User blog comment:XOsha/Current Thoughts?/@comment-3487190-20191029011506

Frankly I cannot say I fully enjoy it. My biggest concern is the frequent recycled lives being fillers. What we've not been too sure about the current series is whether it has an original story to stands out from just a typical all stars story, but the obvious intention to just happily go around and kill time with recycling are not really good moves for storytelling.

Even for people who like watching CG lives there are not too many new things so far. Between recycled live and more story development, I'd rather just go for the latter, since there are rather more fanservice in communication between different gens.

For Raki the problem is that despite she can learn things from senior idols, there aren't really many obstacles and challenges she need to face since the story isn't about her focus on her idol job in her own world (the regular way of how Aikatsu story went through before), and in most time as a protagonist she isn't really a story leader. It would have to rely on the creativity of plot to tell what she is supposed to do in the story.

Of course if Part 2 there are more things coming I still expect BANDAI can manage to heat things up. But if it doesn't get any better I would not say it is a successful work.