i don't know why i'm here but i am

// joey //

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hm.

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[updated with mirai and mao]

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the summary for the next ep talks about a change in the dressia which i think might involve the planet princess coords

in which case q-pit will get the shadow dress bc i don’t really see rose having it and obv hana will get the shine dress

and then with q-pit vs hana, i don’t see them making q-pit lose for a third time so i really think we might see her win the grand prix

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hm.

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...Aikatsu is just copying Pretty Rhythm and it's somehow more popular among fans. I wonder why?

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they both copy from each other. for example pretty rhythm’s rebrand to pripara copied elements that were original to aikatsu.

currently the pretty series is significantly more successful, aikatsu just has more overseas fans.

all of these similarities are ultimately superficial. at its core, the shows are very different.

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no but baby pirates could’ve been so good for friends’ final arc

like imagine the diamond friends cup, you have pure palette vs reflect moon and give PP a chance to redeem themselves from their previous loss

then baby pirates vs honey cat and actually make something of the rivalry they set up

MT2 in the semifinals, then finally PP vs LMT like. there was so much potential

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grand prix finalists i think will be

1) qpit 2) beat 3) rose 4) hana

if meisa refrains from competing then maybe ruli in her place but i don’t think they’d do a 3 starlet vs 1 million situation

this might be why kyoko has been kind of out of focus lately ? like we haven’t seen her performing in a good minute probably because they’re saving her for later

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the best outcome for planet (season 1?) would be for qpit to win the grand prix and stay top idol after finally beating meisa

i don’t want hana to win, especially now that she’s back to zero and ann who’s a year her senior hasn’t even cracked the top ranks yet

aine so far is the only mc to have become top idol in less than a year and it should stay that way tbh

[precure-stuff]

Same tbh. It would be a good reward for her working so hard

Minor hopes I have

Meisa joins Million Agency so the division btn agencies isn't SUPER lopsided

New starting dresses eventually (I hate smart Kyubi and glossy ruby is overused though I love it)

Hana uses the phoenix PR

New opening

Group version songs

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this next episode might have happy aikatsu w the main 4? since i think shiori kyoko and ruli were doing the choreo in the preview

i agree abt wanting new dresses. i was actually expecting a christmas episode soon so i wanted to see if they’d animate the campaign dressia;

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the best outcome for planet (season 1?) would be for qpit to win the grand prix and stay top idol after finally beating meisa

i don’t want hana to win, especially now that she’s back to zero and ann who’s a year her senior hasn’t even cracked the top ranks yet

aine so far is the only mc to have become top idol in less than a year and it should stay that way tbh

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there’s always something very comforting about childhood friend pairs...

also it feels like the 71st episode is always reserved for them? even aifure which didn’t have a childhood friend pair made it about the twins which is as close as they could get

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so comparing meisa’s happy aikatsu solo to the starry planet ver, there actually is a distinction between how she sings as hana vs rose

so they likely had narumi record two versions as both characters

i like the attention to detail but again i hope they release all the solo vers

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what’s interesting about aipura is that for the first time we actually have a three way main rivalry set up as the ‘conflict’ of the series

like we have mao, who is attempting to take back the #1 spot from q-pit as hana ->

q-pit sees hana as her rival, but the one she’s been actively trying to beat is meisa not mao ->

then it’s implied that meisa sees mao as the one who can ultimately surpass her, like ichimizu, yumehime, etc.

it’s really telling when you notice that in full member songs hana’s lines parallel both q-pit and rose and not just one over the other

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shiori ma’am your range...

also that coord ruli’s wearing in magical door is such a serve

a lil disappointed there’s no beat song tho

no qpit i understand since she got flying tips but beat just got a duet ver of the ending that everyone was singing anyway :/

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everyone after ruli summoned bright sapphire and glossy ruby

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so we finally see more of the supporting cast that was announced a while back

itsuki segawa is definitely another manager (maybe ruli’s?) seeing how he’s always paired up with izumi who we already know is hana’s manager.

(left to right) sho, ryoka, and keito are officially confirmed to be classmates. since guys are allowed in aikatsu planet, im wondering if they’ll all eventually have avatars too.

the only one we haven’t seen yet is mao’s brother sou.

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i know the gogo crossover is bc the healin good movie is about dreams but imagine if they teamed up w star twinkle instead lmao

star + dream (star attacks)

milky + mint (green barriers)

soleil + rouge (fire + soccer + flower shop)

selene + aqua (archers + student council pres)

cosmo + lemonade (idols + prisms)

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so i guess this confirms that auras are still a thing! the bottlecaps (?) in beat’s aura showed up before when she was wearing a different swing but at first i thought they were just stage effects;

i think hana’s were little flowers and ruli’s were triangles ?? kind of like mirai’s aura

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oMG AKO GOT IN

AIKATSU8 IS OFFICIALLY SAVED 😭

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what i just realized is when they’re credited in a song the starry planet members go by their real world character names instead of their avatar names (e.g. kyoko from starry planet instead of beat)

so this makes me wonder if maybe ?? we might eventually get a hana song, but from when meisa was using her and not mao —