Today is the 20th anniversary of THE iDOLM@STER.
Why is imas remembered more for its anime than its games?
>>716445634didn't the (various) anime get subs?
imas the game franchise meanwhile has been almost completely locked in Japan and untranslated to this day.
>>716445634The anime are very good too
>>716447068>Anime are very good>people overwhelming post just u149 girls, rarely some girls from the 2011 animeHAHAHAHA
Happy birthday idolmaster.
>>716445634Easier access to the anime in the West. The one time they tried to bring it over they chose iOS exclusive $80 releases in 3 parts IIRC. Then never again.
>>716447193the 2011 anime was 14 years ago, no shit people are gonna talk about the one that recently came out instead.
>only released in japan
>exclusive to xbox 360
why
>>716448447there was basically zero chance this would ever get released outside of japan without inciting some sort of moral panic drawing in unwanted attention
>>716445438 (OP)Idolmaster has gotten woke and is dying as a result
Look how the lolis have been getting treated for the past decade
>>716448757love live is taking over?
>>716448876Love live died because of that jav whore emitsun honoka honkers and Yuri faggotry
>>716449105I thought that was just a lookalike.
>>716445438 (OP)didnโt /a/ make that one pedophile edit of this game?
>>716449156There was a whole elaborate picture showing the JAV actress and the seiyuu or whatever theyโre called having the same moles in the same place, teeth position etc
>>716448757>Idolmaster has gotten woke and is dying as a resultIt's doing just fine.
>>716448757the loli characters are about 13 years old. Everyone has moved on to Gakuen
will the horse game make the nips finally realize people might like this franchise?
wanna hear something funny? mods are resetera !
>>716447068The anime characters personalities are pretty much all made up bullshit that is completely different from canon.
only the outer appearance and voice actor are the same.
>>716450019I really like this girl.
>>716445438 (OP)iM@S hasn't been good in 15 years.
My wife is so mature and well composed
>>716450034>will the horse game make the nips finally realize people might like this franchise?Gameplay-wise maybe, in terms of raising sims being more acceptable. But good luck getting anyone outside of japan to even touch it considering the subject matter.
>>716448876I wish. Love Live is totally dead except for that ice cream song
>>716450858i mean nobody expected anyone outside of japan to like the horse game either and that game is also full of school aged girls.
My only exposure to Idolmaster was the roulette machine in PS Home that gave you objects for your house. I think I won a soda can. I can't find any footage so have an image of Yayoi's hebe ass in the meantime.
>>716451149they don't care about uma musume characters looking young because anime horse girls that are based on real life horse counterparts is too absurd of a concept to begin with. It ends up looping into being its own thing and activates that "haha anime weird but actually maybe good???" part of people's brains.
idolmaster on the other hand is straight up idol culture with zero pretenses, there's basically no getting around that.
Didn't OFA get a complete fan translation? I can't be bothered to get into ps3 cfw so I just played it in moonrunes without knowing what I was doing or what was going on
>>716445634The games were Japanese exclusives that declined massively in quality after the sequel to the first game focused more on the drama management and gameplay aspects than the cute girls and stories, setting the series back forever.
That said it's kind of a shame Namco died before they could take the series any further, An Ace Combat 3 tier Idolm@ster would have been too good for this world.
That said it's a massive shame even the old games were DLC traps with online elements.
>>716448447you forgot
>killed berserk
ARE YOU READY?
I'M A LADY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh0rPFvnAIA
>>716451772>setting the series back forever.you say that as if that's all they've been doing since then, just focusing on drama management and gameplay over cute girls and stories.
>>716451253https://project-imas.wiki/Appearances_in_other_video_games#Playstation_Home_(PS3)
You had to get 4 cans to get Picrel.
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Wow, I haven't thought about Idolm@ster in forever. I remember really enjoying the anime back in the day. Dunno if it holds up.
I played a route in Idolm@ster SP around that time but the translation left something to be desired. Still made it through. Maybe I should play another one, I think they're actually fully translated now.
>>716451912https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frf6BeRX9AU
>>716452250more like the corpo'd vocaloid
making music is too hard for goys :)
I remember some anon saying you could still play the original idolmaster arcade game. Some arcade in Tokyo still has a cabinet in working condition, it might've been in Akiba or Takadanobaba or something.
I should check it out one day.
>>716445634the music is awful
>>716452697It's okay
Just one part of the package anyway
>>716445786>>716445438 (OP)>>716448447>The OG Idomaste rwas designed by Kuboota>Directed the Beserk triology moviesAlso he did the Lunar games arts since the mega CD
>>716452196Her VA literally voiced pic related
>>716453882>>716452196https://myanimelist.net/people/850/Hiromi_Hirata
>>716453882yeah she's done some other hentai stuff as well, some shit with a white-haired girl I think
How do you feel about the fact that IMOS will never ever have as much passion behind it as Love Live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJM6dh2JQsE
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>>716453973Oh hey, I didn't know she played Miyabi. There's another series I haven't touched in quite some time.
>>716445634It's remembered more for games in Japan, anime is nothing more than a spin-off canonity of them is questionable too
>>716452697No they aren't. You just have to find gems in a gigantic list of their discography.
https://youtu.be/TOlDoCqypJI?si=Pj-I0UYuScwH8IlV
I wouldn't play Gakuen even if Starlight Stage stopped getting updated.
And it will.
>>716445438 (OP)sex mesmerizing moves
>>716448447360 was otaku console in Japan as no normal fags owned it, there were a lot of xbox exclusive idol games like imas and niche shmups back then
Switch kind of replaced that now tho
>>716448447They wanted the online connectivity of the arcade game and xbox live was a good fit
>>716450034It's literally been competing with horse game for past few years in japan, gakumas even has a little leverage over horse because horse game is almost 5 years old
Horse seems relevant to us now because they just localized it, but that game is fucking old in Japan
>>716454693>Starlight Stage stopped getting updated.Didn't they put out a notice recently that it wasn't going to get any new content?
>>716445786IM@S can't be localize....
>>716453882Here's some useful info regarding Cinderella Girls VA
>>716454992>>716455293Your art is still shit.
>>716447193o149 girls are not important
>>716454404post more gems
https://youtu.be/U5g9I-AmVv8?si=gg96npvJrIQftlci
>>716456462The Aoi twins obv
>>716455670>rougelike deck builderThe bane of good or interesting game design.
>>716456838You sound like a contrarian
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Are they ever coming back?
I only care about 765 Allstars. Rest can eat shit. Not touching a mainline game if they have to share it with some gacha whores.
>>716457193This but Cinderella Girls.
>>716451396Yeah, tons of people (including streamers) hiding behind irony with the horse girls and joking around. It meshes with the "never take anything seriously, always evade sincerity" modern Western life. Who knows if they even like it or are just doing it for 'content'?
You really can't do that with idol girls. You'd have to admit to enjoying it.
>>716457290Too expensive to include them in anything other than a brief cameo, so it's not worth thinking about.
>>716457193okay grandpa lets get you back to bed
>>716445438 (OP)The series that killed Miura
People told me that Iori from Idolmaster is the Anal Princess. Well, Takane is the ANAL QUEEN!
>>716445438 (OP)ROADING ROADINGU
>>716457543forced ironic weeb meme and he only played the first game and posted something about imas 2 once
>>716457543Considering the direction Berserk was headed, it was for the best.
>>716457648This, every nip played it back then if you had xbox
>>716457648>forced ironic weebThis is incredible to see posted unironically because I remember seeing people make idolm@ster jokes about berserk on /a/ back the late 2000s
>>716445438 (OP)Have you watched the 20th Anniversary PV yet?
https://youtu.be/Z2VOdM2Xma4?si=_XG-i2AusLxJV9_6
who was in the wrong here
>>716447193OG im@s is too edgy for /v/
>>716458138Did they announce anything big for 20th? (aside from killing CG)
I remember they released Starlit Season for 15th, there's no way they aren't doing anything big outside of releasing a little PV
>>716455670Cinderella Girls is co-owned between Bamco and Cygames, unlike the other branches which are fully owned by Bamco even if the games are outsourced. Howerever, neither party is seemingly interested in continuing with their current arrangement. This is also why all of the manga series related to CG were axed last year.
>>716458159Can't believe Haruka murdered her using towel and water in the next scene.
She went a little too far just for the sake of getting the role.
She hasn't been surpassed in 20 years.
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>>716458825it's a dog eat dog world
>>716458642I thought they killed it because the game was old as fuck.
I hope they reboot it soon enough Gakumas may be the shit right now but CG is still bigger than Million Live or Shiny Colors
>>716445634easier to watch subbed than to mod in a sub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwmEuM0dIw
Umamusume's global success has likely shown Bamco that im@s could work in the west and there's a decent chance they're considering it now. On one hand that would be amazing to finally see im@s truly localized for the first time in 20 years. On the other hand, Uma's fanbase has been absolutely ruined by annoying zoomers/troons/yurifags and the thought of that happening to im@s is horrfying.
I'm tempted to try Starlit Season...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7elsqbEbTg
The topic of this series being unsellable in the west always reminds me of two things:
1. One of the producers outright saying that it was not planned for a western release due to them expecting the characters' ages to lead to hitpieces from journos.
2. People slamming Tokyo Mirage Sessions for not being a critique of the industry and making comparisons to Persona 4 Dancing's plot revolving around an idol's suicide case.
It's kinda weird to see Haruka as 17, she may look like one but she has a prestige of a 50 year old professional.
>>716459758desu I don't see zoomers getting into something like imas, too creepy for them.
>>716460016Vic Ireland of Working Designs on localizing im@s:
>For example, and Iโd love to do this one: THE iDOLM@STER. Those are great games, but they have some stuff that I donโt think would fly here. Basically, itโs borderline pedophilia. Those scenes, like it or not, are gonna either be removed entirely or repurposed for something else.
>>716459976It's good, I spent 100 hours on it thanks to mods (although the game itself is pretty long too)
>>716460138>Basically, itโs borderline pedophilia. Those scenes, like it or not, are gonna either be removed entirely or repurposed for something else.They would have zero audience, guess this is why they aren't doing it.
It won't fly high as the horse as it doesn't have no NSFW clause, but I think it'll do alright as long as they ignore the spergs, they get bored easily as long as you don't feed them
>>716460113Uma has school aged horse idol girls and situations pretty similar to im@s and it's been a massive hit with zoomies. Even if they do see it as problematic, they would just become "critical consumers" and denounce all the "heckin icky stuff" and fans of the "icky" stuff while still claiming to be fans themselves, contributing to the overall fanbase decline I mentioned in my post. Besides all this, while I haven't played it myself, from what it looks like, Gakumas, which is what would probably be localized if any of them were to be, is pretty toned down compared to the older games/gachas.
>>716460016>People slamming Tokyo Mirage Sessions for not being a critique of the industry and making comparisons to Persona 4 Dancing's plot revolving around an idol's suicide case"le deep dark idol industry" schtick is old and it's been done to death to a point it's the most commonly used plot point for a hentai, it's as subversive or insightful as the edgy magical girl shit that was popular a decade ago
I don't get why people are willing to gobble this shit. Yeah it happens, but it's like asking for a mandatory Epstein arc for every single business success story movies.
>>716454002This channel has only been around for 4 years. You can see it slowly descend into generic clickbait with exaggerated titles, le funny face, stupid graphics.
How the hell did YT, and everywhere else, become so generic. Is there some marketing trick here that makes clickbait so much more effective at generating clicks/ads that, pretty much all YT videos have become homogenised?
Why are 12 year old girls so
>>716459758>>716460529You remind me of the Chinaman I met 12 years ago at the Love Live Movie. Fan of LL and Im@s but Im@s first before LL.
He thought that the success of the LL Movie would lead to Idolm@ster opening the door to fresh air, and becoming more accessible to the West.
12 years on, LL double down on it's global appeal (along with Bandori). Aikatsu got an Indonesian dub for some reason. Bloody Idoly Pride has a Global Server. Im@s
-Games region locked on STEAM
-Only in Japanese
-You need a Japanese game to play any Im@s game
-Even the Streams (with the exception of Ijigen) are region locked, you will need a VPN to watch
My point is, friend, don't count on it.
>>716461278This was fucking great to a point I went as far as beat next life on oni, but why did they have to split the game into two, it's pain in the ass to constantly swap cartridgse, and I lost one of the two when I moved ;(
>>716445438 (OP)ใขใคใใน20ๅจๅนดใใใงใจใ
ใฟใใชใงไธ็ทใซ30ๅจๅนดใพใงไฝใฃใฆใใใใใใใชใจๆใใพใ
>>716461701We should digitize them all for eternal use.
>>716461436It's better this way.
I used to be so fucking obsessed with iM@S in highschool. Now I'm 30.
>20 years later tranime posters still use the wrong board
>the days of Japanese people being the majority non-westerners who weren't fags on the internet
>idolmaster, touhou, and mecha niame memes as far as the eye could see
Bring....me.......bvck..........
you aren't a true im@s fan unless you jtag'd your 360 to play imports
>>716462279I'm still trying to get the original xbox game to work on the emulator but because nobody has dumped it on any rom sites (that I can find) and actually getting it to be an actual rom is a pain in the ass. Fuck Microsoft.
>>716449268why are you asking for this?
>>716449105>>716449156>>71644979199% similarity?
I don't care. I stand with EMTN.
>>716452632It's in the top floor of Hey in Akihabara
>>716462130>mark of the whoreWhy?
>>716462486It should be on Myrient.
Uhh... Why is this girl making this gesture?
>>716463420hey wait a minute...
>>716462279True. I RGH'd it instead.
>>716445438 (OP)This song has haunted my mind for years, it just spontaneously plays in my head from time to time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrRktFXNkr0
>There's an official Im@s Bilibili account
Localisation to Chinese first.
>>716459976This game has Ray-Tracing that also works in VR, so I hope you have a decent RTX GPU to run it smoothly.
https://litter.catbox.moe/edtxuo6g8vr16khr.mp4
https://litter.catbox.moe/horzrzsv79lbhyoh.mp4
https://litter.catbox.moe/pjyp2pq01jlbnirm.mp4
>>716462486I just use an emulator for "Gravure for you!" Works fine on RPCS3, though not possible to just double the v blanks to get 60 fps. That his, animations just play twice as fast, BITCH
>>716459758Umas only seem to work in the West because there is literally at least one other element injected beside just being an idol simulator. A pure idol simulator
Does
Not
Work
In the West.
>>716463710You need to get the idol's bond rating to A+ to get her to do that.
I am here to remind people that Takane has a sister.
I think idol sisters should become idols too.
>>716464563Those sandals are super cute, and the panties probably as well, wish I saw them better.
>>716465137Yayoi's brothers can too I guess but they need to go in the boy's branch.
>>716465137wtf wasn't she an alien from Star Ixiom, did she bring an another glorp to Earth
>>716465819her Jungle/DnB song is a banger
https://youtu.be/MDsYMAP5_C4?si=comvVIXsg4fo4IKa
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>>716465819The little boy
>>716458381Sir, thats not the OG anime.
>>716445438 (OP)and 99% of you all played idolmaster
ไบ็พ+็็พ ๅ ใฌใญใฌใญ
>>716466402They butchered the characters so bad that it looped around it being good. I kinda miss adult Yayoi.
>>716466537I would've, had it been released stateside... was interested a year or two after the xbox 360 port came out, only for me to realize it was 1) japan only, and 2) required you to mod your 360.
didn't know how to handle either scenario so I just gave up
>>716466661I remember associating this song with that niconico douga medley since it was the very first song. Good times
>>716465678https://files.catbox.moe/h39el0.webm
Stolen with malicious intent from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1iGmXG698o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VM4gcUyQYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjbVxuCY6tk
OG idolmaster was a trip.
the original designs look really rough compared to how it would eventually look a few years later.
>>716465819>small>>716466389her shota boyfriend
>>716467062fucking hell Hirata Hiromi(?) is amazing
>>716467334Her voice was like a jolt to me as well. Everyone else sounds like a little girl, but her voice is like a wake-up slap.
>>716467334yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMc1Pkgpp98
man now i'm gonna binge watch these for the dozenth time
>>716467234This msgk is MADE for big P cock correction.
>>716445438 (OP)20 years?! I wonder if the voice actors are still alive despite not sounding the same anymore?
>>716468103pretty sure the VAs were in their 20s at the time.
not like they can't still voice act even though they're basically moms now.
pic related's voice actor is still voicing roles and she's like 55 or something
>>716468103https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDVsWfuHWE
>>716467334https://youtu.be/ptmIB6ISlLQ
I fucking love her voice.
>>71646810320 years is still a rookie number, there are VAs who's been voicing the same 13 year old character since the 90's
>>716468103Next AS event in TD starts in 5 days. They're fine.
They did have to change your character's boss because his VA died though. But that was a long time ago.
>>716455450I dunno, I find it charming.
>>716465819Snow Step (small).
post favorite songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnH0Kvl3thk
>>716469848Easy pick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVZhisN8ugg
Literally always makes me smile when I listen to it
>>716467334https://youtu.be/Q2epTVZ-UuE
>>716469848https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3cDRMCGuoM
>>716470646>spade no Qwh-what did they mean by this...?
>>716470646no...
subaru...
>>716464563It should run fine on all current GPUs, RX 6000+ (unless you use Linux with RADV, which will open raytracing to GPUs from all the way back to GCN) or Arc B5XX+, provided you don't go below 8GB VRAM (this is not an endorsement for 8GB GPUs). You only need Nvidia GPUs for path tracing these days.
>>716470935She has good songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdNJZ_fCX60
>>716471132Sex with Ayumu.
>still no yukiho itt
Time to fix that
Will there be a new CG game with deresute heading towards its deathbed? I find it hard to believe they'd abandon their most arguably successful series.
This thread makes me miss /f/
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>>716469848I'm a 765ASfag but this song has held my heart for years now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzohFRJSsC4
>>716467334Her character is a futa. She has to be.
Is it wrong to say million live / shiny colors flopped? I barely hear anyone talk about those or mention those
>>716448757What does "woke" in this context mean?
>>716474272Less fanservice I assume.
>>716445634Huh? Pretty the game MADs/MVs on NND were much more popular than the anime
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>>716474272>>716474332Pretty sure he's complaining that the new games don't have little idols. Gakuen doesn't have any. SC only has a single idol below the age of 14, and she's giant. The most recently introduced idols that would qualify for U149 were the TIntMes, and they're from 2013. And one of them was actually designed for Imas 2 and then never implemented, so she's technically even older. Sort of.
>>716474887China is the designated chidol.
>>716474887Bandai Namco would be very upset if they knew I'd posted cut content from Idolmaster 2, make sure you don't tell them.
>>716474974tina is the designated tidol
>>716474974China's cute but she's not really comparable to something like U149.
>>716475062Based, but this is an EOP site.
>>716475063She's basically an Arisu/Iori mashup.
>>716474887>Pretty sure he's complaining that the new games don't have little idols.Sounds like a faggy U149 tourist, not worth listening to at all.
>>716475282I like little idols and I'm not a tourist though...
>>716475334Well they're impossible not to like, so I don't blame you.
>>716445438 (OP)I barely remember anything about the anime, but Takane was my favorite.
SHANNARI SHANNARI OJOUSAMA
>>716476081han
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuX6mc2_8B0
>>716474974IT'S NOT THE SAME
>>716445438 (OP)Happy birthday iM@S!
what's that imas song thats like dududududududu
dududu
dudududu
>>716474672Sometimes it takes a MAN
>>716476478Town theme/Te-Te-Te?
https://sites.google.com/view/ims-ofa-translation/patching
>>716476478DUWADUWA
PAPADUWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-JhzjcQ1k8
>>716478669WHERE IS THE BUTT???
>>716459187How did she do it?
>>716476938was just trying that, too bad RPCS3 res scaler doesn't work properly with it, this is meant to be 5120x2880
>>716480037and this is the actual 5120x2880 game renders first that I grabbed from renderdoc before game downscaled it to 720p, then rpcs3 scales that 720p back up to 2880p
too bad i don't know shit about ps3 game patching to try removing that
>>716474981is that julia?
Don't mind me, just posting the absolute BEST unit.
Kuroi be praised.
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>>716445438 (OP)Never played any of the games.
Never watched any of the anime.
Never even listened to any of the songs.
Fapped to the doujins hundreds of times.
>>716480959It sure looks like Julia, doesn't it? And Momoko. Even though it's Idolmaster 2.
Isn't that mysterious?
>>716481136They left him like a million years ago though. The only idols Kuroi has are his daughter and mysterious don't wanna ever lose again woman. And a school of loser idols who don't have songs of their own and have to sing covers because they're losers who lose.
The pink loser is cute though.
I would unironically play these games if they were autistic spreadsheet simulators with actual management mechanics and assorted 'tism
>>716481326You are so quirky for having a porn addiction, SEAfag.
>>716466139>jungle/DnBretarded zoomer
it's one or the other
>>716462545Because I'm horny
>>7164829041st but the date is awful
Why so early?
>Live in Japan (yokohama/military)
>met this girl that's an idol and actual a dam good gutair player from another jap friend
>looks like Hirata (never played id@l but they always have a pop up shop at the worldporters mall in Yokohama)
>just looking for an easy coom
>can't get into a relationship with me because of the whole fan image deal
>groom her, tell her I'd take her to Hawaii and LA and put money in her music career.
>Dam good sex, but I pumped and dumped her.
>her agency dropped her when word got out she was with a gaijin lel.
I admit not something im proud of doing but Japanese girls especially idol types are so fucking pedantic. Also not the worst thing I've done.
>>716481893it's jungle but if I just said jungle I'd sound like I'm talking about a forest retard
>>716481893>>716485820Jungles???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdTy-bGyadM
>>716486227Tamaki mai daughteru
>>716486227they get gangbanged by all those animals.... don't they?
>>716486227Jungles (they announced that they are going to make this meme event real in an update right before the final update)
>>716487262Idols are exclusively for P.
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>>716488023that is upside down b
>>716488139>b>broducer>ๅ
ใกใใI see, you're an Ami/Mami P. Or maybe Momoko. That's actually more likely since nobody likes Ami or Mami. Which is sad.
>>716445786Ai rike hambagaaaaa
It was just a grooming simulator and zoom zooms recognized it for what it was.
I've been playing Mirishita over the past year, but I find it hard to get more involved in the series due to lack of localization, unfortunately. I'm eager to try out the One For All! English patch here soon
>>716489209You don't need to project your own brainrot onto a series you've never even played
Yes there was some mildly suggestive stuff early in the first game but the franchise only has one canon romance and it's subtle. The other 'idol' romances involve characters who are literally moms like Ai Hidakaโs mother or Kotoriโs
The series is really just a collection of well-written stories with a unique cast of characters so thereโs someone for everyone to connect with, the songs are also an extra side dish
i wanna breed sakuya shirase and rita matoba.
i once met a girl who is so poor and has to work to support her family
then I realized
where are her parents?
this was in thailand btw
>>716494471Wow, they even captured Takane looking derp in the figure. That's attention to detail.
>>716448447decomp project when?
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>>716466824excuses, just buy a JP 360 liked I did non fan. In fact I had to buy TWO JP 360s because one rrod.