User blog:Snacks Killer/Aikatsu Planet! analysis

Actually I think Aikatsu Planet! should move to new wikia because this is no longer Aikatsu all star, plus there are many drastic change regarding to anime style and game.

Here is my analysis. If using the direct rival project to compare the change:

1) Aikatsu OG to On Parade (4 title 8 season) is an era, then Planet! is an new era.

Which is like Pretty series to PriPara (Pri Chan don't have huge change except like YouTuber on air, same illuminating dress, card, audition with card reward like Kami Idol)

2) Anime Type change. Added Mascot like Dressia (Oh but whole pretty series have mascot…), live action / kids drama, battle.

Pretty Rhythm series originally featured ice skating but PriPara features Idol virtual park.

3) From now on is about the arcade game change, according to twitter analysis and the promotional video.

A) First is the really advanced changes that are not featured in Pretty series or all other arcade game, especially idol anime.

Game mode changed to monitor (Like the transition from game console with button to mobile phone game). What I most appreciate (not good at describing things sorry…) is the choice of how many circle portal fixed on screen receiving the falling bubble, it seems that the available choices are 2, 4 and probably 6 and 8 virtual circles.

PriPara, Pretty Rhythm (is heart shaped portal anyways…), Aikatsu, Im@s, LoveLive all have fixed number of circles, 1 2 3 5 9 respectively.

B) Aikatsu originally have 3 types of bubble sliding to the fixed circle (Pretty Rhythm have 2 sliding) but now becomes bubble shooting from center (just like PriPara).

C) Playing item change. Originally using card that can be printed but now dressia is really like Prism Stone, plastic small collectable toy with illustrated seal on it…just dropped but unable to be printed. Pretty Rhythm used stone while PriPara used card.

D) Type change. No more cute cool sexy pop, but fairy, jewel, icon that looked like music note and big dipper like asterism.

Pretty Rhythm have Lovely pop cool sexy feminine ethnic star, while PriPara only keep 3 and added natural celeb premium.

E) Rarity is pretty the same, N R PR. But there is also level for each Rarity, for me it reminds me about the idol rank in PriPara.

My opinion:

I think the new arcade is really advanced and is more fun to play than the old aikatsu arcade.

However, anime-wise, it seems that most of the airtime would be live action, then when they want to have battle, using the "Mirror in" (just like card transform) to change to anime characters and have CG dance battle.

I know that live action drama is popular among kids (like Phantom Mirage…) but I don't like this kind of drama. Well on a side note, originally aikatsu project is targeting the kids aged 6 - 9, but there are many otaku and adults fans. But now Planet! is finally suited to their original target.

Also, I am disappointed about the cast, almost all of them are from famous Idol groups. As I have previously stated in a comment:

Music franchise should have good composer for melody and cast with good singing skills. Those idol groups typically only care about appearance and personality (usually is made up of for the sake of marketing) and have poor singing skills. Not to mention the acting skills.

If choosing idol/singer, only those are selected from aikatsu public auditions and debuted in Aikatsu have good sining skills. (Miho, Nanase, Kana. CV: Akane, Rin)

I understand that using famous idol groups to promote is because the revenue of aikatsu franchise dropped drastically since Akari generation.

but I think using famous seiyuus can also promote the franchise well, and this industry is quite fair, the famous ones usually have good acting skills and probably good singing skills (like CV of Soleil and Hibiki).

I just hope the music company could be changed to original ones or new one I stead of continuing using Digz. (Sorry for bad English again…)