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No. 88905

Idols are the trend rn.
Share art,music,videos from your fave 2d idols. Retro or new projects. Love Live to Creamy Mami. Do you like this new wave? Prefer the 80's wave?

No. 88999

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The only idol anime I've seen is Love Live and I've been playing SIF for a year now. I'm excited for Sunshine and EN finally getting the 3.0 update.

No. 89050

Nothing says fun entertainment like games that pander 16 year old girls to older men. Some idols are even younger like elementary school age and shit.

>inb4 B-BUT MUH FEMALE FANS!!!

You know they aren't the target audience.

No. 89069

>>89050
Honestly though, why does this kind of shit have female fans? I don't get the allure.

No. 89073

>>89069
I just love cute, small girls. I want to see them telling me that they love me, and that they're trying their best… but I wanna see them lewd. I find 2d girls more erotic than 2d men, so I find it hard to care about male-centered/BL-type media.

In the case of idol-themes (iM@S, basically) I enjoy the crazy amount of detail/backstory the varieties of media provide. I love the false closeness of "interacting" with the girls, to have them always be perfect without ever changing. Dating girls in real life is awful.

I could go on, but I think this is the basis for me, anyway.

No. 89074

>>89050
>because rhythm games

Also you're implying that you have to be part of a target demographic to like something. If that was the truth then we wouldnt have the issue of bronies existing.

No. 89076

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>>89050
A lot are even delusional enough to say Love Live doesn't have fanservice. That's one the main reasons I don't watch it. How is panning over their thighs in an extreme close up when they first get introduced not obvious fanservice and Nozomi groping the other girls is such a creepy cliche. Just own up to the fact that your idol show panders just as much to neckbeards as all the other ones do, if not more.

The card game isn't any different either. This card is one of the most common ones and often one the first you get and she's literally just wearing a swimsuit.

No. 89077

>>89073
I meant why does it have female heterosexual fans.

No. 89078

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>>89076
No fanservice here at all.

No. 89086

>>89050
when it has a tonne of female fans in Japan and they ran a whole special on how it has female fans
keep on trucking :^)

No. 89088

>>89077
Don't know about the others, but I'm a heterosexual female fan of idol animes, and I like them because the character design are pretty and the fashion in it are quite cute in my opinion. Basically I just like pretty and cute things.

No. 89091

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No. 89140

>>89077
For what it's worth, I now exclusively date men

No. 89143

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>>89088

Me too, I like idol anime because it's cute and cheerful. They usually have cheesy storylines but they're entertaining. But ngl, knowing older men watch idol anime for jerk off material puts me off it.

Honestly, I like imagining sfw yuri scenarios for the characters. It's funner to imagine that they're all girlfriends.

>Outfits in Wake up, Girls!

No. 89173

>>89143
The two girls on the far right outfits are so cute!

No. 89193

Love Live has fan service but not really of the ecchi variety. It airs on the Japanese disney channel after all. The songs are catchy pop songs and they have a bunch of cute costumes, it's not really odd at all that girls like it.

No. 89197

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Idk, I just like rhythm games and think it's cute and fun. I watched the first series of the LL anime but it wasn't really my thing. I still play SIF sometimes but I'm much more into Girlfriend Note at the moment, even though it's basically a ripoff of SIF I prefer the character design and art style, plus I really like the centre girl and costume/dress up feature.

No. 89257

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Then there's stuff like Aikatsu, Pripara, and Pretty Rhythm which are actually aimed at girls although they obviously still have their share of male fans.

The idol life is a fantasy for many girls despite the crap associated with it.

No. 89259

>>89197
This game looks really cute! I've never heard about it before, I'm gonna check it out later!

No. 89262

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>>89050
What about the male idol games aimed at females?

No. 89366

>>89262
Different anon but I was not aware that was actually a thing outside of Uta No Prince Sama…

No. 89374

>>89366
There are quite a few male idol mobage currently out. Off the top of my head I can think of Ichuu, Idolish 7, and ensemble stars

Utapri has like, 9 titles so far, three of which are purely rythm games.

There's also B-project that's an upcoming multimedia project (anime,game,manga etc).

And you've also got series like Shounen Hollywood which has an irl idol group and an anime idol group.

Considering how popular Johnny's ent is, it was only a matter of time before the male anime idols started appearing.

No. 89420

>>89257
Pretty Rhythm had so many adult fans its become a series aimed to them with King of Prism. Glad it got its love, the director loves the series.

Aikatsu is the fantasy life, rich girls attending a prestigious idol school and nothing ever goes wrong. It is the shit japanese tween girls live for.

No. 89423

>>89374

I always feel like male idol games and anime are a lot less exploitative than female ones. Like, they're clearly meant to be attractive and enticing to their target demographic, but never in a way that feels gross like it sometimes is with female idol games/especially IRL. But that could also just be the SJW brainwash speaking. I've also only played Ichuu and Idolish 7 (and watched Uta Pri) so it's limited.

No. 89464

>>89423
It doesn't seem that gross until you think about how male idol franchise's take heavily from Johnny's entertainment. A company lead by a guy who has not only been taken to court by one of his former talents for sexual assault (and of course nothing came out of it) but it's basically an open secret in the industry that this guy sexually harasses many his idols.

I can't really think of a producer of a major female group that has an equally bad reputation, apart from maybe Akip (AKB) and his yakuza ties.

No. 89598

>>89464
Never considered it from that angle. That's fucked up. I was mostly thinking about it marketing wise, not from behind the scenes. And I used to be a Johnnys fan, too…

No. 89609

>>89423
I don't know why but I can't watch UtaPri until the end since the main heroine annoys me so much. She's one of the dumbest heroine in reverse harem genre, imho.

>>89464
AkiP has yakuza ties?? Wow that's news for me.

No. 89623

>>89598
Thankfully, he's around 80 now so he probably isn't able to physically harass anyone now.

>>89609
Haruka's supposed to serve as a way for the reader to self-insert, it's not something that really transfers well from otome game to anime adaptation.

As for AkiP, there's one old picture of him with a yakuza group, but that's the only real evidence I think

No. 89627

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>>89623
>>89609
Here's the picture, if anyone's interested,

No. 89952

>>89623
Yes, I agree with you about the game is not translating well to anime. I still dread the moment she comes to the screen though, like, guuuurl, you have hot guys falling for you when you do nothing, at least don't do anything stupid!

>>89627
The one who is not blurred is the young AkiP? If he is, wow…the young AkiP is kinda cute, now he's just an average old man.

No. 94457

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>>89262
there are no girls in this world that don't love male singers and idols.

No. 94459

>>94457
Don't post that hentai lolly shit on here please

No. 94462

>>94457

I don't, I'd rather have a 3D human that isn't based around some ridiculous fantasy archetype.

No. 94471

>>94457
where is this from?

No. 94473

>>94471
It's from a doujin, Google is your friend.

No. 94516

>>94473
>It's from a doujin
no, it's a manga tankobon



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