Play Idolmaster

How's the Starlit Season translation effort coming along?
Still just the prologue?

tranny recruiter thread.never watch anime

What's the gameplay like?

>>712888083 (OP)
A

>>712888951
N

>>712889019
A

>>712888902

>>712888083 (OP)
I played one for all. What other games should I play? No I won't play deresute or gakumas

>>712888083 (OP)
Very based thread OP.

>>712889043
S

>>712888365
irrefutable. sisters we need to listen to this frog poster.

>>712889063
Didn't they eventually have a girl who canonically loved being ryona'd?

>>712889078
Starlit Season is the obvious go to since it has an actual PC port, it's UE so you can easily install mods, there's a translation patch that covers the UI and the game's first month of story but after that you're on your own.

>>712888365
faggot

>>712889106
GGER

>>712888365
holy BASED

>>712889128
Hiro? She's from Gakumas, a 2024 im@s mobile game focusing on a new set of idols. The webm is from Starlit Season, which is the latest "mainline" im@s game, released for PC and consoles in 2021.

>>712888365
Begone election tourist

>>712888083 (OP)
Only have IM@S Channel because you can take sexy pics of the girls and make them pose. I hate the gameplay. It's just a rhythm game. No wonder it didn't catch on in the west. I do enjoy FUCKING the girls through chat bots, though.

Play IM@S or else.
https://files.catbox.moe/ydeq7j.png
This is a threat.

It's a shame nothing ever became of that im@s movie concept preview from 2021:
https://youtu.be/HJKqSYK_z0w?si=-PGZSqp2o0wB-y4-
It looked high quality, and Studio Khara animated it too. I'd kill for a Gainax/Trigger-style im@s anime. I guess we're stuck with shitty CG productions from no-name studios as far as im@s anime go, because Bamco was too cheap to afford anything else for Million Live and Shiny Colors.

I tried watching im@s but it was really boring.
What's some actual idolkino?

>>712890142
>I tried watching im@s but it was really boring.
Try again.
https://youtu.be/AAr9oN-xJZg?si=QrVzO2n0UL-c50co

>>712890034
https://youtu.be/ZrSkoc1rdpc
Meanwhile with Umamusume.

>>712890142
https://youtu.be/4fZNU-T8rFM
Umamusume is Horse Racing Idol Ludo. It's coming to Android/IOS/Steam on June 25th. Also it already has Anime out currently.

>>712890142
There's like 4 or 5 imas animes, which did you watch?

>>712888083 (OP)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3224770/Umamusume_Pretty_Derby/

Play Umamusume. It's actually coming overseas. Wishlist to be ready.

>>712890636
The 2011 one

>>712890278
NTA, but a single death is nothing. It's aimed at reeeeeally young children. Between that, the few English lines being NIPglish, and the animation quality cutting corners, that scene you shared looks pretty silly.
PEOPLE DIE

>>712888083 (OP)
Did they ever translate the original Xbox game for release? I'd play that. Not the gacha stuff.

>>712890402
Apples to oranges. You're comparing a movie concept trailer to an in-game CG. im@s still gets a metric fuckton of those. Theater Days alone has nearly several hundred CGs, and Gakumas, by virtue of being the newest game, has some of the most visually stunning.
https://youtu.be/cdtP__ff9XQ?si=zGwQXHyffk1h-Jka

>>712888365
based

>>712891080
>a single death is nothing
There's nothing necessitating that a good SoL idol anime needs to be dark or tragic. That's not to say the show lacks struggle or conflict, though. Besides the blue-haired girl's arc overcoming her younger brother's death, there's a part soon after where the usually cheery and uplifting MC falls into a depression, her dream of being an idol fading away as her fiery passion burns out. Her people-pleasing nature prevents her from asking for help, so she bottles it up and begins to lose confidence in herself and her abilities, but eventually manages to overcome this with the producer and the other idols' help. The anime is targeted at teens, but it's definitely not a show for young children. The 2-minute clip I posted doesn't do it justice. Consider giving it a look if you're curious.
>English lines being NIPglish
That's kino though. Engrish is charming.
>animation quality cutting corners
The clip I posted isn't the best example of it, but A1's dance animations are incredibly fluid and manage to effectively translate the games' 3D movements into 2D:
https://youtu.be/ep5DudRIr2g?si=hTLZim44BSqKa0cJ

>>712888083 (OP)
olev OFA
my favorite idol is Yukiho though

>>712888365
No

>>712891187
>the original Xbox game
I don't think that's gotten an English translation, but IM@S One For All had a fanmade English patch a couple years back.

>>712888083 (OP)
I am.

sad news:
chihaya and her friends have been killed by the robot army

>>712888365
https://files.catbox.moe/tm5k1v.png
Ha! Never challenge an idol.
>MOATNT

>left
SOULFUL GREEmas card art
>right
SOULLESS Theater Days slop

>>712888083 (OP)
How?

>>712888083 (OP)
>>712889063
Is it true that child idols sleep with their producers so much that it's a norm in this industry? I saw a korean celeb who dated another girl idol since the girl was 14 and the guy was 26 something and everyone treated it like normal until the girl drunk and drove to her death.

>>712893172
It's what everyone likes to say about idols but that's probably not a very common happening.

>>712889063
I'm going to marry Ritsuko

>>712892903
You run a LLM like koboldai locally, get a character card from the large list of idols, and FUCK 'EM. Or just use Janitor ai and watch as they all develop humongous cocks and split YOU in half.

unfixable

>>712893487
Looks weak to anal

>>712892810
>an entire army of robo-Serikas
haha noooo, im so scared LOL please don't kill meeee haha

>>712889128
There are over hundreds of idols in the entire franchise, one of them is bound to be a hardcore masochist.

>>712893487
also, she says boku sometimes

>>712893305
I dunno, I mean think about it, leave a cute little girl with a bunch of men who have every excuse to make that girl follow their command under the pretense of idol acting, what's going to prevent them from sexing them up? Celebs are always a bunch of promiscuous scumbags who treat sex like tissue paper. Any time a celeb says they're abstaining or being virtuous anyone can tell they're lying through their teeth.

>>712894112
Has she watched an anime called boku?

>>712894209
>t. grabs Yayoi's boobs every time she goes for a hi-touch

>>712890034
I think they just called it a "concept movie" to make it sound fancy, but I'm pretty sure Voy@ger was always intended to be nothing more than a short music video.

>>712894372
they need to make voyagest and put gakuens in it

Iori~n

>>712894353
She likes it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZmHQQJThXA

>>712890142
play it instead of watching retard

>>712894541
Bugger wrong video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEXaaUd6Dw

>>712894541
>>712894620
WaruiP...

>>712890034
>make VOY@GER with the old 2011 anime crew and it looks fucking amazing
>follow up with U149 which isn't SSS-tier or anything but still looks pretty great
>everything from then on is dogshit 3D CGI shit
How the fuck does this even happen? I thought Shiny Colors was popular as fuck (or at least it was before Uma/Gakuen took over) but it looks like they had a budget of three dollars maximum and now I hear literally no one talk about it anymore

>>712894603
These games are jap only

>>712894807
Shiny Colors is not that popular actually, characters are popular but nobody likes the stupidly melodramatic plot of the main game, and direction-less gameplay of the second game.
It's even more obsolete now that Gakumasu released a well-written + good gameplay + good character new generation imas game, and I'm saying this eventhough I'm not a Gakumasu fag.
Pretty sure anime isn't profitable but they are doing it for the sake of marketing, that's why they make high-budget anime once in a decade, and fill the in-betweens with low-budget fillers.

>>712890142
If you didn't like OG imas watch Cinderella Girls, it's a completely different series that has no connection to the OG imas and tonally they are quite different too.
If you wanted something in-between that (with a bit more cunny) watch U149, if you're big homo gay faggot watch sideM, if you have brain damage watch Xenoglossia

>>712894807
The most tragic example of Bamco fucking over im@s is the way they handled the Million Live anime. Aside from ML idols featuring heavily in the 2014 Idolm@ster movie (picrel), ML had PVs in the style of the 2011 anime released in 2014, 2015 and 2017 respectively:
https://youtu.be/VDxkJFxVmVI?si=AXn3TnXoJ_ZLAOvj
https://youtu.be/bEDTxyCwNn0?si=MQzvCflGo0MnOTTJ
https://youtu.be/jAXNuZO_JwQ?si=7d1hT6--hOFxc-vb
These looked pretty high quality and were all made by A-1. Everything made it seem like Bamco was going to directly follow up the 2011 show with a Million Live anime by A-1. It wouldn't be particularly difficult either, since ML already had a faithful 25-chapter manga adaptation by 2014 that featured the 37 ML idols along with the 13 original ones (highly recommend checking out btw), perfectly setting the stage for an anime adaptation. Instead we got absolutely nothing for years, until Bamco eventually dropped a 3DCG teaser in mid-2020 and followed it up with an unsurprisingly boring, cheap, forgettable 3DCG adaptation by some no-name studio in late-2023. Grim.

>>712896260
I think all the budget went to U149 as they didn't see Million Live as a series that has a potential to be the "flagship anime".
It's clear Bamco separates their anime and their budget depending on whether they'd be an anime for fans only, or anime for general audience.
I get that it sucks for Million Live fans, but ML players tend to lean towards hardcore side of the playerbase so they probably didn't see the series's potential for general audience.
Hey at least it's not Shiny Colors where they intended to attract zoomers but they failed so their position got taken over by Gakumasu

I miss the old gang, i don't like these newer idols

>>712898148

Who is your favorite idol?

Why do I like foreheads /v/?

>>712898148
I'm not really into im@s so my knowledge is just from an outsider's view, but what happens to the older girls when it's time to move on to a new generation of idols?
Do they just disappear and never get mentioned again? Do they grow up and fuck off somewhere?

>>712898723
i'm looking at that walnut in the background

>>712898860
>it's time to move on to a new generation of idols
That doesn't happen.

lipps sexo

>>712899012
Oh so they just exist in parallel to each other? I thought the cast changes every once in a while so I assumed that time just passes in the im@s universe.

>>712898760
Because you are a man of impeccable taste and distinction, truly an inspiration for us all.

Though i prefer Makoto and Ritsuko

>>712898860
>>712899241
It's not like Love Live where previous project has to be abandoned for the sake of new project, all of their project are all active thanks to Bamco being a bigass company.
All of their series is still active and worked-on by different teams. Time doesn't exist in im@s universe, and it sometimes shifts and bends itself so it's better to not think too much about it.

>>712899683
>Time doesn't exist in im@s universe, and it sometimes shifts and bends itself so it's better to not think too much about it.
Idol magic so strong it can manipulate the laws of the universe just to allow a bunch of little girls to make more songs for years.

>>712888083 (OP)
i want to but i dont know how to play it in english. what can i do if i want to play imas in english?

>>712899241
>Oh so they just exist in parallel to each other?
Pretty much. There was a 1-year time skip between the events of the arcade game and the 1st console game (1st vision; picrel) and the following console games (2nd vision; >>712898148), which was accompanied by visual changes to the main 13 idols, but nothing like that has ever happened since the series shifted to primarily mobile games. The original 13 idols exist alongside the 39 Million Live idols under the company 765PRO, whereas the Cinderella Girls/U149 are part of a different idol production company, as are the Shiny Colours, SideM, and Gakumas idols respectively.

>>712899863
Arisu implied to be in the industry before 3 newbie protags in Cinderella Girls, is now a newb in U149 and and the previous 3 protags are now treated as the top industry veterans, was a huge mindfuck.

>>712900129
Ritsuko tummy! EROTIC!
VAGINA BONE ToT

>>712894541
>>712894620
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