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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- This episode is alright. What's important is how the idols had some heart to heart talk with each other. Seems they also believe and support Kotono. She seems very thankful to have friends and in general, being more open to others. Great to see how everyone is united together. |
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| By a hair's breadth, the finals are in reach for both of Hoshimi Productions's 2 groups. Good for them. I'd disagree if Kotono is judged as an inferior copy of Mana, but bear in mind that both of them are wired differently, so purely judging from the sisters' POV is just putting words bluntly without any thought. Given the Venus Program competition, all friendlies are now treated as rivals, no pleasantries. Sakura sounds a lot like Mana? Isn't that raising a red flag already too soon? Just hoping that Sakura would stay in the long-run and not get her character killed in anyway. If this is so, technically both Sakura and Kotono are at the same wavelength of being shadows of the former popular idol. The "race" between both leaders to be the next Mana Nagase, met with the same theorized criticism: the former being the deceased's sister, and the latter having the voice of the deceased. Despite that, the other girls giving some encouragement is nice to see, but the most important is Kotono not being jealous of someone taking her former sister's place, and being herself to sing and perform at her best whilst not being compared to Mana. An OK episode, but it drops a ray of hope to push these girls forward. |
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| So both groups made it into the top 16 round...MT even one round further already. Next episode about SP... But I think LizNoir is just on another level atm. Well.. If they met each other, it will be in the finals according to the bracket but MT must win against LizNoir and SP against Trinityaile... Hmm those will be pretty hard in the semi finals. Kotone realized she doesn't have to be Mana, she should just be herself... But that's the point... Everyone will compare you with your sister... I wonder if we will hear the music from other groups as well... So far we only know about LN, TT, SP and MT... |
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| Sakura having Mana's heart would be quite something...Especially if it gives out on her before the finals. Like damn, if it's singling that, it's gonna be a touching and rough ride for sure.It was also a well handled with the idea of Kotono being a copy of her sister, but with Sakura being able to sing like her, the way the handled how both feel about that was handled well. |
| Gladly, there are nothing wrong with Sakura's health, for now. I hope there will not be any problem with her health in the future. It can confirm 99.99% now that Mana is a heart donator. I've wondered that how a heart transplant can change someone's voice??? In my opinion, Kotono should find her own style, being Nagase Kotono, not Nagase Mana's sister.. Otherwise, someone will still compare her with Mana. The semi finals should be LizNoir vs Tsuki no Tempest and TRINITYaILE vs Summer Peace. Lets' see who will able to reach the final round. Daytime Moon the new ED from Tsuki no Tempest. |
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| Considering the stakes its no wonder the girls were so on edge waiting for the results. But man looking at the results they just barely made it. Liznoir aren't lacking in confidence though but TrinityAile's little counter was fun. Its unfortunate that Mana's popularity is serving to cloud Kotono's identity as a idol. The meal was a nice reward for the girls hard work. Still comparisons are never a good thing to see especially within the entertainment sector that the girls are part off. Despite the gloom its nice seeing the girls support each other when needed. The bond between the members of Tsukino tempest really is heartwarmingly strong. Overall an excellent ep that served to introduce some tough questions regarding the motivations of both Kotono and Sakura as they enter the finals. As they approach the finals i feel that things will only get harder. Still the new ending theme was nice and did well to symbolize the begging of a new season. |
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| They both (Sunny Peace and Moon Tempest) got qualified fortunately, even though they were on the verge of losing since they were 15th and 16th That whole Sakura/Kotono drama is quite interesting but I don't really understand why she sounds like Mana though, because even if Sakura had received Mana's heart before it obviously doesn't change the way she sings or maybe they live in a magic world where this kind of thing is possible (xD) I just hope that she won't die soon even though the doctor said that she's safe right now it might still happen... :/ And Moon Tempest is already doing good so far, they won their first match against that "Krystal" band but too bad they just skipped the representation... this is what happens when you can only do one cour for an anime like that xD (but well at this pace I hope we'll get a second season, because they just can't end it in less than 4 episodes or it would be totally rushed) |
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| Good episode. Kotono opens up yet again lol |
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| Potential relation between Mana and Sakura have been brought on. If they do have a connection it'll most likely cause a lot of drama within the industry. |
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| Alright so people probably gonna try to flame me for this, but I might like Idoly pride more than Nijigaku. Idk, we’ll see how the last few eps go, but the last two weeks have been great I think Kotono got best girl locked up for me now. She’s finally taking strides to be her own person and not just be a Mana clone/successor. It’s ok that you don’t sing like her. You don’t have to. We just want the best Kotono, not Mana 2.0. Sakura is probably my runner up atm. Love her energy and personality. |
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teofilusSW said: Rating? AHH, they don't need any rating anymore. With all of hypeness upon Japanese audiences itself (seriously, more than hundred thousands audiences in ABEMA just for watching Idoly Pride?!? Even we haven't counted in another platforms?!? 😳), Idoly Pride has been officially a legend now, they have taken all of everyone's hearts, and then will taking the money in their wallets too, but they are deserved to get it, this is just some insanely works everywhere, from anime, manga, music, and soon, game (some gameplay and features descriptions has been uploaded in Google Play Store and Apps Store, with much 'special features' in there) that are produced well in much high level of quality but also distribute that down-to-earth (yes, every week after the episode airing, they always upload new song, not short as in the anime, but in full version with great quality MVs and beautifully music, in everywhere). So yes, welcome to the most ambitious idol multimedia project of this decade. What are some other anime with 100k simultaneous viewers? I don't really have a frame of reference, I'm curious what sorts of ratings the uber popular shows (like AoT S4) get, versus typical seasonal shows. |
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TheKillerAngel said: damn is this real life i know idol shows normally dont do well on Mal etc but i been seriously thinking this one is super underwatched it's totally fine but just poor timing of the season, but these numbers seem high but i dont really know the viewership for other seasonal shows but regardless it seem to support how much this project seems to be planning like in this episode showing all these other groups for like a few seconds of screen time seems like a lot of work for a one off thing unless they planned to do more with em teofilusSW said: Rating? AHH, they don't need any rating anymore. With all of hypeness upon Japanese audiences itself (seriously, more than hundred thousands audiences in ABEMA just for watching Idoly Pride?!? Even we haven't counted in another platforms?!? 😳), Idoly Pride has been officially a legend now, they have taken all of everyone's hearts, and then will taking the money in their wallets too, but they are deserved to get it, this is just some insanely works everywhere, from anime, manga, music, and soon, game (some gameplay and features descriptions has been uploaded in Google Play Store and Apps Store, with much 'special features' in there) that are produced well in much high level of quality but also distribute that down-to-earth (yes, every week after the episode airing, they always upload new song, not short as in the anime, but in full version with great quality MVs and beautifully music, in everywhere). So yes, welcome to the most ambitious idol multimedia project of this decade. What are some other anime with 100k simultaneous viewers? I don't really have a frame of reference, I'm curious what sorts of ratings the uber popular shows (like AoT S4) get, versus typical seasonal shows. but idoly pride dont do this to me a twist that the heart was mana how many flags must you raise |
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teofilusSW said: Hmm. Nijigasaki ... I have watched it too, and to be honest, the level of conflicts in Idoly Pride have much higher than Nijigasaki, even Idoly Pride still have harder topics more than Love Live series. Some people has compared Idoly Pride with Wake Up Girl, but the character ages range in Idoly Pride, for me, really takes much on Love Live elements (some another people also have compared Idoly Pride with Idolmaster due to their basic elements of idol section (professional idol-based, have much character relation stories) and even OP's sequences have similiarity to Idolmaster 1st series, that's the reason why Idoly Pride in the early days of his appearance was often misunderstood as part of the Idolmaster 😂). What I remember about Nijigasaki is lacking of competition (because they decided to not joining Love Live). So, let's back to the Love Live series itself. Yes, Love Live series is also about a competition, school idol competition, but you haven't see the competition plotting in there has been developed besides focusing on the MCs group and 1 other group which will then be developed by the project (thanks to MusicRay'n who already have Sphere and TrySail so they just made these 2 groups recycled as LizNoir and TrinityAile at Idoly Pride, and it turned out to be quite profitable in their business, last week someone shared in Twitter that in one of the Animate stores in Japan, TrinityAile's first single has sold out). Besides that, bringing Kanda Sayaka as Nagase Mana, is the best decision Project Idoly Pride has made. Also, I want to make a comment about the first scenes of episode 8. Putting an episode's start in just a middle of competition (VENUS Grand Prix) when everyone is in competition tension, kindly makes me getting Wonder Egg Priority's vibe (some of its episodes especially in the first half, have also started in the middle of the tension of battles in Wonder Egg world). AHH, what the nice moves, Idoly Pride! Yes... I think Idoly Pride is kinda like Wake Up Girls more than Love Live especially in storywise, competition, and drama in the series, even their character's ages are more similar to Love Live. But, the Wake Up Girls characters are also a highschool students, so it's not that different anyway. As for Nijigasaki. It lacks of an actual main plot. The anime is like the introduction to each Nijigasaki members with the idol festival at the final. Its dramas are also not that kind of drama if you compare with another idol anime or even the previous installation of Love Live anime. Love Live and Love Live Sunshine also got competition as you said, but their opponents are almost non exist. We only got Arise for the original Love Live and Saint Snow for Sunshine. Saint Snow got some episode which focused on them but Arise was forgotten. Lacking in the presence of the main competitor is one of the huge flaws of Love Live anime. However, I think that Love Live is focused more on the characters and the moments when you can achieve your dream more than the actual competition. Maybe, it's their style after all. Or the costs of hiring more voice actresses to take those roles are also related. btw, I would agree with your first posts that don't underestimate especially Japanese idol culture. |
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| "You are good, just the way you are." Yes, you should be more proud of yourself, leading Moon Tempest until that final stage. No need to worry over such a shit word. Because you had your own uniqueness inside your own soul. Mana looked pretty much ignore her sister, while being too much attached for Sakura. I wonder if its well connected to their struggle so far. Still, its interesting to know that both Sakura and Kotono obviously were a great posture of Mana resemblance. Kotono with her sisterhood form of Mana, and Sakura with her sounds that looked pretty much like Mana. They both actually held Mana's blessing. However, they both sure had their own insecurity toward each others, moreover with such a random critical comments pointing out their existencies. By making them into a separating units, it would be good to unleashed their others unique potential. Kotono, for this example, as a leader of Moon Tempest, leading them all into winning the first match of the final stage. Congratulations! Moon Tempest already showed their best. Now its the time for Sakura to show her best too with Sunny Peace. I can't wait for it to happened. A little note for me that they should've show the stage performance at the end of the episode to show how well their progression of the episode. It will be fuckin good at their final moment. Still, they may save it until the end of the day. So, well, i hope some blast happened in the right moment, tho, they still need to defeated their senior at LizNoir and Trinityaile before entering that place. Lets see.... |
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| They're giving way too many hints about Sakura having Mana's heart so I feel like they're just baiting, or there'll be another twist. Either way, I don't like the drama in Idoly Pride so I don't have high hopes from it. |
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| Oh looks like Sakura chan is visiting the hospital. I wonder if her heart really is Mana's heart. Looks like kotona chan is being demotivated as she is Mana's sister and looks exactly like her. And sakura chan is called a replacement of Mana. She tries changing her voice cuz she was worried Kotono chan might hate her. But looks like things will work out. Looking forward for the next episode! |
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| Both groups finally made it to the top 16. Great job Still no confirmation yet but it might be true that Sakura received the heart from Mana Nagase after her death from 3 years ago. We're getting close to the truth. But still, I'm having a vibe that it will be her death flag in later episode. Hope it's not. And looks like Moon Tempest have won the first match against "Krystal" even though we haven't saw their performance at the end. Probably somewhere around final episode. Looking forward for more. |
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it is a very generic IM@S-style idol anime with a ghost twist. This will never be as popular as Love Live. |
Neyukisleeps said: it is a very generic IM@S-style idol anime with a ghost twist. This will never be as popular as Love Live. I would disagree that it's generic, most other idol anime I've seen aren't quite as serious in tone. Neyukisleeps said: it is a very generic IM@S-style idol anime with a ghost twist. This will never be as popular as Love Live. I disagree with that - Mana's ghost notwithstanding, most other idol anime lean a lot heavier into comedy/SoL elements and are less focused on character drama and industry competition. |
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TheKillerAngel said: Neyukisleeps said: it is a very generic IM@S-style idol anime with a ghost twist. This will never be as popular as Love Live. I would disagree that it's generic, most other idol anime I've seen aren't quite as serious in tone. Neyukisleeps said: it is a very generic IM@S-style idol anime with a ghost twist. This will never be as popular as Love Live. I disagree with that - Mana's ghost notwithstanding, most other idol anime lean a lot heavier into comedy/SoL elements and are less focused on character drama and industry competition. IM@S Cinderella Girls and even the original IM@S both have plenty of character drama that were done better than this anime. What other things does this anime have to offer, besides the ghost? |
| I'm glad everyone from Moon Tempest were able to get Kotone back in track. Thou I dun like how they are skipping all their performances. |
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| It's basically all but officially confirmed that Sakura has Mana's heart. Or at least something very close to that in intention. |
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| Yes. Mana is Mana and Kotone is Kotone. They are sisters, but they're not entirely the same. Kotone doesn't need to be Mana, as she has her own singing abilities. Its time to be out of Mana's shadow and make a name for herself. Her group really help her get back on track Sakura sings like mana...Its leaning very close who is her mysterious donor. |
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