#manga is from the re:member set

[amethystsoda]

oh....... ;w;

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

side stories!

first, watch vibrato if you haven't seen it! it's game side stories in an anime mini season

beyond the period's manga is based off of the concert movie (which should be online & has very little plot except for one scene) which takes place around the end of part 6. as such, right now it feels like the most of a wrap-up we in the english fandom can get rn if that makes sense; it's cute & there's a good sense of closure. this is the one where aya mentions pretending to be mezzo with haruka. Unfortunately i CANNOT find my link to this one. you're on your own

antagonistic quarter, zool's "special story", is generally thought of as like.. a really important zool story, because it came out when they hadn't gotten all the content they had and foreshadows their potential for redemption + things like torao's part 6 story.

re:member recaps re:vale's past and is thought of as similarly important, with a volume each for banri, yuki, and momo. it can be found mostly through obscure password locked twitter threads (banri / yuki 1 2 3 / momo 1 2 3 4 5 & 6)

early zool's side stories are fun because they change so much during idolish7; the poisonous gangster ones take place right after their first performance and i also like these early birthday stories: haruka's birthday / touma's birthday / torao's birthday / minami's birthday

16idol is one of my personal favorites... they're childhood stories from all the idols with uh. Well they're doing it for tv so they don't get too dark but with all that would entail. some are just cute, some are concerning, some are both <3

i like all (well, most... some are weird) of the idol cadet cards; i'm basing my female idols off of them in my aya fic! they're also notable for having a little bit of tsumugi's past

this tiny prequel taking place right before first beat's first scene is fun & provokes many riku thoughts

la danse macabre is like, a completely separate story-- it's an ichiban kuji, an idolish7 au that's a drama they do in-story--, but it's pretty remarkable for having all of the visual novel on youtube with english subtitles, and i like it a lot. it's the only ichiban kuji i've read, and the fan favorite, though people like others too; i know @msperfectsheep-posts likes hoshi meguri and they have a fic retelling it like a novel . anyway, danmaca's insane. i love it

music videos are fun -- bang bang bang is set at the rock festival, mr. affection is set in nagi's castle and has some symbolically cool imagery, and these lyric videos are excellent especially trigger's (which is Tenn Video of all time). no doubt is also popular as a re:vale mv though it's not plot related at all

there's always a nice story for banri's birthday

“idolish7 sequel with aya” is actually the premise of my new fic (it’s in outline stage rn bc i’m finishing a zool fic w 3/4 chapters out first)

completely unrelated i feel like im always referencing side stories in ur tags so now that ur finished with the main story do u want a list of my faves

!!!!! oh, i love that idea with aya!!!

And do I want a list of your favourite side stories? Absolutely!!! I have no idea where to start, anyway, and now am dying for more i7 shenanigans