>find a cute girl to recruit
>need to go into the alley and grind thugs until they drop their wristwatch with a 1% droprate
>then go look through all the desks in school until to find an idol CD
>then need to get 100000 points in the dancing minigame
>then pay her 20 grand

>>724783202
The gacha system is only really there for the old characters since chronicle mode has every match in the series. The thousand new characters you recruit manually by exploring in the story mode.