leap

Re Stage! Dream Days

Saint Snow - Dazzling White Town PV

Sakugan Seikoku no Dragonar

Star Twinkle Precure

Star Twinkle Precure The Movie

Tawawa on Monday

THE IDOLM@STER

Toji no Miko

Tropical-Rouge! Precure

Wakaokami wa Shougakusei! Movie

Zombieland Saga

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X

Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!

Cutie Honey Universe

[hothotmiso]

[meruli]

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if Aikatsu will end for good after the 10th story movie will release because if not then idk what they're going to do for the future of this franchise

Worst case scenario if they planned on having a second season of Planet

At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if they just end the franchise without making any official announcements about it

[perfectqueen]

Ann & Q-pit

Lovely Marron

[sistasmcnealey]

Princess Tutu Characters from Episode 4 Dancing to Tick×Tack Nostalgia..wmv

Tick×Tack Nostalgia Sung By Mao and Meisa from STARRY PLANET☆. Hope you like it!!!

[curestardust]

Dust Watched: Aikatsu Planet! Movie

Genres: Idols, Music, SoL // 1 movie (43m) //  S01 (x) | S02 (x) | S03 (x) | S04 (x) | S05 (x)

Not gonna lie, considering how short “Aikatsu Planet!’s” season was, I really didn’t expect a movie but I’m actually quite glad it got one!

✧  story  ✧

The movie is just the perfect length in my opinion. Quite short but due to that it manages to keep a steady pace so there’s no boring moment in it.

The story is very simple, we jump a bit forward in time where Mao is now in her 2nd year of High School and all the girls have been doing their own things and keeping themselves busy. Missing her friends, Mao decides to host an “Aikatsu Planet! Gratitude Festival” where she invites all the main characters. 

Definitely worthy to mention the little fanservice moments that harken back to the first season’s iconic moments or gags.

✧  characters  ✧

The movie is pretty much just showcasing the cast’s unique charms. My highlists were definitely Kyouko finally getting to beat the drums (pun intended) and Sala’s mini runway show. Some of the cast definitely gets sidelined unfortunately, most likely due to the short runtime, which was a bit disappointing.

✧  art  ✧

As usual the first half of the movie takes place in real life with the actors and the second half is animated inside “Aikatsu Planet!”. It’s pretty much the same as it was in the season for better or worse. The acting can be kinda cringe at some points and the art isn’t anything special. The CGI performances were veeeeery pretty though!

✧  sound ✧

For an Aikatsu movie there were surprisingly few insert songs (2 official performances), only one of which was shown for the first time here. While that’s a shame, “Tick×Tack Nostalgia” is probably one of my favourite tracks from this season.

✧  overview ✧

I honestly didn’t think that I’d enjoy this as much as I did. It’s short and sweet with not much substance but definitely a fun little watch for Aikatsu fans.

My Rating: 7.5/10

[rizumuj]

Say what you want about Planet, but their animated visuals always serve!!

(Aikatsu Planet Movie)