Talk:Episode 138 - Brilliance of One's True Self☆/@comment-26532484-20150625221045

This may be a week late, but personally, I feel like Bandai should have compiled the performance points and interview vote system points separately, that way even if SKIPS' had won the Unit Cup, Akari and Madoka would have realized the difference between SKIPS' and Dancing Diva in terms of technical ability and understood that they won not through a superior performance, but due to fan support.

For example, SKIPS' could have gotten 40 to 50% of the bar from their performance alone, but got the rest of the points thanks to the overwhelming support of fans due to their dress-searching compared to Dancing Diva who got 70 to 80% from their performance, but lagged behind in terms of fan support. I get this episode was trying to go for the whole 'idols need fans to be successful' angle, but this could have been executed better.

This also comes in line with one of my main gripes with the series since Season 1, the ambiguity of the whole Aikatsu rating system. It's never explained/showed how exactly a performance is rated aside from an ambiguous 'crowd excitment' measure that seems highly subjective. As a result we don't often don't know why a certain idol won over another one unless it's blatantly obvious due to one or many major mistakes or a one-sided performance from a blatantly more talented idol.