mrgruff

[perfectqueen]

Laala Manaka

[pretty-idol-hell]

PriPara art from an August 2024 Karaoke Testujin collab!

[precure-stuff]

Pripara: A Portrait of Girlhood

This video is my love letter to the Pretty Series. Initially, I set out to analyze Miruki, and how she reflects the series' complex thoughts on identity. But to understand Miruki, we have to go back and trace the origins of her writing to the series' inception. This is why I chose to start with Pretty Rhythm, then Pripara. Look forward to more analysis.

[rizumuj]

Sophie having my favorite look, but all 6 are taking it!!

(PriPara Shop art)

[86stagram]

Bored during Adpara update? I hope you read when you have some free time🎀 It's a bit late now, but I'm going to talk about New song "Go Go! PripaLife 10th Anniversary Edition (Falulu Ver.)" lyrics💚 *1

Oh I really love the charming lyrics never forget!😭✨It's a song like a bouquet of flowers for people who love PriPara!!💐 Sometimes, I feel throughout words doubt of a lot of Characters such as especially Laala stay forever young huh. . . I wonder if Adpara has any plans to resolve these foreshadowing🙄❔

I'm writing this in a mix of Japanese and English this time because a bit hard to write for me. If necessary, please translate this page. 「1000年経っても絶対アイドルだ」、締めの「ずっとparty time」から特に。時空の歪みも謎��まま、どう回収する気😭「10年経ってもトモダチアイドルだ」少なくとも彼女らはリリースから10年経った事実を認識しているけど……？

I'm unhappy that such a timeless and beautiful lyrics can't be shared more widely. So, I encourage you to try translating the lyrics yourself🎀✨ You might be surprised at what you discover. I can't post it myself, but I'd be happy if each of you could feel that meaning of the lyrics🙏

Unfortunately, don't overly prevailing values "fair use" in Japan. Uploading a translation of lyrics would be a violation of Japanese law and could legal penalties😥*2 I don't want to be punished haha. . . I think knowing Japanese will allow you to feel view of the world of PriPara even more deeply🎀✨ I hope you find enjoyment.

I think Adpara received some criticism for adding this at this time, considering the reactions from other idols. I already read other analysis because I care about what other Adpara Idols think. I know what they mean. Nevertheless, I have to defend these lyrics. It's an Amazing song!😭

Oh Adpara. . . I think they could have waited for release it. Seriously, should release more stuff. From on now, they should more release instead other song as other than PripaLife.

*1 It's a portmanteau, combining "Pripara" + "Life". BTW, many Japanese people don't distinguish between the sounds "L" and "R" because they don't need to in Japanese speaker countries. Raara? Faruru? haha. . .😭

*2 copyright law ≒ 著作権 (翻訳権/翻案権の訳がわからない、一纏めにcopyright lawとされている？) I can't explain it well but those are generally known as a type "親告罪" ; it's akin to a private prosecution. It's OK as long as you don't share it online.

危うくとも、二次創作や情報共有目的のものは容認されたり、コンテンツの人気を推し量る指標にされやすい認識です。無料の広告みたいなものだからかな？（どちらかというと二次創作の方が許され度合いが少し強い気がする） 今後どう変化するかは判りません。現状扱いにく��ので自分で載せはしないけど、気が向いた時でいい、歌詞の意味を受け取ってくれたら嬉しいことだけは書きたかった。 母国語ですら難しい話を、なぜ英語で……。～おわり～

[animehime94]

Raaruru / Laalulu!

Seems like this character will debut as part of Pripara 10th anniversary project. They literally mixed Laala and Falulu but she looks cute so I want to see her debut soon!

[curedreamy]

NEW PRIPARA IDOL??

The Idol Land Pripara Twitter account just posted a special video for the 10th anniversary of Pripara. They will be doing an event that seems to be related to a new idol called Laalulu (or Raaruru) who looks to be a fusion of Laala and Falulu? You can see UniKuma (?) as well! Even though they showed her for the "1000th" Pripara anniversary.

[leopauldelr]

PRIPARA 10th ANNIVERSARY

[sadandpoutyandfrench]

While trying to look up information on the various versions of GoGo! PriPara Life (there are . . . a lot), I discovered someone ripped a copy of the CD of the Laala and Falulu 10th Anniversary edition and uploaded it to YouTube.

[kukinayumi]

Today is Pripara’s 10th anniversary! Minna tomodachi minna idol!

This is a very old illustration but I hope you like it

I love pripara with all my heart, it gave me my dream even though I’m sick and I can’t make it, it gives me the courage to do a little more every day

The games are still so fun and I never get bored of them

Thanks for everything Pripara, let’s go for that 100th! 🩷

[pretty-idol-hell]

If you go to the PriPara 10th Anniversary exhibition you can relive that one time Falulu died.

[idollandhero]

I think in a year we'll look back at our time with Idol Land and think of it like a weird dream. A time when there wasn't a Pretty Series show announced and everything was in limbo. A time where King of Prism was a dead franchise. A time when songs were performed at Pretty Series live shows that wouldn't premier in the anime for years. The game teaser in every single Pretty Series announcement only for it to be delayed again. The YEARS long gap between episodes 2 and 3. The DISASTROUS launch. When we realized it was just a reskinned version of the switch game. Or when we discovered that it was mostly made by some unrelated dev who had only made one failed mobile otome game before Idol Land.

The Pretty Series' pivot to focusing on AiPri & KinPri instead of Idol Land & DanPri makes the past few years of Idol Land content, and the past less than a year of Idol Land actually being out, feel like an illusion.

It's frustrating because the concept of a PriPara mobile game sounds fantastic! When I play games like SIF2 or Idolish7 or whatever I think about what could have been. Was it money problems? or time problems? Or some combination of both. Regardless I can't help but yearn for a game with a budget that this franchise deserves.

And the web anime was great! But only 12 episodes, and its own budget problems, plus the games delay keeping it finished and in limbo for 2 years! (+ the lack of any western fansubs picking it up, seriously how is do we still only have subs for up to episode 6) meant that it never got the place in the spotlight it deserved. Some people speculated that it was meant to air on TV because the episodes are formatted as such, but with AiPri starting in that slot the same month the show is ending that doesn't seem to be true.

It's hard to say where PriPara is going from here. It's the series 10th anniversary and the arcade game is being shuttered to push players towards AiPri Verse instead. Idol Land's anime finale is going to air to little applause because it's stuck on an app with less than 20,000 active users, and in the same month as the launch of the new series that's slated to be a real PreCure competitor.

Idol Land's EOS hasn't been announced yet, but the missing Nino birthday coord, the April monthly update with entirely rerun coords, and the fact that Idol Land is getting very VERY close to running out of content from the switch game. Well, if not EOS I expect this game to go into maintenance mode pretty soon.

Yeah idk what my point here was exactly, but man Idol Land really was a blur. Sometimes I think we understate exactly how inexperienced the devs really were. The game doesn't have any type of Google Play integration, and when the game launched the account recovery only lasted 15 minutes. I have a newer phone and the game isn't compatible with my hole punch front camera. There's just a black bar there. I only have this problem with older games, anything made in the last 4 years doesn't have this problem except for Idol Land. I honestly think the lack of region locking is because the dev doesn't know how to turn it on. Someone on discord reported that they've been buying gold, and then contacting Google and asking for a Play Store refund. It's worked multiple times and they are not banned. How is a ban for chargebacks not something they implemented day one. Also this game doesn't have any deals or discounts, ever. It's hard to believe that, like every game I've ever played has a buy two and get 50% off the second one bundle. But it's like the devs don't know how to implement anything past basic gacha mechanics. I could also ramble about how expensive the prices are, but I've done it before I won't do it again. Also the photo room, it's implemented pretty badly. You upload a photo for the background and it crops it weird and squishes it and makes it blurry. I didn't know this at launch because it was a paid feature for like six months. The pass itself was a horrible value unless you were buying it specifically to get the episodes early, you got exactly how the amount of gold you paid for. Why not just buy the gold then. But they either realized that, or were preparing for end of service; because they took it down. I'm rambling about things the devs messed up but I haven't even mentioned the first three months of the game. There's been so many points in this game's history where playing a promise was borderline impossible for one reason or another. This game didn't feel finished until that November update that included immediate promises. God there's so much more. The photo competitions just being about editing for some reason. Also they went away, so clearly those didn't work. The amount of coords they've implemented that were broken in some way. Sometimes it was the wrong coord entirely, sometimes the cylume didn't work. It's like the dev team is so small that there's no QA people. Also on that note, Open Dream Land was just fixed in the mid March update. The game went more than 6 months where one of its two unique charts was off sync. Also remember the voice bug, that lasted forever.

I'm sorry I just started rambling lmao. This is the problem when I write posts with speech to text, I say way too much. Ultimately I enjoyed my time with Idol Land, but it's existence feels surreal. Especially because 80% of the features from this game I can turn on my switch after end of service and play, and it's free because I already paid once and never have to pay again. I even have Waku Waku O'Clock on Switch. One day, probably soon from the way things are going, I'm going to wake up and not be able to play Idol Land on my phone ever again. But instead of reminiscing of this game, I will think about the game that could have been if Idol Land got as much love as Prism Rush did.

KASHIKOMA ✌️

[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. 🩷♦️♣️🐇

[mirukiamauri]

Omg they are going to sell Pripara themed makeup at the 10th anniversary exhibition I NEED

[hellohimawarihana]

PriPara 10th Anniversary Cake Acrylic Stands (Part II).

[toonabby]

Happy 10th anniversary, PriPara!