#on parade switch port....... do what pretty series was too cowardly to do

[prettyallfriends]

this has kinda turned into a bit of an aikatsu retrospective lmao. sorry idk how to do readmores 😩😩

honestly idk like ive kind of gotten to a point where im glad to see my favourite series/franchises end. its better to end on a high note than to weekend-at-bernies the rotting corpse of a now-soulless series, which can happen soooo easily with series that get rebooted and spun off etc. its always better to just gracefully accept that your franchise has said its piece, its affected people, so now its time to leave it be instead of trying to throw gimmicks at it to keep it fresh.

basically um. idk if therell be a new aikatsu generation. all the 10th aniversary stuff almost feels like a wake in a weird way?? and like... idk. it really felt like they tried to shake things up with planet, but planet just doesnt feel like aikatsu at all. honestly i wouldve been more inclined to give planet a chance if it was a whole new franchise, its a cool concept its just... not aikatsu. like pretty series can do anything bc they never really leaned too heavily on series staples. sure they had prism stones, but they werent integral to the series identity so nobody minded when they switched to pritickets. but like... cards are the lifeblood of an entertainer. aikatsu cards are integral to aikatsu, there are loads of episodes that are literally just about getting aikatsu cards, we see how theyre created....... like its not aikatsu without aikatsu cards. i could honestly see an aikatsu series that isnt set in an idol school, hell i could see a live action series too. but the whole vtuber aspect of planet just doesnt feel like aikatsu, the whole point of aikatsu was ordinary girls working hard to become idols.

but yeah i think id be more than happy for aikatsu to end permanently. itd be nice for on parade to come back (maybe even add planet content, or retool planet into an on parade 2.0 with a button display on the screen or something idk) but all in all i think aikatsus affected all of us whove been fans throughout the past decade. now i think its run its course, we'll always have our memories of it i guess?? (though god i would love a console port of on parade. pleaseeee dont keep all that content locked away forever)